SOLI DEO + GOD ALONE
Table of Contents
+Catholic Education – Fighting to Create Saints
+Photo reflection:
Pearl of Great Price
+From Paul to Saul. Pt 2 – Journal #008 Waves
+Photo reflection:
Light to the Gentiles
+Prayer for Priests
+Stay Sharp Resources
+Virgin of Guadalupe, Memorare Prayer
+Deo Gratias
– Thank you Page
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+To draw souls To love the life united to the Cross in seeing Things with a monastic heart by providing art and journalism to see the beauty of the Cross and The Hope in His promises of Forgiveness of Sins and New life to rest under the mantle of our Lady and Stay in the State of grace (Ps 91)
+ The Aim to do all for the Glory of God to help The faithful Stay united to Live the Holy mass by Support of the SaCraments, the Priesthood, devotion to The Holy Family, and God’s Commandments. (Gal 2:20)
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Prayer To the Holy Spirit By Cardinal Mercier
O Holy Spirit, Beloved of my soul, I adore You. Enlighten me, Guide me, strengthen me, console me. Tell me what I should Do; give me Your orders.
I Promise to submit myself to all that You desire of me and to accept all that You Permit to happen to me. Let me only know Your will.
CATHOLIC EDUCATION
Fighting to Create Saints
Reflection :
“Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and saith to them: I find no cause in him.”
[John 18:38]
I had not seen a betrothal till four years ago, the thought came to mind of St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin, when they had waited to come together. Much of what it reminds me of what has been lost in the foundation of family life, thus in what graces are needed for the true education of children to be raised in the world to reflect His Holy Family by Christ obedience, St. Joseph’s poverty of spirit, and our Lady’s purity in chastity.
“[18] Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.” [Matthew 1:18]
What damage Liberalism has done to souls and our women. The heart is restless without God, so are our women without the True Faith, as they are meant to be our hearts of the family and of husbands. The education of our ladies to see the merciful Love of the Father is essential, for as the raising of Saints: priests, religious, and holy families.
Much of what we are taught slowly turns what is good to distort the end towards vanity rather than the aim of Heaven and the gift of grace by the use of our talents. We want to compete rather than glorify God. We turn to compete against His grace. Modern education makes the end unknown by removing God and His Church.
There is so much good and beauty, beauty in souls He has made. Yet what I learn by my time in the world, my past life of sin, was that without Truth, Christ, the beauty will not last nor satisfy for long. Even beauty can corrupt without the Truth. I photographed much beauty, but without humility it can be led to sin, rather than draw us to the true purpose which is to know God and serve Him in Love.
True education can not deny God, for what is any gift or knowledge without Charity (1 Corinthians 13:3) but nothing. Knowledge can just be used to destroy and enslave us just as the Fall did. What Freed us but the Truth, which is only found in Christ Jesus (1 John 5:6) He nailed the serpent’s tricks to the Cross by nailing our corrupt Human Nature that used its intellect and will to disobey God and showed a supernatural Faith in God’s goodness in the Father’s will that goes beyond knowledge, but requires humility to use our high facilities, the intellect and the will, to serve God in our sense and passions being tamed.
We are made for Infinite love. Our vocations in life is our response to serve God whom is Infinite Love. Men, our way to console to help reflect the Father who is there to counsel and be the icon of Love to the body. As St. Joseph was to our Lady and Lord in the Holy House. It is by the people God places in our lives we serve this infinite desire to be loved especially in our families and wife or husband. God alone could only fill this infinite desire to want more love, it is what I found, especially in the Blessed Sacrament which is the source, grace flows down like a stream to those around us when in grace when we know that we serve God by the burning heart that drives us like in my call now serving that love in my mother.
14 But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
John 4:14
Hoping that burning love I have received may fuel me to reflect such merciful love’s Face. This is what I found so important in the Cross and the Shelter: it promises. When we realize He carries ti with us we help Him in our salvation which gives sacrifice and suffering meaning and the heart rest that we are not merely doing anything alone. Education in the world lacks this and sells us the lie of the Devil, that we can do it alone and be like gods. Usually causing people like Shia LeBeouf to be self seeking as he mentions before his conversion. Yet Catholic Education provides the Truth of why we exist, when taught by Society Schools and it’s friends, we are told we are made for Love, which takes sacrifice, this sacrifice of our self will and we rest in knowing we are loved by the Living Infinite God, thus sharing our Love to serve Him in where He places us by the help of the Good Angeles to inspire offering ourselves to Love in our state in life and vocation. +
Before class in the 1960s students would turn to the Crucifix and say:
I pledge allegiance to Thee my God:
To God the Father, who created me;
To God the Son, who redeemed me;
To God the Holy Ghost, who Sanctifies me.
