Chag

Tired and Retired

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

Mr. President,
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I don’t know if you’ll ever read this. Probably not. But I’m writing it anyway because my wife and I talk about this all the time, and somebody needs to say it out loud.
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We can’t wait for the day you’re no longer President.
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Not because we’re tired of you. The opposite. Because you deserve to go home. You deserve quiet mornings. You deserve to sit on your own porch without the weight of 330 million people sitting on your shoulders. You deserve your family back. You deserve peace.
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You didn’t have to do any of this.
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You had the money.
You had the name.
You had the life most men only dream about.
You could’ve spent the rest of your days golfing, traveling, watching your grandkids grow up.
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Instead you stepped into a fire that nearly cost you everything.
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They mocked you. They sued you. They raided your home. They tried to bankrupt you. They tried to lock you up. They dragged your wife and kids through the mud. They put a bullet through your ear and you got up with your fist in the air and kept going.
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For what?
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For us. Regular people. Truck drivers. Welders. Waitresses. Roughnecks. Farmers. Single moms working two jobs. Grandparents on a fixed income watching the country they built get handed away.
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You didn’t owe us a thing. And you gave us everything.
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You risked your name. Your legacy. Your safety. Your family’s safety. Your brand. Your freedom. All of it. So this country could have one more shot at being what it was supposed to be.
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And the truth nobody wants to admit?
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We didn’t deserve a President like you.
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A nation this divided, this ungrateful, this asleep at the wheel didn’t earn a man willing to bleed for it. But God sent you anyway. And I’ll thank Him for that until the day I die. 🙏
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So when the day finally comes that you walk away from that desk, I hope you sleep good. I hope your wife laughs again without looking over her shoulder. I hope your kids breathe easy. I hope you golf till the sun goes down and nobody bothers you for nothing.

Donald Trump works more than one week than Joe Biden worked in four years. Yeah.
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You earned every bit of it.
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Thank you, Mr. President. From a retired auto worker in Ohio, who prays for you often.
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God bless you. God bless your family. And God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸

[Chag @320hag]

Prayers for the family

[Tom Hart @tom_hart]

My mom passed away this week. She was loving & kind, smart & sassy. Her family and her faith were the two pillars of her life. She raised six children with love, grace, a Dodge van, and a pack of pall malls. We know her and dad are together in heaven. https://t.co/bWRWdP1TiD

[Robert 🇺🇸 @ziegler2u]

Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me — it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt — 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles — a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said — you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance — a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said — you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth — a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said — you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio — the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
My wife heard all of this tonight and said, "Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it (Jeff Roush)

[RosarySon @SkyVirginSon]

THE CHURCH FATHER WHO WROTE THIS IN 107 AD AND IT SILENCES EVERY PROTESTANT ARGUMENT

St. Ignatius of Antioch was a student of the Apostle John. He was arrested and sent to Rome to be eaten by lions.

On the way, he wrote seven letters. In 107 AD, within living memory of the Apostles, he wrote:

“Where the bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be; even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 8:2)

This is the first recorded use of the term “Catholic Church” and it comes from a man who personally knew the Apostle who leaned on Jesus’ chest at the Last Supper.

He also wrote:

“Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions… They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ.”

Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The Catholic Church by name. Obedience to bishops in apostolic succession.

107 AD. Not the Council of Trent. Not the Middle Ages.

The next time someone tells you the Catholic Church invented these doctrines centuries later, show them Ignatius.

He wrote this on the way to die for it.

[Chag @320hag]

Happy Big Blue Birthday Delaynee!

[Kentucky Gymnastics @UKGymnastics]

HBD, Delaynee! 🎂🎁🥳

#WeAreUK | #Team53

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A brain tumour changed her life. Her nerves were badly damaged but today she opened a car door, walked, opened a gym door, and sat down... By herself.

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

I get nasty comments every time I post about Mother Mary.

So because I don’t care, I will post it again: Mary is the Mother of God and our Queen! 💙👑

[Kentucky Sports Recruiting (page by MenofKSR) @Men_of_KSR]

1 month until Women’s Volleyball starts!

#MenofKSR #BBN 🏐

[Uche is a girl 🇻🇦 @UcheMaryOkoli]

Prayer for Cleansing and Protection of the Home

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Heavenly Father, I come before You in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, to consecrate my home and all who dwell here to Your divine protection.

I take authority, as a baptized child of God, over every evil spirit, presence, and influence that seeks to disturb the peace of this home. By the power of the Precious Blood of Jesus, I command all evil to leave this place immediately and go to the foot of the Cross of Christ, never to return.

Lord Jesus Christ, I ask You to send Your holy angels to guard and protect this home, filling it with Your peace and presence. I invoke the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. Michael the Archangel, and all the holy angels and saints to defend us against the snares of the devil.

