The ceremony at the pope's vigil has the internet in AWE 🇫🇷 🇻🇦
People are saying that it is the complete OPPOSITE of the Olympics Opening Ceremony of two years ago
This is just incredible. The Pope is absolutely loving this.
At the Prayer Vigil with the young people of France, they reenact the incredible history of the Church of France, from the arrival of Lazarus and his sister Mary Magdalene, the martyrdom of St. Denis, the baptism of Clovis, the purchase of the Crown of Thorns of Our Lord by St. Louis IX, St. Joan of Arc, the countless Saints of the eldest daughter of the Church, the martyrs of the French Revolution, all the way to the great St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
La #France a contribué à forger l’intelligence des populations, bien au-delà de ses frontières. L’illumination d’esprits d’exception français, qui étaient en même temps de grands catholiques, souligne combien les sciences, les arts, la littérature, la philosophie peuvent concourir au bien de l’humanité dès lors qu’ils sont orientés vers la recherche du beau, du bien et du vrai, afin que le monde ait la vie. #VoyageApostolique
🔴🇫🇷 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 — « Un Président de la République prétendant se désintéresser de l’Église et des catholiques manquerait à son DEVOIR. Soyez assurés de ma fervente prière pour votre belle Nation », a adressé le pape Léon XIV à Emmanuel Macron.
🇫🇷💶 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 — 5 ans après la création de l’instance chargée de recueillir la parole des victimes et de proposer des réparations, 44 MILLIONS D’EUROS ont été versés à 1 193 VICTIMES d’abus sexuels dans l’Église de France. (RTL)
In the Utopia mouse experiment, they put mice in a “utopia” with unlimited food and no predators
>Young male mice spent all their time grooming, uninterested in reproducing
>Female mice lost maternal instinct and some harmed their own kids
>birth rates went to zero
Uhhhh
🚨🔴🇫🇷 APPEL À TÉMOINS !
LA POLICE RECHERCHE KATYA CLAIN, 43 ANS, DISPARUE DEPUIS LE 20 AOÛT À BOURGES.
👉 Elle n’a plus donné signe de vie depuis le milieu de l’après-midi du 20 août. Sa disparition, signalée par un proche, est considérée comme inquiétante.
Katya Clain mesure 1,49 m, est de corpulence mince et a les cheveux blonds mi-longs avec des mèches brunes.
Lorsqu’elle a été vue pour la dernière fois, elle portait un pantalon noir, un haut noir, une ceinture marron et avait un petit sac à main noir de marque « Kippa », avec l’inscription en jaune fluo.
📞 Toute personne disposant d’informations est invitée à contacter la police de Bourges au 02 48 23 77 17.
(Police nationale du Cher)
🔴✝️ 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — 93 % des meurtres de chrétiens et 90 % des enlèvements de chrétiens recensés dans le monde ont lieu en Afrique subsaharienne.
(Source : Portes Ouvertes)
I got goosebumps studying my Bible today.
In Genesis 28, Jacob has his famous vision of a ladder stretching into heaven, with angels ascending and descending.
He wakes up trembling with awe. On his own initiative, he sets up the stone he slept on as a pillar, pours oil over it, renames the place Bethel ("House of God"), and vows to give God a tenth of everything if God protects him on the road.
Fast forward twenty years to Genesis 31.
Jacob has spent two decades being cheated, exhausted, and trapped in Laban's household.
When God finally appears to tell him it is time to return home, He does not introduce Himself with an intimidating, distant title. He does not announce Himself as the Almighty or the Creator of heaven and earth.
He looks at Jacob and says: "I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me."
Do you realize what is happening here? God grounds His very identity in a runaway's memory.
For twenty long years, God remembered a desperate prayer spoken over a rock in the dark. He lets a flawed human encounter define holy ground, taking the name a frightened fugitive gave to a stone and adopting it as His own divine signature.
Now leap forward over a thousand years to John 1.
Philip brings his friend Nathanael to meet Jesus. When Jesus sees him coming, He says: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit."
