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Excelente hilo.
La OTAN/ONU/UE no son los héroes de la película.
#UcraniaBajoFuego
Me interesan los ciudadanos de Ucrania y de Rusia. No me interesa ni Putin ni Zelensky. La guerra Rusia-Ucrania tiene más que ver con Occidente (en particular con los EE. UU. y la UE) que con Rusia. ¿Ilógico? Solo debemos mirar el asunto con objetividad, sin pasiones: abro #hilo.
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A lot of people missed the bigger picture in this fight scene. This fight scene shows the huge difference between Korra and Aang.
I remember in the beginning of the Legend of Korra when Korra was sparing with some white Lotus guards, she went head to head with all 4 of them but the general said something while he watch her fight.
Katara was amazed by how skillful korra has become. She said; "She's strong"
The white lotus general said; "She lacks restraint".
Truly, Korra Lacks restraint.
I could give you several of instances from the series.
Though she's a water bending Prodigy and a prolific skillful fighter but she doesn't know when to say "Enough!!" She wants to do everything in her power to win so she could prove something. She did this against The Equalist and Amon, Zaheer and Kuvira.
Now in this clip, Aang spared with korra and still know when to hold back. But korra went Bizarre cos she wants to win by all means. When Aang saw that she was without restraint, he stopped fighting so that Korra could stop, then he sadly walked away cos he was only sparing with her but she took the fight too personal.
Yes Korra is strong, but there is a difference in being in control while fighting and opponent, and losing yourself in the fight that you become a Monster. Maybe this was why In the Legend of Pavi, the claimed Korra caused the catalyst then all benders fought against her then they saw Avatars as an enemy not as the Hero/Saviour.
Thanks for reading my two cents.
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
Claves, en síntesis, que nos da Santa Teresa en nuestro camino espiritual:
1. El encuentro personal con Jesucristo para entregarle nuestras heridas y dejar que él nos cure. Así nos ponemos en condiciones para determinarnos a ser, no solamente buenas personas, sino santos.
2. La oración como la llave que abrirá todas las puertas de las moradas del Castillo interior de nuestra alma. "Tratar de amistad, estando muchas veces a solas, con quien sabemos nos ama". Teresa invita a jamás dejar la oración, aunque nos parezca difícil.
3. La unión mística con Cristo. Se trata de un matrimonio espiritual en donde el alma vive en continua presencia de Dios y, al mismo tiempo, sirve, trabaja y ama a los demás. Cuando Dios ocupa el centro de la vida, todo lo demás encuentra su lugar: desde el trabajo, la familia, los sufrimientos y hasta los pucheros de la cocina.
Santa Teresa nos obtenga la gracia de internarnos, por la oración, más adentro del Castillo y avanzar con humildad en nuestra unión con Jesús.
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
Le 13 octobre 1884, selon la tradition, le pape Léon XIII s'effondre après sa messe.
Il entend Satan se vanter de pouvoir détruire l'Église, si on lui laisse le temps et le pouvoir.
Bouleversé, le pape compose une prière et ordonne qu'on la récite à la fin de chaque messe basse, partout dans le monde.
Depuis la réforme liturgique des années 1960, on ne la dit plus à la messe. Je trouve triste qu'elle soit aujourd'hui un peu oubliée, alors qu'elle n'a jamais été aussi actuelle : « Saint Michel Archange, défendez-nous dans le combat. Soyez notre secours contre la malice et les embûches du démon. »
Saint Michel Archange, priez pour nous. 🙏🏼
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
迎え入れちまったよ……!!!
キロプモン!!!!クーガモン!!!!
ビートブレイク面白いよ……😭😭💖
(そのうちまたメンバー増えそう金欠💸)
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
#OremosJuntos para que la pastoral de la salud mental se integre en toda la Iglesia, ayudando a superar el estigma y la discriminación hacia las personas con enfermedades mentales. Participa en esta oración: popesprayer.va/es/rezaconelp… #IntencióndeOración @clicktopray_es
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
What do these crosses mean?
