Rich Van K

Catholic. Tech enthusiast. Host of the Catholic Piety on Purpose Podcast.

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🌿����Guardian Angel Novena ~ Day 2🌹🌿

🌿🌹In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen🌹🌿

🌿🌹Loving God, you are so good that you gave me a Guardian Angel to protect my body and my soul. Help me to know and follow my angel so that, with their guidance, I will be worthy of being in Heaven with You!🌹🌿

🌿🌹My sweet Guardian Angel, you are my defender every day of my life. Protect me from sin and bodily harm. Help me to learn to defend and protect myself so that I can be the person that God is calling me to be.

You are with me all the time so you already know these my intentions that I ask you to deliver to the Lord. (Mention your intentions here…)

My guardian angel, my defender, protect me!

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen🌹🌿

🌿🌹Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
To whom God's love commits me here;
Ever this day be at my side,
To light and guard, to rule and guide.
Amen🌹🌿

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It’s the moooost wonderful time of the year.

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@mweinbach @firstadopter My 256 GB Silver Pro Max came via UPS. Made a game time decision that I really need 512. Got on Apple app and ordered a 512 GB and it will get here by 7:30 same day.

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Well, after working on a podcast episode I noticed that 183 GB of storage is taken up between system and iOS.
No way I can go back to an 256 GB iPhone 18 Pro Max

So now I have UPS coming with Apple Watch and was able to get delivery from the store for a 512 GB model.

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@nandoprince93 From scratch.

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And now I stare out the window on Dow waiting for UPS all day for my iPhone 18 Pro Max.

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To the good people of God:

Praise be Jesus Christ, now and forever!

On Monday, September 14, I celebrated the Holy Mass for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in Hopkins, MN. Present were Chesterton Academy students, faculty and staff and parishioners of the parish. During the Mass, I had a private spiritual experience while praying the Eucharistic prayer over the bread and wine and I want to humbly share and clarify what I experienced all for God’s glory and praise. In doing so, I also want to correct any misinformation as the Mass recording is being shared online.

To clarify up front, my experience was NOT what the Catholic Church considers a “Eucharistic miracle.” The forms of bread and wine retained their accidents (i.e., their appearance and taste) during this entire experience. Never did I see real blood or human flesh with my eyes.

My experience was this:

During the consecration prayer over the wine at the altar, as I spoke the words, I was given what I believe to be internal knowledge of the power of these words being spoken and the reality of their effect to the point that I had difficult speaking. With each word, I became more physically overwhelmed as seen in the video. At the same time, I was given sensory knowledge of the weight of God’s power coming down upon the altar, and I felt the heaviness of Jesus’s substantial presence in the chalice in my hands. The chalice became too heavy to hold as I felt it pulled down to rest upon the altar. I felt my hands fixed to the chalice of the Precious Blood, and I could not physically move it. Attempting to elevate the Precious Blood, which I was not able to do for a period of time, I believe I was given grace to understand more deeply the bitter sweetness of Our Lord’s Passion and how much blood Christ shed for the immense weight of all our sins. I believe I experienced this weight in the chalice. This spiritual experience emotionally and physically overwhelmed me as evident in the Mass recording.

Lastly, private spiritual encounters with God like these are completely unmerited gifts and signs of God’s abundant love for all his people. They are not necessarily signs of any person’s holiness.

I pray this brief testimony moves all our hearts to contemplate more deeply the mysteries of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and the Precious Blood.

Peace in Christ,
Fr. Brent Bowman

Credit: CoolCatholics

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@riecker Done.

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First time not on a beta in a while. iOS 27

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@BasicAppleGuy That’s my color combo this year. Silver 18 Pro Max with that and the blue silicone case as well. And the wrist strap.

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@CatholicNewsCLT Spent the day there. It was beautiful

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@BenGeskin I got the silver again and got the blue silicon and tech woven cases.

I would love that glacier, but then I have to match cases to blue. With silver I can do any color throughout the year.

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Silver iPhone 18 Pro Max ordered.

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@TOTTI6t21 Silver. It will go with any color case you may want to switch through.

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@mweinbach @jasonwoodmansee I think it’s what Apple puts into iOS and the app optimizations. It wasn’t the hardware that impressed me, it was how they showed using that form factor is different than the slab phones.

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@jaydenstech Considering the Glacier. But silver allows me to match any case color throughout the year.

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@immasiddx I had the glacier saved, but switched to silver mainly because then any color case goes with it and can change it up throughout the year.

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@DylanMcD8 Right. Where does the front cover go when you want to use it.

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My color combo for the Apple Watch series 12. #appleevent

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@stetsondoggett Glacier.