Zechariah 9:9-10 “Behold: your king is coming to you, a just savior is he.” Thank you, Lord, Savior, for living in us. Romans 8:9, 11-13 “The Spirit of God dwells in you.” Let us discover the Holy Spirit by welcoming God’s peace and joy. Matthew 11:25-30 Jesus said, “Come to me.” Accepting Jesus as our Lord means accepting to live in God’s love. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, says the illicit episcopal consecrations by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX) should not be seen as the end of dialogue with Rome. Key quotes from the Communio podcast published by Herder on 2 July.. On Excommunication and Future Dialogue - An excommunication is a medicinal penalty. It is not intended to be definitive; rather, it is meant to invite repentance so that one may find the way back. - I hope it will be possible in the future to resume new talks, so that they may find their way back into the Catholic Church. - At the moment I do not see that happening, but it would also be far too early. No Recognition of Popes Since Vatican II - This amounts to a form of self-authorisation for carrying out episcopal consecrations. - …a self-contradiction: on the one hand, they invoke the authority of the Pope in the most beautiful terms, yet on the decisive issues they go their own way. - To me, this gives …More
WHY DID GOD CLOSE THE DOOR OF THE ARK HIMSELF? One of the shortest verses in the story of Noah may also be one of the most profound. After Noah, his family, and the animals entered the Ark, Scripture simply says: "Then the Lord shut him in." (Genesis 7:16) Notice carefully. Noah did not close the door. His sons did not close it. An angel did not close it. God Himself closed the door. Why? Surely Noah could have done that himself. Why would the Bible deliberately tell us that God shut the door? The answer reveals a breathtaking mystery about salvation, the Church, and even the end of time. 1. GOD CLOSED THE DOOR BECAUSE SALVATION BELONGS TO HIM Imagine if Noah had closed the door. People might have accused him: "You left us outside." "You condemned us." "You decided who should live and who should die." But Noah did not make that decision. God did. The message is clear: Salvation is never a human invention. It is always God's work. Noah built the Ark. But only God determined when the time …More
The Archdiocese of Florence launched a housing project for young adults who identify as LGBT that is funded through Italy’s tax allocation to the Catholic Church.
Worse than Germany: The Caritas of the Archdiocese of Florence has launched Project Andrea, under which the Archdiocese will work hand in hand with the group Arcigay. The latter is Italy's leading homosexual advocacy organization. IlGiornale.it reported on June 23 that the flagship initiative of the project is Casa Andrea, a facility open to homosexual young people. The house will offer "personalized support and protected accommodation for young men and women in [gender] transition between the ages of 18 and 35." The entire project is funded by the Church through the Italian tax allocation 8×1000 (eight per thousand). "We are very proud to have opened Casa Andrea and the services connected to it," said Marzio Mori, director of Caritas Florence. This is only the latest sign of the Florentine archdiocese's closeness to homosexuals, especially since Archbishop Gherardo Gambelli took office in June 2024. #newsGtjpfzidqt
The Episcopal church is selling its NYC headquarters. "Mainline Protestantism had always been dominant in America and robustly assumed it always would remain so, with or without any effort. It choked on its own over confidence. But in recent years the Mainline denominations have been joined by declining evangelical denominations." Soon Protestantism will wither away.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa visited Gaza on June 22-23 and recalled the situation on June 29 in Bergamo, Italy, when he received a Prize from the Italian geopolitical magazine Limes. Key phrases as reported by VaticanNews.va. - "Gaza is a disaster. The cities have been razed to the ground, leveled, wiped out. Rafah no longer exists." - "What strikes me most is traveling along makeshift roads, through tents and sewage. This is where the people of Gaza live." - "One thing the images do not convey is the smell. "One of the greatest scourges right now is the rats, which bite. They bite children above all, and Gaza is full of children—you see them everywhere, but instead of going to school, they play, dirty, beside the sewers.”. - "Dual-use goods are not allowed in. And by dual-use they even mean school desks, pencils, notebooks, and the glass needed for windows. We want to reopen the schools, but we are missing almost everything." - "Healthcare workers have told me that what is needed …More
[Saint Bridget of Sweden/ Heliga Birgitta; XIV Century AD: aged 69-70; born: Uppland, Sweden/died: Rome, Papal States; Widow, Mystic; Spiritual Writer; Founder; Patroness of Europe] Chapter 59 ~ The words of Christ, in the presence of the bride, about how Christ is likened to a peasant, good priests to a good shepherd, bad priests to a bad shepherd, and good Christians to a wife. Many useful things are also explained in this parable. After this first shepherd, that is, after these friends of mine, who used to be in my Church in days of old, other unrighteous shepherds came that bought a wife for themselves with the gold, that is, they took to themselves the body of a woman and intemperance instead of chastity and these five good things, and that is why my Spirit departed from them. For when they have a complete will to sin and to satisfy their wife, that is, to satisfy their lust, then my Spirit is absent from them, since they do not care about the perdition of the sheep so long as they …More
"I swear by my Manhood, which is in the Father as the Father is in me, and by my Divinity, which is in my Spirit as the Spirit is in the Divinity and the same Spirit is in me and I in him, and these are one God in three persons, that I shall run out to meet those halfway who work in carrying my sheep with me and help them, and I shall give them the most precious reward, namely, myself unto their everlasting joy.”
