Ave Maria

Dites à ceux qui peinent
Et souffrent sans savoir
Combien lourde est la haine,
Combien doux est l'espoir.

De omnipotentia

"Helige Gud, din skonsamhet och mildhet är det främsta tecknet på din allmakt. Benåda oss i din oändliga barmhärtighet, och låt oss ständigt sträva mot det goda du berett åt oss i himlen. Genom Jesus Kristus vår Herre."

Jag har alltid älskat denna bön och fascinerats över den gode Gudens allmakt, som manifesteras genom skonsamhet och mildhet. Gud är så annorlunda än vi är.
Han kom till oss och vi gav honom ett kors. Men han har, genom sin oändliga kärlek, förvandlat det kors vi gav honom till segerns tecken. Detta kors är hans härlighets och allmakts tron.

Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat!

De fattigaste av de fattiga

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.


Saliga moder Teresa

Inkarnationen

"O God, how inestimable and most sweet is the union You have effected with human beings! You have splendidly shown Your ineffable Love through many graces and benefits heaped on creatures, and especially through the benefit of the Incarnation of your Son; that is, the grace of seeing the Highest One come down to the lowest-which is our humanity.

Rightly should human pride be abashed on seeing God so abashed in the womb of the Virgin Mary, who was that sweet field in which was sown the seed of the Word Incarnate, the Son of God. Truly, most dear Father, in this blessed and sweet field of Mary, God grafted this Word in her flesh like the seed that is cast on the ground, which by virtue of the sun’s heat germinates and brings forth flowers and fruits, while the pod remains in the earth.

This is what God truly did, by virtue of the heat and the fire of the Divine Love that He had for the human race, casting the seed of His Word in the field of Mary.

O blessed and dear Mary, you have given us the flower of the sweet Jesus."

Sta Katarina av Siena

De Maria

"I fully grant that devotion towards the Blessed Virgin has increased among Catholics with the progress of centuries; I do not allow that the doctrine concerning her has undergone a growth, for I believe that it has been in substance one and the same from the beginning."

Salige John Henry Newman

Förtröstan

"Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy."
"Tell aching mankind to snuggle close to My merciful Heart, and I will fill it with peace."

Jesus till syster St Faustina

I Love You Lord

Kristus världsalltets Konung

Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!

Den enda makt som när allt kommer omkring verkligen betyder något - allt annat är bara stoft och aska.

Hanged, drawn and quartered

In our own time, the price to be paid for fidelity to the Gospel is no longer being hanged, drawn and quartered but it often involves being dismissed out of hand, ridiculed or parodied. And yet, the Church cannot withdraw from the task of proclaiming Christ and his Gospel as saving truth, the source of our ultimate happiness as individuals and as the foundation of a just and humane society.
Benedikt XVI

Om längtan efter Gud

"After the fever of life, after weariness and sickness, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and succeeding; after all the changes and chances of this troubled, unhealthy state,—at length comes death, at length the white throne of God, at length the beatific vision.”

Salige John Henry Newman

Passio Christi conforta me!

It is an excellent and holy practice to call to mind and meditate on our Lord's Passion, since it is by this path that we shall arrive at union with God. In this, the holiest of all schools, true wisdom is learned, for it was there that all the saints became wise.

St Paulus av Korset

Politik och religion

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers – still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion – but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles. This "corrective" role of religion vis-à-vis reason is not always welcomed, though, partly because distorted forms of religion, such as sectarianism and fundamentalism, can be seen to create serious social problems themselves. And in their turn, these distortions of religion arise when insufficient attention is given to the purifying and structuring role of reason within religion. Without the corrective supplied by religion, though, reason too can fall prey to distortions, as when it is manipulated by ideology, or applied in a partial way that fails to take full account of the dignity of the human person.

Benedikt XVI

Domen

När vi möter Herren kommer han inte att ge oss ett teologiskt prov:

Då skall Konungen svara och säga till dem: 'Sannerligen säger jag er: Vadhelst ni har gjort mot en av dessa mina minsta bröder, det har ni gjort mot mig.'

Tack helige fader!

Summorum Pontificum 3 år.

"Tu es Petrus
et super hanc petram ædificabo ecclesiam meam
et portæ inferi non prævalebunt adversus eam.
Et tibi dabo claves regni cælorum."

Deus Caritas est

"Gud är kärlek, och den som förblir i kärleken förblir i Gud och Gud i honom."

Sancta et Immaculata

Heliga och obefläckade Jungfru,
vilka lovsånger jag till dig
skall kunna bära fram, vet jag inte,
ty Den som himlarna ej kan rymma
bar du i ditt sköte.
Du födde Den som skapat dig
och i evighet förblir du jungfru.

Depositum fidei

"I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same purport. Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously. I also condemn every error according to which, in place of the divine deposit which has been given to the spouse of Christ to be carefully guarded by her, there is put a philosophical figment or product of a human conscience that has gradually been developed by human effort and will continue to develop indefinitely."

St Pius X

Från antimodernisteden

Bot

"Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners. Kiss the ground as an act of penance for sinners!"

Jungfrun till St Bernadette i Lourdes

Frihet, jämlikhet, broderskap...

As the Revolution moved on, its leadership came more and more into the hands of extremists. In 1792, the radical Jacobins determined to punish with death not only the aristocrats, but clergy who had refused the oath.

