Category: Christian Life

  • The Church’s Important Documents

    STUDY OF OFFICIAL CATECHISM REFERENCE BOOK

    CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

    DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITHCOMPLETE LIST OF DOCUMENTS

    https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/doc_doc_index.htm

    1962 ROMAN MISSALE

    DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH – LUMEN GENTIUM
    SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI
    ON NOVEMBER 21, 1964

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

    PABLO OBISPO SIERVO DE LOS SIERVOS DE DIOS JUNTAMENTE CON LOS PADRES DEL CONCILIO PARA PERPETUO RECUERDO

    CONSTITUCIÓN DOGMÁTICA SOBRE LA IGLESIA – LUMEN GENTIUM

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_sp.html

    DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH – COMPLETE LIST OF DOCUMENTS

    https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/doc_doc_index.htm

    “Verbum Domini” Apostolic Exhortation – People Benedict XVI (2010)

    https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20100930_verbum-domini.html

    “Dei Verbum” – Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation – Pope Paul VI (1965)

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html

    DILEXIT NOS

    https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/20241024-enciclica-dilexit-nos.html

    NOVA VULGATA – Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_index_lt.html

    Complutensian Polyglot Bible.Vetus testamentū multiplici lingua nūc primo impressum, Et imprimis Pentateuchus Hebraico Greco atque Chaldaico idiomate

    https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666855

    https://archive.org/details/polyglotcomplutensis/Vol%201

    BIBLIA JUAN STRAUBINGER

    https://archive.org/details/SagradaBibliaMonsStraubinger.BibliaCompletaPDF

    Vulgate Latin Bible With English Translation

    https://vulgate.org/

    Biblia Straubinger en linea

    https://bibliastraubinger.com/

    Books of the Bible | USCCB


    https://bible.usccb.org/bible

    Latin Prayers, Pater Noster | EWTN

    https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/latin-prayers-9125

    iBreviary

    https://ibreviary.com/m2/breviario.php?lang=es

    USCCB – Foundational Documents 

    https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/foundational-documents

    USCCB – Documentos Fundamentales de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia

    https://www.usccb.org/es/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/foundational-documents

    Types of Important Church Writings

    ¿Por qué tenemos 2 Credos en la Iglesia?

    The Liturgy of the Hours Explained (w/ Fr. Mike Schmitz)



    Las Moradas | Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

    https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/las-moradas–0/html/ff0e7ddc-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_1.html

    Sagrada Biblia Straubinger : Monseñor Straubinger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

    https://archive.org/details/08-sagrada-biblia-straubinger_202211

    Les principales prières en latin

    https://laportelatine.org/spiritualite/prieres-et-devotions/les-principales-prieres-en-latin

    Thesaurus Precum Latinarum

    https://www.preces-latinae.org/index.htm

    Cancionero Litúrgico

    http://www.musicaliturgica.com/cancioneroliturgico/

    MORE USEFUL REFERENCES

    SENSUS FIDELIUM

    https://www.youtube.com/@SensusFidelium

    Liber Christo

    MORAL VIRTUES

    THE CARDINAL VIRTUES

    Click to access thecardinalvirtues.pdf

    PRAYER PRESCRIPTION/PROTOCOL TABLE

    MONTE CHRISTO: Virtue Study – Handouts & YouTube Videos

    St. Faustina’s Way of the Cross | The National Shrine of The Divine Mercy

    https://www.shrineofdivinemercy.org/stations-way-2

    Via Crucis basado en el Diario de Santa Faustina

    https://www.corazones.org/espiritualidad/via_crucis_escritos_stfaustina.htm

    La Sainte Bible (Traduction catholique de Fillion) – Bíblia Católica Online

    https://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/la-sainte-bible-traduction-catholique-de-fillion/matthieu/7/

    Lire la Bible – Catholique.org

    https://bible.catholique.org/

  • How to pray

    Lectio Divina Explained: A Monk’s Guide to Hearing God Through Scripture | Fr Michael Casey OCSO

    Mental Prayer and Reasons People Don’t Advance

    Winning at Prayer and Holiness – Fr. Ripperger

    PRAYER IS THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN: HOW TO PRAY BETTER

    BISHOP BARRON: THE LORD’S PRAYER

    CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYERS – Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: “Silence is the medium through which God always speaks.”

    The Catholic Reader: St. Teresa’s Nine Grades of Prayer

    http://thecatholicreader.blogspot.com/2013/06/st-teresas-nine-grades-of-prayer.html

    St Teresa of Avila’s Nine Grades of Prayer 

    Modos en la oración teresiana – Carmelitas Descalzas de Cádiz

    St. Teresa’s Teaching on the Grades of Prayer

    https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7725

    Saint Teresa of Avila | A Life of Mystical Experience | Carmelite Saint

    The Path of Prayer by Saint Theophan the Recluse

    SAINT TERESA’S 7 STAGES OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH

    Saint Teresa’s 7 Mansions

    THE THREE WAYS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE – SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

    Stages-of-Spiritual-Journey-by-St-John-of-Cross.pdf

    VIRGEN MARY TELLS HER NEVER TO GIVE UP PRAYER AND TO SEEK COUNSEL FROM PRIESTS

    Since When Is It Vain to Pray the Rosary? When Jesus condemned praying “vain repetitions,” was he condemning all repetitious prayer? No. Nope. Definitely, absolutely not.

    https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/do-catholics-pray-vain-repetitions

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: THE TERRIBLE HABIT TO PRAY THE ROSARY QUICKLY AND NOT FROM THE HEART

    MUST SEE: When the Guardian Angel was absorbed in prayer and in contemplating God in the train

    Can the Laity do Binding Prayers?

