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12 JUL 2025 · THE CONVERSION OF ST. BRUNO taken from the book, “Hell: If There Is One, What is It, and How to Avoid It” by Monsignor Louis-Gaston de Ségur in 1876.
"In the life of St. Bruno, founder of the Carthusians, there’s a story which has been studied very thoroughly by the very doctors of the Church, and which presents itself to the most formal criticism of all the historical characters of authenticity; an event that occurred in Paris in the middle of the day, in the presence of many thousands of witnesses, whose details have been collected by its contemporaries, and which has given rise to a great religious Order.
A famous doctor from the University of Paris named Raymond Diocres had just died, leaving universal admiration among all his students. The year was 1082.
One of the wisest doctors of that time, known throughout Europe for his science, his talent and his virtues, named Bruno, was then in Paris with four companions, and it became a duty to attend the funeral of the illustrious deceased.
The body had been laid in the great hall of the Chancellery near the Church of Our Lady, and an immense crowd respectfully surrounded the bed, in which, as is the custom of that time, was exposed the deceased covered with a full face veil..."
5 JUL 2025 · THE EXORCISM OF NICOLA AUBREY - Taken from the book The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by Fr. Michael Muller (Imprimatur: Archbishop McClosky, New York 1884).
It is indeed a remarkable fact that, as the devil made use of Luther, an apostate monk, to abolish the Mass and deny the Real Presence; in like manner, God made use of His arch-enemy, the devil, to prove the Real Presence. He repeatedly forced him publicly to profess his firm belief in it, to confound the heretics for their disbelief, and acknowledge himself vanquished by Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. For this purpose, God allowed a certain Mme. Nicola Aubrey, an innocent person, to become possessed by Beelzebub and twenty-nine other evil spirits. The possession took place on the eighth of November, 1565, and lasted until the eighth of February, 1566...
28 JUN 2025 · Watch the video to see how to crack the code:
https://youtu.be/kIbatXw31pM
British artist Kit Williams published Masquerade, a children's book which combined fantasy storytelling with a real-world treasure hunt. The 1979 book tells a whimsical story about the moon sending a golden hare sculpture as a gift to the sun, with a rabbit named Jack Hare acting as the messenger. However, Jack loses the gift on his journey, and readers are challenged to find it themselves, in real life—prompting a national treasure hunt across Britain. The treasure was real: an 18-karat gold hare adorned with jewels, hidden somewhere in the countryside.
19 JUN 2025 · I've been under the weather recently and tonight I just started felling better, so I thought I'd tell you about a listener submitted story which I haven't been able to get out of my head. It's taken from a book called "The Finest Legends of the Rhine" by Wilhelm Ruland. I don't want to spoil the tale by needless explanation so I'll just jump right in to it.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/M5CBFbESOXk
13 JUN 2025 · I had no idea that there were so many incredible stories and miracles attributed to this Saint. There are also many episodes that show why he is known as “The Hammer of Heretics” as we will learn in this video.
St. Anthony is the patron saint of the poor, protector and finder of lost things and his intercession is also sought for a good marriage.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/fYbUNMt33OQ
6 JUN 2025 · Watch the video: https://youtu.be/JwlqJA0MXTU
Read the article: https://www.tfp.org/how-gregorian-chant-benefits-the-health-of-the-bodyand-soul/
31 MAY 2025 · Watch the video: https://youtu.be/3ZXrR4V57EA
There are a minority of Catholics today who hold that depression is a fault, or the fruit of a fault – perhaps nothing more than vanity and pride. They speak as if depression is an invention of modern (and therefore, we are to assume, false) thought, and that perhaps doesn’t even really exist. They speak as if one could free oneself from a state of depression by acts of the will.
What should we make of this? Let’s dig into this topic and see.
It’s not a sin to have a sense of humour and be cheerful...
https://www.wmreview.org/p/fun-aquinas-neri
It’s not a sin to be depressed...
https://www.wmreview.org/p/depression-aquinas-neri
00:00 Intro
00:10 Article's Sources
01:05 Is Depression a Fault?
