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08/20/2021

"Just as we must be good stewards of our bodies, so we must devote our souls to God, rooting ourselves in love. @worthyofwearing is the attitude of adorning ourselves in a way that reveals our dignity and, in turn, makes us realize how deeply God loves us." [email protected], Worthy of Wearing

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"Just as we must be good stewards of our bodies, so we must devote our souls to God, rooting ourselves in love. @worthyofwearing is the attitude of adorning ourselves in a way that reveals our dignity and, in turn, makes us realize how deeply God loves us." [email protected], Worthy of Wearing

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08/19/2021

Brand new! 🎉

🎩 A Gentleman's Guide to Manners, S*x, and Ruling the World by S.K. Baskerville
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🗡 Beheading Hydra by Fr. Dwight Longenecker
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08/18/2021

Let Our Eucharistic Hearts & Homes Protect Our Family

"We need silent Adoration to resist worldly temptations. Since God created us for beauty, we need to be in communion with the Beautiful One. This is the antidote to the ugliness that parades before our eyes."

-Kathleen Beckman, A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare

Seven Characteristics of a Eucharistic Heart Incarnational love. “This is my body which is given for you” (Luke 22:19). Resurrected life. “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10). Humble service. “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you als...

08/17/2021

Archbishop Sheen's Book of Sacraments

Learn about the sacraments from a master storyteller and soon to be saint.

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08/16/2021

The Assumption of Mary: Profound Silence in a Noisy World

Because of her holiness, God assumed her body into Heaven as a sign of our future resurrection and eternal life with God in Heaven.

The mysteries of faith are marked by deep and profound silence: the sinless, spotless conception of Mary; the Word of God taking flesh from the womb of the Virgin; the silent night of the birth of God with Us; Jesus’s incorrupt body laid in a new tomb; and His third day resurrection from the dead....

08/13/2021

Sophia Institute Press Publishes Monthly Liturgical Companion to Traditional Latin Mass

“The art, the spiritual reading taken from centuries of holy writers, the Sunday and Daily Masses so accessible, and the Psalms for morning and evening devotions — it’s all a treasure."

‘Benedictus’ was developed in 2020, before the Vatican published ‘Traditionis Custodes.’

08/13/2021

"Miraculous healings are the central proofs for being declared a saint precisely because they can be performed only by God. Therefore, if a miracle happens in response to prayer to an intercessor, we know that that intercessor is with God in Heaven." -Adam Blai, The Catholic Guide to Miracles

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"Miraculous healings are the central proofs for being declared a saint precisely because they can be performed only by God. Therefore, if a miracle happens in response to prayer to an intercessor, we know that that intercessor is with God in Heaven." -Adam Blai, The Catholic Guide to Miracles

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08/12/2021

Sophia is hiring! Apply to be an administrative assistant today: https://www.catholicjobs.com/job/5499146852

People who have performed well in this position have gone to serve as Director of Marketing, Social Media Manager, Assistant Director of Operations, and other senior positions at Sophia.

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Sophia is hiring! Apply to be an administrative assistant today: https://www.catholicjobs.com/job/5499146852

People who have performed well in this position have gone to serve as Director of Marketing, Social Media Manager, Assistant Director of Operations, and other senior positions at Sophia.

PLEASE SHARE this post with your friends and family to help us spread the word.

08/12/2021

St. Jane Frances de Chantal, foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, pray for us.

St. Jane Frances de Chantal, foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, pray for us.

08/11/2021

"St. Augustine tells us that for many years he was full of distress, chained to sin, which gave him no peace. Finally realizing that he could not set himself free, he began to pray for the grace to be healed. And the Holy Spirit, who inspired his prayer, powerfully answered it." -Sr. Mary Ann Fatula, Drawing Close to the Holy Spirit

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"St. Augustine tells us that for many years he was full of distress, chained to sin, which gave him no peace. Finally realizing that he could not set himself free, he began to pray for the grace to be healed. And the Holy Spirit, who inspired his prayer, powerfully answered it." -Sr. Mary Ann Fatula, Drawing Close to the Holy Spirit

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08/10/2021

Lessons From the 2020 COVID Crisis

National Catholic Register: "As I finished reading the final few pages of Lawler’s book — with his message of the importance of reverence, the sacraments, grace, the virtues and the love of one another — it struck me that the book constitutes what should have been the sermon we heard every Sunday in the midst of the pandemic."

Read the full review: https://www.ncregister.com/features/lessons-from-the-2020-covid-crisis

BOOK PICK: ‘Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear, in a Pandemic’

08/10/2021

NEW!

