Marii An Chia

Hope-Love-Peace-Joy. I shoot with an iPhone. From Singapore, in Singapore. Potterhead since 1999 (was slow on the uptake)

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

I'm #inlove with this lovely lovely #beach in #LowHead #tasmania. 😍

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

@ONEOKROCK_japan Good luck!

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

@jjwalsh It’s super helpful when I don’t want to go through reading Japanese. 😆 also, it’s a decision breaker, at a glance, when I don’t know what to eats

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

@ONEOKROCK_japan can’t wait to see you guys in Singapore again!!!!!!!!! 🤩 Tix already bought, btw 🤪

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

MEDIEVAL SAINT PROPHESIES ANTICHRIST WILL DECEIVE THROUGH SEXUAL IMMORALITY

“The Antichrist will be infused by the devil when he opens his mouth to teach perversity…He will destroy all that God established within the ancient and the new law, and he will assert that sexual immorality and other like things are not sins at all…And again he will say to the faithful, ‘Your law of sexual restraint was established contrary to the way of nature…Consider that the man just mentioned [Christ] gave you unjust commands…So see here and do not be misled any longer by an unjust teaching, for with me you get to do whatever you want, or not. Your master [Christ] did not set before you correction propositions…So know then what you really are! For your first teacher [Christ] deceived you and didn’t help you in anything. But I inspire you really to learn about yourselves and to know what you are…’

With these words and others like them, that wretched son of perdition [Antichrist] will mislead people, teaching them to live according to the flesh’s fiery appetite and to achieve their flesh’s every want—despite the fact that both the old and the new law encourage humans to chastity…In this way, Lucifer will reject God’s justice through that son [Antichrist]…So too in his domination, he [Satan] will assume that so great a number of the people is subject to him that the Son of God must be left with a paltry number of the faithful in comparison to his own.”

St. Hildegard of Bingen, “The Book of Divine Works” (Part III, Vision 5, §30) (c. 1163)

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

TOLKIEN ON PROTESTANTISM

J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter to his son Michael (August 25, 1967):

"The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness—which, of course, though it contains some good or at least intelligible motives, is mistaken and indeed vain. Because 'primitive Christianity' is now and in spite of all 'research' will ever remain largely unknown; because 'primitiveness' is no guarantee of value, and is, and was in great a reflection of ignorance. Grave abuses were as much an element in Christian liturgical behaviour from the beginning as now. (St Paul's strictures on Eucharistic behaviour are sufficient to show this!) Still more because 'my church' was not intended by Our Lord to be static or remain in perpetual childhood; but to be a living organism (likened to a plant), which develops and changes in externals by the interaction of its bequeathed divine life and history—the particular circumstances of the world into which it is set.

There is no resemblance between the 'mustard-seed' and the full-grown tree. For those living in the days of its branching growth, the Tree is the thing, for the history of a living thing is part of its life, and the history of a divine thing is sacred.

The wise may know that it began with a seed, but it is vain to try and dig it up, for it no longer exists, and the virtue and powers that it had now reside in the Tree…But they will certainly do harm if they are obsessed with the desire of going back to the seed or even to the first youth when it was (as they imagine) pretty and unafflicted by evils. The other motive (now so confused with the primitivist one, even in the mind with any one of the reformers): aggiornamento: bringing up to date: that has its own grave dangers, as has been apparent throughout history. With this, 'ecumenicalness' has also become confused."

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

SingTel down again??? #singnet #singtel #miotv @SingtelSupport

[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

A trans cyclist just won a race in New York, forcing one of the top female cyclist to retire from the sport. She said her family sobbed watching a man finish in front of her.

The trans agenda is destroying everything meant for women.

[Dcn. Garlick, Chancellor 🇻🇦 @HarrisonGarlic1]

“Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to man… We shall… be henceforth free to make our species whatever we wish it to be.”

CS Lewis wrote this, as a warning, in 1944.

[Mely Henricks @HenricksMelly]

"He was pierced for our transgressions....and by His Wounds we are healed."

(Isaiah 53:5)

[Pope Benedict XVI @P_BenedictXVI]

If discouragement overwhelms you, think of the faith of Joseph; if anxiety has its grip on you, think of the hope of Joseph; if exasperation or hatred seizes you, think of the love of Joseph, who was the first man to set eyes on the human face of God.
— Benedict XVI

[St. Padre Pio Quotes @PadrepioSaint]

✝️. "The more we thank God for what He has done for us, the more we create the conditions for further blessings."

[Obianuju Ekeocha @obianuju]

Dearest friends, there were more than 44 million unborn babies slaughtered in the womb worldwide in 2022 under the guise of “choice”/women’s rights/ healthcare,making abortion the leading cause of death in our world.

Heartbreaking. Horrendous. Horrific.

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

@Classicbritcom Mr Bean 😆

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

@SingtelSupport Also, because my SingTel tv down, my home wifi is also down. What’s happening???

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

@SingtelSupport is there some issues going on in the east? My SingTel tv suddenly stopped working

[Father V @father_rmv]

A reminder to read anything written by Benedict. I printed this out and tucked it into my breviary.

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

Merry Christmas, everypawdy!!! (My friend’s dog. I just took the photo of him. The dog.)

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore

[St. Padre Pio Quotes @PadrepioSaint]

"Develop the habit of always listening to your (Guardian Angel).

[Marii An Chia @ChiaMariiAn]

6 hours since what time?? Cos we’re still waiting… 🙄

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Social media platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram 'coming back online' after six-hour outage - Facebook https://t.co/LjmeM6dkR2