Roaming Romans

02/26/2026

02/18/2026

MAGA CATHOLICS! It doesn’t get much clearer than this! I put a post up with a picture of a little brown girl wearing a veil standing in front of me, waiting to go to the confessional and I could not believe how many MAGA Catholics spent way too much time fighting and arguing with me when in reality all you have to do is read the gospels and you’ll find out what’s going on with innocent undocumented migrants in this country is extremely serious and very foolish, especially if you claimed to be a Catholic! And if you don’t like what I just said, or what I said in my post that went viral then maybe you need to listen to the Holy Father! 🙏

The pope is referring to Matthew 25 and what Jesus decides at the end of the world with every person! The sheep and the goats! In my post that went viral I simply asked MAGA Catholics are you out of your mind? Have you completely lost your minds cheerleading ICE gestapo chasing little girls that are DoorDashing into homes where they completely fall into hysterics because they realize men in masks wearing army fatigues are about to kidnap her and take them to God knows where? This kind of stuff is happening all over our country.! Are you as MAGA Catholics out of your minds for supporting this level of EVIL!? Pope Leo IV is basically warning of Matthew 25! Read it yourself.! 😑

02/11/2026

Catechism of the Catholic Church
§ 74 – 79

“He appointed twelve that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach"
God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth": that is, of Christ Jesus. Christ must be proclaimed to all nations and individuals, so that this revelation may reach to the ends of the earth... "Christ the Lord, in whom the entire Revelation of the most high God is summed up, commanded the apostles to preach the Gospel, which had been promised beforehand by the prophets, and which he fulfilled in his own person and promulgated with his own lips. In preaching the Gospel, they were to communicate the gifts of God to all men. This Gospel was to be the source of all saving truth and moral discipline."

In keeping with the Lord's command, the Gospel was handed on in two ways: orally "by the apostles who handed on, by the spoken word of their preaching, by the example they gave, by the institutions they established, what they themselves had received - whether from the lips of Christ, from his way of life and his works, or whether they had learned it at the prompting of the Holy Spirit"; in writing "by those apostles and other men associated with the apostles who, under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit, committed the message of salvation to writing". In order that the full and living Gospel might always be preserved in the Church the apostles left bishops as their successors. They gave them their own position of teaching authority." Indeed, "the apostolic preaching, which is expressed in a special way in the inspired books, was to be preserved in a continuous line of succession until the end of time."

This living transmission, accomplished in the Holy Spirit, is called Tradition, since it is distinct from Sacred Scripture, though closely connected to it. Through Tradition, "the Church, in her doctrine, life and worship, perpetuates and transmits to every generation all that she herself is, all that she believes." "The sayings of the holy Fathers are a witness to the life-giving presence of this Tradition, showing how its riches are poured out in the practice and life of the Church, in her belief and her prayer.” The Father's self-communication made through his Word in the Holy Spirit, remains present and active in the Church.

(References : Vatican Council II : Dei Verbum, § 7 – 8)

02/11/2026

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross. ✝️

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

02/11/2026

“Do not, then, regard the Eucharistic
elements as ordinary bread and wine:
they are in fact that Body and Blood of the Lord,
as He Himself has declared.
Whatever your senses may tell you, be strong in faith.

You have been taught and you are firmly convinced
that what looks and tastes like bread and wine is not
bread and wine but the Body and Blood of Christ.
You know also how David referred to this long ago,
when he sang: Bread gives strength to man's heart
and makes his face shine with the oil of gladness.

Strengthen your heart, then, by receiving
this bread as spiritual bread, and bring joy
to the face of your soul. May purity of conscience
remove the veil from the face of your soul so that by contemplating the glory of the Lord, as in a mirror,
you may transformed from glory to glory in Christ Jesus
our Lord. To Him be glory for ever and ever. Amen."

An except from
The Bread of Heaven and the Cup of Salvation,
St Cyril of Jerusalem, Early Church Father

St.Cyril if Jerusalem, pray for us!

02/11/2026

From: Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
hermit and missionary in the Sahara

"What did you go out to the desert to see?"

The Hebrews travelled through the desert, Moses lived there before he received his mission, Saint Paul and Saint John Chrysostom were also made ready in the desert ... It is a time of grace, a period during which all souls who want to bear fruit necessarily have to pass. They need this silence, recollection and forgetfulness of all created things in the midst of which God establishes his reign and forms a spirit of interiority within them: life in intimacy with God, conversation of the soul with God in faith, hope and love. Later on, the soul will produce fruit in precisely the measure to which this interior man has been formed within it (Eph 3:16) ...

We can only give what we have, and it is in solitude, in that life alone with God alone, that profound recollection of the soul who forgets all else to live alone in union with God, that God gives himself wholly to the one who is thus given wholly to him. Give yourselves wholly to him alone ... and he will give himself wholly to you ... Look at Saint Paul, Saint Benedict, Saint Patrick, Saint Gregory the Great and so many others – what long periods of recollection and silence they spent! Go higher: look at Saint John the Baptist, look at our Lord. Our Lord had no need of it, but he wanted to set us an example.