☁️ Encounters with Angels by Odile Haumonte
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🙏 Grace Explained by Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P.
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🗻 Finding Frassati by Christine Wohar
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08/07/2021

Finding Men Like Frassati

Handsome, robust, joyful, beloved, relatable. These are just a handful of descriptions of the “Man of the Eight Beatitudes”—a name given to him by Pope St. John Paul II at the beatification in 1990. Pier Giorgio was committed to his Faith, his family and his friends.

The solution to the crisis in the Church today? Raising up men to be like Pier Giorgio Frassati.

08/06/2021

"Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them." -Mark 9:2-3

"Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them." -Mark 9:2-3

08/05/2021

Here is author Christine Wohar, executive director of @frassatiusa, unboxing copies of her brand new book "Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness."

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Here is author Christine Wohar, executive director of @frassatiusa, unboxing copies of her brand new book "Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness."

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08/05/2021

Devotion to the Holy Spirit: Loving the Person of Love

"The Holy Spirit, however, is infinite Gift in a unique way. As the Father’s and Son’s own intimate Love for one another, the Holy Spirit is also Their exquisite Gift of Love, the living Gift who also gives Himself to us, to be truly ours to possess and enjoy and belong to us forever."

-Sr. Mary Ann Fatula, Drawing Close to the Holy Spirit

Since the wonderful moment of our Baptism, the Holy Spirit has been dwelling within us, loving us and giving Himself to us. How blessed our life becomes when we draw close to the Holy Spirit, responding with all of our love to the Divine Person whose very name is Love. (Summa Theologiae I.37.2) All....

08/05/2021

Why St. John Vianney Remains a Model for the Priesthood

The devil pestered him mercilessly. He fasted and lived largely on potatoes. St. John forsook the comforts of this world in order to find the interior freedom to live for Christ alone and for his people.

Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. John Vianney, who is the patron saint of parish priests. If ever there was a priest-saint for our times, it is St. John Vianney. A man who understood to his very depths the calling placed upon him at his ordination. He lived the sacred character of his...

08/04/2021

Live well, die well.

St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests, pray for us.

Live well, die well.

St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests, pray for us.

08/03/2021

Fulton J. Sheen: Marriage is a Symbol of the Nuptials Between Christ & the Church

"The man is the 'head' of the wife, as Christ is the Head of the Church. What did Christ do for the Church as her Head? He died for it. Hence, husbands must show love to their wives. The 'headship' is not overlord-ship, but love unto sacrifice. The wife, in her turn, will show to the husband the devotion and love the Church does to Christ."

-Fulton Sheen, Archbishop Sheen's Book of Sacraments

Marriage as a sacrament belongs to an entirely different order than the mere union of man and woman through a civil contract. It basically regards a husband and wife as symbols of another marriage; namely, the nuptials of Christ and His Church. The analogy of the heavenly nuptials goes back to the O...

08/02/2021

"If you are thirsty and hungry for Jesus, really believe that He will feed you today. He is the one we must look for, and not only the miracles that surprise us." -Carlo Acutis

Quoted from "A Millennial in Paradise" by Fr. Will Conquer.

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"If you are thirsty and hungry for Jesus, really believe that He will feed you today. He is the one we must look for, and not only the miracles that surprise us." -Carlo Acutis

Quoted from "A Millennial in Paradise" by Fr. Will Conquer.

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08/01/2021

St. Joseph, Our Patron of a Happy Death

"The beautiful life of St. Joseph, his freedom from sin; his pious, devout life; his constant, meritorious self-denial, filled with love for Jesus and Mary, teaches us in what this preparation consists."

-Fr. Maurice Meschler, Truth about Saint Joseph

The separation is furthermore a humiliating one because it is a punishment of sin, a sort of ex*****on that separates body and soul, the two guilty associates in sin. The soul is handed over to eternity, the body to the earth, where by degrees it crumbles to dust and becomes something without a name...

07/31/2021

Growing to Know & Love the Holy Spirit

"Closeness to the Holy Spirit is not a reward offered to holy people but rather a healing remedy and precious gift meant for every one of us." -Sr. Mary Ann Fatula, Drawing Close to the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit wants to give us intimacy with Himself, impart­ing His own strength to us and making our lives new. But how do we draw near so that the Holy Spirit may work these miracles of love in and for us? In his wonderful encyclical on the Holy Spirit, Pope Leo XIII encourages us […]

07/30/2021

"Few dreamed that the thousands of physical cures, changes of heart, and other graces God gave through Fr. Solanus Casey, like a great tree from a tiny seed, had all grown from one act of blind trust in God made by the young Casey as a seminarian."

Read more about today's American saint, Blessed Solanus Casey, from "Nothing Short of a Miracle" here: https://catholicexchange.com/solanus-casey-red-blooded-american-miracle-worker

"Few dreamed that the thousands of physical cures, changes of heart, and other graces God gave through Fr. Solanus Casey, like a great tree from a tiny seed, had all grown from one act of blind trust in God made by the young Casey as a seminarian."

