This #book is the work of the TFP’s Committee on #American Issues which put together the research and observations.

Fr. John Trigilio called it “an erudite, succinct and accurate diagnosis of the current sex scandal climate in Catholic America.”

Both practical and theological, I Have Weathered Other Storms is a key to understanding and responding to one of the worst crisis in American Catholic #history.

http://www.straphaelshomeschool.co.uk/the-light-of-the-world/
The Light of the World series is the 1954 Syllabus of Religious Knowledge in Scotland and based upon the #Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (Penny Catechism 1933). This is the only known primary school #textbook series which is written for the Penny Catechism.
#book

The Human Soul Exists and Is Immaterial
- Man is constantly engaged in abstract concepts and immaterial realities.
- Man has immaterial powers (mind and will). These can’t come from his body. Animals do not have
these powers. Immaterial powers must necessarily come from an immaterial source.
- You can’t give what you don’t have. Matter can not manipulate that which is immaterial.
- Scientists are unable to discover the soul, for man’s physical senses can’t detect the immaterial.

#theology #catechism #note

#Sermon / #homily : St_Joseph_Son_of_Jacob

http://www.luke2427.org/sermons/

By Fr. Fromageot [FSSP]

#daily #reading

To Heliodorus

One of Jerome's finest letters, written to console his old friend, Heliodorus, now Bp. of Altinum, for the loss of his nephew Nepotian who had died of fever a short time previously. Jerome tries to soothe his friend's grief (1) by contrasting pagan despair or resignation with Christian hope, (2) by an eulogy of the departed both as man and presbyter, and (3) by a review of the evils which then beset the Empire and from which, as he contended, Nepotian had been removed. The letter is marked throughout with deep and sincere feeling. Its date is 396 A.D.
#reading #saint
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001060.htm

The History of Heresies and Their Refutation by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
#book #heresy #saint

Augustine says (De Doctr. Christ. iii, 12): "We must avoid excessive pleasure in the use of things, for it leads not only wickedly to abuse the customs of those among whom we dwell, but frequently to exceed their bounds, so that, whereas it lay hidden, while under the restraint of established morality, it displays its deformity in a most lawless outbreak."

In point of excess, this inordinate attachment occurs in three ways.

First when a man seeks glory from excessive attention to dress; in so far as dress and such like things are a kind of ornament. Hence Gregory says (Hom. xl in Ev.): "There are some who think that attention to finery and costly dress is no sin. Surely, if this were no fault, the word of God would not say so expressly that the rich man who was tortured in hell had been clothed in purple and fine linen. No one, forsooth, seeks costly apparel" (such, namely, as exceeds his estate) "save for vainglory."

Secondly, when a man seeks sensuous pleasure from excessive attention to dress, in so far as dress is directed to the body's comfort.

Thirdly, when a man is too solicitous in his attention to outward apparel.

#theology #modesty #virtue

“Christianity nowadays is so immersed in worldliness that one scarcely sees its origin; the clergy preach sociology from the pulpit and monks have swimming pools.”
John Senior, The Death of Christian Culture
#book #quotation #today

A funny #story about St Joseph's intercession
A woman was getting nervous in finding a husband being single for a while. Desperate if you will. She didn't know where else to turn so she turned to the ideal model of all husbands, St. Joseph. She had a statue of St Joseph in her apartment so with it, she started a Novena.
On the ninth day, she eagerly waits for something to happen. She has finished her 9th prayer. It's now about 6PM... no contact yet. Nothing has happened. She feels angry, disappointed, cheated. So she takes the statue of St Joseph, opens her window, and throws it outside. She feels betrayed....
Outside, a police officer is patrolling for the evening. Suddenly, the poor office suddenly feels something crash on top of his head. He's in a daze. After he gets his bearings back, he sees what hit him on the head - a small little statue (the same one the woman threw out of her apartment).
Curious, he picks it up and looks to see where it might have come from, and sure enough, the building he passes by has a window open, second floor. He decides to check what's going on. So he goes up to the second floor of the building and finds the room with the open window. Door opens. He asks, "Good evening ma'am. Did you happen to throw this statue outside your window?"

Nine months later, the woman married the cop.

This is a true story.

p.s. DON'T throw your statue out of the window, it is a sin.