“Oh my Lord, I thank you for the Holy Catholic Church, which you established before you left Earth in the flesh to serve ever as a bastion of your righteousness and administer of your sacraments. I pray the gates of hell shall truly never prevail against her and that every non-Catholic Christian may be reconciled to the Holy Catholic Church, that every follower of every false religion and faith may be reconciled to the Holy Catholic Church and that every person who has walked away from the faith, who is lukewarm in the faith or has no faith at all may be reconciled to the Holy Catholic Church.
I pray that the Holy Spirit may descend upon and enlighten all members of your Church, especially our teachers and our leaders, that they may guide us - endowed with your wisdom - to a fuller fruition of our faith and deeper comprehension of your infinite glory.
Lord have mercy”
I pray that the Holy Spirit may descend upon and enlighten all members of your Church, especially our teachers and our leaders, that they may guide us - endowed with your wisdom - to a fuller fruition of our faith and deeper comprehension of your infinite glory.
Lord have mercy”
Considering on doing a brief sermon (if that’s the right word) on each mystery of the rosary each day for the next 40 days. Like if you want that, dislike if you don’t (or if you drunk drive and run over children)
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A CHILD WHO CHOSE CHRIST OVER SWEETS
Servant of God Catharina Iwanaga Mori
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Today is the death anniversary of the Servant of God Catharina Iwanaga Mori. She was a Japanese 5-year-old child who is being considered for beatification as a martyr. She was imprisoned during the time of Christian persecution in Japan. One day, a soldier offered to give her sweet cookies if she said she hated Christ. Though she was hungry, she replied, "Oh, no. Then I cannot go to heaven. There are much sweeter cookies in heaven."
Servant of God Catharina Iwanaga Mori
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Today is the death anniversary of the Servant of God Catharina Iwanaga Mori. She was a Japanese 5-year-old child who is being considered for beatification as a martyr. She was imprisoned during the time of Christian persecution in Japan. One day, a soldier offered to give her sweet cookies if she said she hated Christ. Though she was hungry, she replied, "Oh, no. Then I cannot go to heaven. There are much sweeter cookies in heaven."
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Went to my first Latin mass yesterday. I personally did not care for it. TLM attendees - to my eyes - are similar to vegans, you don’t ask but they insist you know they attend TLM. It abounds with a “Holier than thou” attitude which I feel detracts from the sacrament.
We aren’t worthy of Christ. Only thing we are worthy of is eternity in hell. We do not deserve the sacraments, the little rituals to make it extra reverential seem to (imho) tacitly imply that we can every be worthy of God.
This is folly.
God makes all the effort, He comes to us by His own mercy and by His own love, not because we are worthy. You may receive the Eucharist on the tongue instead of in the hand, be that your preference, you may worry that it’s not sufficiently respectful of the sacrament to receive in the hand (I know monks who would disagree with that opinion, but that is by-the-by), but that implies your tongue which has spoken so many lies and vulgarities is suitable to receive Christ anymore than the hand which has so many times clenched in anger or drawn toward you some evil thing to enable your sin.
Do not submit to pride or stoop to those whose pride sneers at you. Receive God with humility, in whichever way enables you best.
We aren’t worthy of Christ. Only thing we are worthy of is eternity in hell. We do not deserve the sacraments, the little rituals to make it extra reverential seem to (imho) tacitly imply that we can every be worthy of God.
This is folly.
God makes all the effort, He comes to us by His own mercy and by His own love, not because we are worthy. You may receive the Eucharist on the tongue instead of in the hand, be that your preference, you may worry that it’s not sufficiently respectful of the sacrament to receive in the hand (I know monks who would disagree with that opinion, but that is by-the-by), but that implies your tongue which has spoken so many lies and vulgarities is suitable to receive Christ anymore than the hand which has so many times clenched in anger or drawn toward you some evil thing to enable your sin.
Do not submit to pride or stoop to those whose pride sneers at you. Receive God with humility, in whichever way enables you best.
Forwarded from Catholic Arena
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It has been revealed that Fr. Sébastien Roussel entered the burning Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Omer
He did so to successfully rescue the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle
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It has been revealed that Fr. Sébastien Roussel entered the burning Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Omer
He did so to successfully rescue the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle
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1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Psalms 51:1, ESV
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Psalms 51:1, ESV
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I will be holding live rosary sessions every Saturday from now on. What time is best for you all?
