Something I had wanted to share in regards to forgiveness.
Many people struggle with it, it is not an easy thing to do. Yet, once you're able to forgive, the burden is lighter. As time passes, the offenses and personal grievances fade. While we should seek to forgive everyone in our hearts, you do not owe someone forgiveness if they are not truly sorry for what they had done (repentance.)
If you struggle to forgive...
- Consider praying for them.
- Consider that they might have offended you without great knowledge (arrogance or accident)
- At the very least, one should will the good of another. (Catholic definition of love, not secular.)
- Offer your grievances to God.
Even the greatest of Saints had struggled with forgiveness. It's nothing to be ashamed of if one puts in the effort and time to change that habit.
Many people struggle with it, it is not an easy thing to do. Yet, once you're able to forgive, the burden is lighter. As time passes, the offenses and personal grievances fade. While we should seek to forgive everyone in our hearts, you do not owe someone forgiveness if they are not truly sorry for what they had done (repentance.)
If you struggle to forgive...
- Consider praying for them.
- Consider that they might have offended you without great knowledge (arrogance or accident)
- At the very least, one should will the good of another. (Catholic definition of love, not secular.)
- Offer your grievances to God.
Even the greatest of Saints had struggled with forgiveness. It's nothing to be ashamed of if one puts in the effort and time to change that habit.
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Forwarded from Alรญtheia Xediplรณthike's Library of Alexandria
Marian Modesty โ To Wear, Or Not To Wear; Pants.Our bodies are a temple of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 6:19), and they are to be adorned by Virtues, not by masculinity.
Pants and other bottoms have been strictly designed for the Male Sex according to it's stature, biology, and anatomy. This helps cover the man and does not hinder him nor his abilities in his day to day duties. More importantly, from the fact that pants are inherently masculine, it does not render him feminine or confuse him with the opposite sex. The man may be modest and wear pants, but his counterpart may not.
A female, on the other hand, cannot adapt to a male's anatomy nor figure. What might be loose-fitting and covering on a man, will appear (intentionally or not), tight and revealing. More importantly, God has blessed the Maiden so vigorously, so generously, that it would be a mockery to envy and wear male bottoms, which ruin a Maiden's femininity, and contributes to the plague of immodesty.
Part I.
Forwarded from Alรญtheia Xediplรณthike's Library of Alexandria
Part II โ Vanity, Vainglory, and Pride.There are those who may argue that they feel more comfortable within pants, or that they would not be able to run, exercise, or truly express themselves within a gown on which covers to them.
This is quite the contrary. Daughters, mothers, religious sisters and laywomen have been able to do these very same activities for thousands of years, without the disturbance of the gown being 'too long'. Ask Christ asks us to take care of our bodies and to keep them in shape, these girls did not fail to do so.
It's what separates us from men, rather, at least in terms of clothing. Women possess the capability and self discipline to properly carry themselves in an orderly fashion when dealing with skirts, dresses, or veils. To learn not how to trip, fall, or tangle your dress in either thorns, or your own foot, is a quality and a skill learned well. Oh! how happy Our Lady would be if we would stop making excuses and accept these challenges as a blessing, and not a burden.
Forwarded from Alรญtheia Xediplรณthike's Library of Alexandria
Part II โ Continued.
Unfortunately, as we are blinded by our own folly, we are unable to look past the hidden dangers that are associated with dressโone of those concerns being Pride. From Pride's daughters, brings the ugly snares of Vanity, Envy, and Vainglory. Not all clothing is created equal. Modern fashions especially, which focus more on vanity and pride than they do to cultural appeal.
How upset it makes Our Lord that we care more for convenience than we do modesty. How much it makes Our Lady weep bitterly!
To appeal to the world, to appeal to fading pleasures..what a curse it is if we are dependent on the approval of others and not Our Savior. All is vanity if glory is brought to us, and not to Him.
From Vanity, Pride awaits. It ushers the poor sinner onto it's rotten fruits; with a quick glance, looks like silver and precious diamondsโthough once immersed, a foul smell and a horrid cry. Immodesty appears like a blessing at first sight, though once one comes to their senses, it's a curse.
Forwarded from Alรญtheia Xediplรณthike's Library of Alexandria
Part III โ Heaven's Judgement.
"The devil seeks, therefore, to destroy that veneration which the faithful have always paid to Mary's chaste and virginal Body through which Christ entered this world. For centuries he has sought to find a way to remove Mary as their perfect model of chastity and modesty. Only then could he hope to bring about that mass corruption which might lead Catholics to his 'world religion'---the impure worship of the body and unrestrained sex gratification."This is apparently what Satan attempted through his agents, the powers of corruption, during the French Revolution. For, on Dec. 10, 1793 an angry mob rushed into the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, seized the statue of the Blessed Virgin on the altar, and dashed it to the floor. Hatred against the Mother of God? Quite evidently. But their hatred was directed chiefly against the Virgin with modest attire, the model of purity and modesty...."
