Deeper Truth

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Maximilian of Tebessa

Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Maximilian of Tebessa 3/14/2024
On 23 January 295 a young recruit named Maximilian, a Christian by religion and twenty-one years old, appeared in court before Dion, proconsul of Africa, in the town of Theveste in Numidia. He was accused of refusing a summons to serve in the Roman army.
Maximilian was accompanied to court by his father, Fabius Victor, described in the record as a temonarius, i.e. ‘an agent who collected the temo, or tax levied for the outfitting of military recruits’; the latter was obliged to present his son for army service if he could not find another suitable recruit.
Maximilian, although pressed by the proconsul to submit himself to the formalities leading to induction into the army, stubbornly resisted and was finally sentenced to death. His execution followed immediately.
St. Maximilian of Theveste, Martyr (Also known as Maximilian of Tebessa) Died 296. In the African churches of the late Roman Empire, it was not uncommon for liturgies to include readings from the acta and passios of martyrs. The one often included for Saint Maximilian is the authentic record of his trial in Numidia (now Algeria) and execution for refusing to be conscripted into the Roman army.
Maximilian resisted because he didn't want to be tainted by the idolatry of wearing the emperor's image around his neck. Maximilian also refused because he was a pacifist, perhaps one of the earliest conscientious objectors. There has long been a debate within the Church concerning the radical pacifism advocated by Our Lord and the less stringent, but more practical, position allowing self-defense and just war.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Leander of Seville

 Stand In The Gap With Us And  Saint Leander of Seville 3/13/2024
Leander was born to Roman parents somewhere around the year 534 in Carthage. When Leander was a young man, his family moved to Seville. Leander became a Benedictine monk and in 579 was made Bishop of Seville. He also established a school, which became known as a center of learning and orthodoxy. Leander became a great defender of the faith against Arianism, which was a heresy that denied the Divinity of Christ. During this time he also befriended Princess Ingunthis and assisted her in her attempts to convert her husband to Christianity.
Her husband was the son of Leovigild, the Arian King of the Visigoths, and Leovigild was infuriated by his son’s conversion.
The next time you recite the Nicene Creed at Mass, think of today’s saint. For it was Leander of Seville who, as bishop, introduced the practice in the sixth century. He saw it as a way to help reinforce the faith of his people and as an antidote against the heresy of Arianism, which denied the divinity of Christ. By the end of his life, Leander had helped Christianity flourish in Spain at a time of political and religious upheaval.
Leander’s own family were staunch Christians: his brothers Isidore and Fulgentius were named bishops, and their sister Florentina became an abbess. Leander entered a monastery as a young man and spent three years in prayer and study. At the end of that tranquil period he was made a bishop. For the rest of his life he worked strenuously to fight against heresy. The death of the anti-Christian king in 586 helped Leander’s cause. He and the new king worked hand in hand to restore orthodoxy and a renewed sense of morality. Leander succeeded in persuading many Arian bishops to change their loyalties.

Deepertruth! Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano

Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano  On March 4, 1971, the professor presented a detailed report of the various studies carried out. Here are the basic results:
1. The “miraculous Flesh" is authentic flesh consisting of muscular striated tissue of the myocardium.
2. The “miraculous Blood" is truly blood. The chromatographic analysis indicated this with absolute and indisputable certainty.
3. The immunological study shows with certitude that the flesh and the blood are human, and the immuno – hematological test allows us to affirm with complete objectivity and certitude that both belong to the same blood type AB – the same blood type as that of the man of the Shroud and the type most characteristic of Middle Eastern populations.
4. The proteins contained in the blood have the normal distribution, in the identical percentage as that of the serous-proteic chart for normal fresh blood.
5. No histological dissection has revealed any trace of salt infiltrations or preservative substances used in antiquity for the purpose of embalming. Professor Linoli also discarded the hypothesis of a hoax carried out in past centuries. This report was published in The Sclavo Notebooks in Diagnostics (Collection #3, 1971) and aroused great interest in the scientificworld.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Blessed Angela Salawa

