Eva

✝️ Catholic 📿 trad wife 🦅🌎⚓️ Former Marine

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.” - C.S. Lewis

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We can experience joy in difficult circumstances only if our lives are rooted in a relationship with God as a loving Father. Only God's love can give us true and perfect joy. If we are deeply convinced that God cares for us as His beloved children, we will not be confused or discouraged, even in the midst of hardship. https://t.co/duKCEN0LpU

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Elon Musk: "I did originally come to North America with like 2500 bucks Canadian, or 2000 US, one bag of books and one bag of clothes in Montreal at age of 17. So that is how I started out."

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: @DavidSacks on LA Mayor Election: “The media — instead of trying to demand answers and demand accountability — is trying to COVER UP and say, ‘Nothing wrong happened here.’ It’s unbelievable! It’s OUTRAGEOUS!”

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: @chamath on LA Mayor Election: “I’m for mathematical and statistical literacy. And what happened here is mathematically and statistically IMPOSSIBLE … I can tell you the statistical odds that this would have happened — and it’s one in a trillion!”

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

I just play it on repeat since yesterday:

"Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old.
I'd like to ask you a few questions."

Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home."

Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope:
Do you like soccer?
When you were little, did you want to be Pope?
Why are my mom and dad worried?
Why does my dad have so many jobs?
Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it?
Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them?
How can we help if the world is so big?
Does God want there to be poor and rich?
Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important?
And one last question ... Must we always forgive?

What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving.

"Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind."

He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together."

"Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life."

Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it."

"But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine."

"But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us."

Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life."

Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them."

On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God."
Video: Vatican Media

[Eva @EvaDiva413]

@catturd2 This is exactly why I didn’t even bother to vote. It’s been like this for years.

[Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 @JennPellegrino]

John Bolton spent 2024 going on every cable show in America smearing President Trump as a criminal for retaining classified documents.

Today he pled guilty to doing exactly what he falsely accused President Trump of.

The irony is unreal!

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

This is absurd. Once a ballot is received in Florida it is immediately logged as received. Once the election ends at 7pm on election night, we know how many ballots have been cast. Once you know the total number of ballots it closes off avenues for cheating.

[Sholdon Daniels @SholdonDaniels]

When it takes days to count votes, Republicans lose 100% of the time.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

The entire country is sick and tired of the Democrat cheating in California. We’ve had it.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 DEAR SUPREME COURT,

PLEASE ABOLISH "ELECTION MONTH!"

And mandate "ELECTION DAY" nationwide, once and for all. California is proving yet again we need this.

No more mail-ins coming after election day — a BIG ruling could come soon that NULLIFIES over a dozen states' laws. Do the right thing!

JUSTICE ALITO IS RIGHT: "Independence DAY, birth-DAY, and Election DAY. They are all particular DAYS...if we start with that, if I have nothing more to look at than the phrase 'Election Day,' I think this is the DAY in which everything is going to take place."

Do it.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

NBC says the quiet part out loud

LA won’t have results tonight because tonz of mail-in ballots will be arriving over the next few days which will help the Democrats

This is how they cheat

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Florida processes more than 10 million votes in a matter of hours.

California takes days — or sometimes even weeks — to count the votes.

It’s pathetic — and it’s corrosive to our civic culture.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: It's been over 12 HOURS since poll close in California and not even 60% PERCENT of the votes have been counted

Entire NATIONS count nearly 90-100% of their ballots in less time.

Florida takes just a FEW HOURS to count over 90% PERCENT of votes

California's election system is broken. Letting mail-ins FLOOD after election day is a horrible way to do it.

It needs to be overhauled MASSIVELY!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Q: How long does it take for California to count votes?

A: As long as it takes to cheat.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

If you can only count half your votes on election night in just a single city, you're cheating.

[Eva @EvaDiva413]

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