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@sistervpaul_ @kaysaaa81 🙏

#Compline "Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in His peace. Amen." 🙏🛐

In order to have salvation and eternal life, faith is required in both the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the Trinity. For the Father cannot be fully known apart from the Son and the Holy Spirit. -Lapide

@KanekoaTheGreat @realDonaldTrump Another moral theologian who got his degree by watching Fox News attacks the pope.

The Jews demand a kid: the Christians a lamb. For them Barabbas is set free; for us the lamb is slain. -St. Ambrose

@JohnWJames3rd @infidel_cracka 🙏

Prayer Warriors - My dear friend's wife has been waiting for nearly 4 years for a new kidney and pancreas donor. They just received a call that she may be in surgery tomorrow morning as they have found a match. His family needs prayers that this blessing comes through. 🙏 🙏 🙏

@busy_bee_me @Subaquaneus 🙏

I need prayers. Desperately. My son’s name is Deacon. Please.

@FiatLuxGenesis @GeneralMCNews Lie

@GeneralMCNews Not true.

“We are supposed to be friends.” Friends usually share their real names with one another, but apparently I’ve never known your real name after roughly 8.5 years of friendship (frankly, I was shocked when @Michael_J_Matt revealed that “Chris Jackson” is your pen name during one of his shows earlier this year). Friends also don’t accuse one another of platforming people for selfish and dishonorable reasons, as you have now accused me. @kennedyhall, @TaylorRMarshall, @DrKwasniewski, and @Catholicizm1 (shown in your post) are all friends of mine whom I genuinely respect, which is why I invited them to join me for live streams on my channel. And since you’ve apparently forgotten, I told you via DM last September that I’d be willing to host you, @StephenKokx, and @EsquireCatholic on my channel “for a discussion/debate about all the ‘Trad Inc’ stuff if y’all are interested.” You never responded. In your quest to battle the Church’s internal enemies (a noble endeavor), you have ironically chosen to throw your lot in with certain external enemies of the Church, i.e., sedevacantists (I leave their subjective culpability to God alone), to say nothing of your bizarre devotion to Donald Trump. Let me be clear: friend or not, I cannot and will not support you in this grave folly.

“A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water.” ~ St. Augustine

@Burgess7281975 🙏

Friends, Please join us in praying for Rhonda who is in the hospital suffering from sepsis. She is having an emergency surgery to get her biliary drain functioning. Our Lady of Guadalupe please intercede by and through the Holy Name and Precious Blood of your Son. Amen

The devil does not operate from strength, but from desperation. Here's what I didn't understand for many years: I thought of the devil as an opponent who fights to win, who wants to win, who believes in his success. And this feeling made him scary, because an enemy who is confident of victory is dangerous. But then I read in the “Revelation” of St. John the Theologian, and this place turned my whole understanding upside down: “Woe to you, who inhabit the land and the sea, because the devil has come down to you with great anger, knowing that he has little time left”~Rev. 12:1. He has little time left, he knows it, so he is furious. It is not the wrath of the winner; it is the wrath of the condemned. Imagine a man who was sentenced to death saying, “After an appointed time, it will all be over for you.” What can he do? He can humble himself, but the devil is not capable of humility. This is the only thing he is deprived of by nature because of his pride. So he's doing something else: he's trying to draw as many with him as he can. Not because he believes in winning, but because he wants to cause as much pain as possible before the end. That's why he's so active. That's where this tension comes from—in the world, in people, in families, in the soul. It is not a triumph of darkness, but agony. St. John Chrysostom says: “Do not be afraid of the devil, be afraid of sin. The devil is nothing without your sin.” A convicted criminal barking in a cage. Loud, scary, but from the cage. The cage is Golgotha, the Resurrection—that which has already taken place and cannot be undone. St. Seraphim of Sarov answers a monk's question on how not to be afraid of demons: “And why are you afraid of them? They are more afraid of us than we are of them. More, because we are God's image. Because we have the opportunity to have fellowship with God, and we are not deprived of it forever. Because we can repent, but they cannot.” The devil knows he has lost; he doesn't guess, he knows for sure. Christ told us about this in his last conversation with his disciples, when every word carried the weight of eternity: “The Prince of this world is condemned”~John 16:11. It is a past event, the verdict has been pronounced. Calvary is not just a death on a cross. This is the place where the verdict over the enemy of mankind, final and unappealable, was signed.

I never spared heretics and have always done my utmost that the enemies of the Church should also be my enemies. -St. Jerome

Good morning. In your charity, please remember to pray for the forgotten souls in Purgatory. 🙏

No man in this world is strong, except in the hope of God's promises: for as to our deservings, we are weak, in His mercy we are strong. -St. Augustine

I think JD Vance’s response, unfortunately, misses the point. When the Pope says, “God is not on the side of those who wield the sword” (Matthew 26:52), he is not denying the Church’s Just War tradition. He is calling us back to the heart of Christ. In Matthew 26:52, Jesus says, “all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” He also teaches us to love not only our friends but our enemies (Matthew 5:44), to refuse retaliation (Matthew 5:39), and in the end, He submits to the Cross without violence. This shows a clear direction: the Kingdom of God is not built through force. As He says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). Christ does not present violence as something that reflects God’s nature. He allows Himself to be killed rather than defend Himself with force. That is central to the Church’s message. What is Just War Theory? Just War Theory was developed mainly by St. Augustine and later refined by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is not a justification for violence, but a strict moral framework meant to limit it. It accepts that, in a fallen world, the use of force may sometimes be tolerated, but only under serious conditions. There must be a just cause, such as defending innocent life or resisting grave injustice. It must be declared by a legitimate authority. The intention must be right, not driven by revenge, hatred, or conquest, but by the desire to restore justice and peace. War must truly be a last resort, after every serious peaceful option has been exhausted. There must be a real probability of success, so that lives are not wasted in a hopeless conflict. The response must be proportionate, meaning the harm caused must not be greater than the evil being resisted. And even in war, civilians and non-combatants must never be deliberately targeted. Even with all these conditions, the Church never says that God supports war. At most, it says that moral responsibility may, in very limited circumstances, tolerate the use of force to prevent a greater evil. Peace remains the goal. Violence is never the ideal. What I find difficult in Vance’s response is the tone toward the Pope. It comes across as though he is trying to correct theological language, as if the Pope is offering just another opinion. But the Pope’s role is precisely to speak into moral and theological questions, especially when they touch on real issues like war and power. At a deeper level, this seems like a clash between political reasoning and the logic of the Gospel. Christ is the standard, not political strategy, not historical precedent. Everything has to be measured against Him. So yes, the Church has wrestled with the reality of war. But that does not weaken the Pope’s point. If anything, it makes it more necessary. In a world that keeps finding ways to justify violence, the Church must keep pointing back to Christ, who did not conquer by the sword, but by the Cross.

Starting a new chemo drug today. Pray for good results. Thanks.