Stand In The Gap With Us And Blessed Angela Salawa 3/12/2024
9 September 1881 - 12 March 1922 was a Polish woman who served in hospitals in World War I. Angela served Christ and Christ’s little ones with all her strength.
In 1913, she became a Secular Order Franciscan. During World War I, she worked in hospitals, tending prisoners of war without regard for their nationality.
She was born in 1881 to Bartłomiej Salawa and Ewa Bochenek. There were twelve children in her family, with Salawa being the eleventh.
Angela Salawa was born on September 9, 1881 in Siepraw. Angela was the youngest of nine brothers, and grew up undernourished, weak and sickly. In her late teens, she went to work as a servant for a family in Cracow. For almost twenty years, Angela was in domestic service.
Born in Siepraw, near Kraków, Poland, she was the 11th child of Bartlomiej and Ewa Salawa. In 1897, she moved to Kraków where her older sister Therese lived. Angela immediately began to gather together and instruct young women domestic workers. During World War I, she helped prisoners of war without regard for their nationality or religion. The writings of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross were a great comfort to her.
Salawa was baptized four days after her birth. The family was poor, and because she was weak and sickly, Salawa was not as able help with chores as much as her more physically robust siblings. 
 

Deepertruth: The Adventures of Trumperman To Make America Great Again

When America is strong, the world is safer! Go Trump, Make America Great Again!
1. President Trump has brought the United States to energy independence, in fact, the United States has become the leading export of Fossil fluids. During the Trump Presidency, clean air, water, the environment has greatly improved.
Joe Biden promises to invest in the "Green New Deal" calling for "Trillions' of dollars doing away with Fossil Fluids. This is expected to cost as high as 94 Trillion Dollars breaking America. From doing away with airplanes and cows to outlawing fracking and off shore drilling, this would bring us back into the stone age.
2. President Trump fostered in the greatest economic boom in history through deregulation and lowering of taxes. Many jobs came back from all over the world as opportunities began from major industries.
Joe Biden promises to turn back the Trump tax cuts and place regulations that will bring back the slow rate GDP of the Obama/Biden years which averaged under .2%.
3. President Trump within less than one term has closed most of the Southern Border to the United States through the continued building of the Wall and Mexico posting 25,000 military to stop the caravans. This has prevented many of the illegals from coming to America, it has helped stop illegal drugs and human trafficking to enter in our country.
Joe Biden is for open borders wanting to give free health care to illegal Aliens, drugs and human trafficking are merely human collateral damages. He supports sanctuary cities that has hurt the legal immigration population. Biden also offers drivers license, free health care to include the restoration of Obamacare. He would tear down the Wall.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And saint john ogilvie

Stand In The Gap With Us And saint john ogilvie 3/11/2024
1580 – 10 March 1615
was a ScottishJesuitmartyr. For his work as a priest in service to a persecuted Catholic community in 17th century Scotland,was hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.
John Ogilvie (1579-1615) performed ministry in his native Scotland for only 11 months after he returned to his homeland following 22 years abroad. He is the only canonized Scottish martyr from the time of the Reformation, and was only 36 when he gave his life for Christ.
John Ogilvie’s noble Scottish family was partly Catholic and partly Presbyterian. His father raised him as a Calvinist, sending him to the continent to be educated. There, John became interested in the popular debates going on between Catholic and Calvinist scholars. Confused by the arguments of Catholic scholars whom he sought out, he turned to Scripture. Two texts particularly struck him: “God wills all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth,” and “Come to me all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you.”
At the age of twelve he was sent to the European continent to be educated. 

