Cross Coalition

❓FAQ: How will the cross actually be placed on the Moon? 🚀 It starts with HOPE-1: a lunar lander designed to carry a symbol of faith beyond Earth. 🚀 Backed by technology and faith-driven support, this mission is about declaring God’s glory in the heavens. 🌌 ✨ Will you join us? Learn more ➡️ mooncross.org #FaithAndInnovation #CrossCoalition #MoonMission #FaithInSpace #TheHeavensDeclare #ChristianCommunity #BibleVerseOfTheDay #Innovation #GlobalMovement #SpaceExploration

Reading for the Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church ow.ly/LFh2106AWQy

Reading for the Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States] ow.ly/tYps106AU0V

Reading for the Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time ow.ly/fG7E106ARI0

@BishopBarron Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, pray for us! ✝️🚀🌕

Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, examples of marital holiness, pray for us!

🇮🇩 Our friends in #Indonesia created this! Thank you for sharing the Cross on the Moon vision with the world. ✝️🌕🚀 Any Indonesians in our community? We’d love to hear from you!

“Ave Maris Stella”- Hail Star of the Sea, is an ancient title for Our Lady. It hails from a time when transportation relied heavily on ships on the sea. As a guide, a sea captain used a compass and the stars to get them safely to port. Read More: buff.ly/nImr0iN

✝️🚀 Innovation drives prosperity. The @Space_Station is advancing #AI, medical technology & #semiconductor research that powers tomorrow’s economy while preparing humanity for the #Moon and #Mars. Congratulations to the Expedition 74/75 crew. Godspeed & God bless you all! 🌕

St. John Neumann crossed an ocean to serve God’s people, embracing new languages and cultures so he could share the Gospel with everyone he met. His life is a reminder that the Church in America has been strengthened by generations of immigrants who answered God’s call. Today, let us pray for immigrants, newcomers, and all who are searching for a place to belong.

Messier 87 has one of the largest known black holes in its core - and a jet erupting from it. Using advanced image-processing techniques and years of data from @Chandraxray, researchers have tracked a detailed evolution of the jet! READ MORE >> go.nasa.gov/4eTF76q

God's generosity towards us is not naïve but wise. He sees within us the potential of a good that, at times, we ourselves might fail to recognize. For this reason, the Lord, who knows the soil of our hearts better than we, never ceases to believe in us—in who we are and in who we can become, day by day, if we entrust ourselves to him in faith. #GospelOfToday (Mt 13:1–23) #Angelus

“Look at you, Church.” Joy and hope marked the reception celebrating Bishops Gary Studniewski and Robert Boxie III following their episcopal ordination. “It was clear they love the sheep, and the sheep love them.” Read more:bit.ly/4aLhGcV #BishopStudniewski #BishopBoxie #ArchdioceseOfWashington

Your name was made to be written in the stars! 🌟 NASA’s next observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is preparing for launch, and you have the chance to #SendYourName along for the ride. Register by Sunday, July 12, to have your name uploaded to an SD card that will be attached to the observatory >> go.nasa.gov/3R8yLH1

Reading for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ow.ly/JIcL106AQ7L

Pope Leo XIV today at lunch with 200 migrants, refugees and homeless people at Castel Gandolfo: “I came without a speech, but with hunger, with hunger for justice, with hunger for authentic charity, with hunger for a Church that truly knows how to open the doors, welcome, receive everyone, where there is love for all and where no one is an enemy.”

@elonmusk, we’re praying for you! 🙂‍↔️☺️ Listen to @justinpark01, founder of ✝️ on the 🌕 Coalition, as he shares our mission with Alina on Inside Success TV! Join us today! This is for space experts & enthusiasts, who love God. Not a Catholic? Join! mooncross.org

Faith & science have often advanced together. Think of Copernicus, Kepler, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître’s primeval atom (later Big Bang Theory)! To study the universe is not to diminish God, but to marvel at His creation. There is nothing more fulfilling than the ❤️ of God.

When ✝️ faith and 🚀 space come together, we rediscover our sense of wonder. 🌕✨ 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️👩‍🚀 Where are the people who love both heaven and the heavens? ✝️🌌

On July 14, @astro_anil is scheduled to lift off on his first-ever flight to the @Space_Station. We will be broadcasting his launch and arrival live on NASA+, YouTube, and other platforms. Learn when to watch: go.nasa.gov/4ydHM2j

@EWTNVatican St. Benedict, pray for us! 🚀🌕✝️

July 11 is the Feast of St. Benedict — and millions of Catholics around the world wear his medal. But do you know what it actually means? Known as the "devil-chasing medal," the St. Benedict Medal is one of the most powerful sacramentals in the Catholic Church. Its power comes not from the object itself, but from Christ, who works through the faith of the one who uses it. The Front: St. Benedict holds a cross. At his side are a broken cup—after monks tried to poison him, it shattered when he blessed it—and a raven carrying away a poisoned loaf, another failed attempt on his life. Around the edge is the inscription: Eius in obitu nostro praesentia muniamur "May we be strengthened by his presence in our hour of death." The Back: A large cross bears the initials of the famous prayer: C.S.P.B. – Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti "The Cross of our Holy Father Benedict." C.S.S.M.L. – Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux "May the Holy Cross be my light." N.D.S.M.D. – Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux "May the dragon not be my guide." Around the border is the exorcism prayer: V.R.S. – Vade Retro, Satana! "Begone, Satan!" N.S.M.V. – Numquam Suade Mihi Vana! "Never tempt me with your vanities!" S.M.Q.L. – Sunt Mala Quae Libas. "What you offer is evil." I.V.B. – Ipse Venena Bibas! "Drink your own poison!" At the bottom is a single word: PAX — Peace. The medal was formally approved by Pope Benedict XIV in 1742. It became widely known after the miraculous healing of a young man named Brunone, who later entered the Benedictine Order and eventually became Pope St. Leo IX. St. Benedict, pray for us! 🙏