- Russian Orthodox Cross
- Chi Rho Cross
- Maronite Cross
- Petrine Cross
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
There is a candle somewhere in your house. On the kitchen table, in the drawer with the matches, left over from a birthday or a power cut. An exorcist says that blessed the proper way, it would be guarding far more than your kitchen.
Fr. Reehil, an exorcist in Nashville, told a room full of people what is written into the Church's own blessing of a candle:
"THERE'S A PART IN THE RITUAL WHERE IT SAYS, AND MAY THE ENTIRE BUILDING IN WHICH THIS CANDLE IS PLACED BE RID OF ALL DEMONS, THAT THEY WOULD FLEE THIS SITE AND NEVER RETURN."
Not the room. The building. And then he pictured it:
"IMAGINE PLACING THAT IN LIKE AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN NEW YORK CITY THAT HAS, YOU KNOW, A HIGH RISE WITH 1600 UNITS, AND YOUR LITTLE CANDLE IN YOUR APARTMENT IS PUSHING OUT DEMONS FROM THE WHOLE BUILDING."
His own verdict: "THAT IS INSANE."
It is not the wax doing it. He is clear about how these things work:
"SACRAMENTALS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT. THEY WORK UNDER THE POWER AND THE FAITH OF THE ONE GIVING AND RECEIVING THEM."
That is the Church praying over it, and your faith when you light it. It is also why he tells people not to settle for a wave of the hand:
"YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE SHORTCUTS AND JUST DO A GENERAL BLESSING FOR EVERYTHING."
He carries his sacramentals everywhere, and he wants you to have some too:
"THE SACRAMENTALS HAVE GREAT POWER."
So the candle on your table is probably still just a candle. One question changes that. Bring it to your priest after Mass and ask for the blessing of candles from the ritual, the full one. Most priests are glad somebody asked.
Then every time you light it, say this out loud:
"Lord Jesus, You are the light of this house. Every spirit that is not from You, leave this place and never return. Guard everyone under this roof, and the families behind every wall around us. Amen."
The families behind the walls are part of it. That is what he meant by the building.
One practical note: blow it out before you sleep. The blessing does not go out with the flame.
👇 One word if a candle in your house is getting that blessing: KINDLED.
Credit: Father Dan Reehil Community
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
The Pink Sisters Who Never Leave the Lord Alone
The Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters — known as the Pink Sisters — are a cloistered contemplative community founded in 1896 by St. Arnold Janssen. Their rose-colored habit is a sign of joy in the Holy Spirit. At Mount Grace Chapel in St. Louis they have kept perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament without interruption since June 7, 1928. At least one sister is always before the Eucharist, interceding for priests, the missions, and the needs of the Church and the world.
They live in enclosure so they can give themselves wholly to prayer. Visitors are welcome in the public chapel for Mass, adoration, and sung Evening Prayer. What moves so many who come is the quiet witness itself: hidden women in pink, keeping watch with the Lord so He is never left alone.
They are supported only by the generosity of those who share their mission. Gifts may be mailed to Mount Grace Convent, 1438 E. Warne Ave., St. Louis, MO 63107. Learn more or send a prayer intention at mountgraceconvent.org/
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
They live in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousal and detestable idolatry. And are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, so they heap abuse on you.
1 Peter 4:3-4
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
Satan doesn’t just fear Saint Michael’s sword. He hates and fears his name.
Why, do you ask? Because every time it’s spoken, it reminds him of his eternal humiliation.
Here’s what “Michael” really means, and why Hell trembles at it (1/3)
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
OUR LADY OF LA SALETTE’S WARNING TO THE WORLD (The Public Church-Approved Message)
📅 September 19: Feast day of our Lady of La Salette
“Come near, my children. Do not be afraid. I am here to tell you great news.
If my people refuse to submit, I am forced to let go of the arm of my Son. It is so strong and so heavy that I can no longer hold it back.
How long I have suffered for you! If I do not want my Son to abandon you, I must pray to Him without ceasing. And you pay no attention to it.
No matter how much you pray or how much you do, you will never be able to repay the trouble I have taken for you.