Blessed Mary Visits Pompeii, Italy in 1884

Join John Carpenter and Donald Hartley with the Deeper Truth research team as they review the details of this Marian apparition.
Bartolo Longo, who is also known as the “Man of the Madonna” and the “Apostle of the Rosary,” lived in Naples, Italy in the 19th century.  While he was raised Catholic, he fell away from the faith while in college and became a “priest of Satan.”  
Eventually Bartolo came back to the Catholic faith and with the help of his friend, a Dominican priest, Bartolo developed a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary.  After visiting Pompeii and seeing its poverty and lack of faith he heard a voice say to him “if you seek salvation, you must promote the rosary.”   
He listened and began to spread the Catholic faith in Pompeii by establishing a “Confraternity of the Rosary” and teaching people how to pray the Rosary.  Bartolo sought out a painting of Our Lady so that people could gather before it while praying.   He was given an old canvas with the image of Our Lady of the Rosary by a convent.  Bartolo had it restored due to its poor quality.    The image shows our Lady holding baby Jesus as they present rosaries to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena.
After it was restored in 1875 (one of the many times) it was displayed to the public for veneration.  The same day it was displayed a 12-year old girl, Clorinda Lucarelli, received the first miracle through the intercession of Our Lady of Pompeii.  Then, in 1884, another miracle occurred where a terminally ill young girl named Fortunatina was healed.  The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the young girl and said, “When you call Me by the name of the Queen of the Holy Rosary of Pompeii, which is closer to Me than all the others, I cannot reject you.”
 

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Dominic Savio

Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Dominic Savio 3/10/2024
2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857
was an Italian student of John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14
So many holy persons seem to die young. Among them was Dominic Savio, the patron of choirboys.
Born into a peasant family at Riva, Italy, young Dominic joined Saint John Bosco as a student at the Oratory in Turin at the age of 12. He impressed Don Bosco with his desire to be a priest and to help him in his work with neglected boys.
A peacemaker and an organizer, young Dominic founded a group he called the Company of the Immaculate Conception which, besides being devotional, aided John Bosco with the boys and with manual work.
All the members save one, Dominic, would, in 1859, join Don Bosco in the beginnings of his Salesian congregation. By that time, Dominic had been called home to heaven.
John Bosco records that Savio's parents recollect how he used to help his mother around the house, welcome his father home, say his prayers without being reminded,
At the age of five, he learned to serve Mass, and would try to participate at Mass every day as well as go regularly to Confession. Having been permitted to make his First Communion at an early age, he had much reverence for the Eucharist.
 

Deepertruth: The Stations of the Cross With Donna Cori Gibson’s Stations

The Stations of the Cross With Donna Cori Gibson's Stations 3/9/2024
The Stations of the Cross are as follows: 1st Station: Jesus is condemned to death
2nd Station: Jesus carries His cross
3rd Station: Jesus falls the first time
4th Station: Jesus meets His Mother
5th Station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry his cross
6th Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
7th Station: Jesus falls the second time
8th Station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
9th Station: Jesus falls a third time
10th Station: Jesus clothes are taken away
11th Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
12th Station: Jesus dies on the cross
13th Station: The body of Jesus is taken down from the cross
14th Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb
the 15th Station: The Resurrection of Jesus

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Frances of Rome

 Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Frances of Rome 3/9/2024
Frances’ life combines aspects of secular and religious life. A devoted and loving wife, she longed for a lifestyle of prayer and service, so she organized a group of women to minister to the needs of Rome’s poor.
Born of wealthy parents, Frances found herself attracted to the religious life during her youth. But her parents objected and a young nobleman was selected to be her husband.
As she became acquainted with her new relatives, Frances soon discovered that the wife of her husband’s brother also wished to live a life of service and prayer. So the two, Frances and Vannozza, set out together—with their husbands’ blessings—to help the poor.
Frances fell ill for a time, but this apparently only deepened her commitment to the suffering people she met. The years passed, and Frances gave birth to two sons and a daughter. With the new responsibilities of family life, the young mother turned her attention more to the needs of her own household.
Frances collapsed from the strain. For months she lay close to death, unable to eat or move or speak.