Fernando Avila

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul - William Ernest Henley

[Fernando Avila @fernavila54]

@Rainmaker1973 ACE

[Fernando Avila @fernavila54]

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If a couple has 5 sons, each of those sons has the same sisters they all share the same parents. It does NOT mean each son has his own separate set of 7 sisters.

[Oración Diaria®⚓️ @MiOracionHoy]

Amén. 🙏

[Evan Amato @SirEvanAmato]

C.S. Lewis hated democracy.

He said it celebrates mediocrity over merit — and societies that do so are doomed to die.

Here's why, and what you can do to resist...

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Two years ago @elonmusk told us his ‘nutty’ idea to ‘catch the largest and heaviest flying object ever made and pluck it out of the air.’

Looks like it wasn’t so ‘nutty’ after all.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/AkrJgh58L2

[Fernando Avila @fernavila54]

@DurhamBulls @Canes Will the game get canceled today?

[Dante @DANTE_eloficial]

Oremos para que nuestro Señor Jesucristo sane a todos los niños enfermos

🙏❤️

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Da Vinci's Last Supper is a keystone of Christian art.

It inspired centuries of awe and speculation — over its subtle symbols and concealed messages.

But there's something hidden that nearly everyone overlooks... (thread) 🧵

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900…

Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who volunteered to defend freedom in Europe.

Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 38. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. If you were lucky, you had a job that paid $300 a year, a dollar a day.

When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren't even over the hill yet, but don't try to catch your breath. If you lived in London, England, or most of continental Europe, bombing of your neighborhood, or invasion of your country by foreign soldiers along with their tank and artillery was a daily event. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war.

At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. At 55, the Vietnam War begins and doesn't end for 20 years. Millions of people perish in that conflict.

On your 62nd birthday, there is the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could have ended. Sensible leaders prevented that from happening.

In 2020, we have the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have died; it feels pretty dangerous; and it is.

Now think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you think they survived all of the above? When you were a kid in 1965, you didn't think your 65-year-old grandparents understood how hard school was, and how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on, and very enlightening. So, let's try and keep things in perspective. Let's be smart, we are all in this together. Let's help each other out, and we will get through all of this.”

-Author Unknown

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Abortion has gone from being tolerated to celebrated. What kind of sick people would tell you that killing your baby is a pathway to joy?

[Knights of Columbus @KofC]

Pope Francis reminds us that, “The family...is made up of faces, of people who love, dialogue, make self-sacrifices for one another and defend life, especially of the most vulnerable and the weakest. One could say, without exaggeration, that the family is the driving force of the world and of history.”

[Chris Boettcher @chrisboettcher9]

50 years ago, Big Sugar quietly paid three scientists to point the blame for chronic disease at cholesterol and saturated fat.

Millions of Americans died as a result.

Here’s how Big Sugar has been lying to the American population since 1965:

[Papa Francisco – ARCHIVO @Pontifex266_es]

¡Qué bueno es vivir con gratitud y bendición en lugar de lamentaciones y quejas, mirar hacia arriba en lugar de enfadarse! Que nuestra Madre, Asunta al Cielo, nos ayude a elevarnos cada día más mediante el servicio y la alabanza. #Angelus

[literland @literlandweb1]

“Hay una historia detrás de cada persona. Hay una razón por la que son lo que son. No es tan solo porque ellos lo quieren. Algo en el pasado los ha hecho así, y algunas veces es imposible cambiarlos”.
Sigmund Freud
📷Saul Leiter

[Not Elon Musk @ElonMuskAOC]

There’s two genders.

That’s it.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

"For voicing my concerns about gender-affirming care for minors, I have been called a transphobic bigot. If that’s what speaking out against the medicalisation of homosexuality makes me, then so be it." @benappel, on the new homophobia. https://t.co/AsM4qMPoZK

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Your mother did the best she could and you were left wounded by her. She loved you with all her heart and she couldn’t always be what you needed. She sacrificed and at times you felt like a burden. May we honor her by humanizing her and learn from her life.