Ligen

Time to Rise Agane

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

It's humbling....really. how God moves quietly, while we're busy overthinking, doubting,and questioning if things will ever work out.
You pray,you cry,you wait....
and then one day,out of nowhere,He provides....
Not always in the way you expected, but exactly how you needed. And in that moment, you realize...He heard every cry,saw every sleepless night,and remembered every prayer. He was never late... He was just waiting for the prefect moment. God is so intentional, so faithful,always!!
I love God ❤️

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

“If you meditate for a few minutes every day and live in harmony, you will carry your own portable paradise within you wherever you go."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Never forget that the compass was invented before the clock because direction is more important than time.

[Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun]

Out of the darkness of my life,
so much frustrated,
I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:
the Blessed Sacrament. . . .
There you will find romance,
glory, honour, fidelity,
and the true way
of all your loves on earth.
-J.R.R. Tolkien

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

Young men, do not build a life around appetite.

Appetite says, "Take the easy path. Chase pleasure. Avoid sacrifice." A man following cravings will eventually be mastered by them.

Build around Christ, Scripture, church, work, discipline, and service. Those things build strong men.

[Matteo Matzuzzi @matteomatzuzzi]

Il Papa: "È davvero possibile credere che l’Europa – che tanto amiamo – sarebbe la stessa senza l’impronta della fede? Perché temere che l’eternità permei la quotidianità? È ancora vivo il grido dei miei predecessori: Non temete! Spalancate le porte a Cristo! Gesù Cristo non ci toglie nulla e ci dona tutto"

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

This is the illumination of the Passion Façade at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

Controlling the mind doesn't
Take one to freedom.
Controlling the mind
Adds another link
To one's shackles.

Wu Hsin

[Universitarios Católicos @UniCatolicos_es]

Un Antonio Banderas emocionado participa en el encuentro con el Papa León XIV que se celebra en estos momentos en el Movistar Arena de Madrid:

"La Iglesia Católica ha sido el mayor productor de arte de la Historia".

Termina citando a San Agustín: "Decís vosotros que los tiempos son malos, sed vosotros mejores, y los tiempos serán mejores: vosotros sois el tiempo".

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

One of man's deepest desires is not to be a burden on anyone and to earn his way. Burdening others brings him shame. He aspires to self-sufficiency so he can be one that gives rather than takes. He does not pursue independence out of vanity, he covets self-reliance out of honour.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Sagrada Família turns structure into awe without needing a single word.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

In the late 19th century, French woman Marie-Barthélemyle faced certain death. She suffered from an extremely aggressive case of gas gangrene in her left leg🇻🇦

The flesh was rotting, turning black, and emitting a terrible odor. Doctors said the infection had entered her bloodstream, amputation was pointless, and she had only hours to live.

With no medical hope left, her family wrapped her leg in cloths soaked in the miraculous spring water from the Grotto of Lourdes. They prayed fervently for the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette Soubirous.

What happened next defies explanation:

Within one hour, the unbearable pain completely vanished. By the next morning, the foul odor was gone.

When the bandages were removed, doctors witnessed something astonishing: the black, dead, gangrenous tissue had completely disappeared. In its place was smooth, pink, perfectly regenerated skin, with no scarring or trace of infection.

This extraordinary healing was documented and recognized by the Lourdes Medical Bureau as scientifically inexplicable.

Lourdes has recorded thousands of reported cures since the apparitions to Saint Bernadette in 1858, with the Church officially recognizing 70+ as miraculous after rigorous medical scrutiny. Stories like this remind us of the power of faith, prayer, and God’s mercy through Our Lady’s intercession.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find...” (Matthew 7:7)

[Ligen @_TeamKillOW]

@theralkia Between and among the ego to the ego. Yet the spirit remains apart and unaffected.

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

Don't judge the way other people
connect to God;
to each his own way his own prayer.
God doesn't take us at our word.
He looks deep into our Hearts.
It's not the ceremonies or rituals that
make a difference, but whether our
Hearts are sufficiently pure or not.

