As I stated in my previous post, today, Sunday, is the feast Day of the Holy Family.
In honor of this feast day, I share this image.
A Picture says it all
Category: Supernatural Reality
Consider the number THREE
The year is 2022 — A Clean Slate — Our gift! Sad to see Christmas go so soon as many traditional Catholics take down their Christmas decorations now that the 12 Days of Christmas are over. However, according to the Catholic liturgy, we still celebrate; the Feast of the Holy Family this Sunday. So Christmas is still very much a part of our reflections, as it should be!
We are already on the 8th day of the New Year, which reminds me of a clean slate, but numbers also; days and year. My favorite number is number three.
Why may you wonder?
The number three is significant in the life of the Supernatural, along with the number seven.
Consider the Trinity, One God in three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father the Creator – Son the Redeemer – Holy Ghost or Spirit – our guide and Sanctifier. “And there are three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.”
1 John 5
“And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are one.” 1 John 5;8
The Holy family on earth consist of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Thinking of what we know of the life of Christ, He was lost for three days, and His parents found Him in the Temple, teaching.
Continuing reading for more threes
Jonas was in the whale’s belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.” Matthew 12
“For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18
“We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another not made with hands.” Mark 14
“And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions.” Luke 2
“They, therefore, that received his word, were baptized, and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.” Acts 2
“And behold, immediately there were three men come to the house wherein I was, sent to me from Caesarea.” Acts 11
“And Paul, according to his custom, went in unto them; and for three sabbath days he reasoned with them out of the scriptures:” Acts 17
“And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for the space of three months, disputing and exhorting concerning the kingdom of God.”
Acts 19
“And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.” 1 Corinthians 13
interesting facts
Meditating on the mysteries of the passion of Christ, He was judged by three judges, nailed on the Cross with three nails, one in each wrist, and one large nail on both feet. Three crosses on the hill, He died at 3:00 after three hours and rose from the dead on the third day.
Coming Soon! Close Up!
Midweek Madness a Macro or Close Up Welcome to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC). The topic is Close Up or Macro.
A little about the artist Melchior-Paul von Deschwanden (January 10, 1811 – February 25, 1881) was a Swiss religious painter.
I Confess
Another believe it or not story!
I heard the music as I entered the room, but all that was in my imagination since the room was empty and very still. I knew it was only an illusion because it happens now and then.
Whenever my mind turns to the wonder of God, the evil one works a trick on my sense of hearing mainly, hearing. I have reached the age to reason that this distraction happens whenever I pray or meditate on His Will.
The evil one leaves you alone when he has you where he wants you. Please don’t believe me, try it! Begin to pray sincerely, ask God to help you save your soul, and the diversion begins.
The above story was inspired by Fantango’s Story Starter, he starts off by offering a phrase to inspire a story, today the phrase is underlined above.
What comes to your mind when you think on the phrase, join us and share your story by clicking here for details. Click
The Video that inspired a Poem
Thank you Eugenia for the inspiration!
This jewel of a short video came across my feed today.
Why wouldn’t God create with His signature?
Taking those numbers ( if you watched the video,) I attempted to write a poem with a syllable count of 10 – 5 – 6 – 5,
using four lines.
The world and we shouldn’t be surprised to see
His signature blazed
He the Master Builder!
Why are you amazed?
The Veil of Mary still visible in France today
I remember learning when Mary was assumed into Heaven by God, her veil was found in the place where they laid her after her death.
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The Hand Writing on the Wall
Fandango’s word prompt
Imminent! with True Story a YouTube movie I watched!
Because of the strange happenings in the entire world these days and my curious personality, I found myself watching an old Testament Bible story on YouTube about the book of Daniel.
The movie was interesting in many ways, but in particular, the story explains an incident. Daniel, the prophet, was summoned by King Belshazzar to interpret! This king had just defiled sacred objects meant for the One True God; the king dishonored religious cups at his pagan feast.
Imminently strange, mysterious writing appeared on the wall, the frightened king called his soothsayers et al. to interpret, but they could not. Daniel was finally called and told the king “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN” and analyzes them for the king: “MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed … and found wanting;” and “PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” (Daniel 5;5-31)
Imminently that same night, the king was killed.
Take the Challenge, I Did!
