Lots of Thoughts/Reflections

With the Amazon Synod closing (& praying for Cardinal Burke & Bishop Schneiders intentions for this synod) there are many things that can be distracting and take our focus away from what is important.

Our Holiness and Faithfulness...regardless of what else is going on around us!

Here are some quotes from The Day is Now Far Spent (Cdl. Sarah) that I that I have been reflecting on and thinking about:

"It is impossible to believe alone, just as it is impossible to be born by oneself or to engender oneself...Faith is not just an individual decision that the believer makes interiorly; it is not an isolated relation between the I of the faithful and the divine Thou, between the autonomous subject and God. Some people today would like to reduce faith to a subjective, private experience. Nevertheless, faith always comes about in the community of the Church, because that is where God reveals Himself fully and allows Himself to be encountered as He is in reality."
(The Day is Now Far Spent ~ Cdl. Sarah)

"The chief preoccupation of all the disciples of Jesus must be their sanctification. The first place in their lives must be given to prayer, to silent contemplation, and to the Eucharist, without which all the rest would be vain agitation."

"Go and repair My Church! Go, repair by your faith, by your hop and your charity. Go and repair by your prayer and your fidelity. Thanks to you, My Church will again become My house."
...stated to St. Francis of Assisi (by Christ)

Below is from Instagram (@catholiccrusader):

I will always be Catholic.

Because no sin of man can change the TRUTH.

The truth that the Church is Home.

Home of the Apostles.

Home of the Eucharist.

Home of the Sacraments.

My Home.

And here I will stay to help clean up this House for Christ.

"Rigid" Catholics faithful to Sacred Scripture & Sacred Tradition are here to stay despite the animosity directed towards us by many within the Church today. We are sinners, but do not attempt to modify God's perennial commands to suit our desires. If many of our Clergy in the 21st century are unwilling to speak the whole truth of the Catholic Church to the laity, it falls on us to remind them. It does not require advanced theological degrees to understand the basic moral commands of Jesus Christ. We have Sacred Scripture, the Catholic Catechism, Sacred Tradition, and the inspired wisdom of the Saints to guide us. I can't find any quotes from the Saints who minimize or trivialize the importance of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I can't find anything that says that we can receive the most Holy Eucharist while living in mortal sin. I can't find anything that says sexual immorality is subjective. I can't find anything that says that it is morally acceptable to vote for candidates who support abortion, euthanasia, fetal stem cell research, homosexual marriage and other gravely sinful behavior. We are the past, present, and future of the Church founded by Jesus Christ. God Bless!