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21/09/2024

𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙝, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚
𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 '𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 13𝙩𝙝' 𝙁𝙖𝙩𝙚!

It’s Friday the 13th again— a day that strikes genuine fear into the hearts of many people. But if you run into a Catholic who is faithfully following the teachings of the Church, you won’t find them in distress today. That’s because Catholics have found something that far surpasses any superstitious belief: the truth of the Gospel.

Superstitions have long been a part of human history and our shared cultural experience.The Catechism says that superstition is “the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes” (2111).

In keeping with the first commandment, it goes on to describe “all practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others” as “gravely contrary to the virtue of religion” (2117). If we engage with the occult or other expressions of superstition, what we are really revealing is a lack of trust in God’s goodness. The desire at the root of superstition is control over one’s destiny. If we wish to control our own destiny and will do whatever it takes to do so, then we do not truly trust in God’s loving plan for us.

If you have fallen into superstition, do not fear. Most of the time, this happens unknowingly. The important thing is to begin again. Go to confession and ask for the grace of a pure trust in God’s loving plan for you. There is no story for your life that you can create that is better than the one to which God is inviting you.

Keep the Catholic Faith, and disregard the scare of the Friday the 13th Fate!





Sources:

(1) Feeling nervous on Friday the 13th? Here’s why Catholics aren’t superstitious—Catholic TV
(2) Pinterest

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14/09/2024

𝘾𝙃𝙐𝙍𝘾𝙃 𝘾𝙀𝙇𝙀𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 | 𝙎𝙀𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍 14
𝙁𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙓𝘼𝙇𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙍𝙊𝙎𝙎

The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross celebrates two historical events: the discovery of the True Cross by Saint Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, in 320 under the temple of Venus in Jerusalem, and the dedication in 335 of the basilica and shrine built on Calvary by Constantine, which mark the site of the Crucifixion.

- The basilica, named the Martyrium, and the shrine, named the Calvarium, were destroyed by the Persians in 614. The Church of the Holy sepulcher which now stands on the site was built by the crusaders in 1149.

- However the feast, more than anything else, is a celebration and commemoration of God's greatest work: his salvific death on the Cross and His Resurrection, through which death was defeated and the doors to Heaven opened.

- The entrance antiphon for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is: "We should glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, for he is our salvation, our life and our resurrection: through him we are saved and made free."

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THE HOLY CROSS PRAYER

Oh Lord Almighty! You have suffered death at the cross for our sins.

Oh Holy Cross of Jesus! be my true light. Oh Holy Cross of Jesus! fill my soul with good thoughts.

Oh Holy Cross! help me in my salvation.

Oh Holy Cross! safeguard me against unholy thoughts and worldly dangers that I may worship the Holy Cross of Jesus of Nazareth crucified.

Have pity on me. Oh Holy Cross of Jesus! be my hope. Oh Holy Cross have mercy on me forever and ever.

In honor of the Precious Blood of Jesus and His fearful Death and Resurrection and His Glorification which leads to everlasting life.

As true as Jesus is born on Christmas and crucified on Good Friday. As true as St. Joseph and Nicodemus took Jesus down from the cross.

As true as Jesus ascended into heaven. May He preserve me from my enemies both visible and invisible forever and ever.

Lord Almighty, into Your hands I give my soul and my body.

Oh Lord Jesus! grant me strength to bear the cross as Yourself.

Teach me to bear it with great humility that the Blessed Virgin may fill me with the Holy Spirit. Preserve my soul and lead it to life everlasting.

Amen.

Sources:

(1) The Exaltation of the Holy Cross—Catholic News Agency (CNA)

(2) THE HOLY CROSS PRAYER—Vatican Site

(3) 📷 DevianArt, Pinterest, PngTree

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