Peter Srsich was 19 when he traveled to the Vatican in May 2012 through the Make-A-Wish Foundation while suffering from advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma pressing on his heart, so severe doctors couldn’t perform a biopsy.
After intense treatment and suffering, Peter drew strength from the Eucharist and trusted God could heal him. During an audience in St. Peter’s Square, his father gave Pope Benedict XVI a bracelet reading “Pray for Peter.” When Peter asked for a blessing, the Pope unexpectedly placed his hand directly on Peter’s chest, where the tumor was.
From that moment, Peter steadily improved and, against all medical expectations, fully recovered. He later entered seminary and was ordained a priest on May 15, 2021.
Pope Leo has named Rev. Don Stefano Cascio as Vice Director of the Laudato Si’ Center for Advanced Training, an initiative established by Pope Francis to promote integral ecology by addressing climate change, sustainability, and social justice. The appointment underscores both continuity and a renewed strengthening of the Vatican’s commitment to the principles of Laudato si’.
About as useful as a screen door on a submarine. But the same could be said about this alleged papacy.
When he was thirty, someone once told him a strange line: “At fifty, you’ll finally meet the most important woman of your life.”
He laughed it off at the time.
His name was Alex.
Twenty years passed, swallowed by work, responsibility, and achievement.
He built a business, spent half his life on planes, provided well, checked every box that society hands to grown men.
He and his wife, Irene, lived quietly. No fights, no drama — but not much closeness either.
Two people sharing a roof, not a life.
There was no time for feelings. Only duties.
Then came the heart attack.
Not a major one, but loud enough to shake him awake.
Recovery forced him to slow down. One day he caught his reflection in the mirror — a tired man with graying hair staring back. It took him a moment to realize that man was him.
The emptiness arrived quietly.
The kids were grown and gone, the marriage held together mostly by habit, the business still running yet suddenly pointless. There was no “next mountain” to …More
Saint Pio and Saint Pope John Paul II’s friendship dated back to 1947 when the young Father Karol Wojtyla was engaged in doctoral studies at Rome’s Pontifical International Athenaeum Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
As they say, 'It takes one to know one.' Inasmuch as I might fault Pope JP II on what he could have done to prevent our current malaise in the Church (not limited to some of his dubious appointments of turncoat ecclesiastics) I believe he aspired to be saintly in his own priestly life.
I said it in one of the dreams I shared that the Lord showed me 17 years ago, and confirmed last year with the sign of the cross drawn with the clouds in the sky outside my house that WW 3 will start during the presidency of Donald Trump when a solar eclipse and a blood moon eclipse happen. I mentioned the main nations involved in the beginning of this war. The world is now entering the judgement to all nations, the GREAT TRIBULATION WHICH STARTED LAST YEAR, AND THE PAINS WILL INCREASE GRADUALLY AS A WOMAN READY TO GIVE BIRTH. OFFER ANY ILLNESS, PAIN, SUFFERINGS YOU MAY BE GOING THROUGH TO OUR LADY TO OFFER TO OUR LORD FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS, AND THANK THE LORD DAILY ALL DAY FOR ALL HIS BLESSINGS, BECAUSE EVEN EATING AND DOING YOUR BODILY NEEDS ARE HUGE BLESSINGS AND WE NEVER GIVE THANKS FOR THAT.
I skipped many details in my 3 dreams, because in all 3 I say over and over again that we must pray unceasingly, this can not be avoided, it will happen but we need to pray for the salvation …More
Yet another coup Ginger theory youtube.com/watch?v=Svi_xQHO5nc
In this video, Ginger Theory discusses the current events in Venezuela, Technocracy Incorporated & Elon’s Grandfather, and when the US tried to overthrow Venezuela through Hugo Chavez.; and ties it all together!