    Pray with Me: Healing From Trauma and Abuse

    What to Know About Catholic Deliverance and Exorcism

    IMPRECATORY vs DEPRECATORY PRAYERS OF DELIVERANCE

    https://stpaulcenter.com/what-to-know-about-catholic-deliverance-and-exorcism/#:~:text=Here%20it%20will%20be%20defined,time%20were%20from%20those%20perspectives.

    In some Protestant books on deliverance, one is encouraged to speak directly to, and command, the demons. This is imprecatory prayer, a direct command. It is critical to understand that imprecatory prayer directly commands a demon, which is a tacit acceptance to a personal battle with that demon, while deprecatory prayer asks God to act against the demon. The Catholic Church has understood that the full authority to command demons was given to the Twelve Apostles, therefore a priest needs Apostolic authority given to him by a bishop before he engages in a battle with a demon. Of course a bishop, cardinal, or pope can do an exorcism at any time.

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: DEMON TELLS EXORCIST TO SAY THE FATHER PRAYER FROM THE HEART!!!!!

    Conference on Prayer ~ Fr. Ripperger

    PRAYER PRESCRIPTION/PROTOCOL TABLE

    Winning at Prayer and Holiness – Fr. Ripperger

    The Jesus Prayer

    https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/spirituality/prayer-fasting-and-almsgiving/the-jesus-prayer#:~:text=The%20Jesus%20Prayer%20is%20the,a%20theological%20and%20spiritual%20meaning.

    The most normal form of unceasing prayer in the Orthodox tradition is the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer is the form of invocation used by those practicing mental prayer, also called the “prayer of the heart.” The words of the prayer most usually said are “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” The choice of this particular verse has a theological and spiritual meaning.

    HOW TO BLESS YOUR FOOD – Minute 6:45

    “Whenever I bring groceries into the house I would just say : “In the name of Jesus I bind all spirits of death and disease off of all this food in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.” And then I would bless all the food before I unpacked it and then I like it was good but then as you individually eat things one by one you do do that.

    PRAYERS BEFORE BED – Minute 11:05

    Padre Pio’s prayer – Minute 53′

    My past oh Lord to thy mercy

    My present to thy love

    My future to thy providence

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ru8yNkP1AU

    PRAYER FOR OUR COUNTRY

    Contemplative unceasing prayer

    Alzar o no las manos durante el Pade Nuestro… Raise your hands during the Lord’s Prayer?

    Jesus, Take Care of It.” Don Dolindo’s Prayer of Abandonment

    Mind’s eye, prayers and imagination

    Surrender Novena (All 9 Days) – Let Jesus Take Care of Everything

    ACTIVE AND PASSIVE NIGHTS OF THE SOUL

    “The divinization of one’s passivities.”

    This is a line from one of the great spiritual works of the twentieth century, The Divine Milieu by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In that seminal text, Teilhard famously distinguished between the divinization of one’s activities and the divinization of one’s passivities. The former is a noble spiritual move, consisting in the handing over of one’s achievements and accomplishments to the purposes of God. A convinced Jesuit, Teilhard desired to devote all that he did (and he did a lot) ad majorem Dei gloriam (to the greater glory of God). But this attitude, Teilhard felt, came nowhere near the spiritual power of divinizing one’s passivities. By this he meant the handing over of one’s suffering to God, the surrendering to the Lord of those things that are done to us, those things over which we have no control. We become sick; a loved one dies suddenly; we lose a job; a much-desired position goes to someone else; we are unfairly criticized; we find ourselves, unexpectedly, in the valley of the shadow of death. These experiences lead some people to despair, but the spiritually alert person should see them as a particularly powerful way to come to union with God. A Christian would readily speak here of participating in the cross of Christ. Indeed how strange that the central icon of the Christian faith is not of some great achievement or activity, but rather of something rather horrible being done to a person. The point is that suffering, offered to God, allows the Lord to work his purpose out with unsurpassed power.

    In some ways, Teilhard’s distinction is an echo of St. John of the Cross’s distinction between the “active” and “passive” nights of the soul. For the great Spanish master, the dark night has nothing to do with psychological depression, but rather with a pruning away of attachments that keep one from complete union with God. This pruning can take a conscious and intentional form (the active night) or it can be something endured. In a word, we can rid ourselves of attachments—or God can do it for us. The latter, St. John thinks, is far more powerful and cleansing than the former.

    When we experience interior aridity, darkness, desolation, what to do? Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi explains

    How Can I Improve My Prayer? (Aquinas 101)

    MUST WATCH – How God granted specific prayers of exorcist –

    See Minute 1h07mn about curse of gout

    See Minute 2h19mn about God’s punishment

    See Minute 4h06mn about liberating freemason buildings

  • Developing Christian Qualities

    CONFIANZA TOTAL EN EL CORAZON DE JESUS

    You Too Are Christ: The Ongoing Incarnation, Then and Now

    Combating Evil as an Integral Part of Becoming Holy ~ Fr. Ripperger

    TRANSFORMING OUR STATE OF SERVANT INTO THE REWARDING IDENTITY OF A SON

    FORGIVENESS – If you are struggling to forgive someone you hate, watch this. Catholic priest explains.

