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[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

For those who are curious to learn more about what actually happens at the Catholic Mass, here is a great video.

Catholic Mass 101: Learn Every Part of the Mass and What It Means (w/ Fr... https://t.co/lB2dMtyV05 via @YouTube

[Leonard Nelson @Leonard68969460]

@OKBayouBengal @MattMoscona The even BIGGER hypocrisy is the NCAA schools paying players millions to play football -- the definition of professional football -- and then getting angry and moralistic when someone tries out for another professional football team! You can't make it up.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

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If you'd like to be part this, join our reading group. We tackle a new classic text every 4-6 weeks and meet biweekly via Zoom/S*bstack to discuss.

We're about to start Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

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[Rob V @RobV59]

I'm not sure if I laughed harder at him, or when I watched it the second time and noticed his wife's reaction better. 🤣🤣🤣

[Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ @sscjusa]

He wrote a single sentence before they came for him. Then he vanished from the world that knew his name.

On December 26, 1948, the day after Christmas, József Mindszenty stood inside the archiepiscopal palace at Esztergom. Outside, engines idled in the cold. The cars had been there long enough to make their purpose clear. Hungary had changed, and men like him were not meant to remain.

He was the highest Catholic authority in the country, a prince of the Church, and one of the last public figures who would not bend to the new order. He understood exactly what waited on the other side of the door.

Before he opened it, he sat at his desk and wrote a short note in careful handwriting.

If you hear that I have confessed or resigned, do not believe it. It will be the result of human frailty.

He left it where it could be found. Then he removed his formal vestments and chose the simplest robe he owned. From a drawer, he took a small image of Christ crowned with thorns and slipped it into his pocket. He said goodbye to his elderly mother, a quiet parting with no certainty of return.

Then he opened the door.

The agents of the State Protection Authority did not speak much. They did not need to. He was taken into the night and driven to Budapest, to a place already known in whispers, 60 Andrássy Street, a building that had served one regime after another and had learned how to break men for each of them.

For thirty nine days, he disappeared into its basement.

What happened there was methodical. He was stripped, beaten, deprived of sleep, and kept under constant pressure until the line between thought and confusion began to blur. They used drugs to weaken him, hunger to exhaust him, isolation to unmoor him. Time lost its shape. Day and night became the same dim stretch of endurance.

They wanted a confession. Not truth, but a statement that could be read aloud.

In the end, he signed.

On February 3, 1949, they brought him into a courtroom, thinner, unsteady, his words no longer fully his own. Five days later, the sentence was handed down. Life imprisonment.

The reaction beyond Hungary was immediate. Harry S. Truman condemned the trial. Winston Churchill spoke against it. Pope Pius XII excommunicated those responsible.

Mindszenty heard none of it. He had already been placed in solitary confinement.

Years passed in silence. Seven of them. Seasons changed somewhere beyond his walls, but for him time moved in smaller units, measured by routine, by endurance, by the slow work of staying intact.

Then, in October 1956, the country shifted again.

On October 23, students filled the streets of Budapest. Workers joined them. Soldiers hesitated, then in some cases changed sides. What began as protest became revolt. Within days, the government that had imprisoned him collapsed under the weight of it.

On October 30, the doors of his prison opened. After nearly eight years, he stepped back into a city that was already in motion. He was driven to Budapest, where his presence carried weight that had only grown in his absence. Over the radio, he spoke to the nation, his voice steady, urging order, recognizing the uprising.

For a brief moment, it seemed possible that Hungary might stand on its own.

It lasted three days.

On November 4, columns of Soviet tanks entered Budapest. The streets that had filled with hope filled instead with smoke and gunfire. Thousands were killed. Hundreds of thousands fled. The revolution was crushed with speed and force.

Mindszenty understood what that meant for him. He made his way to the United States Embassy Budapest and asked for asylum. The request was granted.

He stepped inside on November 4, 1956.

He would remain there for the next fifteen years.

