✝️ “Ningún apóstol enseñó a orarle a María”…
Quizás porque los apóstoles todavía caminaban con ella y podían pedirle en persona: “Ruega por nosotros”. La objeción protestante colapsa sola cuando olvida algo básico: el cristianismo no nació como un libro caído del cielo, sino como una Iglesia viva.
Los mismos que hoy dicen “solo Biblia” aceptan sin problema que otros oren por ellos, pero se escandalizan cuando un cristiano pide intercesión a la Madre del Rey. Curioso. Santiago 5,16 manda orar unos por otros y Apocalipsis muestra a los santos presentando las oraciones ante Dios.
El problema real no es María. Es la obsesión moderna de cortar toda continuidad histórica con la Iglesia primitiva para fabricar un cristianismo sin memoria, sin sacramentos y sin madre.
La frase “ruega por nosotros” no reemplaza a Cristo. Precisamente reconoce que todo termina en Él.
✝️ Salve María siempre Virgen
@Super70sSports If there was no Secretariat we would all know the name Sham. Some research shows no other horse has run a faster derby time in history besides secretariat
Mockler on Cost of Iran War:
So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.
34 years ago Macho Man gave us all some of the greatest advice you will ever receive.
“it’s okay for macho men to show every emotion available, because I’ve cried a thousand times and I’ll cry some more”
“Nobody likes a quitter, nobody said life was easy. So if you get knocked down and you take the eight count, you get back up and you fight again”
(1992)
A Jacksonville officer, Antonio Richardson, is receiving nationwide praise after bodycam footage showed him talking down a young man about to jump off the Dames Point Bridge.
“We wear this badge for many reasons. The main reason is to reach those the devil thinks he has.”
If you aren’t following @GaryChambersJr you should be this man never backs down from speaking truth to power. Watch as he calls out Republicans to their faces for trying to strip Calvin Duncan of his duly elected seat in Orleans Parish. This is the way Democrats, bravo Gary‼️
When a young boy turns pain into purpose...the world stops and takes notice. C
He didn't just honor his mom-he inspired everyone watching.
And even Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson showed up to celebrate him.
Any one of us can have an impact
I’m so thankful that there’s people like this still in this Country that want to help others like this guy and his wife who helped this woman & her kids get a new radiator and even paid for it and put it in for them.Because of their good deed she was able to have a good day!
Helen Roseveare, a missionary who faced intense suffering and persecution during her 20 years of service in the Congo, shares one of the times that she saw God answer prayer in a most unexpected way:
"I went to have prayers with our orphanage children as I did every day, and any of the children wanted gathered around me for prayer time, and I'd give them different things to pray about. And this particular day, I told the children of this tiny baby and asked them to pray for the nurses that they would stay awake all night to keep that baby warm. If the baby got cold, it would die. I mentioned that the baby had a 2-year-old sister who was crying because her mommy had died. I mentioned the burst hot water bottle.
During prayer time, different children prayed for different things, and then one little 10-year-old girl, Ruth, she prayed in the usual blunt way of our African children, 'Please, God, send us a hot water bottle. Now, God, it'll be no good tomorrow. Send it this afternoon. Now, if it comes tomorrow, the baby will be dead.'
I'm sort of swallowing hard, and she said, 'While you're about it, God, would you send a dolly for the little 2-year-old sister, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?'
And that afternoon, the parcel came. It was the first parcel I ever, I've been out there four years, I'd never had a parcel from home. And despite the fact I live on the equator, somebody packing that parcel had been prompted by God to put in a hot water bottle, and a child from my Bible class at home had put in a dolly for a little girl.
And it came that afternoon in answer to a 10 year-old child's prayer, and the amazing thing was, you know, that parcel had been on the way five months to get to us. It had left England in July, and it came that afternoon, cause a child prayed."
Reject modernity; embrace tradition
If you’ve got a neighbor like this, you pay close attention and protect that man’s property, his family, and his affairs. This is community.
Artemis II Astronaut Victor Glover shares words of wisdom to his neighbors as he arrived home to a crowd 🇺🇸🙏🏼
“Let’s be this more. Let’s be neighbors. I don’t know if you heard me say it but God told us to love Him with all that we are and love our neighbors as ourselves.”
A man invited his brother to live with him rent-free. Later, he asked him to start paying monthly rent. The brother agreed without hesitation, thinking he was helping with bills.
Unbeknownst to him, the first brother saved every payment and added $150 monthly. When the total was enough to buy a house, he revealed the plan—and that their parents had known all along.
Their parents burst into tears of joy, saying they didn’t just have two sons but best friends who truly cared for each other.
The Catholic Church is the oldest continuously functioning institution in the world, over 2,000 years old, and it still operates today with a clear line of leadership tracing back to Saint Peter, the first Pope.
That means:
Every Pope, including the current one, is part of an unbroken chain of succession from the Apostles.
The same Church that existed in the time of Jesus Christ is still active today.
Despite wars, persecutions, scandals, and global changes, it has never collapsed.
💥 Even more shocking:
The Catholic Church runs the largest non-governmental education and healthcare network in the world, more schools, hospitals, and charities than any other organization.
So, while empires have risen and fallen…the Church is still standing.
A Church founded by Christ himself will never fall.