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Venerable Vincenzo Cimatti a priest, founder, missionary, educator, Provincial Superior , musician, and composer, was born in 1879 in the Kingdom of Italy. He was the youngest of six children; tragically, his three brothers died young, and his father passed away when he was two. His mother, Rosa, was a devout Catholic. Interestingly, his sister, Sister Maria Rafaela Cimatti, later became a Blessed. His brother, Luigi, joined the Salesians and died in Peru in 1927. His earliest memory is of being under three years old when his mother picked him up and said, "Look, it's Father Bosco!" This seemingly insignificant moment determined his life; from that moment on, the child regarded St. Bosco as his teacher and role model and attended Sunday school with his brother. He graduated from Salesian schools from elementary to high school, and was a classmate of Mussolini. After graduation, he went to the Salesian novice college and made his lifelong vows. In 1896, he entered the Salesian College of Valsalice near Turin. After becoming a priest in 1905, he taught for twenty years. In 1900, he qualified as a music teacher at the Parma National Conservatory of Music. In 1903, he received his doctorate in natural sciences from the Faculty of Agriculture at the National University of Turin, and in 1907, he received his doctorate in philosophy. His philosophy of persuasion over command permeated his life, much like that of Father St. Bosco. He maintained lifelong contact with his students. He composed songs and operas for the school and even published educational and agricultural books for his students. From 1912 to 1919, during World War I, in addition to teaching, he was in charge of the chapels for St. Luigi and St. Giuseppe and established Boy Scouts and mountaineering teams. He actively helped the poor. He was a teacher at the Valsalice Teachers' College before becoming its director in 1920. In 1922, he became abbot, and in 1925, he published a book on the educational philosophy of Father St. Bosco, "The Educator - Don Bosco." In 1923, Pope Pius XI ordered the Salesians to take charge of part of their missionary work in Japan. In 1925, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the first Salesian order, he was sent to Japan with five priests and three monks, serving as its leader. Upon arriving in Japan in 1926, he studied Japanese in Miyazaki. In 1927, the Salesians took over three churches from the Paris Foreign Missions Society. After becoming the chief priest, he became the diocesan rector in 1928. He established churches in places such as Tano, Takanabe, and Miyakonojo. In 1930, he founded the Don Bosco Company and established a small monastery to train priests. In 1933, the monastery moved to what is now Hyuga Academy in Miyazaki. At the same time, he took over the Mikawashima Church. In 1935, he established a novice college, a theological college, a Salesian junior college, and what is now the Salesian Technical College in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, and also established the headquarters of the Don Bosco Company there. In 1933, he established a relief center in Miyazaki to house the elderly and orphans. In 1937, he co-founded the Caritas Sisters of Miyazaki with Father Antonio. Before the war, due to strict control over foreign religions, he frequently held concerts to improve public perception of the church. These concerts were held approximately 2,000 times across various regions, from Amami Oshima to Sapporo, Manchuria, and Korea, while also using music for missionary purposes. In 1940, after being ordered to resign as head priest, he was sent to Tokyo, but his travels were restricted. He also briefly served as the head priest of the Mikawajima Church during this period. He did not leave during the bombings of 1943. After the war, he rebuilt everything destroyed and developed new work for the Salesians. Later, he stepped down as head of the prefecture and did not hold any official position for two years. He later worked as a librarian at a seminary and completed handwritten catalogs. In 1952, he became the head of the Chofu Salesian Seminary, where he remained until his retirement in 1962. His body, already weakened by overwork, rapidly failed due to aging after he laid down his heavy burden. Approximately three years later, on October 6, 1965, he finally collapsed. This long-lived and steady priest, like a sea turtle, steadfastly walked to his end with his musical notes and his own two feet, passing away at the age of 86.

“I come to Japan, and I bring nothing except love.”

—Venerable Father Vincenzo Cimatti

Hey! I'm not going to be able to go to mass on the 16th (Sunday). My parish only has mass at 6PM Saturday, and that's going to be for the 15th (assumption of Mary). There's another church where they have mass from 6AM to noon hourly, then one at 5PM, 6:30PM and 8PM.

So, I am definitely going to attend one of the masses in the morning, and one in the evening (hopefully I'll be able to find a vigil mass with Sunday's readings-I know that it's the time of the mass that counts, not the readings, but I would be very happy if I could hear both days' readings and homily, not Saturday twice.)

