#Prayer to #Discern One's #Vocation:
Lord Jesus, You call each of us to serve You in love and humility. Every vocation in the Church is holy and is given for the building up of Your body, the Church, into a living temple. Please reveal to me the vocation You are calling me to follow, the road that will lead me to deepest intimacy with You and to the fullness of life, love, and joy that are Yours alone to give. Give me courage, Lord, to say yes to my vocation as Mary, Your Mother, said yes to hers. Amen.
Lord Jesus, You call each of us to serve You in love and humility. Every vocation in the Church is holy and is given for the building up of Your body, the Church, into a living temple. Please reveal to me the vocation You are calling me to follow, the road that will lead me to deepest intimacy with You and to the fullness of life, love, and joy that are Yours alone to give. Give me courage, Lord, to say yes to my vocation as Mary, Your Mother, said yes to hers. Amen.
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#Prayer to #Discern One's #Vocation: Lord Jesus, You call each of us to serve You in love and humility. Every vocation in the Church is holy and is given for the building up of Your body, the Church, into a living temple. Please reveal to me the vocation…
One vocation at a time
Do not discern between the religious life and marriage simultaneously. Both ways of life are attractive, and may cause endless confusion and doubts for you. Instead, if you think Our Lord might be calling you to religious life, devote time for serious discernment in which you will neither date nor consider marriage as a possibility, but focus your attention only on exploring the different types of religious life. On the other hand, while discerning #marriage, avoid looking at monastery literature!
We would also recommend that you not prolong your studies if you think Our Lord may be calling you to Religious life. A degree isn't necessary for entering Carmel (ps. or most religious orders), and debt can often be a serious obstacle to pursuing a Religious vocation.
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Six Steps for Discerning Your Vocation
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Do not discern between the religious life and marriage simultaneously. Both ways of life are attractive, and may cause endless confusion and doubts for you. Instead, if you think Our Lord might be calling you to religious life, devote time for serious discernment in which you will neither date nor consider marriage as a possibility, but focus your attention only on exploring the different types of religious life. On the other hand, while discerning #marriage, avoid looking at monastery literature!
We would also recommend that you not prolong your studies if you think Our Lord may be calling you to Religious life. A degree isn't necessary for entering Carmel (ps. or most religious orders), and debt can often be a serious obstacle to pursuing a Religious vocation.
https://www.buffalocarmel.org/discerning-carmel
Six Steps for Discerning Your Vocation
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Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos from 1928: “Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.”
The Church’s position condemning such gatherings is manifestly clear. The Council of Laodicea in 365 AD stated, “No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics.” St. Cyril of Alexandria echoed these same sentiments when he said, “It is therefore unlawful, and a profanation, and an act the punishment of which is death, to love to associate with unholy heretics, and to unite yourself to their communion.” Likewise, the Council of Carthage in the fifth century decreed, “One must neither pray nor sing psalms with heretics, and whoever shall communicate with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church, whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.”
https://fatima.org/news-views/catholics-apologetics-11/
How many Catholics today don't even know this?
#heresy #heretics #sin #ecumenism #catechism
The Church’s position condemning such gatherings is manifestly clear. The Council of Laodicea in 365 AD stated, “No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics.” St. Cyril of Alexandria echoed these same sentiments when he said, “It is therefore unlawful, and a profanation, and an act the punishment of which is death, to love to associate with unholy heretics, and to unite yourself to their communion.” Likewise, the Council of Carthage in the fifth century decreed, “One must neither pray nor sing psalms with heretics, and whoever shall communicate with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church, whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.”
https://fatima.org/news-views/catholics-apologetics-11/
How many Catholics today don't even know this?
#heresy #heretics #sin #ecumenism #catechism
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Catholic Apologetics #11 The Catholic Religion Requires Both Internal and External Practices Just a few days ago I noticed on a Facebook group dedicated to traditional Catholic vestments that a photo was shared of an interreligious prayer gathering that took…
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Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos from 1928: “Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to…
The Church’s position condemning such gatherings is manifestly clear. The Council of Laodicea in 365 AD stated, “No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics.” St. Cyril of Alexandria echoed these same sentiments when he said, “It is therefore unlawful, and a profanation, and an act the punishment of which is death, to love to associate with unholy heretics, and to unite yourself to their communion.” Likewise, the Council of Carthage in the fifth century decreed, “One must neither pray nor sing psalms with heretics, and whoever shall communicate with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church, whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.”
The Four Beatings of the Sacred Heart
From the first instant of His conception until His death Love reigned as King over the Son of God made man. This Love had its counterpart in the Sacred Heart. One Christmas day Mechtilde was allowed to fathom this secret. Taking the Infant God in her arms she pressed Him to her breast, and felt the beatings of the Sacred Heart. She heard three loud, quick beats, then one lighter. Mechtilde was astonished.
The divine Infant said to her:
“My heart did not beat like those of other men, but always as you have heard it, from My infancy until My death, and this was why I died so quickly on the Cross.
The first beat comes from the Almighty power of My love which was so strong in me that by sweetness and patience it conquered the opposition of the world and the cruelty of the Jews.
The second beat comes from a love full of wisdom; it led Me to conduct Myself and all that was Mine so admirably, and to regulate all that is in heaven or on earth so wisely.
The third comes from a love of mildness I was so entirely penetrated with it, that for Me it changed this world’s bitterness into sweetness, and caused Me even to find sweet the hard death I bore for the salvation of men.