    SELF KNOWLEDGE

    Lack of Clarity ~ Fr. Ripperger

    Act Against Your Attachments – Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon

    Take Care of Your Soul

    CHRISTIANS ARE CALLED TO TAKE UP THE SPIRITUAL FIGHT AS ANOTHER CHRIST

    DETACHING ONESELF

    PROPER BEHAVIOR IN A CHURCH

    Ways to Cure Sadness

    MUST SEE: To contain oneself within God and not to have perfect peace is impossible

    The moment you feel disturbed it is that you are making a little exit

    WHEN ONE PLACES ONE’S TRUST IN HUMILY THAT PEACE COMES TO THE SOUL

    Mental Prayer and Reasons People Don’t Advance

    Be sincere – Venerable Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

    Life is Worth Living – Venerable Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

    Forgive

    If you are struggling to forgive someone you hate, watch this. Catholic priest explains.

    TRUST = Total Reliance Upon God’s Saving Truth

    EXERCISE DIVINE PACIENCE

    The Importance of Being Detached From All Created Things

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: HOW TO BUILD VIRTUE: a virtue grows and is increased by its contrary

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: Difference between grace, virtue and gift

    DETACH FROM EARTHLY GOODS AS AT DEATH WE WILL HAVE TO ANYWAY

    CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYERS

    Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: “Silence is the medium through which God always speaks.”

    Old Pots – Venerable Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

    The next time you’re going to Eucharistic Adoration, try this

    Shoot for heaven, not purgatory!!! Minute 1:12

    DEVIL UNABLE TO SEE OUR CONFESSED SINS

    IMPORTANCE OF CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

    THE SNARES FROM THE DEVIL TO IMPEDE PEOPLE FROM CONFESSING

    DON BOSCO’S VISIONS

    OUR LADY’S ADVICE TO THE BOYS OF DON BOSCO

    Don Bosco’s Soul Shaking Letters From Our Lady | Ep. 25

    What FIAT means

    Lucas 1 v. 8 

    Entonces María dijo: “He aquí la esclava del Señor: Séame hecho según tu palabra”. Y el ángel la dejó.

    SAINT LOUIS MARIA GRIGNON DE MONTFORT – Del Amor Para Jesús Sobre Todas Las Cosas


    Bienaventurado el que conoce lo que es amar a Jesús, y despreciarse a sí mismo por Jesús. Conviene dejar un amado por otro amado, porque Jesús quiere ser amado sobre todas las cosas. El amor de la criatura es engañoso y mudable, el amor de Jesús es fiel y durable. El que se llega a la criatura, caerá con lo caedizo; el que abraza a Jesús, afirmará en Él para siempre. Ama a Jesús y tenle por amigo, que aunque todos te desamparen, Él no te desamparará ni te dejará perecer en el fin. De todos has de ser desamparado alguna vez, ora quieras o no. Ten fuertemente con Jesús viviendo y muriendo, y encomiéndate a su fidelidad, que Él solo te puede ayudar, cuando todos te faltaren. Tu amado es de tal condición, que no quiere consigo admitir a otro, mas Él solo quiere tener tu corazón y como rey sentarse en su propia silla. Si tú supieses bien desocuparte de toda criatura, Jesús morará de buena gana contigo. Hallarás casi todo perdido cuanto pusieres en los hombres, fuera de Jesús. No confíes ni estribes sobre la caña vacía; porque toda carne es heno, y toda su gloria caerá como flor de heno.

    Why total Surrender Is the Only Way to Heaven | Fr. Mike Schmitz and Bishop Robert Barron

    EVERYTHING WE DO IS OUT OF LOVE, OF GOOD OR EVIL

    Divinisation – Deification – Theosis

    Conversion – Fr. Donald Calloway: Conversion Story. South Louisiana Tour – Metairie, LA

    Scott Hahn’s Advice to Converts. Must watch!

    THE POWER OF SMALL DECISIONS

    Virtue and Happiness (Aquinas 101)

    Habit, Art, and Virtue (Aquinas 101)

    Growing and Diminishing in Virtue (Aquinas 101)

    Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: “How to not lose peace in the face of trial or difficult circumstances”

    MUST SEE: DESOLATION DEPRESSION
    God purifying the soul through consolations, desolations, privations… Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi explains

    TABULA RAS KENOSIS EMPTY YOUR MIND AND ENTER YOUR OWN NOTHINGNESS

    Kenosis | Catholic Answers Magazine

    https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/kenosis

    Soul being streched increasing our desire for God

  • Consecrated Life

    Holy Orders (Aquinas 101)

    Discernment session for people contemplating service in holy orders or religious life

    “The thoughts, feelings and desires one has within the experience of peace and stillness in the presence of Christ are God’s thoughts, feelings and desires. This is how God reveals what He wants-His will-of us and for us. When one is in that holy place in Christ, one’s desires are Christ’s desires, what one wants is what God wants. God puts His thoughts, feelings, and desires into us. In that experience, God’s will is within my will. This is an important lesson. In order to know God’s will, one simply needs to pay attention to one’s thoughts, feelings and desires when one is experiencing the peace, stillness, clarity and gratitude found in the presence of Christ. God’s will, his desire for you, is not out there somewhere! It is found in your own desire when you are in Christ! That is the will of God for you! This cannot be stressed enough.”

    “Fear is an obstacle. “Fear is useless, what is needed is trust” (Mark 5:36). If God says fear is useless then it is useless. Fear is the enemy of discernment because it comes from the devil. So what can help us to trust? Love! 1 John 4:18 says, “Perfect love casts out all fear”. When we are in love with God, we can trust him, because
    we know him. We begin to discover the wisdom of God whereby we will want to do things God’s way and not ours. …  God does not reveal himself by fear or through fear. God does not scare anyone into anything. God reveals his desires to us and draws us by a peaceful presence. It is the Enemy who scares men into and out of things. The Enemy reveals his desires through fear. 

