Healer in the Garden

Can I request prayers for myself and my family? I’ve had over 20 seizures in this last month. And my family is all deeply stressed and grieving this and some familial discord deeply at the moment. Thank you. My mom is quite stressed adjusting and I worry for her health too

Bad migraine day today. Please include me in your prayers if you can 🙏

St Padre Pio is a favorite saint of mine. I was just thinking back to a year or two ago when I first got this statue. I couldn't believe someone would want to part with it. It is stationed on my home altar. St Padre Pio, ora pro nobis.

Only a few pages in and I’m already sold! I’ve been thinking about this analogy in particular all day. What’s everyone reading?

@FeelsGuy2003 @____7Z7 Said a Hail Mary 🙏💙

@reginamrc6 Me too ✝️ but also willing to accept whatever is in Gods will for me.

@HITG777 So glad! Praying it stays that way. 🙏

Thank you to all who have prayed: Jesus has been doing great things for me and I am definitely going to be praying the Magnificat for a few days in gratitude. I was able to get a med back on insurance and dose upgraded, head feels clearer than normal, and 2 days seizure free ✝️

@Hew1Liam I ask for Saint Dymphna’s intercession a lot for headaches and seizures she is wonderful! I’ll add you into my nightly prayer to her

If I may ask for your prayers again. I've been having a headache these last 2 days.

@TribeRuffner Every day without one is truly a blessing so I am very grateful for the prayers and blessings he is giving to me 💜✝️

@HITG777 Praise God. So glad to hear it.

@musings_blonde Sardines

What do you call the game where one person hides and everyone else goes to look for them? Apparently this game has different names depending on where you grew up.

@World_Newsn No, you should only receive it if you are in a state of grace though. Mass itself is something you’d need to confess for missing without a good reason though

The BIG Question: Do I have to receive Holy Communion every Sunday or every time I go to Mass? Any advice?

@World_Newsn I have a very big fondness of confession and of course the Eucharist is the pinnacle of the faith… but confession is a CLOSE second for me

✨ First Confession done... and I feel LIGHTER than ever! ✨ Today I finally took that step, walked into the confessional for the first time, laid everything down, and walked out with the biggest weight lifted off my shoulders. If you’ve been thinking about going but nervous… just do it. You won’t regret it. Grace is waiting. Tag someone who needs this reminder 💛

@StefanAsbom @BlazsikJames One verse in the context of an entire story comes off as cherry picking to me personally. Even if done 5 different times. I don’t know if you realize how much of the Bible is read in a single mass? But the Catholic faith is based on a whole lot more than 2 verses.

I got 5 verses - and I’m cherry-picking…? John 6 in one sentence - Jesus offers Himself as the only satisfying, eternal bread - and forces everyone to decide whether they will truly trust Him or walk away. Jesus is the true spiritual bread from heaven. Physical miracles and food point to Him. Eternal life comes not by works or more miracles, but by believing in Him and spiritually receiving His coming sacrificial death (“eat my flesh and drink my blood”). How to Be Born Again (According to John 3) 1. Recognize your need (like Nicodemus)
Even very religious people need to be born again. No amount of good works, rituals, or knowledge is enough. 2. Believe in Jesus (the simple, repeated command) • John 3:16 - Whoever believes in Him has eternal life. • John 3:18 - Whoever believes in Him is not condemned. • John 3:36 - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. 
“Believe” here means trusting in Jesus with your heart - trusting that He is the Son of God who died for your sins and rose again. It’s not just intellectual agreement; it’s personal reliance on Him. 3. Receive the Holy Spirit
God sends His Spirit to live in everyone who truly believes (John 3:5-6). This is what makes the new birth happen. It is a spiritual rebirth by the Holy Spirit.
Just as you were born physically into this world (flesh), you must be born spiritually into God’s family (Spirit). This is a supernatural work of God that changes your heart, gives you a new nature, and brings you into a relationship with Him. Jesus uses the illustration of wind (John 3:8): You can’t see the wind, but you see its effects. The same is true of the Spirit’s work - it’s mysterious but real and noticeable in a changed life. The Catholic faith is based on two verses - James 2:24 and John 6:53 - talk about cherry-picking…

To be Catholic one must believe in the real presence of the Eucharist . The bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ. Anything else is not the Catholic faith.

@beginnercathol1 Since I am late, I will pray for a speedy recovery

Update: surgery went well. No complications. She’s resting now. Waiting to see if she’ll be able to come home today

@StefanAsbom @BlazsikJames I can actually use a single verse to talk about 10 (even though its a pet peeve of mine and i believe scripture should be fully consumed). 10:6 “Jesus used this figure of speech”.. It doesn’t say he is using figures of speech when talking about the eucharist or baptism.

Yes, ”Truly, truly” (Amen, amen) is Jesus doubling down with solemn authority - it’s a divine guarantee that what follows is important and true. No one disputes that. But emphasis doesn’t magically turn a metaphor into literal cannibalism. Jesus uses the exact same ”Truly, truly” phrasing for clearly figurative or spiritual statements all over John’s Gospel: • John 3:3 - ”Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again…’ (Not literal physical rebirth.) • John 10:7 - ”Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep”.’ (Not a wooden door.) • John 6:47 (same chapter!) - ”Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.” (Belief, not biting.)

@StefanAsbom @BlazsikJames 61-65 is talking about the weakness of the flesh of man by not believing what Jesus says. His word is life because it is the truth.

@StefanAsbom @BlazsikJames When you look at John 6 from 45 through 65 there is little to suggest this is an analogy unless you pick a couple of verses out of context and he re-iterates it multiple times. 47 is his “hook” or open line to start his argument for the teaching of consuming the body and blood.

@StefanAsbom @BlazsikJames Actually, reading the full chapters or at least sub-stories within the chapters in their context gives clarity to many of these things you state. Are you able to make these same assertations when you put the scripture in the broad, full context it is meant to be consumed in?

@StefanAsbom @BlazsikJames “Truly, truly” translates to ✨figuratively✨I suppose. I was always taught Jesus used that wording to bring extra authority and double down on what he was saying. Many say when he says “truly truly” it is a divine guarantee of truth.

Sure! Meaning of John 6:53 Jesus is not commanding literal cannibalism. The language is strong, symbolic, and provocative (a common Jewish teaching style to force a decision). • Eating His flesh and drinking His blood = believing in Jesus and receiving the benefits of His sacrificial death. It means fully trusting in Him as the one who gives His body and blood for the life of the world (v. 51). • This points forward to the cross (His flesh “given for the life of the world”) and is later symbolized in the Lord’s Supper. • Jesus Himself clarifies the spiritual nature of His words just a few verses later: ”John 6:63 - “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you - they are full of the Spirit and life.” Belief in Jesus (coming to Him, trusting Him, feeding on Him by faith) is the only way to have eternal life. Without it, there is no spiritual life.

@StefanAsbom @BlazsikJames You’re missing a bit of context here what about John 6:53 for that 2nd bullet point? You only have half of the quote friend

Then it’s time to leave the Catholic faith and come to Jesus! He will save you! • John 6:40: “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” • John 6:54: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” • John 6:63: “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you - they are full of the Spirit and life.”