CROWNING WITH THORNS

"...and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger" (Esther 4:16). --- *I am a Catholic; these are some resources of those who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. Exiled Iranian Christian Woman Former Iranian Christian Prisioner Iranian Christian Testimony Iran Martyr's Daughter Speaks Iran's Underground Church Crucible Movie on Iranian Christian Persecuted Church of Iran Revival in Iran Story of Iranian C

"And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . " (Acts 7:58). --- Anti-Iranian Sentiment, Directly From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Iranian_sentiment Between the 1920s and the 1960s, some houses in the Rock Creek Hills neighborhood of Kensington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., included anti-Iranian language in racial covenants that were part of property deeds. One deed in Rock Creek Hills declared that homes in t

"Q. 870. What is the Holy Eucharist? A. The Holy Eucharist is the Sacrament which contains the body and blood, soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine" (The Baltimore Catechism).

"...if God is for you , who can be against you?" (Pope Leo XIII, 1892) https://tinyurl.com/yc8cr2tr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Loving through Illness: Mental Illness and the Beauty of Suffering - Homiletic & Pastoral Review (October 2025) Suffering Through Mental Illness with God's Love - Catholic Stand - (November 2025) Why do some speak so strongly against mental illness and those who suffer with it? With mental illness as common today as many other illnesses of the body, one questions why there is a negative stigma connected to illnesses of the mind. One's brain is simply another part of the hum

" And she brought forth her firstborn son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, Because there was no room for them in the inn " (Luke 2:7).

"Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word in peace; Because my eyes have seen thy salvation , Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples: A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel" (Luke 2:29-32). Νῦν ἀπολύεις τὸν δοῦλόν σου, δέσποτα, κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμά σου ἐν εἰρήνῃ· ὅτι εἶδον οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου τὸ σωτήριόν σου, ὃ ἡτοίμασας κατὰ πρόσωπον πάντων τῶν λαῶν, φῶς εἰς αποκάλυψιν ἐθνῶν καὶ δόξαν λαοῦ σου Ἰσραήλ. (

"And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God , in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation : And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on the earth" (Revelation 5:9-10, RHE). "And Peter opening his mouth, said: in very deed I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons. But in every nation , he that fearet

Introvert Quotes "Neither E=mc² nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.” Even in less obviously introverted occupations, like finance, politics, and activism, some of the greatest leaps forward were made by introverts. ...figures like Eleanor Roosevelt, Al Gore, Warren Buffett, and Rosa Parks achieved what they did not in spite of but because of their introversion." "Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured." "The secret to life is to put y

"The devil, despairing of being able to subdue her, conceived the idea of blackening her reputation, and of making her appear a sacrilegious hypocrite, by the following strategem. He frequently assumed her form, and contrived to be caught in the act of eating greedily and surreptitiously, at improper hours, sometimes in the dispensary. The nuns were extremely scandalized at this, especially when they once or twice saw Veronica go to Holy Communion after they had witnessed one

"...a priority has to be given to the voices of victims, to listening carefully to all that they have to say, no matter how difficult it may be to hear, and however great the "damage" that their story might seem to do to the image we may once have had of this or that person who, up until that point, may even have been considered a point of reference for the spiritual or religious life. Publishing this book is one way....to say to the victims of spiritual abuse or other aberra

Meditate on It Day and Night – Catholic Stand (April 2025) Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it (Joshua 1:8, RHE). I converted to Christianity in 2014 and to the Catholic Faith in 2019. After I became a Christian, I was thrilled. In the beginning, I never thought difficulties would arise and I simply t

“He That Hath Two Coats, Let Him Give to Him That Hath None” – Catholic Stand (March 2025) “And he answering, said to them: He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do in like manner” (Luke 3:11, RHE). What a beautiful thing it is to serve God’s poor. How beautiful their faces are. How happy I am to see the Heart of God. I am a convert and grew up in the world. I did not have any experience serving the poor throughout my chil

His Eyes Are Like Doves Upon Brooks of Water – Catholic Stand (Februrary 2025) All my life I have been looking for love. I did not know what this love was. All I knew was there was a love in this world which existed and I did not have it. I was so lost and abused. Where was this love? I knew there was something more. I did not know where to find it. All I knew was that there was something I was missing and I was yearning deeply for it with every ounce of my being. In element

"And there entered a thought into them, which of them should be greater. But Jesus seeing the thoughts of their heart, took a child and set him by him , And said to them: Whosoever shall receive this child in my name , receiveth me ; and whosoever shall receive me , receiveth him that sent me . For he that is the lesser among you all , he is the greater." (Luke 9:46-48, RHE).

EWTN On Demand: Father James E. Coyle - Life and Legacy

" So I say to you , there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance . "Before the angels": By...

" Come to me , all you that labor, and are burdened, and I will refresh you " (Matthew 11:28, RHE).

"For better is one day in thy courts above thousands . I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God , rather than to dwell in...

"Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty " (2 Corinthians 3:17, RHE).