A homily on gossip:
My priest once relayed a story of a man who goes to confession for gossip, as his penance the priest tells him to buy a chicken and walk around the town plucking every feather and throwing it into the wind and then to return to him. He agreed, slightly dumbfounded. He returns and asks what next, the priest tells him to go around the town and pick up every feather he cast off into the wind.
Gossip is a particularly nasty sin because it not only leads others into sin, but also the effects can be far reaching and it continues to spiral even after you have made peace with God. A little stolen item can be forgiven and then returned with little harm to the person you sinned against, but gossip is so much more insidious, albeit it subtle, but the devil is nothing if not tactful and his only virtue is patience
My priest once relayed a story of a man who goes to confession for gossip, as his penance the priest tells him to buy a chicken and walk around the town plucking every feather and throwing it into the wind and then to return to him. He agreed, slightly dumbfounded. He returns and asks what next, the priest tells him to go around the town and pick up every feather he cast off into the wind.
Gossip is a particularly nasty sin because it not only leads others into sin, but also the effects can be far reaching and it continues to spiral even after you have made peace with God. A little stolen item can be forgiven and then returned with little harm to the person you sinned against, but gossip is so much more insidious, albeit it subtle, but the devil is nothing if not tactful and his only virtue is patience
Sedes will post shit like this like we haven’t had popes with penchants for prostitutes. For most of history most Catholics had absolutely no idea who the Pope even was. Sedes gonna seethe, Heaven’s gonna grieve.
Forwarded from Sensible Catholicism
When I was confirmed, the bishop gave a homily on the sign of the Cross - to never be afraid of doing it, particularly in public, before and after meals.
What damage it does to the faithful, or would-be faithful, to witness such cowardice, such indifferentism, from the one who is appointed to lead souls to heaven.
What damage it does to the faithful, or would-be faithful, to witness such cowardice, such indifferentism, from the one who is appointed to lead souls to heaven.
This is Socrates’ advice for a good confession. I remind you there is a “save message” feature on telegram (I think, I’ve never personally used it).
This advice is to help you to make a good confession, even protecting yourself from a sinful one, by not taking the sacrament seriously enough through introspection and reflection. We do not rush into any other sacrament, we observe fasts before the receiving the Holy Eucharist, we certainly consider marriage carefully, so why should we wantonly receive absolution for our sins without due consideration? This will be especially useful for those who attend confession regularly without having committed mortal sin, which I strongly recommend since “Even an empty room acquires dust” as said Padre Pio (I think, but it’s a good quote nevertheless).
So it is my personal practice and advice to ask the same Lord who offers forgiveness for our sins to reveal them to us, that we may be fully contrite and fully humbled by them, as is why we are permitted to sin in the first place. But let our shame not diminish us and make us feel small, but call to mind God’s great glory and mercy by offering us pardon for them.
This particular devotion consists of using a 7 Dolors of Mary rosary (or an adapted version with a standard 10 bead variety) to reflect on our sins. I find that each of us have one of the 7 deadly sins which we hold in particularly high regard, which draws us into other sins. The 7 were first conceived of because they serve Satan as a gateway to other sins, so therefore by reflecting on them and seeking reconciliation with God, let us walk back through that gate, slam the door shut in Satans face and chide him through the bars.
“He who blushes to discover his sins to a man, and who will not confess, shall be covered with shame on the Day of Judgment in the presence of the whole universe."
-St John Chrysostom
This advice is to help you to make a good confession, even protecting yourself from a sinful one, by not taking the sacrament seriously enough through introspection and reflection. We do not rush into any other sacrament, we observe fasts before the receiving the Holy Eucharist, we certainly consider marriage carefully, so why should we wantonly receive absolution for our sins without due consideration? This will be especially useful for those who attend confession regularly without having committed mortal sin, which I strongly recommend since “Even an empty room acquires dust” as said Padre Pio (I think, but it’s a good quote nevertheless).
So it is my personal practice and advice to ask the same Lord who offers forgiveness for our sins to reveal them to us, that we may be fully contrite and fully humbled by them, as is why we are permitted to sin in the first place. But let our shame not diminish us and make us feel small, but call to mind God’s great glory and mercy by offering us pardon for them.
