Grace

"Be kind. Everyone you meet is carrying a heavy burden." - Ian MacLaren.

[Grace @quince_g]

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[apexlaboratories @apexlabora77146]

At 55 it starts. By 65 it's your legs. By 75 it's the stairs.

That's not just age. It's one signal in your body that stopped firing. Same steak, same eggs, same scoop of whey — the protein still goes in, the signal doesn't land.

Here's what that means:

[Ayden @Aydengha]

Never start your morning without saying these 4 things to yourself.

[INHERITANCE @ImperialAssets7]

Speak this 21-word affirmation and watch how fast your life improves:

[Matteo Matzuzzi @matteomatzuzzi]

Il Papa: "La Chiesa non è fatta di pietre o di cemento, ma di persone che amano Gesù Cristo perché sono state amate da Lui. A Notre-Dame c’erano i preti e i diaconi, le persone consacrate, gli operatori pastorali; allo stadio c’era la nuova generazione francese: nuova – direi – non solo per età, ma più ancora per spirito, per libertà di cuore e di fede. Giovani che hanno cantato, gridato, ma che sono anche rimasti in silenzio, in ascolto. Volti attenti e commossi, che manifestavano cuori desiderosi di verità e d’amore. A loro ho detto con gioia: 'Voi siete i santi di Francia!'. Quella Veglia è stata un grande segno di speranza... Vi è nella Chiesa in Francia un segno di rinascita che dura da alcuni anni, cioè il notevole e crescente numero di giovani e adulti che chiedono il Battesimo. ... Una bella 'sorpresa' di Dio"

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I would like to share some thoughts on my recent #ApostolicJourney to #France with the motto “That the world may have life” (cf. Jn 6:51). God alone, through his grace, can restore the Church and renew humanity, and this is precisely what is occurring in Paris, Lourdes and Metz.

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

There is hope for America, as long as we still have men like this honorable man left in our country.

[Grace @quince_g]

@ddale8 ❤️🎈👑🎊

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Yesterday I saw a man who gave me hope.

A man with a spine. With courage. With loyalty to the Constitution. With professionalism, intelligence, integrity, & an almost old-fashioned respect for facts & the rule of law.

A man who said, "I will not be silenced."

Thank you sir.

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American hero. Please retweet if you agree

[Maggie @MaggieMDnyack]

Melania Trump is the mirror image of Donald Trump in every way that’s important-
superficial, hollow, unintelligent without an ounce of human empathy. She supports his war on immigrants; remember her comments that Obama didn’t have a birth certificate to prove he was American? All while speaking English like it’s her third language; unable to pronounce basic vocabulary. She could have hired the best tutors to help her, and clearly lied about having finished college.
She is every bit the gangster’s wife and no one should hesitate to tell the truth. She’s a public figure. A friend of Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein, who ran one of the biggest child trafficking rings in the world.
So Jo, lots of people got your back; we support you because you’re brave and tell the truth.
You need lawyers we’ll go fund the shit out of it. Keep writing and keep talking.❤️

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

I have stared at this photograph more times than I can count over the past few days. Every time, I look at the man in the white cassock and say, with gut instinct and intellectual certainty both, Tu es Petrus.

You are Peter, and upon this rock Christ builds the Church.

Catholics believe the pope is the vicar of Christ, the Successor of Peter who acts and ministers in Jesus’s name.

With every passing day, this 71-year-old American, born Robert Francis Prevost, reminds me of Jesus. Then again, I guess that’s the point.

[Paco Bescós @PacoBescos]

No soy una persona especialmente religiosa, pero en cuanto he visto esta foto se me han llenado los ojos de lágrimas. Esta sí es la discapacidad que yo conozco, la que vivo día a día, la de sentar a tu niña en tu regazo y apartarle el pelo de la cara mientras te sonríe. Gracias

[Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch @FrUgochukwu]

This is a beautiful video of the Responsorial Psalm at Pope Leo XIV’s Mass at Metz Cathedral this afternoon. This is how I like the Responsorial Psalm rendered: clearly, solemnly and prayerfully.

The Responsorial Psalm is not meant to be a performance or simply a “vibe,” as we sometimes have it these days. It is a prayerful meditation on the First Reading. The choice of tone and manner of singing should draw the congregation into reflection, not distraction, so that the Word of God can truly sink into our hearts.

You tell from the expressions on the faces of the the faithful and even Pope Leo himself that they truly liked the psalm.

As the saying goes, “To sing well is to pray twice.” The choir and cantors at Mass are not there to entertain the faithful; they are there to help the faithful pray better through sacred music.

