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Today is the feast of St. Raphael the Archangel!
Get a litany in before bed:
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Queen of Angels,
pray for us.
St. Raphael,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, filled with the mercy of God,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, perfect adorer of the Divine Word,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, terror of demons,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, exterminator of vices,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, health of the sick,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, our refuge in all our trials,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, guide of travelers,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, consoler of prisoners,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, joy of the sorrowful,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, filled with zeal for the salvation of souls,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, whose name means "God heals,"
pray for us.
St. Raphael, lover of chastity,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, scourge of demons,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, in pestilence, famine and war,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, Angel of peace and prosperity,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, endowed with the grace of healing,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, sure guide in the paths of virtue and sanctification,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, help of all those who implore thy assistance,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, who was the guide and consolation of Tobias on his journey,
pray for us.
St. Raphael, whom the Scriptures praise: "Raphael, the holy Angel of the Lord, was sent to cure,"
pray for us.
St. Raphael, our advocate,
pray for us.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
Pray for us, St. Raphael, to the Lord Our God,
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let Us Pray.
Lord, Jesus Christ, by the prayer of the Archangel Raphael, grant
us the grace to avoid all sin and to persevere in every good work
until we reach our Heavenly destination, Thou Who livest and reignest
world without end. Amen.
>Woman grows up in satanic family
>Enslaved and lost doing tasks for satan
>Stunned when all her black magic goes *poof* when up against sincere Christians
>Realizes she’d been lied to and deceived by satan (and she's actually on the losing team), and there’s a power much greater than him (and that power also loves her and is where the only hope resides in this realm)
>Converts to Christianity and is saved
No matter how lost in the darkness you are, Christ is there waiting to take your hand — but you must be sincere in accepting His hand!
"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
— Albert Einstein
"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."
— Albert Schweitzer
"When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame."
— Augustine
"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."
Winston Churchill
(Stop scrolling and really look at this painting! Amazing)
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
(hint: it's a sincere devotion to God)
Your monthly reminder:
“When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain.”
— Peter Hitchens
"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
— Carl Sandburg
"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
— Thomas Paine
"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
— Thomas Carlyle
"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
— Owen Feltham
The Knowledge Archivist retweeted
Evil detests beauty because beauty is proof of a transcendental order, of objective Goodness and Truth.
To attack beauty is to wage war against the possibility of transcendence.
Beauty is a great affront to nihilism. It testifies to that which is greater than the individual, because to create a beautiful thing is to acknowledge that you are answerable to standards higher than your own. Beauty is often called a great evangelist for this reason.
This is why they outright destroy beauty or try to subvert your perception of it by promoting ugliness or triviality. Beauty is neither neutral nor trivial — your ability to discern the beautiful from the ugly is intimately connected to your capacity to recognize the divine.
Dietrich von Hildebrand once declared that "beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." Why?
Beauty elevates a person toward truth, goodness, and the divine. The antitheses to beauty drag the soul down into nihilism and worship of the self.
"Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home."
— Henry Drummond
"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
— C.S. Lewis
