# For my fellow Catholics **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120 "2021-02-17T19:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**Author:** ![Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/rastiln/32/77682_2.png) [@Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Rastiln)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/864 "2025-02-11T15:53:09Z")
![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/c/2c677774a0027277f8f81d0dffef1cfbb2cff680.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jasper07734](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jasper07734/32/24056_2.png) [@Jasper07734](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Jasper07734)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/865 "2025-02-11T16:20:19Z")
Guess there aren’t many adult converts volunteering for Meals On Wheels then. ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/866 "2025-02-14T00:41:23Z")
Happy St. Valentine’s Day Eve! Here’s his skull! ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/6/865434f1548e7031f7b54b576c5587fc080376e7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/867 "2025-02-14T16:45:20Z")
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**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/868 "2025-02-14T16:46:32Z")
sweets for the sweet ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/3/3/33f60b48719cea25c7d990b692b212c27754cc84.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/869 "2025-02-14T23:02:16Z")
While checking on the status of a White House memo, I came across this: > **[St. Valentine is not just patron saint of lovers, but also epilepsy, plague...](https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/14/st-valentine-lovers-epilepsy-beekeepers/)** > > The identity of St. Valentine is complex and likely to be a composite of several men. (Despite the headline it goes into a bit of the history of the Saints Valentine.) ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/870 "2025-02-15T10:57:03Z")
> [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](#): > > [St. Valentine is not just patron saint of lovers, but also epilepsy, plague and beekeepers? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/14/st-valentine-lovers-epilepsy-beekeepers/) > > (Despite the headline it goes into a bit of the history of the Saints Valentine.) Yeah, there are multiple saints named Valentine as a woman named Mary, I get it ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/871 "2025-02-21T22:10:17Z")
![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/9/d93faf8c2d18c091f761dd4abe55692854f81cb1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/872 "2025-02-21T22:10:53Z")
don’t worry, Ash Wednesday isn’t til March 5 this year - you haven’t missed it ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/873 "2025-02-21T22:11:00Z")
yet ---
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/874 "2025-02-22T20:06:56Z")
> **[Pope Francis is in critical condition after a long respiratory crisis,...](https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-pneumonia-sepsis-vatican-respiratory-infection-bab5b9a141517171d4efc71fadafa0a4)** > > The Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen. ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/875 "2025-02-22T23:01:27Z")
Prayer for Pope Francis: > **[Prayer for Pope Leo XIV](https://www.usccb.org/prayers/prayer-pope-leo-xiv)** > > O God, shepherd and ruler of all the faithful,look favorably on your servant Leo,whom you have set at the head of your Church as her shepherd;grant, we pray,... that’s a general prayer for a specific prayer for his health: > **[Prayer for the health of Pope Francis](https://cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-resources/prayer-for-the-health-of-pope-francis)** > > We join our voices with all those around the world who are praying for Pope Francis' health. ---
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/876 "2025-02-23T23:38:17Z")
take my energy ༼ つ ◕\_◕ ༽つ ---
**Author:** ![PatrickBauer](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/76d3ee/32.png) [@PatrickBauer](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatrickBauer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/877 "2025-02-25T02:22:01Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/haYbyQIEgQk/hqdefault.jpg "Sinead O'Connor - Something Beautiful") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haYbyQIEgQk) If yer curious about the dedication. > **[Wilfrid Harrington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Harrington)** > > Wilfrid John Harrington (1927 — April 16, 2025) was an Irish Dominican priest. From Eyeries (near Castletownbere), County Cork, Ireland, Harrington was educated at Newbridge College, County Kildare, before entering the Dominican Novitiate in St. Mary's Priory, in Cork. He studied philosophy at St. Mary's Tallaght then the Dominican Studium, and completing a BA degree, before going to Rome. He studied theology at the Angelicum (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas) in Rome earning an Li... ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/878 "2025-02-25T23:26:26Z")
> ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/8/b89729ac3b12265b1657dad090f609d02c58094e.jpeg) > **[Bartolo Longo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolo_Longo)** > > Bartolo Longo, TOSD (10 February 1841 – 5 October 1926) was an Italian lawyer and former Satanic priest who returned to the Catholic faith and became a Dominican tertiary, dedicating his life to the rosary and the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He was canonized by Pope Leo XIV on 19 October 2025. Bartolo Longo was born into a wealthy family on 10 February 1841, in the small town of Latiano, near Brindisi, in t... ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/879 "2025-02-26T15:05:50Z")
This is pretty cool: > **[Ante-Nicene Fathers Cross-Reference - Bible Display](https://jennica.github.io/fathers/bible/bible.html)** Description: > > As I continue work on yesterday’s project, I want to share the most valuable tool I’ve ever created—published under my real name. > > This resource cross-references Bible verses with the Ante-Nicene Fathers, a 19th-century classical series documenting early Christian writings. Click on any blue-highlighted verse, and you’ll see which Church Fathers (pre-325 AD) referenced it. > > Why does this matter? > The New Testament is unique in all of antiquity—it can be largely reconstructed entirely from quotations in contemporary writings. By comparison, the earliest surviving manuscript of The Iliad dates to the 10th century AD despite being written in 8th century BC, yet it is still considered the second most well-attested ancient text in history. > > The very existence of the Gospels affirms Luke 16:31. This tweet has a video walkthrough: > ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/880 "2025-02-26T20:36:59Z")
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**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/881 "2025-03-03T02:26:01Z")
First: ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/7/f71a62dd6f1747403178d45ec64dce05583bc193.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/882 "2025-03-03T02:26:42Z")
Second: > **[The Week in Meep: Upcoming Mortality Presentation and Preparing for Lent](https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/the-week-in-meep-upcoming-mortality)** > > Presentation on March 11 for Iowa Actuaries Club ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/883 "2025-03-05T10:31:12Z")
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