George M. Sipe @George@rcsocial.net

From the Bee: Chick-Fil-A Replaces Cow Mascot With Golden Calf

https://babylonbee.com/news/chick-fil-a-updates-cow-mascot-to-golden-calf

Did you realize, in your entire life your heart will beat a specific number of times then stop.

You are spending your heartbeats now. Soon enough your finite but unknown supply will be fully depleted, you will be gone. Will you have spent them wisely?

It's so simple. He is always with us. Be always with him, through all your actions, in your sufferings, when your body is broken, remain under his gaze, see him present, living in your soul.
-- St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

When the "reformers" split from the Church Christ directly founded setting the Apostles and their successors as its leaders and giving them His full oral tradition, there was a problem.

Obviously THAT Church could no longer be authoritative for those who left it. So by necessity, they made the very UN-biblical claim that the Bible alone was their only rule of faith. (Ironic as neither Christ nor the Bible make such an assertion and given that the Bible itself is the fruit of Catholic Sacred Tradition.)

This led to the Protestant polemic asking "where is that in the Bible"? Most of the time, that question (based in an invalid supposition as it is), CAN be answered if not with direct citations, then indirect ones.

From Pat Cross...

From Pat Cross...

Tonight is Halloween, a secular holiday to celebrate monsters and ghouls -- such as those who kill innocent unborn children in their mothers' wombs then traffic in their body parts.

You are going to die in a few decades -- or possibly quite soon.

What preparation do you hold dearest?

1. life insurance
2. bucket list
3. God's friendship

"No Catholic could subscribe even to moderate socialism." (Pope St. John XXIII)

CCC 2425: The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism." ...

What popes have said about socialism: https://tfpstudentaction.org/blog/what-the-popes-really-say-about-socialism

Just saw this and thought it was funny...

St. Ignatius: "When the devil wants to attack anyone, he first of all looks to see on what side his defenses are weakest or in worst order; then he moves up his artillery to make a breach at that spot."

Fr. Arturo Sosa: "The devil exists as a symbolic reality, not as a personal reality."

Fr. Sosa is the superior general of the Jesuits, the "black pope", numero uno, entrusted with St. Ignatius' legacy.

The Jesuits have an amazing history. Modern Jesuits seem to be divided. Some are truly awesome, faithful men. Others appear to be heretical or nearly so and sow dangerous confusion.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jesuit-chief-claims-satan-only-a-symbol-created-by-man

In todays first reading (Numbers), the Lord has Moses send scouts to land of Canaan. They return confirming His promise of a land of milk and honey. BUT report the inhabitants are too strong for the children of Israel so the people despair. For this they are punished, consigned to the desert for 40 years until the generation changes.

This reminds me of the children of today's culture who also deny our Lord's word instituting a visible Church, giving it power and authority, and protecting it until the end of time. Something to think about.

Speaking of same old, same old...

The new Fascists (along with their "sympathizers"), using the very best Orwellian doublespeak call themselves "ANTI-fascists".

Today is a first Friday.

Today is the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, a/k/a "doubting Thomas" (or "doubting Didymus").

The "doubting" label is quite unfair. IMHO it is quite prudent to exercise caution and discern the truly divine from the possibly demonic.

Moreover, it was St. Thomas who first recognized Jesus as "my Lord and my God". For that he should be remembered more appropriately as St. Thomas the Confessor.

David Anders gave an interesting exegesis last week of Genesis 15 (Abraham's vision / covenant with God). (This is an extract from his daily EWTN Called to Communion show.)

On July 4th, RCsocial.net reaches its 1 year anniversary!

Coincidentally, also happening this July 4th is the move of 1 million #Gab users to the federverse. We will be able to follow them and vice versa, just like all other ActivityPub sites. This is a big boost for free speech and in wrestling control from the oppressive tech giants.

It also provides much-needed balance to the anti-free-speech viewpoint of Mastodon developers.