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  • The Holy Spirit

    The Biggest Heresy You Rarely Hear About

    https://www.catholic.com/audio/cot/the-biggest-heresy-you-rarely-hear-about

    Where Does the Bible Teach That the Holy Spirit is God?

    https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/where-does-the-bible-teach-that-the-holy-spirit-is-god

    The heresy of Pneumatomachi

    https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/pneumatomachi

    The 21 Ecumenical Councils

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

    Pneumatomachianism Refuted: Defending the Divinity of the Holy Ghost

    Pneumatomachianism Refuted: Defending the Divinity of the Holy Ghost

    Pneumatomachi

    https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/pneumatomachi

    Holy Ghost – The Third Person of the Holy Trinity

    https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/holy-ghost

    The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed Explained

    Understanding the Holy Spirit – BISHOP BARRON

    The Holy Spirit is a person, it’s not an impersonal force. It is The Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity.

    In theology a person is an individual substance of a rational nature and so the Holy Spirit is a person, it is of the same essence of God The Father and of God The Son, it is the same Divine Essence, the same Divinity therefore it is God but it has its own intellect and will.

    A careful study of the Holy Scriptures perfectly shows that the Holy Spirit speaks, the Holy Spirit says, the Holy Spirit prevented Paul from going to Asia (Acts 16: 6), the Holy Spirit moves into action, the Holy Spirit is saddened…. the Holy Spirit is quoted in dozens of texts in specific action cleary proving that He is a rational person with an intellect.

    A person is a substance with a will and an intellect with a rational nature is the same difference between a human person and an animal: we would never say that an animal is a person because, although it has some instinct and even feelings,it doesn’t has an intellect nor a rationality and neither an intelligent will. An animal doesn’t reflect upon itself. Most animals don’t even know that they are their own entity: a cat may mistake his own image for another cat in the mirror they don’t have this intellectual concept of their individuality, they don’t have a will, they don’t plan the future as we do, they don’t worry, they don’t study, they don’t rationalize as we do that’s why we do not consider animals as “persons”.

    Yes they do have a body therefore having a body doesn’t define a person, having an intellect and a will does.

    Likewise, angels are persons. Every single angel is an individual person.

    Also God is one God ,only one Divine Essence, only one Divine Nature, it’s not three Gods, there is ONLY ONE GOD but in three persons:

    God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit do have their own individualities within the Holy Trinity and this Divine Holy Family forms the Family we are called to belong to, to be Sons and Daughters of the Holy Trinity. They become hosts of our souls and we are to receive the Holy Trinity inside the temple of our body, blood soul and humanity. Inside each of our own human inner personal universe, we are to receive the Holy Trinity as a guest into our souls.

    SEE SECTION ON “THE HOLY TRINITY” AND ARTICLES “DEFINITION OF A PERSON” – https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=35539&randomterm=false#:~:text=AND https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm

    We get to pray for the Holy Spirit to come, to enlighten us, to guide us, to impart to us His 7 gifts as recorded in Isaiah 11:1 -3. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are, according to the Catholic Tradition: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of God. Starting to develop a personal relationship with God The Holy Spirit adds a whole other dimension in our relationship with God!!!

    SEE ARTICLES “The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit – What are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, and why do they matter?” https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-seven-gifts-of-the-holy-spirit AND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_gifts_of_the_Holy_Spirit#:~:text=

    DEFINITION OF A “PERSON”

    In Catholic theology, a person is fundamentally an individual substance of a rational nature, defined by intelligence, will, distinctiveness, and self-subsistence (incommunicability), meaning they are complete in themselves but called to communion with others. This definition applies analogously to God (the Trinity), angels, and humans, but for humans, personhood also involves being a body-soul composite, uniquely reflecting God’s image through intellect and love in relationship, and possessing inherent dignity from conception. 

    Core Characteristics

    • Individual Substance: A complete, self-existing entity, not a part of something else.
    • Rational Nature: Possesses intellect and will, enabling knowledge and love, distinguishing persons from animals or inanimate objects.
    • Incommunicability: Each person is unique and distinct, unable to be completely merged into another.
    • Openness to Others: While distinct, persons are made for communion, not isolation, finding fulfillment in relationships, especially with God. 

    Types of Persons in Theology

    • God: The Holy Trinity is three distinct Persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) in one divine nature.
    • Angels: Purely spiritual, intellectual beings, existing as individual persons.
    • Humans: A unique composite of a rational soul and a body, made in God’s image, with inherent dignity from the first moment of existence. 

    Key Distinctions for Humans

    • Body-Soul Union: Humans are not just spirits but are embodied, allowing for unique forms of thought, love, and procreation.
    • Capacity for Change: Unlike angels, human persons have the capacity for growth, development, and change through their embodied lives.
    • Dignity: Every living human individual, regardless of developmental stage or capability, is a person with intrinsic worth and rights, reflecting God’s image. 

    Person

    According to the generally accepted definition of Boethius, a person is an individual substance of a rational or intellectual nature.  The notion of person is subject to analogical differences depending on whether the term is referring to human, angelic, or divine persons.

    PERSON

    “An individual substance of a rational nature” (Boethius). Therefore every individual intellectual substance which is complete in itself, uncommunicated and existing for itself, is a person. Essential to person in theological terms are intelligence and substantiality, wholeness in oneself and especially individuality. From individuality flow such features of personhood as distinctiveness, incommunicability, and uniqueness. Among human persons there are also the elements of responsibility and possession of distinctive rights. (Etym. Latin persona, actor’s mask; character; supposition of a rational nature.)

    https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=35539&randomterm=false#:~:text=

    Person

    https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm

    The Latin word persona was originally used to denote the mask worn by an actor. From this it was applied to the role he assumed, and, finally, to any character on the stage of life, to any individual. This article discusses (1) the definition of “person”, especially with reference to the doctrine of the Incarnation; and (2) the use of the word persona and its Greek equivalents in connection with the Trinitarian disputes. For the psychological treatment see PERSONALITY.

    Definition

    The classic definition is that given by Boethius in “De persona et duabus naturis”, c. ii: Naturæ rationalis individua substantia (an individual substance of a rational nature).

    Substantia — “Substance” is used to exclude accidents: “We see that accidents cannot constitute person” (Boethius, op. cit.). Substantia is used in two senses: of the concrete substance as existing in the individual, called substantia prima, corresponding to Aristotle’s ousia prote; and of abstractions, substance as existing in genus and species, called substantia secunda, Aristotle’s ousia deutera. It is disputed which of the two the word taken by itself here signifies. It seems probable that of itself it prescinds from substantia prima and substantia secunda, and is restricted to the former signification only by the word individua.

    Individua — Individua, i.e., indivisum in se, is that which, unlike the higher branches in the tree of Porphyry, genus and species, cannot be further subdivided. Boethius in giving his definition does not seem to attach any further signification to the word. It is merely synonymous with singularis.

    Rationalis naturae — Person is predicated only of intellectual beings. The generic word which includes all individual existing substances is suppositum. Thus person is a subdivision of suppositum which is applied equally to rational and irrational, living and non-living individuals. A person is therefore sometimes defined as suppositum naturae rationalis.

    The definition of Boethius as it stands can hardly be considered a satisfactory one. The words taken literally can be applied to the rational soul of man, and also the human nature of Christ. That St. Thomas accepts it is presumably due to the fact that he found it in possession, and recognized as the traditional definition. He explains it in terms that practically constitute a new definition. Individua substantia signifies, he says, substantia, completa, per se subsistens, separata ab aliia, i.e., a substance, complete, subsisting per se, existing apart from others (III, Q. xvi, a. 12, ad 2um).

    If to this be added rationalis naturae, we have a definition comprising the five notes that go to make up a person: (a) substantia– this excludes accident; (b) completa– it must form a complete nature; that which is a part, either actually or “aptitudinally” does not satisfy the definition; (c) per se subsistens–the person exists in himself and for himself; he is sui juris, the ultimate possessor of his nature and all its acts, the ultimate subject of predication of all his attributes; that which exists in another is not a person; (d) separata ab aliis–this excludes the universal, substantia secunda, which has no existence apart from the individual; (e) rationalis naturae–excludes all non-intellectual supposita.

    To a person therefore belongs a threefold incommunicability, expressed in notes (b), (c), and (d). The human soul belongs to the nature as a part of it, and is therefore not a person, even when existing separately. The human nature of Christ does not exist per se seorsum, but in alio, in the Divine Personality of the Word. It is therefore communicated by assumption and so is not a person. Lastly the Divine Essence, though subsisting per se, is so communicated to the Three Persons that it does not exist apart from them; it is therefore not a person.

    Theologians agree that in the Hypostatic Union the immediate reason why the Sacred Humanity, though complete and individual, is not a person is that it is not a subsistence, not per se seorsum subsistens. They have, however, disputed for centuries as to what may be the ultimate determination of the nature which if present would make it a subsistence and so a person, what in other words is the ultimate foundation of personality. According to Scotus, as he is usually understood, the ultimate foundation is a mere negation. That individual intellectual nature is a person which is neither of its nature destined to be communicated–as is the human soul–nor is actually communicated–as is the Sacred Humanity. If the Hypostatic Union ceased, the latter would ipso facto, without any further determination, become a person. To this it is objected that the person possesses the nature and all its attributes. It is difficult to believe that this possessor, as distinct from the objects possessed, is constituted only by a negative. Consequently, the traditional Thomists, following Cajetan, hold that there is a positive determination which they call the “mode” of subsistence. It is the function of this mode to make the nature incommunicable, terminated in itself, and capable of receiving its own esse, or existence. Without this mode the human nature of Christ exists only by the uncreated esse of the Word.

    CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

    I. “IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”

    https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_one/article_1/paragraph_2_the_father.html#:~:text=

    232 Christians are baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”53 Before receiving the sacrament, they respond to a three-part question when asked to confess the Father, the Son and the Spirit: “I do.” “The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity.”54

    233 Christians are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: not in their names,55 for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity.

    234 The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith”.56 The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men “and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin”.57

    235 This paragraph expounds briefly (I) how the mystery of the Blessed Trinity was revealed, (II) how the Church has articulated the doctrine of the faith regarding this mystery, and (III) how, by the divine missions of the Son and the Holy Spirit, God the Father fulfils the “plan of his loving goodness” of creation, redemption and sanctification.

    236 The Fathers of the Church distinguish between theology (theologia) and economy (oikonomia). “Theology” refers to the mystery of God’s inmost life within the Blessed Trinity and “economy” to all the works by which God reveals himself and communicates his life. Through the oikonomia the theologia is revealed to us; but conversely, the theologia illuminates the whole oikonomia. God’s works reveal who he is in himself; the mystery of his inmost being enlightens our understanding of all his works. So it is, analogously, among human persons. A person discloses himself in his actions, and the better we know a person, the better we understand his actions.

    237 The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the “mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God”.58 To be sure, God has left traces of his Trinitarian being in his work of creation and in his Revelation throughout the Old Testament. But his inmost Being as Holy Trinity is a mystery that is inaccessible to reason alone or even to Israel’s faith before the Incarnation of God’s Son and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

    II. THE REVELATION OF GOD AS TRINITY

    The Father revealed by the Son

    238 Many religions invoke God as “Father”. the deity is often considered the “father of gods and of men”. In Israel, God is called “Father” inasmuch as he is Creator of the world.59 Even more, God is Father because of the covenant and the gift of the law to Israel, “his first-born son”.60 God is also called the Father of the king of Israel. Most especially he is “the Father of the poor”, of the orphaned and the widowed, who are under his loving protection.61

    239 By calling God “Father”, the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God’s parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood,62 which emphasizes God’s immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. the language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard:63 no one is father as God is Father.

    240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard-of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is eternally Father by his relationship to his only Son who, reciprocally, is Son only in relation to his Father: “No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”64

    241 For this reason the apostles confess Jesus to be the Word: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”; as “the image of the invisible God”; as the “radiance of the glory of God and the very stamp of his nature”.65

    242 Following this apostolic tradition, the Church confessed at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea (325) that the Son is &uot;consubstantial” with the Father, that is, one only God with him.66 The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in 381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed “the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father”.67

    The Father and the son revealed by the spirit

    243 Before his Passover, Jesus announced the sending of “another Paraclete” (Advocate), the Holy Spirit. At work since creation, having previously “spoken through the prophets”, the Spirit will now be with and in the disciples, to teach them and guide them “into all the truth”.68 The Holy Spirit is thus revealed as another divine person with Jesus and the Father.

    244 The eternal origin of the Holy Spirit is revealed in his mission in time. the Spirit is sent to the apostles and to the Church both by the Father in the name of the Son, and by the Son in person, once he had returned to the Father.69 The sending of the person of the Spirit after Jesus’ glorification70 reveals in its fullness the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

    245 The apostolic faith concerning the Spirit was confessed by the second ecumenical council at Constantinople (381): “We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father.”71 By this confession, the Church recognizes the Father as “the source and origin of the whole divinity”.72 But the eternal origin of the Spirit is not unconnected with the Son’s origin: “The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and also of the same nature. . . Yet he is not called the Spirit of the Father alone,. . . but the Spirit of both the Father and the Son.”73 The Creed of the Church from the Council of Constantinople confesses: “With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified.”74

    246 The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)”. the Council of Florence in 1438 explains: “The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has his nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration… And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom he is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son.”75

    247 The affirmation of the filioque does not appear in the Creed confessed in 381 at Constantinople. But Pope St. Leo I, following an ancient Latin and Alexandrian tradition, had already confessed it dogmatically in 447,76 even before Rome, in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon, came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. the use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin liturgy (between the eighth and eleventh centuries). the introduction of the filioque into the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed by the Latin liturgy constitutes moreover, even today, a point of disagreement with the Orthodox Churches.

    248 At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses the Father’s character as first origin of the Spirit. By confessing the Spirit as he “who proceeds from the Father”, it affirms that he comes from the Father through the Son.77 The Western tradition expresses first the consubstantial communion between Father and Son, by saying that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque). It says this, “legitimately and with good reason”,78 for the eternal order of the divine persons in their consubstantial communion implies that the Father, as “the principle without principle”,79 is the first origin of the Spirit, but also that as Father of the only Son, he is, with the Son, the single principle from which the Holy Spirit proceeds.80 This legitimate complementarity, provided it does not become rigid, does not affect the identity of faith in the reality of the same mystery confessed.

    III. THE HOLY TRINITY IN THE TEACHING OF THE FAITH

    The formation of the Trinitarian dogma

    249 From the beginning, the revealed truth of the Holy Trinity has been at the very root of the Church’s living faith, principally by means of Baptism. It finds its expression in the rule of baptismal faith, formulated in the preaching, catechesis and prayer of the Church. Such formulations are already found in the apostolic writings, such as this salutation taken up in the Eucharistic liturgy: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”81

    250 During the first centuries the Church sought to clarify her Trinitarian faith, both to deepen her own understanding of the faith and to defend it against the errors that were deforming it. This clarification was the work of the early councils, aided by the theological work of the Church Fathers and sustained by the Christian people’s sense of the faith.

    251 In order to articulate the dogma of the Trinity, the Church had to develop her own terminology with the help of certain notions of philosophical origin: “substance”, “person” or “hypostasis”, “relation” and so on. In doing this, she did not submit the faith to human wisdom, but gave a new and unprecedented meaning to these terms, which from then on would be used to signify an ineffable mystery, “infinitely beyond all that we can humanly understand”.82

    252 The Church uses (I) the term “substance” (rendered also at times by “essence” or “nature”) to designate the divine being in its unity, (II) the term “person” or “hypostasis” to designate the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the real distinction among them, and (III) the term “relation” to designate the fact that their distinction lies in the relationship of each to the others.

    The dogma of the Holy Trinity

    253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the “consubstantial Trinity”.83 The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: “The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God.”84 In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), “Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature.”85

    254 The divine persons are really distinct from one another. “God is one but not solitary.”86 “Father”, “Son”, “Holy Spirit” are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: “He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son.”87 They are distinct from one another in their relations of origin: “It is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds.”88 The divine Unity is Triune.

    255 The divine persons are relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another: “In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, we believe in one nature or substance.”89 Indeed “everything (in them) is one where there is no opposition of relationship.”90 “Because of that unity the Father is wholly in the Son and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Son is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Son.”91

    256 St. Gregory of Nazianzus, also called “the Theologian”, entrusts this summary of Trinitarian faith to the catechumens of Constantinople: Above all guard for me this great deposit of faith for which I live and fight, which I want to take with me as a companion, and which makes me bear all evils and despise all pleasures: I mean the profession of faith in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. I entrust it to you today. By it I am soon going to plunge you into water and raise you up from it. I give it to you as the companion and patron of your whole life. I give you but one divinity and power, existing one in three, and containing the three in a distinct way. Divinity without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises up or inferior degree that casts down. . . the infinite co-naturality of three infinites. Each person considered in himself is entirely God. . . the three considered together. . . I have not even begun to think of unity when the Trinity bathes me in its splendour. I have not even begun to think of the Trinity when unity grasps me. .92

    IV. THE DIVINE WORKS AND THE TRINITARIAN MISSIONS

    257 “O blessed light, O Trinity and first Unity!”93 God is eternal blessedness, undying life, unfading light. God is love: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God freely wills to communicate the glory of his blessed life. Such is the “plan of his loving kindness”, conceived by the Father before the foundation of the world, in his beloved Son: “He destined us in love to be his sons” and “to be conformed to the image of his Son”, through “the spirit of sonship”.94 This plan is a “grace [which] was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began”, stemming immediately from Trinitarian love.95 It unfolds in the work of creation, the whole history of salvation after the fall, and the missions of the Son and the Spirit, which are continued in the mission of the Church.96

    258 The whole divine economy is the common work of the three divine persons. For as the Trinity has only one and the same natures so too does it have only one and the same operation: “The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are not three principles of creation but one principle.”97 However, each divine person performs the common work according to his unique personal property. Thus the Church confesses, following the New Testament, “one God and Father from whom all things are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy Spirit in whom all things are”.98 It is above all the divine missions of the Son’s Incarnation and the gift of the Holy Spirit that show forth the properties of the divine persons.