I gave you six days to work. I reserved the seventh for myself, and people will not give it to me. This is what makes the arm of my Son so heavy.
And those who drive the carts cannot swear without using the name of my Son. These are the two things that make the arm of my Son so heavy.
If the harvest is ruined, it is because of you. I warned you last year through the potatoes, but you paid no attention. Instead, when you found them spoiled, you swore and used the name of my Son. They will continue to spoil, and by Christmas there will be none left.
Do you not understand me, my children? I will say it another way.
If you have wheat, do not sow it. Whatever you sow, the vermin will eat, and whatever does grow will turn to dust when it is threshed.
A great famine is coming. Before the famine comes, children under seven years old will be seized with trembling and will die in the arms of those holding them. The others will do penance through the famine.
The walnuts will become worm-eaten, and the grapes will rot.
If they are converted, rocks and stones will become heaps of wheat, and potatoes will grow by themselves in the fields.
Do you say your prayers well, my children?
Ah, my children, you must say them well, morning and evening. When you cannot do better, say at least an Our Father and a Hail Mary. When you can do better, say more.
In summer, only a few elderly women go to Mass. The others work on Sundays throughout the summer. In winter, when they do not know what else to do, they go to Mass only to make fun of religion. During Lent, they go to the butcher shops like dogs.
Have you never seen spoiled wheat, my children?
But you, my child, surely you saw some once at Coin with your father. The owner of the field told your father to go and look at his spoiled wheat. You went, took two or three ears of wheat in your hands, rubbed them together, and they crumbled into dust.
When you were returning home and were about half an hour from Corps, your father gave you a piece of bread and said, ‘Here, my child, eat some bread while we still have it this year, because I do not know who will have bread next year if the wheat continues like this.’
Well, my children, you will make this known to all my people.
Very well, my children, make this known to all my people.”
— Our Lady of La Salette
September 19, 1846
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
¿Razón y Fe son contradictorios? Vídeo completo ¿Es necesario DIOS? FORJA 365 - youtu.be/4D5gknf7_sQ #TeologiaCatolica #FeYRazón #Dios #Fe
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
«Llega un tiempo en que los hombres enloquecerán, y al ver a alguien que no está loco, lo atacarán, diciendo: “Estás loco; no eres como nosotros”.»
- San Antonio el Grande
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We Catholics call Mary Theotokos, not because she created God, but because of who Jesus is. She gave birth to Jesus Christ, who Christians confess as the eternal Son of God made flesh.
That's why Elizabeth calls her, 'Mother of my Lord.' So, if Jesus is one person, truly God and truly man,
the real question is, who exactly did Mary give birth to?
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
Most of us Catholics are familiar with the phrase "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation), but how many of us actually know the history behind it? Today, we celebrate the feast day of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian (the man who made those very statements)...
In the 3rd century, the Church herself faced a great crisis. Under Emperor Decius, many Christians denied their faith to avoid death. They were called the lapsi - the fallen.
After the persecution, a big question arose: Can they come back?
A priest named Novatian said No. He taught that apostasy is unforgivable, and that the Church herself must remain pure, only for saints. He even made himself a rival pope against the true Pope, St. Cornelius.
St. Cornelius and his friend St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, stood against him. At the Synod of Rome in 251, they made two things clear:
1. What they did NOT stand for:
They never taught that leaving the Church is a small thing. For them, apostasy was a grave, mortal sin.
2. What they DID stand for:
They taught that no sin is bigger than God's mercy. If a sinner does sincere penance, the Church herself has the power from Christ to forgive and welcome him back.
That is the real meaning of Cyprian's phrase. When he said "Outside the Church there is no salvation," he was not condemning everyone, but defending unity. He meant you cannot find salvation by breaking away into schism. Salvation is found inside, in the one Mother Church who herself is a hospital for sinners, not just a museum for saints.
That is the faith they died for.
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There is only ONE cure for the scourge that is communism:
Christ.
Ann Kirsten Halpert 🖤🤍 retweeted
En lugar de tratar de entenderlo todo, a veces debemos aprender a sentirlo en nuestro corazón y vivirlo a través de nuestras acciones y amor hacia los demás.