The last beat, more faint, expresses the kindness I showed as man, which rendered Me agreeable to all, and even imitable.”
And so the Sacred Heart enshrines an almighty, a most wise, and an infinitely sweet love of God as well as an agreeable and human love.
#book #June #sacredheart #saint #Mechtilde #meditation #devotion
From the first instant of His conception until His death Love reigned as King over the Son of God made man. This Love had its counterpart in the Sacred Heart. One Christmas day Mechtilde was allowed to fathom this secret. Taking the Infant God in her arms she pressed Him to her breast, and felt the beatings of the Sacred Heart. She heard three loud, quick beats, then one lighter. Mechtilde was astonished.
The divine Infant said to her:
“My heart did not beat like those of other men, but always as you have heard it, from My infancy until My death, and this was why I died so quickly on the Cross.
The first beat comes from the Almighty power of My love which was so strong in me that by sweetness and patience it conquered the opposition of the world and the cruelty of the Jews.
The second beat comes from a love full of wisdom; it led Me to conduct Myself and all that was Mine so admirably, and to regulate all that is in heaven or on earth so wisely.
The third comes from a love of mildness I was so entirely penetrated with it, that for Me it changed this world’s bitterness into sweetness, and caused Me even to find sweet the hard death I bore for the salvation of men.
The last beat, more faint, expresses the kindness I showed as man, which rendered Me agreeable to all, and even imitable.”
And so the Sacred Heart enshrines an almighty, a most wise, and an infinitely sweet love of God as well as an agreeable and human love.
#book #June #sacredheart #saint #Mechtilde #meditation #devotion
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Jesus:
"Again, he who carries something precious and of great value girds himself carefully, for fear he should lose it, so I am carrying the precious treasure, man’s soul, and have girded Myself with care, and I carry the souls of all those who are to be saved, with love and untold desires, in My Heart."
#book #June #sacredheart #saint #meditation #devotion #Mechtilde
"Again, he who carries something precious and of great value girds himself carefully, for fear he should lose it, so I am carrying the precious treasure, man’s soul, and have girded Myself with care, and I carry the souls of all those who are to be saved, with love and untold desires, in My Heart."
#book #June #sacredheart #saint #meditation #devotion #Mechtilde
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Religious #Indifferentism is the perverse opinion that it is possible to obtain eternal salvation by the profession of any kind of #religion, as long as “morality” is maintained.
Appeal of Religious Indifferentism
- It unites all religions and philosophies
- It's positive (no more "Thou shalt not")
- It sets us free
- It respects our opinions and preferences, our dignity as humans
- It respects our culture and history
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Religious #Indifferentism is the perverse opinion that it is possible to obtain eternal salvation by the profession of any kind of #religion, as long as “morality” is maintained.
Appeal of Religious Indifferentism
- It unites all religions and philosophies
- It's positive (no more "Thou shalt not")
- It sets us free
- It respects our opinions and preferences, our dignity as humans
- It respects our culture and history
#catechism #theology #ecumenism
Who could describe the ardent desires of the Heart of Jesus for the salvation of souls? “Come here and rest at My feet,” He said one day to Mechtilde; obeying at once, she rested her head on Jesus feet, so that her ear was just over the wound in His foot, and there she heard the sound as of water boiling in the wound. Our Lord asked her what was the sound she heard. Mechtilde thought she could not tell, and our Lord continued: “This boiling caldron seems to say: Hasten! hasten! So the ardent love of My heart ever urged me on, saying: Hasten from labour to labour, from town to town, from preaching to preaching, never allowing Me any rest, until I had done all that was necessary for Your salvation.”
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Modern manifestation of indifferentism: false ecumenism
- Vatican II: Unitatitis Redintegratio. Conversion to the One True Church is replaced by convergence of churches to the Church of Christ as if the Catholic Church was not the Church of Christ.
- Vatican II: Lumen gentium. "The Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church" implies a distinction between the Church of Christ and the Catholic Church.
- JPII: Ut unum sint. 13. ..Indeed, the elements of sanctification and truth present in the other Christian Communities, in a degree which varies from one to the other, constitute the objective basis of the communion, albeit imperfect, which exists between them and the Catholic Church.
To the extent that these elements are found in other Christian Communities, the one Church of Christ is effectively present in them. For this reason the Second Vatican Council speaks of a certain, though imperfect communion. The Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium stresses that the Catholic Church "recognizes that in many ways she is linked" 14 with these Communities by a true union in the Holy Spirit.
#catechism #theology #ecumenism
- Vatican II: Unitatitis Redintegratio. Conversion to the One True Church is replaced by convergence of churches to the Church of Christ as if the Catholic Church was not the Church of Christ.
- Vatican II: Lumen gentium. "The Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church" implies a distinction between the Church of Christ and the Catholic Church.
- JPII: Ut unum sint. 13. ..Indeed, the elements of sanctification and truth present in the other Christian Communities, in a degree which varies from one to the other, constitute the objective basis of the communion, albeit imperfect, which exists between them and the Catholic Church.
To the extent that these elements are found in other Christian Communities, the one Church of Christ is effectively present in them. For this reason the Second Vatican Council speaks of a certain, though imperfect communion. The Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium stresses that the Catholic Church "recognizes that in many ways she is linked" 14 with these Communities by a true union in the Holy Spirit.
#catechism #theology #ecumenism