This particular devotion consists of using a 7 Dolors of Mary rosary (or an adapted version with a standard 10 bead variety) to reflect on our sins. I find that each of us have one of the 7 deadly sins which we hold in particularly high regard, which draws us into other sins. The 7 were first conceived of because they serve Satan as a gateway to other sins, so therefore by reflecting on them and seeking reconciliation with God, let us walk back through that gate, slam the door shut in Satans face and chide him through the bars.
“He who blushes to discover his sins to a man, and who will not confess, shall be covered with shame on the Day of Judgment in the presence of the whole universe."
-St John Chrysostom
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1:
- In the name of the Father (touch forehead) and the of son (you know the rest), and the Holy Spirit
- Recite the Apostles Creed
2. On each of the beads say the prayer “O Lord, grant me the light, to see myself as thou dost see me, and the grace to be truly and effectively sorry for my sins. Holy Mary, help me to make a good confession.”
- In the name of the Father (touch forehead) and the of son (you know the rest), and the Holy Spirit
- Recite the Apostles Creed
2. On each of the beads say the prayer “O Lord, grant me the light, to see myself as thou dost see me, and the grace to be truly and effectively sorry for my sins. Holy Mary, help me to make a good confession.”
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3:
- Glory be…
- O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, especially those most in need of thy mercy
- Lord assist me to know the times at which my pride has led me to push you away in the conceit of my heart, as I reflect upon the sins of pride.
- A minute to reflect upon the sins of pride (We start with pride since it is the origin of all the sins you will later come to. Rejecting God is to aggrandise your own will above his, to think you know better and can make it alone. The cure is humility, hence it is fruitful to take time to acknowledge just how weak we are and how repugnant a sinner we have been. If you need assistance in acquiring this humility, beseech the Virgin Mary, the ever glorious Queen of Humility). Here are some things to consider:
• Have I willingly rejected the teachings of God?
• Have I thought myself above his commandments?
• Have failed to acknowledge my sins in my own heart?
• Am I truly humbled by my sin and truly contrite for them (this is a separate sin, which can also be confessed)?
• Am I not truly sorry for my sin and intend to do it again?
• Have I or am I presuming on God’s mercy?
• Have I denied God
• Have I blasphemed against God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit
• Have I spoken of God dismissively or disrespectful of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Saints or Prophets?
• Have I failed to forgive my neighbour?
• Have I inflated my own needs above those of others
• Have I considered myself to be above others in piety, sanctity or any other metric?
• Have I marvelled and admired my own glories?
• Have I been vain?
• Have I failed to genuflect or be otherwise insufficiently humbled by God’s glory?
• Have I committed sacrilege
• Have I failed to bear testimony to God against strife and persecution?
• Have I failed to perceive God in everybody?
- Our Father…
- Glory be…
- O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, especially those most in need of thy mercy
- Lord assist me to know the times at which my pride has led me to push you away in the conceit of my heart, as I reflect upon the sins of pride.
- A minute to reflect upon the sins of pride (We start with pride since it is the origin of all the sins you will later come to. Rejecting God is to aggrandise your own will above his, to think you know better and can make it alone. The cure is humility, hence it is fruitful to take time to acknowledge just how weak we are and how repugnant a sinner we have been. If you need assistance in acquiring this humility, beseech the Virgin Mary, the ever glorious Queen of Humility). Here are some things to consider:
• Have I willingly rejected the teachings of God?
• Have I thought myself above his commandments?
• Have failed to acknowledge my sins in my own heart?
• Am I truly humbled by my sin and truly contrite for them (this is a separate sin, which can also be confessed)?
• Am I not truly sorry for my sin and intend to do it again?
• Have I or am I presuming on God’s mercy?
• Have I denied God
• Have I blasphemed against God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit
• Have I spoken of God dismissively or disrespectful of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Saints or Prophets?
• Have I failed to forgive my neighbour?
• Have I inflated my own needs above those of others
• Have I considered myself to be above others in piety, sanctity or any other metric?
• Have I marvelled and admired my own glories?
• Have I been vain?
• Have I failed to genuflect or be otherwise insufficiently humbled by God’s glory?
• Have I committed sacrilege
• Have I failed to bear testimony to God against strife and persecution?
• Have I failed to perceive God in everybody?
- Our Father…