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🙏🏼
Wisdom in Tough Times from St. Thomas More 🔗
1. When you feel like quitting - “You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds… What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can”.
2. Why trials are necessary - “Every tribulation whichever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it”.
3. Where one can find refuge - “Comfort in tribulation can be secured only on the sure ground of faith holding as true the words of Scripture and the teaching of the Catholic Church”.
4. When you think you’re not doing enough - “The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest”.
5. When you want to give up on your efforts - “Do the best you can to make the present production a success; don’t spoil the entire play just because you happen to think of another one that you’d enjoy rather more”.
6. When you get discouraged by the latest scandal - “The times are never so bad that a good man can live in them”.
7. When you need to be reminded about Who is in charge - “Don’t worry about me no matter what happens in this world. Nothing can happen to me that God doesn’t want. And all that He wants, no matter how bad it may appear to us, is really for the best”.
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Traditional Latin Advent chant Rorate Coeli
Rorate, coeli, desuper; et nubes pluant Iustum — Drop down, oh Heavens; let the clouds rain down the Righteous
Greetings.
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مرحبا.
تم اطلاق هذه القناة لتوفير صوت للمسيحيين السوريين في هذا زمن التطورات وتغيرات. الآن مستقبل مجتمعنا غير محدد والكثير منا خائفون من التحدث عن هذه الأمور.
نحن ضد الطائفية والتطرف والارهاب في كل أنواعها ولو هذا يزعج سلطتنا الحالية.
رجاءً انشر قناته حيث ما أمكن ذلك حتى نكون شاكرين.
وشكرا.
🔥 The Slap Heard Around the World!
✨ Discover the incredible story of Saint Nicholas at the Council of Nicaea. When heresy threatened the faith, Nicholas stood firm, delivering a bold slap to defend Christ’s divinity. From imprisonment to a miraculous vision, witness how his courage and faith shaped history.
#StNicholas #CouncilOfNicaea #FaithAndCourage #CatholicSaints 🙏📜✨
❄️ In the chill of winter, a saint’s quiet charity brought hope to a struggling family.
Discover the inspiring story of St. Nicholas, the gift-giver, who secretly helped a poor man and his daughters in their time of need. A tale of humility, faith, and compassion that still warms hearts today.
#StNicholas #CatholicSaints #FaithAndCharity #SaintStories #CatholicInspiration
These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
Christianists
Notre Dame Cathedral reopens after 5 and a half years.
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St. Ambrose believed the Church had a visible head:
When therefore it is written; a man that is an heretic after one admonition reject, and when another man who spoke by the Holy Spirit has said that beasts such as these should be spurned and not received with greeting or welcome, how is it possible that we should not judge the person whom we have seen united to their society to be also a maintainer of their perfidy? What even if he were not there? We might still have besought your Graces not to allow the Roman Church, the Head of the whole Roman world*, and the sacred faith of the Apostles to be disturbed; for from thence flow all the rights of venerable Communion to all persons.
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
℟. pray for us
"May we open our hearts this Christmas to receive the most precious gift of all: Jesus Christ.”
Saint Teresa de Lisieux
Once a priest starts the consecration of the Eucharist, he’s not allowed to stop until the rites are complete, no matter what.
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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety, but in every prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your petitions be made known to God. And may the peace of God which surpasses all understanding guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
(Philippians 4:4-7)
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Fascinating Facts About the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe ❤️🔥
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DECEMBER 10: SHE LED WOMEN AWAY FROM PROSTITUTION
Blessed Maria Emilia Riquelme Zayas
Religious Virgin and Founder
Died: 1940
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She was a Spanish nun and founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Mary Immaculate. Even when she was not yet a nun, she already took time to serve the sick in hospitals and help the poor. She also gave her money to poor young women to keep them away from prostitution. Her work and personal piety attracted other like-minded women. This became the start of her religious congregation.
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Blessed Maria Emilia Riquelme Zayas, please pray for the women of today to abandon promiscuity, to stay righteous, and to stay faithful to the virtue of chastity all their lives. Please pray for young men so that they might not corrupt themselves or the women of today, but instead help them to grow into chaste, virtuous women. Amen.
✨ A Tale of Peace and Faith ✨
Discover the powerful Catholic story of St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio! 🐺
In a time of fear, St. Francis tamed a ferocious wolf with compassion and faith, forging a pact of peace between the beast and the townspeople.
📖 Watch this visually stunning and spiritually uplifting retelling of a beloved Catholic legend. A reminder of the power of kindness and divine grace.
🙏 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” — Matthew 5:9
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)
St. Ambrose on the veneration of relics (Epistle 22)
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Today we celebrate and venerate St. Ambrose of Milan, Father and Doctor of the Church. He's known for his rethorical skills in preaching the Faith, and for baptising St. Augustine. He fearlessly defended the Catholic Faith against heresy: when the Arian Emperor Valentinian II sent soldiers to take over the Basilica St. Ambrose was celebrating the Divine Office in, he refused to give it up, and stated he would rather have himself arrested and executed than give up the church to the Arians, barricading himself with the faithful inside the church. He's venerated as one of the four Latin Doctors
℣. St. Ambrose of Milan
℟. pray for us
«I have not stopped since the day I arrived. I conscientiously made the rounds of the villages. I bathed in the sacred waters all the children who had not yet been baptized. This means that I have purified a very large number of children so young that, as the saying goes, they could not tell their right hand from their left. The older children would not let me say my Office or eat or sleep until I taught them one prayer or another. Then I began to understand that "the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”».
–St. Francis Xavier, Letter to St. Ignatius of Loyola, 2 October 1542
The St. Andrew Christmas novena is traditionally recited 15 times per day starting on November 30th (St. Andrew Feast day) until Christmas day 25th
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment In which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires,
(Mention your request here…)
Through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ and of His blessed Mother.
Amen.
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
