AFTER MUCH SUFFERING, I WILL DIE ALONE!"
The prospect of dying alone tore at Jacinta's heart, and Lucia tried to comfort her:
"Don't think about that!"
"Let me think about it, because the more I think about it, the more I suffer.
And I want to suffer for the love of Our Lord and for sinners, and then I don't care.
Our Lady will take me to Heaven!"
To what extent did Jacinta's ardor for mortification reach!
After having subjected her body to all possible sacrifices, she even mortified her intellect with thoughts repugnant to nature.
She is a living host, pure suffering in the totality of her being.
Once, she repeated, a little more animated:
"And there I am, suffering alone! But it doesn't matter!
I suffer for the love of Our Lord, to repair the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the conversion of sinners and for the Holy Father!"...
The worry of dying alone did not leave her.
Let's listen to another moving fact:
"One day, I found her embracing a picture of Our Lady and saying:
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Pope Francis ‘secret decrees’ undermined defendants’ rights in Cdl. Becciu trial, lawyers say
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The issue for me is that the court heard, again, the arguments from the defense concerning a now famous set of four rescripts issued by Pope Francis in 2019 and 2020, which essentially authorized the investigation into the Secretariat of State’s London property fiasco and led to the trial and conviction of Cardinal Angelo Becciu and others.
Defense lawyers again argued this week that these rescripts were somehow illegal secret laws which violated the right to due process for the defendants.
Now, I don’t dispute the right of defense lawyers to make what they see as the best case possible for their clients — and I am neither irritated nor surprised if the best argument open to them is, to any informed eyes, legally nonsensical, spurious, and bordering on obvious bad faith.
But what absolutely baffles me is that no one seems to be offering the obvious critique of this nonsense “secret laws” characterization of what Francis did.
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S è messo sotto i piedi tutti i comandamenti, chiamarlo papa è un'offesa al papato.
St. Martin de Porres ~~~ Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick...
Another beautiful humble soul who is over looked and hardly mentioned or asking for his intercession.
This quote of Saint Martin de Porres is the most excellent advice and perfect for ALL Catholic mothers and wives along with the most beautiful example to follow of the earthly life of our Blessed Mother with her Son JESUS, and with Her earthly Spouse, Saint Joseph.
SSPX. Ecclesial Antifa.
@myunkie The founder Archbiship Lefevbre a Vat 2 Council Father, in which I have respect for, actually signed the first 4 constitutions of the Vatican II. While he never celebrated the N.O. mass, he did offer the interim mass of 1965 to 1969. It was a modified 1962 TLM, in the vernacular with the gloria, credo, and prayers of consecration in Latin. That was the mass that the Council intended.
There are a few problemic areas of the Council but that does not make the Coyncil invalid. A new Council or Pope can issue addendums clarifying and corrections to those areas such as religious liberty, ecumenical, and collegiality.
Not all of Vatican II is problematic. There are some parts that are very orthodox and in continuity with tradition. Bishop Fellay has even said the SSPX accepts 95% of it.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal extended a heartfelt invitation to Pope Leo, hoping he would visit in 2027 to mark the 110th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. Although the Pope has yet to respond to the invitation, Rebelo de Sousa remains optimistic. During their meeting at the Apostolic Palace, the President also discussed the devastating impact of Storm Kristin, which struck central Portugal on January 28, and expressed deep gratitude for the Pope's comforting letter and blessings for the affected communities. In a gesture of solidarity, the Pope sent a telegram to the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, sharing his sorrow for the lives lost and uniting in spirit with grieving families. As tokens of appreciation, Rebelo de Sousa presented the Pope with a 17th-century Portuguese miniature of Saint Augustine, elegantly framed in 18th-century gilded wood by Branca Franco, along with the book Ten Years for Portugal, a photographic chronicle of his presidency.