    Just as God’s will is found in one’s own thoughts, feelings, and desires that flow from the experience of the peaceful presence of Christ, so the will of the Enemy is found in one’s own thoughts, feelings, and desires flowing from the fear, pressure and confusion that come from the Enemy. In the experience of fear, pressure and confusion, the Enemy puts his thoughts, feelings and desires into us. The Enemy reveals his desire in fear. He leads us by a fear flowing from a false belief, a lie. The Enemy drives a man by a fear of something false, while Christ draws a man by a peaceful presence to something that is true.” 

    “In prayer, God is calling us into a “spiritual childhood”. “I assure you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the Kingdom of God” (Matt. 18:3). As parents, how many times did we experience our children (or a small child) running into our arms and just holding on to us and hugging us for an extended period of time? We must learn to be held [by God]. This kind of intimacy is difficult for many and especially for men. It might be good to have them take a few minutes and reflect on John 13:25, where the Beloved disciple lays his head on the Lord’s chest. Imagine yourself doing so and while doing this lay all your concerns, fears and dreams on his chest. Surrender them to the Lord. Simply rest in his embrace.”

    FRUSTRATION AND ANGER OF PRIEST SOMETIMES

    PRIESTHOOD & GENDER: GENDER IS SCRIPTURE – CHRIST CAME TO REPAIR THE SIN OF ADAM NOT EVE

    Seis mujeres de Ohio serán las primeras en formar parte del Orden de Viudas en EE.UU

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=50986

    The Carthusian Nuns – Las Monjas Cartujas – As Monjas Cartuxas

    The House at the end of the World, The Carthusian Cloistered Monastery Part 1

    The House at the end of the World, The Carthusian Cloistered Monastery Part 2

    The House at the end of the World, The Carthusian Cloistered Monastery Part 3

    Silencio y soledad: la vida de las mujeres de la única cartuja en España

    https://www.eldebate.com/religion/iglesia/20230621/silencio-soledad-vida-mujeres-unica-cartuja-espana_122973.html

    Orden de Canónigos Premonstratenses

    https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orden_de_Can%C3%B3nigos_Premonstratenses

    BREVIARY AND OFFICE OF READINGS OF PRIESTS, THEIR ROUTINE AND DAILY CONFESSION

    Catholic Priest Visits Orthodox Seminary

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: Monasteries and consacrated homes and seminaries work as protection for the town

    The daily routine of priests

    ¿Qué significa el alzacuello de los sacerdotes?

    La Fraternidad Sacerdotal de San Pedro sigue creciendo

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53766

    The life of a hermit: A glimpse inside the little-known state of life – EWTN Great Britain

    The life of a hermit: A glimpse inside the little-known state of life

  • Married Life

    BODY AND MARRIAGE

    “Theology of the Body Crash Course w/ Fr. Mike Schmitz — Session One: From the Beginning”

    Summary on Divorce – What Does Jesus and the Church Teach? Fr. Chris Alar

    El papa Francisco se pronunció sobre el matrimonio y el divorcio

    https://www.cronista.com/espana/actualidad-es/el-papa-francisco-se-pronuncio-sobre-el-matrimonio-y-el-divorcio-y-afirmo-a-los-catolicos-que-la-respuesta-de-dios-es/

    Don’t blame someone else when you’re weary – who are you yoked too?

    Through the sexual act we most ressemble God by assisting Him in creation

    “Does Marriage Perdure in Heaven? (Aquinas 101)”

    Marriage (Aquinas 101)

    Suffering in Marriage (Aquinas 101)

    How Does Marriage Sanctify Spouses? (Aquinas 101)

    Marriage as Mutual Service and Consecration in Christ (Aquinas 101)

    How Does Marriage Serve as a Sign of God’s Love? (Aquinas 101)

    Communication in Marriage (Aquinas 101)

    Why Is Marriage Indissoluble? (Aquinas 101)

    Indissolubility of Marriage

    The Importance of Friendship in Marriage (Aquinas 101)

    What Happens at a Catholic Wedding? (Aquinas 101)

    What Makes a Valid Marriage Vow? (Aquinas 101)

    What NOT to Do at a Catholic Wedding

    How Marriage Vows Make a Sacred Bond (Aquinas 101)

    How Can I Prepare for Life with My Future Spouse? (Aquinas 101)

    Le « don de soi » ouvre la porte du cœur des époux

    https://www.nrt.be/fr/articles/le-don-de-soi-ouvre-la-porte-du-coeur-des-epoux-3000

    MARRIAGE IS A SACRAMENT THAT INFUSES GOD INTO US

  • Family & Friendship

    Breaking Negative Soul Ties – Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar

    Don’t blame someone else when you’re weary – who are you yoked too?

    PARENTS SHOULD TEACH BY EXAMPLE

    CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS CAREFULLY – CONSIDER THEIR WORDS
    Eclo 6, 5-17. El amigo fiel no tiene precio.

