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Trad West

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Jul 15 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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You should have a devotion to Saint George, the dragon slayer, especially nowadays.

Once, he slew a dragon.
Today, we face many dragons: relativism, tyranny, spiritual apathy.

Here’s why the devil fears St George & why we need to reignite devotion to him - a🧵✝️🇬🇪

A city is terrorized by a dragon. To appease it, the people offer sheep, then eventually their own children.

When the king’s daughter is chosen, a lone Christian knight appears.

Saint George slays the beast and proclaims Christ to the stunned citizens.

The symbolism:

>The dragon = Satan, tyranny, demonic systems.
>The princess = innocent souls, society held hostage.
>The people = a compromised, frightened world.
>Saint George = the baptized warrior who refuses to bow to fear or evil, and who fights back.

Today’s culture tells you:
“There are no dragons.”
“The dragon is misunderstood.”
“Don’t judge the dragon.”
“Feed your children to it, it’s the tolerant thing to do.”

But Saint George says: “No. Evil must be confronted & destroyed.”

Modernity says there is no truth, only perspectives.

But George didn’t dialogue with the dragon. He didn’t offer it sheep. He didn't make peace with evil.

He pierced its heart with the lance of divine truth.
Truth doesn’t coexist with evil. It defeats it. Destroys it.

Saint George’s weapons symbolize the Word of God - Ephesians 6,17

You are not unarmed.

The Catholic, clothed in grace, truth, and sacramental power, is meant to be a dragon-slayer, not a dragon-feeder.

Saint George was martyred by the Roman emperor Diocletian for refusing to renounce Christ.

He didn’t just fight dragons, he defied real earthly power in the name of a higher King.

He is a patron of Christian resistance to tyranny.

Reignite Devotion:
>Pray the Litany of Saint George
>Call upon him in battle, spiritual or physical
>Teach your sons to venerate him as a model of masculine holiness

The Militant Church needs Dragonslayers:

Saint George reminds us:
>There is no peace without victory over evil.
>There is no salvation without battle.

We must not just “resist” the world, we must redeem it through combat and conversion.

In an age that bows to beasts, be the one who raises your sword.

The time for passive Christianity is over.

Reignite the legend.
Become the warrior God made you to be.

Saint George, the dragon slayer, pray for us.

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Beneath the shadow of Golgotha, as the storm clouds raged and the earth trembled, stood a Roman centurion, a man of war, duty, and hardened steel.

His name was Longinus, a soldier sworn to Rome, but destined for something far greater.

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Longinus had seen many men die in battle, but none like this. The man on the cross before him, Jesus of Nazareth, bore suffering not with curses or screams, but with divine serenity.

As the sky darkened at midday, and a terrible quake split the very rocks, something beyond mortal power was unfolding.

Then came the final moment. As Jesus breathed His last, Longinus thrust his spear into the Savior’s side, blood and water gushed forth, splattering onto his face.

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Christian symbols and their meanings - a 🧵✝️

The CHI RHO

The Chi Rho combines the first two Greek letters of “Christ”, Χ (Chi) and Ρ (Rho).

It became one of the earliest symbols for Jesus, used by early Christians.

The FISH

ICHTHYS means “fish” in Greek and stands:
IESOUS CHRISTOS THEOU YIOS SOTER (Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.)

It was a secret symbol among early Christians under Roman persecution and recalls the miracle of the multiplied fish.

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Jul 16

Cairo, Egypt 1968. The Virgin Mary appeared over a church rooftop, glowing in light.

Muslims and Christians saw her. Even President Nasser did.

The government investigated. They found no explanation.

The apparitions of Our Lady of Zeitoun – a 🧵🇪🇬 ✝️

It all started on April 2, 1968, at the Church of Saint Mary in Zeitoun, Cairo.

Two Muslim mechanics across the street saw a figure on the roof: “She’s going to jump!” one shouted.

The shouts of the two men attracted a small crowd. Those who saw the woman were filled with confusion and awe.

One of the Church custodians voiced what everyone was thinking: “Could that be the Virgin Mary?”

The police were called. But as the crowd gathered, something extraordinary happened.

The figure glowed with a brilliant light.

More and more people gathered.

They could see clearly: a woman in white, standing with arms outstretched.

Sometimes kneeling.
Sometimes moving among shining doves of light.

She stayed for minutes. Then vanished.
It wasn’t a one-time event.

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Jul 15

Christianity is NOT a pacifist religion

Christians are supposed to be pacifists? Just say you know nothing about Christianity

The saints and doctors of the Church taught that war is sometimes not only permitted, but a duty

Let’s talk about Just and Holy War - a🧵✝️

Let’s begin with a myth: “Christianity means absolute pacifism. War is always evil.”

This is FALSE.

From the early Church Fathers to the great Doctors like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always taught that some wars are just, even holy.

War is an evil, but sometimes necessary to restore just peace and avoid greater evils.

The Church does not glorify violence.

But she teaches that peace is the fruit of justice, not cowardice - Is 32,17

If tyrants threaten the innocent. If evil crushes the weak.

Then Christian men may, and sometimes must, take up arms in defense of the good.

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Jul 14

"Temptation is a sure sign the soul is very pleasing to the Lord." - St. Padre Pio

Many people mistake temptation as a sign of failure.
But the saints teach us the opposite.

Why temptation might be an opportunity for sanctification - a 🧵✝️

Temptation itself is not sin.

Our Lord Jesus was tempted in the desert.
Padre Pio himself endured terrible attacks from the devil.

Temptation means you are in a battle, and you fight because you belong to Christ.

The devil doesn’t waste time on those already enslaved by sin.
He attacks those who resist him.

If you are tempted, rejoice, it means you are still fighting. You have not surrendered.

The enemy fears the grace of God in you.

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Why does nearly every Catholic country have a shrine to Saint Michael?

From Italy to Mexico
From France to the Philippines
From Ireland to Ethiopia

Saint Michael appears wherever the Church fights for survival.

Here’s why - a 🧵

Saint Michael doesn’t just protect individuals, he protects the Church & the children of God

That’s why the Church has built shrines, monasteries, and chapels to him for over a thousand years.

And most of them aren’t built in cities.

They’re built on mountain-tops, cliffs, islands, and high places, like heavenly outposts in the war against darkness.

Monte Gargano, Italy (490 AD)
The First Michaelic Apparition

A man’s bull disappears. He finds it kneeling in a cave. He shoots an arrow at it, but it turns in midair and wounds him instead.

After listening to him, the bishop called for three days of prayer and penance at the end of which St. Michael the Archangel appeared to him in a dream to ask him to dedicate the cave to Christian worship, which happened on 29 September 493, after 2 other appearances. A fourth apparition took place in 1656 when the city of Monte Sant'Angelo defeated the plague.

It becomes the first shrine to Saint Michael in Western Europe, still active today.

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