Bollington 🍀

Tactical idealist with a very active imagination!
Aspiring intellectual. Chronic overthinker. Student of life 🧠👨🏾‍🏫📚

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Peter Cullen has passed away at the age of 85

[Card. Gianfranco Ravasi @CardRavasi]

Erodoto ricordava come in guerra, al contrario di quanto è nell'ordine delle cose, "sono i vecchi a seppellire i giovani”. In altri termini, la guerra sovverte l'ordine della natura, rema contro il ritmo della vita, fa degenerare la stessa logica dell'essere.

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

@QuietTomato Lol, who you talking to 😅

[The married man @marriedmn]

At the end of the day, it's really just husband and wife.

Everyone else lives their own life, kids grow up, families drift but the two of you are the ones who stay, build, fall, rise, and grow old side by side.

That's the real bond people don't talk about enough.

[Ascension @AscensionPress]

Happy feast day of St. Monica!

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

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[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

“I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.”

- Peter Cullen (1941 - 2026)

[Chris Stefanick @ChrisStefanick]

Today is the feast of St. Monica: the mother of St. Augustine, one of the most influential saints in Church history.

Before he became the Saint we know, he spent most of his time breaking his Catholic mother's heart. Maybe you're a parent who can relate.

My sister painted this image of her. In traditional iconography, Mary is often shown at the foot of the cross as if cradling a baby, but with empty arms. My sister depicted Monica the same way: arms empty, praying for the conversion of her son.

For years, Monica followed him, worked behind the scenes to connect him with holy people, and above all, prayed for him.

The fact that her feast day falls the day before Augustine's is no accident. The reason we have a St. Augustine is BECAUSE we had a St. Monica. She gave birth to him a second time, through her prayers and tears.

She died a happy woman. In his Confessions, Augustine describes the two of them standing at a window, looking out over a garden, talking about what heaven would be like. His mother turned to him:

"Son… I do not know why I am still here. I did have one reason for wanting to live a little longer: to see you become a Catholic Christian before I died. God has lavished his gifts on me in that respect… So what am I doing here?"

Within days she was gone. Her last request:

"One thing only I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be."

Monica's persistence is a reminder of a few things:

1.) Nothing matters more than the holiness of our children. Nothing. How we raise them needs to actually reflect that.
2.) The prayers of a holy mom (and dad) WORK.
3.) If you're a praying parent, never give up hope. Ever. Even if you don't die with the consolation Monica had, your prayers for your children don't stop in this life.

As a bishop told her while she wept for Augustine: "it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish."

God can't ignore a mother's tears.

St. Monica, pray for us!

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[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

@ToonHive RIP 🫡

[Fahhh @yowtfahhh]

Bro has been Wolverine since the third Jean Gray wasn't even born 😭

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

@Gbemiga__A 😅😅

[Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun]

Saint Monica reminds us
that earnest prayers from
the heart for those whom
we love transforms lives.
Whether we see the fruit
this side of heaven or not,
keep praying, dear friends.
God is listening
and He cares.

[Words @wordsporn]

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[mc. @maiigician]

One of the most beautiful parts of reading

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

@Acceletor4882 😅😅

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

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[SHARON @SharonMo15]

Our politicians are a natural disaster

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

@RockstarGames Craftsmanship 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

@CultureCrave Pulled his hammy 😅

[Bollington 🍀 @A_Adebote]

@FabrizioRomano I hope this one works out