I love this challenge, and for some strange reason today I wanted to write about myself, a confession.
Somehow I was inspired to compose about my journey of Faith!
Most think the Church has changed with the recent Modern Popes, but in truth, it didn’t change at all, it just became smaller. Luke 18:8
“I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, Faith on earth?”
↓ My LONG LOST Faith ↓
After a few moments, asking for inspiration, a BRIGHT IDEA was wrought.
Faith was lost in the past, and like a HERMIT CRAB, I was living in a shell.
Slowly in the early ’70s, I found myself growing warmer to hot like the TROPICS. Realizing if there was a God, my choices were not His.
Something was amiss! I desired the sweet flesh of the Blessed Sacrament, but instead, it was only bread. The Catholic Church changed, I thought! I began to pray.
I yearned to be cleansed; where was this fountain where the Water Lily/LOTUS waited for me? Somewhere I knew for His promise was forever. Seek, and you shall find, like BABY’S BREATH, a beginning again; I found the POMEGRANATE, the Sweet Flesh, red Blood of He who died for me many seeds for all to see, the Church still existed. Like a PEACOCK with its many eyes, God does see our deeds, He cares!
About Tradition
Gates of Hell will not prevail.
Seek, and you shall find!
Prophecy, Anti-Christ, and today!
Today I will write about prophecy, Catholic prophecy. No not flash fiction but I wish it were.
I am not a prophet and have no direct line to God.
However, I have read several prophecies concerning our day, the days of the Great Apostasy from the Church founded by Christ, as foretold in 2Thess. Chapter 2. Describing the times before the coming of Anti-Christ, with a capital “A.” Today is that time! Many know, and some don’t know, and others don’t care to know. Know about the Great Apostasy! My experience or my serendipity moment happened over 35 years ago when I discovered the Catholic Church was not what it used to be. The Church was no longer One, Holy nor Apostolic, but an optical illusion. My neighborhood church and throughout the world slowly apostatized, now a man-founded religion that has adapted to the world a strange belief they called Vatican II.
What to do? Seek, and you shall find, I told myself, go back to what you have learned and believed from the beginning, and so I did.
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Back to prophecy: Here is an example of one said prediction of what will happen before Anti-Christ
“People will rise against peoples, and nations will rise against nations, sometimes allied, sometimes enemies, in their fight against the same party. Armies will come into frightful collisions and will fill the earth with murder and carnage.
As well as that. I see that the earth will be shaken in different places by frightful earthquakes. I see whole mountains cracking and splitting with a terrible din. I see come out of these gaping mountains whirlwinds of smoke, fire, sulfur, and tar, which reduce to cinders entire towns. All this and a thousand other disasters must come before the rise of the Man of Sin (AntiChrist.)
BREAKING NEWS TODAY!
Now we can all look forward to this DUST STORM, on its way to the U.S.A.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/saharan-dust-cloud-collides-with-caribbean-nears-u-s/#2
Today Begins …
LENT
Today, Ash Wed., we begin the Season of Lent. The Church reminds us of what we should be doing every day (Penance), not only during Lent. Yet, we have this Holy Season to ponder. The teaching we find in the Gospels, Jesus spent 40 days of fasting, giving us an example. Thereby we too fast in preparation for His Resurrection, proving to the entire world that He, Jesus Christ, is truly God.
It pleases God when we assist Him in carrying His Cross, although He does not need anything from us. He gave us an example when Simon of Cyrene was allowed by Christ to assist in the carrying of His Cross.
When and by whom was the season of Lent instituted?
Many of the early Fathers of the Church, in particular, St. Jerome, Pope St. Leo the Great, St. Cyril of Alexandria, and St. Isidore of Seville, confirm that the season of Lent was instituted by the Apostles themselves from the very commencement of the Church. They legislated a universal fast for the ever-growing flock of Christ to serve as a spiritual preparation for Our Lord’s Resurrection from the dead. The Apostles determined that, as the number forty (40) was a very significant number both in the Old and New Testaments, this solemn penitential season should also consist of 40 days. http://www.cmri.org/96prog2.htm
The Mystery, the Star of Bethlehem
The word suggested today is TINSEL.
Tinsel in the sense of resplendence, during this Holy Season of Christmas, we aught decorate our soul. Put a little tinsel on your soul as you adorn your home. Take an hour of your very busy days, sit down for an hour and watch this profound video.
