Tomorrow (or today, depending on where in the world you are) is the beginning of Passiontide and the final stretch of Lent. How has this season been for you? Have you kept your Lenten penances? I've cheated in a few of mine, admittedly, so I think these next couple of weeks are going to have to be a time to buck up a bit.

March 24 is the feast day of St. Simon of Trent. >"Hail, flowers of the martyrs!” the Church sings in her Office of the Holy Innocents, who were the first to die for Christ; and in every age mere children and infants have gloriously confessed His name. In 1472 the Jews in the city of Trent determined to vent their hate against the Crucified by slaying a Christian child at the coming Passover; and Tobias, one of their numbe, was deputed to entrap a victim. He found a bright, smiling boy named Simon playing outside his home, with no one guarding him. Tobias patted the little fellow’s cheek, and coaxed him to take his hand. The boy, who was not two years old, did so; but he began to call and cry for his mother when he found himself being led from home. Then Tobias gave him a bright coin to look at, and with many kind caresses silenced his grief, and conducted him securely to his house. >At midnight on Holy Thursday the work of butchery began. Having gagged his mouth, they held his arms in the form of a cross, while they pierced his tender body with awls and bodkins in blasphemous mockery of the sufferings of Jesus Christ. After an hour’s torture the little martyr lifted his eyes to heaven and gave up his innocent soul. >The Jews cast his body into the river; but their crime was discovered and punished, while the holy relics were enshrined at St. Peter's Church at Trent, where they have worked many miracles.

Hello Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Like many of you I myself am struggling with pornography addiction and have been trying to beat this illness for the better part of 3 years now. I'm dedicating this thread to all my other brothers in arms out there who are fighting the good fight against the wiles of the devil, Lucifer, and his legion of degeneracy he throws our way. I'll be using this thread as both a catalogue of my own experiences, so that they may be used by others for their own benefit, and as a place to store, discuss, and share data, tips, and motivation so as to help us addicts overcome our desire so that we may enjoy life as God intended with clarity of mind and spirit.

Oh Saint Joseph, guardian of Jesus, purer husband of Mary, You whom passed the live in the perfect fulfillment of the duty, supporting with the job of your hands the holy Family of Nazareth, protects with favour us whom that, with trust go to you. You know ours aspirations, our distress and our hopes: to you we go, because we know to find in you who will protect us. Even you experiment the trial, fatigue, effort, bit with your soul, full of the most deep peace, rejoiced of joy for the intimacy with the Son of God to you entrusted, and with Mary, his sweeter mother. Help us to comprehend that we aren't alone in our job, and to know how to find Jesus alongside us, and to welcome it with grace and guard him faithfully as you did And bless that in our family everything will be sanctified in the charity, patience, justice and in the search for the good. Amen

>Asbury University has become the sight of a revival gathering, with students and staff engaging in continual worship and prayer on campus over the past few days. >What began as part of a scheduled chapel service on Wednesday morning at Hughes Auditorium in Wilmore, Kentucky, has since transformed into a constant impromptu gathering. >Alexandra Presta, a senior at the university who is also the executive editor for the campus newspaper The Collegian, has witnessed the revival and reported on it. >Presta told The Christian Post on Friday morning that after the chapel service concluded on Wednesday, “roughly 30 students kept going.” They've been joined by others since then. >The chapel service featured a sermon by speaker Zach Meerkreebs based on Romans 12 and the topic of “love in action,” Presta told CP. >“I had left for a few minutes but then felt called to return. Since then, it hasn't stopped. It's been a mix of worship, testimony, prayer, confession, silence,” she explained, calling it “a full experience of the Holy Spirit.” >Presta estimated that as many as 1,000 people have come to the revival gathering since it started, noting that while “some have come and gone,” there are others who “have slept on the floor and continued to praise God nonstop.” https://www.christianpost.com/news/asbury-university-senior-revival-is-a-humbling-before-the-lord.html

The Gnostic Christians were proto protestant in a sense. Before engaging this idea a few understandings must be agreed upon >there was no gnostic "church" >they were understood for most of history through the lens of a detractor deeming them heretics, who himself had doctrine considered heretical >there is no perfect unified system and the beliefs vary >the idea that could aptly unite them is that knowledge through Christ could offer salvation This is the notion of salvation through faith alone. It says that nothing you do actually matters, it's what you think, and if what you think is a thought construct on the nature of Christ, his death, his resurrection, the implications of his death in light of the rest of the Bible, etc, that you're as good as saved, even if you sin. I see this as a welcome development and while MOST Christians who espouse salvation through faith alone aggressively would likely reject Gnosticism outright as heresy, they are still focusing on the idea. I think that salvation through faith alone is actually the same idea that much of gnosis derives from. The issue is that people who preach salvation through faith alone are at odds with Catholics and numerous other christian run off cults that preach works based heresy while consorting with worldly powers, and so they lean heavily on literalism to boost their doctrine. What they should be considering is what marcion considered and throwing the whole OT out. After all, most Christians DO throw the OT out in favor of a few passages here or there in the NT. They wouldn't say that of course, but most Christians don't heed the OT. I believe that a resurgence in Christianity is coming in which some of these primordial non denim zoomer churches will get fed up with the prosperity gospel but also realize that it's extremely difficult to recognize both OT and literalism in general to true faith.

>the Christian board >there has never been a thread about The Chosen Is it the greatest piece of Christian media since The Passion of the Christ or is it Mormon subversion? Should we stream it?

Talk about WHOLESOME shows and WHOLESOME cute waifus. This thread is NOT allowed to become a borderline /a/ exclave. Posts advocating for yuri/shota (aka homosex) and other degenerate animes are NOT allowed.

I think the Satanic conspiracy is better for Christians than the racial Jewish conspiracy. The Old testament faith of ancient Judaism Jews became Christians and "those that say they're Jews but are not" are Jews that study the Talmud and the Kabbalah and according to Texe Mars worship a serpent. So the Satanic conspiracy also has an answer to the Jews as well as the Golden calf during the time of Moses.

I'm just curious to hear your guys story, how and what did God do and give you to finally defeats your bad habits and the such (I don't have any files really so here's a random image)