11/16/2018 0 Comments November 16th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"To see the essence of God is possible to the created intellect by grace, and not by nature." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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"Life everlasting consists in the vision of the divine essence." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) (P.S. Today is the feast day of Saint Albert the Great, the great scholar who taught Aquinas.) 11/14/2018 0 Comments November 14th, 2018Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo, along with 24 fellow Jesuits at the Krakow Jesuit College, Cleric Kazimierz Dembowski was arrested as part of the Sonderaktion Krakau, the Third Reich's special action in Krakow to eliminate Polish intellectuals.
Locked up in Montelupich prison, Auschwitz death camp and then Dachau, he was exterminated, on December 12, 1940, sent to Hartheim Euthanasia Center, where he was gassed to death. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/14/2018 0 Comments November 14th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"God is incorporeal. He cannot be seen by the sense or the imagination, but only by the intellect." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/13/2018 0 Comments November 13th, 2018Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo for illegally hearing confessions of soldiers and refusing to break the seal of secrecy, Father Karol Golda was shipped to Auschwitz death camp, where he was tortured by starvation and murdered by kapo Mitas, who bragged that he had hanged "this priest from Tychy," on May 14, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/13/2018 0 Comments November 13th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The divine essence is existence itself." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/12/2018 0 Comments November 12th, 2018After the German Socialists invaded Poland, faithful Catholic Julia Buniowska was returning home from Mass and Holy Communion, when she was executed after she refused to be raped by soldiers, on June 28, 1944.
A virgin, she attempted to get away from her would-be rapists and told them: "Shoot me! I will not go with you, even if you would kill me!" As she sat on a chopping block, an enraged soldier used his rifle and shot her in the head. The bullet entered her temple, exited the other side, and she fell to the ground. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/12/2018 0 Comments November 12th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The essence of God is His own very existence." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/10/2018 0 Comments November 10th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"To see the essence of God there is required some similtude in the visual faculty, namely, the light of glory strengthening the intellect to see God." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/10/2018 0 Comments November 10th, 2018Dressed in his cassock and walking in the forest near Czerna, returning to his monastery after visiting harvesters, Novice Jerzy "Franciszek from Saint Józef" Powiertowski, of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, was murdered by the German Socialist invaders, who shot him in the back, right through the spine, on August 24, 1944.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/9/2018 0 Comments November 09th, 2018Dachau -- MAY 5, 1945 -- after liberated by American soldiers, Church services and a Catholic Mass for imprisoned priests at the Dachau death camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8Inl0yecU 11/9/2018 0 Comments November 09th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor... "Some have asserted that our intellectual faculties know only the impression made on them; as, for example, that sense is cognizant only of the impression made on its own organ. According to this theory, the intellect understands only its own impression namely, the intelligible species which it has received, so that this species is what is understood. "This is, however, manifestly false...because it would lead to the opinion of the ancients who maintained that whatever seems, is true, and that consequently contradictories are true simultaneously. For if the faculty knows its own impression only, it can judge of that only. Now a thing seems, according to the impression made on the cognitive faculty. Consequently the cognitive faculty will always judge of its own impression as such; and so every judgment will be true: for instance, if taste perceived only its own impression, when anyone with a healthy taste perceives that honey is sweet, he would judge tryly; and if anyone with a corrupt taste perceives that honey is bitter, this would be equally true; for each would judge according to the impression on his taste. Thus every opinion would be equally true; in fact, every sort of apprehension." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/9/2018 0 Comments November 09th, 2018Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo, Seminarian Jerzy Stanisław Musiał was shipped to Mauthausen-Gusen, where he slaved in the quarries. Starved and exhausted, he was transferred to Dachau, where he perished from typhoid fever, on March 9, 1945, weeks before the death camp was liberated by American soldiers, the US 7th Army, on April 29, 1945.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/8/2018 0 Comments November 08th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"God is not said to be not existing as if He did not exist at all, but because He exists above all that exists; inasmuch as He is His own existence." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/8/2018 0 Comments November 08th, 2018Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo, Seminarian Jerzy Jakowejczuk was shipped to Posen, then Dachau and finally Mauthausen–Gusen death camp, where he slaved in the quarries and perished from starvation, exhaustion and exposure, on April 22, 1941; thereafter, his body was burned in the crematorium.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/7/2018 0 Comments November 07th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The ulitmate beatitude of man consists in the use of his highest function, which is the operation of the intellect." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/7/2018 0 Comments November 07th, 2018Nine members of the Ulma family were executed by the German Socialists Gestapo, in the early morning hours of March 24, 1944, for hiding Jews in the attic of their home in the Polish village of Markowa.
The Gestapo killed Józef, Wiktoria and their hysterical children: Stanisława, 8; Barbara, 7; Władysław, 6; Franciszek, 4; Antoni, 3; Maria, 2; and Wiktoria's full-term unborn child who had just begun its journey in the birth canal to life. When the bodies were exhumed within the year, gravediggers discovered that the baby had been born in the grave. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/6/2018 0 Comments November 06th, 2018German Socialist Gestapo, the invaders of Poland, arrested Father Józef Słupina and several of his Lazarist confreres from the Krakow monastery.
Imprisoned in Montelupich, Father Słupina was interrogated, tortured and shipped to Auschwitz death camp. On the day of his arrival, August 30, 1940, because he wore a cassock and held a rosary, he was brutally kicked to death by a Schutzstaffel guard. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/6/2018 0 Comments November 06th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"All things by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/5/2018 0 Comments November 05th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"Since God is the first effective cause of all things, it is manifest that the aspect of good and of desireableness belong to Him." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/5/2018 0 Comments November 05th, 2018German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Józef Roskwitalski and 15 other canons from the Seminary in Pelplin. All were transported to a military barracks, in Tczew, where Father Roskwitalski, seminary rector, and his confreres were murdered that night, October 20, 1939.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/4/2018 0 Comments November 04th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"Beauty and goodness in a thing are identical fundamentally; for they are based upon the same thing, namely, the form; and consequently goodness is praised as beauty. But they differ logically, for goodness properly relates to the appetite (goodness being what all things desire)...Beauty relates to the cognitive faculty; for beautiful things are those which please when seen." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/4/2018 0 Comments November 04th, 2018German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Józef Palewski, of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, along with 29 of his fellow Redemptorists, on August 5, 1944.
All were killed the next day by 36 Grenadiers Division SS‑Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, in a mass execution of 2,000, at the Kirchmajer and Marczewski Factory, 79-81 Wolska Street. Their bodies were burned. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/3/2018 0 Comments November 03rd, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
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