✝️ Jesus Christ be with You Always ! ✝️
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▪︎ #Jesus Heals the Gerasene Demoniac:
- Bound by chains and tormented by legions, a broken man finds sudden, overwhelming deliverance at the feet of the Savior. (Mark 5:1-20)
▪︎ #Moses on Mount Sinai:
-Amidst swirling storm clouds and the crack of divine lightning, a solitary prophet holds aloft the very law of God. (Exodus 19:16-19)
▪︎ Noah's #Ark:
- As the heavens break open and apocalyptic waters rise, a massive wooden vessel becomes the sole sanctuary for a remnant of life. (#Genesis 7:1-24)
▪︎ #Elijah Taken to #Heaven:
- A blazing chariot tears through the earthly veil, whisking a weary prophet into the heavens in a whirlwind of holy fire. (2 Kings 2:11)
▪︎ Jacob Wrestles with #God:
- In the desolate darkness, a desperate patriarch grapples through the night with a divine being, refusing to let go until he is blessed. (Genesis 32:22-32)
▪︎ The Temptation of #Christ:
- Perched on a dizzying precipice, the Son of God faces the whispers of the deceiver, standing firm against the ultimate test of power and identity. (Matthew 4:5-7)
▪︎ Jesus Calms the Storm:
- Amidst raging waters and terrified disciples, a single word from the Master brings a sudden, awe-inspiring silence to the tempest. (Mark 4:35-41)
▪︎ David and Goliath:
- Armed with nothing but a shepherd's sling and unshakeable faith, a young boy steps forward to fell a monstrous giant. (1 Samuel 17:48-50)
▪︎ The Resurrection of Christ:
- An angelic figure effortlessly casts aside the massive stone of death, revealing the dazzling, world-altering light of the empty tomb. (Matthew 28:1-4)
▪︎ Parting of the Red Sea:
- A miraculous corridor of dry land is forged through towering walls of water, offering a dramatic escape from the clutches of an empire. (Exodus 14:21-22)
▪︎ Samson Destroys the Temple:
-With a final, agonizing surge of God-given strength, a blinded champion brings the pillars of a mocking empire crashing down upon his enemies. (Judges 16:23-30)
▪︎ Destruction of Pharaoh's Army:
-The towering watery walls collapse in a catastrophic deluge, utterly swallowing an arrogant army and securing final deliverance for the Israelites. (Exodus 14:26-28)
▪︎ The Triumphal Entry:
- A humble king rides toward his destiny on a donkey, embraced by the fleeting cheers and waving branches of a hopeful crowd. (Matthew 21:1-11)
▪︎ Calling the First Disciples:
- A simple command echoes across the tranquil waters of Galilee, compelling rugged fishermen to leave their nets and become fishers of men. (Matthew 4:18-22)
▪︎ Peter Walks on Water:
- A moment of audacious faith turns to terror as a disciple steps onto the raging waves, only to be saved by the firm, outstretched hand of his Lord. (Matthew 14:22-33)
▪︎ Raising of Jairus's Daughter:
- In a room heavy with grief, the tender touch of the Savior awakens a lifeless child, turning mourning into an embrace of profound joy. (Mark 5:35-43)
▪︎ The Bronze Serpent:
- Amidst a plague of deadly vipers in the desert, a lifted bronze serpent becomes a striking symbol of salvation for those who simply look upon it and live. (Numbers 21:4-9)
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Dave Portnoy sold Barstool for $551 million. His ex-wife still has full access to his bank account
Shannon Sharpe: what if she spends $500,000 on a wedding to another man?