Holy Spirit, come and dwell within these walls. Let Your light drive out all darkness, and let Your love reign in every heart. May this home be a place of prayer, faith, joy, and safety.

We seal this home, every room, doorway, window, and threshold, with the Precious Blood of Jesus. We renounce and reject all sinful influences, curses, and anything that is not of God. Let every unclean spirit be cast out in the name of Jesus Christ.

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

We dedicate this home to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May it be a dwelling place of grace and divine
Amen.

-Wendy J. Cukiers

[Kentucky Sports Recruiting (page by MenofKSR) @Men_of_KSR]

Former University of Kentucky Track & Field All-American and Olympic Gold Medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone welcomes her newborn daughter Savannah Michelle Levrone.

#MenofKSR #BBN #UKTF #WeAreUK

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Before the Hail Mary,there was this:
The Oldest known prayer to the Mother of God.
Prayed by early Christians during persecution.
It's still powerful today.
This isn't just a historical relic,it's a shield !.
A cry for help the Church has never stopped praying...

We fly to thy patronage,
O Holy Mother of God.
Despise not our petitions on our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Amen

[T.E. Jentzen @Faithful2Pray]

In His Passion, Jesus Christ suffered greatly for the sins of man. He wore the crown of thorns, was scourged at the pillar, and had the Five Holy Wounds inflicted upon Him. While most Catholics know of these, few are familiar with the shoulder wound of Jesus, and the miraculous story behind its devotion.
Tradition says as Jesus walked the three miles from Pontius Pilate’s courtyard to His Crucifixion at Calvary, the Cross dug through His shoulder
ripping flesh from bone. According to a pious legend, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux prayed and asked of Christ what was his greatest unknown suffering, and what wound suffered in His Passion was most painful. Christ replied to him:

“I had on My Shoulder while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows, a grievous Wound which was more painful than the others, and which is not recorded by men.”
Christ asked that Saint Bernard and other members of the Faithful keep a devotion to his shoulder wound, and that those who do will receive God’s grace.
“Honor this Wound with thy devotion, and I will grant thee whatsoever thou dost ask through its virtue and merit. And in regard to all those who shall venerate this Wound, I will remit to them all their venial sins, and will no longer remember their mortal sins.”

Saint Bernard heeded Christ’s call, composing a beautiful devotional prayer to honor the shoulder wound of Our Savior:

“O Loving Jesus, Meek Lamb of God, I, a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy Flesh and laid bare
Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other wound of Thy Most Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross, to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my
mortal and venial sins and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen.”
While Saint Bernard was the first to venerate the shoulder wound, he was not the last. Saint Padre Pio kept a devotion and also suffered the same wound himself as a stigmata. When Pope Saint John Paul II was still a priest he visited Padre Pio and asked him which wound was his most painful. Father Wojtyła expected that it was his chest wound, but the saint replied:
“It is my shoulder wound, which no one knows about and has never been cured
or treated.”
Prior to his death, Padre Pio confided to Brother Modestino Fucci at his friary in San Giovanni Rotondo that his greatest pains happened when took off his shirt. At the time, Fucci believed it to be his chest wounds much like John Paul II. When he was later assigned the task of inventorying all the items inside the cell of the late Padre Pio, he noticed his undershirts had blood stains on the right shoulder.
That night, Brother Fucci prayed asking Padre Pio for a sign if he truly bore the shoulder wound of Christ. At 1 A.M., he awoke with an excruciating pain in his right shoulder and the room was filled the aroma of flowers, the sign Padre Pio’s spiritual presence, and he heard a voice call out: “This is what I had to suffer!”

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

Raise your hand if you could give a crap that Taylor and Travis are getting married.

Me-✋🏻

[Kentucky Softball @UKsoftball]

A tenure that will have a lasting impact on Kentucky Athletics — and the entire University — the Barnhart family will be missed but their legacy will always remain! Thank you for all you have done💙

[Kentucky Women’s Golf @KentuckyWGolf]

Solid top to bottom. ↔️

[Johnny Cadillac @lippyent]

✋️ Hmm 😒 🤔 ?¿

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

The Prayer That Has Never Failed

THE MEMORARE

It's the most powerful Marian prayer in history....

For nearly 1000 years,Catholics have turned to this prayer in their moments of need.
The Memorare is a prayer so powerful that saints,popes,and countless faithful have witnessed miracles after praying it :

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help,
or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins, my Mother.
To thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

Amen.

Memorare is rooted in Church Traditions. Prayed by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St.Teresa of Calcutta, and St. Francis de Sales.
Many saints have turned to this prayer in life or death moments, and miracles followed instant intercession.

Blessed Pope Pius IX said,
"This prayer has never failed me.
Will you pray the Memorare today ?

[Chag @320hag]

I got and have done all twenty!
Yeah, I’m old!

[Irina 🇺🇸 @Irina_exh]

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[Chag @320hag]

@TulsiGabbard Praying 🙏