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quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem. 20/girl/🇮🇹/Catholic dni if culpable (not unaware or questioning) denial of church teaching, NSFW, or using the faith merely aesthetically. dni if promoting discrimination, right wing extremism, left wing extremism.

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ST FRANCIS OF SALES PRAY FOR US !!!

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Leaving again Tumblr’s just not for me

I got a new Substack tho

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20/girl/Catholic/🇮🇹, finally Home.

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“The "no" of the human who refuses God cannot be placed on equal footing with the unconditional "yes" of God to humanity. Divine mercy, which has primacy, must also have the final word. Jesus Christ, judge of the living and the dead, indeed died for all on the cross. He is a merciful judge – this, we can hope for.

One of the characteristics of divine mercy is to take our human freedom into account. God advises, but never forces; He pursues us, but never takes us by surprise and does not subject us to any pressure. "For, says Augustine, the one who created you without your consent does not want to save you without you." But mercy calls upon human responsibility; it does not cease to solicit and incite man to make a decision, while at the same time giving him the possibility to do so.”

-Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life, Walter Kasper.

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Just out of Mass. I love this line from this communion hymn:

“You are the sublime fruit of that tree of life which Adam could not touch: now it is given to us in Christ.”’

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From the Roman Catechism.

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From my comment to an article about the mercy of Purgatory.

“I was visiting a town a few days ago and me and my group were in a dark church for many hours, when we came out my eyes hurt so badly because it was so bright, even though the view was amazing. This sorta reminded me of Purgatory.”

“He not only doesn’t reject anyone who desires to turn to him even at the end of their life, no matter what they’ve done (I’m talking about conversions like that of Rudolf Höss), he wants to make them like the saints. He cares for the souls of anyone who seeks His forgiveness so much as to want to refine it like gold. It is that precious to God, even souls we would be happy to see discarded.”

“In my diary I wrote this line about what Purgatory means to me and why I feel that unlike the Protestant view, it is a victory of mercy: “Your soul is destined for glory, for communion with Me, the Thrice-Holy One. No matter how immense your misery may be, the purifying flame of My love burns more fiercely than any evil you have ever done.”

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Marble altarpiece of the Baptism of Christ located in St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta by the Sienese artist Giuseppe Mazzuoli.

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My name saint

There aren’t many saints with the same name as me, so I loved reading about her, virgin and martyr.

“According to the Passio, Anatolia and Victoria, two young Roman women of noble family, both Christians consecrated to God, opposed arranged marriages to two patrician suitors. The two men then sequestered the young women on their estates in Sabina, where Victoria was eventually killed and buried in a cave.

Victoria, a Roman of noble family born around 230 AD, received baptism as a child. At the age of 20, she was asked in marriage by the nobleman Eugenius. Her maternal cousin, Anatolia, who was a few years older and had also been asked in marriage by a patrician, convinced her to become a "Virgin of Christ." Victoria sold her jewelry and precious garments, distributed the proceeds to the poor, and renounced marriage forever. Eugenius feared denouncing her as a Christian because, under the law, Victoria’s assets would have been confiscated. He actually had a twofold goal: to marry Victoria and to take possession of her wealth.

With imperial favor, the two suitors then sequestered the young women on their estates in Sabina: Victoria near the Sabine city of Trebula Mutuesca (modern-day Monteleone Sabino), and Anatolia, together with Audax, near the Sabine city of Thora. According to the account of the Passio, there was a terrible dragon in the territory of Trebula whose pestilential breath killed both men and animals. Domitian, lord of Trebula, went to the place where Victoria had been exiled and begged her to save the city from the dragon. After driving away the dragon, Victoria entered the dragon's den and, summoning the people, said: "Listen to me: build an oratory for me in this place and give me your young virgins as companions." In a short time, more than 60 girls became her disciples; the saint taught them hymns, psalms, and canticles. The exile, faced serenely by the Saint, lasted three years and continued through the end of 253 AD.

However, after three years, Eugenius denounced her to the pontiff of the Capitoline Hill named Julian, who sent a commissioner named Taliarchus to Trebula. The latter went to Victoria with a statuette and forced her to worship the Goddess Diana. Upon her refusal, he killed her by piercing her with his sword.” -Wikipedia.

Pray for us.

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#Y’know if every crucifix looked like this it’d be a lot easier to conceptualize the brutality Christ endured for us

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SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

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“If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.”

— Saint Faustina (via empty-and-beautiful)

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People you might have not known were Lay Dominicans!

- St. Pier Giorgio Frassati (young Italian activist in the 1920s, recently canonized last September alongside St. Carlo Acutis).

- St. Louis De Montfort (French priest who’s famous for his teachings on Mariology and consecration to the Blessed Virgin).

- St. Bartolo Longo (former satanic priest who reverted back to the faith and came to be known as ‘the Apostle of the Rosary’).

- Flannery O’Connor (southern gothic author whose Catholic and Thomist views influenced her writing, also her nickname as the ‘Hillbilly Thomist’ is the namesake of a bluegrass band compiled of Dominican Friars!).

(+ Pope Benedict XV, many royalty, authors, Saints, and Blesseds!)

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"Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, Pray for Us!"

📷 Stained Glass Window in Saint Dominic's Priory Church, Newcastle, UK / #LawrenceOP via #Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) and #CanvaPro #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia #SaintsoftheDay

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“There is a Book from which the learned and the uneducated, the great and the small, the righteous and the sinners can read and learn. It is a book open to all, in which everyone can learn the most sublime theology of God’s attributes—His power, His mercy, His justice, and His love; a book in which, in letters of blood—but not earthly blood—the mystery of God’s eternal love for humanity is written and explained. This book is such a school of wisdom and divine knowledge that the greatest saints of the Church were formed in it, and without it it is impossible to understand or practice any virtue. All the doctrines of the Gospel are summarized and illustrated in this book. All the books of Holy Scripture… are nothing but pages of this book. This book has formed saints, confessors, martyrs, and virgins. What, then, is this book of all sciences and all wisdom that exists in heaven and on earth? It is the Crucified One! Christ Jesus nailed to the Cross!”

-St. Hannibal Mary Di Francia. Pray for us.

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He whom the heavens can barely contain has chosen to dwell within you.

Pray for us.