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Crusader's Oath: I, [Name], do solemnly swear before God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: 1. To uphold the faith of the Holy Catholic Church, to defend her doctrines, to protect her sanctuaries, and to honor her sacraments. 1/9

@voteredflorida2 So he was an Old Testament figure. Which book in the Old Testament talks about him?

@atplack If you read a Bible in Hebrew His name is YESHUA

Mary can’t save you The angels can’t save you Buddha can’t save you Mohammed can’t save you Only YESHUA can save you period!

The devil makes use of the past to cast down the soul, of the present to distract it,and of the future to fill it with fear. Resist him firmly by trusting entirely on God St. Ignatius of Loyola

“This gift of truth and never-failing faith was therefore divinely conferred on Peter and his successors...so that they might discharge their exalted office for the salvation of all...” - The First Vatican Council

@voteredflorida2 Faith alone cannot save you. Mental agreement cannot save you. According to Scripture, the only thing that can save you is grace through working faith. BTW, what are we being saved from?

@OpStCyprian @uav_guy_79 @LizzieMarbach Because the entire thing is based on the lie of faith alone, it creates strawmen (lies), and doesn't offer the truth of the Pillar and Foundation of Truth. The chart is a lie.

@atplack @uav_guy_79 @LizzieMarbach What is wrong with it?

I constantly see Catholics and orthodox get angry when you accuse them of adding works to the gospel, while simultaneously vehemently rejecting that we’re justified by faith alone. This makes absolutely no sense. If you reject sola fide, then that necessarily means you believe works are necessary for justification. You can’t escape that.

@uav_guy_79 @LizzieMarbach No. That chart is a lie.

It is a fairly new strategy, as far as I can tell. They try to soft-peddle their own theology, but Trent and the counter-Reformation were exceedingly clear about this. They'll call it "cooperating", which sounds so nice and harmless. Or now its "participating in God". All nice, fuzzy euphemisms. When what this means is a lifetime of their labyrinthian system of works (see below), an unending sacramental treadmill. But Trent had no problem asserting that works are not only causal in justification, but meritorious (i.e. earning, in some sense). It was not shy about using such language: papalencyclicals.net/councils/trent…

Dear Guardian Angel, watch over me and my family tonight, Keep us safe in your holy light. Guide our dreams and calm our fears, Stay close by as slumber nears. Amen.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favor of skepticism.

The most vibrant lay grouping in Mzuzu and Karonga dioceses. Women of Love (Wmama wa Chitemwano). Others translate it as Women of Charity. They are many. They are simple. They are united. They are committed. They build families. They support the church. They are largely poor. But they have the numbers. And they use the numbers to furnish priests houses, support seminaries including ours here. May God bless them.

A rose sprouts among thorns. Fr. Dennis Rumashana raised at Dzaleka refugee camp. Ordained on 18 July 2026 at Maula Cathedral in Lilongwe Archdiocese. Amazing.

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

The old serpent will urge and embitter thee, but will be put to flight by prayer -Thomas á Kempis

JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU ♥️

“The beings worshiped by the Greeks as gods are not gods but wicked demons who have deceived mankind.” —-Origen (Against Celsus, Book VII)

This is the bishop that banned Nancy Pelosi from communion for her abortion support by the way.

@sscjusa I do love this quote, but... The Eucharist and the Holy Catholic Church (in an all-ya-all form) are in this world but not a part of it. Those I love and adore.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” - Revelation 4:11

As i suffer the sciatica pain, I remember all the priests suffering emotional and physical pain. Some are scared by bandits. We have others with no means of transport yet they have to minister to people in far and sometimes difficult to reach olaces. We have priests with no proper house and have to lie down in very unsafe houses after heavey work. Priests who are rejected for their work. Priests who face masses of people disinterested in God. Your prayer refuels our energy and our ministry. Remember us.