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[Ellen @EllenWHoover]

@L1569Uptown @EndWokeness The judges don’t seem to have changed a thing since Iryna. Clearly they do not care.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

The Miraculous Story Behind the Shoulder Wound of Jesus🇻🇦🕊️🩸

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!”

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This was New York City on Good Friday in 1956

[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

Presidential Message on the Feast of Saint Joseph

https://t.co/h2TFhrYfto

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

A recent statement by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminates the Marxist ideology which continues to take hold of American politicians. Here are my thoughts.

[Ellen @EllenWHoover]

@mattvanswol So sorry. He sounds like the best boy. Glad you’ll have a little more time with him.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

This survivor of the Maduro regime should be required viewing for every American and it should be played on every news station in America before anyone forms an opinion about the Venezuela op.

[Ellen @EllenWHoover]

@Dan_Brisbois @WallStreetApes Same in Charlotte on Saturday too. Pre-made signs and a big banner. How do they have such specific signage ready within a few hours? Nobody was talking about Venezuela until yesterday.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Didn’t you tweet this in 2020?

Are you no longer with Venezuelan people who are celebrating the fall of Maduro?

Or are you just playing politics?

Which one is it?

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

American Media
Pay attention.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”

[Eoghan McCabe @eoghan]

@EllenWHoover @libsoftiktok @elonmusk @mattvanswol There will be at least one.

[Ellen @EllenWHoover]

@eoghan @libsoftiktok @elonmusk @mattvanswol Thank you and Merry Christmas!

[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

https://t.co/iIxtsQWJSI

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I don’t recall the bishops making any sort of video like this to condemn the Biden White House for supporting, funding, and facilitating the mass slaughter of children in the womb. I also can’t remember seeing any video with solemn condemnations of the Biden White House and its support for the castration and sexual mutilation of children. That’s in spite of the fact that Biden is actually “Catholic” and he was actively engaged in activities that are explicitly condemned as mortally sinful by the Church. Trump is neither Catholic nor is he doing anything, policy wise, that contradicts Church teaching. Deportations certainly do not. And yet the bishops suddenly find their voice and their courage for this issue. Very strange indeed.

[Erin Derham Van Swol @HistoryBoutique]

Charlotte NC’s crime problem isn’t random.

It’s masterfully engineered… with soft bonds, pretrial roulette, and dirty data that muzzles the truth.

I sat down with @MattVanSwol and we dug through the system.

Here’s what we found, and how to shut it all down, for good…

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The BBC edited a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph

Watch the two versions and read the full story ⤵️
https://t.co/NUVYDQkjJH

[Terrie Donovan @Terrie_CLTMayor]

Charlotte and Mecklenburg County needs to get out and VOTE!!! The murder rate in Uptown is up over 200% last year! Enough is enough, vote for change. #TerrieForCLT

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Ronnie Fewell of Charlotte NC, who has been arrested a mind-boggling 41 previous times (!!!), has just arrested AGAIN for the murder of of a 51 year old man.

HOW ON EARTH WAS THIS MAN WALKING FREE?!!!!!

When is enough?!!!

North Carolina needs MAJOR reform...