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Doom wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 9:03 am And technically, it isn't us who are hailing Mary; we are merely echoing the greeting of the angel.

Gabriel the Archangel was hailing Mary. He didn't say God is hailing.

In the same way, we imitate him by Hailing her ourselves.

That's why I think the Spanish translation doesn't sound right.

Any reason you can't attend the vigil mass?

Politicians existed in Ancient Egypt

In the Hail Mary prayer: In English: Hail Mary, In Latin: Ave Maria, (Hail Mary) In Spanish: Dios te Salve Maria. (God hails you) In the first two we are Hailing Mary. We are giving her royal respect. In Spanish, God is doing it. Not necessarily a contradiction, but the message appears to be differe...

I once went to a Syro-Malabar parish, English divine liturgy. It was beautiful and the people there were very friendly. Close to the end of the liturgy, they invited visitors to come up and introduce themselves if they felt like it. At the time I went with my close friend. At the time he wanted to g...

OK thanks!

I was looking for a vigil mass for the Immaculate conception (12/8/2025) which would be on a Sunday. I researched some parishes that had 5pm masses and I thought that would count. When I looked at the masses, they were going to have the readings for that Sunday, and not for the Immaculate Conception...

2001: NEVER FORGET
2025: They forgot.

I hope this will counteract the Table that has taken over the United States.

Fr. Ripperger talked about the five generals of satan (the Table) and how our culture has been put under their control.

Heard y'all all the time in Chicago.

“inhuman treatment of immigrants” That should be “inhuman treatment of ILLEGAL immigrants”. There's a major league difference. There is no such thing as an illegal immigrant. The correct term is Illegal Alien. The left uses the word "immigrant" to include illegals to push an agenda, I'm n...

According to the 2006 definition, a planet has to be "dominant in its immediate neighborhood", dominant meaning "the biggest object", which Pluto is not because Eris is bigger. But the other 8 planets absolutely are the biggest thing in their immediate neighborhood. Some complai...

In Arizona, we have Porters of St. Joseph. https://portersofstjoseph.org/

My parish has armed guards and they are trained.

This is true of American liberals in general which is why they have hijacked public school systems - to indoctrinate other people's children since they have so few of their own. That's the left's way. If left to themselves, the left would contracept, abort, homosexualize, transmultilate, and euthan...

This makes me concerned about Pope Leo XIV. Make me believe he's just Francis II.

This is in my state, is this in Phoenix?

One thing I liked about 45 was that he nuked the H-4B visa, which was used to allow spouses of H-1B visa holders to work. "Outsource 1 job and get 1 free" 47, is pro-H-1B now. He even put Mr. H-1B Lover Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Techies are doomed to a terrible job market now. I d...

Interesting how SOCAS only applies one way

Double standard = corruption.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:55 pm Correct. But goodness and holiness are not identical. One can be good in many ways, but at the same time not be holy.

So Adam and Eve were created good. Were they created Holy too?

When they fell, they lost God's grace and thus no longer holy.

You're taking a fundamentally Pelagian line of thought. We do not get to Heaven by being good. Period, end of story. One cannot be good without God's grace. Not true. One cannot be holy without God's grace. I know, we get to heaven through God's grace. I thought God's grace also makes us good as we...