    Lectura del libro del Eclesiástico.
    UNA palabra amable multiplica los amigos
         y aleja a los enemigos,
         y la lengua afable multiplica los saludos.
    Sean muchos los que estén en paz contigo,
         pero tus confidentes, solo uno entre mil.
    Si haces un amigo, ponlo a prueba,
         y no tengas prisa en confiarte a él.
    Porque hay amigos de ocasión,
         que no resisten en el día de la desgracia.
    Hay amigos que se convierten en enemigo,
         y te avergüenzan descubriendo tus litigios.
    Hay amigos que comparten tu mesa
         y no resisten en el día de la desgracia.
    Cuando las cosas van bien, es como otro tú,
         e incluso habla libremente con tus familiares.
    Pero si eres humillado, se pone contra ti
         y se esconde de tu presencia.
    Apártate de tus enemigos
         y sé cauto incluso con tus amigos.
    Un amigo fiel es un refugio seguro,
         y quien lo encuentra ha encontrado un tesoro.
    Un amigo fiel no tiene precio
         y su valor es incalculable.
    Un amigo fiel es medicina de vida,
         y los que temen al Señor lo encontrarán.
    El que teme al Señor afianza su amistad,
         porque, según sea él, así será su amigo.

    DON’T BE OVERCONFIDENT IN THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT – Eclo 5, 1-8. No tardes en convertirte al Señor.

    Lectura del libro del Eclesiástico.
    NO confíes en tus riquezas,
         ni digas: «Con esto me basta».
    No sigas tu instinto y tu fuerza,
         secundando las pasiones de tu corazón.
    Y no digas: «Quién puede dominarme?»,
         o bien: «Quién logrará someterme por lo que he hecho?»,
         porque el Señor ciertamente te castigará.
    No digas: «He pecado, y ¿qué me ha pasado?»,
         porque el Señor sabe esperar.
    Del perdón no te sientas tan seguro,
         mientras acumulas pecado tras pecado.
    Y no digas: «Es grande su compasión,
         me perdonará mis muchos pecados»,
         porque él tiene compasión y cólera,
         y su ira recae sobre los malvados.
    No tardes en convertirte al Señor,
         ni lo dejes de un día para otro,
         porque de repente la ira del Señor se enciende,
         y el día del castigo perecerás.
    No confíes en riquezas injustas,
         porque de nada te servirán el día de la desgracia.

    Family tree dimension

  • Natural Law

    The Natural Law (Aquinas 101)

    The Nature of Man & the Natural Law (1 of 3) ~ Fr Ripperger

    Basic Moral Principles (2 of 3) ~ Fr Ripperger

    The Natural Law & Bioethics (3 of 3) ~Fr Ripperger

    Natural Law & its Moral Significance ~ Fr Ripperger

    Natural Law: Gestation ~ Fr Ripperger

    Natural Law Series: Contraception and NFP ~ Fr Ripperger

    Natural Law: End of Life Issues ~ Fr Ripperger

    Natural Law: Legal Considerations ~ Fr Ripperger

  • God in My Life

    Divinisation – Deification – Theosis

    You Too Are Christ: The Ongoing Incarnation, Then and Now

    God Is Crazy in Love with You – Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon

    TENER A DIOS DENTRO DE MI? NO TE LO CREES.CRÉETELO. ES VERDAD. TE LO PROMETO

    Keep the presence of Jesus in front of your mind at all time and you are less likely to sin if you are aware that Jesus is right there next to you

    DEBEMOS RECIBIR UN NUEVO CORAZON Y DEJAR EL SAGRADO CORAZON DE JESUS VIVIR EN NOSOTROS

    Heb 8, 6-13.
    Mejor es la alianza de la que es mediador.
    Lectura de la carta a los Hebreos.
    HERMANOS:
    Ahora a nuestro sumo Sacerdote, Cristo, le ha correspondido un ministerio tanto más excelente cuanto mejor es la alianza de la que es mediador: una alianza basada en promesas mejores.
    Si la primera hubiera sido perfecta, no habría lugar para una segunda.
    Pero les reprocha:
    «Mirad que llegan días —oráculo del Señor—
    en que haré
    con la casa de Israel y con la casa de Judá
    una alianza nueva;
    no como la alianza que hice con sus padres,
    cuando los tomé de la mano
    para sacarlos de Egipto.
    Ellos fueron infieles a mi alianza
    y yo me desentendí de ellos —oráculo del Señor—.
    Así será la alianza que haré con la casa de Israel
    después de aquellos días —oráculo del Señor—:
    pondré mis leyes en su mente
    y las escribiré en sus corazones;
    yo seré su Dios
    y ellos serán mi pueblo.
    Y no tendrá que enseñar uno a su prójimo,
    el otro a su hermano, diciendo:
    “Conoce al Señor”,
    porque todos me conocerán,
    del menor al mayor,
    pues perdonaré sus delitos
    y no me acordaré ya de sus pecados».
    Al decir alianza “nueva”, declaró antigua la anterior; y lo que envejece y queda anticuado, está para desaparecer.

    Practicing the Presence of GOD by Brother Lawrence

    LIGHT OF GOD – MINUTE 1H50′

    We will possess the living Trinity as the living Tabernacle does right now in the church

    PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO LOVE GOD

    No trates de sobornar al Señor, porque no lo aceptará; no te apoyes en sacrificio injusto.
    Eclo 35, 1-12. Quien guarda los mandamientos ofrece sacrificios de comunión.