The room given to him had once been an office. It was small, functional, and closed. The windows did not open. He could not walk freely in the building, could not step into the courtyard, could not risk being seen from the street. Outside, a car from the ....

[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

Please say prayer for Martha Odom, her family, and her friends tonight. This one hits close to home and it hurts.

[Coffee and Grit @CoffeeNGrit]

Her name was Martha Odom.

Seventeen years old. A senior at Ascension Episcopal down here in Lafayette. A writer. A dancer. Her school called her a joyful presence whose kindness brought light to everyone who knew her. She and two classmates were grabbing food at the mall yesterday. Minding their business. Just innocent kids in an innocent place until a group of thugs decided to settle their business with bullets in a public food court.

Her parents shouldn't be making plans to bury their daughter this weekend. They should be making graduation plans, summer plans..

Pray for the Odom family. Pray for Ascension. Pray for the two kids still fighting to heal.

And pray those thugs face every ounce of what they earned yesterday.

Say her name tonight. Martha Odom.

[Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB]

I want one 🤣😂🤣

[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

Truth! 🤣

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

This is still one of the best responses ever on social media! 😂

[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

@JimmysSeafood is a patriotic company I can get behind

[Pino Americano @PinoAmericano]

I just followed Jimmy’s Seafood. 🇺🇸

[American Woman (Michele) 🇺🇸 @1True_American_]

“Trust your heart, it will guide you in the right direction.”

No.

Trust GOD, for the heart is deceitful above all else.
Jeremiah 17:9

[Laura Gomez-Martin @LGM_Laur]

@NICKIMINAJ

[Fr Joseph Hudson @acloudofsaints]

You do not have unlimited time.
Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue on without you.

[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

@USDOL Our Lady of Prompt Succor, pray for us

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[American Citizen 🇺🇸 @realtalkstruth]

A role model for little girls should be Erika Kirk not Taylor Swift! Repost if you agree!

[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

I’m keep reading “It’s all for Charlie Kirk” over and over again. While I too am inspired by Charlie and his mission, it is not all for Charlie Kirk. It is all for Jesus Christ. Let us be clear about that.

[Jamie Bambrick @j_bambrick]

My dear American friends,

We British Christians would get excited when, once a year, Queen Elizabeth would make a mild but sincere reference to the love of Jesus Christ in her Christmas address.

In Charlie Kirks' Memorial service, watched by tens of millions, I just heard:
- Multiple clear presentations of the gospel from men like @robmccoyus and @DrFrankTurek with clear calls to repentance and faith
- Worship songs full of Scripture sung by tens of thousands live and millions at home
- Personal testimonies of lives transformed by the work of Christ and the witness of believers
- Demonstration and explanation of the value of marriage, child-rearing and family
- Calls to Romans 13 for the government to bear the sword for the protection of good and punishment of the wicked
- Declarations of spiritual warfare on the forces of evil and promises to endure no matter the cost
- Calls to be prophets and call the nation to repent
- More Scripture references and Bible readings than I can count
- And a widow publicly forgiving her husband's killer because Christ forgave his killers on the cross.

All of it done before, and by, the most powerful people in your nation and the world.

You guys should be on your knees thanking God for your country. It is a light to the world.

Never stop fighting for it.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

JOHN LEAKE: “Getting a COVID-19 booster is now reserved for the mentally ill” 🤣

[Tridentine Brewing @TridentineBrew]

Our Lady of Fatima reminded us in 1917 that “So many souls go to hell because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices for them.”

Are you praying for your enemies, including the sad souls who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination? Let us pray for their conversion. 🙏

[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

@Sassafrass_84 I think of Jesus on the cross saying, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And I repeat His prayer. It’s helping.

[AmericanPhoenix @melpharr77]

Woodlands, TX area… choose your roofer carefully.

[TheTexasOne @TexasRepublic71]

Marquis D Mitchell owns Luxe Roofing company down the road in the Woodlands, Tx. Be horrible if everyone gave him a call and let him know what they thought about his comments about Charlie Kirk.