"...during a time of general apostasy, Christians who remain faithful to their traditional faith may have to worship outside the official churches, the churches of priests in communion with their lawfully appointed diocesan bishop, in order not to compromise that traditional faith; and that such Christians may have to look for truly Catholic teaching, leadership, and inspiration not to the bishops of their country as a body, not to the bishops of the world, not even to the Roman Pontiff, but to one heroic confessor whom the other bishops and the Roman Pontiff might have repudiated or even excommunicated." - <St. #Athanasius and the Current #Crisis of Faith> http://catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/vatican2/athanc.htm

#modesty #clothes #women information: https://www.fisheaters.com/modesty.html

“Finally, whatever you still think about the possibility or impossibility of the aforementioned hypothesis [of a Pope falling into heresy], at least one point must be considered absolutely incontrovertible and placed firmly above any doubt whatever: the adhesion of the universal Church will be always, in itself, an infallible sign of the legitimacy of a determined Pontiff, and therefore also of the existence of all the conditions required for legitimacy itself. It is not necessary to look far for the proof of this, but we find it immediately in the promise and the infallible providence of Christ: ‘The gates of hell shall not prevail against it,’ and ‘Behold I shall be with you all days.’ For the adhesion of the Church to a false Pontiff would be the same as its adhesion to a false rule of faith, seeing that the Pope is the living rule of faith which the Church must follow and which in fact she always follows. As will become even more clear by what we shall say later, God can permit that at times a vacancy in the Apostolic See be prolonged for a long time. He can also permit that doubt arise about the legitimacy of this or that election. He cannot however permit that the whole Church accept as Pontiff him who is not so truly and legitimately.

"Therefore, from the moment in which the Pope is accepted by the Church and united to her as the head to the body, it is no longer permitted to raise doubts about a possible vice of election or a possible lack of any condition whatsoever necessary for legitimacy. For the aforementioned adhesion of the Church heals in the root all fault in the election and proves infallibly the existence of all the required conditions.”

⁃ Cardinal Billot

http://www.trueorfalsepope.com/p/peaceful-and-universal-acceptance-of.html?m=1

Fr Augustine-Marie of the Blessed Sacrament (Hermann Cohen) and his mother.

https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/father-hermann-cohens-mother/

Invenissent forsitan necessaria nisi et superflua quaesiissent.

Seneca

“They would perhaps have found the necessary if they had not gone in search of the superfluous.”

#Saint #Joseph's visit to chapel in New Mexico and miraculously built spiral staircase with no nails nor screws
#miracle

Reign of Christ the King - Michael Davies

Those who ignore or repudiate the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and His right to rule over societies as well as individuals, accept, perhaps without realizing it, the abominable theory of democracy enshrined in the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man, the declaration which constituted a formal and insolent repudiation of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the declaration which enshrined the greatest heresy of modern times, perhaps of all times: that authority resides in the people. On the contrary, as the Popes have taught, Omnis potestas a Deo—-"All authority comes from God." "Not so!" reply the revolutionaries. Omnis potestas a populo—"All authority comes from the people."

https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/archive-christ_the_king.htm

Holy #Purity, the queen of virtues, the angelic #virtue, is a jewel so precious that those who possess it become like the angels of God in heaven, even though clothed in mortal flesh. - St. John Bosco

#Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honour and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted. - St. Francis of Sales

A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity. - St. John Marie Vianney

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thornbush, Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond...You...what have you done? - St. Josemaria Escriva
#saint #quote

#Rosary

The particular virtues and graces sought through each Mystery are, briefly and then in the words of St. Louis de Montfort in quotes:


Joyful Mysteries:
1st Mystery:
Humility: "we ask for humility of heart"
2nd Mystery:
Charity: "we ask for a perfect love of our neighbour"
3rd Mystery:
Love of the poor: "we ask for detachment from the things of this world, love of poverty and
love of the poor"
4th Mystery:
Purity: "we ask for the gift of wisdom and purity of heart and body"
5th Mystery:
Conversions: "we ask you to convert us and all sinners, heretics, schismatics and pagans"

Sorrowful Mysteries:
1st Mystery:
Contrition: "we ask for perfect sorrow for our sins and perfect conformity to your holy will"
2nd Mystery:
Spirit of mortification: "we ask for the grace to mortify our senses"
3rd Mystery:
Detachment from the worldly: "we ask for a deep contempt of the world"
4th Mystery:
Patience: "we ask for great patience in carrying our cross after you all the days of our life"
5th Mystery:
A holy death: "we ask for a great horror of sin, a love for the Cross and the grace of a holy death for us and for those who are now in their last agony"

Glorious Mysteries:
1st Mystery:
Faith: "we ask for a lively faith"
2nd Mystery:
Hope: "we ask for a firm hope and a great longing for heaven"
3rd Mystery:
Truth: "we ask for your holy wisdom that we may know, taste and practice your truth and share it with everyone"
4th Mystery:
Devotion to Our Mother: "we ask for the gift of true devotion to her in order to live a good life and have a happy death"
5th Mystery:
Perseverance: "we ask for perseverance and an increase in virtue up to the moment of our death and thereafter the eternal crown that is prepared for us"

“The more one longs for a thing, the more painful does deprivation of it become. And because after this life, the desire for God, the Supreme Good, is intense in the souls of the just (because this impetus toward him is not hampered by the weight of the body, and that time of enjoyment of the Perfect Good would have come) had there been no obstacle; the soul suffers enormously from the delay.”

- Saint Thomas Aquinas on the souls in Purgatory