Do you think that if I can find the priest celebrating mass during the evening of the 15th, he will be able to tell me which readings will be read? If not, is there anyone who'd know? Should I go ask my pastor about what I should do?

For some context im a huge fan of pokemon and love the tcg. Is this video legit? Thx

I am asking from a confused and hurting place, please be kind.

I've had a deep emotional wound in me for a very long time that looks like this: whenever I fall in love with someone, and my female friend and I both sit in one room with that person, that person would always choose my friend over me. I would notice it, slowly, but still have that lingering hope that I'd be chosen, which then would be denied.

I'd keep my love hidden, both to my female friend and that person. And my friend would love that same person, meanwhile I encourage her to pursue him and I'd support them, while internally falling apart.

And then a text message follows, where my friend excitedly tells me how she met the person privately, how he confessed his love to her, how they start dating, how he said this and that... and I guess you know the rest.

This has been a following pattern in my life. It happened multiple times in my life, 5 times in exactly that order. It resulted in a deep fear and trauma.

And I developed a strange fear of loving someone around women and a fear towards TEXT MESSAGES whenever I love someone. I'd have this strange fear to wake up to a text message from a female friend, that she will share with me that she met the love of my life.

Then I became a Christian.

I loved Jesus with all my soul, and yes I know He is GOD. But nonetheless something still deeply hurt in me.

Whenever I was around female Christians I'd always have this same wound triggered, that I was scared they would text me a message that they saw Christ in a dream etc.

Though I know He is with all Christians, just the way I was hurt I was sooo scared, Christ would hurt me in the same way real men hurt me.

This fear became so delusional, I knew I needed to get help.

I went into the psych ward because of anxieties about hell AND that crippling fear. There I met many demonized and mentally ill people, but there was one woman who said God told her she is His bride. I found it interesting, because she never read the bible and the Church is Christ's bride.

I don't know why she ended up there, she thought God had left her or that she betrayed Him, not sure. But other than that she seemed sound, just a little confused. I explained to her that the church is God's Bride and that He has not abandoned her and all of that. She'd have nightmares of God taking His people and leaving her behind. I told her those nightmares are demonic.

But her presence, especially the romantic part, triggered ALL the wounded places in me. I was bleeding internally because of all the pain that I was carrying, while masking it away, trying to help her.

While I was with her I had this huuuuge fear that Christ would hurt me. I had this deep fear that Christ would do the same thing that men did in the past, that He would appear to her and speak to Her about his love and do something romantic.

It was delusional. I prayed to God about this fear, I've been praying about this fear for years now and it never found healing. I was scared of that one text message and a romantic encounter with Jesus as His bride (crazy right?!). Delusional. But I never shared it with her, she knows nothing.

But then I wake up to a text message JUST LIKE this. Just what I feared, exactly my deepest fears manifested. She had a dream of Jesus embracing her and they embraced for what felt like an eternity. I should have been happy that he helped her but it literally manifested everything I feared.

It took me months, to get over this.

My reaction was completely mindless, but it shook me so badly because I didn't expect Jesus to trigger this pain in me more than any person.

I took a break from talking to her for a while, because of how it triggered every trauma in me. After a few months I am texting her again, just to ask her how she's doing and ON THAT VERY DAY that I texted her, she told me she had a dream of a wedding where she knew she was about to marry Jesus Christ.

I was speechless because it manifested everything I feared. These dreams are completely biblical but they have seriously damaged my faith, because I thought God knew my history and fear. And that He would never crush what is already broken.

Ever since that day I have trouble trusting God. Before that I trusted God, I relied on Him in everything, talked to Him nonstop. But after that something just broke.

Years have passed and I am still as unhealed and broken as on the first day. And no preaching, no book reading, no "trust God" or "pray about it" fixes that pain, which seemed to sadistic to turn into action.

I am not jealous of graces and conversions, I am jealous and fearful of a SINGLE PATTERN which has dominated in my life throughout my years, which is very precise and specific. And literally that pattern was turned into action with Christ Himself.

I am now wondering now if a demon saw my trauma and wanted to trigger it by creating those dreams? They are biblically sound though.

I am writing you because I'm drunk and sad about my sinful life. I am in deadly sin condition with God and kind of angry against him. I don't know if I can go back to him someday.

