[cassiepease]

Happy Birthday to Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen who was born this day in 1895. #VenFultonSheen, pray for us!

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[cruxfidelisinteromnes]

Today our Blessed Lady said yes to God and so His great and eternal plan for our salvation, formed and set in motion as soon as we had lost that salvation, was put into it’s final stages and the second person of the Holy Trinity descended like a shaft of light into his creation, clothing Himself in our flesh, mingling the human and the divine so intimately that their could never again be a greater show of His love. So like our Lady have the courage to say yes to God, and “signs and wonders” (Rom 15:19) will surely come of it .. after all sometimes all that is required for something wonderful to happen is one moment of “reckless” courage.

[craigtowens]

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants YOU. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself.

C.S. Lewis (via craigtowens)

[yhwh-yireh-deactivated20230130]

In his works God always wants to act by means of instruments… God, who has given us a free will, wants us to serve him freely as his instruments by harmonizing our will to his in the same way the Blessed Mother did when she said: “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word”. The words “may it be done to me according to your word” should always be on our lips, for between our own will and the will of the Immaculate there should be perfect harmony. So what are we to do? Let Mary lead the way and we shall have nothing to fear.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), Franciscan, martyr Conference of June 13th, 1933 http://vangelodelgiorno.org/main.php (via tota-pulchraesmaria)

[cruxfidelisinteromnes]

ok folks ... I am going to try and revive this blog (even though I have a 15,000 word dissertation to write) #yolo

[proverbs31v25]

I am The Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares The Lord.

Jeremiah 9:20

how great thou art

[cruxfidelisinteromnes]

OK guys I know I havn't posted for ages and I'm really sorry but I've come to ask you all a favour: my dad is very seriously ill, I won't go into detail about the condition here, but it suffices to say that he's in a LOT of pain and taking a LOT of medication! In the next few weeks or so he's going to have a rather risky operation, one that might not work, cause him to have a stroke, or even die on the operating table ... he's becoming very depressed and saying things like if he arrests on the operating table not to bring him back because he can't stand living the way he does now. My mum, and grandmother (his mother) are not coping ... and I am very afraid that I'm going to lose my father! So I ask you, in your charity, please pray for my dad .. for his life, for his health, and for his tormented and depressed soul

[tradcatproblems]

Not to mention wax from Easter Vigil/Candlemas!

[cruxfidelisinteromnes]

Homily on Purity by Fr. Armand de Malleray FSSP

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[dykebrucespringsteen]

guess where abstinence-only education is taught

[new-age-conservative-deactivate]

There are a few statistical problems with those maps. First it covers all teenagers 15-19. Of course 18-19 year old also happen to adults and the states in red also happen to have some of the highest marriage rates among 18-19 year olds and oddly enough married couples tend to have children. (Now we may argue that this habit might not be the best in terms of long term economic planning, but married couples having children is certainly not an issue of lack of sex education). Further this is of birth rate not pregnancy rate. Based on just knowledge of keeping up with the news I would suspect that the red states have a lower teen abortion rate (I can only find average abortion rates, not separated out by age…if anyone has that please let me know)…the argument that sex education works better would be dependent on pregnancy rate, not birth rate, and since we can assume the states that came in lower probably have higher teen abortion rates the average pregnancy rate is probably more level between the states. This map would only be relevant if it showed out of wedlock teen pregnancy rates. But it doesn’t. In at least two ways it skews the numbers to make it say something it does not. Try again liberals. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." —Mark Twain

[kaalaa-paanii-deactivated201409]

Re-blogged for commentary.

[sentimental-slop]

And why people are acting as if giving birth to children is some big no-no is beyond me. Women have babies. Get over it.

[cruxfidelisinteromnes]

So after 34 years my Diocese (Brentwood) has new Bishop

[tradcatproblems]

Not to mention wax from Easter Vigil/Candlemas!

[theraccolta]

[loveroftradition-deactivated201]

“By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting.”

-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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[spiritualinspiration2]

In the Bible, when the people of Israel came out of slavery and were headed toward the Promise Land, they were so happy to be finally free! But then Pharaoh changed his mind about letting them go and came chasing after them. They came to a dead end at the Red Sea and things looked impossible. Instead of staying in faith and focusing on the fact that God had delivered them before, the Israelites got upset, fearful and started complaining, “Moses, why did you bring us out here to die?” Moses replied, “Stand still and you will see the deliverance of the Lord.” He went on to say, “The Lord will fight for you if you hold your peace and remain at rest.” And the Lord was faithful to His Word and delivered them again.

Moses knew he had to get the people out of that negative mentality or they would be defeated, and the same is true for you. You may be in a storm of life, but don’t let that storm get in you. Instead, set your focus on God because He is faithful, and He will fight your battles. Stay calm and remain in peace today because God is going to deliver you and lead you into your promise land!

[the-last-crusade-deactivated201]

Our God is gloriously triumphant, he has cast horse and chariot into the sea!

[adam4d]