Apostolic Blessing — True Story
Today, seven years ago, my husband passed away, November 13, 2012.
I miss him very much. We were married for over 50 years. He was an atheist when we married, but died a Catholic. I wonder even today, what he did so special that God smiled upon him with special graces. I believe it was his grandmother’s rosary she prayed daily.
Hours before his death, he was barely conscience, slipped in and out. After receiving the Last Sacraments of the Church, he was gifted with the Apostolic Blessing. A blessing that includes a plenary indulgence. He was, as I said, partly rational and barely conscience but conscience enough to invoke the holy name of Jesus when the priest administrating the blessing asked him.
If interested you may find more about the Apostolic Blessing by reading here at https://tinyurl.com/tglu2um
Looking back on our life together; what I enjoyed about our marriage, he allowed me to be myself. Although for many years he had no faith in my religion, he always encouraged our children to follow me along that path. One day after he converted years before he died, which is another story, I asked him why he defended the faith with such earnest; he said because it was so hard for him to acquire it.
Finally A Priest Telling as it IS
@MSMParish … Please, please Catholics pay attention
Who sits in the temple of God?
The prompt word today is…SCHISM.
Most people don’t know or worse care
of schism the most significant division so
grand that it is even warned to us in the Bible.
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Bible. “Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.” (The Chair of St. Peter, First Pope, THE ROCK”)
2nd Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians Chapter 2
Is it any wonder many are in awe at the things the person sitting in the Chair, says or does. Vatican II, the New religion they call “catholic.”
What IF?
What if there were no FORGIVENESS?
FULL MOON and more!
If you’re out and about this week, don’t miss the chance to see one of the astronomical highlights of summer as a full moon rises this Thursday. Our satellite reaches its full phase on August 15, an event that’s popularly called the Full Sturgeon Moon. With it comes two chances on Thursday for North Americans to witness a spectacular sight of a full moon in twilight close to dawn or sunset.
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“And there shall be signs in the sun, and the moon, and the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, because of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and the waves;” [Luke 21:25]
WE ARE GETTING CLOSER
Today coincidence or chance; the fact that the Traditional Catholic Church calendar celebrates August 15. Why? It is an exceptional Holy Day known as the Assumption of the body of the Mother of God.
Jesus Christ IS God, and the definition of Truth is… WHAT IS!
God, the Father the Creator, created her perfect because of the unique role His Will was for her.
Many believe in Jesus Christ but ignore His mother, God’s instrument in the incarnation of Christ. If she was good enough for Jesus, she is good enough for all of us. To neglect His mother; tantamount, to when the angels were created loving God yet challenged His will. How could a mere human creature be more magnificent than they? AND THEY FELL!
“He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.”
“Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?”
Sede Vacante means to be Catholic
Where is the AUTHORITY?
Why is it that the governments of the world whether in Politics or the Faith are having similar problems?
Reading Twitter lately is woeful to learn of the overflowing labels of Catholics. They all seem to possess their trademarks. They continuously argue which brand is the better one. It is evident to anyone with just a smidgen of grace to realize the Novus Ordo is not in the least united to the teaching Church that Jesus Christ founded.
Consider the prayer we pray known as the Act of Faith, during the rosary. ANALYZE THAT LAST SENTENCE!
O MY GOD, I firmly believe that Thou art one God in Three Divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I believe that Thy Divine Son became Man, and died for our sins and that He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived.
The question is; how can YOUR Pope DECEIVE? The Catholic Church is in the STATE of sedevacantism. Sedevacantism is not a bad word; it is not heresy; the Vatican has even in the past way before Vatican II, issued a stamp with the words “SEDEVACANTISM” printed on it. This stamp is now a collector’s item.
Search it out!
Visual description of CLIMATE CHANGE
… We all agree it is coming and it is the people’s fault
What is Christian culture?