    259 Being a work at once common and personal, the whole divine economy makes known both what is proper to the divine persons, and their one divine nature. Hence the whole Christian life is a communion with each of the divine persons, without in any way separating them. Everyone who glorifies the Father does so through the Son in the Holy Spirit; everyone who follows Christ does so because the Father draws him and the Spirit moves him.99

    260 The ultimate end of the whole divine economy is the entry of God’s creatures into the perfect unity of the Blessed Trinity.100 But even now we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity: “If a man loves me”, says the Lord, “he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him”:101

    O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me forget myself entirely so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you, O my unchanging God, but may each minute bring me more deeply into your mystery! Grant my soul peace. Make it your heaven, your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest. May I never abandon you there, but may I be there, whole and entire, completely vigilant in my faith, entirely adoring, and wholly given over to your creative action.102

    IN BRIEF

    261 The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life. God alone can make it known to us by revealing himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

    262 The Incarnation of God’s Son reveals that God is the eternal Father and that the Son is consubstantial with the Father, which means that, in the Father and with the Father the Son is one and the same God.

    263 The mission of the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father in the name of the Son (⇒ Jn 14:26) and by the Son “from the Father” (⇒ Jn 15:26), reveals that, with them, the Spirit is one and the same God. “With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified” (Nicene Creed).

    264 “The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father as the first principle and, by the eternal gift of this to the Son, from the communion of both the Father and the Son” (St. Augustine, De Trin. 15, 26, 47: PL 42, 1095).

    265 By the grace of Baptism “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”, we are called to share in the life of the Blessed Trinity, here on earth in the obscurity of faith, and after death in eternal light (cf. Paul VI, CPG # 9).

    266 “Now this is the Catholic faith: We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity, without either confusing the persons or dividing the substance; for the person of the Father is one, the Son’s is another, the Holy Spirit’s another; but the Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their majesty coeternal” (Athanasian Creed: DS 75; ND 16).

    267 Inseparable in what they are, the divine persons are also inseparable in what they do. But within the single divine operation each shows forth what is proper to him in the Trinity, especially in the divine missions of the Son’s Incarnation and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  • “The Father is greater than I.”

    Jesus Is Equal with the Father

    Answering claims that Jesus denied equality with his Father

    https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/three-persons-one-divine-nature

    “The Nicene Creed states that Jesus is “consubstantial with the Father.” This means that Jesus is one in substance with the Father, having full possession of the one divine nature and thus equal to the Father.

    But some quasi-Christian sects, such as Jehovah Witnesses, challenge this belief with a variety of bible passages.

    One such passage is John 14:28. Jesus says, “The Father is greater than I.” How can Jesus be equal to the Father, so it’s argued, when he explicitly says the Father is greater?

    One answer is that Jesus attributes this lesser status to himself insofar as he is man, not God. St. Thomas Aquinas explains,

    Thus when he says, the Father is greater than I, he does not mean I, as Son of God, but as Son of man, for in this way he is not only inferior to the Father and the Holy Spirit, but even to the angels: “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels” (Heb. 2:9). Again, in some things he was subject to human beings, as his parents (Luke 2:51). Consequently, he is inferior to the Father because of his human nature, but equal because of his divine nature (Commentary on the Gospel of John 14.8).”

    FOR MORE, READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/three-persons-one-divine-nature

  • The Holy Spirit is a person, it’s not an impersonal force. It is The Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity.

    In theology a person is an individual substance of a rational nature and so the Holy Spirit is a person, it is of the same essence of God The Father and of God The Son, it is the same Divine Essence, the same Divinity therefore it is God but it has its own intellect and will.

    A careful study of the Holy Scriptures perfectly shows that the Holy Spirit speaks, the Holy Spirit says, the Holy Spirit prevented Paul from going to Asia (Acts 16: 6), the Holy Spirit moves into action, the Holy Spirit is saddened…. the Holy Spirit is quoted in dozens of texts in specific action cleary proving that He is a rational person with an intellect.

    A person is a substance with a will and an intellect with a rational nature is the same difference between a human person and an animal: we would never say that an animal is a person because, although it has some instinct and even feelings,it doesn’t has an intellect nor a rationality and neither an intelligent will. An animal doesn’t reflect upon itself. Most animals don’t even know that they are their own entity: a cat may mistake his own image for another cat in the mirror they don’t have this intellectual concept of their individuality, they don’t have a will, they don’t plan the future as we do, they don’t worry, they don’t study, they don’t rationalize as we do that’s why we do not consider animals as “persons”.

    Yes they do have a body therefore having a body doesn’t define a person, having an intellect and a will does.

    Likewise, angels are persons. Every single angel is an individual person.

    Also God is one God ,only one Divine Essence, only one Divine Nature, it’s not three Gods, there is ONLY ONE GOD but in three persons:

    God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit do have their own individualities within the Holy Trinity and this Divine Holy Family forms the Family we are called to belong to, to be Sons and Daughters of the Holy Trinity. They become hosts of our souls and we are to receive the Holy Trinity inside the temple of our body, blood soul and humanity. Inside each of our own human inner personal universe, we are to receive the Holy Trinity as a guest into our souls.

    SEE SECTION ON “THE HOLY TRINITY” AND ARTICLES “DEFINITION OF A PERSON” – https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=35539&randomterm=false#:~:text=AND https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm

    We get to pray for the Holy Spirit to come, to enlighten us, to guide us, to impart to us His 7 gifts as recorded in Isaiah 11:1 -3. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are, according to the Catholic Tradition: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of God. Starting to develop a personal relationship with God The Holy Spirit adds a whole other dimension in our relationship with God!!!

    SEE ARTICLES “The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit – What are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, and why do they matter?” https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-seven-gifts-of-the-holy-spirit AND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_gifts_of_the_Holy_Spirit#:~:text=

  • God is Love so He is a Triune God, One God in Three Persons, and We have a whole Divine Family waiting for us in Heaven in which we can be grafted in and united to already, even right here on Earth



    Rediscovering the nature, the essence, the very definition of what and who God is, is absolutely amazing!!! Understanding that God is a Holy Trinity, Three Persons in one God, one and only God, one only Divinity, one Essence in Three Persons: God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit.

    To define God, we have to go back to 1st John chapter 4 verse 8:
    “God is love”.

    But how do you define love when God is infinte and we humans as so limited to grasp the deep things of God?

    Well, how would you define a table to an extraterrestrial being from another system? A text with a definition might do. A picture even better…
    How about cooking? We would need to show a person with some food doing some action of cutting, mixing, pouring, heating, stiring… We do agree that showing a picture of a person with a tomato in the hand would not do. We would also need to show the action of actually cutting or peeling or manipulating the tomato to convey the concept of cooking. It therefore must have 3 components: a person, some food, and the action of cooking…

    Well love is also an action, love is a action verb. Not just a feeling as movies would have us believe. It is a verb. To define love, we first need a lover, a person who loves, who generates love, who gives love, and that person is God the Father.

    We also need a recipient, a beloved, another person who receives love, that person is God The Son.

    And because love is an action, it is an action verb, we need something to be done between them two, an action, a verb, love is embracing, giving, forgiving, gifting, protecting, caring, kissing, taking care of, feeding, providing, sacrificing, listening to, watching over, looking after, waiting, stroking, hugging, cuddling, covering, sheltering… it’s a verb and this verb is so powerful that it takes on its own identity with a will and an intellect, and as a rational individuality this person is God the Holy Spirit who is Charity, who is Love in action Itself.
    SEE SECTION ON “THE HOLY TRINITY”.

    In the account of the Creation in Genesis 1:27 The Holy Trinity appears for the first time as God speaks in the first personal subject pronoun of the plural form, “Let us make man in Our Image”. Who was God speaking to in such a plural form? The Three Persons cooperated as One Concert of Love in This Divine Work of Creation.

    This Triad, this Trio, those Three Persons, from the very same and unique Divine nature and essence, live as One God.
    They are co-eternal, they always existed, not one came before another as God lives outside of time, He created time for humans but He Himself is not subjected to time.
    They are co-equal and consubstantial of the same substance, the same Essence, the same God, one Divinity in three persons.
    They share the same Divine Nature or Essence. They are distinct persons, yet possess one inseparable, undivided Divine Substance. 

    To exemplify what God is in our little human minds and brains that are too limited to understand what the Holy Trinity is, God has tried to explain to us who He is using concepts that the human mind can grasp yet The Most Holy Trinity still remains a Mystery as God is infinite and cannot be contained nor understood by a limited mind.

    The Holy Spirit has given us to understand that in the Holy Baptism we received the three theological virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity. Each one gifted by a Person of the Holy Trinity.
    Faith from The Father.
    Hope from the Son.
    Charity from the Holy Spirit.

    In the Confiteor prayer, when we confess our sins we pray the following: “I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do”, the thoughts being related to The Father,  the words because God The Son is the Verb, The Word, The Logos,  and in works relating to God The Holy Spirit in action in our lives that we offend by our wrongdoings or by our omissions of good actions or lack of action when we fail to act upon His promptings.