02/11/2026

We have only one, very short document written about Jesus during his own lifetime: the inscription explaining the reason for his ex*****on. Luke quotes it as saying: "This is the King of the Jews." Short as it is, it has the power to indict everyone who contemplates it.

The accusation, which John tells us caused controversy as soon as Pilate wrote it, explains the government's reason for executing Jesus. He was subversive. He refused to worship at the altars of imperial power where people are coerced to accept that might makes right. Jesus was charged with atheism, with sedition regarding the gods and rulers of his day. The alternative he offered was the God who wielded the power of merciful love as the only option to a world of violence, division and death.

The religious leaders near the cross inadvertently revealed their core creed, saying, "If he's God's chosen one, he should save himself." Their theology was clear: "God helps us to help ourselves." They were heirs to the same faith tradition as Jesus but rejected the lens through which he read it.

The soldiers, not much given to original thought, summarized the civil and religious positions with their jeering judgment that anybody who was aligned with the powerful should be able to muster self-serving force. All of these actors were putting Jesus' theology on trial. Would Jesus' God save him or prove impotent when confronted with the powers of palace and temple?

In Jesus' last moments on earth, Luke allowed two criminals to focus the question of the ultimate meaning of his life. The first agreed with the forces that had seemingly brought Jesus to this moment. "Are you not the Christ? If you are, then work the miracle! Dazzle and compel them to believe in you! And, by the way, bring us along on the getaway." With his final breath, this man spoke for all who believe in the definitive power of domination and ultimate value of self-preservation.

The other criminal became the Gospel's final and perhaps most unanticipated model disciple. Like the humble tax collector of Jesus' parable on prayer, his focus was on God and the blameless man who shared his fate. Unlike anyone else in the scene, he perceived God's presence in the innocent victim by his side. This criminal alone grasped the mystery that the King of the universe was powerful enough to lay down his life, trusting only in God.

Understanding this, he could turn to Jesus and pray, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom." He was perhaps the only person present at that moment who desired a place in Jesus' kingdom, and thus he was a comfort to Jesus, even as Jesus promised him salvation.

Today's feast invites us to contemplate the crucifix as we hear the proclamation, "He is the image of the invisible God." This image of Christ the King puts all our ideas about God on trial. This image of Christ the King demands a response from us. We either ask to be a part of his reign or we choose to try to save ourselves.

We see here the God who comes to save, no matter the cost. We see here the God who knows nothing of coercion except its impotence when confronted by love.

Luke invites us to look at the Christ and call him our King. Aware of what it costs, we are invited to repeat our Easter proclamation, "This is the faith we are proud to profess."

As we meditate on what it means to call this Christ our King, we understand the insight of the criminal who didn't ask Jesus to work any more of a miracle than to love him beyond death. He understood that Jesus needed no saving. He realized that Jesus wasn't seeking an escape, because the cross revealed who he was as the Word made flesh, in solidarity with humanity and trusting the Father.

This criminal, one of the most wretched of humankind, understood that God was by his side. He prayed, "Remember me."

And as Jesus replied, "This day …", he declared that man "fit to share the inheritance of the saints in light" (Colossians 1:12).

The feast of Christ the King of the Universe is a triumphant celebration of God's reconciling love, of divine solidarity with humanity, of God's love for us at our neediest. The image of Christ the King on the cross proclaims God's presence with us in our most wretched moments, offering us a love and salvation we could not deserve at our best. This is the feast of the indomitable power of love.
—Mary M. McGlone

[Mary M. McGlone is a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She is a freelance writer and executive director of FUVIRESE USA, a charitable foundation that supports work with people with disabilities in Ecuador.]

02/11/2026

"One day, I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end of the road without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And there numbers were so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings."
--Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, #153

02/11/2026

The late Fr. Benedict Groeschel once shared a particular experience that aired on EWTN that stuck with me. The story speaks volumes.

He was traveling with a Protestant minister in a car and as they passed a Catholic Church, Fr. Benedict made the usual sign of the Cross… the minister asked him why he did this. Fr. Benedict shared that it was out of reverence for Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. The minister then said, “if I believed what you believe, I would get out of the car, run inside the Church, fall on my knees and never get up again.”

Think about it Catholics!!

02/03/2026

OK, my friends I don’t really think you’re gonna be ready for this, but this is gonna go down probably as one of the most ironic parts of the greatest scandal to ever hit an American presidency and that is Donald Trump and the Epstein files! Some of you will understand this immediately some of you will never have a clue because you’re trapped in the propaganda coming from the CULT and you’re never gonna believe anything different but if any of you actually understand who QAnon was early on you will understand how incredibly ironic this really is!