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Private revelations, including approved Marian apparitions, consistently speak of the fewness of the elect. We cannot honestly look at ourselves and think "yeah, I'm living a saintly life." If you do, remember that some of the greatest saints regarded themselves as the worst of sinners.

Why do you, personally, have hope that you will be saved? Are you more deserving of God's love than others? Have you made better use of your opportunities and gifts?

Answering for myself, I am not and I have not. So if most people are damned, and I am firmly in the "most people" category by any metric you could choose, why should I have hope? For a person such as myself, hope would seem not to be a virtue

Some recent news about HK police has left me confused. Although it doesn't impact me personally, I don't know what a conscientious Catholic should do if the state fails to uphold or actively works against justice.

Fr. Schouppe's book, Purgatory, contains the following account.

There was a community of nuns whose mother superior required that the sisters not take any food or drink between meals. One day a sister came to her in dire thirst, asking for an exception to this rule. The mother superior refused, and the sister obeyed. Years later, this sister died and another nun had a vision of her soul. She was suffering in the flames of Purgatory when an angel appeared to her with the cup of water she had refused out of obedience. The angel tossed the water onto her, extinguishing the flames.

I thought of this story this past Friday when I was about to bite into a hamburger and remembered the requiremen

Edit: married, not marries.

The much anticipated guidelines are expected to be released later today. Rome insiders have been speculating that this document may settle debates over acceptable things to mumble while bumping knees with total strangers.

I was thinking about the Sunday obligation and how, despite my frequent feeling that I get nothing from mass, that the mass isn't about me.

The Eucharist is a representation of Christ's sacrifice. Not in the sense that a portrait is a representation of a person's likeness, but that this past event is, in the sacrament, rejoined to the present moment.

So my thought is that even if I can't receive due to my frequent failings, or hardly focus on the mass due to taking care of kids, maybe me being there somehow comforts Christ during his passion, as if I (and everyone at every mass ever) were present at the foot of the cross, unable to see Christ or assist him in any way, but being with

There are undoubtedly subversive elements present at this synod who are attempting to normalize this undignified and anti-social behavior. However, we must have faith that the Holy Spirit will not abandon the Church, and that our leaders will take a stand against this flood of corruption.

We are taught that the damned get no relief from their sufferings. But among the living, we see plenty of wicked people who revel in the suffering of others. Why wouldn't the damned, lacking any form of charity, take some degree of consolation from seeing the suffering of other people in Hell, especially those who they hated in life?

The testimony of former Scientoligists, including L. Ron Hubbard's son, indicate that Scientology has direct ties to Satanism. It is a harmful and exploitative cult, yet we don't seem to be silent for the most part.