MarCat22

Wife, Mom, Grandma. Retired RN. Save our country for our kids & grandkids! Trusting God our Father in Jesus forever! Strange times...

[MelGibson @MelGibson_5a]

Hail Mary,
full of grace;
the Lord is with you.
Blessed are you
among all women,
and blessed is the fruit
of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen. 🙏

[Trad West @trad_west_]

“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” ― G.K. Chesterton

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

Nicene Creed

I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

Amen.

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

Elon just reposted this. ❤️

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Outrage is erupting nationwide after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) signed a law that could IMPRISON Christians that pray outside abortion facilities

This is INSANE! Strike it down!

MCENANY: "Some people could face 18 months in prison for simply praying outside a facility. And if the state upgrades the charge, pro-life advocates could face up to 10 years in prison plus a fine of up to $150,000."

Totally unconstitutional. This might end up at SCOTUS.

[Marie_Faithful2TheEnd @Faithful2E62318]

I pray for more time. For as many people to be saved by the loving arms of Jesus Christ. Lord, please save more people. I weep for those who don’t know You every day, praying for more time. Even so Lord, may Your will be done.

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Lord, I am crying out and lifting up ALL of our Adult children. I am standing before the courts of Heaven.
God, you loaned them to us and I declare and decree that NO weapon formed against them shall prosper! I cancel every assignment of the enemy that seeks to destroy them. I plead the Blood of Jesus over them...
THEY SHALL LIVE AND NOT DIE and they shall declare the works of the Lord in the land of the living!
They SHALL be successful. They SHALL prosper.
They SHALL receive favor in abundance! I boldly anticipate and declare it done, in the Mighty Name of Jesus!!! Amen
I challenge all Parents to repost. At this time our children and grandchildren need prayers. There is POWER in our prayers for our children and grandchildren... AMEN,

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

America's most influential vaccine organization has just been hit with a federal RICO lawsuit for operating a vaccine racketeering enterprise.

The American Academy of Pediatrics rakes in cash from Merck, Pfizer, and Moderna to push maximal vaccination for maximum profit, despite NO safety data on injecting 72 doses by age 18.

The AAP unlawfully deceived parents into injecting their children with large batteries of untested vaccines by issuing FRAUDULENT vaccine recommendations.

Even worse, NONE of the routine childhood vaccines were licensed based on a long-term, placebo-controlled trial.

[🦅 Eagle Wings 🦅 @CRRJA5]

Bravo 👏🏻 All states should be doing this.

Florida just made it mandatory.
Starting this school year, every middle and high school student will learn the actual history of communism — Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, the famines, the camps, the body count.
Not the campus remix. The record.
If we’re going to talk about “equity,” kids should also know what happened the last dozen times it was tried.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

As a Catholic, I go straight to Jesus Christ all the time, every day, especially through the sacraments.

The only thing that changed since being protestant is I ask the greatest saints in history to go to Him directly for me as well.

It’s glorious and joyful!

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

When I first came to the U.S. to finish school, a professor told us to take an exam at home and simply said, “Don’t use Google or open your books.”

As someone who grew up in the Middle East, I couldn’t believe it. What kind of society trusts people like that?

But over time, I began to understand what I was witnessing.

This wasn’t naivety. This was a high-trust society, something so rare in the world that most people born outside the West have never even seen it.

After the Catholic Church banned cousin marriage, people in the West started marrying outside the family. That forced individuals to move out, build broader social networks, and rely on strangers for daily life.

Trust wasn’t just a virtue, it became a survival mechanism. You couldn’t build a working society unless you believed, at some basic level, that others would do the right thing.

That trust was reinforced by Biblical values.

Add to that the stability of wealth, people didn’t need to cheat or steal to get by. So trust flourished.

That’s why in the West, you can check out at a grocery store with no cashier.

That’s why the government lets you self-report your taxes.

Because here, truth is assumed, until proven otherwise.

But Westerners, sadly, think the rest of the world works this way. It doesn’t, and especially not Islamic societies.

Islamic cultures are low-trust by design, the result of centuries of tribalism, aggressive theological systems, and economic instability.

Islam doesn’t nurture trust. It nurtures surveillance, control, and suspicion.

In the Muslim-majority societies, you’re not even trusted to be alone in a room with your cousin or sister-in-law, because the assumption is you can’t be trusted.

Allah doesn’t trust you. That’s why every move you make must be regulated.

In those societies, deception is excused, even celebrated, especially when used against non-Muslims.

Lying is seen as a tool for survival and advantage.

That’s the mindset many immigrants bring with them.

When they arrive in high-trust Western nations, they don’t see a system to protect, they see a system to exploit.

They take advantage of your honesty, your openness, your kindness.

They see how your society was built on the idea that love believes all things, and they weaponize that belief against you.

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

If you don’t agree with anti-vaxxers just ignore us, like you ignore the inserts that list the poisonous ingredients and adverse reactions

[AuthentiKate ☂️🪔🍒 @kateiswell]

I’m so, SO, SO tired of the narrative that having children is the worst thing that ever happened to women.