    Also, The Holy Trinity acts in our lives through the three sacraments of Christian Initiation.
    The first Sacrament of Baptism makes us Sons of God of God the Father by adoption within the Son.
    Through the Sacrament of the Holy Communion we receive God The Son in the Holy Eucharist.
    In the Sacrament of the Confirmation we receive a personal downpour of God’s Holy Spirit. 

    The Triune God is LOVE; God The Father is the Source of Love, God The Son is the Incarnate Love and God The Holy Spirit is the Love being Poured out upon us.

    God the Father is connected directly to our will and therefore we need to conform our will to the Will of God. As the Holy Mother of God The Son, the Will of God must become our own will, “Fiat Mihi Segundun Verbum Tuum” said the Virgin Mary to the Arcangel Gabriel relating to Her the Message of God. “Fiat Voluntas Tua”
    said Jesus Himself to His Father when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.
    Our will must come to be what God The Father wills, our intellect relates to God The Son and all memory to God The Holy Spirit. These are the 3 highest faculties of our Human Soul, perfectly compatible and formatted to be configured according to God in His Three Persons.

    The Holy Trinity therefore consists of a Divine Family to which we are all called and predestined to belong to. God called all of us, every single human being, to become part of his Divine Family. Not all humans will respond to the call as every human has free will but all of us were called to be Sons and Daughters of God to enter into the Divine Family and to be adopted as Sons and Daughters of God.

    ILLUSTRATION: The same as the human hand has five fingers, when we are created we are called to be part of a family with persons who take care of us whatever the circumstances that we may have on Earth.

    – As the middle finger God The Father is the Central Person,

    – God Our Father, as the middle finger of our hand has God the Son “at his right hand”, the index represents God The Son who points out to The Father: he came to the Earth to teach us about The Father. to show us The Father, to take us back to The Father and to bring us back to The Father. Jesus Christ is the index,

    – God the Holy Spirit could be symbolized by what we interestingly call in English “the ring finger”; it is the finger where we put the ring of a married person. It is appropriate as God the Holy Spirit is the very person who literally married or espoused the Holy Virgin Mary to put the seed of God into her womb so that God the Son would be born as God Incarnate, as a human being and we, humans, are also called to receive God the Holy Spirit into our souls as it cleanses our entire being at our Baptism. We also receive Him contained in the Holy Communion and we receive Him personally too in the Holy Sacrament of the Confirmation.

    – Therefore right next to the ring finger is the little finger: it is shorter than the others but it is still the closest to the Holy Trinity and that is Our Mother the Holy Virgin Mary, who is the closest being next to the Holy Trinity, above all angels, being Herself Queen of Angels. The little finger is actually right next to the ring finger because God the Holy Spirit is Her Spouse: The Holy Virgin Mary was literally impregnated by the Holy Spirit who put the seed of God into Mary’s womb to beget the Son of God Incarnate, God The Son in flesh, The Incarnate Word of God Jesus Christ and so Mother, The Holy Mother of God the Virgin Mary, is that fourth finger that is shorter than the other three, but the closest to them.

    – And finally we have a fifth finger which is the thumb. The thumb seems to be separate from the others, it doesn’t even reach the height of the others, it is very mobile and that finger represents our Guardian Angel: it is of the Heavenly Realm. It is not human, it’s part of the hand because it does work and acts in presence of God the Holy Trinity but it is very mobile because it actually accompanies us here below on Earth since our conception all the way throughout our lives until our personal judgment. He is with us every single day of our lives. The thumb shows us the way. murmurs into our ears what we should or should not do, constantly reminds us of the right path and guides us. And therefore we pray: “Angel of God, my guardian dear, To whom God’s love commits me here, Ever this day (or night) be at my side, To light, to guard, to rule, and guide. From sinful stain O keep me free, And at death’s hour, my helper be. Amen”. He will try to put us on the right path to bring us back to the Holy Trinity, to show us the way to go home: that is our Guardian Angel.

    Therefore every single one of us, every single human being, we actually live right in the palm of God’s hand, in the palm of a Divine Family watching over us, in the middle of a Heavenly cradle. This is when God closes His Hand and we are safe under the protection of God the Father, God The Son, God the Holy Spirit, with also The Holy Virgin Mary, Our Lady Terror of Demons, Virgen Potens, Most Powerful Virgin and with the constant care of our Guardian Angel, whoever we are, whatever our circumstances here on Earth, social background, with a human family or without a human family. We are never alone, we have a family!!!!

    We have God The Father God The Son God The Holy Spirit and Mother Mary and our Guardian Angel. every single one of us!!! We have a family and we are all taken care of!!!!

  • The Cross is the very mark we must bear on our foreheads to be saved

    The Cross is the very sign of our salvation. It is not some pagan symbol that the Catholics borrowed from Babylonians or Egyptians as JWs claim.


    The prophecy of Ezekiel chapter 9 reads:
    “1 Then he shouted loudly for me to hear, ‘The scourges of the city are approaching, each carrying his weapon of destruction!’
    2 Immediately six men advanced from the upper north gate, each holding a deadly weapon. Among them was a man dressed in linen, with a scribe’s ink-horn in his belt. They came in and halted in front of the bronze altar.
    3 The glory of the God of Israel rose from above the winged creature where it had been, towards the threshold of the Temple. He called to the man dressed in linen with a scribe’s ink-horn in his belt
    4 and Yahweh said to him, ‘Go all through the city, all through Jerusalem, and mark a cross on the foreheads of all who grieve and lament over all the loathsome practices in it.’
    5 I heard him say to the others, ‘Follow him through the city and strike. Not one glance of pity; show no mercy;
    6 old men, young men, girls, children, women, kill and exterminate them all. But do not touch anyone with a cross on his forehead. Begin at my sanctuary.’ So they began with the old men who were in the Temple.
    7 He said to them, ‘Defile the Temple; fill the courts with corpses; then go out!’ They went out and hacked their way through the city.
    8 While they were hacking them down, I was left alone; I fell on my face, crying out, ‘Ah, Lord Yahweh, are you going to annihilate all that is left of Israel by venting your fury on Jerusalem?’
    9 He said, ‘The guilt of the House of Israel and Judah is immense; the country is full of bloodshed, the city full of perversity, for they say, “Yahweh has abandoned the country, Yahweh cannot see.”
    10 Then, I too shall neither give one glance of pity nor show any mercy. I shall repay them for what they have done.’
    11 The man dressed in linen with the scribe’s ink-horn in his belt then came back and made his report, ‘I have carried out your orders.’ “
    https://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=33&bible_chapter=9

    The cross was the symbol of Jesus’ crucifixion. It redeemed us from sin and death and the cross becomes the mark of our salvation. Historically, there is ample evidence that Jesus died on a cross and not on a single pole as JWs claim. Do your research. Don’t get caught up in some empty debate resulting from a couple of dissident marginalized critics and remote historical exceptions. Also study the Shoud of Turin. Jesus died on a cross. SEE SECTIONS ON “THE CROSS” AND “THE SHROUD OF TURIN”.


    In Ezekiel chapter 9 verses 3 to 4, the prophet talks about a man clothed with linen who had the writer”s ink-horn in his belt and he had to go in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and put mark, a sign, upon the foreheads of the men who sighed and mourned for all the abominations that were done in the midst of the city and anyone who did not have the mark would be killed .
    In the original Hebrew text, the word for “mark” is TAW and in the Hebrew alphabet this letter is the letter T. In the ancient Hebrew language which is slightly different from modern Hebrew, it wasn’t just the letter t. The letter TAW that the scribe with the ink-horn had to write on the forehead of people for them to be saved was actually a cross: the horizontal bar was lower. It was a cross, as a sign announcing the crucifixion and the need to have faith in the sacrifice of our Redemptor Jesus Christ!! Furthermore, it also means “alliance or pact”!!!

    Also this letter TAW in Hebrew is written with two characters תָּ֜ו. The first one is a cross and the second character actually represents a man, a male human being or it can also represent a nail, as a nail used to set up a tent or a nail to nail a man on a cross during an execution!!

    That is the mark that is to be written on the forehead of every person that is to be saved!! This discovery for me was amazing!!!
    MUST SEE: THE CROSS – The Cross: Jewish or Pagan?

    Also the cross, the shape of the cross as in 2 perpendicular lines crossing each other is actually the foundation of the universe: theologians talk about the “cosmic cross”. If we analyze the world, the universe, most solid trusctures are actually based upon some form in the shape of a cross, every house, every door post, is actually built using two perpendicular beams or boards or planks or wooden pieces that will actually make the structure stronger… any piece of furniture, a bed, a chair, a cabinet, a cupboard, a fence, all of those are actually built with elements forming crosses because it’s actually the most solid shape or form in the universe.
    Light, stars, the sun, all shine with rays whose light is reflected in the form of a cross. Everything in the universe is based on a cross and therefore it is absolutely ludicrous to say, as Jehovah’s Witnesses claim, that the Catholics adopted the cross from some Egyptian or Babylonian pagan teaching or practice. The cross existed way before any civilization. It existed when God created the universe. Pagans didn’t invent the cross. The Catholic cross doesn’t come from pagan god nor civilization. God had purposed the cross to be the foundation of our salvation itself: it is the principle of the “cosmic cross”.
    SEE SECTION ON “THE CROSS”.

