On a Christmas morning buried in snow a young man in prison took a first trusting step from the valley of humiliation to seek the high places and a season of grace.
The Door of Humility: Entering the Place Where Christ Was Born — Church of the Nativity Bethlehem—whose name in Hebrew means “House of Bread”—holds a place of profound significance in the Christian world. It was here that Mary and Joseph found refuge in a stable, and where Mary gave birth to Jesus, ‘the Bread of Life’. Over this sacred grotto, the Church of the Nativity was built, transforming a humble place of divine intervention into one of Christianity’s most treasured pilgrimage sites. The Church of the Nativity is among the oldest continuously functioning churches in existence. It was originally commissioned in the 4th century by Emperor Constantine the Great and his mother, Saint Helena, who identified the grotto as the true site of Christ’s birth. Dedicated in 339 AD, the first basilica drew pilgrims from across the Roman Empire. Although the original structure was destroyed, Byzantine Emperor Justinian rebuilt a grander version in the 6th century, parts of which remain today …More
On 12 December, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow — a lesbian and a prominent progressive American voice — announced that she considers herself to have returned to the Catholic Church. She lives with an artist named Susan Mikula in a same-sex "marriage". According to TheLettersFromLeo.com, Maddow made these remarks during a question-and-answer session at a local event in Chicago. An audience member asked for her thoughts on the election of Pope Leo XIV. In her response, Maddow praised both Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV. The Church had just said goodbye to Pope Francis, when along came Pope Leo XIV, who shares Francis's passion for illegal immigrants. She said the timing was so perfect that it was "like it was just grown in a lab" against "cruelty to immigrants". Maddow was raised in a conservative Catholic family, but left the Church around 30 years ago for her homosexual lifestyle. Referring to her current outlook, she told the audience, "I do consider myself to be back in the faith". She …More
Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17a “Their king will rise higher.” The king is the one of peace. The dominion is that of Love, which contains joy and peace. Matthew 21:23-27 “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?” God’s authority does not enslave but sets humanity free. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
@amuse @amuse CITIZENSHIP: China is paying American women to carry Chinese babies so the child gets a US passport, then immediately returns to China. Motels of surrogates were found in California. SCOTUS will decide next year if this loophole is even legal.
14.12.2025 SEDEVACANTISTS MUST FORMALLY ASK WHY IS MCELROY ‘IN’ AND THEY ‘OUT’ WHEN THE COUNCIL IS TRADITIONAL How can Cardinal McElroy be a cardinal when he does not affirm Vatican Council II, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Catechism of Pope Pius X and other Magisterial Documents, rationally and so honestly? Sedevacantists (CMRI), MHT MHFM etc) must ask at the Signatura and secular courts. Sedevacantists simply have to affirm the Council rationally and ask Pope Leo and the College of Cardinals to do the same. Why must they be kept outside the Church? They simply have to affirm the Creeds, rationally and so traditionally and tell the Vatican to do the same. They do not have to cite Bellarmine. The issue is Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Sedevacantists must legally ask how Cardinal McElroy or any cardinal can be appointed a cardinal, when the cardinal does not affirm Vatican Council II etc rationally. He should be out of the Church and not …More
Dec 14 Third Sunday of Advent We continue posting daily Advent reflections by the Church Fathers. It's a good way to prepare to celebrate Christmas. The reflections and quotations come from the book titled, Advent and Christmas with the Church Fathers by Marco Pappalardo. Introduction Let us recognize the Son of God in the Child of Bethlehem. Let us recognize him just as he revealed himself to the world through the eyes of faith: the faith with which Mary received him into her womb, the elderly Simeon saw him, and the widow Anna honored him. Let us recognize Jesus, true God and true man, through the gospel accounts, the apostolic tradition, the teachings of the Church, and the words and lives of the saints. St. Dec 13 One city in Canada gets the celebration of Christmas right The City of Vaughan, Ontario, gets it right as the councillors voted to display a Nativity Scene at the Vaughan City Hall. The idea is to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. That's good news, especially when …
Pope Leo XIV: “Authentic diplomacy is distinguished from self-interested calculations or a balance between rivals who hide their respective differences precisely by the ability to reach sincere agreements.”
