Deus ✠ in adiutorium meum intende

catholic | traditional | xxi

[famuladomini]

+ PAX

Laudetur Jesus Christus! I have been accepted into a traditional Benedictine community, which I am set to enter next autumn. Deo gratias!

[mysticmagdalene]

Walking down the aisle to receive the Eucharist feels the same as walking down the aisle to meet my Bridegroom. Either way I get a kiss and a tongue on mine. Body on body, Soul to soul

[acatholicrose]

[stone-cold-groove]

Holy card depicting Our Lady of Sorrows - artist and date unknown.

[childfromheaven]

Saint Benedict and his twin sister Saint Scholastica.

Once a year, the two would meet in a farmhouse to discuss spiritual matters. On their final visit, knowing she was close to death, Scholastica asked Benedict to stay the night so they could continue their holy conversation. Benedict refused, citing his Rule which forbade monks from spending the night outside the monastery. Scholastica bowed her head and prayed. Immediately, a violent storm erupted, making it impossible for Benedict to leave. When Benedict asked what she had done, she replied: "I asked you and you would not listen; so I asked my God and He did listen." St. Gregory the Great later wrote of this moment: "She could do more because she loved more."

[acatholicrose]

[famuladomini]

A prayer for priests from Coeleste Palmetum (1892);

Deus, qui Unigenitum tuum dedisti summum Sacerdotem, eique ad sacrificandum tibi hostiam mundam sacerdotes ministros sociasti: quaesumus, ut omnes, qui vocatione tam sancta dignati sunt, altari tuo devote ministrent, et seipsos hostiam vivam, sanctam et Tibi placentem, offerre mereantur. Per eundem Dominum.

[littleflowercerise]

Our flower ladies 🌷

[ad-crucem]

“Daughter, embrace the Cross and for My sake look on all sweet things as bitter, and all bitter things as sweet, and so be certain that you will always be strong."

—Christ to St. Catherine of Siena

[acatholicrose]

[sedesapostolica]

Hoc est enim corpus meum.

[dear-orchid]

Salve Regina (Latin)

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae, vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae. Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.

Et Iesum benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis, post hoc exsilium, ostende.

O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.

Ora pro nobis Sancta Dei Génetrix.

Ut digni efficiámur promissiónibus Christi.

Amen.

[the-catholic-herald]

[famuladomini]

Please keep me in your prayers as I make my first contact with a new religious community.

[famuladomini]

I am thankful for all the precious prayers! I have still yet to hear back from that community which in itself is a sign from Divine Providence. I trust that the Sweetest Bridegroom will lead me to a community where I can give up everything to serve Him for the greater glory of God, if He so wills.

[sedesapostolica]

[fillidei-misereremei]

[henk-heijmans]

On the way, ca. 1953 - by Robert Häusser (1924 - 2013), German