Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"Here then are the three degrees of charity toward our enemies: to love them, to do good to them, and to pray for them. The first is the source of the second: if we love, we give. The last is the one that we think is the easiest to do, but is in fact the most difficult, because it is the one that we must do in relation to God."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
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TheFreim
Please pray for someone close to me who is dying.
The end is near, please pray that they may always be united to God and be granted a peaceful death.
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TheFreim
The end is near, please pray that they may always be united to God and be granted a peaceful death.
Thank you to all who prayed, they died peacefully surrounded by family.
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"Prayer demands the virtue of fasting, and fasting earns the grace of prayer. Fasting strengthens prayer; prayer sanctifies fasting and offers it to the Lord."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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"No one crowned is despondent; no one glum holds up a trophy. Do not be gloomy while you are being healed. It is absurd not to rejoice in the soul’s health, and rather to sorrow over the change in food and to appear to favor the pleasure of the stomach over the care of the soul."
— St Basil the Great, On Fasting and Feasts
— St Basil the Great, On Fasting and Feasts
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Someone else close to me is now also in the process of dying. Please pray for them, but also especially for their family.
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"We have left Egypt; what have we to do with the food of Egypt? We who have Bread from heaven, why do we go in search of earthly foods? We who have left Pharao, let us call upon the help of the Lord so that the Egyptian king may be drowned in the baptism of those who believe."
— St. Jerome, Homily 90 on Lent
— St. Jerome, Homily 90 on Lent
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Article: The Key to Understanding 'Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus' and Vatican II by Christian B. Wagner
Scholastic Answers
The Key to Understanding 'Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus' and Vatican II
From the consideration of all of the above, we can clearly see that this is the teaching of the Second Vatican Council...
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"For it is not a recent discovery; it is the treasure stored up by our ancestors. Everything that can be traced back to ancient times is venerable. Revere the antiquity of fasting!"
— St Basil the Great, On Fasting and Feasts
— St Basil the Great, On Fasting and Feasts
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"Prayer is gravely hindered by cowardice of spirit and excessive fear. This often happens when a person thinks about his own unworthiness so much that he does not turn his eyes toward divine kindness... The human heart is deep and inscrutable, but if my iniquity is great, Lord, much greater is your loving-kindness!"
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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TheFreim
"Prayer is gravely hindered by cowardice of spirit and excessive fear. This often happens when a person thinks about his own unworthiness so much that he does not turn his eyes toward divine kindness... The human heart is deep and inscrutable, but if my iniquity…
"Yet just as there is a danger of prayer being too timid, so on the other hand there is no less danger, but rather more, of its being rash... I call it rash when a person in whose conscience sin and vice still reign to some extent walks in great matters too wonderful for him, without consideration for the peril to his own soul."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"Let us ponder the fact that he will judge us as we have judged our neighbor. If we pardon, he will pardon us; if we avenge our injuries, we will 'suffer vengeance from the Lord' (Sir. 28:1). His vengeance will pursue us in life and in death, and we will have no rest either in this world or the next."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
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"We have deserved hell, where there is never food, no comfort, no end—where the rich man begs for a drop of water and is not worthy to receive it. That fast is good and salutary, then, that wards off eternal punishment and pardons sins."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"Are we that much different from Our Lord’s tormentors? Often, don’t we deny that He is king, refusing to obey His only commands that we love Him and one another? Don’t we render Him mock tribute, pay Him lip service with our half-hearted devotions? ... And despite our repeated failures, our frailty, Jesus still humbles Himself to come to us, offering us His Body and Blood in the Eucharist."
— Scott Hahn and Ken Ogorek, Breaking the Bread: A Biblical Devotional for Catholics Year B
— Scott Hahn and Ken Ogorek, Breaking the Bread: A Biblical Devotional for Catholics Year B
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TheFreim
Someone else close to me is now also in the process of dying. Please pray for them, but also especially for their family.
They have died. Please pray for the repose of their soul.
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"His power is of another kind: it is in God’s poverty, God’s peace, that he identifies the only power that can redeem."
— Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two: Holy Week
— Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two: Holy Week
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"For the infant Church, 'Palm Sunday' was not a thing of the past. Just as the Lord entered the Holy City that day on a donkey, so too the Church saw him coming again and again in the humble form of bread and wine."
— Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two: Holy Week
— Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two: Holy Week
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"Who then should now trust in the doubtful glory of this world, seeing that, even after such exaltation, such humiliation came upon the one who is Creator of time and Maker of the universe, who committed no sin?"
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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"Knowing that the passion would soon follow, what meaning did he intend the procession to have? Perhaps so that the passion, being preceded by the procession, would be all the more bitter for that reason. It was by the same people, in the same place, at the very time—with a few days in between—that he was first received in such triumph and afterward crucified."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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Video: On the People Who Killed Jesus by Christian B. Wagner
YouTube
On the People Who Killed Jesus...
Response to Trent Horn's recent article.
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"O my God, I resolve with all my heart, in your presence, every day, to think about death, at least when I lie down and when I rise... I will praise God for having brought me to think about repentance, and I will put order into my affairs, into my confession, into my meditation, thinking not about what passes, but with great care, great courage, and great diligence about what remains."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
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