Ironman: Passion, Commitment, Perseverance.
Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
A life lived with passion doesn’t end - it echoes.
(morons - 🚫)
It could be a big day for Kylian Mbappé today. He is only one goal away from equalling Olivier Giroud’s record as top goalscorer for the national team with 57 goals. Today is Mbappé’s 99th cap for Les Bleus - @LaurensJulien
In a video message for the Tenth Austrian World Summit, Pope Leo XIV highlights how "the progress at COP30 can be followed up" with a transition to societies "where the common good takes precedence over profit".
@ArnoldSCI
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Gospel of the Day (Matthew 5,43-48)
"For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect."
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🚨 Robert Lewandowski, deciding soon on Chicago Fire proposal to join on a two or three year deal.
He’s back in Europe today with his family and agent to assess his future. 🇺🇸
Chicago visit described as positive, now up to Robert.
In this time, so harshly marked by the violence of war and social unrest, many people wonder what the world in which their grandchildren will grow up will be like. I urge you, dear #GrandparentsAndElderlyPeople, to join me in praying earnestly that peace may soon come to the whole world. https://t.co/D4RUdpXWB1
After Germany’s 7–1 win over Curaçao, something even more beautiful happened.
While everyone else celebrated, players from both teams formed a small circle together, put their arms around each other, and prayed.
Germany’s Felix Nmecha later explained:
“On the pitch we’re opponents. After the game, we’re all Christians and brothers. We simply prayed together because we’re grateful.”
In a world constantly trying to divide people, moments like this remind us what really matters. ❤️
The Lord is a refuge for the poor (cf. Ps 14:6). In Christ, we are called to become poor and to be a refuge for the poor. The Christian community cannot remain indifferent to the many who stand at the door but remain invisible to those who are shut within their own walls. https://t.co/sbtiuOBod5
Having become our brother, the Son of God looks at the people; He looks at humanity and sees the oppression that burdens and the violence that causes strength to fade. He sees the wounds of war and the emptiness of consumerism. He sees faces reduced to masks, families torn apart by evil, and young people misled by false ideals. Jesus sees and loves. He loves and suffers for and with us: His compassion expresses not only fraternal closeness, but His desire to redeem. #GospelOfToday (Mt 9:36 – 10:8)
Gospel of the Day (Matthew 9,36-38.10,1-8)
At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest."
Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus, "Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'"
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give."
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Fatima June 13, 1917 ❤️
The children saw a flash of light followed immediately by the apparition of Mary, as she spoke to Lucia: “I want you to come on the 13th of next month, to pray the Rosary every day, and to learn to read. Later, I will tell you what I want.”
She told them that Francisco and Jacinta would go to heaven soon, but Lucia would remain on earth a while longer to help spread devotion to her Immaculate Heart throughout the world, as was Jesus’ desire. Lucia was sad at this and asked, “Am I to stay here alone?”
Mary replied: “No, my daughter. Are you suffering a great deal? Don’t lose heart. I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”
She then opened her hands and radiated an immense light. In her right hand she held her Heart encircled with thorns. Lucia said they understood it to be the Immaculate Heart in need of reparation.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!