    Lectura del libro del Eclesiástico.
    QUIEN observa la ley multiplica las ofrendas,
         quien guarda los mandamientos ofrece sacrificios de comunión.
    Quien devuelve un favor hace una ofrenda de flor de harina,
         quien da limosna ofrece sacrificios de alabanza.
    Apartarse del mal es complacer al Señor,
         un sacrificio de expiación es apartarse de la injusticia.
    No te presentes ante el Señor con las manos vacías,
         pues esto es lo que prescriben los mandamientos.
    La ofrenda del justo enriquece el altar,
         su perfume sube hasta el Altísimo.
    El sacrificio del justo es aceptable,
         su memorial no se olvidará.
    Glorifica al Señor con generosidad,
         y no escatimes las primicias de tus manos.
    Cuando hagas tus ofrendas, pon cara alegre
         y paga los diezmos de buena gana.
    Da al Altísimo como él te ha dado a ti,
         con generosidad, según tus posibilidades.
    Porque el Señor sabe recompensar
         y te devolverá siete veces más.
    No trates de sobornar al Señor, porque no lo aceptará;
         no te apoyes en sacrificio injusto.
    Porque el Señor es juez,
         y para él no cuenta el prestigio de las personas.

    Answering God’s Call – Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon

    When we say yes to God unconditionally, He gives us more of His riches.

    GOD’S UNCREATED LIGHT

    HOW GOD SPEAKS



    God is quiet: satan is loud

    What “So that We Might Become God” Means”

    https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-so-that-we-might-become-god-means

    CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CCC460

    The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods” (CCC 460).

    St. Thomas Aquinas’ Favorite Argument for the Existence of God (Aquinas 101)

    Soul being stretched increasing our desire for God

    The 3 Kinds of Faith? Which do you have?

    The 3 Kinds of Faith? Which do you have?

    CATECHIZE, THE GREATEST VOCATION

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: AMEN MEANS “I STAKE MY LIFE ON THIS” – MINUTE 51′
    Explaining What the Creed Means Line by Line: Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar

    How a Mustard Seed Faith Can Change Your Life


    Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: How the Holy Trinity Operated in Adam and Eve before Original Sin and how He operates in us at baptism

  • The Church Structure

    LA IGLESIA EN EL MUNDO

    Desde 1970, el número total de sacerdotes en el mundo ha disminuido en más de 12.000 (de casi 420.000 a casi 408.000), aunque el número de sacerdotes diocesanos aumentó en cerca de 8.000 (hasta 279.200), mientras que los sacerdotes religiosos se redujeron en casi 20.000. En el mismo período, el número de religiosas cayó significativamente en 400.000, de más de un millón a casi 600.000, y el de hermanos religiosos disminuyó en 30.000, de 79.000 a 49.000. Actualmente hay en el mundo casi 49.500 diáconos permanentes, cuando en los años 70 del siglo XX solo había 309. Aunque el número de católicos en el mundo creció en los últimos cincuenta años de más de 650 millones a 1.405 millones, el porcentaje de católicos en la población global se mantiene relativamente estable en torno al 18%.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54055

    LIST OF PONTIFFS

    https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.html

    The 21 Ecumenical Councils

    https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-21-ecumenical-councils&lang=en

    The Hierarchy of the Church / The Unity of the Christians

    Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica
    Los fieles de Cristo: jerarquía, laicos, vida consagrada (871-945)

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism_sp/p123a9p4_sp.html

    Catechism of the Catholic Church
    CHRIST’S FAITHFUL – HIERARCHY, LAITY, CONSECRATED LIFE

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2A.HTM

    El Año Litúrgico explicado: Colores, ciclos y Tiempos. | Curso de Liturgia para Laicos

    ¿Por qué tenemos 2 Credos en la Iglesia?

    TLM than Novus Ordo? Ordinary Form of the Mass?

    Les 21 Conciles œcuméniques de l’Eglise catholique : de Nicée I en 325 à Vatican II en 1962-1965 

    https://laportelatine.org/formation/histoire/les-21-conciles-oecumeniques-de-leglise-catholique-de-nicee-i-en-325-a-vatican-ii-en-1962-1965

    The Hierarchy of the Church / The Unity of the Christians

    ¿Sabías que la Iglesia católica está constituida por 24 Iglesias autónomas?

    https://es.aleteia.org/2016/08/08/sabias-que-la-iglesia-catolica-esta-constituida-por-24-iglesias-autonomas

    The Legacy of Women Doctors of the Church in Rome | EWTN Vaticano

    Francisco cambia el rito de exequias de los Papas

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=50983

    COMMUNION OF THE SAINTS

    COPTIC CATHOLIC CHURCH

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Catholic_Church

    Coptic Orthodox Church

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church

    EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES

    The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church in full communion with the pope in Rome. Although they are distinct theologically, liturgically, and historically from the Latin Church, they are all in full communion with it and with each other. Eastern Catholics are a minority within the Catholic Church; of the 1.3 billion Catholics in communion with the pope, approximately 18 million are members of the Eastern churches. The largest numbers of Eastern Catholics are found in Eastern Europe, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and India. As of 2022, the Syro-Malabar Church is the largest Eastern Catholic Church, followed by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

    With the exception of the Maronite Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches are groups that, at different points in the past, used to belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, or the Church of the East; these churches underwent various schisms through history.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Catholic_Church

    The Liturgy of the Hours Explained (w/ Fr. Mike Schmitz)

    Pope Leo on Religious Freedom

    https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/october/documents/20251010-acs.html?s=03

    God does miracles all the time. About 40 miracles are approved by the Vatican every day. The Devil Doesn’t Want You To Know About These Miracles – Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi Explains.

    MONASTERIOS DE CLAUSURA

    Cerca de un 30% de los monasterios de clausura del mundo está en España. La generosidad de los fieles ha salvado, literalmente, a muchos conventos en este frío invierno.