~Shams Tabrizi

[Julen Bergantiños @SkoOrp]

Ni mi familia es cristiana, ni he crecido en un entorno cristiano, he ido a un colegio laico y hasta que caí en la depresión Dios para mí era como el Liverpool, algo que está ahí, que no tiene nada que ver contigo, pero que respetas.

Con la depresión empecé a ir a la iglesia para hablar con mi difunto abuelo, y empecé a quedarme en las misas, empecé a aprender un poco de los evangelios. En un tiempo de tormento y oscuridad dentro de mí, donde me odiaba a diario, abracé a San Agustín o él me abrazó a mí, y empecé a tener fe y esperanza.

No soy el católico más leal ni ferviente, me gustaría ir a misa más de lo que voy, pero sí que sé que estoy en buen camino. En el proceso de crecer y conocerme y saber quién soy. He acogido en mí los valores del catolicismo y estoy contento de querer ser una persona que haga a Dios y a mi abuelo orgullosos de mí.

Ahora tengo un poco más de luz conmigo y el amor, la fe y la esperanza empiezan a acompañarme poco a poco, con mis recaídas y mis ánimos, pero no me siento solo, gracias a Dios.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The FBI had boxes full of serial killer confessions they couldn’t actually use.

Hours of interviews.
Detailed admissions.
Direct conversations with some of the most violent men in America.

And none of it was scientifically useful.

Then a 42-year-old psychiatric nurse walked into Quantico and changed criminal investigation forever.

Her name was Ann Burgess.

1975.

FBI agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas had spent months traveling across the country interviewing imprisoned serial killers. They believed understanding offenders could help solve future crimes.

But when Ann Burgess listened to the tapes, she immediately saw the problem.

“This isn’t research,” she told them.
“These are just stories.”

The room went silent.

“You’re asking them to talk about themselves,” she said. “But every interview is different. There’s no structure. No methodology. You can’t compare one offender to another.”

Then she asked a question nobody else in the room had thought to ask:

“Tell me about the women they killed.”

Not the killers.

The victims.

Who were they?
How old were they?
Where were they approached?
What made them vulnerable?
How did the offender gain control?

The agents were confused.

Ann Burgess explained something revolutionary:

“If you truly study the victims, you’ll understand the offender.”

At the time, Burgess was already a groundbreaking trauma researcher. In 1974, she had co-authored one of the first major studies proving rape caused lasting psychological trauma — at a time when courts barely acknowledged it.

She helped create the term “rape trauma syndrome.”

Now she brought that same scientific rigor to the FBI.

She redesigned the interviews.
Created structured questionnaires.
Introduced victimology as the foundation of profiling.
Distinguished between a killer’s “MO” and their “signature.”
Mapped escalation patterns.
Explained that sexual violence was about power and control — not desire.

Suddenly, the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit had something it had never truly possessed before:

Methodology.

And it worked.

In 1983, young boys began disappearing in Nebraska.

Using Burgess’s framework, investigators built a profile:
A young white male.
Slight build.
Someone trusted around children.
Likely connected to scouting or youth activities.
A person who kept souvenirs and detective magazines.

Police arrested John Joubert.

The profile was astonishingly accurate.

Almost overnight, criminal profiling became legitimate law enforcement science.

And yet most of the credit went elsewhere.

The public celebrated the FBI agents.
Books were written.
Movies and television series followed.

Ann Burgess became a footnote.

When Netflix released Mindhunter, they based a character on her — but changed nearly everything.

They made her a psychologist instead of a nurse.
Changed her personal life entirely.
Most viewers never even realized she was based on a real person.

Meanwhile, the real Ann Burgess kept working.

Teaching.
Publishing.
Consulting.
Testifying in court.
Training professionals around the world.

More than 150 academic publications.
Multiple landmark books.
Decades of pioneering work.

And through all of it, one truth remained:

Modern criminal profiling exists in large part because a psychiatric nurse walked into a room full of FBI agents and told them they were asking the wrong questions.