Read more about today's American saint, Blessed Solanus Casey, from "Nothing Short of a Miracle" here: https://catholicexchange.com/solanus-casey-red-blooded-american-miracle-worker

07/29/2021

Make sure you're following Sophia on Instagram for great giveaway opportunities! Today we announced a Fulton Sheen giveaway offering these three anthologies.

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Make sure you're following Sophia on Instagram for great giveaway opportunities! Today we announced a Fulton Sheen giveaway offering these three anthologies.

Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/sophiainstitute/

📷 MichelleRublee.com

07/28/2021

Don't waste your sufferings.

St. Therese of Lisieux, pray for us.

Don't waste your sufferings.

St. Therese of Lisieux, pray for us.

07/28/2021

Every Catholic Home Needs a Good Book on the Sacraments

"Archbishop Sheen’s Book of Sacraments seeks" to impress upon the reader our Lord’s desire to “give Himself away” in the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, and why they are indispensable channels of divine grace for the salvation of one’s soul.

https://catholicexchange.com/every-catholic-home-needs-a-good-book-on-the-sacraments

I’ve often been asked which Catholic books I have in my home.  I must admit that years ago my response would have been: “I have a few Bibles and a few books on lives of the saints”, but that was it. And most were acquired as gifts marking sacramental or special occasions. Perhaps like so […...

07/27/2021

“Do not let a day go by without some spiritual reading.” -St. John Bosco

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“Do not let a day go by without some spiritual reading.” -St. John Bosco

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07/27/2021

Pier Giorgio Frassati’s Love for Our Lady

“Wherever there was a celebration in Mary's honor, Pier Giorgio would show up with a bunch of flowers. He did this from the time when he was a student at the Sociale, in other words, from when he was a young boy.”

-Christine M. Wohar, Finding Frassati

He belonged to many Marian organizations and prayed the Little Office of Our Lady. A very tangible witness of his all-consuming love for her was pinned to his study door: his handwritten copy of Saint Bernard’s Hymn to the Virgin from Dante’s Paradiso. Like many of us, he had a special fondness ...

07/26/2021

"Suffering itself is not evil: it is an evil-detector, put in place by a loving God to protect us from evil in the same way that a smoke detector is designed to protects us from fire." -Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer

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"Suffering itself is not evil: it is an evil-detector, put in place by a loving God to protect us from evil in the same way that a smoke detector is designed to protects us from fire." -Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer

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07/23/2021

Worthy of Wearing

"#WorthyofWearing takes you on a JOURNEY through what you wear as an expression of your worth and dignity in Christ."

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In this beautiful, first-of-its-kind book, Nicole guides you through the steps involved in cultivating your personal style that celebrates your unique genius, mission, and vocation and that’s reflective of a Catholic worldview.

07/23/2021

"In His great providence, God has allowed a great evil to come upon our land. But He has also sent us, in His great providence, to do something about it. What an honor that is, an honor that we should accept. We should not accept that the situation is lost; we should not hunker down and wait for better days. We are the Lord’s hands and feet on this earth, and better days rely upon us." -Austin Ruse, Under Siege

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"In His great providence, God has allowed a great evil to come upon our land. But He has also sent us, in His great providence, to do something about it. What an honor that is, an honor that we should accept. We should not accept that the situation is lost; we should not hunker down and wait for better days. We are the Lord’s hands and feet on this earth, and better days rely upon us." -Austin Ruse, Under Siege

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07/21/2021

Archbishop Sheen's Book of Sacraments: A Divine Sense of Humor

This book on the sacraments is written because men live in a world that has become entirely too serious. Gold is gold, nuclear warfare is nuclear warfare, dust is dust, money is money. No significance or meaning is seen in the things that make a sound to the ear, or a sight to the eye.

Controversy was brewing and confusion sewn among Catholics by the time Sheen wrote these classics. He shies away from nothing.

07/21/2021

"Calvary is like a reservoir of divine life or grace. From it, there flow seven different kinds of sanctification for man in different stages of his spiritual existence. Each of these seven channels is a sacrament by which the power of the Risen Christ is bestowed on souls by a spiritual and effective contact." -Fulton Sheen, Archbishop Sheen’s Book of Sacraments

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"Calvary is like a reservoir of divine life or grace. From it, there flow seven different kinds of sanctification for man in different stages of his spiritual existence. Each of these seven channels is a sacrament by which the power of the Risen Christ is bestowed on souls by a spiritual and effective contact." -Fulton Sheen, Archbishop Sheen’s Book of Sacraments

Shop now: SophiaInstitute.com/Sacraments

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