ashlyn thérèse
@catholicashlyn
theology student · “you must become like little children…”🕯️🩰🪞strewing flowers
i wrote about prudence as treated by aristotle and st thomas aquinas and the Blessed Mother. enjoy and thank you for your support!🌸 ashlyntherese.substack.com/p/virgo-pruden…
“Just as Mary Magdalene found what she was seeking by always stooping down and looking into the empty tomb, so I, abasing myself to the very depths of my nothingness, raised myself so high that I was able to attain my end.” - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever…
Just to clarify - there has not been an ex cathedra statement about women in the priesthood.
“A just and eternal Judge will consign them neither to heavenly glory nor to the eternal pains of Hell, for although they have not been signed with Baptism, they are without wickedness and malice, and have suffered rather than caused their loss of Baptism." - St. Gregory the…
If a baby dies, it’s going to heaven. Even if it wasn’t baptized.
From the very beginning of his life as a Master of the Sacred Page, Saint Thomas always had divine assistance. Below is an icon of Saints Peter and Paul visiting Saint Thomas to help resolve difficulties while he was writing his very first biblical commentary on Isaiah.
this is what happens when your allegiance is not actually ultimately to Christ. pure evil
Groyper curse bitch
“Earlier, we noted the difference between the education of the infused virtues and the natural virtues… this education [of the infused virtues] is indispensable. It is quite true that, by God’s gift, a little Christian child from the start possesses (indeed in a superior state)…
a play written by st. thérèse of lisieux about st. martha & today’s gospel reading ❤️🔥🌹
“Always keep lifting your foot to climb the ladder of holiness, and do not imagine that you can mount even the first step. All God asks of you is good will. From the top of the ladder He looks lovingly upon you, and soon, touched by your fruitless efforts, He will Himself come…
st jerome already mogged you in 383 ad
Doesn’t matter what they taught. The Bible teaches that Mary had other children. Matt. 13:55-56: "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us?" Sola Scriptura
just your average catholic woman calling for an end to abortion✊🏻
“They will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’” Matthew 25:44-45
“I desire neither death nor life. Were Our Lord to offer me my choice, I would not choose. I only will what He wills, and I am pleased with whatever He does.” - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
i wrote something based off of an essay i wrote last semester. i hope you like it (,: ashlyntherese.substack.com/p/into-the-bel…
the virality of this shows that even the secular world understands in some capacity that marriage is meant to be total self gift — why else are they being shamed? infidelity violates a sacred bond that is intended to be beyond a legal agreement.. two become one flesh.
Coldplay puts CEO of Astronomer and Head of HR on jumbotron looking cozy during their concert.
religious and animals together are my favorite thing lately
