Virtue remains

"If you commit a sin and take pleasure in it, the pleasure passes but the sin remains. But if you do something virtuous even though you are tired, the tiredness passes but the virtue remains." - St. Camillus de Lellis

Make the Sign of the Cross

“He who, when tempted, makes the Sign of the Cross with devotion, makes Hell tremble and Heaven rejoice."

St. Jean Vianney

Breaking: Vatican officials state that Pope Leo plans to to relax enforcement of restrictions on the Latin Mass.

"Several senior Vatican officials in Leo’s closest group of advisors told The Pillar that Leo’s informal and progressive relaxation of the application of Traditionis custodes will not stop

“‘It’s not a liturgical issue, but an issue of communion. If you’re in communion with the Church, we should allow for reasonable accommodation for different charismas and styles, including those who are more traditional, and I think that’s the trend now,’ one official told The Pillar."

Source: https://x.com/sitsio/status/2084595863377019377?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

“Leo’s informal and progressive relaxation of the application of Traditionis custodes will not stop.”9

“Several senior Vatican officials in Leo’s closest group of advisors told The Pillar that Leo’s informal and progressive relaxation of the application of Traditionis custodes will not stop.

“‘It’s not a liturgical issue, but an issue of communion. If you’re in communion with the Church, we should allow for reasonable accommodation for different charismas and styles, including those who are more traditional, and I think that’s the trend now,’ one official told The Pillar.”

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Is Pope Leo maintaining a TLM ‘gray area’?

EDGAR BELTRÁN

AUG 03, 2026

Last month’s illicit SSPX consecrations and subsequent excommunications raised expectations that Pope Leo might soon act to expand the celebration of the TLM in communities that are in union with Rome.

But more than a month later, that expected papal action has not come.

Link: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/is-pope-leo-maintaining-a-tlm-gray?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The absence of feeling is not the absence of God

St. Thomas Aquinas said that the absence of feeling is not the absence of God.

you pray and feel nothing.

you ask and receive no answer.

you do everything right and the silence persists.

then you think you've been forgotten, or that God is ignoring you.

like the little child who tugs at his father's shirt during a work call, but he's too busy.

St. Thomas would respond that God is not an object of the senses. 

He is not what you feel, what you see, what you manage to grasp in the moment of prayer.

He is the foundation of everything that exists. 

and the foundation doesn't vanish when you don't perceive it.

the sun doesn't disappear because it's cloudy.

it's you who can't see it.

the noblest faith is not the one that stirs emotions.

it's the one that persists, despite the silence.

the one that continues even without an answer.

the one that stays on its knees even without feeling anything.

God is there all the time

@fiamaetc

No religion without charity

“All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone - for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.”

- Saint John Vianney

Mother Miriam: “Why I changed my stance on the SSPX”

“God has established His Church, his universe, everything on obedience, everything on obedience.

“Children are to obey their parents, not if their parents are holy and right, in everything but sin. Wives are to submit to their husbands, not because they're holy, not because they're right, but because God has given them that position — again, in everything but sin. Religious are to obey their superiors, whether their superior is right or holier than them, or no matter what it is, they are to obey in everything.

“And Christ's sheep, which is us, every one of us is to obey the successor of Peter, whether we know for sure he is, whether we agree with him, whether we can point out definite heresy. If he's the Pope, then we obey in everything but sin. We don't come against him. So that's where I left it yesterday, and my heart was completely converted."

Video: https://youtu.be/jDmxkXCbMok