On the Great Profit and Benefit of Reading Scripture

“The present life is a wrestling school, a gymnasium, a battle, a smelting furnace, and a dyer’s house of virtue” – St John Chrysostom

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015

Holy Virgin Martyr Agrippina

Dear Ones

Blessings.

On the Great Profit and Benefit of Reading Scripture

Great is the profit to be derived from the sacred Scriptures and their assistance is sufficient for every need. Paul was pointing this out when he said, ‘Whatever things have been written have been written for our instruction, upon whom the final age of the world has come, that through the patience and the consolation afforded by the Scriptures we may have hope.’ (Rom. 15:4; 1 Cor. 10:11) The divine words, indeed, are a treasury containing every sort of remedy, so that, whether one needs to put down senseless pride, or to quench the fire of concupiscence or to trample on the love of riches, or to despise pain, or to cultivate cheerfulness and acquire patience – in them one may find in abundance the means to do so.

St John Chrysostom, Homily 37 On the Gospel of John

Ancient Faith Radio Launches New Ancient Faith Today Program with Interview

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Priests for Life Win an Important Stay from 11th Circuit Court – Hope to Overturn the HHS Mandate

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/priests-for-life-wins-injunction-believes-its-case-could-overturn-the-hhs-m

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300,000 rally for Natural Family and Against Gender Ideology in Rome

In one of the largest demonstrations of its kind, an estimated 300,000 to 1 million people gathered at San Giovanni Square in Rome on Sunday, June 20 to protest a move by Italy’s leftwing government to legalize homosexual “marriage” by the end of July. The demonstrators, including many young families with children, also oppose gender-indoctrination in the schools. Massimo Gandolfini, spokesman for Defend Our Children, the rally organizer, explained: “We are asking for family-based education to be respected, and stressing the central role parents play. We forcefully reject the attempt to sneak into the curriculum projects which aim to destroy children’s sexual identities.” Sexual radicals across Europe have been energized by Ireland’s vote for marriage deconstruction. Still, observers say that opposition forces are stronger here than in the Emerald Isle. They include the Euro-skeptic Northern League Party. In February, Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin called Italy “a dying country.” In 2014, fewer babies were born than in any previous year since the modern Italian state was established in 1861. With Italy’s demographic future hanging in the balance, it seems a strange time to promote non-reproductive “marriage.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/06/21/over-300000-rally-in-rome-against-gay-marriage