COMODORO JIRAFA

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Miracles happen all the time within us

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

A Deō lūx nostra — “Our light comes from God.”

[brakeboosted @brakeboosted]

BBW failure for Charles...

When it rains it pours

[Cytrus 🍋 @cytrusf1]

A story of LeMans 24h in 3 pictures

Poetic

[COMODORO JIRAFA @CapitanJirafa]

@brakeboosted Hahahahahaaa

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

You cannot claim that you’re aborting your Down syndrome child because you don’t want him to “suffer.” First of all, killing a child so they don’t suffer is psychopath serial killer logic. You’re on the same moral plane as Andrea Yates. Second, children with Down syndrome are famously some of the happiest people you’ll ever meet in your life. They are not in fact living in a state of perpetual torment. So what’s really happening is that you’re killing your child so that YOU won’t suffer the inconvenience of caring for him. This is about freeing yourself of your own perceived suffering. If you’re going to be a child killing sociopath, at least be honest about it.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why did C.S. Lewis say that Hell is locked from the inside?

He explores this idea in his book The Great Divorce.

In it, souls of the damned are allowed to visit heaven on a bus ride, but they are not pleased with what they see — and they leave of their own accord.

The fact is, the damned cannot touch Heaven. They can't so much as disturb the dew drops on the grass. Nor can they even gaze upon the garden properly.

Why? Because they are blinded by their own sins:

– The philosopher would rather philosophize about God than meet him
– The painter would rather make beautiful art than gaze upon the source of all Beauty
– The clingy mother would rather fret over her son than give her full love to God

Lewis' point is that God cannot force man into salvation. Damnation is not God's rejection of man, but God tragically accepting man's rejection of him.

Hell itself is the ultimate monument to human freedom; for a human with true free will is even free to divorce himself with paradise.

What Lewis suggests is that you don't fully understand human nature until you understand that some humans really do not want paradise.

Conversely then, true freedom does not mean using your free will however you want. True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good.

By sacrificing your free will in this manner, you gain glory, virtue, and happiness — for man was made to know and love virtue above all.

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

St. Thérèse of Lisieux once admitted something many people do not expect from a saint.

There was a sister in her convent who irritated her constantly.

Not a terrible person. Not openly cruel. Just someone who got under her skin in small, daily ways. Thérèse honestly wrote that “a holy nun of our community annoyed me in all that she did.”

Most people would avoid someone like that.

Thérèse chose something harder.

She remembered that love is not just a feeling. She wrote, “I remembered that charity ought to betray itself in deeds, and not exist merely in the feelings.” So instead of becoming cold, sarcastic, or impatient, she made a decision to love this sister through actions.

She smiled at her.
Spoke gently to her.
Prayed for her often.
Looked for the good in her soul.

Even when she did not feel like it.

And when conversations started becoming tense, Thérèse chose peace over proving herself right. She followed this wisdom: “It is more profitable to leave everyone to his way of thinking than to give way to contentious discourses.” Sometimes she quietly stepped away so frustration would not turn into sin.

That part matters.

Sometimes people defend impatience and harshness as “just being honest.” But Thérèse understood that self-control and charity are also signs of spiritual maturity.

Over time, the sister noticed how kind Thérèse always was and asked why she treated her so gently. Thérèse later explained the reason. She was trying to love Jesus hidden within that sister’s soul.

That is real charity.

Not loving only when it feels easy.
Not loving only people who agree with you.
Not loving only when you get something back.

But choosing love anyway.

In a culture where people quickly cut others off, expose them publicly, and end relationships over disagreements, do you think Christians today are becoming less patient with difficult people?

💬 What is harder for you personally: forgiving someone or continuing to treat them kindly afterward?

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Groundhogs when there’s a car on track going 200 km/h

[David Vallejo @David_psicologo]

Ayer recordé algo que siempre hice de pequeño en GTA San Andreas (y puede que tú también)😅

Cuando era pequeño disfrutaba mucho de pasear con el Hydra mientras escuchaba la música de la radio. Era una actividad muy relajante.

Un día mi abuelo entró en mi cuarto y me vió jugar y se sorprendió porque reconocía el vehículo. Me dijo que se parecía a un avión militar y lo buscamos juntos: era un McDonnell Douglas / BAe AV-8B Harrier II. Le encantaba este tipo de curiosidades sobre aviones y vehículos militares y eso hizo que desarrollase cierto gusto por fijarme en este tipo de detalles

Él falleció hace tres años y siempre que veo este clip me acuerdo de ese momento. Para mí, volver a San Andreas es tomar mi Hydra y dedicarme simplemente a volar y disfrutar del momento.

[Adrian F. Pascal 🇻🇦 @deusimpera]

“Peace begins when we choose to see Christ in one another.”

— Pope Leo XIV

[Joshua A. Streeter; ὃς μάλα πολλὰ/πλάγχθη @PlaidBarbarian]

Christopher Nolan asked the Oracle of Delphi, "Will audiences love my adaptation of the Odyssey?"

And the Pythia replied, "They will discuss it non-stop for months before it even premieres."

And away he went, glad in this heart, poor fool.

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

The images coming out of Fatima tonight are truly breathtaking.

While the world burns, devout Catholics join together as one to pray for the intercession to the glorious white lady of peace—Our Lady of Fatima.

In the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph!

[brakeboosted @brakeboosted]

"to stop it becoming a tech war"

Are we f-ing serious right now? F1 is in a constant tech war all the time over all details. Remove it, we'll have a tech war over something else, I can assure you of that.

It's not even like we're talking about a grey area. It's just how the regulation volumes work. The reversing rear wings fall in exactly the same boat. Yet, there is no conversation about a 'tech war'.

Hard not to feel that is because Ferrari aren't the only team to employ the idea.

No safety concerns whatsoever, and we're under budget gap, so trying to claim financial war is a moot point.

Farcical.

[Tino @TinoCLeclerc]

Mercedes está atrás de Ferrari pero ahora VOLVIÓ MCLAREN, no nos dejan ser feliz eh. Solo quiero ver a Leclerc campeón loco

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a “right” to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only “right” at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father.