"The Eucharist is the Sacrament of love; it signifies love, it produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life."
- St. Thomas Aquinas
"Pardonner en silence et choisir de ne plus jamais parler à quelqu’un, ce n’est ni de la colère ni de la rancune. C’est un acte de préservation de soi. C’est accepter de lâcher prise sur ce qui appartient au passé, sans rouvrir la porte à une souffrance inutile.
Le pardon ne signifie pas oublier…
Il signifie simplement choisir la paix pour soi-même."
Keanu Reeves
This is Mervin Raudabaugh, an American farmer who turned down $15M to build a data center on his land. Instead, he sold it for $2M to a farmland trust to protect it as agricultural land forever.
El "Retrato de Giovanni Arnolfini y su esposa" (1434), también conocido como El matrimonio Arnolfini, es una de las obras maestras más célebres y enigmáticas del pintor flamenco Jan van Eyck, expuesta en la National Gallery de Londres.
Considerada un hito del Renacimiento nórdico, destaca por su realismo revolucionario mediante el uso del óleo y su densa carga simbólica.
En el fondo se observa un espejo perfectamente detallado que refleja la escena desde atrás y muestra a dos figuras entrando a la habitación. Una de ellas se presume que es el propio pintor.
Encima del espejo se lee la inusual inscripción en latín "Johannes de eyck fuit hic 1434" (Jan van Eyck estuvo aquí, 1434), lo que otorga a la pintura un carácter de documento o testimonio legal.
El perro (símbolo de fidelidad), las naranjas importadas, la elaborada lámpara de bronce y las lujosas vestiduras de piel y terciopelo son claros indicadores de la inmensa riqueza de la pareja burguesa.
Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini, an outspoken defender of traditional marriage and Catholic doctrine who was closely associated with both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, has died at the age of 95.
Info: Rome diocese
Your guardian angel does something every time you pray that will change how you say the Hail Mary forever.
St. Louis de Montfort revealed it in The Secret of the Rosary.
Picture this: God and His Blessed Mother are watching you.
Your guardian angel stands at your right hand — gathering every Hail Mary you say well and weaving them like roses into a crown for Jesus and Mary.
But at your left hand lurks the devil.
Ready to pounce on every Hail Mary you rush. Every prayer you mumble with no heart in it.
He snatches them and writes them down in his deadly notebook — to use against you on the last day.
This isn't imaginary. It's Scripture.
Jesus: "By your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." (Mt 12:37)
He warned us not to babble like the pagans, piling up words and thinking we'll be heard for them. (Mt 6:7)
God doesn't want your lip service. He wants your heart.
Padre Pio said the same thing — that your angel prays for you and offers God every good work and holy desire you make.
But here's the part that should give you chills:
The Lord loved you so much that He created an eternal being, from the beginning of time, and gave that angel one mission in this world — to guard you and get you to heaven.
No one can say God forgot them. No one can say they were ignored.
He assigned you an angel. Forever.
So pray like you're kneeling at the foot of the Cross. Because in a very real way — you are.
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