Englishwoman, Catholic convert
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This is. Significant. ⬇️
Archbishop’s statement on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill: cbcew.org.uk/archbishops-sta…
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Archbishop’s statement on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill: cbcew.org.uk/archbishops-sta… – at London, England
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The root of the West's decline is faithlessness. Dawkins can't see it. But migrant converts see something that the fish in water types stubbornly refuse to acknowledge: the root of the West is Jesus Christ, and there is no salvation for the West without Him. To gain redemption, each individual must practise the Faith. That is the only path to restoring the West, which is itself a bad term for Christendom. You can only restore something by going back to the roots, the foundations.
It is tragic how many refuse to accept something so obvious. It is Vanity: "things have always been good, why should I believe, pray, attend church, tithe, and make all this effort? I can coast on the faith of my ancestors without working for my children to inherit the faith".
It is peak boomerism, and yet so many younger men are affilicted by it.
Go to Church.
Richard Dawkins MOCKS Born-Again Christian About Her Faith, But Her Response Left The Crowd Cheering
"I understand that a personal story can be moving, but calling yourself a Christian means accepting certain beliefs."
When you sit in church listening to a vicar, don't you ever think that some of what he's saying is illogical?
Do you really believe Jesus was the Son of God, that he rose from the dead, and that he was born of a virgin? Those aren't minor details. They're fundamental to Christianity.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: You and I have been friends for a long time, and you've been a mentor to me. But you've approached this from the position that there is nothing there.
My own experiences led me to accept that there is a higher power the God who transformed my life.
When I listen to the vicar now, his words don't sound nonsensical to me. They make profound sense. There's ancient wisdom in them.
I used to mock faith and Christianity too. But after what I've experienced, I don't anymore.
I've reached a place of humility and realised that people with enduring faith possess something valuable.
Someone once told me: when all hope seems lost, pray. There's tremendous wisdom in that. I don't see these teachings as foolish anymore. I see them as remarkably wise.
Richard Dawkins: But Christianity has its own serious problems.
Take the doctrine of original sin the idea that we're all born carrying the sin of Adam, and that Jesus had to be punished and crucified to save humanity from its sins.
I find that theology not only nonsensical, but morally objectionable.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: I see Christianity differently. At its core, it's about love.
As a new Christian, especially compared with my upbringing in Islam, what stands out to me is the message of redemption, renewal and rebirth.
The death and resurrection of Jesus represent that transformation the possibility of becoming new.
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They destroyed the bones of Santa Clause. Obviously reported virtually nowhere in English language media.
🔴🇫🇷 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 — Des OSSEMENTS attribués à saint Nicolas, évêque de Myre, conservés depuis 1098 à Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, en Meurthe-et-Moselle, ont été VOLÉS dans leur reliquaire, au sein de la basilique, puis DÉTRUITS.
Le suspect, interpellé à son domicile, a reconnu avoir BRISÉ la vitrine protégeant le reliquaire, avant d’en voler le contenu, de BRÛLER les ossements puis de les ÉCRASER par « désir de destruction ».
(Source : L'Est Républicain)
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We will never forget their sacrifice.
#RemembranceDay
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My church always has an exceptional service for Remembrance Sunday. A truly moving homily from our learned priest, loaded with deep historical knowledge, an exceptional choir performance, an event of reverent beauty intended to honour Britain's heroes and pray for them.
I am always moved by Remembrance Sunday. I wear a poppy and give to the Royal Legion in solidarity. But at no point can I claim, or tell my children, that these heroes are my ancestors, or that they died for me and mine.
I honour Britain's heroes and pray for them, and I teach my children to do the same. But their courage and sacrifice was not for my sake, and it would be grossly dishonest and dishonourable to pretend otherwise.
Do not let anyone steal your ancestors' sacrifice. They died for you and for your children. They did not die for multiculturalism.
Eternal light grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.
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Thinking of the men who went over the top and never came back.
And the ones that did come back, but left something behind.
#RemembranceDay
Bishop Barron is obviously talking about the USA here, but us Catholics across Great Britain and Northern Ireland could also consider applying it in our own lives. I pray that by God’s grace I can do so.
Friends, the laity are meant to practice obedience in a manner distinctive to the lay state. This means a willingness to follow the higher voice of God rather than the voice of one’s own ego. It is to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
I’ve often spoken about Hans Urs von Balthasar’s distinction between the ego-drama (the story written, produced, directed by, and starring oneself) and the theo-drama (the one written, produced, and directed by God).
We might say that the entire point of the spiritual life is to break free of the former—a preoccupation with our own wealth, success, career plans, or personal pleasure—so as to embrace the latter.
And this requires obedience to God—an attentiveness to his voice and a willingness to follow it.
Picture what our country would look like if, right now, every Catholic decided to live in obedience to the voice of God. How much of the suffering caused by our own ego-dramas would be diminished!
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The keys given to Peter in Matthew 16 are not a vague symbol of faith, but a precise, historical reference to the royal office of the prime minister in the Davidic kingdom.
Most Protestants read "I will give you the keys of the kingdom" as a metaphor for preaching the gospel. A personal encouragement to Peter. Nothing institutional.
But Christ was quoting something. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Isaiah 22. God deposes Shebna, the corrupt steward of the palace, and installs Eliakim:
"I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; he shall shut, and none shall open."
Note the structure. Keys. Opening and shutting. Authority exercised on behalf of the king.
Now Matthew 16:19. "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven."
Same office. Same language. Same structure.
In the Davidic court, the steward was the Al-Bayit, the master of the palace. He governed when the king could not be present. His authority was the king's authority, delegated. And critically, the office outlived its holder. Shebna was removed. Eliakim was installed. The keys passed from man to man.
