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06/11/2025

3 TYPES OF CATHOLICS
Catholics Are Classified Based On How They Practice Their Faith

1. NOMINAL CATHOLIC
A Nominal Catholic is one who claims to be catholic but does not really practice the Catholic faith. They only attend occasional church events such as weddings, baptisms and funeral. They don’t know church teachings and often argue that going to church cannot save. Most of Catholics are nominal.

2. CAFETERIA CATHOLIC
A Cafeteria Catholic is one who picks & choose what Catholic teachings he/she likes, and ignore other Church teachings. Most of them are Politicians and fanatic followers who idolized politicians. They believe that the Catholic is true, yet they are in favor of Death Penalty, Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion, Divorce, etc. which are against the Church teachings. There are plenty of them.

3. PRACTICING CATHOLIC
A Practicing Catholic is one who regularly observes Church teachings and receives Sacraments such as attending Eucharist & Confession. He/she believed that the Catholic Church was founded by Christ, and so all Church teachings are true and must be practiced religiously. They are Catholics not just by name, but by actions. There are only few of them.

Source: The Catholic Faith Guardian

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28/10/2025

Today, we celebrate the feast day of St. Jude Thaddaeus and St. Simon the Zealot

St. Jude, known as Thaddaeus, was a brother of St. James the Lesser, and a relative of Jesus. Ancient writers tell us that he preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Lybia. According to Eusebius, he returned to Jerusalem in the year 62 and assisted at the election of his brother, St. Simeon, as Bishop of Jerusalem.

He is an author of an epistle (letter) to the Churches of the East, in particular the Jewish converts, directed against the heresies of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics. This Apostle is said to have suffered martyrdom in Armenia, which was then subject to Persia. The final conversion of the Armenian nation to Christianity did not take place until the third century A.D.

St. Jude was the one who asked Jesus at the Last Supper why He would not manifest Himself to the whole world after His resurrection. Little else is known of his life, but legend claims that he visited Beirut and Edessa.

He was beaten to death with a club, then beheaded post-mortem in 1st century Persia. His relics reside at Saint Peter's in Rome, at Rheims, and at Toulouse, France.

Saint Jude Thaddeus is not the same person as Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Our Lord and despaired because of his great sin and lack of trust in God's mercy.

St. Jude Thaddeus is invoked in desperate situations because his New Testament letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances, just as their forefathers had done before them.

Therefore, he is the patron of desperate situations, forgotten causes, hospital workers, hospitals, impossible causes, lost causes, and the diocese of Saint Petersburg, Florida. He is represented as bearded man holding an oar, a boat, boat hook, a club, an axe or a book. Nearly every image of him depicts him wearing a medallion with a profile of Jesus. He usually has a small flame above his head and he often carries a pen.

On the other hand, little is known about the post-Pentecost life of St. Simon, who had been called a Zealot. He is thought to have preached in Egypt and then to have joined St. Jude in Persia. Here, he was supposedly martyred by being cut in half with a saw, a tool he is often depicted with. However, the 4th-century St. Basil the Great says he died in Edessa, peacefully.

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What an inspiration- God bless you

Álvaro Ferraro, a Spanish businessman who founded four companies before the age of 30, is now leaving his business career to become a Catholic priest with the stated dream of becoming a saint. This career change is motivated by his desire for a life of faith and service.

19/10/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳

O’Cebreiro is in a hilly region of northwest Spain. In the very cold winter of 1300 a miracle occurred. Snow was falling hard one day, and the wind was harsh and piercing. In the convent chapel, a priest was due to celebrate Mass. He had thought, perhaps even hoped, that no one would come for the Mass, but one man did. A farmer named Juan Santin arrived.

The priest did not wish to celebrate Mass that day, he no longer believed in the Real Presence of Jesus, his faith was weak.The priest reluctantly offered the Mass; in his heart he despised the farmer’s faith and piety, which had caused him to venture out on such a harsh day to attend the Mass.

Jesus was about to change the heart of this priest: As he pronounced the words of the Consecration, the faithless priest was astonished to find that the Host in his hands had perceptibly changed into flesh, drops of blood falling from his fingers and staining the corporal, while the wine in the chalice had been visibly transformed into blood.

Terrified and overwhelmed with remorse for his lack of faith, he fell to his knees before the altar and exclaimed like St. Thomas, “My Lord and my God!” The faith of the humble Juan had been confirmed, his devotion rewarded, and the monk cured of his disbelief.

For almost two hundred years, the miraculous Host-flesh was kept on the paten right there in the chapel until one day Queen Isabella happened to pass through the town on her way to Santiago de Compostela. She had learned of the miracle which had happened and she ordered a special crystal shrine to be custom-made to hold the Host-Flesh and chalice.

To this day, they can be viewed in the church.

Every year on the feast days of Corpus Christi, August 15th and September 8th, the relics are taken in a solemn procession to remember the wondrous event.

18/10/2025

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE CORPORAL😳🤔

Have you ever looked at this white cloth used on the on the altar during consecration, and wondered what it really means?

It’s not just there for neatness.
It holds a story. A mystery. A miracle.

It’s called the Corporal, from the Latin "corpus", meaning Body.
Because it receives the Body of Christ.
Yes, that humble cloth is where Heaven touches Earth.

But the story goes deeper…

Once, Jesus was wrapped in linen and laid in a manger.
Later, He was wrapped in linen again and laid in a tomb.
And now, He rests once more, on the corporal, at every Mass.
Do you see it now?

✝️ And who first carried His Body?
Not a cloth, but a woman.
Mary.
She is the living corporal, the first tabernacle,
the one who wrapped the Son of God in flesh and in swaddling clothes.
Now, the Church, like Mary, lays down the corporal with love,
saying:
“Receive Him. Adore Him. Love Him.”

✝️ Why the folding?
Because even a crumb of the consecrated Host is fully Jesus.
He is not divided.
He is whole, even in the smallest particle.
So the corporal is folded with precision,
like holy hands folding the cloths of Bethlehem and Calvary.

Some fold it into nine squares, three by three, a sign of the Holy Trinity
and the perfect reverence due to the King of Kings.

It’s not just linen.
It is love in fabric.
It is heaven wrapped in humility.

✝️ So the next time you see the corporal…
Don’t just look.
Marvel.
That small white cloth is:

the cradle of the Infant Christ,

the altar of the Sacrificial Lamb,

the linen of the Resurrection,

and the arms of Mary… holding Jesus out to you.

Let your heart kneel.
Let your soul whisper: “Thank you, Lord.”

For He still comes,
He still rests among us,
and He still waits to be adored.

God bless you 🙏

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17/10/2025

St. Gerard Majella, as a child, often visited a chapel near his home that housed a statue of the Blessed Virgin. Once, he returned home with a loaf of bread and told his sister Bridget that it had been given to him by the Child Jesus.

Later in life, St. Gerard was known to miraculously produce fresh loaves of bread from his pocket to feed the hungry during famines.