The “non-jurors” - those who had refused the oath - were arrested en masse in August, 1792, and herded into several Parisian monasteries out of which the resident monks had been driven. These prisoners were priests, bishops and religious from many dioceses. Then on September 2, a band of violent armed men, perhaps 150 in number, was sent by the “Committee of Vigilance” to one after the other of these temporary prisons. One detail arrived at the Abbey of St. Germain just when a number of prisoners got there, transferred from other places of detention. The executioners shot them down in cold blood. Then they went to the old Carmelite monastery, where another group of cutthroats joined them. They ordered all the prisoners to come out into the garden, even the oldest and most disabled. The clerics had already discussed once more the question of taking the oath, and all had agreed they could not and would not subscribe to it.

Now the gang fell upon the first priests they met and cut them down. Then they called out, “The Archbishop of Arles!” Archbishop John du Lau of Arles was praying in the chapel. When summoned, he came out and he said, “I am he whom you seek.” Thereupon, they cracked his skull, stabbed him and trampled him underfoot. Then the leader set up a “tribunal” before which the imprisoned were herded and ordered to take the oath. All refused; so, as they passed down the stairway, they were hacked to pieces by the murderers. The bishop of Beauvais had earlier been wounded in the leg. When summoned, he answered, “I do not refuse to die with the others, but I cannot walk. I beg you to have the kindness to carry me where you wish me to go.” For a moment, his courtesy silenced the assassins. But, when he, too, refused the oath, he was killed like the rest.

Och vi blir chockade då krucifix förbjuds....

Jesu Hjärta fredag

"The Heart of Jesus never ceases to love us in heaven. He sanctifies us through the Sacraments. These are inexhaustible fountains of grace and holiness which have their source in the boundless ocean of the Sacred Heart of Jesus."


O Sacred Heart of Jesus, we know that there is but one thing impossible to you, to be without pity for those who are suffering or in distress. Look down, we beseech you, on us, and grant us the grace which we humbly, and earnestly implore you, through the Immaculate Heart of your sorrowful Mother to whom you did confide us as her children, and whose prayers are all powerful with you. Amen.

St Pius X

Litany of Pope Saint Pius X


Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us.
Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church,
Pray for us.
Saint Pius X, model for priests, etc.
Saint Pius X, wise bishop,
Saint Pius X, humble cardinal and patriarch,
Saint Pius X, zealous Pope for his flock,
Saint Pius X, pious teacher,
Saint Pius X, devoted to the poor,
Saint Pius X, consoler of the sick,
Saint Pius X, lover of poverty,
Saint Pius X, humble of heart,
Saint Pius X, faithful to duty,
Saint Pius X, heroic in the practice of all virtues,
Saint Pius X, filled with the spirit of self-sacrifice,
Saint Pius X, who didst aim to restore all things in Christ,
Saint Pius X, who didst bring little children to the the Altar rail,
Saint Pius X, who didst counsel daily and frequent Communion for all,
Saint Pius X, who didst urge us to know and to love the Holy Mass,
Saint Pius X, who didst seek everywhere the diffusion of Christian teaching,
Saint Pius X, who didst withstand and reprove all heresies,
Saint Pius X, who didst teach us righteous Catholic Action,
Saint Pius X, who didst consecrate the faithful to the lay apostolate,
Saint Pius X, who didst wish to be known as a poor pastor of souls,
Saint Pius X, who answereth the prayers of those who cry to thee,
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
V. Pray for us, Saint Pius X,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let Us Pray.

O God, who didst fill the soul of Saint Pius X with a burning charity and
called him to be the Vicar of Christ, grant that through his intercession
we may follow in the footsteps of Jesus, Our Divine Master; and may
our prayers to this saintly Pope be fruitful for life both here and hereafter,
through the same Christ Our Lord. R. Amen.


O God, Who didst raise up Saint Pius X to be the chief Shepherd of Thy flock and especially endowed him with devotion to the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar and zeal for Thine eternal truths and a love of the priesthood and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, grant we beg of Thee, that we who venerate his memory on earth, may enjoy his powerful intercession in Heaven. Through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Time after time

Den mänskliga, äktenskapliga kärleken är en bild av kärleken mellan Kristus och Kyrkan, ett heligt sakrament. Självklarheter för de flesta, men för de gnostiskt influerade bland oss kanske det behövs en påminnelse ibland.

"Du har tagit mitt hjärta med en enda blick,
med en enda länk av kedjan kring din hals."
Höga Visan

Om tron

"I hold with certainty and sincerely confess that faith is not a blind sentiment of religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious under the impulse of the heart and the motion of a will trained to morality; but faith is a genuine assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing from an external source. By this assent, because of the authority of the supremely truthful God, we believe to be true that which has been revealed and attested to by a personal God, our creator and Lord."

Den helige påven Pius X

Från Antimodernisteden

I valtider

Christ Jesus, I acknowledge You King of the universe.
All that has been created has been made for You.
Make full use of Your rights over me.

I renew the promises I made in Baptism,
when I renounced Satan and all his pomps and works,
and I promise to live a good Christian life
and to do all in my power
to procure the triumph of the rights of God
and Your Church.

Divine Heart of Jesus,
I offer you my efforts
in order to obtain that all hearts
may acknowledge your Sacred Royalty,
and that thus the Kingdom of Your peace
may be established throughout the universe.
Amen.