The Mass is a tiny taste of Heaven. It’s where we come together and step into the presence of the Holy Trinity. When we lift our voices in prayer and worship, it echoes the same hymns the angels are singing right now before God’s throne. And when we receive the Holy Eucharist, we’re actually partaking in the eternal banquet of the Lamb, a real glimpse of the glory we’ll see fully one day, God willing. Every Mass draws us closer to God’s love and reminds us of the joy that’s waiting for us. It’s a moment of Heaven touching Earth.
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Happy feast day of the Immaculate Conception! Holy Mary, pray for our souls!
Ecumenical Council of Ephesus (431 AD):
“Rejoice with us, Mary Theotokos, the venerable treasure of the whole world, the INEXTINGUISHABLE LAMP, the crown of virginity, the sceptre of orthodoxy, the INDESTRUCTIBLE TEMPLE, the CONTAINER OF THE UNCONTAINABLE, the Mother and Virgin, through whom in the holy gospels is called blessed ‘he who comes in the name of the Lord’.”
Third Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (680 AD):
“We confess… the Only-Begotten Son… Who emptied Himself in willful humility in the womb of the IMMACULATE (achrantou) virgin and THEOTOKOS Mary, after she was PREPURIFIED (prokathartheisês) with respect to SOUL AND BODY. He made his dwelling via the Holy Spirit and from her holy and blameless flesh (ek tês hagias kai amômou sarkos autês).
Ecumenical Council of Ephesus (431 AD):
“Rejoice with us, Mary Theotokos, the venerable treasure of the whole world, the INEXTINGUISHABLE LAMP, the crown of virginity, the sceptre of orthodoxy, the INDESTRUCTIBLE TEMPLE, the CONTAINER OF THE UNCONTAINABLE, the Mother and Virgin, through whom in the holy gospels is called blessed ‘he who comes in the name of the Lord’.”
Third Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (680 AD):
“We confess… the Only-Begotten Son… Who emptied Himself in willful humility in the womb of the IMMACULATE (achrantou) virgin and THEOTOKOS Mary, after she was PREPURIFIED (prokathartheisês) with respect to SOUL AND BODY. He made his dwelling via the Holy Spirit and from her holy and blameless flesh (ek tês hagias kai amômou sarkos autês).
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Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Before her appearance in Mexico in 1531, the Aztec people built temples and monuments to their pagan gods. They worshipped the sun, moon, and stars, and even offered human sacrifices to these false gods. The Spanish missionaries tried to bring them to Christ, but at first, very little changed.
Then Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego and left her miraculous image on his tilma. News spread quickly throughout the pagan nation. Through the image itself, the people saw a Woman who eclipsed the sun, wore the stars upon her mantle, and crushed the serpent beneath her feet. They recognized the cross she wore as the same cross carried by the missionaries. The message was unmistakable: turn away from your idols, follow Christ, and become Catholic.
The Aztecs responded. They abandoned human sacrifice and false worship and came to the missionaries by the hundreds and thousands to learn about Christ and His cross. Within seven years, over eight million were baptized. Mexico went from a pagan nation to a Catholic one and remains so to this day.
This is the great miracle of Guadalupe: not just the image, but the conversion of an entire people through Our Lady.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us! 🙏
Then Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego and left her miraculous image on his tilma. News spread quickly throughout the pagan nation. Through the image itself, the people saw a Woman who eclipsed the sun, wore the stars upon her mantle, and crushed the serpent beneath her feet. They recognized the cross she wore as the same cross carried by the missionaries. The message was unmistakable: turn away from your idols, follow Christ, and become Catholic.
The Aztecs responded. They abandoned human sacrifice and false worship and came to the missionaries by the hundreds and thousands to learn about Christ and His cross. Within seven years, over eight million were baptized. Mexico went from a pagan nation to a Catholic one and remains so to this day.
This is the great miracle of Guadalupe: not just the image, but the conversion of an entire people through Our Lady.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us! 🙏
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Please keep in your prayers the souls of those who tragically lost their lives in the mass shooting in Australia, and lift up all who were injured as well. May the Lord grant mercy, healing, and comfort to every family affected. Stay safe out there, my brothers and sisters in Christ. 🙏
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For some time now, I’ve seen Eastern Orthodox appeal to a figure known as Peter the Aleut, who is formally canonized as a saint in their Church in 1980. He’s frequently invoked as a weapon against Catholics, based on the claim that he was martyred by Catholic priests for refusing to renounce his EO faith and submit to Rome. Because of how often this story is used, I decided to look into the matter more deeply.
