Unfortunately this symbolism only applies to the Tridentine Rite, not the Novus Ordo (post-1969 liturgy).

Hysterical/Leftist/Anarchist/Pro-Aborts Disrupt Peaceful Prayer Vigil for Life



They looked like they're possessed.

more like trying to get attention by histrionics and temper tantrums

New State-Of-The-Art Church Promises Comforts Of The Future



LONDON––A new state-of-the-art church in London opened today with Christmas/Easter size crowds eager for an opportunity to experience the next generation of churches. St. Joseph Cupertino Parish pastor Roger O’Malley gave Eye of the Tiber an exclusive tour of the mega Catholic Church. “As you can see everyone gets their own synthetic leather recliner, which includes storage space to keep foods and drinks cold during Mass,” O’Malley said. “One of the things we’re most excited about are these monitors on the back of each headrest which will allow parishioners easier viewing of the Mass. Of course each monitor will be equipped with Netflix and updated NFL scores.” The church also includes moving sidewalks to move parishioners up to communion without having to take unnecessary steps, as well as an option for a low dosage of Xanax to help ease nerves of those going through trials. Other features of the church will be communion dispensers to help stop the spread of germs, cyborgs for lone parishioners to hold hands with during the Our Father, and kneelers that automatically rise to touch parishioners’ knees while they remain reclining.

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This is satire, that isn't a real church in the picture; chill! Pax!!

Source: http://www.eyeofthetiber.com/2012/10/29/ne...-of-the-future/

One man asked a priest: "If God is everywhere, why do I go to Church?"

The priest replied: "The whole atmosphere is filled with water; but when you want to drink you have to go to a fountain or a well."

- Unknown

20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe. 22For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness: 24But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

-- 1 Cor 1:20-24

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The mystery of Christianity is the mystery of the type in the meeting tent fulfilled in the heavenly reality of the Catholic Church. Judaism is the promise, Catholicism is the fulfilment of the promise.

In the beginning was the word the word was with God the word was God. The word became flesh and dwelt among us. The flesh was glorified. The sacraments perpetuate the mystical body of Christ through time.

Paul says spiritual things need to be spiritually examined and the sensual man percieveth not these things.

You cannot get there through a literalist interpretation of scripture.

The Son of man took on flesh and became sin so that we can rise above it. The just man lives by faith because you cannot live by truth faith unless you live as a just man.

In justice because there are weeds In the wheat in the Kingdom of heaven. Forever because Christ will not separate from His bride His very flesh. The narrow gate is baptism into the sacramental life being nourished by the truth of milk and honey in the pillar and foundation of truth.

They will see and not see and hear and not hear.

If our gospel be veiled it is veiled to those who are perishing.

Humility is the key.

The meek shall inherit the earth.

“Like a bridegroom Christ went forth from his nuptial chamber…He came even to the marriage-bed of the cross, and sensed the creature sighing in her breath, he surrendered himself to torment for his bride in a communication of love.

(Augustine, Sermo Suppositus, 120:3)

It is consummated ...


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Thank you Father Rob Galea, for guiding us on how to lift up and bless the Holy Name of our Lord Jesus Christ





May you continue to always walk with us on our journey ... Amen!!!

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SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: Year C
(Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalms 8:4-9; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15)

We celebrate today one of the greatest mysteries of the Christian faith, that which distinguishes it from other monotheistic religions – that the same One God we all believe in exists and has revealed himself in three united, undivided, co-equal and co-eternal distinct but inseparable Persons, without conflict, confusion or division. The dogma that God is One (in substance) and yet Three is so fundamental to the Christian faith as on it rests every other thing, as we were all baptised in the name of the Blessed Trinity. It teaches that: There is only One God and in this One God there are three Divine Persons: the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God. Yet there are not three Gods, but one, eternal, incomprehensible God. The Father is not more God than the Son, neither is the Son more God than the Holy Spirit. The Father is the first Divine Person, uncreated from eternity; the Son is the second Divine Person, begotten from the nature of the Father from eternity; the Holy Spirit is the third Divine Person, proceeding from the Father and the Son (CCC 234, 253-256). The Creed beautifully captures this in its tripartite formula in “the Almighty God, the Maker of heaven and earth,” and in Jesus Christ “eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God,” “consubstantial with the Father” and in the “Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son and together with the Father and Son is adored and glorified.”

Today’s feast was introduced in the ninth century and was only inserted in the general calendar of the Church in the fourteenth century by Pope John XXII but its cultus and belief permeate our liturgy, especially in our often doxological invocation of the thrice-person holy God: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Thus it is celebrated as a prolongation of the mysteries of Christ, a solemn expression of our faith in the triune life of the Divine Persons, to which we have been given access by adoption in baptism and in the redemptive victory of Christ’s paschal mysteries. The mystery so revealed has been active from the beginning of creation even unto the end of time, but only in heaven shall we fully understand what it means, in union with Christ, to share as sons/daughters in the very life of God. The theoretical articulation of this doctrine has always been puzzling and every attempt to use analogy to describe it stands the risk of failing human logic. Apart from different illustrations used to explain this, the popular story of St. Augustine and the boy at the seaside comes to mind. It is in this sense that we say that it is a mystery, not because we cannot think of it at all or it is an escapist way out from making rational argument for our faith, but that human logic, even at its best, still fails us before the great mystery, we seek to understand but this is possible only by faith. The scriptures and style of our liturgical worship/prayer are our best guides to understanding this mystery (see Gen. 1:26, 1-2; 3:22; 18:2; 11:7; Lk. 1: 26-38; Mt. 3: 16-17; 11:27; 28:19; John 1:1-3; 10:30, 38; 14:8-11; 17:5; 2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Pt. 1:2-3).

