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📙Isaiah 6:3

One cried out to the other: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory!”

📙 Psalms 34

The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he saves them.

📙 Psalms 103

20 Bless the LORD, all you his angels, mighty in strength, acting at his behest, obedient to his command.

21 Bless the LORD, all you his hosts, his ministers who carry out his will.

22 Bless the LORD, all his creatures, everywhere in his domain. Bless the LORD, my soul!

📙 Ephesians 1

21 far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come.

📙 Revelations 5:8 

When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.

📙 Matthew 18 

"See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven

always look upon the face of my heavenly Father." 

😍 Excerpts from USCCB Holy Bible notes 🌐

 Their angels in heaven…my heavenly Father: for the Jewish belief in angels as guardians of nations and individuals, see Daniel 10:13, 20–21; Tb 5:4–7; 1QH 5:20–22; as intercessors who present the prayers of human beings to God, see Tb 13, 12:15, . The high worth of the little ones is indicated by their being represented before God by these heavenly beings.

📕PASSAGES Holiness, Veneration & Holy Images

📖 2 Thessalonians 2:15 

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.

📖Psalms 5:7-9

But I, through the abundance of your mercy, I will enter into your house. I will bow down toward your holy sanctuary out of fear of you.

🇵🇭 📖Mga Awit 5:7-9

Ngunit dahil sa iyong dakilang pagmamahal, makakapasok ako sa iyong tahanan; ika'y sambahin ko sa Templo mong banal, luluhod ako tanda ng aking paggalang. 

📒 Isaiah 19

19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.

🇵🇭📒 Isaias 19

19 Sa araw na iyon, itatayo ang isang altar para sa Panginoon sa lupain ng Egipto, at itatayo ang isang alaalang bato sa hangganan nito. 20 Magiging tanda ito at patunay na naroon ang Panginoong Makapangyarihan sa lupain ng Egipto. Kung ang mga taga-Egipto ay hihingi ng tulong sa Panginoon sa dahilang pinapahirapan sila ng mga umaapi sa kanila, padadalhan sila ng magliligtas at kakalinga sa kanila.

📘Isaiah 56:5

I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. 

🇵🇭📘Isaias 56:5

Papayagan ko silang makapasok sa aking templo at pararangalan ko sila ng higit pa sa karangalang ibibigay sa kanila kung silaʼy nagkaanak. At hindi sila makakalimutan ng mga tao magpakailanman. 

📖Exodus 25:18-22 

18 Make two cherubim of beaten gold for the two ends of the cover;

19 make one cherub at one end, and the other at the other end, of one piece with the cover, at each end.

20 The cherubim shall have their wings spread out above, sheltering the cover with them; they shall face each other, with their faces looking toward the cover.

21 This cover you shall then place on top of the ark. In the ark itself, you are to put the covenant which I will give you.

22 There I will meet you and there, from above the cover, between the two cherubim on the ark of the covenant, I will tell you all that I command you regarding the Israelites.

📖Joshua 6

6 Summoning the priests, Joshua, son of Nun, said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant with seven of the priests carrying ram’s horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

7 And he ordered the people, “Proceed and surround the city, with the picked troops marching ahead of the ark of the LORD.”

📖Joshua 7:6 

Joshua, together with the elders of Israel, tore their garments and fell face down before the ark of the LORD until evening; and they threw dust on their heads.

📖Ezekiel 41:19 (Interior Temple)

the face of a human being looked toward one palm tree and the face of a lion looked toward the other palm tree. Thus the figures covered all the walls around the temple.

📖2 Chronicles 7:15-16

Now, therefore, my eyes shall be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place;

now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

📖Isaiah 19:19-21

1In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. 

📖Matthew 9:20-22 

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: for she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 

📖Acts 5:15 

to such an extent that they even carried their sick out into the streets and put them on cots and sleeping pads, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them with healing power. 

📖Acts 19:11-12 

Because of this, people took Paul's handkerchiefs and articles of clothing, even pieces of cloth that had touched his skin, laying them on the bodies of the sick, and diseases and demons left them and they were healed. 

📖Leviticus 10:10

10 You must be able to distinguish between what is sacred and what is profane, and between what is clean and what is unclean;

PH📖Leviticus 10:10

 Dapat ninyong malaman kung alin ang sagrado o hindi at kung alin ang malinis o marumi. 

📖2 Kings 13:21 

And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. 

📖2 Chronicles 7:16

16 I have chosen this temple to be my special home. People will worship me there for ever. I will always be there to watch over it. 

PH📖2 Cronica 7:16

Pinili ko at iniuukol ang Templong ito upang dito ako sambahin magpakailanman. Lagi kong babantayan at mamahalin ang Templong ito magpakailanman.  

📖Psalm 5:7

But I, by your great love, can come into your house;

in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple. 