Forwarded from Alรญtheia Xediplรณthike's Library of Alexandria
Part III โ Continued. "This is clear from their subsequent action of enthroning on the altar in Mary's place a nude woman, the Goddess of Reason.' To this day Paris remains the capital of the semi-nude fashion world.
But why should women be the first victim of the Devil's plot? Because women have a much more delicate sense of modesty, and that is exactly why the devil strives first to destroy this feminine sense of modesty which makes womanhood the guardian of chastity in the world.
Even with the success of the French Revolution, the demon of lust was too cunning to reveal immediately his full program of moral destruction to be carried out by his human agents. To escape detection, he must develop it gradually. Had the entire program been unfolded at once, Christian women would have risen up in open rebellion. Yet, long before feminine gowns became modem'. a portion of this secret, graduated, program was disclosed by a French paper, 'The French Woman' as follows: 'Our children must realize the ideal of nakedness... Thus the mentality of the child is rapidly transformed. To escape opposition, progress must be methodically graduated; first, feet and legs naked; then, upturned sleeves; afterwards the upper and lower limbs; the upper part of the chest; the back; ...in summer the children will go around almost naked.'
Forwarded from Alรญtheia Xediplรณthike's Library of Alexandria
"In 1846, the Pontifical Government of Italy, under Pope Gregory XVI, seized secret documents from the Communists of that day. These documents the Pope sent to Cretinau-Joly, who published them in French in 1875 with the approval of Pope Pius IX. One of these documents is most revealing: 'It has been decided in our councils that we must get rid of Catholics, but we do not want to make Martyrs, so let us strive to popularize vice among the people. It must enter by their five senses: Let them drink it in and be saturated with it ... make men's hearts corrupt and you will have no more Catholics. I recently heard one of our friends making fun of our projects and saying, 'To overthrow Catholicism, you must begin by suppressing the female sex.' The saying is, in a certain sense, true, but since we cannot suppress woman, let us corrupt her along with the Church ... The best dagger with which to wound the Church to death, is corruption.'
"Our young people are great imitators. They like to 'follow the crowd.' This is fine so long as the crowd is going in the right direction. Otherwise, it can lead to serious trouble, especially in the matter of fashions. Too many teenagers say: 'Everybody else does it, so why can't we?' If everybody else jumped in front of a fast moving train, would you do the same? Because' everybody else does it' is no reason for us to do wrong. There is no security in numbers. What was wrong centuries ago as far as sin is concerned, is still wrong today. God made no special provisions for the 20th century. If 99 people do wrong because 'everybody else does it,' God will punish the 99 and reward the 1 that follows Him. This was proven at the time of the deluge, when he destroyed all, save Noah and his family. Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII has stated repeatedly: 'The greatest sin of our modern generation is that it has lost all sense of sin.' This is true particularly in regard to fashions, and the virtue of purity."
"Our young people are great imitators. They like to 'follow the crowd.' This is fine so long as the crowd is going in the right direction. Otherwise, it can lead to serious trouble, especially in the matter of fashions. Too many teenagers say: 'Everybody else does it, so why can't we?' If everybody else jumped in front of a fast moving train, would you do the same? Because' everybody else does it' is no reason for us to do wrong. There is no security in numbers. What was wrong centuries ago as far as sin is concerned, is still wrong today. God made no special provisions for the 20th century. If 99 people do wrong because 'everybody else does it,' God will punish the 99 and reward the 1 that follows Him. This was proven at the time of the deluge, when he destroyed all, save Noah and his family. Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII has stated repeatedly: 'The greatest sin of our modern generation is that it has lost all sense of sin.' This is true particularly in regard to fashions, and the virtue of purity."
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Forwarded from Patria & Fides
The Sacred Triduum begins, and the world descends to darkness and mourning.
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Forwarded from Alรญtheia Xediplรณthike's Library of Alexandria
โYou are not merely a hired servant to the God who died for you. Every time you sin and repent, He runs to you, seeing you wander closer in the distance with untold depths of mercy.
You are not despised by God, no matter the past you have.โ
You are not despised by God, no matter the past you have.โ
"These arenโt โpeopleโ. Theyโre demons. We are active beings - we have causal powers. We can affect change. To suppose God put us on this earth for nothing more than prayer, and not for concrete acts of good is to delude oneself. Act to prevent this from happening to another child."