THE SHOCKING MEANING BEHIND THE VEIL TEARING AT JESUS’ DEATH Not what you think. Not even close. When Jesus died, Scripture says: “The veil of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.” (Matthew 27:51) Most people read this and think: “It means God opened heaven.” “It shows the Old Covenant ended.” “It symbolized access to God.” Yes, but that is only the surface. What happened in that moment was far more devastating…far more dramatic…and far more dangerous than most Catholics ever realize. Let’s enter the Temple and see what truly happened. 1. The Veil Was Not a Curtain, It Was a Wall of Separation The veil was not a light cloth. It was: 60 feet high 30 feet wide 4 inches thick Woven from blue, purple, and scarlet Embroidered with cherubim guarding the Presence So heavy that hundreds of priests were needed to carry it It represented the barrier between God and man, between holiness and sin, between life and death. Behind it was the Holy of Holies, the place no man could enter …More
As we have and will go through our own Stations in life; there will be many challenges, adversaries, loneliness, doubts of completing the journey, self-knowledge of one's weaknesses and strengths, fierce storms, the Simon of Cyrene to aid us and vice versa, poisonous serpents; and more. Complete the journey faithfully ALL the way and take resbite and nourishing nutrition along the way to take you to the Final Goal and highest peak - Heaven forever!
"By the word of His majesty He has set up all things, and by a word He can overturn them." Saint Clement "Let us fix our eyes on Christ's blood and understand how precious it is to His Father, for poured out for our salvation it has brought to the whole world the grace of repentance." Saint Clement [again] "In order that the mission entrusted to them might be continued after their death, [the apostles] ... designated such men and made the ruling that likewise on their death other men should take over their ministry." Saint Clement "Grant to them, Lord, health, peace, concord, and stability, so that they may exercise without offense the sovereignty that you have given them." Saint Clement
Pope Saint Clement I ~~~ They who are placed over the Churches must guard the Faith with exactness...
Synodality in Action: During the Holy Thursday liturgy, Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, delegated the foot-washing ritual to lay men and women. The Eucharist was at the Jesuits' church. Bishop Martin participated in the ritual himself, but he also allowed members of the laity to perform much of the optional Mandatum.
Brian Williams on Twitter: Meanwhile in Charlotte, Bishop Martin delegated the washing of feet on Holy Thursday to lay men and women. +Martin did participate to some degree, but at this Jesuit parish where he chose to celebrate Holy Thursday, the laity assumed the role of the clergy for much of the (optional) mandatum.
This morning Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel, called Pope Leo XIV, and they spoke on the telephone. They exchanged greetings for Passover and Easter. They discussed the current situation in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Catholics do not celebrate Passover. Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Law regarding Passover. To exchange greetings about Passover is to deny Christ's establishment of the Holy Eucharist and His death on the cross! Shame on those people!
In a quiet mountain valley, there lived an old man whose only possession was a magnificent white horse. The animal was so graceful and powerful that it seemed almost unreal. Kings and wealthy nobles sent messengers offering fortunes in gold for it, but the old man always refused. “This horse isn’t my property,” he would say. “He’s my friend. And you don’t sell a friend.” One cold, foggy morning, the stable was empty. The horse was gone. The villagers gathered at the old man’s home, shaking their heads. “You fool!” they said. “We told you to sell that horse while you had the chance. Now you’ve lost everything—no money, no horse. What a terrible misfortune!” The old man listened calmly and replied, “Don’t go so far with your judgments. Just say the horse is gone—that’s a fact. Everything else is interpretation. Whether it’s a misfortune or a blessing, I don’t know. I only see a small piece of the picture. Who knows what comes next?” The villagers laughed, convinced he had lost …More
The dawn of a new creation... Sunday, April 5 - Easter 2026 Dear brothers and sisters, Pope Francis has repeatedly reminded us that the Resurrection of Jesus is not a myth, a fantasy, a mirage, a magic formula that makes problems vanish; it is not the happy ending of a beautiful fairy tale, nor the happy ending of a movie; it is a historical event that truly occurred. A fact, a simple fact that occurred in the lives of some people. Christianity was born from here. It is not an ideology, it is not a philosophical system, but a journey of faith that begins with an event, witnessed by Jesus' first disciples. Saint Paul summarizes it this way: Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and on the third day he rose again and appeared to Peter and the Twelve (see 1 Cor 15:3-5). This is the fact: he died, he was buried, he was resurrected, in his true glorified body, and he appeared. That is, Jesus is alive! This is the core of the Christian message. This is the good news that the Church has been …More
Donald Tusk & @donaldtusk The threat of NATO's break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine and blocking the loan for Kviv bv Orbán - it all looks like Putin's dream plan.
**The Patristic and Scholastic Consensus Against the Modern Idolatry of the Marriage Bed: Marriage Is the Indissoluble Bond of Wills, Not the Operations of the Flesh** The Church Fathers and the great Scholastic theologians present a unified, sober, and supernatural vision of holy matrimony that stands in radical opposition to much contemporary Catholic teaching and pastoral rhetoric. In the tradition from **St. Augustine** through the Scholastics (including **Peter Lombard** and preeminently **St. Thomas Aquinas**), the **essence** of the sacrament of marriage resides in the **mutual consent** that forms the indissoluble bond (*vinculum*) of fidelity between husband and wife. This covenant of wills is the primal reality: it images the union of Christ and the Church, confers sacramental grace, and sanctifies the spouses independently of any carnal act. The three goods of marriage—**offspring** (*proles*), **fidelity** (*fides*), and the **sacramental bond** (*sacramentum*)—flow from …More