NEWSMAX America-hating politicians and their radical, angry, Islamic extremist inspired fans are trying to commandeer attention away from what should be a week focused on American excellence - Rob Finnerty
Wieso kritisiert er nicht die Lebensbedingungen für Christen im muslimischen Libyen . aber nein, mit Muslimen baut er doch den Weltfrieden auf ("Magnifica Humanitas").
The Winnipeg Statement was the Canadian bishops’ response to Pope Paul VI’s Humanae vitae, offering guidance to Catholics struggling with the encyclical’s prohibition on artificial contraception. Background and Purpose The Winnipeg Statement was issued by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on September 27, 1968, at a plenary assembly in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, shortly after the release of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae vitae in July 1968 Wikipedia. The encyclical reaffirmed the Church’s teaching that artificial contraception is morally unacceptable, which caused widespread concern and debate among Catholics, clergy, and theologians. The Canadian bishops sought to address the pastoral challenges posed by the encyclical, recognizing that many faithful found it "extremely difficult or even impossible" to fully accept all elements of the teaching Wikipedia. The statement aimed to provide guidance for priests, confessors, and laypeople on how to navigate these …More
[Saint Catherine of Siena /Caterina di Benincasa/; XIV-XV Century AD; born: Siena, Republic of Siena/died: Rome, Papal States; aged 33; Spiritual Writer; Mystic; Virgin; Doctor of the Church] Of the imperfection of those who love GOD for their own profit, delight, and consolation. "Some there are who have become faithful servants, serving Me with fidelity without servile fear of punishment, but rather with love. This very love, however, if they serve Me with a view to their own profit, or the delight and pleasure which they find in Me, is imperfect. Dost thou know what proves the imperfection of this love ? The withdrawal of the consolations which they found in Me, and the insufficiency and short duration of their love for their neighbour, which grows weak by degrees, and ofttimes disappears. Towards Me their love grows weak when, on occasion, in order to exercise them in virtue and raise them above their imperfection, I withdraw from their minds My consolation and allow them to fall …More
"Some there are who have become faithful servants, serving Me with fidelity without servile fear of punishment, but rather with love. This very love, however, if they serve Me with a view to their own profit, or the delight and pleasure which they find in Me, is imperfect. Dost thou know what proves the imperfection of this love ? The withdrawal of the consolations which they found in Me, and the insufficiency and short duration of their love for their neighbour, which grows weak by degrees, and ofttimes disappears."
Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest Liturgy of July 5, XIV Sunday of the Ordinary Time What a tenderness, profound joy, familiarity, filial confidence and unlimited trust shine through the words of Jesus to the Father that we’re going to listen to from the passage of the Gospel of Matthew next Sunday July 5. It is this doubt-free faith that is needed in this beginning of the third millennium in which, both inside and outside the Church, incredulity and filthy passions are devastating and confusing the heart and mind of this generation. Blessed are those who, as St. Paul reminds us, by renouncing sin and submitting to the dominion of the Spirit will conquer that freedom that no one can take away from them.
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The Vatican declared excommunications. The bishops were consecrated anyway. And more than 16,000 faithful knelt in a thunderstorm and prayed the Rosary. John-Henry Westen reflects on his week in Écône, Switzerland, covering the SSPX consecrations. He witnessed the beauty of the traditional liturgy, the sacrifice and joy of the Society's clergy, and the unwavering faith of pilgrims who traveled from across the world. The storm did not scatter them. It united them. It was, he says, a demonstration of vibrant Catholic life—centered on tradition, reverence, and fidelity to Christ. But the experience raised deeper questions. How can Rome demand obedience from the SSPX while promoting blessings for same-sex couples, redefining the death penalty, and opening Holy Communion to the divorced and remarried? Westen argues that the Church is in a prolonged doctrinal crisis—one that has created a state of emergency justifying extraordinary measures. Takeaways from My week with the SSPX in Switzerland …More
Herod chased holy family out of Jerusalem into Egypt so SSPX is chase out of Rome by a tyrant that worships Pachamama and its planted tree in Vatican garden . Hard power or soft power men of power have same thing in common hatred of the holy family. They attack Mary then they attack her faithful priest
Beware of this homosexual sect of apostates chosen by the infamous Bergoglio, who, defying God's law and Catholic morality, seek the perdition of souls.