The Wasteland of Lust: Church Fathers Cry of Repentance
Hearken, O brethren, and incline your ears! The earth lies desolate, the cities in ashes, and the hearts of men are hardened, not by famine nor by war, but by the insatiable craving of the flesh, which is always disordered, enslaving, and without end. Augustine teaches that concupiscence, flowing from the first transgression, bends reason to serve desire, and darkens the mind. Chrysostom cries: pleasure of the flesh sought for itself never rests, never satisfies, and enslaves the soul.
Scripture commands: “Flee fornication” (1 Corinthians 6:18), and, “the unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord” (1 Corinthians 7:32). Let all know: virginity and continence are the crown and weapon of the faithful, for the flesh finds rest only in restraint, and the soul ascends to God in purity. Jerome declares: “Virginity is a crown, continence a weapon; he who conquers the flesh reigns with God.” Gregory of …More
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Remigius, Clotilde, and Clovis
January 13 - Memorial of Saint Remigius, Bishop
Dear brothers and sisters, Saint Remigius of Reims (c. 437-533), of the Frankish tribe but born a Roman citizen, was born in Laon into a cultured family. He became bishop of Reims around the age of 22. He witnessed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and Gaul invaded by the Germanic tribes of the Burgundians, the Alemanni, the Visigoths, and, at the end of the 5th century, by the Frankish tribes, who slowly occupied the country thta's why it was named after their name France.
With the help of the Burgundian Queen Clotilde (also proclaimed a saint), he managed to convert and baptize her husband Clovis, King of the Franks, in Reims in 500.
Saint Remigius became the apostle of the Franks, working for nearly seventy years in his diocese, organizing the Church, founding episcopal sees, and spreading Christianity among pagans and Arians, preparing the noble French nation to become the "firstborn daughter …More
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@Jeffrey Ade totally correct pictures!!! my great online friend, brother Jeffrey.. yes!!!! Trump, JD Vance, and the current Republicans simply prioritize wong Zionists and don't care about the American people. They don't even pretend to care, just spinning happy fantasies...Many orthodox Catholic and Christian people are have welcomed Trump's recent attack on the Islamic extremist group ISIS in Nigeria, but I believe this too is foolish. Of course, it is undeniable that Islamic extremist groups in Nigeria are threatening and brutally murdering Christian communities. We oppose the massacre of Christians and the atrocities committed by all Islamic extremist groups, not only in Nigeria but also in Burkina Faso, the DR Congo, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, and other African countries. However, in the case of Nigeria, there are many ambiguous aspects to the claim that the government intentionally attempted to annihilate the Christian community. Consider just the capital, Abuja. If the …More
This is the only photograph ever taken of the Brothers Grimm. You know their fairy tales—but you don't know what they really did.
A daguerreotype studio in Germany.
Two elderly men sit stiffly for the camera—new technology that requires them to remain motionless for several seconds. Jacob is 62, his younger brother Wilhelm is 61. They've spent their entire adult lives working side by side.
This single photograph would become the only authenticated image of both brothers together.
Most people know them for one thing: Grimm's Fairy Tales. Cinderella. Snow White. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Rumpelstiltskin.
Stories that have been told to children for two centuries, adapted into countless films, embedded so deeply in our culture that we forget they came from somewhere—from someone.
But here's what most people don't know: the Brothers Grimm didn't write fairy tales. They rescued them.
THE MISSION THAT STARTED EVERYTHING
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were born just one year …More
Die Brüder Grimm waren nicht in erster Linie Märchenerzähler, sondern Sprachforscher und Gelehrte. Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm sammelten ab dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert alte deutsche Volksmärchen, um bedrohte mündliche Traditionen zu bewahren. 1812 veröffentlichten sie die Kinder- und Hausmärchen, ursprünglich als kulturelle Dokumentation, nicht als Kinderliteratur.
Noch wichtiger war ihr Beitrag zur Sprachwissenschaft: Mit Werken wie der Deutschen Grammatik, der Grimmschen Lautverschiebung und dem Deutschen Wörterbuch legten sie Grundlagen der modernen Linguistik. Ihr Vermächtnis reicht daher weit über Märchen hinaus – sie bewahrten Sprache, Geschichten und kulturelles Gedächtnis.
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