PH📖Mga Awit 5:7-9 

Ngunit dahil sa iyong dakilang pagmamahal, makakapasok ako sa iyong tahanan;

ika'y sambahin ko sa Templo mong banal, luluhod ako tanda ng aking paggalang. 

More:

Exodus 20:3-5

Exodus 25:19-22

Ezekiel 41:22

2 Chronicles 10:2

2 Chronicles 7:16

1 Kings 8:1-6

2 Kings 23:15-18

Acts 9:40

Deuteronomy 4:16

Catechism ⛪

CCC 266

CCC 152

CCC 2132 

More quotes 📚

📍To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - Tommaso  

📍Conversion is a lifelong process. - Aurelius Augustinus 

📍Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ. - Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus 

📍I'm not worthy to be called Catholic if I can't defend my faith. - Cyril of Alexandria (PDF Link one & two🌐) 

📍Work, study and pray and you will surely overcome your spiritual enemy.  -Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco 

📍Arm yourself with prayer instead of a sword; be clothed with humility instead of fine raiment. -Domingo Félix de Guzmán

📍Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” - Francesco Forgione 

⚠️A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

Important Writings and Documents 📝

📌 Divine Mercy - Diary

📌 Divine Mercy Devotion

📌 Story of Fatima

📌 Padre Pio - Confession

📌 Story of Padre Pio

📌 Gates of Hell

📌 Hell - Dogma, Manifestations, Damned Souls & others

📌 On the Number of Sins You Commit

📌 Little Number of Those Who Are Saved

🌐 Miscellaneous files

Read all related contents 📙 on The CCC ⛪ and Canon Law 📃 

Lumen Gentium 🌐 https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

Holy Mass 🌐 https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal

Guides for Examination of Conscience (Also for Confession) 👉🏻 Mortals sins page guide & from the Church

⛪🙏🏻The Precepts of the Church (https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P75.HTM)

📜 2041 The precepts of the Church are set in the context of a moral life bound to and nourished by liturgical life. the obligatory character of these positive laws decreed by the pastoral authorities is meant to guarantee to the faithful the indispensable minimum in the spirit of prayer and moral effort, in the growth in love of God and neighbor:

📜 2042 The first precept (“You shall attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation.") requires the faithful to participate in the Eucharistic celebration when the Christian community gathers together on the day commemorating the Resurrection of the Lord.82

📜The second precept (“You shall confess your sins at least once a year.") ensures preparation for the Eucharist by the reception of the sacrament of reconciliation, which continues Baptism's work of conversion and forgiveness.83

📜The third precept (“You shall humbly receive your Creator in Holy Communion at least during the Easter season.") guarantees as a minimum the reception of the Lord's Body and Blood in connection with the Paschal feasts, the origin and center of the Christian liturgy.84

📜 2043 The fourth precept (“You shall keep holy the holy days of obligation.") completes the Sunday observance by participation in the principal liturgical feasts which honor the mysteries of the Lord, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.85

📜The fifth precept (“You shall observe the prescribed days of fasting and abstinence.") ensures the times of ascesis and penance which prepare us for the liturgical feasts; they help us acquire mastery over our instincts and freedom of heart.86

The faithful also have the duty of providing for the material needs of the Church, each according to his abilities.87

😍 Additional notes 🌐

82 Cf. CIC, cann. 1246-1248; CCEO, can. 881 # 1, # 2, # 4.

83 Cf. CIC, can. 989; CCEO, can. 719.

84 Cf. CIC, can. 920; CCEO, cann. 708; 881 # 3.

85 Cf. CIC, can. 1246; CCEO, cann. 881 # 1, # 4; 880 # 3.

86 Cf. CIC, cann. 1249-1251; CCEO, can. 882.

87 Cf. CIC, can. 222.

More CCC Common Topics 👇🏻

📜 1674 Besides sacramental liturgy and sacramentals, catechesis must take into account the forms of piety and popular devotions among the faithful. The religious sense of the Christian people has always found expression in various forms of piety surrounding the Church's sacramental life, such as the veneration of relics, visits to sanctuaries, pilgrimages, processions, the stations of the cross, religious dances, the rosary, medals, 180 etc.

📜 1677 Sacramentals are sacred signs instituted by the Church. They prepare men to receive the fruit of the sacraments and sanctify different circumstances of life. 

📜 1678 Among the sacramentals blessings occupy an important place. They include both praise of God for his works and gifts, and the Church’s intercession for men that they may be able to use God’s gifts according to the spirit of the Gospel.

📜1855 Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God’s law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it.

V. The Proliferation of Sin

📜1865 Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root.

📜1866 Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called "capital" because they engender other sins, other vices.138 They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia.

📜1867 The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel,139 The sin of the Sodomites,140 The cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,141 The cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan,142 injustice to the wage earner.143

📜1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: - by participating directly and voluntarily in them; - by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them; - by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so; - by protecting evil-doers.

