In order to respond to the world’s expectations, the #Church must therefore find the way back to herself and take up the words of Saint Paul: “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and Jesus crucified.” She must stop thinking of herself as a substitute for humanism or ecology. These realities, although good and just, are for her but consequences of her unique treasure: #faith in Jesus Christ. https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/on-the-credibility-of-the-catholic-church #today

https://tfpstudentaction.org/blog/modesty-and-god
The struggle for the restoration of the family by opposing abortion, contraception, and homosexuality will be much more effective if done together with efforts to restore sobriety, modesty and elegance in #dress.
#modesty #virtue

#heart #saint #quote

What is the ordinary and universal magisterium, and is it limited to things believed always, everywhere and by all?

Chapter I of landmark nineteenth-century work on the ordinary and universal magisterium by J.M.A. Vacant, in exclusive English translation.

https://wmreview.co.uk/2021/08/20/vacant-oum-introduction-chapter-i/

-“#Ecumenism is not the Church’s mission. The Church is not ecumenical, she is missionary. The goal of the missionary Church is to convert. The goal of the ecumenical Church is to find what is true in errors and to remain at this level. It is to deny the truth of the Church.” (April 14, 1978)

-“… and this, it is really the modern #heresy, that we can really designate under this new term, for it really seems that there is a new heresy in addition to #modernism, #liberalism, and all those old errors, it seems to me that we can define this modern error: ecumenism, this false ecumenism.” (Conference at Econe, May 16, 1978)

-“Then came this abominable ecumenism which is nothing but the means to penetrate liberal ideas within the Church, because it is the principle of religious liberty, a principle which is in the constitution, in the declaration of human rights.” (Conference, December 21, 1984)
+ABL
#saint #quote

"Oh Lady, who are You? Who are You, oh #Immaculata? I cannot discern, try as I might, what does it mean to be a creature of God. It is beyond my strength to comprehend what it means to be an adopted child of God.

And You, oh Immaculata, who are You? Not solely a creature, nor just an adopted child but the Mother of God; not mere an adoptive Mother but the true Mother of God. That is not a presumption nor a probability but a certainty, an absolute certainty, a dogma of Faith.

But are You still the Mother of God? The title of mother never changes. For all eternity God will say unto You: "My Mother"... The giver of the fourth commandment shall honour You eternally, forever... Who are You, oh Mother of God?... And He, The God made Flesh delighted in calling Himself the Son of Man. Yet people did not understand this. And today there are so very few souls who understand and so flawed is still their understanding."

Fr. Maximilian, December, 8, 1938