Sanctus Sanguis
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Virgen de los Dolores
The Virgin of Sorrows in Cartagena, Spain.
Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Fátima
A Spanish statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima.
ohmygosh someone actually asked me a question!
I’ll answer the second part of your question first, if that’s alright.
I’ve been veiling for about half a year now and I’ve found that it really humbles me before Christ present in the Eucharist. I personally veil because I want to be modest and humble myself before the Lord. I started veiling at the Novus Ordo mass (because I’d always and only veiled at the traditional Latin mass - or Tridentine mass) because I felt like it was just the right thing to do. When I first started doing it in Advent of this past year I got glares and stares from women and even a deacon friend of my teased me a bit for it.
The theological/scriptural reason for my wearing a veil can be found in 1 Corinthians 11:3-10,16.
“But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head—it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil.
“For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. (For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.) That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the angels….If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God.”
You might also get some benefit from checking out this link, this link and this link. (the last one is a Catholic Answers topic).
The main reason that a loooooot of people discourage/are against the chapel veil is because they think that it’s “demeaning to women” and makes us submissive slaves (to men) rather that total equals. Now, that’s silly because the only person the veil makes the wearer submissive to is the Lord. It doesn’t change the equality of women to men, except that we are called to display our love and obedience to Christ in different ways (i.e. men are not called to veil).
I’m 19 and veil and know of three other women in my entire parish who veil (and we alllllll get stares, me especially because I’m young. I once got mistaken for a nun…which was funny because the scarf I wear looks nothing like a veil that goes with a habit…but that’s another story :3 ).
Since you’re anon…I can’t tell your gender, but if you happen to be a chika like myself, I hope this encourages you to want to veil during mass!
Thank you so much for your question and don’t hesitate if you need me to explain it better….or have any other lovely questions. God Bless!
Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for June is: “That believers may recognize in the Eucharist the living presence of the Risen One who accompanies them in daily life”.
His missionary intention is: “That Christians in Europe may rediscover their true identity and participate with greater enthusiasm in the proclamation of and participate with more enthusiasm in the Gospel”.
If you see this say an Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be for the Pope’s Intention. God bless!
(Source: letmebeyourservant)
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Russell Sacco, abortion doctor (via emilye)
No one does saline injections anymore because of the danger to the mother. Where the hell are you getting your information from?
(via rachelrantsandschtuff)
This quote is from an abortionist in the late 80’s. Dilation & Evacuation abortions have largely replaced the saline variety. Their extreme risk to the mother has removed them from common practice today, thank God.
As western abortionists gained experience with saline abortions, grim reports arose from around the world. A British study published in 1966 found that the saline would enter the mother’s bloodstream and cause brain damage. Swedish researchers noticed an unacceptably high rate of complications and deaths. Sweden and the Soviet Union abandoned saline abortion as too dangerous for women in the late 1960s, and yet in 1990, there were 2,825 saline abortions reported, and 1,164 in 1996 (but it is not mandated to report abortions, so there could have been more). For whatever reasons, American abortionists were deaf to these warnings for far too long. In New York City in particular, it became popular to inject the woman with the saline in the office, then send her home with instructions to report to a hospital when she went into labor. This was, to say the least, a highly irresponsible way to use an abortion technique that was risky even when performed in a hospital under close medical supervision! Women started dying from these saline abortions.
Those few persisting saline abortions raise interesting questions. Why were there some physicians still using an outdated and highly risky technique? Is there a number of saline abortions still being performed by fringe abortionists who aren’t reporting to the CDC?
(via emilye)
What interests me most? The frank admission that abortion kills a baby.
Abortionists know it, pro-lifers know it, mothers know it. It’s time “pro-choicers” start being honest about what they’re campaigning for.
(via badwolfcomplex)
- St. Josemaria Escriva (via heartallonfire)
The Visitation scene from the Buxtehuder Altar by Master Betram, circa 1400.
My soul magnifies the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
Because He has regarded the lowliness of His handmaid;
for behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed;
Because He who is mighty has done great things for me,
and Holy is His Name;
And His mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear Him.
He has shown might with His arm,
He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and has exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has given help to Israel, His servant, mindful of His mercy
Even as He spoke to our fathers -
to Abraham and to his posterity forever.
Nikolai Kharlamov. Christ and the Samaritan Woman.
On this day, the fifth Sunday of Pascha, Orthodox Christians celebrate the feast of the Samaritan Woman.
O almighty Savior, Who didst pour forth water for the Hebrews from a solid rock, Thou didst come to the land of Samaria, and addressed a woman, seeking of her water to drink, whom Thou didst attract to faith in Thee, and who hath now attained life in the heavens everlastingly. (Exaposteilarion of the Feast, Tone 2)
Reblogging because I love that story.
Without the Eucharist, the Church would not exist. The holy Eucharist was the central point of our life. I remember once a priest I met. He never talked at great length about the sufferings, persecutions and tortures, but he mentioned that even in prison, all the priests would celebrate the liturgy. We were amazed; how could this be possible? Where did you get a Chalice and a Paten? He took off his glasses and said: “This is what we used; one lens served as the chalice with a drop of wine and on the other a piece of bread was placed, which served as the paten.” This is how they celebrated the liturgy in the prison or around the premises of the concentration camps.
—Major-Archbishop Swiatoslav Schevchuk,
Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
(Source: zenit.org)
Gentle woman, quiet light
Morning star, so strong and bright,
gentle Mother, peaceful dove,
teach us wisdom; teach us love.- Catholic hymn
Inmaculada Concepcion
Mary as the Immaculate Conception and patroness of Línea, Spain
- Blessed John Paul the Great, Apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio (The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World)
(Source: badwolfcomplex)