    Generosidad que salva. DeClausura recauda 100.000 euros en dos semanas para ayudar a 80 monasterios con la calefacción

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54284

    Sigue la disminución del número de sacerdotes, religiosos y el desplome de religiosas

    https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/delapsis.php/2510180211-sigue-la-disminucion-del-nume

    The biblical case for the papacy does not rest solely on Matthew 16:18-19 – No Rocks Required?

    https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/no-rocks-required

    “153 fish” –  John 21:11

    https://www.ncregister.com/blog/153-fishes-and-related-matters

    St. Jerome, for instance, tells us that this was the number of species of fish that ancient science had identified.  John’s point in recording this number, then, is that Peter and the apostles, being “fishers of men” are being given a symbolic charge by the Risen Christ to bring in all the nations of the earth in the “great net” of the Kingdom of God.

  • Controversies in the Church

    UNEARTHED: 1995 Photo Shows Leo XIV Participating in Pachamama Ritual

    PAPE LÉON XIV et la PHOTO CHOC : agenouillé devant la PACHAMAMA ?


    Bombshell Report Shows Leo XIV Worshiped Pachamama In South America

    What’s going on in the Catholic Church? – Chad Ripperger

    The Crisis in the Church: How the Collapse of Sacrifice Broke Everything ~ Fr. Ripperger

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: CHURCH INFILTRATION – SEE MINUTE 2h23mn

    En 2021, un año antes de su muerte, alerta sobre el Camino sinodal alemán – Benedicto XVI advirtió a Marx: «este camino hará daño y acabará mal si no se detiene»

    Quedan 33 días para la votación en Augsburgo. El reloj corre y en el Vaticano todos lo saben. Este viernes, el Papa León XIV recibió en audiencia al hombre que mejor conoce lo que está a punto de ocurrir en Alemania: el nuncio apostólico Nikola Eterović, testigo directo de años de desobediencia episcopal y advertencias romanas ignoradas.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54273

    El cardenal Woelki no acudirá a la última asamblea sinodal alemana

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54328

    En una entrevista concedida en Vilna el 20 de enero. Gänswein asegura que con León XIV «la normalidad está regresando poco a poco»

    El arzobispo Georg Gänswein, nuncio para los estados bálticos y antiguo secretario de Benedicto XVI, afirma que el cambio de Pontífice del año pasado ha traído una «dimensión positiva completamente nueva» a Roma.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54306

    Iglesias descristianizadas por la secularización del traje de sacerdotes y religiosos

    https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/reforma.php/2502110957-733-iglesias-descristianizada-2

    Italia: «Gays en el seminario, un texto vaporoso que alimenta el coro mediático»

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=51368

    Avvenire sale al paso de la manipulación de algunos medios sobre la admisión de homosexuales como seminaristas

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=51380

    Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality to Discuss Married Latin-Rite Priests

    https://www.soulsandliberty.com/post/pope-francis-synod-on-synodality-to-discuss-married-latin-rite-priests

    Vatican II: An Easy Way to Understand It – Explaining the Faith


    Was Vatican II a Failure?
    https://youtu.be/VUPABjbgWtg?si=tk93XP9ab7zsTucn

    INNER DEBATE: The Problem with Women Lectors

    Comisión Petrocchi: no al diaconado femenino como Sacramento del Orden

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53969

    Comisión vaticana rechaza el diaconado femenino aunque sin un “juicio definitivo” | ACI Prensa

    https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/119899/comision-vaticana-rechaza-el-diaconado-femenino-aunque-sin-un-juicio-definitivo

    VATICAN CLEANS UP: Vatican expels founder of Peru’s Sodalitium religious movement – Vatican News

    https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-08/peru-the-vatican-expels-sodalicio-founder-luis-figari.html

    Vatican publishes 1974 decision denying alleged Amsterdam apparitions | National Catholic Reporter

    https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-publishes-1974-decision-denying-alleged-amsterdam-apparitions

    Q&A: Fr. Ripperger and Cardinal Gerhard Müller tackle your most pressing questions:

    End times and chastisements, the Latin Mass debate, synodality, demons and sacred language, video game addiction, social media, Medjugorje, reverent Communion, witchcraft in the workplace, and vocations.

    Texto completo de su intervención – El cardenal Zen truena en el consistorio – Palabras durísimas del cardenal y arzobispo emérito de Hong Kong sobre la sinodalidad, en el consistorio de cardenales celebrado en Roma la semana pasada.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54222

    LA IGLESIA NO ES UNA DEMOCRACIA – El cardenal Müller explica por qué los cardenales descartaron hablar de la Misa tradicional en el encuentro con León XIV

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54214

    FULL STORY | Here’s why Bishop Strickland was CANCELED

    Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cekl9jd883yo

    MUST SEE: Church Scandal: Just a Catholic Problem? Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar

    Q&A about the Sexual Abuse Crisis – Word on Fire

    https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/barron/qa-about-the-sexual-abuse-crisis/

    McCarrick abuse crisis

    Catholic Church sex abuse scandal | Robert Barron and Lex Fridman

    NO HERESY IN DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

    THE TEACHING DOES NOT CHANGE AND REMAINED INCORRUPTIBLE

    GAY Anime Vatican Jubilee Mascot?

    MUST READ: Iglesias descristianizadas por el mal uso del Novus Ordo litúrgico

    https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/reforma.php/2502280527-734-iglesias-descristianizada

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: Speaking in Tongues, Exorcist Fr Chad Ripperger, is it real?

