Jesuit, Catholic Priest Associate Pastor at St. Peter Claver
Punta Gorda, Belize
Joined April 2019
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Aric Serrano, SJ retweeted
🟥"Con tan solo 8 años tuve que hacerme cargo de mi madre no vidente. Viví violencia y abuso", manifestó Catherine, una vecina del Marconi que compartió su testimonio.
"Pasé por momentos oscuros y tomé decisiones que me hicieron daño".
"Durante mucho tiempo viví con miedo y tristeza. No podía quererme ni querer a mi hija, pero conocí a la Iglesia... me acerqué buscando un trabajo y me encontré una familia".
"Llegué rota; con paciencia y amor me ayudaron a pegarme pedacito a pedacito".
"Hoy puedo abrazar a mi hija, jugar con ella y sentirme madre. Sigo en la lucha, pero tengo en mi corazón paz y tranquilidad".
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I don't think the average viewer understands how deeply the famous line in Terrence Malick’s 2011 film The Tree of Life, "The nuns taught us there are two ways through life: the way of nature and the way of grace, you have to choose which one you'll follow," hits on basically the most hotly contested question in all of theology in the past 100 years. I spent three years discussing De Lubac's Surnaturel in a reading group around the same time the movie came out.
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110 seminarians!! The largest entering class in the HISTORY of the archdiocese! Priestly vocations are BOOMING in the Archdiocese of Denver, and the Holy Spirit is hard at work!
denvercatholic.org/a-harvest…
St. Charles Borromeo, patron of seminarians, pray for us.
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Today is the feast of Blessed Dominic Collins (1566–1602), who gave up the life of a soldier for the peace of religious life. But as an Irish #Jesuit brother, he died for his Catholic faith. ow.ly/J4wY50GBJfu
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Colleges and universities should immediately drop the now dumbed down SAT and replace it with the Classic Learning Test (CLT). At a minimum the CLT should be accepted as an alternative to the SAT and ACT.
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JUST IN FROM THE VATICAN: The follow up tests confirm that the pope’s cancer was confined to the resected lobe of his lung and that no further oncological treatment is necessary.
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In Fatima tonight, hundreds of thousands of faithful are praying the rosary for the good health of the “Bishop dressed in white”, Pope Leo XIV, who will be admitted to hospital tomorrow for surgery to remove a nodule in his lung.
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Here in Lourdes, the city of the sick and of hope, I appeal to the entire healthcare community to remember the profound meaning of your vocation, which is to care for a suffering person, not to eliminate that person. Be passionate servants of life! No one ever has the right to decide the life of any person. Medicine must never become the servant of programmed death! #ApostolicJourney #France vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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We have waited for years (decades?) for a modern Pope who will make clear we as a Church will always repudiate 1789 & all its diabolical and murderous works.
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Moving scenes as Pope Leo XIV cries as thousands of faithful sing the Salve Regina in Latin to honour Our Lady of Paris, on the steps of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
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"As it lacks a successor council to provide official retrospective commentary and corrective, it can hardly even be said to be past."
Aaron Pidel, S.J. (Pontifical Gregorian University) places it among the 21 ecumenical councils and explains the rival readings.
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A Doctor of the Church since Pope Benedict XVI declared her one in 2012, St. Hildegard -- whose feast day in the Catholic Church is today -- during her lifetime was persecuted by some churchmen & lay officials as a mere woman who should stay quiet & unobtrusive. And she was praised & supported by many other leading clergymen & rulers in Christendom as a voice the Church needed to hear a lot more from.
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In 2010, she stood at Harvard's podium delivering her valedictorian address — in Latin.
Today, she's a Dominican nun.
Watch her full speech for the first time with translated subtitles.
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What happened to the Spiritual Exercises when the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773? Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMV, explores how the Ignatian tradition continued during the 41 years of suppression with the help of different religious orders.
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Today on the feast day of St. Louis IX, I write about the interesting history of a Mopan Maya village in southern Belize that has him as the patron. The people fled Guatemala with a statue of him and settled in what is now San Antonio village.
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May the Lord grant eternal rest to Fr. Benedict Chao, OCSO, who died on July 31 at the Abbey of Our Lady of Joy on Lantau Island, Hong Kong. After his long life of faithful service, perseverance, and witness to Christ, may the Lord welcome him into the joy of His Kingdom and reward him for his fidelity through so many years of trial and suffering. #RIP
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Philosophy has to be taught historically and chronologically.
It makes zero sense to teach Hume's doubts about final causes before kids master Aristotle's view of causality.
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Congratulations to José Antonio Peralta-Salazar, SJ, Sergio Gómez, SJ, and Valentin Lobatos, SJ, of @JesuitsUCS, who pronounced first vows in the Society of Jesus on August 8 at @RegisUniversity in Denver.
➡️ beajesuit.org
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Younger Jesuits of the @jesuitsUCS province gathered for a Holy Hour last night to pray for our three novices professing today their First Vows. Pray with us for Sergio Gómez, Valentin Lobatos and José Antonio Peralta-Salazar. AMDG
