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“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.” —Venerable Fulton J. Sheen #CatholicConnect https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu8MprBghnp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s4q7navwa557

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@colmflynnire and @rteone spent a day with @niall_mcd in the Bronx, New York City to discuss his faith journey. It was aired Nationwide on @rteone RTE 1 on Wednesday, February 27th. #CatholicConnect #Catholic #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Faith #RTE #Jesus #JesusChrist #God #Love #Life #Christian #Christianity #Bible #BibleVerses #GodIsGood #NYC #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Bronx (at Bronx, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu719yiA1CF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ndj3jut6m3mj

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What this amazing young adult outreach @mercythroughmary is doing is AMAZING! We’re not sure if you guys have heard of this book but it is REVIVING the Catholic game and reminding the world of God’s active and all transforming Mercy! • Anyone under 25 can order books for FREE! It’s easy to read and VERY life changing! It’s the last week to order books! 📖🕊🇻🇦 • #CatholicConnect #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Vatican #CatholicBooks #CatholicBook #Read #Listen #Pray #Christian #Christianity #Jesus #JesusChrist #DivineMercy https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu7adwHgxUC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=obruoywfidfy

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The closer you get to God, the more you become ALIVE.🔥 “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭16:24-25‬ • “Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.” -St. Francis de Sales • Via @genuinelygia 🕊🇻🇦 #CatholicConnect #Catholic #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Vatican #Pray #PrayTheRosary #Bible #BibleVerses #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christian #Christianity #Eucharist #Confession #Faith https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu7FldzD9RQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dxachlano9gv

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“My wife who is a pediatric nurse and with a master in pediatric public health, and our 6 children. What about that mr Macron?” —A husband that loves his wife @emmanuelmacron 😼 #CatholicConnect #Catholic #Family #France #Macron #EmmanuelMacron #French #WomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #Women #Medical #Nurse #Love #Motherhood https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6VFSTg-sw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11edlopn475ve

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@jasonevert talking Theology of the Body on @thecatholicmanshow! Full interview link in bio. #CatholicConnect #CheerstoJesus #AndOurMother #Catholic #TheologyoftheBody #TOB #Chastity #Virtue #christopherwest #jasonevert #chastityproject #johnpaulII #jpii #stjohnpaulii #stjohnpaul2 #wednesdayaudience #fatherhood #catholicfamily #family #phoenix #arizona #tulsa #oklahoma #texas #dallas https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu5XiGuAwJh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p3mq7v5688ae

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"Let it be done to me according to your word. . ." At the announcement that she would give birth to "the Son of the Most High" without knowing man, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary responded with the obedience of faith, certain that "with God nothing will be impossible": "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word." Thus, giving her consent to God's word, Mary becomes the mother of Jesus. Espousing the divine will for salvation wholeheartedly, without a single sin to restrain her, she gave herself entirely to the person and to the work of her Son; she did so in order to serve the mystery of redemption with him and dependent on him, by God's grace: As St. Irenaeus says, "Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race."141 Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert. . .: "The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith." Comparing her with Eve, they call Mary "the Mother of the living" and frequently claim: "Death through Eve, life through Mary." #CatholicConnect #JesusChrist #BlessedMother #RoleModel #Catholic #Catholicism #God #Truth #Christian #Christianity #PrayTheRosary #GodIsGood https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu5MVmAgTjy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8iwjtgvol9ah

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“Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.” -Venerable Fulton J. Sheen • "All Sacred Scripture is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ" (Hugh of St. Victor, De arca Noe 2, 8: PL 176, 642). "The Sacred Scriptures contain the Word of God and, because they are inspired, they are truly the Word of God" (DV 24). God is the author of Sacred Scripture because he inspired its human authors; he acts in them and by means of them. He thus gives assurance that their writings teach without error his saving truth (cf DV 11). Interpretation of the inspired Scripture must be attentive above all to what God wants to reveal through the sacred authors for our salvation. What comes from the Spirit is not fully "understood except by the Spirit's action' (cf. Origen, Hom. in Ex. 4, 5: PG 12, 320). The Church accepts and venerates as inspired the 46 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New. The four Gospels occupy a central place because Christ Jesus is their centre. The unity of the two Testaments proceeds from the unity of God's plan and his Revelation. the Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfils the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are true Word of God. "The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures as she venerated the Body of the Lord" (DV 21): both nourish and govern the whole Christian life. "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" (⇒ Ps 119:105; cf. ⇒ Is 50:4). #CatholicConnect #Catholic #Christian #Christianity #Jesus #JesusChrist #Scripture #BibleVerses #Unity #Christians #PrayTheRosary #Scriptures #God #HolySpirit #Trinity https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu5LA8jgG2Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h75hgrlr9wxg