Peter is said to have lived from 1800 to 1815. Yet for someone who supposedly lived only a little over two centuries ago, it’s astonishing that there isn’t a single shred of evidence that he ever existed. There are no contemporary documents, no artifacts, no relics, no consistent oral tradition, no first hand eyewitness testimony, nothing that actually substantiates his existence.
The evidence strongly suggests that everything surrounding Peter the Aleut is a fabrication, constructed simply to give the Eastern Orthodox another incoherent excuse to direct hostility toward the Catholic Church.
Peter is said to have lived from 1800 to 1815. Yet for someone who supposedly lived only a little over two centuries ago, it’s astonishing that there isn’t a single shred of evidence that he ever existed. There are no contemporary documents, no artifacts, no relics, no consistent oral tradition, no first hand eyewitness testimony, nothing that actually substantiates his existence.
The evidence strongly suggests that everything surrounding Peter the Aleut is a fabrication, constructed simply to give the Eastern Orthodox another incoherent excuse to direct hostility toward the Catholic Church.
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The more I study the minimalist understanding of papal infallibility, the more I realize how impossible it really is to refute and how many objections actually end up backfiring on the critics themselves.
Take the Eastern Orthodox, for example. It makes no sense for them to appeal to cases like Pope Honorius or Pope Vigilius. As Eastern Orthodox, they’re still forced to agree with Catholics (even while rejecting the papacy) that neither of those popes ever bound the entire Church to heresy. And binding the whole Church is one of the necessary conditions for an ex cathedra.
To claim that those popes DID bind the Church to heresy would actually mean admitting that the early Church did not function according to Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology. And if that were true, it wouldn’t just falsify Catholicism, it would also collapse Eastern Orthodoxy along with it.
The minimalist position on papal infallibility also places the Orthodox in another dilemma: the Sixth Ecumenical Council gave an infallible interpretation of Luke 22:31–32, declaring that St. Peter and his successors in Rome would remain undefiled to the end. If that council was right, then Catholicism is true and Eastern Orthodoxy is false. If that council was wrong, then Eastern Orthodoxy still falls apart because its own ecumenical council relied on Christ’s very promise and taught that the successors of Rome will remain undefiled unto the end. Either way, they’re stuck. It becomes impossible for Eastern Orthodoxy to truly be “the fullness of the faith.”
And it doesn’t just challenge the Orthodox, it challenges Protestants as well. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Pope Honorius really did bind the entire Church to monothelitism. Then where was the supposed true universal church of Protestants who held to protestant beliefs at that time? Where was the Church Christ said would grow from a mustard seed into a great tree (Matt 13:31–32)? Because by the 7th century, the Church was no longer a tiny mustard seed. If the Catholic Church wasn’t the true universal Church then, where was it…the Church against which the gates of Hades would not prevail? The answer is: nowhere. And Scripture certainly doesn’t teach the Mormon idea of a total apostasy.
All of this shows something important: the dogma of papal infallibility isn’t just a “Catholic add-on.” It’s absolutely essential to Christianity itself (Matthew 16:18, Luke 22:31-32). Because if it isn’t true then not only Catholicism collapses… but the entire structure of Christianity collapses with it.
Take the Eastern Orthodox, for example. It makes no sense for them to appeal to cases like Pope Honorius or Pope Vigilius. As Eastern Orthodox, they’re still forced to agree with Catholics (even while rejecting the papacy) that neither of those popes ever bound the entire Church to heresy. And binding the whole Church is one of the necessary conditions for an ex cathedra.
To claim that those popes DID bind the Church to heresy would actually mean admitting that the early Church did not function according to Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology. And if that were true, it wouldn’t just falsify Catholicism, it would also collapse Eastern Orthodoxy along with it.
The minimalist position on papal infallibility also places the Orthodox in another dilemma: the Sixth Ecumenical Council gave an infallible interpretation of Luke 22:31–32, declaring that St. Peter and his successors in Rome would remain undefiled to the end. If that council was right, then Catholicism is true and Eastern Orthodoxy is false. If that council was wrong, then Eastern Orthodoxy still falls apart because its own ecumenical council relied on Christ’s very promise and taught that the successors of Rome will remain undefiled unto the end. Either way, they’re stuck. It becomes impossible for Eastern Orthodoxy to truly be “the fullness of the faith.”
And it doesn’t just challenge the Orthodox, it challenges Protestants as well. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Pope Honorius really did bind the entire Church to monothelitism. Then where was the supposed true universal church of Protestants who held to protestant beliefs at that time? Where was the Church Christ said would grow from a mustard seed into a great tree (Matt 13:31–32)? Because by the 7th century, the Church was no longer a tiny mustard seed. If the Catholic Church wasn’t the true universal Church then, where was it…the Church against which the gates of Hades would not prevail? The answer is: nowhere. And Scripture certainly doesn’t teach the Mormon idea of a total apostasy.
