Donald Tusk & @donaldtusk The threat of NATO's break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine and blocking the loan for Kviv bv Orbán - it all looks like Putin's dream plan.
"The Lebanese army was our guarantee and gave us strength," Fadi Falfil, a priest in Debel, told Reuters from his hometown. The withdrawal "created a feeling of insecurity among the people", he said. Trust in God's providence!
"He has come into our country and dwelt in one body amidst the many, and in consequence the designs of the enemy against mankind have been foiled and the corruption of death, which formerly held us in its power, has simply ceased to exist. For the human race would have perished utterly had not the Lord and Savior of all, the Son of God, come among us to put and end to death." Saint Athanasios of Alexandria
St. Athanasius of Alexandria ~~~ It appeared desirable to adhere to and maintain to the end, that Faith which, enduring from antiquity, we have received...
Low IQ fanboys. This is what your church wants. Basically man-children. When tradition has been completely erased, there is no need for memory. Everything is transient and juvenile. There is nothing eternal, and thus there is no peace, only disturbance, like a churning adolescence.
“The Church has damaged the liturgy of the Mass. It is too noisy now! It’s as if we are celebrating ourselves. It has become a convivial moment, whereas we are there to worship God; we need a liturgy that worships God. We no longer speak of salvation and the soul!” - Robert Cardinal Sarah
Dr. Simon Goddek @goddek MEANWHILE IN GERMANY: Former FDP MP and Israel lobbyist Hartmut Ebbing was caught with child sexual abuse videos. He asked the court for a secret trial to protect the German-Israeli Society (DIG), where he was treasurer. The court agreed. He got a suspended sentence. Later convicted of abusing a 7-year-old. Only then did he resign, after nearly a year managing DIG funds, including German taxpayer money. Both FDP and DIG claimed they “knew nothing.”
"Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the Kingdom of heaven, adopted as children, given confidence to call God "Father" and to share in Christ's grace, called children of light and given a share in eternal glory." Saint Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit
St. Basil ~~~ O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all your necessities...
The cover version I did, also , of this song, was quite a different take on the original, making it my own in a way, quite like this version does, although different from mine..
What the Serpent Could Not Tolerate The serpent did not come to corrupt Adam and Eve. He came to open their eyes. “Your eyes will be opened,” he promised, “and you will be like gods.” What followed was not enlightenment. It was the birth of the self as a competing center — the sudden awareness of one’s own interiority as something to be consulted, protected, and served. Their eyes opened. And the first thing they saw was that they were naked. The first fruit of the “open eyes” of “self” was shame. This is the Fall in its precise structure. Before it, Adam and Eve obeyed with what can only be called a blind obedience — not the blindness of ignorance, but the blindness of a will that had not yet learned to regard itself. They moved entirely toward God without the reflexive inward curl that makes fallen men pause, calculate, negotiate, and ultimately substitute their own judgment for His. They were blind to self-will because self-will had not yet entered the world. The serpent could …More
Absolute obedience is rejected by the Church. There are occasions that do call for absolute obedience, even to our superiors, however we live in an age and time when it is not possible. St. Paul was the first to reject the position of the pope, and this is recorded in Scripture, and is infallible. St. Thomas Aquinas rejects the position of absolute obedience. From the Council of Trent: "Should, however, the injunctions of parents be at any time opposed to the commandments of God, children, are, of course, to prefer the will of God to the desires of their parents, always keeping in view the divine maxim: ' We ought to obey God rather than men.'"And specifically with regard to obedience to bishops and priests:"Nay, more, Christ himself commands obedience even to wicked pastors: 'Upon the chair of Moses have sitten the Scribes and Pharisees: all things, therefore, whatsoever they shall say to you, observe ye and do ye;but according to their works do ye not, for they say and do not.…More