Not:
“Why did the killer do this?”

But:

“Who were the victims?”

That shift changed criminal investigation forever.

Ann Burgess is 88 years old now.

Still teaching.
Still working.
Still brilliant.

And finally receiving recognition not as a side character in someone else’s story —

But as herself.

The woman who taught the FBI how to truly understand predators by first understanding the people they harmed.

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

~ Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

[クレア @kureakurea01]

中学の頃、音楽の先生に一人、どう見ても普通の先生ではない人がおった。男の先生ではある。だが、歩き方はしなやかで、声は少し高く、手をひらひらさせながら、「はぁい、みなさん。今日も心の調律、狂ってないかしら？」などと言って音楽室に入ってくる。いわゆるオネエっぽい先生である。

男子がリコーダーを振り回せば、

「ちょっと男子ィ！ それは武器じゃないから！」

と叱る。教室は笑う。だが、その先生がピアノの前に座ると、空気が一変した。

最���の一音が鳴った瞬間、騒いでいた生徒まで黙る。先生はクラシックを、ただの古い音楽として教えなかった。

「クラシックってね、寝る時に聞くだけの音楽じゃないの。昔の人間が、恋して、失恋して、怒って、泣いて、それでも生きた証なのよ」

そう言ってベートーヴェンを弾いた。

「耳が聞こえなくなっても、彼は世界に音楽を奏でました」

その後に聴く『運命』は、ただの「ジャジャジャジャーン」ではなかった。人生が乱暴に扉を叩いてくる音に聞こえた。

モーツァルトは、明るいだけの天才ではなかった。

「可愛い顔して、けっこう毒もあるのよ。明るい曲の裏に、ふっと寂しさを忍ばせる。そういう子、クラスにもいるでしょ？」

そう言われると、遠い昔の作曲家が、急に同じ教室の誰かに見えた。

ショパンの時、先生は少し黙ってから言った。

「この人の曲には、帰りたい場所に帰れない人の感じがするの」

ノクターンは、夕方の窓みたいだった。部活帰りのグラウンド、誰もいない廊下、なぜか泣きたくなる帰り道。その全部が音になっていた。

その時、初めて知った。

音楽とは、音の並びではない。言葉にな���なかった気���ちの居場所なのだ。

合唱コンクールでも先生は本気だった。

「大きな声を出せばいいと思ってる子、違うわよ。歌は叫びじゃない。誰かに手紙を渡すことなの」

男子には、

「あなたたちの声は地面。女子の声が空を飛ぶなら、男子は土台よ」

女子には、

「綺麗に歌おうとしすぎない。綺麗だけの声なんて退屈。少し本音を混ぜなさい」

そう言った。

すると合唱は、ただ音程を合わせるものではなくなった。照れも、不満も、仲の良さも、言えない気持ちも混ざって、一つの声になった。

先生はよく音楽室で一人、レコードを聴いていた。

「心って、放っておくとすぐ雑巾みたいになるんだから」

その言葉を、大人になってから思い出すことになる。仕事で疲れ、何も言えない夜に、ふとショパンを流した。すると、白いカーテン、西日のピアノ、先生の声が戻ってきた。

「心の調律、狂ってないかしら？」

あの先生は、音楽を教え��いたのではない。感情に名前をつける方法を教えていたのである。

数学の先生が点の取り方を教える人なら、あの音楽の先生は、点数にならないものの大切さを教える人だった。

壊れないために。強くなるためではない。柔らかいまま生き残るために。

あの音楽室で起きていたのは、ただの授業ではない。

騒がしく、不器用で、傷つきやすい中学生たちが、自分の心に耳を澄ませるための、小さな演奏会だった。

思い返すとほんとに先生に恵まれた学生時代であった。あの人たちは天才である。

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

She was jailed, put on trial and that very day was sentenced to death, because she refused to renounce her faith. The following day at noon, February 19, 1862, she was beheaded.

Saint Lucy Yi Zhenmei, Holy Martyr of China, OPN 🕊️