  • 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 FAITH – COMPLETE LIST OF DOCUMENTS

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

    1962 ROMAN MISSALE

    Click to access Missale%20Romanum%201962.pdf

    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

    Click to access Church_documents-1.pdf

    ¿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

    Printed Material

    MORAL VIRTUES

    Click to access Virtues.pdf

    THE CARDINAL VIRTUES

    Click to access thecardinalvirtues.pdf

    PRAYER PRESCRIPTION/PROTOCOL TABLE

    Click to access PRAYER-PRESCRIPTION.pdf

    MONTE CHRISTO: Virtue Study – Handouts & YouTube Videos

    Virtue Study

    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/

  • 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.

  • Church Traditions, Devotions and Feasts

    The Truth About Indulgences and the Catholic Church (Aquinas 101)

    Jubileo 2025

    Discover The Holy Doors of the Jubilee 2025: History, Mercy, and Hope

    Preparing for Lent

    A New Summary of Lent! A Guide for All Christians: Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar

    Lent Is Not Something We Make Up: Reclaiming the Great Fast

    ¿Tiene algún sentido no comer carne los viernes de Cuaresma?

    https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/espadadedoblefilo.php/itiene_algun_sentido_no_comer_carne_los_

    Catequesis: Miércoles de Ceniza

    Miércoles de Ceniza – Explicación de la Cuaresma

    Miércoles de Ceniza

    Miércoles de ceniza CATEKIDS

    AYUNO – Is 58, 1-9a.

    Este es el ayuno que yo quiero.

    Lectura del libro de Isaías.
    ESTO dice el Señor Dios:
    «Grita a pleno pulmón, no te contengas;
    alza la voz como una trompeta,
    denuncia a mi pueblo sus delitos,
    a la casa de Jacob sus pecados.
    Consultan mi oráculo a diario,
         desean conocer mi voluntad.
    Como si fuera un pueblo que practica la justicia
         y no descuida el mandato de su Dios,
         me piden sentencias justas,
         quieren acercarse a Dios.
    “¿Para qué ayunar, si no haces caso;
         mortificarnos, si no te enteras?”
    En realidad, el día de ayuno hacéis vuestros negocios
         y apremiáis a vuestros servidores;
         ayunáis para querellas y litigios,
         y herís con furibundos puñetazos.
    No ayunéis de este modo,
         si queréis que se oiga vuestra voz en el cielo.
    ¿Es ese el ayuno que deseo en el día de la penitencia:
         inclinar la cabeza como un junco,
         acostarse sobre saco y ceniza?
    ¿A eso llamáis ayuno,
         día agradable al Señor?
    Este es el ayuno que yo quiero:
         soltar las cadenas injustas,
         desatar las correas del yugo,
         liberar a los oprimidos,
         quebrar todos los yugos,
         partir tu pan con el hambriento,
         hospedar a los pobres sin techo,
         cubrir a quien ves desnudo
         y no desentenderte de los tuyos.
    Entonces surgirá tu luz como la aurora,
         enseguida se curarán tus heridas,
         ante ti marchará la justicia,
         detrás de ti la gloria del Señor.
    Entonces clamarás al Señor y te responderá;
         pedirás ayuda y te dirá: “Aquí estoy”».

    THE PASCHAL MYSTERY

    Hoy la Iglesia celebra la Solemnidad de la Epifanía del Señor

    https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/53814/solemnidad-de-la-epifania-del-senor

    EPIPHANY HOUSE BLESSING

    https://ourladygc.org/resources/epiphany-house-blessing

    La antigua bendición de la Epifanía: De Polonia al resto del mundo: cómo hacer la bendición del hogar en la fiesta de los Reyes Magos

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54168

    El Origen de las Inocentadas del 28 de Diciembre

    El Cardenal Dolan invita a colocar un crucifijo y consagrar el hogar al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54257

    HORAS DE LA PASIÓN

    http://www.passioiesus.org/fr/horasdelapasion/distribucion.htm
    https://queenofthedivinewill.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Four-Degrees-of-Living-in-the-Supreme-Will.pdf

    Happy feast day of Saint Francis 

    https://t.co/EFJMLt1yea
    (https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/1974377611435651464?t=j3lsgT1Jwuo17r6K6DgokA&s=03) 

    Brève histoire de la communion dans la main

    ¿Por qué tenemos 2 Credos en la Iglesia?

    LA FIESTA DE LA CANDELARIA Y LOS 3 DIAS DE LAS TINIEBLAS

    Cómo obtener la Indulgencia Plenaria en Nochevieja y Año Nuevo


    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=48366

    Poner nombres de santos a los niños

    https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/espadadedoblefilo.php/2206150207-poner-nombres-de-santos-a-los

    Diferencia entre sermon y homilia

    SANTA JUANA DE LA CRUZ una mística fuera de Serie

    MEANING AND ORIGIN OF BLESSING

    VALUE OF MASS FOR SOULS IN PURGATORY – PLENARY INDULGENCE

    2 TYPES OF PLENARY INDULGENCES

    https://www.youtube.com/live/URI5T0Fs8QA

    6 WAYS TO FAST DURING LENT

    ASK FOR THE INTERCESSION OF THE SAINT WHOSE NAME YOU BEAR

    HOW TO GET A PLENARY INDULGENCE EVRY DAY IN JUBILEE YEAR 2025

    COMO GANAR LAS INDULGENCIA PLENARIAS CADA DIA EN EL ANO JUBILEO

    Feast of the Holy Name of Mary (12 September) – Fr. Ripperger

    La temporada de la Octava de Navidad

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=51261

    Origen de la devoción del primer sábado del mes

    La devoción de los Primeros Sábados de mes

    Fue precisamente Nuestra Señora quien, a través del Mensaje de Fátima, anunció que vendría a pedir la Comunión reparadora de los primeros sábados de mes, por ser el sábado el día en que tradicionalmente se honraba a la Santísima Virgen desde siglos atrás. Hubo que esperar al día 10 de diciembre de 1925, para que se cumpliera aquel anuncio, teniendo ello lugar en el monasterio de Santa Dorotea, en Tuy (Pontevedra),  donde se encontraba Sor Lucía, quien junto a sus primos Francisco y Jacinta, había tenido la dicha de ser testigo de las visiones marianas en Fátima. Fue así como la Santísima Virgen le pidió la institución de la devoción de los cinco Primeros Sábados de mes como modo de reparar las ofensas contra su Inmaculado Corazón.

    ¿En que consiste esta devoción?

    Atendiendo el pedido de Nuestra Señora, sus fieles devotos podemos consolarla cumpliendo durante cinco primeros sábados de mes consecutivos los siguientes requisitos:

    • Confesión.
    • Asistir a la Santa Misa, recibiendo la Sagrada Comunión con intención de reparar las ofensas contra el Inmaculado Corazón de María.
    • Rezo del Santo Rosario.
    • Meditar al menos uno de los Misterios del Santo Rosario durante quince minutos.

    ¿Por qué cinco sábados?

    Ello obedece a los cinco tipos de blasfemias con las que se ofende a Nuestra Señora, y que Ella misma reveló a Sor Lucía:

    1. Blasfemias contra su Inmaculado Corazón.
    2. Blasfemias contra su  virginidad.
    3. Blasfemias contra  Ella en cuanto Madre de Dios y  Madre de toda la humanidad.
    4. Blasfemias de aquellos que públicamente infunden en los niños la indiferencia, el desprecio e incluso el odio a la Santísima Virgen.
    5. Blasfemias de quienes ultrajan sus sagradas imágenes.

    La devoción de los cinco primeros sábados de mes

    https://es.aleteia.org/2025/01/09/la-devocion-de-los-cinco-primeros-sabados-de-mes

    La Comunión Reparadora de los Primeros Sábados de mes

    Aparición de Nuestro Señor y de la Santísima Virgen a Sor Lucia en Pontevedra

    1. – ¿Cuándo? El 10 de diciembre de 1925.
    – ¿Cómo? Por una aparición de Nuestro Señor y de la Santísima Virgen que me mostró su Inmaculado Corazón cercado de espinas y pidiendo reparación.
    – ¿Dónde? En Pontevedra (Pasaje Isabel II). La primera aparición (tuvo lugar) en mi cuarto, la segunda cerca del portal del jardín donde estaba trabajando.

    2. ¿Las condiciones requeridas?
    Durante cinco meses, el primer sábado, recibir la Santa Comunión, rezar el rosario, hacer compañía quince minutos a Nuestra Señora meditando los misterios del rosario, y confesarse con la misma intención. La confesión puede hacerse otro día, siempre que uno esté en estado de gracia al recibir la Santa Comunión. 

    3. Beneficios o promesas.
    «A las almas que busquen desagraviarme de esta manera (dijo Nuestra Señora), les prometo asistirlas a la hora de la muerte con todas las gracias necesarias para su salvación.”

