Detail of St. John the Apostle reclining on Our Lord's chest, from Domenico Ghirlandaio's The Last supper (ca. 1486, refectory of the Dominican Monastery of San Marco, Florence, Italy)
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First, John had the privilege of having Christ's special love. The Evangelist says, Peter turned, for he had begun to follow Jesus even bodily, and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved. Here we see that Peter, already made a shepherd, was intent on the care of others: "And when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren" (Lk 22:32). Now Jesus loved John without excluding the others, for above he said, "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you" (15:9). But he loved John above the others with a special love. There were three reasons for this. First, because of his penetrating understanding: for teachers especially love their intelligent students: "A servant who deals wisely has the king's favour" (Prv 14:35). Secondly, because of his purity, for he was a virgin: "He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend" (Prv 22:11). Thirdly, because of his youth, for we have tender feelings for the young and the weak, and act with friendship towards them. And this is the way Christ acted with the youthful John: "When Israel was a child, I loved him" (Hos 11:1). We can see from this that God especially loves those who serve him from their youth: "My soul desires the first ripe figs" [Mic 7:1].
(St Thomas Aquinas, In Ioann. 22)
Today we venerate and celebrate St. John the Evangelist
Saint John, the Evangelist of Christ's divinity par excellence. Author of the fourth Gospel, three letters and the book of Revelation. The Greeks gave him the title of 'theologian', and the Latin Liturgy chose, for his Mass, the antiphon to the Introit of the Common of Doctors. A favourite of the Lord, John presents himself in his Gospel as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 19:26). With James his brother and Simon Peter, he witnessed the Transfiguration; he is found at the Supper bent over the Master's breast and at the foot of the Cross where Jesus entrusts his Mother to him. He is the only apostle who escaped martyrdom and died at Ephesus at a very old age; it seems that he spent the last years of his life leading the Churches of Asia Minor.
℣. St. John the Apostle
℟. pray for us
https://twitter.com/Sachinettiyil/status/1739334366864835004
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Pope Francis talked about where he wanted to be buried 🥺 please pray for the Holy Father’s health and longevity
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Let us pay close attention to ourselves so that we are not deceived into thinking that we are
following the strait and narrow way when in actual fact we are keeping to the wide and broad way.
The following will show you what the narrow way means: mortification of the stomach, all-night
standing, water in moderation, short rations of bread, the purifying draught of dishonour, sneers,
derision, insults, the cutting out of one’s own will, patience in annoyances, unmurmuring endurance of
scorn, disregard of insults, and the habit, when wronged, of bearing it sturdily;
when slandered, of not being indignant; when humiliated, not to be angry; when condemned, to be humble.
Blessed are they who follow the way we have just described, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- The Ladder
When the demons see catholic men praying the rosary, it is like seeing a Roman Military Platoon. 📿⚔️ ✝️
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More than forty [Fathers] in turn attest this tradition, which stretches from the cradle of Christianity to the days of St. Bernard, when the banner of opposition was first raised : here we find St. Denis of Alexandria, St. Justin, St. Epiphanius, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Tertullian, Origen, St. Ephraim, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Fulgentius, Theodore of Ancyra, St. Maximus, St. Peter Chrysologus, St. Sabbas, St. Andrew of Crete, Esychius and Tlieodore of Jerusalem, St. Germanus, John the Geometrician, Fulbert of Chartres, Paschase Radbert, St. John Damascene, St. Sophronius, St. Peter Damian, St. Anselm, St. Bruno : such are the names found amongst a crowd of less famous names and of anonymous authors...[continues⬇️]
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We are so back. Joos in NY are seething hard
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Our Lady with Bl. Pope Pius IX and Ven. Pope Pius XII, who dogmatised, respectively, the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Mother of God
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Today we celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
«²⁸And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!”»
Luke 1:28 (RSVCE)
«By the authority of Jesus Christ Our Lord, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own: We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful».
Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus (1854)
your Godly sent message that if you don't Exodus this year you are an effeminate, soft, weak man
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MALAWI
Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka has said
'We are not going to allow the recommended blessings of dame sex unions.
The first time in the history of the church, a document released by the Holy See and signed by the Holy Father is rejected by his fellow bishops and publicly rejected. It's sad'
@catholicarena
The Tree of Divine Doctrine from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.
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An Eastern Orthodox priest is becoming Catholic. Pray for him 🙏
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Saint John of the Cross
December 14
St. John of the Cross, my glorious protector, in your lifetime you were the father of the poor, the consoler of the afflicted and the assured refuge of the suffering; you worked miracles of charity for all, miracles which you repeat even now by means of your holy images and relics. Deign also to be my consoler and my father; comfort me in my sorrows and aid me to see in every cross a pledge of divine mercy that, through the cross, I may gain heaven. Obtain for me, too, the special grace I ask through your intercession, if it be for the glory of God and for my salvation (make request).
Amen
Three Our Fathers, Hail Marys & Glory be
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"You will never be Pope and restore the old ways"
Me:
"O amor não é uma questão de se obter o que se deseja. Muito pelo contrário. A insistência em sempre ter o que se deseja, em sempre obter satisfação, em sempre ser saciado, torna o amor impossível. Para amar, você precisa sair do berço, onde tudo é 'obter', e crescer para a maturidade da doação, sem se preocupar em obter alguma coisa especial em troca. O amor não é uma transação, é um sacrifício."
- Thomas Merton, Amor e Vida
Exaltação Da Santa Cruz
Some of these testimonies suppose the Immaculate Conception, others express it in equivalent terms, others formally define it, and so by diverse ways all end in the same point, the Immaculate Conception; and such is the energy of their words and the drift of their assertions, that if Mary knew for one instant the stain of sin, we must admit that all these men, so great by virtue, so illustrious by genius, so venerable by antiquity, have made a compact to connive at error through all time and space».
Card. Luigi Lambruschini - A Polemical Treatise on the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin (1855), p. 41
«In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: "The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life"».
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, on the Nativity of the Theotokos, Kontakion (Fourth tone)
"The Blessed Virgin Mary lived without sin. None of the saints besides Her are without sin [Sancta virgo Maria sine ullo vixit peccato. Nullus praeterea sanctorum absque peccato]. We must except the holy Virgin Mary, concerning whom I wish to raise no question when it touches the subject of sins, out of honour to the Lord; for from Him we know what abundance of grace for overcoming sin in every particular was conferred upon her who had the merit to conceive and bear Him who undoubtedly had no sin. With the exception of this Virgin, if we had been able to bring together all those saints during their earthly life and ask them if they were without sin, what do we think their answer would have been? [...] Would they not have cried out with one voice at our eventual question: 'If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us'?"
St. Augustine, On Nature and Grace, 42 [PL 44:267]
St. Ambrose on the veneration of relics (Letter 22)
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Why protesters in 50 Spanish cities are praying the rosary this Friday | Catholic News Agency
Mil gracias a Nicolás de Cárdenas por sacarlo en inglés.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/256197/why-protesters-in-50-spanish-cities-are-praying-the-rosary-this-friday
