“How unmeasured, then, must be the immensity of man's will, which is illumined, not by sense and imagination, but by reason and intelligence! Imagination, sense perception, leads animals, herbivorous or carnivorous, each to the food it needs. Intelligence leads man to an unlimited good, a good which is to be found only in that unlimited reality which is God, because He alone is unlimited and essential good.”

- Fr Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Life Everlasting

200 young French Catholics prayed the Rosary in Paris after their Latin Mass was cruelly shut down

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Some recommended reading to grow spiritually and intellectually

An Introduction to the Devout Life - St Francis de Sales

Why the Cross? - Fr Edward Leen

The Imitation of Christ

The Glories of Mary - St Alphonsus

Make sure to have read the entire New Testament & the Wisdom Books of the OT

How to read a book - Mortimer Adler

The Trivium - Sr Miriam Joseph

The Holy Ghost - Fr Edward Leen

Introduction to Philosophy - Maritain

The Odyssey

The Republic

Nicomachean Ethics Book I

The Iliad

Meno

The Spiritual Combat - Scupoli

Knowing the Love of God - Garrigou-Lagrange

The Four Loves - CS Lewis

Mere Christianity - CS Lewis

The Abolition of Man - CS Lewis

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

The Sermons of St Alphonsus Liguori

The Aeneid

Phoenix from the Ashes - Sire

Aquinas biography - Chesterton

Aquinas introduction - Feser

Aristotle for Everybody - Mortimer Adler

Theology for beginners - Sheed

Reality - Garrigou-Lagrange

Selections of Aquinas - Oxford World Classics

Selections of the Summa

Companion to the Summa - Farrell

Man’s Knowledge of Reality - Wilhelmsen

Greece and Rome - Copleston

Formal Logic - Maritain

General Science of Nature - V.E Smith

Ethica Thomistica - McInerny

Nicomachean Ethics

Scholastic Metaphysics - Feser

Ontology - Peter Coffey

Euthyphro

Theaetetus

The Sophist

Gorgias

Hippias Major

Life Everlasting - Garrigou-Lagrange

Integralism

Parts of Summa Theologiae

Philosophising in Faith - Garrigou-Lagrange

Founding of Christendom - Warren Carroll

Summa Contra Gentiles

Mediaeval Philosophy - Copleston

Aquinas - Opuscula

Building of Christendom - Carroll

Aristotle’s Organon with Aquinas/Cajetan commentaries

Glory of Christendom - Carroll

Aristotle’s Physics + Aquinas commentary

De Anima + Aquinas commentary

The Last Crusade - Warren Carroll

Aquinas commentary of Nicomachean Ethics

Late Mediaeval Philosophy - Copleston

Cleaving of Christendom

The Rationalists - Copleston

Primacy of the Common Good - De Koninck

Liberalism is a Sin

Some thoughts about language - Mortimer Adler

British Philosophy - Copleston

The principles of Liberalism - Billot

Revolution against Christendom

The Enlightenment - Copleston

Aristotle - Politics - with Aquinas commentary

The Crisis of Christendom

Parts of Summa Theologiae

God, his existence, and his nature - Garrigou-Lagrange

Joseph Owens’s essays on the existence of God

Three Stages of the Interior Life

Parts of Summa Theologiae

Cognition - Joseph Owens

Pre-Modern Philosophy Defended

Aristotle’s Metaphysics with Aquinas’s Commentary

Complete Summa Theologiae if not already

Rest of Copleston

“If the intellect, by itself, only knows concepts expressing essences abstracted from their actual existence in things, it is also true that the existence of things is not evident to mere sensation. The senses cannot judge or affirm anything; they just sense...The senses sense things that are; they do not judge them to be...

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a human intellect “by itself”; nor is there such a thing as brute sensation “by itself.” Man is neither one nor the other. He is both of them joined in that unity of being we call man. It is only as man - as a body-soul unity - that he knows things to exist, and he knows this truth as neither postulated nor demonstrated, but as evident.

