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Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if—and mark well what I say—if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.
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| — | St. Louis de Montfort (via catholictrad) |
If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
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| — | Fulton J.Sheen (via hahanancy) |
If we lose religious freedom, if a secular orthodoxy rises and begins to force people to keep their faith in the shadows (and says) ‘just in that building on Sunday morning, but once you come out you have to bow to the secular orthodoxy’ — once that happens, you understand that we can no longer be America.
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| — | Eric Metaxas, ”George Washington: Man of Prayer.”, Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building (May 8. 2013) |
False ecumenism [does not attract] Protestants closer to Catholicism, but, on the contrary, [makes] Catholicism come near to Protestantism.
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| — | Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (via peterapostle) |
I don’t appreciate the tone of this in places—as faithful Catholics we must accept the validity of the Novus Ordo, however undesirable in many ways—but this is still a good rundown of the objective differences between the two forms of the Latin Rite and some reasons the traditional form is preferable.
^ Q does it again.
Sorry for me misspelling your name from Bryon to Byron. I think that is my dyslexia coming out. God bless, Fr. Angel
Same problem here Father. “Dyslexics of the world untie!!!”
The Eucharist
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament… . There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death.
“By the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste—or foretaste—of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man’s heart desires.
“The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise.
“Frequency is of the highest effect.
J.R.R. Tolkien
http://www.catholic.com/blog/matt-fradd/jrr-tolkien-three-amazing-quotes
Reason #39294938983 to get to Heaven: To meet this man.