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San Agustín, con su gran inteligencia, estaba tratando de entender algo tan profundo y misterioso como Dios, ¡y eso es realmente difícil!
A veces, las cosas más importantes en la vida, como el amor, la fe y la espiritualidad, son como el agua del mar, inmensas y misteriosas, y no podemos comprenderlas completamente con nuestra mente pequeña.
“Poner la otra mejilla”
Pocos pasajes del Evangelio han sido tan mal utilizados como aquel en el que Cristo habla de poner la otra mejilla.
Durante mucho tiempo se ha presentado esta enseñanza como si el católico estuviera obligado a dejarse pisotear, a mirar hacia otro lado ante la injusticia, a permitir que los inocentes sean atacados y a llamar “mansedumbre” a lo que muchas veces es simple cobardía.
Esa lectura ha debilitado espiritualmente a muchos cristianos. Ha fabricado un católico incapaz de combatir, incapaz de defender lo sagrado, incapaz de proteger a los suyos, incapaz de resistir el mal cuando el mal avanza delante de sus ojos.
Pero Cristo no predicó la rendición ante la injusticia.
“Poner la otra mejilla” enseña a dominar el orgullo herido, a no responder al agravio personal con odio, a no dejarse arrastrar por la venganza. El cristiano debe saber sufrir la humillación, perdonar, callar cuando conviene y ofrecer a Dios las ofensas recibidas.
Ahora bien, esa virtud no anula la justicia. Tampoco suprime el derecho natural a defender la propia vida, la familia, los inocentes, la patria, la Iglesia y el bien común.
El propio Cristo, al ser golpeado injustamente ante el sumo sacerdote, no devolvió el golpe, pero tampoco legitimó el abuso. Respondió: “Si he hablado mal, da testimonio de lo malo; pero si bien, ¿por qué me hieres?”. Mansedumbre, sí. Servilismo ante el mal, jamás.
La doctrina católica distingue con claridad entre venganza privada y defensa legítima. La venganza busca satisfacer una pasión desordenada. La defensa legítima busca detener una agresión injusta.
Santo Tomás enseña que es lícito defenderse con fuerza proporcionada. El Catecismo afirma que la legítima defensa puede ser “no solamente un derecho, sino un deber grave” para quien tiene responsabilidad sobre la vida de otros. También enseña que la defensa del bien común exige poner al agresor en situación de no causar daño, y que la autoridad legítima puede rechazar incluso con las armas a quienes atacan la sociedad confiada a su cuidado.
Un padre que defiende a su familia cumple un deber. Un hombre que protege a un inocente atacado cumple un deber. Una autoridad que defiende el bien común frente a una agresión injusta cumple un deber. Y un católico que impide una profanación, un sacrilegio o un ataque contra lo sagrado no está traicionando el Evangelio: está actuando conforme a la justicia, siempre que lo haga con prudencia, proporción y recta intención.
El cristiano debe perdonar las ofensas personales. Pero no tiene derecho a abandonar a los inocentes en nombre de una falsa mansedumbre.
La caridad no es debilidad. La paz cristiana no es rendición. La paciencia no es complicidad con el mal.
Cuando el ataque cae sobre mi orgullo, debo aprender a soportar. Cuando el ataque cae sobre un inocente, sobre Dios, sobre la familia o sobre el bien común, la defensa puede convertirse en obligación moral.
Los católicos deben recuperar la fortaleza. Sin odio, sin venganza, sin desorden. Pero con firmeza, con rectitud y con disposición real a combatir cuando la justicia lo exija.
Porque el Evangelio no forma esclavos del mal: forma soldados de Cristo.
Fuentes: Mt 5,39; Jn 18,22-23; Hch 5,29; Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica, nn. 2263-2265 y 2309; Santo Tomás de Aquino, 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘢 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘦, II-II, q. 64, a. 7; San Agustín, 𝘋𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘪, XIX, 13.
Obra: 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘦, Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1617.






































