The King of Australia

I have often heard it said that the reason many Catholics have historically fallen away from the Faith is due to “poor catechesis.” The solution that is posited is simply, “We need to better teach the faithful!” But what does that even mean? Teach them what? The depths of Divine Truth are endless; such that, without framework, it renders the word “catechesis” functionally empty. Without a clear and concrete starting point, teaching becomes diffuse and ineffective; and those who mindlessly call for “better catechesis” offer no more assistance beyond their helpless, hollow demand. The real question, then, is not whether we need better catechesis, but rather where it must begin. And the only answer to this can be the Eucharist. As we know, Jesus said, “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man […] you have no life in you […] For my flesh is food indeed […] He who eats my flesh […] abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:53-55). This culminates in the Last Supper, where, breaking bread and giving it to His disciples, He says, “This is my body” (Luke 22:19; cf. Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22). As Augustine writes of this, “Christ was carried in His Own Hands, when commending His Own Body, He said, This is My Body” (Exposition on Psalm 34). A 2023 US survey found that only 38% of the roughly 1,000 participants correctly knew and believed the Church’s teaching on the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.¹ Furthermore, 51% of respondents believed that Christ’s institution of the Sacrament was merely symbolic.² This is very problematic and dangerous, since Christ’s Real Presence is one of the most important and crucial dogmata of the Church. It is by the Eucharist that we can have eternal life. It is in the Eucharist that Christ abides in us, and we in him. Those who truly know that the Eucharist is the very Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ are far less likely to abandon Him for cheap slogans or appeals to emotion. On the other hand, those who only see Mass as one banal religious ritual among many, where the Sacraments have merely symbolic value, are much more prone to being led astray. Therefore, it is up to pastors, parents, and all persons with prudence, to actively involve themselves with the Eucharistic catechesis of the faithful. We must also strengthen our own belief; through prayer, Confession, Adoration, etc. And we ought to daily pray the words of the desperate father recorded in Mark’s Gospel: “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24)

GTA 6 will be an implicitly Catholic game

@RaminNasibov I prefer to stand

Who still sits down and reads an actual physical book?

@StuartRest1688 @James_II_1688 Usurper? I hardly know 'er!

@IMPERATORAUS We have the means of safely and indefinitely containing these criminals The death penalty is "inadmissible" for this reason True, our corrupt system often deliberately refrains from exercising those means But that is a flaw with politics, not with criminal detainment

If a violent criminal is considered "unfit to stand trial" then they should be considered "unfit to live". "Sometimes, mercy means giving death, not life."

@AncientHistorry I didn't even know they were sick

800+ year old graves belonging to Templar knights

@StuffForSisters One of the great things about Christ's physical ascension into heaven is that God will forever remain human; forever having a mother; forever being like us so we can forever be like Him

@ATree_Official Saint Boniface, pray for us

Please dont chop me down I want to live

Of course, there will be Popes who fail in their vocation as the Servant of the Servants of God But patient obedience to the Papal office still remains vital A great example of this is Dante Alighieri As Benedict XV observes, "it will be said, he inveighs with terrible bitterness against the Supreme Pontiffs of his times. [...] But, however he might inveigh, rightly or wrongly, against ecclesiastical personages, never did he fail in respect due to the Church and reverence for the "Supreme Keys" (In Praeclara Summorum §6)

Benedict XVI spoke eloquently on this point. Some think the pope could order jumping stacks at the consecration and you’d be required to obey. Others recognise that the pope is the custodian of Tradition, not the innovator thereof. He’s not an absolute monarch.

@IMPERATORAUS Sancte Ambrosi, ora pro nobis!

The separation of church and state was a mistake.

@AntipodeEmpire Furthermore, there's lots of retards who believe Talmudic Judaism existed in the time of Christ!

@AntipodeEmpire Lots of retards here that seemingly believe Catholicism is a Rabbinic tradition lmao

What religion do you follow?

@valawakened — Dante Alighieri, 1274

@VJMPub @AntipodeEmpire At what point will "your own gods rise"? Where are these gods?

@RexAustralianus @AntipodeEmpire > worship the one eternal, uncreated Creator But you worship an idol of a circumcised rabbi instead of this creator

@VJMPub @AntipodeEmpire Do you believe that, if a white man starts worshipping a stick, that stick somehow becomes divine? Don't worship sticks; worship the one eternal, uncreated Creator

@RexAustralianus @AntipodeEmpire Why don't we have our own religion in Australia and New Zealand? We should. Cast off the Jew shit and let our own gods rise.

@VJMPub @AntipodeEmpire That's the most Jewish thing you could have said

@AntipodeEmpire As a white person, I have no need for Jewish religions.

@creation247 No its cool

This is the worst branding decision I’ve ever seen…

This is why Eusebius says, "For the name of Jesus, which had never been uttered among men before the time of Moses, he applied first and only to the one who he knew would receive after his death, again as a type and symbol, the supreme command" (History of the Church 1.3.3)

New Testament Jesus (a Greek name) and Old Testament Joshua (an English name) share the same name in Hebrew: Yehoshua or Yeshua. Yeshua leads God's people into the Promised Land.

One ❤️ for one interesting Bible insight. 📖 🤯

@James_II_1688 Reading Homer is good practice then

@RexAustralianus I can read in my head just fine but if I try to read out loud I sound like I'm having a stroke.

All right I've been going through my books trying to figure out what I want to read and I have it narrowed down to 10. So I will let people on here to side because I don't know

@James_II_1688 I read Robert Fagles' translations of Homer I read them aloud, while walking around in my room - it was so engaging!

@RexAustralianus I did listen to an audiobook of The Iliad at one point. The Odyssey is on my list too I just don't have a copy of it and I want to have a physical copy before I read it.

@James_II_1688 *Odyssey

You MUST read the Divine Comedy But to really appreciate it, you need to read so many other things (Homer's Iliad and Odyessy, Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's La Vita Nuova, etc)