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Diary of a Cure: A Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine in the face of the miracles of Lourdes

The son of a bourgeois from Lyon, Doctor Alexis Carrel, has lost his faith. Believers are, for him, naive children or stubborn fanatics. He wanted to be a scientist who was absolutely impartial in the face of the facts:

In May 1902, a doctor friend, abruptly prevented from accompanying the sick on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, asked Carrel to take his place.

Revelation: 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Matthew 12:30 "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."

Christ the center of our lives: there are no half-measures. Blessed Rupert Mayer S.J.

Why does the priest put a drop of water into the wine in the chalice during Mass?

The mixing of the water and wine in the chalice before it is consecrated is required. While failure to add the water is illicit, it does not affect the validity of the sacrament. What makes this act significant is what it represents: the water is Christ’s humanity and the wine His divinity. The mingling of the water and wine in the chalice symbolizes the Incarnation of Christ. It also recalls Christ’s Passion when the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and out flowed blood and water (John 19:34), thus signifying baptism and Eucharist.

His mother said, "Do whatever He tells you." — John 2:5

Father Georges Bellanger (1861-1902), religious of Saint Vincent de Paul, Marian apostle and military chaplain. To make people love Jesus in the Eucharist by first making them love the Blessed Virgin Mary—this was the entire apostolic method of Father Georges Bellanger. This simple insight transformed the ministry of this French priest.

I am the way the truth and the life. — John 14:6

God's freedom has decided to enter the imprisoned freedom of man and creation.

In the earthly Paradise, one fact was clear to our first parents: the creation whose fruits they enjoyed, and their very existence, were not to be taken for granted: they were there, but they could have been gone.

The Catholic Church consistently rejects state socialism, communism, due to their materialistic philosophies, violation of private property rights, and suppression of individual liberty. The Church also rejects unregulated capitalism and consumerism. Broadly speaking, the Church defines consumerism as the relentless, out-of-order pursuit of material wealth and the belief that happiness, meaning, and identity are found in acquiring possessions. It is viewed as an ideological trap where humans are reduced to mere buyers and life is about things to be consumed.

"Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls."

Pornography is a spiritual disaster, and the euphemisms of Sunday sermons aren’t getting at the problem. It’s not a secret that we have a pornography problem. By “we,” I mean American males, but also American Christian males.