✨ Diane ✨

Catholic, Pro-Homeschooling, Pro-Whole Life

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

Another beautiful day with Whales feeding close to the shoreline. Let us protect these beautiful creatures! (This video was taken from the boardwalk.) #SaveTheWhales #StopOffShoreWind

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

I love everything about this video

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

BREAKING: Pope Leo on the SSPX consecrations —

“I am considering making another appeal and saying ‘don't do this, let's try to live the communion of the Church.’ But it is their choice.

We must realize what it means for them and for the Church. Certainly, the division among Christians is a painful point.

However, they refuse to accept some fundamental elements of the Church, starting with several points of the Second Vatican Council. If they make that choice, I am sorry. But we must move forward”

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

Prayers for Bill Ritter and his family

[Eyewitness News @ABC7NY]

Beloved WABC Anchor Bill Ritter steps away from the anchor desk; reveals Alzheimer's diagnosis https://t.co/DRA8l9xC52

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia.

"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"

"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person."

"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago.

Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person."

"When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good."

He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject."

He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties."

"That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels."

Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all."

"In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said.

"The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging."

"Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said.

"A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame."

"I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard."

"The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed."

Video: Vatican Media
(fragment of speech follows)

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

Please pray for Monsignor Rossetti

[Rev .Vitus @Vitus_osst]

Likely, this was the video that got The Chief exorcist of Washington Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, to be fired. Sad

Just listen. And retweet

[James Anderson White @jamesawhiite]

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered.

You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day.

This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm.

The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone.

A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time.

Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans.

We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all.

Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

“Western culture matters. It is not disposable.” https://t.co/HrrOUjdoaX

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

@JackPosobiec

[Matt Braynard @MattBraynard]

We're so back.

An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

@PBS is on fire 😂 Had to follow!

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

Counting one of God’s blessings: this sweet lady coming across my feed 💕

[Fr Thomas Crean OP @crean_fr]

Church history in 20 episodes, one for each century. A new series by Alan Fimister.

https://t.co/p2Qcqsv8OT

[Uche is a girl 🇻🇦 @UcheMaryOkoli]

My very emotional Pope LeoXIV 😩❤️💓❤️.

Teary🥺❤️ Pope LeoXIV chanting hallelujah.
Christ has risen!
We are an Easter people, and Hallelujah is our song!

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

Praise be to God all those who entered the Catholic Church last night! Welcome home!!!

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

The Tomb is Empty! Alleluia!

[✨ Diane ✨ @capemaydolphin]

Praying for all those entering the Catholic Church tomorrow during The Easter Vigil. . We welcome you home with open hearts. 🙏🏻

[Mary Callan @DrMaryCallan]

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen often concluded his three-hour Good Friday meditation at St. Agnes Church in New York City with the dramatic telling of an encounter with Christ in the throes of crucifixion.

“I will take you down,” Sheen says to Jesus.

“I cannot be taken down,” the Blessed Lord replies, “until every man, woman and child come together to take me down.”

Sheen desperately pleads: “Then what can I do? I cannot bear your cry.”

His voice takes on eternal tones as he quotes Jesus: “Go into the world and tell everyone that you meet, ‘There is a man on the Cross!’”

[Jayme Lynn @goldenkey112]

Dr. Scott Hahn’s testimony of his first experience at Holy Mass:

“As an evangelical Calvinist, I had been taught that the Catholic Mass was the greatest sacrilege that a man could commit- to resacrifice Christ- so I wasn't sure what to do.

I watched and listened as the readings, prayers and responses- so steeped in Scripture- made the Bible come alive. I almost wanted to stop the Mass and say, “Wait. That line is from Isaiah; the song is from the Psalms. Whoa, you've got another prophet in that prayer." I found numerous elements from the ancient Jewish liturgy that I had studied so intensely.

All of a sudden I realized, this is where the Bible belongs. This was the setting in which this precious family heirloom was meant to be read, proclaimed and expounded. Then we moved into the Liturgy of the Eucharist, where all my covenant conclusions converged.

I wanted to stop everything and shout, "Hey, can I explain what's happening from Scripture? This is great!" Instead I just sat there, famished with a supernatural hunger for the Bread of Life.

After pronouncing the words of consecration, the priest held up the Host. I felt as if the last drop of doubt had drained from me. With all of my heart, I whispered, “My Lord and my God. That's really you! And if that's you, then I want full communion with you. I don't want to hold anything back."