OCTOBER 30 SAINT ALPHONSUS RODRIGUEZ breski1 (also known as Alonso) Born in Segovia, Spain, July 25, 1533; died at Palma de Majorca in 1617; beatified 1825; canonized 1888; feast formerly on October 31. “The difference between adversity suffered for God and prosperity is greater than that between gold and a lump of lead.” – Saint Alphonsus. Brother Alphonsus proves Mother Teresa’s axiom that small things done with great love is the call of the Christian. Every day Alphonsus Rodriguez prayed to more than 20 confessors, martyrs, and Church Fathers. He had a great veneration for Saint Ursula, and though modern scholarship has done much to revise and alter the story of her martyrdom, the fact remains that a liturgy might be clumsy and inaccurate and yet represent a far more fertile and living expression of religious life than one which has been cleaned and scoured to the point of rendering it sterile. Surely the candor and devotion of Saint Alphonsus is of greater value than the scientific …More
XVI-XVII Century AD; Duchy of Savoy, Holy Roman Empire/Lyon, Kingdom of France - Doctor of the Church - St. Francis de Sales ~~~ It ought to be our principal aim to conquer ourselves...
Sachin Jose - The world’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary, the 51-meter (167-foot... The world’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary, the 51-meter (167-foot) Our Lady of Fátima, is set to be inaugurated in Brazil on November 13. Video: Téo Corretor …More
OCTOBER 30 2025 THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 13,31-35. Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, "Go away, leave this area because Herod wants to kill you." He replied, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and I perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I accomplish my purpose. Yet I must continue on my way today, tomorrow, and the following day, for it is impossible that a prophet should die outside of Jerusalem.' Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling! Behold, your house will be abandoned. (But) I tell you, you will not see me until (the time comes when) you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
Letter to the Romans 8,31b-39. Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ (Jesus) who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written: "For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ …More
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
John 15: 19-21 "If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the Word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my Word, they will also keep yours. But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know Him who sent Me."
Yep, this clown eats with his hands because it's "culturally authentic" = non-white, anti-Western. Yet whites in NYC support this barbarism? Don't be alarmed when your city become WORSE than a 3rd-world h*ll hole.
THE DIVINE RELATIONS (FOUR ARTICLES) The divine relations are next to be considered, in four points of inquiry: (1) Whether there are real relations in God? (2) Whether those relations are the divine essence itself, or are extrinsic to it? (3) Whether in God there can be several relations distinct from each other? (4) The number of these relations. 1-Whether there are real relations in God? Objection 1: It would seem that there are no real relations in God. For Boethius says (De Trin. iv), “All possible predicaments used as regards the Godhead refer to the substance; for nothing can be predicated relatively.” But whatever really exists in God can be predicated of Him. Therefore no real relation exists in God. Objection 2: Further, Boethius says (De Trin. iv) that, “Relation in the Trinity of the Father to the Son, and of both to the Holy Ghost, is the relation of the same to the same.” But a relation of this kind is only a logical one; for every real relation requires and implies in …More
Will You Enter the Narrow Gate to Heaven? The gospel reading emphasizes the importance of striving to enter through the narrow gate to heaven, highlighting the higher accountability of those who have been given the fullness of truth. While acknowledging human weakness and the inevitability of sin, the focus should be on living a life centered on God, striving to serve Him, and relying on His grace for salvation. By doing so, one can achieve the most wonderful thing: eternal life in heaven. Fr. Altier’s Daily Homilies Fr. Altier is a Priest at Holy Trinity Parish in South St. Paul: holytrinitysspmn.org You can also find Fr. Robert Altier’s homilies and talks on: Gab: Gab Social Gettr: Catholic Parents OnLine on GETTR - Profile and … Rumble: CatholicParentsOnLine Twitter: x.com/CatholicPa42753 For access to a library of talks by Fr. Robert Altier, go to: CPO Premium Streaming Media To order Fr. Altier's book, God's Plan for Your Marriage, go to the website: God's Plan For Your …More
"For the true pattern of the soul is God, with whom it must be imprinted, like wax with a seal, and carry the mark of his impress. But this can never be complete until the intellect is perfectly illuminated, according to its capacity, with the knowledge of God, who is perfect truth, until the will is perfectly focused on the love of the perfect good, and until the memory is fully absorbed in turning to and enjoying eternal happiness, and in gladly and contentedly resting in it."
[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
