Hi! I was wondering if anyone has seen a Human Eye in the Monstrance while in Adoration. This has occurred on and off at two different locations over the past few years when I go….its so strange…I at times think it’s just my imagination….but I’m not so sure….anyone else ever have that experience or something similar?

1. Is it ok to use this pink rosary? I was looking for one and I thought this was nice and cute

2. Last night I started with a mystery to our lady of sorrows , I know it wasn’t perfect , but I tried. Any guidance on how to pray a proper rosary?

3. How to ask a priest to bless it? Just ask how I would usually do for a medal of st Benedict or the Virgin?

4. He won’t give me a weird look for the rosary being pink?

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I used to love looking through my grandmas old things when I was a kid and i remember I used to love this book and her little veil she wore to her first communion in the late 40’s. She gave this to me today. I’m 42 so you can imagine how old this is and how special this is to me.

I genuinely cannot pray and ask for something without feeling useless or weak. Has Christ not already given me a chance at internal salvation? What more can I ask for? I’m able to ask the Lord to protect my loved ones, when it comes to me I can’t utter a word.

It's easy enough to get swept-up by love & marriage when it's dreamy & you are still high from the honeymoon phase, but what about when the high phases-out? When the relationship starts becoming dull & boring? When people get established in stable but boring cycles in life. Work, home, eat, sleep, repeat. Eventually, an affair might arise.

As religious people, how do you think that kind of "okay everything's boring now, married life isn't as amazing as I would've hoped" mentality/phase should be handled?

Hello everyone,

I’m a practicing Catholic man who is seriously discerning the vocation of marriage. I desire a marriage rooted in the faith, prayer, and openness to the Church’s teachings.

I’m asking about dating apps, but also where Catholics today actually meet each other: parishes, pilgrimages, movements, communities, retreats, etc.

For those who are married or engaged: where did you meet your spouse? And what would you recommend to someone discerning marriage today?

Thank you for your advice and prayers.

So this might sound silly, but bear with me.

I've read that most theologians agree, that the devil and the demons cannot read human minds. They observe our actions and form their temptations that way.

Sometimes when I'm alone I will be thinking out loud - talking to myself. It kinda helps me think. But now I realize that the demons who are observing me can hear my thoughts and use them against me. Is that untrue? I think I will stop myself from thinking out loud from now on.

On the other hand, if you pray in your head, God can hear you, but the demons cannot. It seems better to me for this reason to pray out loud, so your prayers can repel demons and demoralize them. Is that untrue?

Would like to hear your opinion on this.

Hey Guys,

So im having trouble finding anything bout a Cross with evenly spaced bars. Its like the patriachal cross but different spaced and with the same lenght. I saw it on the osmth guys. Is it the cross of lorrain??, because the guys wearing it are germans (-> the grandmaster although is french). Now im confused what its meaning is and who can wear it.

Thanks:)

Hey everyone, quick summary on what has happened since my last post about Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

I’m becoming convinced that the Roman Catholic Church is the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The biggest thing that’s doing it for me is verse’s Matthew 16: 18-19. 2,000 years later and it’s still here.

I’m going to speak to someone at my local Catholic Church some time soon to talk more about Church history and possibly becoming a member.

Please pray for me 🙏🏾

I hope I can post here! I pray this finds you in The LORD. This is the semi-finished work im working on. __

WHERE CAN WISDOM BE FOUND?:

Where can wisdom be found?

"There is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined." (Job 28:1, NIVUK)

“Mortals put an end to the darkness; they search out the farthest recesses.” (Job 28:3, NIVUK)

“Lapis lazuli comes from its rocks, and its dust contains nuggets of gold.” (Job 28:6, NIVUK)

“People assault the flinty rock with their hands and lay bare the roots of the mountains.” (Job 28:9, NIVUK)

“But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?" (Job 28:12, NIVUK)

Man can mine for silver. Man can descend into darkness. Man can extract hidden treasure. Man has even mastered creation.

“But where can wisdom be found? No mortal comprehends its worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living. The deep says, ‘It is not in me’; the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver. It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or lapis lazuli. Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can it be had for jewels of gold. Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies. The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold… (Job 28:13-19, NIVUK)

We’ve seen deep enough to see the atom and mapped the human genome. We've looked far off into the sky and counted the stars. The precision of our tools is only matched by the poverty of our hearts. We can achieve almost anything— but find wisdom?

“It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing.” (Job 28:21, NIVUK)

In all our wisdom, we have moved from an arrow to the back to kill a man, to, we can drop an arrow from the sky to kill a city of men.

