Leo XIV’s setting of the consistory is “not normative”, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told TheCatholicHerald.com (January 11): “This is a method of the synods, and I think it’s helping the Pope not as Bishop of Rome but as a diocesan bishop.” Cardinal Müller sought to dispel what he described as a false dichotomy in the Church’s internal debates. “The Church of Benedict XVI doesn’t exist anymore.” Picture: vatican media, #newsXaqahjlxet
Yesterday I finished my lesson about five minutes early and told my students they could just sit and talk to each other until the bell. Almost immediately, a handful of phones came out. I stopped them. “No phones today. I want you to actually talk to each other.” There was a unified sigh of annoyance… and then something both beautiful and unsettling happened. Within a few minutes, a few desks came to life — kids were looking one another in the eye, asking questions, laughing, building real conversations. It was genuinely heartwarming to watch. But many of them froze. They didn’t know what to do without a screen delivering entertainment. Some lowered their heads. Some stared at their hands. Some avoided eye contact completely. I walked over and tried to help them get a conversation going. A few could force out a sentence or two — most had no idea where to start. I’m sharing this not as a complaint, but as a warning shot for parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches — anyone raising …More
“While the liturgy was put aside,” an anonymous cardinal told TheCatholicHerald.com, “we were given a paper at the end written by Cardinal Arthur Roche, which was pretty negative concerning the Tridentine Latin Mass.”
My Brothers and Sisters In Christ, A watchman does not cry out every hour of the night. He speaks when something has shifted – when the air itself feels different, when the ground beneath familiar landmarks has begun to move. What has unfolded in Rome this week is not something to panic over, nor something to ignore. It is something to notice. There has been a gathering of cardinals occurring – an extraordinary consistory – called not to define doctrine, not to correct grave error, not to defend the altar or clarify confusion, but to reflect, to listen, to converse, and to continue a process. And the way this gathering was framed tells us far more than any single sentence spoken within it. From the very beginning, the emphasis was clear: The Church was asked once again to look at herself – and to do so through one particular lens. Not through the accumulated wisdom of councils stretching back to the Apostles. But through the Second Vatican Council, presented not as a chapter in the …More
"We would that others should be straitly corrected for their offences, but we will not be corrected. It misliketh us that others have liberty, but we will not be denied of that we ask. We would also that others should be restrained according to the statutes, but we in nowise will be restrained."
[Thomas a Kempis – XIV-XV Century AD; Kempen, Holy Roman Empire/Zwolle, Holy Roman Empire; aged 90-91; Canon, Regular] “16 ~ OF THE SUFFERING OF OTHER MEN’S DEFAULTS. SUCH defaults as we cannot amend in ourselves nor in others, we must patiently suffer, till our Lord of His goodness will otherwise dispose. And we shall think that haply it so is best to be for proving of our patience, without which our merits are but little to be pondered. Nevertheless thou shalt pray heartily for such impediments, that our Lord of His great mercy and goodness vouchsafe to help thee, that thou mayest patiently bear them. If thou admonish any person once or twice, and he will not take it, strive not over much with him, but commit all to God, that His will be done, and His honour in all His servants, for He can well by His goodness turn evil into good. Study always that thou mayest be patient in suffering of other men’s defaults, for thou hast many things in thee that others do suffer of thee: and if thou …More
"Thus it appeareth evidently that we seldom ponder our neighbour, as we do ourselves. If all men were perfect, what had we then to suffer of our neighbours for God?"