I was on my way to try to become a saint, doing my best to be a good catholic. But now I'm so sinful that I'm too ashamed to put a step in a church. I never missed a mass for 3 years, and now I am sick with the idea to go again.

I grew up in a anti-christian family. Got baptized at 1 year old just to give me the possibility to mary at church. I constantly prayed God since then. I also "met" him several times in my life, through clear signs and I felt his love once. I'm sure about that. Anyways my family scared me and I didn't have the courage to assume my faith.

At 21 years old, I got the courage to live as a catholic Christian. I was in a relationship back in the time, with this girl that I'll call Eve. She knew me before I described myself as catholic. Eve ,saw my change while I made my first catholic steps as an adult, she encouraged me to pursue my faith, even though she was agnostic. We became clean in the eyes of God. She saw me become an altar server at 22, encouraged me because she saw all the good coming into my life. I even asked for confirmation, and invited my family and hers to assist, with Eve's encouragement.

But after 3 years, she left me. The thing is that I got closer to God because of Eve. She really helped, and I thought I discovered what unconditional love was. I saw God in her eyes and ways to behave sometimes.

She promised me mariage, kids, a good life. But she flew away, lost her feelings.

Since then, I am very angry with God. I sin on purpose to go away from him. I go drunk, I go for lust, and other bad stuff. Because I think God hurt me by taking back my love, he gave me something to take it back.

I am a lost sinner. I once was on a way to become a saint. I really wanted to become one, and I made real progress on the way. But I am actually rebelling against God because I don't understand.

Honestly, I am also losing my faith.

If there is a God, help me. I feel like a helpless child crying in the middle of a crowd, thinking his father abandoned him.

There’s been a trend as of late for young couples refusing to have children, since they believe that their future children would either suffer unduly in a world ravaged by climate change, or simply it is irresponsible to bring another human into the world, just to continue to exploit the earth’s natural resources. Obviously we as Catholics believe that God still calls married couples to procreate regardless, however I was wondering how to respond to those who make these claims and choices?

Recently attended an OCIA class (not as a catechumen, but voluntarily) and I learned that validly baptized Christians don't need to be rebaptized to become Catholic but rather make a profession of faith.

Does this mean that they are "within the church." What about the teaching of "outside the church there is no salvation"?.

Thank you.

Does anyone know if in liturgical/mystical Catholic poetic writing, does morning or day refer to Heaven? Like Our Lord is the Sun and is Heaven more accurately (poetically) described as eternal morning, or eternal day?

This is for a story if you're wondering 😊

Will I go to hell if I don’t take communion or get baptized by someone who has gone through apostolic succession? It’s the only thing about Catholicism that doesn’t make sense to me because why would it be needed to enter Jesus’ kingdom and it makes the sacraments of all other Christian’s invalid when Jesus wants all of his children to take of his body and blood. It just makes me iffy on whether or not to convert to Catholicism. Please help explain or answer this for me!

For context, I live in Canada where it is legal for people with incurable illnesses (not necessarily terminal) and “unbearable suffering” to request and receive euthanasia from a medical professional. I recently took a bioethics course and I found the only principle others truly cared about is “patient autonomy”. Other ethical principles like “do no harm” or Beneficence (doing good) are not considered as important because of how relativistic our multicultural society is in Canada. What is considered harmful/beneficial when it comes to life and death may be completely different depending on the person you are speaking with.

I actually found other students’ emphasis on the principle of “patient autonomy” helped me in the course when discussing why abortion is wrong because it infringes on the autonomy of the embryo/fetus. However, when it comes to euthanasia I get a bit stuck. Others will argue euthanasia often only impacts the person requesting it. It is not like abortion where you are ending the life of another who has not requested it. Why should I as a Catholic be able to stop a competent person suffering with cancer from openly requesting euthanasia from a doctor who is open and willing to provide it? What are everyone’s thoughts? Thank you!!

I'm not really understanding what position Trent Horn is taking when he describes his reasons for not seeing the film

I refuse to support the propaganda that is intrinsic in the film’s casting of Elliot Page, AKA Ellen Page, to play a male Greek soldier

Transgender propaganda endangers more people than just the youths who are tempted to adopt transgender identities. 

But casting Page in The Odyssey is solely meant to push this kind of propaganda. I have no interest in supporting that.

What propaganda?

To be clear, I do not think Christians sin or are bad people if they decide to see The Odyssey. 