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“Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood.” -Saint Louis de Montfort #CatholicConnect #Prayer #Pray #Catholic #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Christian #Christians #Christianity #Jesus #JesusChrist #Bible #HolyBible #BibleVerses #Truth #Hope https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4nAKPANAP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=f9uh45lvnaw3

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Through our weekly Seminarian Spotlight, we invite you to learn more about our seminarians as they prepare for the priesthood. This week features Michael Willey, Pre-Theology I - Diocese of Knoxville. Via @the.basic.catholic 🕊 #CatholicConnect #Catholic #Discernment #Vocation #PrayForVocations #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Vatican #Pray https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4C1RIga8e/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=plro0enpxphp

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Voting 101 🗳 THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life. Because it should be treated as a person from conception, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed like every other human being. You shall not kill. You have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You shall not kill: and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment." But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment. "Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being." RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE The witness of sacred history In the account of Abel's murder by his brother Cain, Scripture reveals the presence of anger and envy in man, consequences of original sin, from the beginning of human history. Man has become the enemy of his fellow man. God declares the wickedness of this fratricide: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand." The covenant between God and mankind is interwoven with reminders of God's gift of human life and man's murderous violence: “For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning. . . . Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.” Scripture specifies the prohibition contained in the fifth commandment: "Do not slay the innocent and the righteous." The deliberate murder of an innocent person is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human being, to the golden rule, and to the holiness of the Creator. #CatholicConnect #Prolife https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu3pmL6gxyd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1we82fzra5duq

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The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism." • “America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.” -Venerable Fulton J. Sheen • • #CatholicConnect #Socialism #Communism #Truth #Political #Politics #Capitalism #Catechism #Church #God #Freedom #Love #Charity #Catholic #CatholicChurch #God #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christian #Christianity #Bible #BibleVerses #Prayer #Pray #PrayForPeace https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2qMltg3Up/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wdz0kph2w8un

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Through Mary to Jesus!🌹 #CatholicConnect https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2DVH4AbUU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a9qjl8ys9z75

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“All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding his life we find that he is the best example.” -St. Teresa of Avila 📸 @teddy4mac #CatholicConnect (at Basilica Shrine of St. Mary) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu1NyV3APE5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6agsxnnav79k

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“Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will.” -St. Padre Pio #CatholicConnect #Catholic #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Vatican #PadrePio #Christian #Christianity #BibleVerses #Pray https://www.instagram.com/p/BuzjRrjARBY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1noq1rg0buboq

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Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen. #CatholicConnect #Catholic #Catholicism #PrayTheRosary #Pray #Christian #Purgatory #Christianity #BibleVerses #PadrePio https://www.instagram.com/p/Buy_nU7ADdj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gk4bx09i6dp9

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After earning degrees in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Pavia in 1949, she opened a medical clinic in Mesero (near Magenta) in 1950. She married Pietro Molla on September 24, 1955, in the Basilica of St. Martin in Magenta, and she became a happy wife. Her first child was born in 1957. Afterwards, in September 1961 towards the end of the second month of pregnancy, she was touched by suffering and the mystery of pain; she had developed a fibroma in her uterus. Before the required surgical operation, and conscious of the risk that her continued pregnancy brought, she pleaded with the surgeon to save the life of the child she was carrying, and entrusted herself to prayer and Providence. The life was saved, for which she thanked the Lord. She spent the seven months remaining until the birth of the child in incomparable strength of spirit and unrelenting dedication to her tasks as mother and doctor. She worried that the baby in her womb might be born in pain, and she asked God to prevent that. A few days before the child was due, although trusting as always in Providence, she was ready to give her life in order to save that of her child: “If you must decided between me and the child, do not hesitate: choose the child - I insist on it. Save him”. On the morning of April 21, 1962, Gianna Emanuela was born. Despite all efforts and treatments to save both of them, on the morning of April 28, amid unspeakable pain and after repeated exclamations of “Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you», the mother died. She was 39 years old. Her funeral was an occasion of profound grief, faith and prayer. The Servant of God lies in the cemetery of Mesero (4 km from Magenta). “Conscious immolation», was the phrase used by Pope Paul VI to define the act of Blessed Gianna, remembering her at the Sunday Angelus of September 23, 1973, as: “A young mother from the diocese of Milan, who, to give life to her daughter, sacrificed her own, with conscious immolation”. The Holy Father in these words clearly refers to Christ on Calvary and in the Eucharist. Gianna was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 1994, during the international Year of the Family. #CatholicConnect https://www.instagram.com/p/BuylwfNAAvB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ih8mr3q1ukt0