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| Note from the Managing Editor |
One of my favorite quotes from our new resources this week is "The nonviolent battle to protect our tiny unborn brothers and sisters continues, and we must not grow weary." (Source.)
When you look at the culture at large, it is easy to become disheartened. There is so much evil. Finding the energy to keep fighting requires prayer and, I think, becomes easier when we remember who so often is at stake: children.
It is children who are being dismembered in the womb, before they can take their first precious breaths of air.
It is children who are being handed cross-sex hormones with no understanding of what this might mean for their fertility, physical health, and permanent appearance — and with no real concern from the doctors writing the prescription. (In "Gender Reassignment for Children: Cautionary Perspectives From Science," a psychoanalyst gives "the example of one of his patients who had been put on a waiting list for a double mastectomy after only one consultation with a clinician.")
It is children who are being asked to bear the burden of their parents' selfish decisions. (In "How Having a Gay Father Showed Me the Lies of Progressive Catholicism," Katie Gillio writes, "Out of loyalty to my father, I would never have shared my instinctive doubts about his lifestyle, but I distinctly remember being unsettled by it. And yet I shrugged off my feelings and ignored my discomfort so that I could be a supportive daughter.")
Christ is blunt about what is reserved for those who so treat children. "It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin." (Luke 17:2)
Our responsibility, our calling, towards children is the opposite of this destruction. In "Authority and the Gift of Fatherhood" John Cuddeback writes, "a father [is] a person especially entrusted with the responsibility, indeed the obligation, of guiding the child … toward becoming the person he can be."
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"Once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester when I happened to be in some public disfavour, a man came up to me, grasped my hand and observed: 'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'" - Malcolm Muggeridge
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| Love, the Eucharist, and the Heart of Jesus |
| Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche, The Book of Infinite Love |
| Devotion to the Blessed Eucharist and devotion to the Sacred Heart are not only two sister devotions; in reality they are only one and the same devotion. |
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| Authority and the Gift of Fatherhood |
| John Cuddeback, LifeCraft |
| There is perhaps no greater intimacy possible between men than when a son looks to a father from whom he has learned to be a father himself. |
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| Effects of Holy Communion |
| Tan Direction |
| There is a correspondence between the natural uses of the matter of the Sacraments and at least some of the effects they produce. |
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| Why is the Sacred Heart on fire? |
| Aleteia |
| The image of the Sacred Heart on fire is directly from the private revelations of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, but is also very biblical. |
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| Fighting the Devil |
| The Catholic Sun |
| Ouija boards, séances, tarot cards and energy healing all have one thing in common: They serve as entry points for demonic activity. |
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