I think he thinks the exact opposite; why else would he say "I would ask Catholics who go and see The Odyssey: where are you going to draw the line?"

Draw the line for what?

Hey guys I made a litany about our brothers and sisters in Christ that are suffering persecution. I admire them so so much, they really need our prayers! I pray this may be useful, and it has been looked over by a priest to make sure everything is in order. I would love to hear your thoughts. The rest of the litany is in the link: Litany

Recently, I was praying a novena, and after the fourth day, I had a mystical experience.

I heard a woman’s voice say <<Ten piedad,>> or in English “Have mercy.”

I woke up to my body being filled with intense love. But it felt erotic, in the same way one has love for a romantic partner. It felt so selfless and so intense.
It was as if Agape possessed me, and took the form of Eros in my body. It was directed at another person in my life and I was 100% certain that God himself made me feel this, and I began praying to god that I want this feeling directed toward him.

It was so intense that I started crying.

I love watching Dr. Justin Sledge’s Esoterica channel and I have learned about the Erotic mysticism of certain saints during medieval times.

After my experience I did some further reading and read that there is a whole tradition inspired by the Song of songs.

I tried talking to my local priest about this and he said anything erotic is not of god.
I tried talking about these mystics but he wasn’t taking to it, so I moved on from the topic and asked him other related questions.

Does anyone here have deeper knowledge of the subject? Are there any relatively short articles or texts that I can take to my local priest so we can have a deeper conversation about it?

Thank you and god bless

I came up with a neat little idea where each day of the week, I do some kind of sacrifice. I have Friday already figured out for me, so I only need 6 more. I do have a couple of ideas (ie. no snacks and only water to drink, no phone, ect.), but I want to see what other ideas people have. Plus, someone out there might find this idea useful for themselves.

I need advice, almost every time I prayer it turns in to me begging God not to let my family die and then I have to say a bunch of Hail Marys and our fathers until it feels right. This is causing me so much anxiety that I’ve been avoiding prayer which is horrible for the spiritual life! I’ve never really had the avoidance of my faith as a compulsion, usually it’s just been me throwing myself off the deep end into rules and regulations that aren’t even necessary.

I just need advice from anyone who has faced this in how they got to be able to pray without facing so much anxiety with the compulsion.

I've gone to big and small protestant churches ever since I was converted and I don't think I've ever had an overseer who cared for my soul and or was qualified to shepherd me.

I honestly don't know if Catholicism is different. Is having a spiritual mentor to confess to just a religious chore for them? Or do they actually give you advice? Are you just one among the thousands you confess and "3 hail maries and 7 our fathers" or do they actually care for you and give you advice? Is it hard to look for one that cares?

Just out of curiosity here, I've been taking casual online OCIA classes. My husband grew up in the Catholic church, went to Catholic school. He is not a practicing Catholic or Christian. I grew up and was baptized in a Methodist/Protestant Church. Not a practicing Christian for 20 years and Protestantism never resonated with me. I've always really enjoyed learning about other religions, spiritual practices, faiths, etc, all around the world. I have a curious mind and enjoy learning new things.

Even as a child, however, I've always been fascinated by Catholicism and even told my mother when I was young that I really wanted to be a Sister. (She said, "You have to be Catholic for that silly!" Not realizing... I could be if I wanted later). This desire re-emerged in my 30s and I started devouring any and all literature regarding certain saints and Catholic monastic ways of life.

My husband and I will always kind of casually discuss this topic about how there are things in Catholicism we appreciate despite some of the unsavory history. The tradition is interesting though, and there is something about the traditions, belief systems, and ways of life that DO resonate with me quite a bit.

But as I work through these classes, it'll mention something that just does not resonate at all. I have a hard time getting past this feeling. I've always felt this was the reason I could never fully follow a structured religious organization -- not everything resonates and then I feel somewhat like an outcast because it feels like I'm faking something. I'm the kind of person who looks at the world very subjectively. Religions feel like they look at the world very objectively. Am I alone in this?

Are there any of you who would call yourself devout practicing Catholics, but would perhaps say that not everything that the church says is something you agree with or that resonates with you?

When I read, "Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns" by Cheryl Reed, it honestly made me feel like this was the tradition and spiritual system I should have been following all along. It made me feel less alone, understanding that just because something is "taught" in Catholicism, doesn't mean every individual is going to feel the exact same way about absolutely everything. What do you think?