[Seathiell 🇨🇵 @Seathiell]

Ce matin à Metz, quelque chose de simple et de rare s’est passé.

Autour d’une même table, un cardinal, un grand rabbin, le recteur de la Grande Mosquée de Paris, un pasteur protestant, un métropolite orthodoxe et un responsable bouddhiste ont lu à tour de rôle un texte qu’ils avaient écrit ensemble. Puis le pape Léon XIV l’a signé.

Ils l’ont appelé l’Appel de Metz.

Pas un communiqué diplomatique. Pas un exercice de communication. Juste des hommes qui représentent des traditions différentes et qui, dans une ville encore marquée par les guerres, ont décidé de dire la même chose : on ne peut plus laisser la haine et la peur parler plus fort que nous.

Metz n’a pas été choisie par hasard. C’est une terre de frontières, de cicatrices, et aussi la terre de Robert Schuman. Celle où l’on a compris, après trop de sang, que la réconciliation n’est pas un mot doux. C’est un travail. Un choix. Un courage.

L’appel insiste sur ça. Les religions ont une responsabilité particulière. Pas celle de tout fondre dans le même moule. Celle de rappeler la dignité de chaque personne et de chercher ensemble ce qui permet aux peuples de vivre. Il parle aussi des racines chrétiennes de l’Europe, sans arrogance, comme un héritage qu’on n’a pas le droit d’oublier si on veut encore construire quelque chose de solide.

Dans le contexte actuel, avec les guerres qui continuent, ça fait du bien d’entendre ça. Pas parce que ça va tout régler demain matin. Mais parce que ça replace les choses à leur juste place : la paix ne tombe pas du ciel toute faite. Elle se décide. Elle se signe. Elle se porte.

Aujourd’hui à Metz, ils l’ont signée.

Et ça, franchement, ça donne un peu d’espoir.

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Pope at Mass in Metz: “…it is not true that those who seek revenge are stronger than those who forgive.  It is not true that those who refuse to yield are stronger than those who seek reconciliation.  It is not true that those who walk away are stronger than those who face the challenge of walking together.”

[Seathiell 🇨🇵 @Seathiell]

Ce soir à Lourdes, nous voyons quelque chose que nous ne devons pas oublier.

Le pape Léon XIV a fait la procession aux flambeaux. Pas depuis une tribune. Pas en bénissant de loin. Il a marché. Derrière la statue de la Vierge, un cierge à la main, au milieu de tout le monde.

Ça n’avait jamais été fait comme ça. Jean-Paul II et Benoît XVI avaient participé, mais ils n’avaient pas parcouru le chemin avec les pèlerins. Lui a insisté pour le faire vraiment.

Le rite est simple et il est très ancien. Chaque soir à 21 heures, d’avril à novembre, les gens se rassemblent à la Grotte. On allume son flambeau. On suit la statue de Notre-Dame. On récite le Rosaire, mystère après mystère. On chante l’Ave Maria de Lourdes, chacun dans sa langue. Le cortège quitte la Grotte, longe le Gave, remonte vers l’esplanade et s’arrête devant la basilique. À la fin on se donne la paix.

C’est ça, la procession. Une foule qui avance dans le noir avec une petite lumière, parce que Marie a demandé qu’on vienne ici en procession.

Ce soir il y avait le pape dedans. Pas au-dessus. Dedans. Avec les malades au premier rang, les familles, les gens qui ne disent rien et qui tiennent juste leur bougie.

Je ne sais pas comment dire ça autrement : c’est bouleversant. Voir l’évêque de Rome marcher comme n’importe quel pèlerin, dans cette rivière de flammes, en silence parfois, en chantant parfois.

Lourdes a toujours été ça. Pas le décor. Les gens qui avancent ensemble la nuit. Ce soir le pape a choisi d’être l’un d’eux.

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

This viral video claiming a $140m corruption case in the Ukrainian military is false and likely a new creation of the long-running Russian disinformation operation known as Storm-1516.

Although the fake video has the logo of a genuine Ukrainian news website called the New Voice of Ukraine, it is in fact a fabricated report that was never produced by the Ukrainian outlet.

To make this fake story even more believable, the operation has also created a fake web page made to look like the real website of the New Voice Ukraine, featuring the fabricated report (first screenshot).

On its genuine website, the New Voice of Ukraine has clarified that it never produced this $140m corruption report, and that the web page carrying its logo is entirely fake (second screenshot).

[Grace @quince_g]

@rinsana Wonder if you are aware of this account?

[Grace @quince_g]

@rinsana Someone is mimicking your account 🥺