    4. ¿Por qué cinco sábados y no nueve, o siete en honor de los dolores de Nuestra Señora?
    “Encontrándome en la capilla con Nuestro Señor cierto momento de la noche del 29 al 30 del mes de mayo de 1930, y hablando a Nuestro Señor de las preguntas cuatro y cinco, me sentí de repente poseída íntimamente por la divina presencia y, si no me equivoco, esto es lo que me fue revelado: 

    «Hija mía, el motivo es simple. Hay cinco especies de ofensas y blasfemias proferidas contra el Inmaculado Corazón de María:
    – las blasfemias contra la Inmaculada Concepción.
    – las blasfemias contra su virginidad.
    – las blasfemias contra su maternidad divina, negando al mismo tiempo reconocerla como Madre de los hombres.
    – las blasfemias de aquellos que buscan públicamente sembrar en el corazón de los niños la indiferencia o el desprecio, o incluso el odio respecto a esta Madre Inmaculada.
    – las ofensas de aquellos que la ultrajan directamente en sus santas imágenes.

    Este es, hija mía, el motivo por el cual el Inmaculado Corazón de María me ha inspirado a pedir esta pequeña reparación, y, en consideración de la misma, a conmover Mi misericordia para perdonar a las almas que tuvieron la desgracia de ofenderla. En cuanto a ti, busca sin cesar, por tus oraciones y tus sacrificios, conmover Mi misericordia respecto a esas pobres almas».

    5. ¿Aquellos que no pudieran cumplir estas condiciones el sábado, pueden satisfacerlas el domingo?
    «La práctica de esta devoción será igualmente aceptada el domingo siguiente al primer sábado, cuando mis sacerdotes, por justos motivos, lo permitan a las almas».

    La Comunión Reparadora de los Primeros Sábados de mes

    Burke y Sarah llaman a renovar la práctica de los Primeros Sábados – Se cumple el centenario de esta devoción

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53255

    Proclamada en la encíclica Quas Primas de Pío IX – Centenario de la Fiesta de Cristo Rey

    Hoy hace cien años, el 11 de diciembre de 1925, el Papa Pío IX publicó la encíclica Quas Primas. La ocasión para ello fue la creación de la fiesta de Cristo Rey (actualmente y desde las reformas litúrgicas posteriores al Concilio Vaticano II, solemnidad de Jesucristo, Rey del Universo). En origen, la fiesta se celebraba el último domingo de octubre, pero en la actualidad corresponde al último domingo del tiempo ordinario, es decir, el anterior al comienzo del Adviento.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54016

    Reparar ofensas al Sagrado Corazón

    LETANÍAS DEL SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE JESÚS

    https://www.ewtn.com/es/catolicismo/devociones/letanias-del-sagrado-corazon-de-jesus-15239

    Chaplet of Saint Michael

    MUST SEE: Pray the Chaplet of Saint Michael the Archangel & the 9 choirs

    Devotion to St. Michael the Archangel: Part 1 – Opus Angelorum

    https://opusangelorum.org/devotion-to-st-michael-the-archangel

    40-Day Devotion to St. Michael – St. Michael Catholic Church – Van Buren, AR

    https://www.stmichaelvanburen.com/40-day-devotion-to-st-michael.html

    Novena to Saint-Michael

    https://americaneedsfatima.org/prayers/novena-prayers-to-saint-michael

    Novena a los Ángeles Custodios

    https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/57133/novena-a-los-angeles-custodios

    La prière de saint Patrick pour se protéger de tout mal

    https://fr.aleteia.org/2023/03/16/la-priere-de-saint-patrick-pour-se-proteger-de-tout-mal

    Novena to St. Patrick – Ascension

    https://ascensionpress.com/pages/novena-to-st-patrick

    Novena – Surrender to the will of God by Fr Ruotolo

    Click to access novena_of_surrender_to_jesus_christ_-_fr._scott_surrency_intro.pdf

    Click to access Novena%20-%20Surrender%20to%20the%20will%20of%20God%20by%20Fr%20Ruotolo%20-%20Spanish.pdf

    The Surrender Novena: Let Jesus Take Care of Everything https://catholicexchange.com/the-surrender-novena-let-jesus-take-care-of-everything/

    Chaplet for the Souls in Purgatory: All Souls Day Prayers

    Chaplet for the Souls in Purgatory: All Souls Day Prayers

    Litany of the Holy Eucharist

    Click to access Litany-of-the-Holy-Eucharist.pdf

    Prière de Saint Patrick

    “Trisagio Angélico a la Santísima Trinidad” – 15mn

    LITANY OF THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESÚS

    ST MICHAEL & 9 CHOIRS CHAPELET

    DIVINE MERCY CHAPELET IN LATIN

    ROSARY IN LATIN

    CHAPELET OF THE 7 SORROWS

    Stations of the Cross – Saint Faustina’s Way of The Cross

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

    LETANIAS DE LA HUMILDAD

    Click to access LETAN%C3%8DAS-DE-LA-HUMILDAD.pdf

    Prière à La Sainte Trinité de Saint Patrick

    Coronilla a San Miguel Arcángel

    Saint Patrick Novena / Novena Begins:March 8

    CORONA DE ADVIENTO

    Días para encender cada vela de la Corona de Adviento

    https://www.eluniverso.com/larevista/sociedad/que-color-de-vela-se-prende-el-segundo-domingo-de-adviento-2024-nota/

    • 1 de diciembre: Primera vela morada.
    • 8 de diciembre: Segunda vela morada.
    • 15 de diciembre: Vela rosada.
    • 22 de diciembre: Vela morada.
    • 24 de diciembre: Se enciende la vela blanca.

    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

    Stations of the Cross – Saint Faustina’s Way of The Cross

    Prière à La Sainte Trinité de Saint Patrick

    DOUCE PRIERE DE COMMUNION A SON ANGE GARDIEN

    La Prière de protection de Saint Pascal Baylon

    PRIERE DU PADRE PIO – Prière d’intercession

    PRIERE A SAINT BENOIT CONTRE LE MAL

    The Angelic Trisagion | EWTN

    https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/angelic-trisagion-382

    The Angelic Trisagion Prayer – Prayers –
    https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=1137

    Trisagio Angélico a la Santísima Trinidad

    VATICAN ROSARY

    https://www.vatican.va/special/rosary/documents/misteri_en.html

    LITANY of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ

    Plegaria Virgen de la Caridad

    Watch “PRIERE DE SAINT PATRICK Guérison et Délivrance

    Litaníæ Pretiosíssimi Sánguinis Dómini Nostri Jesu Christi

    The Surrender Rosary | Rosary of Abandonment — Jesus, You Take Over!

    LA HORA DE GRACIA 8 DE DICIEMBRE 12h00 a 13h00

    (_Pídele a DIOS por la intercesión de Nuestra Madre lo que desees, si es para tu bien te lo dará. Aprópiate de esta promesa ya hecha por Nuestra Madre del Cielo para este día tan especial_)

     *HORA DE LA GRACIA* 

    El 8 de diciembre es el día de la Inmaculada Concepción de María. Ese día al mediodía podemos practicar la Hora de la Gracia, yendo a una Iglesia o en nuestra casa o lugar de trabajo, y pidiendo todo lo que necesitamos para nosotros y para nuestros hermanos. Se puede rezar el Rosario, el Vía Crucis, cualquier otra oración o simplemente hablar con Dios y la Virgen como hablamos con nuestros amigos más queridos y pedirles las gracias que tanto necesitamos. ¡Difundamos la Hora de Gracia!

     *LA HISTORIA:* (breve)

    8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1947

    Pierina -la vidente de las apariciones de Rosa Mística- contempló a la madre de Dios decir “¡Yo soy la Inmaculada Concepción!” y con gran majestad afirmó “Yo soy María de las Gracias, esto es, la llena de Gracia, Madre de mi Divino Hijo Jesucristo”. 

    Descendió suavemente por la escala y añadió “Por mi venida a Montichiari deseo ser invocada y venerada como Rosa Mística. QUIERO QUE AL MEDIODÍA DE CADA 8 DE DICIEMBRE (SOLEMNIDAD DE LA

    INMACULADA) SE CELEBRE LA HORA DE LA GRACIA POR TODO EL MUNDO, MEDIANTE ESTA DEVOCIÓN SE ALCANZARÁN MUCHAS GRACIAS PARA EL ALMA Y EL CUERPO. Nuestro Señor, mi Divino Hijo Jesús, concederá copiosamente su misericordia, mientras los buenos recen por sus hermanos que permanecen en el pecado. Es preciso informar cuanto antes, al Supremo Pastor de la Iglesia Católica el Papa Pío XII mi deseo de que esta hora de gracia sea conocida y extendida por todo el mundo. Quien no puede ir a la iglesia que sea en su casa al mediodía y conseguirá mis gracias.” 

    Luego mostrándole su purísimo corazón

    exclamó: “Mira este corazón que tanto ama a los hombres, mientras la mayoría de ellos lo colma de vituperios.” 

    Calló unos momentos y continuó: “Si todos, buenos y malos, se unen en la oración, obtendrán de este corazón misericordia y paz. Los buenos acaban de alcanzar por mi mediación la misericordia del Señor, que detuvo un gran castigo. Dentro de poco se conocerá la eficaz grandeza de esta hora de gracia”.

