Widow, mama. “Do not complain, daughter, for it is ever thus that I treat My friends.” “Ah, Lord, it is also on that account that Thou hast so few!”
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Marie 🪴 retweeted
Merry Christmas. I thought a lot this advent about this anecdote from St. John Vianney: “I asked him once what he said to Our Lord during the long visits he made Him. Do you know what he told me? ‘Eh, Monsieur le Curé I say nothing to Him, I look at Him and He looks at me!’”
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But here's the thing that puzzles me about what to do:
Good families stop celebrating Halloween in the approved, fun and lighthearted way, but the depraved sickening displays are still out there in full view.
So it means our children are even more scared, but have even less of an outlet to handle their fear.
In our community, parents take the long way around to avoid a certain truly horrifying display by the neighbor of the school they send their kids to.
I had so much fun with my seven little kids in the 80s and 90s getting them dressed up for Halloween and going around the neighborhood.
I spent years trying to defend that lighthearted celebration and I still think there is a need for children to have a grown-up-approved, safe way to address scary things, to put their fears in their place, so to speak.
But our increasingly childless, perverted, dark time has made it so we can't have nice things, and as usual, kids are the ones who lose.
I think you are right.
Marie 🪴 retweeted
All the people who are accusing Blessed Carlo of not living enough of a life of heroic virtue are completely discounting that the child died of leukemia. Hot take, but dying slowly of cancer is so horribly excruciating it takes heroic virtue to do it without losing one’s faith.
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Anyone who thinks the machines are going to take over has never worked with them. – at Seattle, WA
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Look, Florida either believes in freedom or it doesn’t
NEW: Florida police are searching for a man who 'caught' a 50-pound tarpon from a Bass Pro Shops' fish tank.
Only in Florida!
Lee County Sheriff's Office is searching for a suspect who walked off with a tarpon in a fishing net.
"Somebody came up to me holding a scale of a tarpon and said: 'Look, somebody just stole a tarpon,'" said a store employee.
"I couldn't believe it, honestly. I don't understand why they'd do that, and it was just so shocking to me that somebody would stoop low enough to do that."
Marie 🪴 retweeted
A great way to get a priest to bless you, especially if you've done some Bad Stuff, is to go up to a priest in a discreet, private setting and say, "Bless me father, for I have sinned...." Most parishes have regularly scheduled times for taking such requests. Check the bulletin.
Marie 🪴 retweeted
My friend Tim just tragically lost his wife. In your kindness, please pray for her repose!
Mary O'Brien and Family
gofund.me/fc172092
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Please pray for Heidi Keiser, young mother of 5, and wife of Kevin Keiser; both are Angelicum alumni...Heidi is in critical condition from sepsis and toxic shock ....they need a miracle 🙏
caringbridge.org/visit/heidi… – at Rome, Lazio
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“With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican.
Further information will be provided as soon as possible.”
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Please pray for the repose of the soul of Laurence L. Shields, a 50-year member of the Thomas Aquinas College teaching faculty who passed away, quite suddenly, from a heart attack this afternoon. thaq.co/3hDCw5q
Marie 🪴 retweeted
2 Maccabees 7:9 “He put out his tongue at once when told to do so,
& bravely held out his hands, as he spoke these noble words:
"It was from Heaven that I received these;
for the sake of his laws I disdain them;
from him I hope to receive them again." Pray for this kind of faith.
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Thinking about what a kick @eutimioc2 would have gotten out of Festa’s mom praying the rosary during the comeback. Thanks for the prayers Mama Fes!
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Dear Tim lookoutlanding.com/2022/10/1…