Portnoy: "100%"
Then Shannon tells him to cut her off. His answer is in the video below
Her name is Renee. They married in 2009. He says they once lived at her parents' house
They split in 2017. That is right when the money started coming in
2016: The Chernin Group buys 51%. The whole company is valued at $10 to $15 million
2020: Penn buys 36% for $163 million
2023: Penn buys the rest. Total price: $551 million
Six months later Portnoy buys it all back for $1
He is reportedly worth around $150 million. He says Renee has access to all of it
Shannon can't believe it. Portnoy doesn't blink:
"I trust her implicitly"
"She was there when we couldn't afford a hamburger"
"We kind of separated when we started making it. So she doesn't get to enjoy any of that. To me, that's not right"
"I won't even notice if it's gone"
Here is the part most people miss. Per People, they never finished the divorce. On paper, she is still his wife
He also says she could have emptied the account years ago. She never did
Do the math. A $500,000 wedding is a third of one percent of $150 million. For someone with $30,000 in savings, that is $100
The case for: she stood by him when he was broke, and he refuses to pretend that never happened
The case against: you do not hand a blank check to someone you are no longer with, no matter how good the history is
Is Portnoy the most loyal man in America, or is this a mistake waiting to happen?
You do realize Christianity wouldn't have been catalyzed/and spread without the Catholic Church right?
▪︎ The early Church’s hierarchical structure (bishops in succession from the apostles, with Rome holding a recognized primacy) allowed Christianity to survive Roman persecution, coordinate doctrine, and expand beyond a small Jewish sect into an organized religion across the empire.
▪︎ Ecumenical councils (Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon) convened under Church authority defined core Christian doctrines—Trinity, Incarnation, and the biblical canon—preventing the fragmentation that destroyed other ancient religious movements.
▪︎ For the first 1,000+ years, the institutional Church (what became the Catholic Church after the East-West split) drove missionary work, monastic education, and conversion of Europe’s pagan tribes, providing the only sustained institutional vehicle for Christianity’s geographic and cultural spread before later Protestant and Orthodox branches existed.
So... every morning you wake up all excited about rolling around in the aisles of your stripmall church; know that, Catholicism inevitably led to that moment in your existence because a protestor deemed it necessary to redefine sin to justify his fucked up lifestyle.
@SHJ_IHM@SoWhatAaaand He's a dipshit.. there's literally no rebuttal to the truth except propaganda furthered by protestorland sects justifying their jean skirts .
You do realize Christianity wouldn't have been catalyzed/and spread without the Catholic Church right?
▪︎ The early Church’s hierarchical structure (bishops in succession from the apostles, with Rome holding a recognized primacy) allowed Christianity to survive Roman persecution, coordinate doctrine, and expand beyond a small Jewish sect into an organized religion across the empire.
▪︎ Ecumenical councils (Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon) convened under Church authority defined core Christian doctrines—Trinity, Incarnation, and the biblical canon—preventing the fragmentation that destroyed other ancient religious movements.
▪︎ For the first 1,000+ years, the institutional Church (what became the Catholic Church after the East-West split) drove missionary work, monastic education, and conversion of Europe’s pagan tribes, providing the only sustained institutional vehicle for Christianity’s geographic and cultural spread before later Protestant and Orthodox branches existed.
Lemme guess; sooo what aaaand ?
For those who don't know the Russell Brand case...
Imagine being sentenced to 10.5 YEARS in prison for alleged offenses dating back as far as 22 YEARS AGO, in a case where the police say there was zero CCTV footage, zero forensic evidence, and digital enquiries were limited because SOOOOO much time had passed, and prosecutors themselves acknowledge that the passage of time limited the available evidence, and yet STILL a jury convicts you in a case built primarily on testimony, and then you get to sentencing and the judge acknowledges the work you have done helping people overcome addiction, including paying for their treatment, acknowledges that your children will lose the presence of their father, and also accepts that there is no sound evidential basis to conclude you pose a future risk, and still sentences you to 10.5 YEARS in prison, again following convictions reached without CCTV or forensic evidence, and now you’re left asking how the testimony and supporting material established the disputed acts beyond reasonable doubt despite those gaps, and how the court justified a sentence that will take years out of your children’s childhoods for offenses from nearly two decades earlier, which is roughly where Russell Brand is tonight.
