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Catholic, husband, dad, cardiologist & gardener.

Glenelg, MD
Joined April 2019
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O God, who by taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that by the gift of the same Spirit we may be always truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolation, through Christ our Lord. Amen!
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Impresionante discurso del Papa León XIV esta noche en Montevideo en la Vigilia de oración en el Estadio Centenario. De esos que merece la pena leer completos, guardar y meditar. Algunas frases extraordinarias: «Dios escogió Belén, y esa elección basta para que no identifiquemos pequeñez con insignificancia». «La vida se llena de ocupaciones, afectos, proyectos y distracciones, hasta que la ausencia de Dios deja de sentirse como ausencia». «Cuando se pretende construir un mundo sin Dios, se corre el riesgo de dejar también al hombre sin lugar». «¡No le teman al “para siempre”! Matrimonios, abran su casa a la vida, incluso cuando el mundo les diga que un hijo es una carga». «Cuando ser justo y honrado tenga un precio, páguenlo. Cuando perdonar parezca una derrota, perdonen». «Necesitamos custodiar a Cristo en el centro de nuestra vida mediante la oración, la Misa, la Confesión y la lectura meditada del Evangelio. Todos hemos de volver una y otra vez a ser discípulos». «Para iluminar mucho no hace falta ser muchos, sino reflejar la luz del Señor». «¡Sean santos! No se conformen con una vida simplemente correcta ni con una fe de costumbre que se contente con lo indispensable. No le den a Dios solamente una parte de ustedes, ¡dense por completo!». «Cristo no nos llamó a la mediocridad, nos llamó a una vida nueva y plena como la suya». Y una frase preciosa para terminar: «¡Que se note que hemos estado en Belén! Que se note que Cristo vive y que encontrarse con Él hace la diferencia». Qué maravilla de discurso. Qué claridad para hablar de las exigencias de la vida cristiana y qué manera de recordar que la fe no consiste simplemente en ser buenas personas, sino en entregarse por completo a Jesucristo. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e… #PapaEnUruguay #ViajeApostolico
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Please keep speaking with such clarity.
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The Biblical apocalypse culminates in the revelation of the Lamb of God as the meaning of all history and the one in whom history is redeemed. When the dust of history finally settles and all the sin, death, and satanism that bring so much to ruin, the one reality that remains is the Lamb in whom there is redemption and restoration. Secular apocalypticism posits false ideologies as redemptive and salvific, all of which culminate in destruction and totalitarianism. Such a vision of history is always nihilistic, and all the claims that it is not nihilism, are false and empty promises. It drives its nihilism forward with sin, death and satanism, but these will be masked by virtue and justified by righteous intentions. In the biblical understanding of apocalypse the Lamb is the sacrifice, once and for all, in the secularist understanding the sacrifice is you and all of humanity.
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And Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior” Luke 1:46-47
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Holiness is not a privilege reserved for a few, but a universal vocation that speaks to each of us where we live. This is the hope-filled message of today’s feast: God sees the good that we do not see, knows stories that we do not know, and reaches hearts to which we have no access.
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I hope everyone had a joyous celebration of #AllSaintsDay shrineofstanthony.org/ “The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is Christ” - St. Anthony of Padua
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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” Jeremiah 1:5a
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“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
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“It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness. He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you.” Pope St. John Paul II vatican.va/content/john-paul…
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“A psalm of thanksgiving. Shout joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; serve the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful song. Know that the LORD is God, he made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the flock he shepherds.
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Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name; good indeed is the LORD, His mercy endures forever, his faithfulness lasts through every generation.” Psalms 100:1-5
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This is precisely what it means to “give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s”: to be truthful, free from servile fear or hypocrisy, free to do good. Let us pray to the Lord to help us live in this way. #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 22:15-21)
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Great job by this theology professor! The Bible is not silent on abortion because the Bible is clear on the sanctity of human life and the value of children. James Talarico used faith to defend the destruction of innocent lives. He cannot be trusted to lead.
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“I command you: be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD, your God, is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
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“the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23
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“For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1
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You have given them Bread from Heaven. Having all sweetness within it! John 6:26-40
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