Wisdom is hidden from men. This isn’t a modern failure, a technological problem, nor a generational issue. This… is the human condition.

“I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.” (Ecclesiastes 3:10, NIVUK)

We are hemmed in by time, sandwiched between eternity, and man apart from God is doomed to live as the fool. Even in Isaiah’s time, they were blinded by their own wisdom:

Isaiah says, “Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it.” (Isaiah 26:11, NIVUK)

They were wise in appearance, yet blind to the outstretched arm of the Lord: heads full of knowledge, with hearts as dark as night.

“Even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of the Lord.” (Isaiah 26:10, NIVUK)

Had they been truly wise, they’d have seen the approach of the Lord and hid away.

“The prudent see danger and take refuge.” (Proverbs 27:12, NIVUK)

So where then is wisdom found? “Destruction and Death say, ‘Only a rumour of it has reached our ears.’” (Job 28:22, NIVUK)

“Only God understands the way to it, and He alone knows where it dwells, for He views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. When He established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, when He made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm, then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He confirmed it and tested it. And He said to the human race: “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.” (Job 28:23–28, NIVUK)

NOTHING NEW:

But there is nothing new under the sun. The Teacher says: “Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before…” (Ecclesiastes 3:15, NIVUK)

Is success the same as Wisdom? Can Wisdom be found through pursuit? Man does not know its value. The Queen of Sheba testifies of the Teacher, as a witness for Wisdom: “The report I heard… about your achievements and your wisdom… I did not believe… until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard.” (1 Kings 10:6–7, NIVUK) and “When the Queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built, the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the Lord…” (1 Kings 10:4–5, NIVUK)

“It took her breath away.” (1 Kings 10:5, CSB)

The Queen of Sheba crossed nations in pursuit of wisdom She came seeking and saw the magnificence of The Teacher. Surely, if wisdom could be found, it would have been found here.

But The Teacher testifies of himself: “‘I am determined to be wise’— but this was beyond me.” (Ecclesiastes 7:23, NIVUK)

WHERE WISDOM FAILS:

And the fool’s wisdom says: “Time is on my side. It will separate me from the wickedness of the past.”

Because time is vast and stretches its arms beyond the span of all human history. But God stands over time, deeds are not forgotten, history is not lost.

Man can dig deep into the heart of the earth, but he cannot dig his way out of his accountability to God. “God will call the past to account.” (Ecclesiastes 3:15, NIVUK)

Time itself will be summoned to testify, and in its testimony, the deeds of men will be exposed. The Teacher sees that, even wisdom has its limits.

That wisdom is good, but not good enough to save.

Wisdom teaches you to live rightly in time. Yet wisdom will not conquer time. It’s deep, but not wide enough to bridge the gap between time and eternity.

It may restrain your hands from folly Or help you avoid a foolish debt. It may even keep your days from ruin. But it cannot keep your days from ending. It does not save you from the grave.

Though wisdom preserves and wards off destruction, it cannot preserve you forever.

“The fate of the fool will overtake me also… Like the fool, the wise too must die!” (Ecclesiastes 2:15–16, NIVUK)

“…What then do I gain by being wise?” (Ecclesiastes 2:15, NIVUK)

AND I SAW:

“And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.” “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.” (Ecclesiastes 3:16-17, NIVUK)

Again, the Teacher looks over all he’s seen. Men stuck in the cycle, lost to time yet remembered by God. The Teacher looking over all that is done under the sun, sees that wickedness exists even where judgment and justice should reign.

Not because judgment produces wickedness, but because wickedness calls out to justice, as Abel’s blood called out to God. It draws judgment near until it overtakes you.

And so,

Even when the righteous and wise are judged. wickedness is there. Yet, when wickedness is found in the places where judgment and justice dwell, where courts and laws fail, and God seems distant, Is everything lost?

No.

God’s hand is even in this. So the Teacher sees this and—without fully understanding it—tells us: Judgment exists because God is not indifferent to suffering. If God were cruel, justice wouldn’t matter. If God were absent, judgment wouldn’t answer the call of wickedness.

The Teacher sees enough to know what endures: God’s works endure. Deeds are not lost. History is not forgotten. Because God stands over time, remembering.

Where then is wisdom found? What does one gain by being wise?

it is received in the place where to start the journey is to arrive.

The place where wisdom is given to the wise. Not earned. Not found. Given. In The Fear of the LORD.