All of this shows something important: the dogma of papal infallibility isn’t just a “Catholic add-on.” It’s absolutely essential to Christianity itself (Matthew 16:18, Luke 22:31-32). Because if it isn’t true then not only Catholicism collapses… but the entire structure of Christianity collapses with it.
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This might offend some people but in 2026…
I’m still going to attend Holy Mass every single week.
I’m still going to honor and pray to my Blessed Mother, Mary.
I’m still going to venerate holy images.
I’m still going to confess my sins to a priest.
I’m still going to worship and receive my Lord in the Holy Eucharist.
I’m still going to preach that marriage is between one man and one woman.
I’m still going to read and trust the full 73-book canon of Scripture.
I’m still going to proclaim that abortion, IVF, contraception, and surrogacy are grave sins.
I’m still going to profess that the Catholic Church is the one true Church founded by Christ.
I’m still going to submit to the authority of the Pope.
I’m still going to pray for more conversions into the Holy Catholic Church.
I’m still going to proclaim that Jesus Christ is God, Lord, and King.
Happy New Year! 😌🇻🇦
I’m still going to attend Holy Mass every single week.
I’m still going to honor and pray to my Blessed Mother, Mary.
I’m still going to venerate holy images.
I’m still going to confess my sins to a priest.
I’m still going to worship and receive my Lord in the Holy Eucharist.
I’m still going to preach that marriage is between one man and one woman.
I’m still going to read and trust the full 73-book canon of Scripture.
I’m still going to proclaim that abortion, IVF, contraception, and surrogacy are grave sins.
I’m still going to profess that the Catholic Church is the one true Church founded by Christ.
I’m still going to submit to the authority of the Pope.
I’m still going to pray for more conversions into the Holy Catholic Church.
I’m still going to proclaim that Jesus Christ is God, Lord, and King.
Happy New Year! 😌🇻🇦
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“During this new year I resolve to begin a new life. I do not know what will happen to me during this year. But I abandon myself entirely to You, my God. And my aspirations and all my affections will be for You. I feel so weak, dear Jesus, but with Your help I hope and resolve to live a different life, that is, a life closer to You.” - St. Gemma Galgani
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I really wish we Catholics would get back to actually promoting Catholicism ALONE, not treating it like just another ice-cream flavour on the menu. Catholicism isn’t a denomination. It’s pre-denominational, it contains the fullness of truth, and outside the Church there is no salvation.
There’s a Catholic brother online (who I honestly thought was Eastern Orthodox for the longest time) running a massive platform basically promoting Orthodoxy instead of Catholicism, trying to bring people into Orthodoxy while still remaining Catholic himself. And lately, I’ve also seen Catholics casually flirting with non-denominational Protestant churches.
Brothers and sisters, we need to stay faithful to the Church and actually invite people into the fullness of truth. Stop acting like every church is on equal footing with the Catholic Church. They’re not. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church don’t even share the same moral teachings on marriage/divorce, contraception, IVF, etc. Those aren’t small issues. They’re MASSIVE deal breakers.
We also can’t just assume every Protestant or Orthodox person is “invincibly ignorant” and therefore encourage them to just stay where they are. Vatican II teaches that people who sincerely seek God but don’t know the Catholic Church can be saved (Lumen Gentium 16). But notice: it says CAN, NOT WILL. Being outside the visible ark is still a real risk to their soul, no matter how sincere they seem.
I’m not saying we should be rude or uncharitable to anyone outside the Church. But we do need to be bold, honest, and unafraid to proclaim the fullness of the truth.
There’s a Catholic brother online (who I honestly thought was Eastern Orthodox for the longest time) running a massive platform basically promoting Orthodoxy instead of Catholicism, trying to bring people into Orthodoxy while still remaining Catholic himself. And lately, I’ve also seen Catholics casually flirting with non-denominational Protestant churches.
Brothers and sisters, we need to stay faithful to the Church and actually invite people into the fullness of truth. Stop acting like every church is on equal footing with the Catholic Church. They’re not. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church don’t even share the same moral teachings on marriage/divorce, contraception, IVF, etc. Those aren’t small issues. They’re MASSIVE deal breakers.
We also can’t just assume every Protestant or Orthodox person is “invincibly ignorant” and therefore encourage them to just stay where they are. Vatican II teaches that people who sincerely seek God but don’t know the Catholic Church can be saved (Lumen Gentium 16). But notice: it says CAN, NOT WILL. Being outside the visible ark is still a real risk to their soul, no matter how sincere they seem.
I’m not saying we should be rude or uncharitable to anyone outside the Church. But we do need to be bold, honest, and unafraid to proclaim the fullness of the truth.
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