02:50 St. Thomas Aquinas
05:05 Effects on the Body
06:26 Remedies
07:53 St. Philip Neri
27 MAY 2025 · Yeah... Just rambling.
https://youtu.be/lKNt2cAFGMw
19 MAY 2025 · Watch the video: https://youtu.be/b55Kw9wSZzo
Here is the quote from "The Biographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco," by Giovanni Battista Lemoyne, Volume 7, Chapter 8, Page 43:
...Don Bosco commented on the versicle "The hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth" [John 4:23]. He commented that Protestants misinterpret these words as an argument against exterior worship, and he spoke about a tough debate he had five or six days before with Protestants in a private home:
"To begin with, do you know what 'in spirit' means?" I asked.
"It means that God should be adored selflessly and fervently in one's own heart, not superstitiously as Catholics do," they replied, considering our exterior worship a mere masquerade.
"Were this really so," I rejoined, "I'd agree with you. But it is decidedly not. Anyway, let's continue. What does 'in truth' mean?"
"It means that God should be adored in a 'real,' not in an empty way."
"Did you say 'real'?"
"Yes!"
"Very well. 'Real' means something concrete. How can a concrete thing be only 'in one's own heart'?"
Rather put out, my opponents had to admit that I was right.
"Well then," I went on, " 'in spirit and in truth' must also be taken to read that exterior means may and should be used in worshiping God. Furthermore they also reveal serious doctrinal and liturgical differences between Hebrew and Christian ritual and ceremony. 'In spirit and in truth' means that all Old Testament rites and sacrifices—mere figures of those of the New Testament—would one day be superseded by a 'real' sacrifice truly pleasing to God. Read the first chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, and you will see a magnificent sacrifice being celebrated with all the splendor of exterior rite and ceremony—with altar, thurible, and incense. All this foreshadowed the solemn Mass—the real, true sacrifice. The first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles tells us that they met with the disciples in the cenacle to pray. The next chapter shows them offering the Eucharistic sacrifice and partaking of Communion at that gathering. The authentic history of Christianity's first three centuries proves that Christians, following the Apostles' tradition, celebrated Holy Mass with altars, solemn rites, psalm singing, flowers, incense, and lights. Read the fourth and subsequent chapters of the Apocalypse. They describe a sacred rite so minutely that you will think you are watching the sacrifice offered in our own [Catholic] churches. You will see the altar, the censer, the incense, the candlesticks, the lamps, the scented golden vessels, the elders' golden crowns or miters, the ritual bows, the harps, the canticles, and the procession of white-clad virgins—in a word, everything the Church uses for ritual splendor."
When I finished speaking, one of the Protestants looked for a copy of the New Testament. All they had was the adulterated translation into Italian by Giovanni Diodati. I let them use it anyway, because I was certain that it would contain enough to convince them. After they had checked the passages I had quoted, I pointed out and explained a few others then and there.
They concluded, "We really had never paid much attention to these passages."
So I went on, "Now, tell me, how do your churches resemble Jerusalem's holy temple? Do you have altars, censers, incense, candles? Does your manner of honoring God resemble what the Apostles did and what the angels themselves do in heaven? Don't you think we are reasonable in imitating the saints and the angels as we adore God?"
"Of course! Truthfully, we must admit we have nothing of all you mentioned." In conclusion, one of them—an evangelical minister—remarked, "This is something we shall have to think about."
This debate and the Waldensian minister's misgivings dealt a serious blow to their position. As a result, these days many Protestants are turning to the Catholic Church. Infuriated at losing these souls, Satan vented his rage on Don Bosco by depriving him of his sleep.
11 MAY 2025 · Watch the video: https://youtu.be/UnuxGI9lwYA
Venerable József Cardinal Mindszenty resisted communism in Hungary after World War II and was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned for his brave stand. He penned one of the most beautiful reflections on motherhood I’ve ever heard. Since it’s Mother’s Day, let me recite it for you before we get to the main story for today: how the great St. Padre Pio appeared to comfort the poor cardinal while he was in a communist dungeon.
Venerable József Mindszenty wrote:
“The Most Important Person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral -a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body… The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation… What on God’s good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?”
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