Let’s flood this thread with something different.

Post a photo or short video of a mom genuinely enjoying her children. A baby being adored. A toddler making her laugh. A mom soaking up an ordinary, beautiful moment with her kids.

Let’s show what loving motherhood looks like. ❤️

(I love that dad’s in the reflection on the fridge, too.)

[GAPeaches @oneGApeache]

@Owennfa

[Owen @Owennfa]

My neighbor paid off his house in 2021.

He was 64, completely debt-free, and so happy about it that he threw a little party in the driveway. I brought the beer.

Five years later, he doesn’t have a mortgage. No lender. No monthly house payment.

But the house still costs him about $1,340 every month.

His property taxes were $6,800 last year after the county reassessed the property. His insurance jumped to $7,200 after two rough storm seasons, even though he’s never filed a claim. Then there’s another $220 a month for the HOA.

And none of that covers repairs or maintenance.

He’s living on Social Security and a small pension. About $3,100 a month.

So roughly 43% of his monthly income is going toward a house that’s completely paid off.

He thought about selling and downsizing, but the smaller places around here aren’t much cheaper once you factor in closing costs and the higher taxes that can come with buying another property.

So he’s stuck.

He can’t comfortably afford to stay, but moving doesn’t really solve the problem either.

That’s the part nobody tells you about paying off a mortgage.

You make the final payment and think you’re finally done.

You’re not.

The mortgage disappears. The taxes, insurance, HOA fees, repairs and maintenance don’t.

You can spend 30 years paying for the house, only to spend the next 30 paying everyone else to let you keep it.

[Jessica @JessicaGenetics]

For a shopper like myself, a spin the wheel pop up is one of the fastest ways to immediately ruin a brand’s reputation.

I will usually leave websites if I see this.

This used to only be found on shameless gimmicky websites like temu. Now we have “luxury” brands hitting you with it.

I am not exaggerating when I say that I take it as an insult to my intelligence as a consumer.

It must end we don’t want it

[Jessica @JessicaGenetics]

My experience buying a new duvet cover yesterday:

Go to website
Immediate spin the wheel pop up
Close pop up
Cookies pop up
Close pop up
Maneuver to what I want
Add to cart
Pop up: save $40?
Okay
Put in email
Put in phone number
Welcome email
Discount email
Go to discount email
Save $40 but only through their app
Download app
Must make a username & password
Must verify my email with a code
Get email with the code
Enter code
Now I’m in the app
Cart is empty
Need to go re-add all items to my cart
Turns out there’s an order value threshold for the discount
I’m $6 short of threshold
Have to add $30 more to my cart
Irritated but I’m in this deep
Order complete
Unsubscribe from texts
Unsubscribe from email marketing
Delete 3 pointless emails
Delete app

Why must we live this way.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

How you view motherhood is how you will view children.

If motherhood is a burden, then so are children

If motherhood is the death of our dreams, then so are children

If motherhood is bad, then so are children

If motherhood can be removed, then so can be children

They are inherently linked. You cannot have one without the other

And once you understand that the way we now view motherhood, as something altogether negative, you soon see why it makes total sense that we look at children the way we do.

You cannot value children, their lives, their worth and importance to society without doing so with motherhood.

The value of children is a direct link to the value of motherhood.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Every neighborhood in Japan
has a tiny police station on the corner.

One officer. Sometimes two.
A room the size of a closet.
It is called a koban.

He knows the woman who runs the flower shop.
He knows which grandfather forgets his way home.
He knows the kids on this street by name.

When you are lost,
he draws you a map by hand.
When your bicycle is stolen,
he apologizes as if he took it himself.
When you drop your wallet,
he sometimes calls you
before you notice it is gone.

There are over 6,000 of these tiny boxes across Japan.

Other countries build one big station
in the middle of nowhere.

Japan puts a lamp above your walking route
and lights it every night.

That is the difference.

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

Now that I know what’s happening, I feel really bad that I was giving my money to actors/directors/performers who were actively working to cancel out half the country.

If I had known that:

Mark Ruffalo
Chris Evans
Mark Hamill
Julia Roberts
George Clooney
Robert De Niro
Meryl Streep
Barbra Streisand
Sean Penn
Whoopi Goldberg
Jamie Lee Curtis
John Legend
Bruce Springsteen
Eva Longoria…

…and WAY TOO MANY OTHERS were angling for a one-party state…

...I never would have bought another ticket or album.

If I had known that Disney was quietly funding efforts to create a DEMOCRAT ONLY country and strip my vote of meaning, I never would have supported the MCU or Star Wars, never cheered for their heroes, never let their stories into my home.

I feel BETRAYED.

I feel FOOLISH.

I feel ANGRY that I unknowingly helped bankroll the people who wanted to erase me.

I won’t make that mistake again.

Who's with me on that?