Tag: sickness

  • Why does God allow suffering, evil and natural disasters?

    Human will most operative although not most powerful – MINUTE 1h28′

    Why Does God Allow Evil? ~ Fr. Ripperger

    How can a good God allow suffering and bad in His Creation?

    Satan and natural disasters

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: Catholic Exorcist Explains Preventing Natural Disasters

    Sin and Natural Disasters

    Why does Does allow saints to be attacked by demons

    Some possessions and oppression are of victims souls who offer their sufferings to save souls

    Why God allows attacks from demons on saints

    The Biblical logic of suffering

    Why did God allow the greatest saints to be attacked directly by the devil? – Minute 5’43

    Horror of Suffering and Sanctification~ Fr Ripperger

    The Value of Our Sufferings

    JOY IN SUFFERING

    Offer up your sufferings to save souls

    Minute 14:42

    Fr Gabriele Amorth’s 7 Steps For People Who Are Recovering from Struggles with the Demonic

    How can a good God allow suffering and bad in His Creation?

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: OFFERING YOUR SUFFERINGS AS CARLO ACUTIS

    Suffering and victim souls.

    St. Patrick (17 March): Embrace Your Suffering Like Patrick Did

    Satan and natural disasters

    The Value of Our Sufferings

    JOY IN SUFFERING

    Tenemos 4 cruces – Minute 47′

    1 La cruz de la carne

    2 La cruz del mundo

    3 El demonio que genera dudas y desconfianza

    4 La Cruz de Dios que nos lleva a nosotros que produce la verdadera alegria

    VICTIMS SOULS

    Why does God allow suffering – Minute 1h 28

    Offer up your sufferings to save souls – Minute 14:42

    Fr Gabriele Amorth’s 7 Steps For People Who Are Recovering from Struggles with the Demonic

    The only thing keeping the world from being hit by chastisements now are victim souls.

    How can a good God allow suffering and bad in His Creation?

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: WHEN YOU SUFFER GOD RESTS IN YOU, WHEN YOU REST GOD SUFFERS

    ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: OFFERING YOUR SUFFERINGS AS CARLO ACUTIS

    Suffering and victim souls

    Fr. Mike Schmitz – Lost Love Is the Way

    We are all called to become victim souls in some way

    ACTIVE AND PASSIVE NIGHTS OF THE SOUL

    “The divinization of one’s passivities.”

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

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

    When the Suffering Doesn’t End: Fr. Mike Schmitz & Fr. Boniface Hicks on Waiting Well

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

    MUST SEE: WE MUST BE EMPTIED TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THE GRACE FOR SALVATION. IF WE ARE FULL OF OURSELVES AND OTHER THINGS WE CANNOT RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM GOD

    SUFFERING IS A GIFT

    MUST SEE : GOD MADE SUFFERING RESULT OF THE ORIGINAL SIN THE VERY MEANS OF OUR SALVATION

    Soul being stretched increasing our desire for God

    What failure is not

    ONLY PASSING THE TEST WE MERIT HEAVEN

    Offer it up and glisten like gold in the fire

    WHY DON’T EVIL MEN SUFFER?

    CANCER, SUFFERING AS BLESSING IN DISGUISE AND OFFERING PAIN TO SAVE SOULS – SAINT CARLO ACUTIS – MINUTE 8’22

  • THE SACRAMENTS

    Catechism Class – PLAYLIST The Seven Sacraments

    St. Joan of Arc, FSSP

    STUDY OF OFFICIAL CATECHISM REFERENCE BOOK: CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

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

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3F.HTM

    II. The Sacraments of the Church

    https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_two/section_one/chapter_one/article_2/ii_the_sacraments_of_the_church.html

    1117 As she has done for the canon of Sacred Scripture and for the doctrine of the faith, the Church, by the power of the Spirit who guides her “into all truth,” has gradually recognized this treasure received from Christ and, as the faithful steward of God’s mysteries, has determined its “dispensation.”34 Thus the Church has discerned over the centuries that among liturgical celebrations there are seven that are, in the strict sense of the term, sacraments instituted by the Lord.

    1118 The sacraments are “of the Church” in the double sense that they are “by her” and “for her.” They are “by the Church,” for she is the sacrament of Christ’s action at work in her through the mission of the Holy Spirit. They are “for the Church” in the sense that “the sacraments make the Church,”35 since they manifest and communicate to men, above all in the Eucharist, the mystery of communion with the God who is love, One in three persons.

    1119 Forming “as it were, one mystical person” with Christ the head, the Church acts in the sacraments as “an organically structured priestly community.”36 Through Baptism and Confirmation the pRiestly people is enabled to celebrate the liturgy, while those of the faithful “who have received Holy Orders, are appointed to nourish the Church with the word and grace of God in the name of Christ.”37

    1120 The ordained ministry or ministerial priesthood is at the service of the baptismal priesthood.38 The ordained priesthood guarantees that it really is Christ who acts in the sacraments through the Holy Spirit for the Church. the saving mission entrusted by the Father to his incarnate Son was committed to the apostles and through them to their successors: they receive the Spirit of Jesus to act in his name and in his person.39 The ordained minister is the sacramental bond that ties the liturgical action to what the apostles said and did and, through them, to the words and actions of Christ, the source and foundation of the sacraments.

    1121 The three sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders confer, in addition to grace, a sacramental character or “seal” by which the Christian shares in Christ’s priesthood and is made a member of the Church according to different states and functions. This configuration to Christ and to the Church, brought about by the Spirit, is indelible,40 it remains for ever in the Christian as a positive disposition for grace, a promise and guarantee of divine protection, and as a vocation to divine worship and to the service of the Church. Therefore these sacraments can never be repeated.

    The Sacraments (Aquinas 101)

    The Eucharist (Aquinas 101)

    Baptism and Confirmation (Aquinas 101)

    Marriage (Aquinas 101)

    Penance and Anointing (Aquinas 101)

    5 Things People Get Wrong About Confirmation (Aquinas 101)

    Ex opere operato

    THE SACRAMENTS DO NOT DEPEND ON ANYTHING HUMAN

    EVEN IF A PRIEST IS UNWORTHY, THE SACRAMENTS HE PERFOMS ARE VALID

    Understanding the Sacraments: A New Summary! (Part 1 of 2) Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar

    Part 2 of 2: Understanding the Sacraments. A New Summary! Explaining the Faith w/Fr. Chris Alar

    Section of the Catequism on the sacrament of the anointing of the sick

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P4J.HTM 

    Section of the Catequism on “last rites” or the anointing if the dying

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P4N.HTM .