    Notando Pierina que la resplandeciente Señora iba a alejarse le imploró fervorosamente: “¡Oh hermosa y amada Madre de Dios, yo le doy gracias!”.

    Bendiga a todo el mundo especialmente al Santo Padre, a los sacerdotes, religiosos y a los pecadores. Ella contestó: “Tengo preparado una sobreabundancia de gracia para todos aquellos hijos que escuchan mi voz y toman a pecho mis deseos”. Con estas palabras se terminó la visión.

     *CÓMO HACER LA HORA DE GRACIA* 

    Solicitud de nuestra santísima madre (Rosa Mística) para la Hora de Gracia

    1. Día y hora de la Hora de Gracia: diciembre 8, Fiesta de la Inmaculada Concepción, debe comenzar a las 12 del mediodía y continúa hasta la 1 de la tarde.

    2. Durante esta hora las personas que hacen la Hora de Gracia, en la casa o en la iglesia, debe evitar toda clase de distracciones , no contestar el teléfono, no abrir la puerta, no hacer nada en absoluto, sino existir concentrados totalmente en la unión con Dios durante esta Hora especial de Gracia.

    3. Comience la Hora de Gracia rezando tres veces el salmo 51 con los brazos abiertos.

    4. El resto de la hora se puede pasar en comunicación en silencio con Dios, meditando sobre la pasión de Jesús, rezando el santo rosario, alabando a Dios en sus propias palabras o cánticos o rezando sus oraciones favoritas, cantando, meditando sobre otros salmos, etc.

    Nuestra santa madre nos ha dado toda oportunidad de demostrar nuestro amor y confianza en ella y ayudarnos a hacer reparación por los graves pecados que ofenden a su amado hijo, nuestro señor Jesucristo.

     *SALMO 51* 

    Oración de Arrepentimiento

    Piedad de mí, Señor, en tu bondad,

    Por tu gran corazón, borra mi falta.

    Que mi alma quede limpia de malicia,

    Purifícame tú de mi pecado.

    Pues mi pecado yo bien lo conozco,

    Mi falta no se aparta de mi mente;

    Contra ti, contra ti sólo pequé,

    Lo que es malo a tus ojos, yo lo hice.

    Por eso, en tu sentencia tú eres justo,

    No hay reproche en el juicio de tus labios.

    Tú ves qué malo soy de nacimiento,

    Pecador desde el seno de mi madre.

    Tú quieres rectitud de corazón,

    Enséñame en secreto lo que es sabio.

    Rocíame con agua y seré limpio,

    Lávame y seré blanco cual la nieve.

    Haz que sienta otra vez júbilo y gozo.

    Y que bailen los huesos que moliste.

    Aparta tu semblante de mis faltas,

    Borra en mí todo rastro de malicia.

    Crea en mí, oh Dios, un corazón puro,

    Un espíritu firme pon en mí.

    No me rechaces lejos de tu rostro.

    Ni apartes de mí tu santo espíritu.

    Dame tu salvación que regocija,

    Mantén en mí un alma generosa.

    Indicaré el camino a los desviados,

    A ti se volverán los descarriados.

    De la muerte presérvame, Señor,

    Y aclamará mi lengua tu justicia.

    Señor, abre mis labios

    Y cantará mi boca tu alabanza.

    Un sacrificio no te gustaría,

    Ni querrás, si te ofrezco, un holocausto.

    Un corazón contrito te presento;

    No desdeñas un alma destrozada.

    Favorece a Sion en tu bondad:

    Edifica de nuevo sus murallas.

    Y así te gustarán los sacrificios,

    Ofrendas y holocaustos que son justos.

    Ofrecerán novillos en tu altar. 

    RECUERDEN rezar por su país durante esta hora. La Santísima Virgen ha pedido que su importante mensaje se distribuya a través del mundo entero. Por favor ayuda en su misión que todas las almas se acerquen a Dios y que Jesús sea amado en cada corazón.

    OLDEST PRAYER TO THE VIRGEN MARY
    Immaculate Conception Novena: Sub Tuum | The Oldest Prayer to the Blessed Mother

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

    OCTAVARIO POR LA UNIDAD – PLAYLIST PARA LOS 8 DIAS

    OCTAVARIO POR LA UNIDAD del 18 al 25 de enero

    León XIV: «El mundo necesita testigos de unidad» al comienzo de la Semana por la Unidad de los Cristianos

    Este año, las oraciones y reflexiones han sido preparadas por un grupo ecuménico coordinado por el Departamento de Relaciones Interreligiosas de la Iglesia Apostólica Armenia, en colaboración con sus hermanos de las Iglesias armenias católicas y evangélicas, en un momento de persecución.

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54272

    Octavario de la unidad

    https://www.conferenciaepiscopal.es/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEB_SOUC-2026_MATERIALES.pdf

    Semana de Oración por la Unidad de los Cristianos 2022 – Conferencia Episcopal Española

    https://www.conferenciaepiscopal.es/semana-oracion-unidad-de-los-cristianos-2022/

    Don Dolindo Ruotolo, Sacerdote y Místico

    Milagrosisima Novena del Abandono a la Voluntad de Dios

    Novena of surrender to Jesus Christ

    Click to access novena_of_surrender_to_jesus_christ_-_fr._scott_surrency_intro.pdf

    ORACIÓN DE ABANDONO DEL PADRE DON DOLINDO
    NO QUIERO ANGUSTIARME, DIOS MÍO: ¡CONFÍO EN TI!


    Jesús al alma:
    ¿Por qué os confundís, angustiándoos? Dejad a mí la gestión de vuestros asuntos y todo se calmará. En verdad os digo que cada acto de verdadero, ciego y completo abandono en mí, produce el efecto que deseáis y resuelve los problemas más espinosos.
    Abandonarse en mí no significa atormentarse, alterarse o desesperarse, dirigiéndome luego una oración llena de inquietud para que yo os siga a vosotros y cambie así la inquietud en la oración. Abandonarse significa cerrar plácidamente los ojos del alma, apartar el pensamiento de la tribulación y confiarse a mí para que sólo yo obre, diciéndome: “ocúpate Tú de ello”. La preocupación, la turbación, el querer pensar en las consecuencias de un hecho son cosas contrarias al abandono, contrarias por naturaleza.
    Es como la confusión que traen los niños que pretenden que la mamá piense en sus necesidades, pero quieren también resolverlas por sí solos y así obstaculizan, con sus ideas y sus fijaciones infantiles, su trabajo.
    Cerrad los ojos y dejaos llevar por la corriente de mi gracia; cerrad los ojos y no pensad más que en el momento presente, alejándoos del pensamiento del futuro como de una tentación; reposad en mi creyendo en mi bondad, y os juro por mi amor que, diciéndome con estas disposiciones: “ocúpate Tú de ello”, yo lo haré por entero, os consolaré, os libraré, os guiaré.
    Y cuando tenga que llevaros por un camino diferente de aquel que veis vosotros, yo os adiestraré, os llevaré en mis brazos, haré que os encontréis en la otra orilla, como niños dormidos en los brazos maternos. Lo que os turba y os hace un daño inmenso son vuestros razonamientos, vuestras preocupaciones, vuestros afanes, y el querer a toda costa ser vosotros quienes remediéis aquello que os aflige.
    ¡Cuántas cosas realizo cuando el alma, tanto en sus necesidades espirituales como en aquellas materiales, se vuelve a mí, me mira y diciéndome: “ocúpate Tú de ello”, cierra los ojos y reposa. Obtenéis pocas gracias cuando os atormentáis por producirlas, sin embargo tenéis muchísimas cuando la oración es un encomendarse plenamente a mí. En el dolor, vosotros oráis para que yo obre, pero para que obre como creéis que debo obrar… No os dirigís a mí, sino que queréis que yo me adapte a vuestras ideas; no sois enfermos que piden al médico que les cure, sino que le sugerís la cura. No obréis así, sino orad como os he enseñado en el Padrenuestro:
    Santificado sea tu nombre, es decir, sed glorificado en esta necesidad mía.
    Venga a nosotros tu reino, o sea, todo contribuya a tu reinado en nosotros y en el mundo.
    Hágase tu voluntad así en la tierra, como en el cielo, es decir, dispón Tú, en esta necesidad, como mejor te parezca en lo tocante a nuestra vida temporal y eterna.
    Si me decís de verdad: “hágase tu voluntad”, que es lo mismo que decir: “ocúpate Tú de ello”, yo intervendré con toda mi omnipotencia y venceré las mayores dificultades. Mira, ¿tú ves que la enfermedad apremia en vez de menguar? No te turbes, cierra los ojos y dime con confianza: hágase tu voluntad, “ocúpate Tú de ello”.
    Te digo que así lo haré y que intervendré como médico, y que hasta obraré un milagro cuando fuere menester. ¿Ves que el enfermo empeora? No te desanimes, sino cierra los ojos y di: “ocúpate Tú de ello”. Te digo que yo me ocuparé, y que no hay medicina más poderosa que una intervención mía de amor. Me ocuparé de ello sólo cuando cerréis los ojos.
    No descansáis nunca, queréis valorarlo todo, escudriñarlo todo, pensar en todo, y os abandonáis así a las fuerzas humanas, o peor, a los hombres, confiando en su intervención. Es esto lo que obstaculiza, impide mis palabras y mis cálculos. ¡Oh, como deseo vuestro abandono para beneficiaros!, ¡Y cuanto me aflijo al veros turbados! Satanás tiende precisamente a esto: a turbaros para apartaros de mi acción y arrojaros a la merced de las iniciativas humanas.
    Confiad por eso sólo en mí, reposad en mí, abandonaos a mí en todo. Yo obro milagros en proporción del pleno abandono en mí, y a la ausencia de preocupaciones vuestras. ¡Yo derramo tesoros de gracia cuando vosotros estáis en la plena pobreza! Si apreciáis vuestros recursos, por pocos que sean, o si los buscáis, os halláis en el campo natural de las cosas, que es a menudo frecuentemente obstaculizado por Satanás. Ningún razonador o ponderador ha hecho milagros, ni siquiera entre los santos: obra divinamente quien se abandona a Dios.
    Cuando veas que las cosas se complican, di con los ojos del alma cerrados: “Jesús, ocúpate Tú de ello”. Y distráete, apártate de ti porque tu mente es penetrante… y para ti es difícil ver el mal y tener confianza en mí. Haz así para con todas tus necesidades; obrad así todos y veréis grandes, continuos y silenciosos milagros. Os lo juro por mi amor. Y yo me ocuparé de ello, os lo aseguro.
    Rogad siempre con esta disposición de abandono y tendréis gran paz y grandes frutos, incluso cuando yo os concedo la gracia de la inmolación de reparación y de amor, que importa el sufrimiento. ¿Te parece imposible?. Cierra los ojos y di con toda el alma: “Jesús, ocúpate Tú de ello”. No temas, me ocuparé de ello y bendecirás mi Nombre humillándote. Mil plegarias no valen lo que un solo acto de abandono vale: recordadlo bien. No hay novena más eficaz que esta: ¡Oh Jesús me abandono en Ti, OCÚPATE TÚ DE ELLO!

