A Day of Graces, Blessings and Transformation for one's soul. Pray for others today (non-Catholics, fallen away Catholics, those on the road to Hell,.etc) and God's Grace will touch their soul to Convert in due season and according to His Will.
I raised my daughter to get good grades…but one day I walked into her room…and I realized I had failed. The bed was unmade. Clothes were scattered. The mess was screaming what I never wanted to see—and she was doing her homework in the middle of dirty dishes. That’s when I understood… it’s useless to fill the mind with studies if the hands don’t know how to serve, if the heart doesn’t understand responsibility. Because educating… isn’t just about sending them to school. Educating is teaching them to pick up what they throw down, to take care of what they have, to respect the space they live in. I also thought that teaching her to cook, to clean, was taking away “important” time… but no. That was the important part. Because tomorrow, degrees won’t make her bed or hold a home together. A home is built with small things: with dishes washed without being asked, with a tidy bed, with hands that help… and with love shown in simple ways. No… teaching them to handle household tasks …More
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THE SERPENT'S UNFINISHED SENTENCE Emancipation as the Fulfillment of the Original Temptation “You will be like gods.” — Genesis 3:5 “Everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.” — John 8:34 I. THE ANATOMY OF THE FIRST LIE The serpent did not begin with a command. He began with a question. “Did God say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?” (Gen. 3:1). This is the inaugural gesture of all diabolical rhetoric: the implantation of doubt about the legitimacy of a limit. Before Eve could be seduced into transgression, she had first to be seduced into suspicion — suspicion that the boundary set by God was arbitrary, self-serving, and above all, an obstacle to her flourishing. The serpent’s lie had a structure. It was not a simple falsehood but a complex inversion. It took a truth — that eating the fruit would open their eyes — and dressed it in the grammar of liberation. The prohibition was recast as suppression. The divine law was reframed as divine jealousy. God, the serpent …More
Great St. Thomas vs hateful Hitchens ~~~ The Divine Text providesa perfect, unerring moral compass. By obeying the Holy Laws, we tame our savage nature...