Mary Live with Dr. Mark Miravalle - An Urgent Prayer for RIGHT NOW In light of the grave new levels of global degeneration, disasters, and war, including warring against Christians, this URGENT PRAYER inspired by Our Lady has never been more necessary. Join Dr. Mark Miravalle in his discussion of serious world events and the need to turn to Our Lady through this anointed prayer specifically for our present historical moment.
TWENTY-NINTH DAY SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, PRINCE OF THE HEAVENLY MILITIA MONTH OF OCTOBER Consecrated TO THE HOLY ANGELS IN WHICH THEIR EXCELLENCES, PREROGATIVES AND OFFICES ARE EXPOSED, ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, THE HOLY FATHERS AND DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH By Alejo Romero, Presbyter TO START EVERY DAY + For the signal.... PREPARATORY PRAYER Sovereign Lord of the world, before whom all the creatures of heaven, earth and hell bend their knees reverently; look at us here prostrate in your divine presence to give you the tributes of love, adoration and respect that are due to your exalted majesty and high greatness. We come to contemplate during this month the excellences, prerogatives and offices with which you have enriched for our benefit those sublime spirits that, like burning lamps, are eternally around your throne, making your divine perfections shine. O beautiful Sun of intelligences, who fill all the empyreum with immense radiance, cast on our souls a …More
[St. Albert the Great – Albertus Magnus – XIII Century AD; Duchy of Bavaria/Cologne, Holy Roman Empire – Doctor of the Church] “Chapter 3 - What the perfection of man consists of in this life Now the more the mind is concerned about thinking and dealing with what is merely lower and human, the more it is separated from the experience in the intimacy of devotion of what is higher and heavenly, while the more fervently the memory, desire and intellect is withdrawn from what is below to what is above, the more perfect will be our prayer, and the purer our contemplation, since the two directions of our interest cannot both be perfect at the same time, being as different as light and darkness. He who cleaves to God is indeed translated into the light, while he who clings to the world is in the dark. So the supreme perfection of man in this life is to be so united to God that all his soul with all its faculties and powers are so gathered into the Lord God that he becomes one spirit with him …More
"Now the image of God as found in the soul consists of these three faculties, namely reason, memory and will, and so long as they are not completely stamped with God, the soul is not yet deiform in accordance with the initial creation of the soul."
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “What greater peace can a soul feel than in being able to say on lying down at night: Should death come this night, I hope to die in the grace of God. What a consolation is it to hear the thunder roll, to feel the earth tremble, and to await death with resignation, if God so ordain it.” Source: The peace a soul feels in the state of graceMore
Marking 60 years since Vatican II’s document Gravissimum educationis, Pope Leo XIV published on October 28 his apostolic letter Disegnare nuove mappe di speranza (“Drawing New Maps of Hope”). He uses many evasive phrases to deceive conservatives. A beautiful example is: 'The family remains the primary place of education. Catholic schools collaborate with parents; they do not replace them”. However, Leo XIV also names the “star that guides” him: the 2020 Global Compact on Education (10.1): “I gratefully accept this prophetic legacy entrusted to us by Pope Francis.” “It is an invitation to form an alliance and network to educate for universal fraternity.” This Pact was created in collaboration with anti-Catholic international authorities, including UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, OECD, the World Bank and environmental organisations connected with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. . Leo XIV wants to “renew the economy and politics in the service of humanity; and caring for our common home …More
"They have not the guilt of sin ; and it is this latter which constitutes the malignant will of the damned, who are excluded from sharing in the goodness of God, and therefore remain in that hopeless malignity of will by which they oppose the will of God.”"
[Catherine of Genoa ~ XV-XVI Century; Genoa, Republic of Genoa] “Chapter III - SEPARATION FROM GOD IS THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT OF PURGATORY WHEREIN PURGATORY DIFFERS FROM HELL ALL the pains of purgatory take their rise from sin, original or actual. God created the soul perfectly pure and free from every spot of sin, with a certain instinctive tendency to find its blessedness in Him. From this tendency it is drawn away by original sin, and still more by the addition of actual sin ; and the farther off it gets, the more wicked it becomes, because it is less in conformity with God. Things are good only so far as they participate in God. To irrational creatures God communicates Himself, without fail, as He wills, and as He has determined ; to the rational soul more or less, according as He finds it purified from the impediment of sin ; so that, when a soul is approaching to that state of first purity and innocence which it had when created, the instinctive desire of seeking happiness in God …More
It is all one choreography: the velvet glove and the hidden knife. The ancient liturgy is allowed just long enough to reassure the flock that nothing essential has changed, while the machinery that forbids it everywhere else hums quietly in the sacristy.
In Principio
Mazza La Ragazza
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