Remember what the name Jacob actually means. Jacob was the deceiver, the supplanter. Jesus is deliberately invoking Jacob from the very first sentence.
Startled, Nathanael asks, "How do you know me?"
Jesus answers: "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
In Jewish life, sitting under a fig tree was the recognized place for solitary prayer, meditation, and wrestling with God in private.
Whatever Nathanael was carrying beneath that tree, whether an unspoken sorrow, a quiet wrestling match of the soul, or a prayer he thought had vanished into the silence, he believed he was entirely alone.
He had built no altar, poured no oil, and made no grand vows. He was simply sitting in the quiet with an ache he could not fix.
Yet that single sentence undoes him completely. Nathanael breaks: "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"
Then Jesus ties the entire story together:
"You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."
Angels ascending and descending. That is word for word the scene from Genesis 28!
Jesus is telling him that the ladder his ancestors saw was never a stone staircase in the desert, and Bethel was never just a coordinate on a map. The ladder was always a person. The bridge between heaven and earth was standing right in front of him on a dirt road in Galilee.
The contrast between these two men is striking.
Jacob’s encounter was structured. He had oil, built a stone monument, named the place, and negotiated with a formal vow.
Nathanael’s encounter was raw. He was sitting in the shadow of a tree, empty-handed, carrying a weight he had no ceremony for.
Yet God claims both as holy ground.
He is the God of Bethel, the God who honors the altars you build when you have the strength to build them.
And He is the God of the Fig Tree, the God who sees you when you are too exhausted to promise anything at all.
Incredible consequence of the Global Covid Vaccine roll-out. Moderna validated the efficacy of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mRNA delivery systems and built a multi-billion dollar war chest during COVID. They used this info and cash to start testing their tech on cancer. Now, we are possibly on the precipice of personalised cancer vaccines. Who could have predicted that?
We just crossed a line in medicine that humanity has been walking toward for a hundred years.
For the first time, doctors can take a biopsy of your specific tumor, read its unique DNA mutations — the exact fingerprint no other cancer on earth shares — and build a custom mRNA blueprint written for one human being. Yours.
It doesn't poison the cancer. It teaches your own immune system what to hunt.
And this week, Phase 3 results confirmed it works.
Added to the best immunotherapy we already had, this individualized cancer vaccine has been dramatically cutting the odds that high-risk melanoma comes back. In the earlier data, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49%, and the risk of the cancer spreading to distant organs by 62%, compared to the standard treatment alone. This week's Phase 3 readout confirmed the benefit holds. That is not a modest tweak. That is a different trajectory for a human life.
And melanoma is just the first door. The same approach is now in trials across lung, bladder, and kidney cancers — a whole program of them, racing forward.
Understand what this actually means, because it's bigger than one drug.
For all of history, we fought cancer with blunt weapons. Cut it out. Burn it with radiation. Flood the whole body with chemotherapy and hope the cancer dies before the patient suffers too much. We were swinging a hammer in the dark.
This is a blueprint. A weapon designed atom by atom for one person's disease, that turns their own body into the thing that finds and destroys it. We are watching medicine shift from managing cancer to hunting it.
I've spent my life as a physician, and I did not expect to see this so soon. We were told personalized cancer vaccines were a thirty-year dream. They are happening right now, in real patients, with real data, in our lifetime.
I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a doctor who knows exactly how rare these moments are: this is one of the most hopeful things to happen in the history of the field.
I woke up thinking of the words of the morning prayer — Modeh Ani — I thank You. Gratitude, the moment you open your eyes, for a soul returned and a day given. To be alive at the exact hour when human beings learned to teach the body to cure itself feels like standing inside that prayer.
We are not at the end of cancer. But we are, unmistakably, at the beginning of the end of its reign.
Au JT de TF1, un retraité avec une pension de 5.000 (cinq mille !!!) euros vient de dire que le gouvernement "tape sur les faibles" car le projet de réforme lui ferait perdre 50€ par mois.