“Make Everyday Mary’s Day” was a motto used
It is the Family that Educates
“Suffer the little children to come unto Me,”[1] We also on every occasion have endeavored to show the predilection wholly paternal which We bear towards them, particularly by our assiduous care and timely instructions with reference to the Christian education of youth…
6. The reason is that men, created by God to His image and likeness and destined for Him Who is infinite perfection realize today more than ever amid the most exuberant material progress, the insufficiency of earthly goods to produce true happiness either for the individual or for the nations. And hence they feel more keenly in themselves the impulse towards a perfection that is higher, which impulse is implanted in their rational nature by the Creator Himself. This perfection they seek to acquire by means of education. But many of them with, it would seem, too great insistence on the etymological meaning of the word, pretend to draw education out of human nature itself and evolve it by its own unaided powers. Such easily fall into error, because, instead of fixing their gaze on God, first principle and last end of the whole universe, they fall back upon themselves, becoming attached exclusively to passing things of earth; and thus their restlessness will never cease till they direct their attention and their efforts to God, the goal of all perfection, according to the profound saying of Saint Augustine: “Thou didst create us, O Lord, for Thyself, and our heart is restless till it rest in Thee.”[3] 7. It is therefore as important to make no mistake in education, as it is to make no mistake in the pursuit of the last end, with which the whole work of education is intimately and necessarily connected. In fact, since education consists essentially in preparing man for what he must be and for what he must do here below, in order to attain the sublime end for which he was created, it is clear that there can be no true education which is not wholly directed to man’s last end, and that in the present order of Providence, since God has revealed Himself to us in the Person of His Only Begotten Son, who alone is “the way, the truth and the life,” there can be no ideally perfect education which is not Christian education.”
Ref: DIVINI ILLIUS MAGISTRI ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
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Top Left – Traditional Roman Rite baptism of child before entering the Church.
Top Middle – betrothal ceremony, woman kisses the missal and Canon of the Mass.
Middle Right – SSPX sisters enjoying the procession of the Candelaria in Pacita Olvera St.
Bottom Left – Bride enters Church of St. Teressa of Avila for Traditional Marriage.
Bottom Right – Eucharistic Crusaders following the Procession on the Feast of Christ the King.
The Pearl of Great Price
Oh what a gift it would be to have a prudent wife. A treasure would be in such a queen to love the nest, that is to say a woman that enjoys being home. How often in my past life of sin I never liked to be home, how I treasure it. Oh what a joy of a wife with such a monastic heart to enjoy the home.
What a pearl she would be.
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Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her [Proverbs 31:10]
“House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.”
Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Who are the two or three who gather in the name of Christ with the Lord in their midst? By three does he not mean husband, wife and child? “A wife is united with her husband by God.” But if a man wishes to be unencumbered and prefers to avoid producing children because of the time it takes up, then, says the apostle, “he had better stay unmarried like me.” … God through his Son is with those who responsibly marry and produce children, and it is the same God who in the same way is with the man who shows selfcontrol in the light of the Logos.
Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
Charity is magnanimous; charity is kind; charity envieth not; charity acteth not vainly, is not puffed up, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; loveth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things Charity never falleth.”. It loveth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, beareth all things. Charity shall never fail.”
Placita Olvera, Downtown Los Angeles, Ca
From Saul To Paul
The Midnight Ocean Ch.2 Waves
He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water
[John 7:38]
Two thousand fourteen to Two thousand seventeen where years of much trial. The three years of the massive waves. How often I ran through the mud of sin and did not enjoy the rest in the rainy days, but could not hold still to be washed in grace to purify my wants. Oh how the waves hold us back from floating away. In the rain we often have the chance to be still and let go. God being able to navigate through what we can not see.
It is why I begin this series with my own journey through the storms in showing how She, Star of the Sea, recused me taking me from Saul, one prideful in my own will in seeking what to fight and defend to Paul, a disciple willing to learn for the good of my soul from the True Master and Rabbi, our Lord Jesus Christ.
You will find more of my own shipwrecked and scouring in a short book I am compiling in a photo book called “ the Midnight Ocean: Star of the Sea,” the title is a summary of a parable and image of my life coming from darkness, but seeking the Light of Truth. That in the midst of such trials in my life the ocean of His compassionate Mother’s Heart would always find me just as in the ocean, or near the beach at midnight there is not much you can see, but you know by Faith it is there, oftentimes we can still hear the ocean breeze or smell it, but the vast darkness is all we see. A lesson of life was to stand firm in faith, walk by Faith, and not by sight. (1 Cor 13:13, 1 Cor 16:13, 2 Cor 5:7)
+God bless and Mary protect you always, in umbra Dei,
German T
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+DIVINI ILLIUS MAGISTRI
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
+ NATURE DIGNITY AND MISSION OF WOMAN
By Fr. Karl Stehlin
+ INTEGRITY 3 – FATHERHOOD & FAMILY
+TRUSTFUL SURRENDER TO DIVINE
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