Our readings today show the movement of God’s power even before creation, before the earth and the heavens were made, to the time of the coming of the promised Spirit upon the disciples, the new Chosen People of God, the new creation, the Church. This glorious procession of the power of God at work begins from before creation, before the moon, stars, oceans and other created things, is continued in the Church and human history, and fulfilled at the end of time. From the beginning of creation, Wisdom was eternally begotten, the first-born of God, and poured forth from of old according to the loving delight and design of the Father. It is even through Wisdom that the heavens were established and the foundations of the earth (its boundaries and limits) were fixed. Living in union with the Father right from the very beginning, Wisdom was his craftsman, architect of a sort, the artisan through whom and by which all things were made, taking special delight in the crowning glory of God's handiwork - the human race, the "sons of men." Thus the psalmist, while extolling the beauty of God’s creation and how the created order tells of the glorious splendour of God, reminds us that even humanity, thanks to the Wisdom of God (1 Cor 1:24) who came down from heaven, has been made a little less than a god or the angels. This is no doubt the basis of the later reference to him who comes down from heaven in this form among us as "the Son of Man" (Heb. 2:6-10).

Since all things came to be through him, in him and for him, they have all been put under his feet so that in due course he will restore them all, especially the human race to the glory given to them from the beginning, the glory lost by sin. Therefore, when Christ embraced and tasted death, he did it so that we might be raised to life in him and through him, in the power of the Holy Spirit, be fully united with the Trinity. Thus living the life of the Trinity, the divine life, we have direct access, by grace, to the Father in the Spirit (Eph. 2:18), to make his wonderful name glorious in all the earth. In case you are in any doubt, the Spirit, the Love of God, the eternal bond between the Father and the Son, who proceeds from the Father and the Son since whatever the former has is the latter’s, has been poured out into our hearts (at baptism and just concluded Pentecost last week), so that by adoption we become true children of the Father, calling him Abba (Rom. 8:14-16). As promised by Jesus in today's Gospel, the Spirit comes as a divine gift from above, anointing us unto action (1 Jn. 2:27), leading us into the truth of the faith and showing us "the things that are coming," in the future, the things destined to be from the very beginning of time. United then with God, he lives in us as we live in him, sharing the life of the Trinity now as we look forward to its fullness in due course (Jn. 14:23; 17:21).

Part of this revelation is the mystery of one God in three persons with the assurance of being led to the truth that, as Jesus and the Father are one, so Jesus and the Spirit are united. The Father sent his Son and they both send the Spirit, and all three work together in the economy of salvation to achieve the divine plan for our salvation. Having received the Spirit of love in our hearts, we are called to imitate the unity in the Trinity of love in our relationships, with family, partners, colleagues, friends and anybody, loving and living in holiness. We must work for unity in our diverse and sometimes divided society, with respect and dignified honour for others, even those who hold contrary opinions. Our families, Churches and society must mirror what we are called to be, a community of loving, reconciled and reconciling persons, as against sheer individualism, just as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are united in love, into which we were all baptised. We must make this Trinitarian spirituality real and concrete such that the Trinity does not only remain a mystery to be thought about or understood but a loving relationship to be lived out. Happy Sunday.
Prayer: God our Father, who by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in profession the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

TRINITY SUNDAY ... 22nd MAY



God our Father, who by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in profession the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever, Amen.

15But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother. 16And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. 17And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican. 18Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.

Matt 18:15-18

First Traditional Nuptial Mass officiated in the archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur after the post-conciliar reforms. Splendour of the Catholic liturgy which permeates all the senses.



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The Blessed Trinity Revealed
"Just as our first creation was the work of the Trinity, so our second creation [through baptism] is the work of the Trinity. The Father does nothing without the Son or the Holy Spirit, because the Father's work is also the Son's and the Son's work is also the Holy Spirit's. There is but one and same grace of the Trinity. Thus we are saved by the Trinity, since in the beginning we were created by the Trinity alone"
– Chromatius, a 4th-century Bishop of Aquileia.

"We acknowledge the Trinity, holy and perfect, to consist of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In this Trinity there is no intrusion of any alien element or of anything from outside, nor is the Trinity a blend of creative and created being. It is a wholly creative and energizing reality, self-consistent and undivided in its active power, for the Father makes all things through the Word and in the Holy Spirit, and in this way the unity of the holy Trinity is preserved. Accordingly, in the Church, one God is preached, one God who is above all things and through all things and in all things. God is above all things as Father, for he is principle and source; he is through all things through the Word; and he is in all things in the Holy Spirit."
– St Athanasius.



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Hehehe

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Puchong ...

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