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[Cesco @chidrool]

@Sunflower15025 👏

[Classic Moments ✨ @Sunflower15025]

Two Minutes. One Take. Nothing to Hide!

Recorded in December 1964, this extraordinary two-minute performance was captured in a single, unedited take—no flashy cuts, no Auto-Tune, no digital polish. Just the artist, the camera, and a moment that had to be perfect in real time.

Every breath, glance, and note was exposed. Behind those effortless two minutes were countless rehearsals and enormous pressure: one mistake could mean starting all over again.

That is what makes this footage so powerful. In an age of filters and endless editing, its raw honesty still feels remarkably intimate.

Sometimes, the most timeless performances are the ones with nothing to hide.

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

129 years ago today.

The final photo taken of Saint Térèse of Lisieux alive on earth. 🙏

[Live Action @LiveAction]

Baby Adelaide was born at 24 weeks.

Doctors tried to save her, but she tragically died.

This is the only photo of her alive.

Her mom shared it to show the humanity of babies in the womb.

It's legal to kill babies like Adelaide via abortion in 9 states + DC.

Ban abortion now.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Jonathan Sia was only 23 years old and just one week away from graduating when he was hospitalized with a kidney disorder.

After being intubated, he could no longer speak. In his final moments, his father said Jonathan began gesturing as though he could see someone.

He handed him a pen and paper, and although Jonathan was barely strong enough to hold it, he managed to write three words: “Jesus is real.”

Seconds later, his heart stopped. Jonathan passed away with a smile on his face.

Rest in peace.

[Cesco @chidrool]

@SrNkhoma40444 Hi !
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[Sr Veritusy Nkhoma @SrNkhoma40444]

She is catholic
Say hi to her.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Peter Bogdanovich on the weakest movie in the Howard Hawks-Cary Grant collaborations:

"'Monkey Business' (1952) was unfortunately the weakest of the five, but the French New Wave counted it among their favorites nevertheless and certainly it has more good things in it than most comic pictures, especially memorable for the scene featuring Grant with Marilyn Monroe in her first really successful comedy performance as aging professor Charles Coburn’s ultra-nubile secretary. The trouble is that these scenes with Grant and Monroe are so much fun and have so much electricity that co-star Ginger Rogers’ stuff pales in comparison.

Still, the picture has marvelous Grant-as-absent-minded-professor sequences; he has accidentally (or rather, a lab monkey of his, has) invented a youth potion to disastrous results. Underneath everything, believe it or not, is a celebration of maturity in marital relationships."

("Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week")

P.S: On this day, 74 years ago, "Monkey Business" (1952) premiered in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

[🇫🇷 LouiseFrance75 🇫🇷 🕎🇮🇱✝️ @LouFrance75]

Népal : maman et bébé sauvés ❤️

[Isabella Mig @Isabella_rwa]

A Baby Orangutan Tried to Help a Fallen Toddler, Then the Adult Orangutan Stepped In and Lifted Him Back to the Crowd.😜

[Cesco @chidrool]

@Sachinettiyil 🙏

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Father Tom Szura, a 75-year-old Catholic priest, was struck and killed by a vehicle while on his way to visit a sick person at a hospital in Michigan.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Parents Release Photo of Twins Born at 24 Weeks to Stop Late-Term Abortions https://t.co/BuBHK2hB7Q

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

SABRINA (1954)

BOGART may have hated every second working on it & made sure everyone knew it, HOLDEN may have had an affair with HEPBURN promising to leave his wife - not - & breaking Hepburn’s heart in the process - but it’s still a great Billy Wilder.

[Cesco @chidrool]

@LifeNewsHQ 🙏

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

A mother in Houston, Texas was scared when she learned she was pregnant in difficult circumstances.

She considered abortion.

But she chose life for her baby after a local pro-life group offered to help her.

Praise God for this sweet little boy!

[Cesco @chidrool]

@sola_chad 🙏🙏🙏

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Meet baby Miriam Josephine. Born at just 28 weeks, she’d still be legal to abort in over ten states (plus D.C.).

Jeremiah 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you…”

Made in the Image of God. No child should be aborted.

[Rita Mokbel ✊🇱🇧🇦🇪 @MokbelRita]

في عام 1979، تبنّى تسع فتيات صغيرات من البشرة السمراء لم يرغب بهن أحد: وما أصبحت عليه حياتهن بعد 46 عامًا سينتزع منك الذهول...
انهار عالم "ريتشارد ميلر" في عام 1979 عندما توفيت زوجته "آن". وأصبح بيتهما، الذي كان ممتلئًا بأحلام الأطفال، فارغًا. نصحه أصدقاؤه بالزواج مرة أخرى، لكنه ظل أوفى ما يكون لآخر كلمات "آن":
«لا تدع الحب يموت معي. أمنحه مكانًا آخر ليعيش فيه.»
في ليلة ممطرة وعاصفة، قاده القدر إلى دار "سانت ماري" للأيتام. وهناك اكتشف تسع فتيات صغيرات، تُركن جميعًا معًا، وكان بكاؤهن يتردد في الممرات. لم يرغب أحد في تبنيهن جميعًا، وكانت التفرقة بينهن تبدو أمرًا لا مفر منه.
لكن ريتشارد جثا على ركبتيه، وبصوت مرتجف همس:
«سآخذهن جميعًا. كل واحدة منهن.»
ظنه العالم مجنونًا، وشكك الأخصائيون الاجتماعيون في قدرته، وسخرت منه عائلته، بينما كان الجيران يتهامسون:
«ما الذي سيفعله رجل أبيض مع تسع فتيات صغيرات سمراوات؟»
رغم ذلك، باع ريتشارد ممتلكاته، وعمل ليلاً ونهارًا، وصنع تسعة أسرة صغيرة بيديه . تحولت الليالي إلى زجاجات حليب، وأغنيات نوم، وضفائر شعر يُعدها تحت أضواء المطبخ. كانت الصعاب جمة، لكن الضحكات، وحكايات "آن"، وشخصيات الفتيات اللاتي يكبُرن يومًا بعد يوم، نسجت عائلة لا تُقهر.
كانت هناك ضحكة "سارة" المعدية، ودهاء "ناومي"، ورقة "لِيا"... واحدة تلو الأخرى، أصبحن نساءً ناجحات — معلمات، وممرضات، وأمهات — ولم ينسين أبدًا الرجل الذي اختارهن.
واليوم، في عام 2025، ينظر ريتشارد إلى بناته المشرقات وهن مجتمعات حول الطاولة، ويرى المعجزة التي طالما تمنتها "آن".
تذكرنا قصة ريتشارد بقوة الحب، الحب الذي يتجاوز الاختلافات، ويدمل الجراح، ويغير الحياة إلى الأبد ❤️

[Catholic World Report @cworldreport]

The Chicago Bears announced Aug. 22 a donation of $200,000 to Catholic Charities’ work to support those impacted by severe storms and flooding across the southern suburbs of Chicago and northwest Indiana.https://t.co/7UEKzPuvs2