January 12th - Saint of the Day: Saint Benedict Biscop, Benedictine Abbot He did not preach with a mic. He preached with a monastery. Saint Benedict Biscop walked away from status and power to chase one thing: a Church life rooted in Rome, reverent worship, and real formation. He made multiple pilgrimages to Rome, came back loaded with books and sacred treasures, and built Wearmouth and Jarrow into spiritual powerhouses that helped shape Catholic England. Here is the wild part: this saint helped change a whole culture with stained glass, sacred images, and chant. Not for aesthetics, but because beauty catechizes. When people could not read, the windows and images preached. When hearts were distracted, the liturgy formed them. And his quotes still hit hard today. He refused “nepo leadership” in the monastery, warning: “Beware, and never choose an abbot on account of his birth…” He also stayed allergic to novelty, saying: “I learnt it from seventeen monasteries …More
Benedikt Biscop Baducing - Gedenktag katholisch: 12. Januar Name bedeutet: der Gesegnete (latein.) Mönch, Klostergründer, Abt in Wearmouth und Jarrow * 628 (?) in Northumbrien in England † 12. Januar 690 (?) in Wearmouth in England Biscop Baducing war wohl der zweite Sohn adliger Eltern aus Bernicia - dem nördlichen Teil des späteren Northumbrien -, die wohl neu bekehrte Christen waren. Er unternahm fünf Mal eine Wallfahrt zu den sieben Pilgerkirchen in Rom, die erste um 653 zusammen mit Wilfrid von York; dabei entschloss er sich zum Mönchsleben und nahm den Namen Benedikt an. Während der zweiten und dritten Wallfahrt wurde er 666 Mönch im Kloster auf der Lérins-Insel Saint-Honorat. Papst Vitalian sandte Benedikt Biscop dann 669 zusammen mit Theodor, dem neuen Erzbischof, nach Canterbury zurück. Dort wurde Benedikt Biscop Abt im Kloster St Peter, bis er 671 zu seiner vierten Wallfahrt zu den sieben Pilgerkirchen in Rom aufbrach. Nach seiner Rückkehr erhielt er von König …More
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Home of the Brave - Hegseth in May: "These globalist ideas that you're gonna change an en... Hegseth in May: "These globalist ideas that you're gonna change an entire society through military intervention, which you saw us attempting — I lived it in Iraq and Afghanistan. And you saw the consequences. We've seen that movie before. We're not doing it again." …
He also wants the 3. Temple. He said that many years ago in a speech at the KING DAVID HOTEL in Jerusalem. The 3. Temple means ARMAGEDDON! The First TEMPLE was from KING SALOMON Made with 666 Talente of Gold, the second Temple was from King HERODES who murdered first born male Babys because he was affraid of JESUS CHRIST.
Question: "Do you know ANY EXILED Venezuelan who isn’t thankful to president Trump?" Take your time.... You don’t? Let me give you a hint... 0 , I was married to one, her entire family is living either in Florida or Chile, they don’t have sweet words for the regime and they don’t care about Trump's methods or his desire to get Venezuelan oil. The horror some of my friends endured, one of my friends had to sell her apartment and the family business (2 bakeries), 2 out 6 employees of my sister's business had to do odd related jobs to try and get established despite having an university degree and spent a small fortune to study them (business admin and agricultural engineering). A friend of mine, sold her apartment for US 10k, despite costing her 110k, decided to immigrate when goons appeared in her bakeries and threatened with high caliber weapons, placed in her brother's neck, to kill him if she didn't surrender their 2 suv's, after that close encounter, they fled the regime. You …More
Saint Benedict Biscop - January 12 Also known as Benet Biscop Biscop Baducing Benedict of Wearmouth Memorial 12 January Profile Anglo-Saxon nobility. Grew up around the court of King Oswy of Northumbria, and held court offices. Following a pilgrimage to Rome he renouced his wealth and position, and dedicated himself to prayer and scripture study. Monk at the monastery of Saint-Honorat near Cannes, France in 666, taking the name Benedict. In 668PopeSaintVitalian sent him and the monk Adrian to advise Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury until 671. Traditionally introduced the construction of stone churches and glass church windows to England, and brought in many foreign craftsman to do the work and teach the English. Tried to introduce more Roman rituals to English worship. Founded the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow. Built a large library and scriptorium at Wearmouth. In late life Benedict suffered a painful paralysis, and was confined to his bed for his …More
Saint of the Day: January 12th - St Benedict Biscop. Butler'sLivesoftheSaints [Commonly called Bennet.] He was nobly descended, and one of the great officers of the court of Oswi, the religious king of the Northumbers; he was very dear to his prince, and was beholden to his bounty for many fair estates, and great honours; but neither the favours of so good and gracious a king, nor the allurements of power, riches, and pleasures, were of force to captivate his heart, who could see nothing in them but dangers, and snares so much the more to be dreaded, as fraught with the power of charming. At the age therefore of twenty-five, an age that affords the greatest relish for pleasure, he bid adieu to the world, made a journey of devotion to Rome, and at his return devoted himself wholly to the studies of the scriptures and other holy exercises. Some time after his return to England, Alcfrid, son of king Oswi, being desirous to make a pilgrimage to the shrines of the apostles, engaged Biscop to …More