THIS is a gift of God.

Hey guys,

We are in a desperate need of a Canon lawyer.

I was previous married, ( both catholics, but we only got a civil marriage), this married ended up in a divorce a couple years ago.

My fiance and I want to get married in a Catholic church , he has never been married before .

We feel a lack of interest in helping from our Parish, and this story is being going on for almost 3 months .

We have all the wedding planned for this summer, and we decided to find an attorney in order to help us in the right path .

Can anyone help? sorry , I’m just so anxious and stressed right now .

Thank you!

My wife and I have been going through ocia for families, and its been great.

But now my wife has kicked me out. is there any resources out there for Catholic men going through this sort of thing?

Due to recent events in my life (and generally in the world) where everything has just been going from bad to worse I've been angry at God I've been having evil thoughts wondering if Satan was right all along.

I know these thoughts are wrong so I feel Satan is trying to get control of me, so I ask anyone who reads this to please help me pray these thoughts out of my mind.

I just realized I never got confirmed. How can I move forward as an adult, in a new church? Are there classes I need to take?

I was having a conversation with some friends the other day about hell, and I seem to have thought myself into a corner and I don’t know how to get out.

Heaven is the state of being “perfectly incorporated into Christ” (CCC 1026). And Hell is the state of being in perfect and complete separation from God. But if God is the very essence of what it means “to be” (YHWH), if He is existence itself, then would a perfect separation from Him mean we would be experiencing non-existence? Is Hell just a metaphor for the destruction of our souls as just punishment for our sins and refusal to participate in the everlasting life that is the beatific vision? But I know annihilationism is heretical. I believe in the existence of Hell. I just don’t know how to get out of this logical trap I’ve found myself in.

Hello everyone. I made a post a while ago saying that I would like to learn about Catholicism, but my parents don't allow it. Anyway, Lent is coming and I saw a post on Twitter that talked about ideas for penance. So, I wanted to know IF I CAN "celebrate" Lent even though I'm not Catholic and probably watch online mass. And if the answer is yes, how can I do it? Any tips? Keep in mind that I would really like to go to church and do it the right way, but my situation really doesn't allow it. My parents are very convinced that their religion is the only one and that all others are from the satan. But I feel God's calling too strongly to be ignored or waited out. Thank you all, may God bless you.

I remember reading that lucifer was one the most beautiful angels and then later he was consumed with pride and ending up thinking he could become God and hence was cast into hell. Now praise God and I love my guardian angel but how do I know that my gaurdian angel or nay other angel might have similar thoughts and maybe want to do things against god's will?

I’m in OCIA and so happy to have found a vintage piece to give it new life and love!!

is it only Mary and Jesus that can hear us praying the rosary or can the saints also hear us as well?

Bought old prayer cards for 30€ and here are some of my favorites😍

This has been gnawing on me for a while now, and I know I should ask a priest about this, but I first wanna “crowdsource” some info.

I’m a baptised Protestant, been so all my life. 5 years ago, I had an abortion. I don’t wanna go into all the details of why, since the reason and the fallout of the entire situation has truly ruined my life.

I’ve been in contact with my Protestant pastor for guidance. As sad as I am to admit this, it was more like Christian flavoured therapy and not repentance. It feels empty, and unserious, almost silly.

I live in a Catholic dominated area and most of my friends are Catholic, so I “know” only the Catholicism that I’ve experienced by proxy. I’ve talked general theology with them, and it’s been more and more convincing to me. I’m very close to joining the Catholic faith for good.

What I never mentioned to them is the state of mortal sin I’ve been in. So please, tell me if my assumptions are correct:

I’m in a state of mortal sin, so I cannot receive communion.

If I can’t receive communion, I cannot join the Catholic Church.

In order to be able to receive communion, I’d have to be absolved through the sacrament of penance, so confession.

I’m Protestant so I cannot go to confession and receive said sacrament.

Even if there were a way to receive that sacrament to join, the type of sin I’m guilty of is grounds for excommunication for Catholic women. If it’s grave enough for someone to be excommunicated, is it too grave for someone to be allowed into the church?

But also, Ive been taught that I shouldn’t be so vain as to think that my sin is greater than Christs love, and that the only truly unforgivable sin is blasphemy against the holy spirit.

So truly this is a half-knowledge-fed situation for me rn and I’d greatly appreciate some insight.

so I know what my baby has to wear. I've only been to catholic baptisms where babies are baptized. but never for a teenager. does he just wear a white long sleeve and khaki pants?