The office was successional by design.
"Binding and loosing" confirms it. This was rabbinic technical language for judicial rulings, for declaring what is permitted and forbidden under the Law. Christ hands Peter not a feeling, but a court.
So the question is unavoidable. If Christ deliberately invoked a Davidic office that was viceregal, permanent, and successional, why would He intend Peter's office to die with him?
The early Church agreed. Tertullian, Cyprian, and the Fathers generally read the keys as a real chair of authority, not a private compliment.
The first Christians had no doubt that offices succeed. Judas's seat was filled by vote and Scripture in Acts 1.
Why would the keys be the one exception?
If Matthew 16 gives Peter only a personal gift, what do you do with Isaiah 22?
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Does anyone still regard the French Revolution as a benign development ?
La république et les catholiques. « Ils les firent mettre à genoux pour se moquer de leurs prières ; ils voulurent les obliger à marcher sur la croix, à jurer contre le bon Dieu.
Enfin, ils allumèrent tous les fours de l'endroit, et, quand ils les eurent chauffés à blanc, ils jetèrent d'abord les vieillards, puis après les enfants, sous les yeux de leurs mères se tordant de douleur et de désespoir. Ces malheureuses avaient les mains attachées derrière le dos, et on les forçait, à coups de crosse, de voir les tortures de leurs vieux pères, de leurs enfants, d'entendre leurs cris déchirant, sans pouvoir les secourir ni les délivrer de ces horribles tourments.
Quand il n'y eut plus d'enfants à jeter au feu, ces démons féroces, ayant pris goût à ces monstruosités, chauffèrent de nouveau ces brasiers remplis de chair humaine carbonisée, et, au milieu des sarcasmes et des ricanements dignes de pareils monstres, y jetèrent lentement, une à une, pour prolonger plus longtemps le supplice et leur plaisir, toutes ces infortunées.
Un témoin à rapporté que l'une d'elles ayant pu sortir des flammes avant d'être complètement brûlée, un officier, lui enfonçant une fourche dans le ventre, la rejeta dans le brasier. Dans le seul bourg des Épesses, on compta, brûlés de cette façon, 52 femmes, 16 vieillards, 36 enfants. » Abbé Faucheron
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More women were killed during the French Revolution just for being religious in 3 years (hundreds of them) than all the Spanish Inquisition's witchcraft trials in 300 years (6).
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"Prayer changes things" is the popular slogan. Aquinas would correct you: prayer changes nothing in God, and everything in the plan.
Most people assume that if God is unchanging, petitionary prayer is incoherent. You are asking an eternal mind to change its mind. Either prayer works and God is mutable, or God is immutable and prayer is theater.
Aquinas rejects the dilemma entirely.
In the Summa Theologiae (II-II, q. 83), he argues that God's will is eternally fixed. No request alters it. But that is not a problem for prayer. It is the very reason prayer exists.
Providence does not merely decree ends. It ordains the means. And God has willed to give certain goods through the instrument of your petition. Not because He needs your input, but because He chose to accomplish His plan through secondary causes.
The farmer's irrigation is the ordained means of the harvest. He does not beg rain into existence against the order of nature. He cooperates with it.
So when you petition God, you are not informing Him of your needs. He knew them before you did. You are, in Aquinas's terms, meriting the reception of what He eternally intended to give through that very act of asking.
Prayer is also an act of the virtue of religion. It orders the soul toward God as the source of every good. The petition changes you before it changes anything else.
This is why " Thy will be done" is not resignation. It is the most precise description of what prayer actually does.
The modern assumption is that a fixed plan makes prayer pointless. Aquinas answers: a fixed plan is what makes prayer powerful.
Does this resolve the tension for you, or does petitionary prayer still feel like it requires God to genuinely reconsider?
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The Catholic Church truly is a hospital for the sick, and the Sacraments truly are medicine for the soul.
I didn’t fully understand that until I became Catholic. There is healing and peace in the sacramental life that I had never known before.
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My God, she was a prophet:
"I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child – a direct killing of the innocent child – murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
… Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
… It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Mother Theresa
National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, February 3 1994 🇺🇸
#MotherTeresa #SaintTeresaOfCalcutta #ProChristus #プロライフ #マザーテレサ #カトリック
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God is the center of everything, the linchpin holding everything together. Without Him, everything is chaos and becomes the opposite of goodness, truth, and beauty.
Any topic I have covered for WOB, manners, literature, painting, architecture, food—it doesn’t matter what—all have the origins of their decline traced to the single Pin that was pulled with secularism and atheism.
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*sigh* because the British press hasn’t spelt this out I will. (Is it spelled or spelt?)
Anyway … The EU believes its law takes precedence over Poland’s sovereign law (even its Constitution, wherever EU law applies)
Poland’s Constitution says it is the SUPREME law of the country (I agree)
Now Donald Tusk’s is battling his own people over control of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, with police on the streets and the court’s leadership removed (because they disagreed with the EU’s position).
the European Commission is, of course, backing Tusk on the appointment of judges. ( as long as they agree with the EU position)
Brussels insists the Tribunal must respect rulings of the EU Court of Justice (because they believe their rule is superior to sovereignty)
AND They dare to call this “defending the rule of law”
And THIS ladies and gentlemen is why I voted to leave. You’re welcome 🔥
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Friends, I don’t think we Christians fully understand how radically we must think about the goal of the Christian life. It is not to become a nice person. An atheist can be a nice person.
The goal is to become a new creation, someone living the very life of God. Jesus is the Son of God by nature, but we become sons and daughters of God by adoption, brought into a share in his life like a child welcomed into a family and their home.
That’s what it means to be a saint: to be invited into the household of God, and to worship God by eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus, becoming assimilated unto him.