"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." (Matthew 5,6)
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Beatae Mariae Virginis a Rosario
Our Lady of the Rosary
The feast of the Holy Rosary was instituted by Pope Pius V to celebrate the anniversary of the defeat of the Turkish fleet at the battle of Lepanto on the first Sunday in October 1571, which ended the threat of Muslim domination of the Mediterranean and was ascribed in part to the prayers and processions of the Rosary confraternity in Rome. Later the feast was moved to the fixed date of 7 October.
I had to pirate it from you. It's so nice. Thank you.
„A királyi méltóság rangját csakis a hívők és a katolikus hitet vallók nyerhetik el” (Szent István, 1027.)
"Soli fideles et qui fidem Catholicam profitentur ad regalis dignitatis gradum pervenire possunt" (Sanctus Stephanus, 1027.)
"Only believers and those who profess the Catholic faith can attain the rank of royal dignity" (Saint Stephen, 1027.)
We celebrate the birth of St. John the Baptist on June 24, and on July 2, the Feast of the Visitation, we ponder his being filled with the Holy Ghost while still in his mother's womb. During Advent, we hear much about St. John as we prepare for the birth of our Savior -- and for the return of Christ at the end of time.
Today though, on August 29, we recall the murder of our Saint -- the "Decollation (beheading) of St. John the Baptist." 1 You'll find the story told best in Matthew 14:1-13 and Mark 6:14-29.
First, some background information: Herod the Great -- the Herod who arranged for the Massacre of the Innocents (Matthew 2) -- had a number of children with many different wives, and when he died, his kingdom was divided up among three of them.
One of those children was a son named Aristobulus IV. Aristobulus, with one of his many wives, fathered Herodias, a daughter.
And this is where things grow tricky: Herodias married her half-uncle, Herod Phillip ("Herod II"). With him, she …More
It is very good, in fact necessary to strictly take into account the quality of everything that is translated (often things are translated more than once, i.e. from another translation and not the original). This is where not only the necessary nihil obstat and/or imprimatur comes into question, but also the personal sensus fidei.
I specifically research this on many translations of the Bible, and in several languages. Also, thanks to various translations in several languages (if you know them) of some revelations or some books of a more modern era from a saint or a "saint", it is much easier to make a distinction. And so in some cases it is even possible to recognize where there is deception.
One should always pray to the Holy Spirit for the gift of discerning spirits. For there are many false teachers, prophets and pastors. Today they not only speak lies and deceptions, but they also leave many things in writings and thus poison a large number of people, even those after their time …More
I agree 100% with your idea of knowing Latin (and I would add Greek): 'It is even better to learn and know Latin, because then you can find a lot of scanned original material, written from the first hand and the pen of many saints in various archives on the Internet.' When I compare different translations of 'The Dialogue' of Saint Catherine of Siena for example I can see huge differences under the guise of 'modern language' or 'science' (She did not know Copernican theory so we have to delete some text or put it in the brackets in the best case). From Google AI about Latin speakers: 'Some estimates suggest there are at least a few thousand fluent speakers, while others suggest a figure as high as a few tens of thousands globally.' In any case not much.
Nice: somebody who thinks.
Now the heavens are like a group of kids playing "broken telephone". The first kid says to the second "God doesn't exist" then the second against the third and so on, until reaching kid number 200. Now the 200th kid is asked: What is the message, and the kid says: "God does exist". And the reason that the kid says this, is because God does exist, lives and is not silent. Human reasoning will always presume that at a certain time "A", God said something to a receptor and then after the traditional lore at moment "B" we presume that information has disappeared or was corrupted, as if the chain of kids were a network-cable with inherent data losses. In that case the message "God doesn't exist" could change to "♪od dΓesnit e▬ist". You see the difference? The problem is that researchers will always investigate theological questions with the premise that God doesn't exist and then run into trouble. However if you take the premise that God exists, then through …More