We know that things exist because we sense and perceive them. Sensation meets existing things; sensation does not know them as existent...Intellect, alone could know the essence of the red thing, but it would not know the existence of the red thing. Man, taken as he is - body and soul together - knows what he senses and senses what he knows.”

- Frederick Wilhelmsen, Man’s Knowledge of Reality

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My grandmother is on death's door step. Please pray for her! She not only taught me the Ave Maria, but she gave me the Miraculous Medal; plus I don't want her to go to Hell after all she has done for me and my family! :(

Followers, please join us in an emergency 15-decade rosary for the intentions of their grandmother. ❤

For those who are considering reaching out to Protestants who are not of bad will, there are several things I learned and all who care about their souls their souls you must know these things:

Generalities:
-Protestants are liberal in the classical sense
-the ones of good faith love the Bible a lot, and this serves as the basis of their everything
-those who have an issue with Marian maximalism
-their biggest issue with the veneration of the saints tend to be "Why go to St. so-and-so if I can go directly to Jesus my Beloved Savior, etc.?"
-they misunderstand many aspects of Catholicism, not just the papacy, but many other things
-a lot of them are pessimists, which is why Protestantism is so attractive to them

How to appeal to them:
-be meek and humble above all else
-do not focus too much on the logical errors of Protestantism, but appeal to their sensibilities
-show them that Catholicism is not only Biblical, it is so Biblical that it will show them that everything is either found explicitly in the Bible or it is a logical conclusion from what is given
-with the liberal aspect, not only show them the absurdity of Sola noscriptura, also hammer home that since Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, there can only be one Bride
-remind them of John 19, Luke 1, the Ten Commandments, and point out how Genesis 3:15 and Apocalypse 12 is about Mary alone
-SINCE JESUS IS TRULY WITH THEM AT THE MASS, THEY GET TO BE WITH HIM AND PARTAKE IN CALVARY AGAIN
-with grace, since it renews us and only those who desire damnation are lost, this means that all are called to partake in the Passion and cooperate in the salvation of souls

Openly gay priest and long-time LGBT activist Lars Gårdfeldt has vowed to stop performing marriage ceremonies for heterosexual couples in Sweden.

https://summit.news/2021/09/23/gay-swedish-priest-vows-to-stop-performing-marriage-ceremonies-for-straight-couples/

870 years later and we are reminded of it almost every single day.

What are you doing to prepare for what awaits us in our own homelands?

The truth is that if it weren’t for the Muslim Turks, Orthodogs wouldn’t exist today. The Catholic Latin, Franks, and Magyars overran the Balkans and were quickly converting people. But as soon as the Turks showed up, the orthodogs in the Balkans allied with them just to spite Catholics. A Byzantine rival to the throne invited them into Europe to help him gain power and the Serbian Empire allied with them to kill Catholics. Indeed, the latter provided essential support to the Turks that had they not given it, the Ottoman Empire would have ceased to exist due to Tamerlane’s invasion. These “based kebab removers” later joined the Turks in their battles against Crusaders who tried to liberate the Balkans from the Muslim menace. The reality is that orthodogs hate Catholic Christians more than even Muslims, so much so that they are willing to kill Catholics on orders from Muslims. So much for the Muh “christian unity”. Bear this in mind any time orthodogs try to get your sympathy.

Interesting quote from St. Robert Bellarmine pertaining to the consequences of the Greeks rejecting the Florentine decrees made on the Filioque and separating itself from dogma, falling into heresy.

This is probably one of the most accessible yet also deeply profound and insightful treatises on Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell ever written within the last century, and you can read it in full here: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/life-everlasting-12603

“If your church has electric guitars, drums, screaming singers and a guy with a keyboard in the corner, your church is part of the problem and not the solution.”

Waarheid!

Wow, so progressive! The Orthodogs have affirmed LGBT relations since the 19th century! ☦️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✡️

Ahahaha

Herr Amery (2021)

[The Sacred Pillar Of National Socialism]

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