I am 60 years old. My son is 33… and he never left. He’s still in his same old room. The same closet. The same bed. The same life… frozen in time. He doesn’t work. He doesn’t study. He doesn’t look for anything. He wakes up late, turns on the TV or the computer…and lets the day pass as if it had nothing to do with him. If I don’t serve him breakfast, he doesn’t eat. If I don’t wash his clothes, they pile up…until he has nothing clean left. And the hardest part…is that it didn’t start like this. I built this. When he was a child, I never let him do anything on his own. I tied his shoes… even when he could already do it. I did his homework… “so he wouldn’t get stressed.” I spoke to his teachers, solved his conflicts, avoided his problems. I always thought: “He’ll have time to suffer when he’s an adult.” But that moment… never came. At 18, he didn’t know what to study. I gave him a year. It turned into three. I never demanded that he work. I never pushed him to be uncomfortable. …More
**The Patristic and Scholastic Consensus Against the Modern Idolatry of the Marriage Bed: Marriage Is the Indissoluble Bond of Wills, Not the Operations of the Flesh** The Church Fathers and the great Scholastic theologians present a unified, sober, and supernatural vision of holy matrimony that stands in radical opposition to much contemporary Catholic teaching and pastoral rhetoric. In the tradition from **St. Augustine** through the Scholastics (including **Peter Lombard** and preeminently **St. Thomas Aquinas**), the **essence** of the sacrament of marriage resides in the **mutual consent** that forms the indissoluble bond (*vinculum*) of fidelity between husband and wife. This covenant of wills is the primal reality: it images the union of Christ and the Church, confers sacramental grace, and sanctifies the spouses independently of any carnal act. The three goods of marriage—**offspring** (*proles*), **fidelity** (*fides*), and the **sacramental bond** (*sacramentum*)—flow from …More
A young man was taken into custody after vandalizing a century-old statue of Jesus inside a Catholic Church, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in California and reportedly began reciting verses from the Quran.
@Olprint I see you have engaged @Instaurare Omnia in Christo! God speed! Many things could have transpired since the founding of the Monastery. However, the veracity of their teachings appears unrefutable. @Instaurare Omnia in Christo has a big problem with Catholic Truth. I just get a big kick out of people saying who is a Religious or not! Who placed her in the judgment seat? God bless you!
You did not prove anything. Even myself can anger you, like you are already furious. Feelings. You have feelings don't you? Something before I add more to the comment: Watch this video... because your... They have given a comprehensive history of their monastery as well in a video with a title (quite recent). What their apostolate was (cloistered), against now. The founder of the monastery.
Prayer before a Crucifix. BEHOLD, O good and sweetest Jesus, I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight, and with the most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech Thee to impress upon my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity, with true repentance for my sins and a most firm desire of amendment: whilst with deep affection and grief of soul I consider within myself and mentally contemplate Thy five most precious Wounds, having before mine eyes that which David, the prophet, long ago spoke in Thine Own person concerning Thee, my Jesus: They have pierced My hands and My feet, they have numbered all My bones [Psalm 21, 17, 18]. PRAYER BEFORE A CRUCIFIX
[ Jüdischer Nationalstolz ] ... "ICH BIN STOLZ AUF DIE RUINEN VON GAZA" ... - A Genocidal Welcome I AM PROUD OF THE RUINS OF GAZA In a Berlin protest against a visit by Francesca Albenese, a pro-Israel demonstrator held a sign bearing Minister May Golan's horrifying statement from two years ago, stylized as the Israeli flag. B.M. Axis of Truth
Dr. Simon Goddek @goddek URGENT – Virus Heist at Brazil's Unicamp! Argentine prof Soledad Palameta Miller & her American husband Michael Edward Miller (tied to USAID/Rockefeller "One Health" agenda) busted stealing H1N1/H3N2 samples from biosafety lab. Cameras catch him hauling boxes. Their biotech firm makes transgenic viruses. Nothing to see here, please move along.
BowTiedMara @BowTiedMara China rejected 22 tons of meat from Argentina after finding chloramphenicol, an antibiotic banned for human consumption for 30 years, and suspended exports from one of Argentina's main meatpacking plants.
Hi friends! Can you all pray for a friend of mine and her baby Gwendolyn aka Gwen. She was born at 26 weeks at 2lbs 6oz. She came early into the world due to a placental abruption. Thank you so much Twitter fam
What the Serpent Could Not Tolerate The serpent did not come to corrupt Adam and Eve. He came to open their eyes. “Your eyes will be opened,” he promised, “and you will be like gods.” What followed was not enlightenment. It was the birth of the self as a competing center — the sudden awareness of one’s own interiority as something to be consulted, protected, and served. Their eyes opened. And the first thing they saw was that they were naked. The first fruit of the “open eyes” of “self” was shame. This is the Fall in its precise structure. Before it, Adam and Eve obeyed with what can only be called a blind obedience — not the blindness of ignorance, but the blindness of a will that had not yet learned to regard itself. They moved entirely toward God without the reflexive inward curl that makes fallen men pause, calculate, negotiate, and ultimately substitute their own judgment for His. They were blind to self-will because self-will had not yet entered the world. The serpent could …More
Absolute obedience is rejected by the Church. There are occasions that do call for absolute obedience, even to our superiors, however we live in an age and time when it is not possible. St. Paul was the first to reject the position of the pope, and this is recorded in Scripture, and is infallible. St. Thomas Aquinas rejects the position of absolute obedience. From the Council of Trent: "Should, however, the injunctions of parents be at any time opposed to the commandments of God, children, are, of course, to prefer the will of God to the desires of their parents, always keeping in view the divine maxim: ' We ought to obey God rather than men.'"And specifically with regard to obedience to bishops and priests:"Nay, more, Christ himself commands obedience even to wicked pastors: 'Upon the chair of Moses have sitten the Scribes and Pharisees: all things, therefore, whatsoever they shall say to you, observe ye and do ye;but according to their works do ye not, for they say and do not.…More