Elena
@omnialnchristo
catholic, wörm, farmer’s daughter. interested in distributism, integralism, environmentalism. “the whole world is not worth one soul.” gov’t affairs @catholicew
It is that time again (gently letting one’s dog down with the news that harvest is about to conclude crop-leaping summer and inaugurate autumn)
George Orwell gave us “Newspeak” in 1984: Truth became propaganda. Murder became love. Language was warped to control thought. Now we have: • A baby bonus for abortion • Parental leave with no child • “Reproductive healthcare” that ends a life
Annual repost of one of my favourite inculturations Christ and Mary Magdalene, a Finnish Legend (Albert Edelfelt, 1890)
St. Mary Magdelene went through a deep moral conversion to become one of Jesus’ most favored disciples. This is so typical of how God acts: He always picks the most surprising collaborators in His plan of salvation, the ones who in human eyes would seem the most unsuitable and…
Blessed feast of Mary Magdalene, patron saint of converts and contemplatives (‘The First Meeting of Christ and Mary Magdalene’, Henryk Siemiradzki, 1873)
A secular world is impossible, not just because it could not understand itself except in relation to God, but because the world continually presents the trace of God. As that from which God is absent, it proclaims God even more emphatically. — David Walsh, Invisible Source 60
The sea thus enchants us like music, which, unlike language, never bears the traces of things, never tells us anything about human beings, but imitates the stirrings of the soul. Proust
"Christian Perfection and Contemplation" by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of’ the Lord, must pass from vices to virtues: “Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Cor 5:7).
Psychological traits prized in the West—trust and cooperation among strangers, for instance, or the capacity to resist pressure to conform—can be traced to the length of exposure to the medieval Western Church.
Following three months of dry heatwave, this is God’s gift to the senses
This is the good man who also once offered himself in exchange for Israeli children held hostage. Bloodthirsty fanatics insist that we choose a side to hate, that we demonize either the Jewish people or the Palestinian people. The cardinal sets an example by refusing to do so
Today, Cardinal Pizzaballa spent a great time with Palestinian Christian children in Gaza.
Do not desire consolation that robs you of contrition, nor do care for contemplation that leads to pride, for not all that is high is holy, nor is all that is sweet good, nor every desire pure, nor all that is dear to us pleasing to God.
GAZA Cardinal Pizzaballa prays the Rosary with Catholic children in Holy Family Church today
"Every interior soul, even if living amid the tumult of the world, must strive to reach this peace, interior silence, which alone makes continual contact with God possible. It is our passions and attachments that make noise within us, that disturb our peace." - Fr. Gabriel