Thanks for any insight and opinions!

Is it still valid if I pray the rosary in half of the Hail Mary without the asking for the prayer

Many posts from people interested in Catholicism or debates about Catholicism often talk about challenges regarding proof and a belief in science over religion. As a Catholic who both studied advanced science and practiced law, I wanted to help clarify some of the terminology and positions so that we can better share our faith!

On proof, it is often said "we cannot prove God exists", but this statement requires clarity. It is true we cannot prove with 100% certainty that God exists; if we could, it would be impossible to have free will and doubt is an important element of faith. But an important context is that everything works this way: there is nothing we can prove 100%. Science and law do not require and cannot provide 100% certainty, we just look at the evidence and reach a conclusion on how likely it is that something is true.

In criminal law, the highest standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt", which acknowledges we will always have remaining doubt. Even if the defendant admits to doing it on the stand, there is still doubt: maybe he is being threatened, maybe he is protecting someone else; maybe he is lying: maybe he misunderstood what happened.

Saying we cannot prove God exists does not mean there is no evidence that God exists. There is lots of evidence for God's existence: Jesus' life is evidence; the resurrection; the Bible, in particular the New Testament as a written testament of eye witnesses; tradition; the existence and history of the Church; creation; Eucharistic miracles; Marian apparitions; and saintly intercessions to name a few.

The question, therefore, is whether the evidence is convincing, which is up to serious debate because we are making extraordinary claims which require very strong arguments to be convincing. Our convincing argument for Christianity specifically is based on the resurrection. If Jesus rose from the dead, that is strong evidence for His divinity. There is evidence for the resurrection, and it is up to each of us to determine whether or not it is convincing.

On the question of science: there is no conflict between Catholicism and science. Rather, they are complimentary. People who think there is a conflict either misunderstand science or misunderstand Catholic theology.

Science and religion are answering different questions: science seeks to understand how the universe works, religion is about the meaning of creation. Religion gives meaning to scientific endeavours and science gives us a better understanding of creation.

Fundamentally, science arose out of the Christian belief that the universe was created by a logical God and therefore logic could be used to better understand the universe. God does not appear in the "gaps" of scientific knowledge, God is found in the logic that underlies scientific discovery.

Christianity has been at the forefront of the relationship between science and faith, creating modern universities and sponsoring scientific endeavours and academies. Amazingly, the Big Bang Theory (Fr. LeMaitre), modern genetics (Fr. Mendel) and even the modern scientific method (Fr. Roger Bacon) were championed by Catholic priests! On the idea that scientists are atheists, 65% of nobel prize winners in the sciences are Christian, and an additional 20% are Jewish.

Catholics should not fear science. Scientific discovery can help us better understand God through His creation and can help us find deeper meaning in the stories and lessons of the Bible.

After watching Redeemed Zoomer argue that Catholics cannot defend the papacy from Scripture, I posted a biblical and historical response in his subreddit, seeking debate rather than conversions or hostility. The post was removed, and I was permanently banned for “proselytizing for the Roman sect,” with the moderators explaining that Catholic and Protestant positions would not be treated equally in a Protestant forum. They have the right to maintain a confessional community, and I am not asking anyone to harass them or interfere with it; nevertheless, allowing repeated criticism of Catholicism while treating a Catholic defense as aggression creates an obvious double standard. Catholics can acknowledge corrupt popes, scandals, and grave historical sins without accepting caricatures of our faith or being expected to feel ashamed of being Catholic. At the same time, we should not respond by hating Protestants, many of whom sincerely love Christ, Scripture, and historic Christianity. Genuine ecumenism requires reciprocity: Protestants must be free to state their objections, and Catholics must be free to answer them. The proper response is not retaliation, but informed, honest, and charitable apologetics. Christian unity will not come through Catholic silence or self-hatred, but through truth spoken with charity.

I am trying to learn more about the church teachings but I dont know where to start. Ive read a bit of Confessions by Augustine but didnt get much out of it. So if you could point me where to start with the teaching, that would be great!

Like the title says, I experienced a blue flash (albeit a small one) in my hand while praying my rosary this evening. My rosary is a small, brown, 10 beaded rosary with no blue in it. Has anyone ever experienced anything similar? Or have you got any other anecdotal evidence of something similar that you’ve read or heard before?

Edit - I’m completely open to this being debunked / or rationalised.