Visiting the church of St Agnes
How I Became Catholic
Head over to our YT to see the full episode! Erick Ybarra recounts his reversion story and explains why, in the final analysis, Catholicism was the right move.
The struggle is real when you venture too far from your home parish lol
When you Google nearby parishes looking for a solid Mass lol
Should TLM Catholic families be kicked out of their parishes?
Should traditional Catholic families be pushed out of their parish churches?
I can’t believe we even have to ask that question, but really thankful for priests like Fr Gerald Murray who are willing to answer it.
You don’t have to be a “rad trad” to recognize and speak up about the sheer cruelty of these persistent moves against a mere 2% of Catholics while 70% of other Catholics in the US don’t even believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The amount of bureaucratic ink and time being spilled and spent on persecuting Catholics who attend the TLM is nothing short of “extraordinary.” (See what I did there?).
A fun, factual, and *hopeful* discussion about the current state of music in the Catholic Mass. With such superb guests as John Rokosz and Nicholas Will, you really don’t want to miss this one!
#themass #sacredmusic #sacredart #catholicmusic #gregorianchant #polyphony #vatican2 #churchhistory
Not a few of our Evangelical Protestant friends will use Revelation 4:1 as a proof text of “The Rapture.”
However, a dip of one’s toe into the historical and theological context of the Johannine corpus makes interpretations like these look rather spurious. In fact, what we find is that John’s writings are consistently suggesting that Jesus (and the cult of worship which He established in His apostles) is the fulfillment of (1) Abraham’s faith but also of (2) Solomon’s Temple cult. Revelation 4, somewhat ironically, becomes a great text for demonstrating that Christian worship is liturgical, sacramental, and sacerdotal, as John situates himself within the Sanctuary of the Temple on the Lord’s Day, just before the Voice beckons him from the doors to the Holy of Holies, saying, “Come up here.”
Revelation 4 is one of numerous NT texts which teach us that, when Christians gather for worship, we are actualizing the sanctuary of a fulfilled Temple, with Jesus acting as High Priest in the Holy of Holies.
History is often a great antidote for certain excesses of popular apologetics.
(For the full episode, head over to our YouTube and watch ‘Jesus, St John, and the Temple Secrets’)
#biblestudy #bibleverse #biblicaltruth #liturgy #catholicism #protestantism #therapture #revelation #bookofrevelation
Gleaning Eucharistic theology from some of the earliest martyrdom accounts. TUNE IN NOW!
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#earlychurch #churchhistory #eucharist #realpresence #holyeucharist #martyrs #catholicchurch #catholic #patristics
This weekend our parish @stmaryofph dedicated its latest addition to the sanctuary: a beautiful shrine to St Therese of Lisieux and her parents!
If you’re ever in Chi-town, be sure to stop in to pray with us!
#stthereseoflisieux #shrine #catholic #catholicsaints #catholicism #chicagocatholic #catholicchurch #pray #beautygoodnessandtruth #church #beautifulchurch
Just when you thought that ancient Judaism was strictly monotheistic and that Christians invented Trinitarian belief, the actual texts from the second Temple period tell a completely different story. Discover the surprisingly Israelite roots of the Church’s Christological and Trinitarian doctrine 🤯
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A Catholic podcast from two brothers who reverted based on their studies in Early Church History
