Thousands gathered in Derry, Northern Ireland, for the city’s first-ever Marian procession, held on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Organizer Barry Mallet explained why the event drew so much attention.
Fr. Jim Craig, a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas, has a sister, Rachel, who is a religious sister with the SOLT Sisters.
Image: SOLT Sisters
The Sanctuary Lamp.
Purpose: to alert the faithful that Christ is present in the tabernacle, & that Christ is the “light of the world”.
Often red, perpetually lit, they hearken back to God commanding the priests to keep a lamp burning continually before the Ark of the Covenant.
We stand for law and order. Today in Winter Haven, I was proud to sign five bills to enhance public safety and support law enforcement:
✔️ SB 432: Establishes trafficking penalties for xylazine, a dangerous drug commonly known as “tranq”, and enacts tougher penalties for criminals who market addictive substances to appeal to youth.
✔️ SB 1332: Strengthens Florida’s Career Offender Registration Act and gives law enforcement better tools to monitor serious repeat offenders.
✔️ HB 429: Modernizes Florida’s criminal gang statutes by expanding the criteria that can be used to establish gang involvement.
✔️ SB 156, the Officer Jason Raynor Act, honors a Daytona Beach police officer who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. This law strengthens protections for law enforcement officers and ensures that those who attack, injure, or kill officers face the toughest penalties available.
✔️ SB 436: Ensures that repeat violent offenders face more serious consequences. If a person has been convicted for resisting an officer with violence, a second battery offense can be elevated to a felony.
These bills reinforce our commitment to making Florida the most law enforcement-friendly state in the union—and the worst state in which to commit crimes.
GOP Rep. Brandon Gill on mass immigration: “People are looking around and saying, ‘The America I grew up in just doesn’t exist anymore. It’s being transformed.’ And they’re sick of it. It’s a debate about what America truly is and who is an American.”
Angry Leftist woman publishes negative review of a restaurant because she thinks it's too "White"
She says it gives off vibes of "racism, misogyny, and ped*philia" because two White men own it.
If you live in the Phoenix area, consider supporting this restaurant.
🚨HOLY CRAP!!!
ICE just caught a COMMANDER of two foreign terrorist organizations living in SMALL-TOWN North Carolina...
...and he was HOLDING HIS OWN WIFE HOSTAGE!!!
His name is Felipe Dell Aquilla, a commander of the PCC and Comando Vermelho, the two largest criminal empires in Brazil, both designated FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.
When federal agents moved in, he ran, leading them on a high-speed chase that ended when he CRASHED into stopped traffic.
THERE ARE LITERAL TERRORIST COMMANDERS HIDING OUT IN SMALL TOWNS IN THE SOUTH!!!!!!!!
WHY ISN'T THIS THE #1 STORY IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW?!!!!!!!!
Please pray for our Sisters of the USA province who began today their annual retreat at our Province house in Cresson, Pennsylvania. Sisters are praying for you. The retreat master is Fr. Thomas Dodson, CSJ. Prior of the Community of St. John in Illinois.
🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!
A mother stepped in front of an armed Black male robber to protect her son…
…AND HE SH0T HER IN THE HEAD AS SHE RAN AWAY!!!!!
Read that again… as she RAN AWAY.
Her name was Jean Gragg, she was 40 years old.
Her son had arranged to sell a watch on Facebook Marketplace.
The buyer came to their own home in South Bend, Indiana.
Police say that 18-year-old buyer, John Ford, pulled out a gun, said “I need it,” and tried to rip the watch out of the son’s hands.
Jean did what a mother does… she stepped BETWEEN them.
She put herself in front of the gun and chased him off her property.
Then, police say, surveillance video shows the coward turning and firing at her MULTIPLE TIMES as she turned around and ran back toward her house.
He sh0t her in the head.
He threw the gun over a fence and ran.
On Saturday, Jean Gragg sadly passed away.
He is now charged with M*RDER.
WE. DO. NOT. HAVE. TO. LIVE. LIKE. THIS!!!!!!!!!
Say her name. Jean Gragg.
ST. PADRE PIO ON HOW TO ATTEND MASS
Before Padre Pio offered the unconsecrated host on his Paten, he would run his fingers around the host to make sure there were no loose particles.
On July 25, 1915, Padre Pio wrote a letter to Anita Rodote on how to properly attend the Holy Mass:
The Divine Master calls the church the house of prayer. In order to avoid irreverence and imperfections I exhort you in the Lord to:
▪︎Enter the church in silence and with great respect.
▪︎Take the holy water and make the sign of the cross carefully and slowly.
▪︎Before God in the Blessed Sacrament genuflect devoutly.
▪︎At your pace, kneel down and render to Jesus the tribute of you presence.
▪︎Confide to him all your needs, and those of others.
▪︎Speak to him with filial abandonment.
▪︎Be very composed when standing up, kneeling down, and sitting.
▪︎Carry out every religious act with the greatest devotion.
▪︎Be modest in your glance.
▪︎Don't turn you head here and there to see who enters and leaves.
▪︎Don't laugh.
▪︎Don't speak to anybody, except when requested for charity or other strict necessity.
▪︎Say the words distinctly, observe the pauses, and never hurry.
▪︎Behave in such a way that all the presents are edified by you.
▪︎Don't leave without asking Jesus for his blessing, and forgiveness for your shortcomings.
▪︎Leave the church recollected and calm.
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The party who calls you a Nazi, Hitler, racist, a Putin puppet, a pedo protector, a white supremacist, and every name in the book 24/7 - wants you to know that calling Michelle Obama, a man is a bridge too far.
In this time, so harshly marked by the violence of war and social unrest, many people wonder what the world in which their grandchildren will grow up will be like. I urge you, dear #GrandparentsAndElderlyPeople, to join me in praying earnestly that peace may soon come to the whole world. https://t.co/D4RUdpXWB1
There’s no British Dream, or Canadian Dream, or Chinese Dream. The American Dream is what makes American exceptionalism possible & we shouldn’t apologize for it.
There are more than a few big accounts on X that open every other post with WOW! or EPIC! And overuse exclamation marks!!!
Think I'll start sprinkling those into my posts like this one...
WOW! Matilda fully expects me to walk across the yard to pick her up! Which I did!!! EPIC!