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Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages... As A Peasant...

From MedievalMadness

Surviving winter in the Middle Ages was brutal for those with little money. The medieval winter began after Martinmas on 11th of November and went on until Candlemas on the 2nd of February. That’s a long time to worry about food, heating and shelter, especially when there are no modern conveniences. Let’s travel back in time to the Middle Ages and take a look at how the poor tried to lessen the distress of a medieval winter with a lot of planning and a good deal of luck. 0:00 Introduction 3:10 It's Grim up North 5:30 Sweater Weather 8:08 Too Much of a Good Thing 9:52 Pot Luck 12:50 Christmas Con

Traditional Catholic Morning Prayers in English | March

Traditional Catholic morning prayers to help start your day in a godly way! The month of March is dedicated to St. Joseph. We've also included a powerful Lenten prayer -- the Prayer Before a Crucifix This video is a compilation of many traditional morning prayers Catholics say, and should not be considered a replacement for those who have an obligation to pray the Divine Office morning prayers.

What Martin Luther Never Wanted You to Discover About the Bible!

From Totus Catholica

Martin Luther didn’t just translate the Bible—he rewrote it. And what he changed is something he hoped no one would question. In this eye-opening video, we uncover how Luther removed books from Scripture and altered its content to fit his theological agenda. Dive into history, Scripture, and Tradition to understand why the Catholic Church has always preserved the full canon of the Bible—and why Luther’s edits have far-reaching consequences for Christianity today. 📌 Watch until the end to discover the truth about the Deuterocanonical books, Luther’s controversial changes, and why the Bible you read matters more than you think. ✨ What You’ll Learn in This Video: 📖 Why Luther Removed the Deuterocanonical Books 🌟 How Luther Altered Key Verses Like Romans 3:28 👑 The Historical Canon of Scripture Used by Jesus and the Apostles 🙏 Why the Full Bible Matters for Your Faith Today 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned in This Video: 📖 Scripture References: 2 Maccabees 12:44,45 – Prayers for the dead and atonement James 2:24 – “You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.” Hebrews 1:6 – Quoted from the Septuagint, not found in the Masoretic text Proverbs 30:6 – “Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.” 🔗 Additional Resources: 📖 Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 120): The Canon of Scripture 📖 Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397): Affirmation of the Deuterocanonical Books 📖 St. Augustine on the Authority of the Catholic Church 📖 Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus: Earliest Christian Manuscripts 🙏 Support Our Mission: Donate/Support: https://tr.ee/cIPduM Follow & Engage Us on Socials: https://linktr.ee/totuscatholica 💬 Join the Discussion! Were you aware that Martin Luther removed books from the Bible? How does this revelation impact your understanding of Scripture? Share your thoughts or questions below—I’d love to hear from you!

St Joseph, the Man of March, Is Our Lenten Model

The month of March is traditionally dedicated to St Joseph (Feast Day 19 March). He is our Lenten model. St Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us!

From Aleteia

By Tom Hoopes

Just as Mary teaches us how to live Advent, Joseph is a symbol and a companion for Lent.

In Church tradition, March is dedicated to St. Joseph — and in the Church calendar, Lent falls mostly in March. That makes Joseph our Lenten leader each year. That makes a lot of sense. He is a Lenten leader in the way the Blessed Mother is the “Advent Woman.” 

Mary shows us how to receive Christ in Advent.

Advent is about receptivity, and that makes Mary “the Virgin of Advent,” as St. John Paul II said. 

As we wait for the coming of Christ, the Church points us to Marian virtues again and again, with the Immaculate Conception celebrating her sinlessness on December 8, with the (new) feast of Our Lady of Loreto on December 10 celebrating the home she made for Jesus, and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12, celebrating how she prepared the New World for Christ in 1531.

Mary shows us how to prepare a place for Jesus in our lives as she did in the world. 

But if Advent is about “Christlessness,” when we read the prophets’ longing for Christ, Lent is about “Christ-fullness” when we wait with Jesus Christ in the desert, walk with him along the Way of the Cross, and prepare for his ultimate victory at Easter. 

In the same way, St. Joseph show us how to keep Christ in Lent.

While Advent is the season of receptivity, Lent is the season of custody — where we care for, guard and protect the great gift of Christ in our life. We are waiting for Christ in Advent, but we are waiting with Christ in Lent. Christ has come, and he has asked us to stay with him to the end. 

There is no better for model for that than St. Joseph. St. Joseph’s March 19 feast day is the Husband of Mary, when we celebrate the builder from Nazareth who first had to change his life because Jesus had come into the world. 

When the Gospel says “The word became flesh and dwelt among us” the Greek actually says he “tabernacled among us.” In other words, the Word entered Joseph’s family, lived in Joseph’s house, and entrusted himself to Joseph’s care. In the Old Testament, David offered to build a house for God, but God refused. But Joseph of the House of David built a home for Jesus, and his own household became a Holy of Holies housing God himself.

That is what our Lenten task is: To be better custodians of the gift of Christ by shaping our house to his needs.

Joseph was also the model of Christ’s sacrifice.

The other major focus of Lent is the Passion of Christ. As we take up our cross and follow Jesus, St. Joseph is our model once again. His whole life was dedicated to sacrifice, prayer, and self-giving as he lived a celibate marriage literally centered on Christ and responded obediently to the Lord who called him again and again.

But he was a model of the Passion in another way, too, according to Mother Teresa.  “Saint Joseph is the most wonderful example!” she said. “When he realized that Mary was with child, he only had to do one thing: To go to the head, to the priest and say, ‘My wife has a child, not mine.’ … They would have stoned her; that was the rule.” Instead, according to Mother Teresa, “He decided, ‘I’ll run away.’ And the rule was that … if he had run away and left his wife pregnant, they would stone him.”

If that is what Joseph had in mind — and it does make sense — then each March we commemorate the man in Jesus’ life who was a model for taking the sins of his loved ones on to himself.

Last, St. Joseph is the model of the virtuous man Lent exists to help us become.

The Gospel of Matthew identifies Joseph as a “just” or “righteous” man. Pope Benedict XVI pointed out that Matthew’s Jewish audience would have known how a “just man” is defined — by Psalm 1. 

It says, “Blessed is the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked … whose delight is the law of the Lord, and who ponders his law day and night.” Think of that as a description for St. Joseph, a man who was strong and silent and steady, who didn’t detract from Mary and Jesus but complemented them, “like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season.”

Pope Francis’ letter about St. Joseph celebrates all those who, like Joseph, are: “ordinary people, people often overlooked. People who do not appear in newspaper and magazine headlines, or on the latest television show, yet in these very days are surely shaping the decisive events of our history.” 

Lent is the time to shape our hearts in Joseph’s virtues, shaping the future without fanfare, for Christ.