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EWTN Global Catholic Network @EWTN - TODAY: Begin your Novena to the Holy Spirit! This is the Church's FIRST novena, which Our Lord instructed the Apostles to pray in anticipation of the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. It's still the only novena officially prescribed by the Church, and it is a powerful plea to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity for the light and strength we Christians sorely need!
Pray with us here (new prayers will be added each day):
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Ezra A. Cohen @EzraACohen - Lazy reporting, but predictable.
The better question is why do we have hundreds of ambassadors to begin with.
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Lara Seligman @laraseligman
Over 100 U.S. ambassador posts around the world are sitting empty in the Trump administration, a vacancy rate without modern precedent and one that some current and former officials warn is hamstringing U.S. diplomatic power abroad.
Excellent reporting from @RobbieGramer
https://x.com/EzraACohen/status/2055098040550084895
The FAA @FAANews - In the event of an emergency evacuation, every second counts. Flight crews are elite safety professionals trained to move passengers off an aircraft in seconds. Passengers must listen to their instructions and exit the aircraft immediately leaving all carry-on items behind. Any delay risks the safety of everyone on board. Leave the luggage!
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AFA-CWA @afa_cwa
Video: Listen to Flight Attendant instructions. In the event of an emergency, LEAVE ALL BAGS BEHIND. Material possessions are not worth your life or another passenger's.
https://x.com/afa_cwa/status/2054942481246990484
https://x.com/FAANews/status/2055032870649856214
Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_ - People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why.
The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it.
He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen.
This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed.
Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it.
Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade.
As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed.
The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God.
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