In December, the Family Pastoral Service of the Diocese of Chiavari, Italy, published a booklet titled Non c’è un amore più grande (“There Is No Greater Love”). The diocese is run by Bishop Giampio Devasini. The publication presents a collection of autobiographical “Christian testimonies” of homosexuals and adulterers. Among the homosexuals are Marco and Michele: "We have been together since 2001." The two homosexuals are increasingly integrated into parish life, including participation in the parish choir and diocesan pastoral activities: "What was previously set aside because it was uncomfortable and difficult to testify to has now become a reason for commitment, to bring our experiences to others." They blame their lifestyle on God: "I believe that the ultimate goal of our work is to break down those walls of division that have always hindered the active participation of people belonging to the broad sphere of homoaffectivity in the life of the Church, under the love of the one …More
The Diocese of Chiavari in Italy has published a pastoral booklet presenting homosexual couples and civilly remarried divorcees as legitimate expressions of “Christian family.” Produced by the diocesan family ministry, the initiative prioritizes a subjective notion of love over Catholic doctrine on marriage and sexuality. The booklet includes testimonies from same-sex couples and irregular unions portrayed as fully integrated into Church life, prompting criticism for contradicting Church teaching. The bishop has not publicly addressed the issue, which critics see as part of a broader pastoral drift toward normalizing relationships contrary to Catholic moral doctrine.
"19. There is not and there will never be, either in God's creation or in his mind, a creature in whom he is so honoured as in the most Blessed Virgin Mary, not excepting even the saints, the cherubim or the highest seraphim in heaven. Mary is God's garden of Paradise, his own unspeakable world, into which his Son entered to do wonderful things, to tend it and to take his delight in it. He created a world for the wayfarer, that is, the one we are living in. He created a second world - Paradise - for the Blessed. He created a third for himself, which he named Mary. She is a world unknown to most mortals here on earth. Even the angels and saints in heaven find her incomprehensible, and are lost in admiration of a God who is so exalted and so far above them, so distant from them, and so enclosed in Mary, his chosen world, that they exclaim: “Holy, holy, holy” unceasingly."
[Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort; XVII-XVIII Century AD; Montfort-sur-Meu, France/Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, France; (aged 43); Founder; Spiritual Writer] “II - To find the grace of God, we must discover Mary 17. Mary is the great mould of God, fashioned by the Holy Spirit to give human nature to a Man who is God by the hypostatic union, and to fashion through grace men who are like to God. No godly feature is missing from this mould. Everyone who casts himself into it and allows himself to be moulded will acquire every feature of Jesus Christ, true God, with little pain or effort, as befits his weak human condition. He will take on a faithful likeness to Jesus with no possibility of distortion, for the devil has never had and never will have any access to Mary, the holy and immaculate Virgin, in whom there is not the least suspicion of a stain of sin. 18. Dear friend, what a difference there is between a soul brought up in the ordinary way to resemble Jesus Christ by people who,…More
Gaudete O.P. (Dominica III Adventus) OPChant The officium of the Mass for the third Sunday of Advent according to the dominican gregorian chant tradition. Translation: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your forbearance be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious over anything; but in all manner of prayer, let your requests be made known unto God. Verse: And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds. Friars: Stefan Ansinger O.P. & Alexandre Frezzato O.P.
Gaudete O.P. (Dominica III Adventus) OPChant The officium of the Mass for the third Sunday of Advent according to the dominican gregorian chant tradition. Translation: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your forbearance be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious over anything; but in all manner of prayer, let your requests be made known unto God. Verse: And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds. Friars: Stefan Ansinger O.P. & Alexandre Frezzato O.P.
13.12.2025 POPE LEO, FISICHELLA,SPADERO DELIBERATELY CHOOSE THE FALSE PREMISE TO INTERPRET VATICAN II AND CREATE POLARISATION Pope Leo, Archbishop Rino Fisichella and Fr. Antonio Spadero sj are deliberately choosing the False Premise to interpret Vatican Council II and produce liberalism and polarization with the conservatives and traditionalists in the Church. The Synod Study Groups used the False Premise and the Consistory will do the same next month. Without the False Premise, Vatican Council II is aligned with the Athanasius Creed, the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS), the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX. There is no change in faith and morals. It means LGBT activity is a mortal sin. Divorce is not permitted. Priests cannot marry and women cannot become priests.The ecclesiology is exclusivist at every liturgy and Holy Mass. The whole Church has to use the Roman Missal which is in harmony with the Athanasius Creed, while, the New Missal of Pope Paul VI is not. The New …More