We believe in you, Lord Jesus, we believe that with you hope is reborn and the journey continues.
+ Pope Francis
17 dic 1936 - 21 apr 2025
Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?
+ 1 Cor 15:55
Perfect Joy: Saint Francis and the Road of Holy Suffering
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Saint Catherine and the Miracle of the Shattered Wheel
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Joan of Arc: The Miracle of Orléans and Her Unbreakable Shield
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Splinters From The Cross
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Little griefs of every day.
Little trials and vexations,
How they throng around our way!
One great cross, immense and heavy,
so it seems to our weak will,
Might be borne with resignation,
But these many small ones kill.
Yet all life is formed of small things,
Little leaves, make up the trees,
Many tiny drops of water
Blending, make the mighty seas.
Let us not then by impatience
Mar the beauty of the whole,
But for love of Jesus bear all
In the silence of our soul.
Asking Him for grace sufficient
To sustain us through each loss,
And to treasure each small offering
As a splinter from His Cross.
"Die Eisenfaust am Lanzenschaft" ("The iron fist on the lance shaft") is a song about the Teutonic Knights of Santa Maria, one of the three major Chivalry Orders of Christendom, founded in Jerusalem at the time of the 2nd Crusade. It was the first Chivalry Order to be dedicated to Our Lady. Later, the Pope transferred the Order to Germany to fight pagans in northeastern Europe, granting its knights the same indulgences of the Crusaders.
The lyrics speaks of the awe-inspiring bravery of those knights who fought in defense of Christendom. Their swords glimmer as they ride proud and true under the banner of the Cross.
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Italian Cardinal Mariano Rampolla (1843-1913), last candidate for the papacy to be vetoed through jus exclusivee by a Catholic monarch.
Cardinal Rampolla was considered the favorite to become Supreme Pontiff after the death of Pope Leo XIII in 1903.
His candidacy in that year's conclave gained momentum until the last moment when the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph I imposed the veto jus exclusivee during the conclave. Cardinal Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Archbishop of Kraków, expressed the veto on behalf of the Austrian emperor.
The cardinals then elected Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, who chose the papal name Pius X. One of his first actions was to perpetually prohibit and anathemize the practice of jus exclusivee.
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🔥 The Miracle of Saint Benedict: The Coup and the Shattered Cup
Step back into the tension of a medieval monastery, where faith and rebellion collide. Witness the dramatic moment when Saint Benedict’s divine blessing exposes betrayal, shattering not just a poisoned cup but the hearts of those who plotted against him.
✨ “Ora et Labora” – Pray and Work. This gripping story reveals the strength of faith, the weight of leadership, and the power of divine intervention.
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Two years ago (31 Dec 2022), the soul of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI reposed in the Lord.
He was elected as Bishop of Rome, Successor of St. Peter and Pastor of the Universal Church in 2005; he occupied the Apostolic Throne for 8 years, until his resignation in 2013.
He was known for his meekness, piety, and theological studies; he published many works as a private theologian including Introduction to Christianity (1968), The Infancy of Jesus (2012) and his best-selling book Jesus of Nazareth (2007).
He's deeply missed to this day by millions of Catholics worldwide.
Say a prayer for Pope Benedict's soul and for the faithful who lament his departure to this day🙏🏼
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May Pope Francis, servant of the servants of God, rest in the peace of Christ. May the angels lead him into Paradise, and may the prayers of the faithful accompany his soul to the judgment seat of mercy. Requiescat in pace.
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"A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists".
St. Charbel Makhlouf, Love is a Radiant Light, p. 53.
‘God did not give women the pulpit, but something higher: the lap where the saints learn to speak’. -St. Francis de Sales
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Saint Roch and the Dog That Saved Him
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Russian “orthodox” Patriarch Kirill rebuked Father Alexei Shläpin, who, at the diocesan assembly of Moscow, urged the clergy to focus on the Kingdom of Heaven rather than Russian interests.
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🌟 St. Anthony and the Mule: The Triumph of Faith in Rimini
In 1223 Rimini, a skeptic demanded proof of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist. What followed was a miraculous moment that silenced doubt and converted hearts. Witness the starving mule kneel in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, revealing Heaven’s undeniable truth.
✨ “The beast, recognizing its Maker, knelt… and doubt crumbled before divine truth.”
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We encourage all to say these prayers for the Bishop.
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Father lays out very well that it is licit to ethically deport people.
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Today we venerate and celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. In 431 AD, at the Council of Ephesus, the Church dogmatically declared the orthodoxy of the Marian title 'Mother of God' (Θεοτόκος, Dei Genetrix).
«And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?»
Luke 1:43 (RSVCE)
"Therefore, because the holy virgin bore in the flesh God who was united hypostatically to the flesh, for this reason we call her the Mother of God, not as if the nature of the Word had the beginning of its existence from the flesh (for 'the Word was in the beginning and the Word was God and the Word was with God' and made the ages and is co-eternal with the Father and the author of all things), but because, as we have said, she united the human hypostatically to herself and underwent a birth according to the flesh from her womb."
St. Cyril of Alexandria, Second Letter to Nestorius
℣. Holy Mother of God
℟. pray for us
Today we celebrate and venerate Pope St. Sylvester I, the Pope who attended the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea
St. Sylvester was the first Pope of Rome to reign entirely under the liberty of the Church, guaranteed by the Edict of Milan in 313. Sylvester - a priest of Rome and the son of one Rufinus, according to the Liber pontificalis - was elected to the See of Peter in 314. During Sylvester’s reign, the city began its transition into its Christian era, with the construction of the great Constantinian basilicas - including the Basilica of St. Peter on the Vatican Hill, which was erected above a temple dedicated to Apollo, to mark the burial place of the first Bishop of Rome.
℣. Pope St. Sylvester
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