    Is the LGBT “rainbow” flag the same as God’s rainbow?

    https://www.rforh.com/blog/2016/02/22/is-the-lgbt-rainbow-flag-the-same-as-god-s-rainbow

    THE 3 TYPES OF CHRISTIANS WITHIN THE CHURCH


    El presidente del episcopado alemán dice que consultaron
    Roma niega haber aprobado la guía alemana sobre bendiciones a parejas homosexuales

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53567

    Insatisfacción crónica y poder: una lectura psicológica del malestar sacerdotal

    Una visión desde la psicología.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=opinion&cod=54212

    Obispo alemán renunció para casarse por lo civil

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53667

    La Iglesia católica en Alemania afronta una crisis estructural sin precedentes por la fuga de fieles y la escasez de recursos

    Uno de los adalides del Camino sinodal, Mons. Overbeck, se lamenta de las circunstancias sin reconocer las causas

    Baja práctica religiosa (5%) y desplome de número de fieles. En Alemania tienes que pagar el impuesto para que los obispos te consideren católico, si no hay fieles, no hay dinero. Años de insistir en el camino que recorrieron antes los protestantes (celibato opcional, diaconisas, LGTB, Camino sinodal,…) han terminado consiguiendo lo previsible, terminar como las menguantes confesiones protestantes alemanas.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54283

    El obispo de Aquisgrán ha dado el visto bueno Diócesis alemana ignora las palabras del Papa sobre la guía para bendecir uniones homosexuales

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53605

    DOCUMENTOS DEL PAPA FRANCISCO

    Iglesia redentoristas https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53733
    Sólo hay que hacer el catálogo de inserciones irregulares de Francisco, que León XIV no repara, para darse cuenta de que ya llevaremos 13 años de resintonización sin esperanza de solución:
    Amoris laetitia, Fiducia supliccans, Traditionis custodes, Abu Dabi, Laudato si n. 207 sobre la Carta de la Tierra (cultura de la muerte y la ideología de género, San Juan Pablo II), Querida Amazonia nn. 81-87 sobre chamanización y pachamamización de la liturgia con espiritualidad indígenas, el lavatorio de pies universal de Semana Santa, Lutero testigo del Evangelio, la bendición de un trozo de hielo ártico en un evento sobre la Creación, Fratelli tutti y su antropocentrismo, el Sínodo de la sinodalidad para que el camino sinodal alemán entre el protestante liberal dentro de la Iglesia Universal, la firma y prórroga de un tratado increíblemente secreto y con China, vulnerado sistemáticamente, con un comunismo ateo contrario a la democracia y los derechos humanos, con demandas de genocidio y que pretende esclavizar a la Iglesia Católica, no se ve la defensa de la Iglesia atacada por el liberalismo e islamismo radicales (Benedicto XVI: ‘La imagen cristiana del hombre’, Discurso de Ratisbona, ?La Iglesia y el escándalo de los abusos sexuales?), no se defiende Veritatis splendor…

    CONTROVERSIES: Entrevista del P. Davide Pagliarani, Superior General de la FSSPX – FSSPX: «Fiducia Supplicans» y «Amoris Laetitia» como síntoma, el pragmatismo con China como solución

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54388

    Las consagraciones episcopales de la FSSPX y el movimiento tradicionalista en general

    El Presidente de la Federación Internacional Una Voce (FIUV) analiza las implicaciones para el movimiento tradicionalista del anuncio de consagración de nuevos obispos por parte de la Fraternidad de San Pío X en un artículo en The Catholic Herald.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=opinion&cod=54394

    Doctrina de la Fe sobre la Virgen: «Corredentora», siempre inoportuno; «Mediadora de todas las gracias», con reservas

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53764

    Vaticano pide evitar el uso del título de Corredentora para la Virgen María | ACI Prensa

    https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/118795/vaticano-pide-evitar-el-uso-del-titulo-de-corredentora-para-la-virgen-maria

    Mater Populi fidelis – Nota doctrinal sobre algunos títulos marianos referidos a la cooperación de María en la obra de la salvación (4 de novembre de 2025)

    https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20251104_mater-populi-fidelis_sp.html

    «A los obispos del mundo les disgusta Traditionis Custodes»

    La Misa antigua «se ha normalizado» en las diócesis

    Según el Presidente de la Federación Internacional Una Voce, la situación de la liturgia antigua en la Iglesia no deja de mejorar, gracias al cambio generacional. Traditionis Custodes fue un intento desesperado e infructuoso. Incluso las polémicas sobre el Vaticano II pertenecen a «un pasado cada vez más lejano».

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54488

    El Cardenal Fernández ofrece diálogo teológico a la FSSPX condicionado a suspender consagraciones episcopales

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54435

    La Fraternidad de San Pío X rechaza las condiciones del Vaticano y confirma que seguirá adelante con las consagraciones episcopales – Ofrece 5 razones para rechazar la oferta

    El Superior General, el padre Davide Pagliarani, responde por escrito al cardenal Fernández y descarta aplazar la fecha, al tiempo que denuncia que Roma bloqueó un diálogo doctrinal similar en 2019.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54487

    La Fraternidad San Pío X y su unidad con la Iglesia

    «Si la Fraternidad San Pío X quiere tener un efecto positivo en la historia de la Iglesia, no puede luchar desde la distancia, desde fuera, por la verdadera fe contra la Iglesia unida al Papa…»

    Cardenal Gerhard Müller – 20/02/26 9:25 PM

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=opinion&cod=54493