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03/10/2025

Satan returns with his most DEVILISH DESIGN YET??!!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. In this Bible story, Jesus goes out into the desert to fast. After 40 days, the devil appears to test Him with three temptations. "You look hungry, so break your fast by turning this rock into food!" and "I'll give you all the kingdoms of the world if you worship me just a little!" For the third and final temptation, the devil asks Jesus to jump from the top of the temple, telling Him that Scripture says God will send angels to catch Him. Jesus replies that Scripture ALSO says not to test God, so the devil gives up and runs away. In this cartoon, the series of events plays out mostly as in the story, except the devil is portrayed by a muppet, his final temptation is slightly less sophisticated, and Jesus uses slightly less theology to resist it. 2. Jesus's blue-over-red clothing and His pose in the first panel are based on the painting "Christ in the Wilderness" by Ivan Kramskoi. Like old icons, Kramskoi gave Jesus a red chiton/tunic (symbolizing His blood and humanity) and a blue himation/cloak (symbolizing His purity and divinity). I was surprised by how much I liked those colors, though for the most part going forward, I'll keep Jesus in the more recognizable red-over-white. 3. The googly-eyed Muppet-Satan has been a feature of Tomics ever since 2017, when I drew him tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden. There, he had disturbingly human arms, but after Genesis 3:14, he's had to make due with picket signs and gloves on sticks. In this cartoon, I also gave him the Evil Kermit cloak, as well as the scrunched-up Kermit face when he's thwarted.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: We're in a season of death and rebirth, and so here's another "Tomics Resurrection," where I've taken what was dead and given it life anew. This comic was originally drawn six years ago, featuring four panels starting with the devil's final temptation. In the new version, I expanded on the story to give some context for those who may be unfamiliar. Tell me, which version do you prefer?

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Just found out we’re having baby #2! Pray for us and our growing family! Glory be to God!!

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Please, pray for a friend's friend's mother. She's sick and has had complications with oxygen supply, resulting in brain damage.

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Please keep prayers for my family. Knowing drs aren’t trusted and their scans aren’t trusted it’s hard because beforehand he couldn’t cry bc his brain was too swelled and damaged. But todah he cried. I just need God to keep showing me how he’s at work and help wake my brother. I miss this boy and he’s right here but i have to sit here and pray and hope he stays strong and settled until he wakes. God please don’t stop fighting for us

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I FINALLY FOUND IT! Thank you for your prayers <3

Please pray that I find my claddagh ring that is very very very important to me and it must have fallen off or something

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Please keep a woman, Lindsay (not sure of the spelling) in your prayers. She lost her husband very, very recently. It sounded like she's got her kids to look after as well, and the rest of her family is in Oklahoma.

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Would you guys pray that I get this job I applied for that's close to my house? It appears that it would be a good fit. Prayers asking for the intercession of St Louis and St Vincent de Paul would be especially appreciated

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Please pray for pain relief for me, if you would be so kind. Asking urgently through the intercession of St. Rita.

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My baby would have been 10 weeks today. I hate that my womb is empty.

Please pray for me, my soul aches with grief.

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Hello! There is an image of Our Lady and I have no idea where it comes from. It’s in the Pieta Prayer Book, where it claims to have been drawn by an Italian mystic, whose hand was guided by Our Lady. There is no information on it, anywhere. Do you have any idea where it comes from?

I don't have the Pieta Prayer Book so I'm afraid I have no idea what the answer to that would be.

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This is why I don't believe in coincidence

This morning I sat down to pray. I always have a prayer journal. I was writing about fasting and its spirituality when I wrote about what I discerned around wearing the brown scapular years ago. I realized I wanted to wear the scapular when I was living in a formation house. I researched and prayed. When it came to what penance I should be doing, I was praying in the adoration chapel when I heard Our Lady say , "I want you to grow in Temperance." So, I chose to eliminate meat from all of my Wednesdays and Fridays.

So, today, about two or three days after I lost the original Scapular I was clothed in by my priest came. I'm wearing a second back up scapular when I reach down to pick up one of my running shirts and there it was! My original brown scapular!

Look how in the span of less than two hours God taught me a lesson about lent, about His Mother to whom I am consecrated, about virtue, and about relying on his timing (another concept I wrote about this morning.) Just one little thing to move me to tears be He is SO GOOD. All the time.

I hope everyone is having a fulfilling and holy Lent. Easter will be here before we know it :)

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The Visitation

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Prayer request!!

We are supposed to be getting some REALLY bad storms with a 4/5 strong tornado risk between midnight and two am. Please pray for me and my family and everyone else in the path. Thank you ❤️

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Pray for Kat Timpf and her baby!

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My sister-in-law visited her dad about a week ago to see about talking him into rehab for his alcoholism. While she's visiting, he collapses. He's taken to the hospital where they discover a brain tumor.

They operate and remove the brain tumor. They perform a biopsy and have reason to believe it's metastatic. They look around a bit more and find stage 4 lung cancer. They would have estimated 5 years if he were healthy. 1-2 years is more realistic.

As you can imagine, this is all a lot for my sister-in-law. She's a relatively young Christian, having gotten back into church thanks to meeting my brother. But God's grip is stronger than her's. She is persevering and praying.

She hopes her father has enough time to be saved. She does not want to spend eternity without him.

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Hello! What advice do you have for a young girl considering joining the religious life (a convent, nunnery, ect.)

Hello!

1. Get a trustworthy spiritual director- do everything you can to make sure it's a priest. Obey him.

2. Follow the peace. If you feel peaceful about what you're doing, i.e. you've found a community that you think is the right one, you will feel peaceful if you are moving in the right direction. If you're feeling very restless that is actually *good* but mostly only if you have chosen an order and you're feeling perhaps a bit impatient about entering. Believe it or not you can be peaceful and *this kind* of restless :)

3. Consider Charisms. Where do your gifts fit the best? Do you feel called to more the contemplative life, or to the apostolic? You might be sjrlrises about the answer to this based on your level of extroversion.

4. The desire for children and marriage is not contradictory to the religious life. When you become a sister you become a mother to all you serve (including praying for them) and you become a spouse to Christ. I have actually heard sisters say that having no desire for marriage can be a bad sign.

5. Read. Read the Catechism paragraphs about the consecrated life. Read Saints like Therese and Faustina (don't get ahead of yourself with things like the dark night of the soul. Save that for when you are done with discernment, whether you decide to enter or not, and when you have a spiritual director to guide you.) Read Vita Consecrata. Read the Discernment of Spirits (Tim Gallagher's version is easier to read).

6. Visit communities you feel called to, or even ones that you don't, to get a little bit of the feel of what religious life in general is like.

7. Some have said not to talk about your discernment too much to friends or family because they may lead you astray with your vocation.

8. Don't discern two things at once. Either date and discern marriage, or stay single and discern religious life. Otherwise you can get very confused.

9. Be completely honest, even about what you feel are your shortcomings, whether you are speaking with a vocations directress or your spiritual director. If the truth keeps you away from a community, God means for it to be that way.

10. Pray a lot. All the time. Spend as much time as you can in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Frequent Mass, daily if you can. You are "dating" Christ at this time, so spend time with him accordingly! Listen to His voice and be not afraid!

I hope this helps!