John Senior writes:
What is Christian culture? It is essentially the Mass. That is not my or anyone’s opinion or theory or wish but the central fact of 2,000 years of history. Christendom, what secularists call Western Civilization, is the Mass and the paraphernalia which protect and facilitate it. All architecture, art, political and social forms, economics, the way people live and feel and think, music, literature ― all these things, when they are right, are ways of fostering and protecting the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
To enact a sacrifice, there must be an altar, an altar has to have a roof over it in case it rains; to reserve the Blessed Sacrament, we build a little House of Gold and over it a Tower of Ivory with a bell and a garden round it with the roses and lilies of purity, emblems of the Virgin Mary ― Rosa Mystica, Turris Davidica, Turris Eburnea, Domus Aurea, who carried His Body and His Blood in her womb, Body of her body, Blood of her blood. And around the church and garden, where we bury the faithful dead, the caretakers live, the priests and religious whose work is prayer, who keep the Mystery of Faith in its tabernacle of music and words in the Office of the Church; and around them, the faithful who gather to worship and divide the other work that must be done in order to make the perpetuation of the Sacrifice possible — to raise the food and make the clothes and build and keep the peace so that generations to come may live for Him, so that the Sacrifice goes on even until the consummation of the world.
Also read this by Peter Kwasniewski
An ugly “church” represents the loss of this fundamental contemplative insight into the beauty of the world and the need to bring all things in sacrifice before the God who is Beauty itself.
Catholics have a sacred right, owing to their baptism into the glorified Jesus Christ, to the full expression of their faith within the liturgy and through all the arts that embellish and support it; they have a right to free access to the glories of Tradition, which have been cherished and handed down for centuries and must be cherished and handed down until the end of time.
Corresponding to this right is, as always, a duty. Catholics have a duty to preserve, cherish, and perpetuate this Tradition; they have a responsibility to come to know it and love it more and more over their lifetimes. We are not to sit back and wait until someone brings us beauty on a platter; we are to work on beautifying our interior life through prayer, our external life through manners, ongoing education, and cultural pursuits; we are to support the Church’s ministers with our prayers, our resources, our petitions, so that the riches of Tradition may flourish again in our times.
What God gives us is not just the “here and now,” but the faith and love of generations who have come before us, embodied in countless treasures of music, painting, sculpture, architecture, and writing, destined for the edification of souls until the end of time.
All of this has been given to us, in proportion to our capacities, positions, opportunities for action. We are the path by which tradition will reach, or not reach, our descendants. Much today depends on lay involvement, as Vatican II predicted. This can go in a good direction, as when Catholics respectfully ask their pastors to provide the traditional Latin Mass; or it can go in a bad direction, as when laity attempt to run the show, taking over responsibilities that belong to the clergy. Lay people who are humbly, cheerfully, and generously devoted to the spread of Christian culture, centered on the Mass and surrounded on all sides with the beauty that befits it, have been and will continue to be a major factor in the longed-for renewal of the Church.
Every Catholic who enters a church should be able to find figures of Christ and the Saints, as well as an elevated sanctuary, set apart and beautifully furnished, with the altar and the tabernacle in a prominent place and suitably decorated. Catholics have a right to the full, authentic expression of their faith, both in the liturgy and in the arts that embellish it, especially sacred music. And as I never tire of saying, Catholics have a duty to embrace this fullness, to become acquainted with it, and to cherish it.
Spiritual Battle — we are at WAR!
Are we nearing the END? How long will the END be? I wonder!
“For they are the spirits of devils working signs, and they go forth unto the kings of the whole earth, to gather them to battle against the great day of the Almighty God.” [Apocalypse (Revelation) 16:14]
Looking at the condition of the world we live in; so-called Christians calling for abortion and now infanticide, both are evil. A person who should be our role models defending evil as Pelosi does when she objects, and to make it worse, in the name of God, to groups such as MS 13 being called for what they are “evil.” Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.” [Isaias (Isaiah) 5:20]
Yes, we are at WAR, a Spiritual War, the battle for good or evil! It is time for those whose consciences are speaking; stand up and fight for what you believe!
One factor for sure is, His Church, One, Holy, and Apostolic has adapted to the world. We were warned this would happen and it did with Vatican II. The infiltration of the Vatican that wrought the dumbing down of religion, the adaption to the world.
When God has had enough, I hope He finds you on the right side of this Spiritual War, the winning team. It is said, through His Saints prophesies that God will, for a while, let evil have its day. In the end, we know the end of the story. That will be a delicious time to be alive.
You don’t believe in God, you say! YOU WILL!
I Believe, BECAUSE - 