📜1869 Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness. "Structures of sin" are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a "social sin."144

📜2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

📜2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.48 Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone. 

📜2120 Sacrilege consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body of Christ is made substantially present for us.

📜2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. the person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission, another is deliberately led into a grave offense.

📜2089Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. "Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him."

📜2093 Faith in God's love encompasses the call and the obligation to respond with sincere love to divine charity. The first commandment enjoins us to love God above everything and all creatures for him and because of him.12. Cf. 📙Deut 6:4-5.

📜2094 One can sin against God's love in various ways:

📍indifference neglects or refuses to reflect on divine charity; it fails to consider its prevenient goodness and denies its power;

📍ingratitude fails or refuses to acknowledge divine charity and to return him love for love;

📍lukewarmness is hesitation or negligaence in responding to divine love; it can imply refusal to give oneself over to the prompting of charity;

📍acedia or spiritual sloth goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by divine goodness;

📍hatred of God comes from pride. It is contrary to love of God, whose goodness it denies, and whom it presumes to curse as the one who forbids sins and inflicts punishments.

Catholic Church Canon Law - Common Topics 🌐 https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/cic_index_en.html

📃Can. 751 Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.

📃Can. 889 Every baptized person not yet confirmed and only such a person is capable of receiving confirmation. 

📃Can. 892 Insofar as possible, there is to be a sponsor for the person to be confirmed; the sponsor is to take care that the confirmed person behaves as a true witness of Christ and faithfully fulfills the obligations inherent in this sacrament.

📃Can. 915 Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion. 

📃Can. 1184  Unless they gave some signs of repentance before death, the following must be deprived of ecclesiastical funerals:

📍 notorious apostates, heretics, and schismatics;

📍 those who chose the cremation of their bodies for reasons contrary to Christian faith;

📍 other manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful.

OFFENCES AGAINST THE FAITH AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH (Can. 1364 - 1369)

📃Can. 1364— An apostate from the faith, a heretic or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, without prejudice to the provision of can. 194 § 1 n. 2; he or she may also be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§ 2-4.

§ 2. If a long-standing contempt or the gravity of scandal calls for it, other penalties may be added, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.

📃Can. 1365— A person who, apart from the case mentioned in canon 1364 § 1, teaches a doctrine condemned by the Roman Pontiff, or by an Ecumenical Council, or obstinately rejects the teaching mentioned in canon 750 § 2 or canon 752 and, when warned by the Apostolic See or the Ordinary, does not retract, is to be punished with a censure and deprivation of office; to these sanctions others mentioned in can. 1336 §§ 2-4 may be added.

📃Can. 1366— A person who appeals from an act of the Roman Pontiff to an Ecumenical Council or to the College of Bishops is to be punished with a censure.

📃Can. 1367— Parents and those taking the place of parents who hand over their children to be baptised or brought up in a non-Catholic religion are to be punished with a censure or other just penalty.

📃Can. 1368— A person is to be punished with a just penalty who, at a public event or assembly, or in a published writing, or by otherwise using the means of social communication, utters blasphemy, or gravely harms public morals, or rails at or excites hatred of or contempt for religion or the Church.

📃Can. 1369— A person who profanes a sacred object, moveable or immovable, is to be punished with a just penalty.

BIBLE REFERENCES  (NT From the Letter of Paul & John)

📕1 Corinthians 11:27-29 📜2120 Sacrilege (Taking the Holy Eucharist in State of Mortal Sin/Without Confession)

Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.

📕John 6:53 "The Words of Eternal Life" and "The Bread of Life Discourse" (Read Full)

Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 

📕Juan 6:53 "Mga Salita tungkol sa Buhay na Walang Hanggan" at "Ang Tinapay ng Buhay na Diskurso" (Basahin ang Kabuuan)

Sinabi ni Jesus, “Pakatandaan ninyo: malibang kainin ninyo ang laman ng Anak ng Tao at inumin ang kanyang dugo, hindi kayo magkakaroon ng buhay. 

📕1 Corinto 11:27-29 📜2120 Kalapastanganan (Pagtangap ng banal na Eukaristiya na nasa estado ng Mortal na kasalanan/Walang Kumpisal)

Kaya, ang sinumang kumakain ng tinapay at umiinom sa kopa ng Panginoon sa paraang di nararapat ay nagkakasala sa katawan at dugo ng Panginoon. Kaya't dapat siyasatin ng tao ang kanyang sarili bago siya kumain ng tinapay at uminom sa kopa. Sapagkat ang sinumang kumakain at umiinom nang hindi kinikilala ang kahalagahan ng katawan ng Panginoon ay kumakain at umiinom ng kahatulan laban sa kanyang sarili. 

📕1 Timothy 4:1 📜2089

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions.