Il santuario di Luigi Gonzaga, Castiglione delle Stiviere (MN)

 

Skull of the Saint. The major relics se at the church of Saint Ignatius in Rome.

Principal altar with relic shrine access behind gradine

Portrait from life and thought to be most accurate; hangs in church sacristy 

Reception of first Communion from Cardinal Borromeo at age twelve 

View of facade from piazza 

Until Death Do Us Part

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The Catholic Church has been consistently AGAINST divorce and separation for 2000 years. 

Marriage is not a wedding day, it is a death. The death of the isolated self. The death of the idea that your life belongs only to you. Before God, two people walk forward and allow themselves to be bound together, not with flowers or words, but with sacrifice. The same love that held Christ on the Cross was not soft. Iron tore through flesh and pinned Him to the wood, and He did not pull away. That is the image people do not want to see when they talk about love. Love costs blood.

Love costs pride. Love costs the part of you that wants to run when things hurt. When a man and a woman become one flesh, it is not sentimental language. It is a joining that says, your suffering is now mine, your burdens are now mine, your future is now mine. You do not stand beside each other as spectators. You are fastened together and sent into battle. The world you raise children in will not be gentle. It will test you, divide you, try to convince you that commitment is a mistake and sacrifice is weakness. Marriage answers that lie with defiance. You stay. You endure. You forgive when it would be easier to walk away. You carry each other when one collapses.

The vows are not promises made for the good days. They are spoken for the nights when everything feels broken and you choose each other anyway. This is why marriage is sacred. Not because it is easy, but because it mirrors something eternal.

Christ did not abandon His bride when she failed Him. He stayed nailed there. So when you stand before God and bind your life to another, understand what you are stepping into.

You are choosing covenant over comfort. You are choosing unity over ego. 

Catholic Weddings are auraful.

Source: @TheeDrGroyper on Twitter 

The parish is not a mere sacramental filling station

Two Byzantine Catholic priests, speaking independently in recent podcasts, identified the same sickness in the Roman Church: too many Catholics treat the parish as a place to obtain the Eucharist and then leave.

“Is it valid?” has become the only question, as though right worship, sacred beauty, sound teaching, tradition, reverence, and a real parish community were optional extras.

But the Church is not a sacramental filling station, and the Eucharist is not a commodity dispensed to isolated consumers.

We are not saved as detached individuals who happen to receive the same valid Sacrament. We are incorporated into the Body of Christ: formed by her worship, bound to a community, and called into a shared life of repentance, prayer, sacrifice, and communion.

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life, not an excuse to stop caring about everything that should flow from it.

Video: https://x.com/breesolstad/status/2071789837909434824?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Video: https://x.com/breesolstad/status/2071789837909434824?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

How the synodal church will ensure traditional young men won’t be ordained priests

 The report of Synod Study Group 4 is, in effect, the instruction manual to carry out these plans.

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Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part essay. Please read Part 1 here first.

(LifeSiteNews) — Part I of the Synod report on priestly formation, titled “Ecclesiological-Pastoral Preamble,” speaks of the need to restructure and broaden seminary formation to include not only education in theological studies and helping men live a celibate life, but also to become effective workers in a “synodal church” which strives for “flourishing interpersonal relationships,” a church that will be “more participatory and missionary so that it can walk with every man and woman” (quoting FD no. 28).[1]

Ordained ministry must be “redefined” and be viewed as “in and from” the People of God; and priests must “open themselves to a synodal style” and foster interpersonal relationships by being “welcoming and listening to all” (cf. FD no. 72).[2] This necessitates that the “structure of priestly formation” be “recalibrate[ed] … according to this relational identity,” because “fraternity with the People of God and with every brother and sister cannot be suspended or remain marginal during the time of initial formation.” Continuing, it condescendingly asserts: 

Overcoming the temptation to place the priest in isolation and in a sacra aura ‘ahead of’ and ‘above’ the People of God, we must therefore realign the priestly ministry, precisely because of its special sacramental configuration to Christ the Head, Servant and Shepherd, at the feet of the brothers and sisters of the People of God.[3]

To this proposed “recalibration” of priestly formation I respond with a resounding “No!” Led by the Holy Spirit, the Church since the Council of Trent has seen great value in seminary training, where not only the minds of men are formed in the sacred science of theology (and its handmaid, philosophy), but their characters are formed by dedicated, orthodox priestly faculty to help them become other Christs – following the example of Jesus Himself who called His Apostles and disciples to separate themselves from their homes and families in order to be formed by Him for their priestly ministry: the proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the salvation of souls (cf. Mt 10:5-15) – something, curiously, that is never mentioned in the report.

In these above-quoted words we also see an attack on the sublime dignity of the priesthood, and the love, respect, high honor and esteem generally accorded to priests by the faithful whom they serve – something very beautiful, and no doubt pleasing to Jesus, the Eternal High Priest, but obviously distasteful to the promoters of the “synodal church.” 

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/how-the-synodal-church-will-ensure-traditional-young-men-wont-be-ordained-priests/

“I am a Catholic”

“Gentlemen, I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.”

— Hilaire Belloc responding to his anti-Catholic opponent for MP 

No to a Church that moves with the world

“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world. The great marches of civilization have not come from the clever, the adaptable, or the fashionable. They have come from men who stood still while the rest of the world rushed past them, and who held fast to certain moral truths as to a rock. Progress itself depends upon the retention of permanent things. A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.”

— G. K. Chesterton

The ideology is the issue

“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it… No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”

— Winston Churchill