    Oración de abandono de Padre Dolindo Ruotolo

    Capilotes are not the same as Ku Klux Klan hoods and do nit have Satanic origins
    This is proof the Church is performing Satanic ritual? Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi explains – Minute 11’39

    The truth about the origin of the Easter eggs. No, they have nothing to do with the goddess of fertility Astarte or Ashtoreth as JWs claim!

    Forgotten Customs of Lent – OnePeterFive

    READ https://onepeterfive.com/forgotten-customs-of-lent/

    The Lenten fast included fasting from all lacticinia (Latin for milk products) which included butter, cheese, eggs, and animal products.[2] From this tradition, Easter Eggs were introduced, and therefore the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday is when pancakes are traditionally eaten to use leftover lacticinia. And similarly, Fat Tuesday is known as Carnival, coming from the Latin words carne levare – literally the farewell to meat. These were mentioned in the “Forgotten Customs of Septuagesima” article in more detail.

  • The Official Church Stand on some controversial apparitions and writings

    MEDJUGORJE

    DICASTERIO PARA LA DOCTRINA DE LA FE

    “La Reina de la Paz”: Nota sobre la experiencia espiritual vinculada a Medjugorje

    https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20240919_nota-esperienza-medjugorje_sp.html#

    Conferencia de Prensa sobre la experiencia espiritual de Medjugorie

    DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH

    Presentation of the Note About the Spiritual Experience Connected with Medjugorje by His Eminence, Víctor Manuel Cardinal Fernández (19 September 2024)

    El papa desestima los relatos sobre visiones de Medjugorje | AP News

    https://apnews.com/general-news-3135d845146145f4a50888527625f307

    Discerning Apparitions – Medjugorje

    Discerning Apparitions ~ Fr Ripperger

    Our Lady of Medjugorje Protects the Head of the Serpent

    Lack of Clarity ~ Fr. Ripperger

    Our Lady of Medjugorje Protects the Head of the Serpent

    Pope Francis on Medjugorje

    CHAD RIPPERGER AND CARDINAL MULLER ON MEDJUGORIJE MINUTE 31′

    Can Catholics Go to Medjugorje? Fr. Chris Alar Explains Pilgrimages and Church Approval

    GARABANDAL

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    MARIA VALTORTA

    DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH

    Press Release: Regarding the Writings of Maria Valtorta

    https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250222_comunicato-scritti-valtorta_en.html

    “La única Cruz de la salvación”. Carta al obispo de Bayeux-Lisieux (Francia) sobre las presuntas apariciones de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo en Dozulé (3 de noviembre de 2025)

    https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20251103_unica-croce-salvezza_sp.html

    Doctrina de la Fe rechaza definitivamente las apariciones francesas que prometían una «cruz salvadora» de 738 metros

    https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53821

  • Spiritual Warfare: Demons II

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    Exorcists on Aliens ~ Fr. Ripperger

    Can Demons Put Thoughts in Our Minds? | Catholic Answers Q&A

    https://www.catholic.com/qa/can-demons-put-thoughts-in-our-minds

    Satan and natural disasters

    EL DEMONIO DE LAS ERRATAS EN LAS BIBLIAS: Cómo un error tipográfico convirtió a una edición de la Biblia en 1631 en “la Biblia Malvada” (y otras erratas consideradas infames) – BBC News Mundo

    https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c1dewkp745do

    Catholic priest explains: Majority in Hell now are there because they didn’t believe there’s Hell.

    Third eye

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    How demons try to put into our minds bad thoughts

    Diabolic Attack: A Sign of God’s Love

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FJjjpg1AO-I

    Why Satan fell

    Demon of lust

    What the Exorcist said: The Day Lady Gaga made a pact with the Devil

    Obsession, oppression, possession

    Catholic priest explains: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt talked to demons?

    When Satan attacks you through your nightmares…

    Possession, obsession, vexation, oppression

    How demons operate

    Why would God allow the demons to roam around the earth?

    Catholic priest explains: When Satan tried to corrupt the bloodline through the Nephilim

    Lucifer knew God more intimately than other angels

    Hostage to the Devil Podcast Ep21: Exorcist Father César Truqui – Mute demons

    Demons do not have access to the will

    Catholic priest explains: The Most Difficult Demon To Cast Out During Exorcisms

    The Devil will commit blasphemy but will never directly blaspheme the name of God

    Catholic priest explains: The demon Asmodeus in the love potion

    Catholic priest explains how Lady Gaga made a pact with the Devil

    CURSES OF FREEMASONS

    Minute 6:45

    NIGHTMARES AND DEMONIC ATTACKS

    Minute 11:05

    An ‘Incident’ Involving Exorcist Fr. Carlos Martins

    Satan loves priests and bishops who belong to the Freemasons. Catholic priest explains.

    DEMONS FEED ON ANGER. DO NOT INDULGE THEM

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

    When Satan attacks you through your nightmares…

    How Satan hates Mary and targets women to get even

    PADRE PIO’S BEATINGS FROM DEMONS

    Is Demonic Oppression a Gift From God? INFESTATION – VEXATION – OPPRESSION – POSSESSION

    OCCULT ROSARY AND WHEN A SHAMAN TELLS YOU TO GO TO A CATHOLIC CHURCH

    OCCULT INSTRUCTIONS / FOLLOWING UNAPPROVED APPARITIONS

    Catholic priest explains: “Living with demons for too long, find it hard to let them go”

    WHAT DEMONS AND ANGELS LOOK LIKE

    SATANIC RITUALS DURING HALLOWEEN

    Sacrifices during Halloween

    Difference between a soul manifesting from hell to persecute and from purgatory for help

    3AM DEMON

    DEVIL DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO OUR INTELLECT NOR WILL BUT CAN INFLUENCE OUR MEMORIES EMOTIONS AND IMAGINATION

    Why the Devil Thrives on Fear: Exorcist Chad Ripperger Explains

    Why God allows attacks from demons on saints

    The Biblical logic of suffering

    MUST SEE: Exorcist Father Carlos Martin: At birth we all belonged to the Devil before baptism

    INFESTATION / VEXATION / OBSESSION / OPPRESSION / POSSESSION

    SATANIC RITUALS DURING HALLOWEEN

    DEMONS OR GHOST (SOUL OF THE DEPARTED)

    PEOPLE BURPING COUGHING CHOCKING HAVING PHYSICAL REACTIONS ARE SIGNS THAT DEMONS INFLUENCING THEM ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THE PRAYERS

    Possession is not the end goal hell is

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: DEMONIC COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

    Demons text exorcist all the time |- Monsignor Stephen Rossetti

    MUST SEE: WHAT DEMONS LOVE THE MOST – COMPILATION OF EXORCIST ERNETTI

    Catholic priest explains: ” Catechesis of Satan? Satan loves priests being in Freemasons?

    DEMONS MANIPULATE OUR EMOTIONS AND OUR IMAGINATION

    Names of demons

    Possessions from human fallen souls and not by demons

    Demons can bilocate from hell

    7 signs that the demons are there

    Don Bosco and the Devil

    Why Did the Devil Attack Don Bosco? | Ep. 112

    HALLOWEEN