So Catholics, yesterday, we identified what was unusual about the picture of a priest elevating the large Host (link in comment).
Many Catholics got the answers correctly. But for those who didn't get it, here it is.
The picture you're seeing now is the correct depiction of what is supposed to happen during the elevation of the Eucharist at Mass.
There are three things to observe.
Firstly, the priest's gaze: When the priest elevates the large host, he must fix his gaze on the host. He should be looking at the Eucharist with reverence.
Secondly, the priest's fingers:
Notice how the priest holds the host with his thumb and index finger. Traditionally, these are the fingers kept together after the consecration of his hands during ordination. This is why you will notice that the other fingers are positioned differently or any other way.
Thirdly, the priest's inner garment:
Notice that the garment underneath the chasuble is white, not black, as we saw in the previous picture. This garment is called the "alb".
A lot of people noticed the alb, and many also got the priest's gaze right. However, not everybody noticed the position of the fingers.
Yep, the other 86% is actually spent with Jesus at Eucharistic Adoration, at Holy Mass in Jesus' Presence, in Reconciliation Atoning for recent sins, and Praying intermittently during junctures of importance .
Now let's talk about what you Protestors omit spiritually, daily, and happily ..
"The Imitation of Christ makes the same point from the side of lived spirituality. Kempis’s entire work is an extended meditation on the daily, concrete following of the crucified Christ: self-denial, bearing the cross in ordinary circumstances, interior detachment, frequent examination of conscience, and the refusal to rest in any external status or past decision. “He who follows Me walks not in darkness.” There is no finished transaction that exempts the disciple from this imitation. The Protestant tendency—especially in its popular and assurance-oriented forms—to treat the cross as something Christ bore so that the believer need not continually take it up is foreign to Kempis. Where Protestant preaching stresses the completeness of the atonement as the ground of present peace, Kempis stresses the incompleteness of the disciple’s conformity to Christ as the ground of present urgency. The two emphases are not complementary in practice; one systematically undercuts the other."
In all reality, the whole of the 40,000 sects of Protestor-land are little better than anti-ICE folk laying in front of federal agent's suvs..
"In short, a consistent Augustinianism plus the spirituality of the Imitation does not yield Protestantism. It yields a Church that is visible and authoritative, a justification that is transformative rather than merely forensic, a Christian life that is defined by continual imitation of the suffering Christ rather than by the security of a past decision, and a sacramental order that mediates grace. Protestantism’s defining moves—private judgment over the Church, forensic imputation over infused righteousness, and the practical possibility of resting in assurance without ongoing cross-bearing—stand in direct tension with both sources. The cutting edge is not that Protestantism is insufficiently Augustinian on predestination; it is that it is insufficiently Augustinian on the Church, on the nature of justification, and on the necessity of daily imitation."
Rolling around in aisles and wearing oversized jean skirts doesn't preclude you from hell.
I'm not saying #Russel#Brand did or didn't #Rape that Woman,
but the only evidence used to prosecute him was...
- "she said" accounts, backed by the accuser's friend's accounts of her accounts.
- Also, the fact he admitted being erratically promiscuous during the time period.
▪︎ Victim testimony: Complainants gave detailed, consistent accounts of non-consensual acts (e.g., the 2009 anal rape after initial consensual sex, and workplace gropings), which the jury found credible on the four guilty counts.(BBC)
▪︎ Supporting witnesses: Friends, colleagues, and others corroborated aspects of the accounts, including near-contemporaneous disclosures of the assaults and Brand’s behavior.(The Guardian)
▪︎ Brand’s own statements: His admissions of extreme promiscuity, using fame for sexual access, and details like coded phone entries (e.g., “tart,” “anal play”) aligned with the prosecution’s portrayal of non-consensual conduct in the convicted incidents.(The Guardian)
@HumanBeingAlpha@renewingprotest Precisely!
Meanwhile the 40,000 other denominations are too busy rolling around in the church aisles and accumulating 30 types of denim skirts per woman .. lol