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Every human being is infinitely loved and infinitely precious. We haven’t earned that divine dignity; it is a gift. Nonetheless, we convince ourselves that we must somehow show ourselves worthy of God’s love–that if we are charming or charitable or brave enough, He will feel obliged to reward us. Self-abasement is the antidote to this delusion. It is the practice of reminding ourselves that we are nothing without God’s grace and will never earn it. Ironically, this healthy sense of nothingness, understood correctly, brings with it a deeper sense of confidence and freedom.”

–J. Augustine Wetta, O.S.B, p.101

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I found a solace of Scripture being reaffirmed by the thoughts and words of one of my favorite men in history. Dietrich von Hildebrand 💔

Because we love someone, we can confidently say: You shall not die!

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"...... It darkens. I have lost the Ford. There is a change on all things made. The rocks have evil faces, Lord. And I'm awfully afraid.

Remember me! The voids of Hell. Expound enormous all around. Strong friend of souls, Emmanuel, redeem me from accursed ground......"

- excerpt from The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening by Hilaire Belloc

Photo: View from the Cross, St John of the Cross vision

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" the path of salvation is always rugged"- Charles Peguy

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As Ernst Junger writes: Maintain human dignity in the face of the Armageddon.

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The place where we wash His Feet with our tears has a great nearness to His Holy Place above- Lilias Trotter

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“I picture my soul as a patch of bare ground and I beg the Blessed Virgin to clear it from all rubbish and then build there a vast pavilion fit for heaven and adorn it with her own jewels.”

~St. Therese

(Photos © dramoor 2022 Bruges, Belgium)

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The concatenation of guilt and fate has opened our eyes wide to the guilt. You know, perhaps we will be grateful at the end of our present difficult path yet once again that we will be granted true salvation and liberation of the individual and the nation by apparent disappointment of our “anticipation of Advent”, by all of the suffering of last year’s as well as this year’s Christmas. According to ancient tradition, the Advent season is simultaneously the season of self-reflection. So at the very end, facing ruin, in death’s grip – what a revaluation of values has taken place in us! We thus want to use this period of waiting as inner preparation for a meaningful new existence and enterprise in our family, in our vocation, in the nation. The Christmas light of joy is already shining in the midst of our Advent path of death as a celebration of the birth of a new age in which – as hard as it may also be – we want to prove ourselves worthy of the newly given life (quoted in Wiegand, p. 137). His letter on thin airmail paper included a second drawing of a mother and child backed with a piece of brown paper. It was later given the name of the “Prisoners’ Madonna”.

https://en.evangelischer-widerstand.de/html/view.php?type=dokument&id=319

Stalingrad, 1943

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"To God alone we kneel"

Here here, Audie Murphy. ❤️

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The danger of a youth growing up without contact with Christ, and of a people without God, he emphatically swears: Christianity is always an “annoying thing”; but only in the awareness of the obligation before God can evil be fought; God will ultimately destroy a people who have become godless: "God is not mocked." In this fundamental struggle between good and evil, God and godlessness, Gerstein tries to define his position: “To stand as firmly as possible on the basis of National Socialism (e.g. specifically for me:25 And on March 18, 1934 also to Egon Franz: “In contrast to some previous cowardice, shyness and reserve, I am growing more and more courage to give everyone a very clear testimony: Jesus Christ the Lord! Witnessing that is becoming an increasingly unavoidable must for me.” 26 - Kurt Gerstein

http://www.kurt-gerstein.de/index.php/gerstein-bericht/

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One of the best films depicting Battle of Stalingrad ( Film: Stalingrad, 1993) it shows the humanity and barbarity of both sides and the sheer desperation of both sides. It shows the need of the Savior for both sides.

Why see this? Why see pain and agony? Because when one is stripped away of the distractions of complacency, comfort and control....one can truly sense the Lord and become Bone of His Bone. One can believe the enormity of John 3:16. And maybe then we would stop trampling over each other in the weight of our sin.

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A Christmas Eve not so long ago. Heaven came down to the earth in Bethlehem....Heaven came down to earth in Bastogne in the lives of these nurses. They went beyond the imitation of Christ...they became bone of His bone. One day, the Lord will bind up the broken hearts. 💔

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 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. - Genesis 1:1-2

Ed White on the spacewalk where he saw the face of God ❤️🌟

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’Be strong & very courageous’ is God’s word today. Unbelief ‘wavers’ & ‘staggers’ & ‘stumbles.’ Faith rests.” 20 April 1900, Lilias Trotter