#faith fernández

[fee-fi-fo-fum-draws]

The game says they just hook up.....unacceptable; one of them definitely needs to catch feelings!

The pose from albanenechi again!

[tied-ash]

Be me

Get introduced to Monster Prom 3 (Monster Roadtrip)

Get attached to a certain duo via cat cafe

Start genuinely shipping the duo

Make fanart

...profit(?)

Praying that Tumblr doesn't ruin the quality 🙏

[chaosmultiverse]

Grace (Of the coven) Core

[tf2occontest]

María José Fernández González (The Cook) VS The Mafioso

(Full matchup list here)

Alright team, here's a recap: This is a contest to determine who amongst you will take the top of the leaderboards and be hired at TFI! Simply put, whoever gets the most votes gets to move on, and whoever doesn't... Well. They'll be put down swiftly and cleanly. :}

So, mann your stations, because here are your next contestants! Vote for your favorite mercenary who you want to win the TF2 OC Contest! - P

OC INFO UNDER THE CUT!

We highly encourage you to take a peek to make your decision!

María José Fernández González (The Cook)

@hxy0k

Image credit: @/hxy0k

Mª Jose grew up in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War (1930); she left Spain around her teens as the dictatorship was starting and winded up in Mann. Co as she was basically the Spanish version of Jane Doe (name wise); due to that upbringing, she learned to work with little. The Cook makes regular meals for both teams (BLU and RED) but could also make chemical recipes for Mann. Co. Regarding the teams, she basically housekeeps their bases alternating between both (and different bases/maps) making her almost like the “mom” or “grandma” of the teams (even thought she would be around 40 as of the time of the games (circa 1970)).

The Mafioso

@hodgepodgle

Image credit: @/crommers

Badda bing badda boom, baby! Coming to you fresh off the streets of Italy is mister mobster himself! This former-don-of-a-mafia-crime-family-turned-mercenary will have you sleepin’ with the fishes, bub! He plays a mean game of poker and has an even meaner gambling addiction, but he’s guaranteed to beat ass on the battlefield! With his faithful tommy gun by his side, he’ll pump those suckers on the other team full o’ lead on the count o’ ten! One…two…ten! Ciao, chumps!

[louisupdates]

By Marcelo Fernández Bitar [translated from Spanish]

In just over 24 hours, Louis Tomlinson passed through Buenos Aires and caused a commotion, with hundreds of fans crowding at the door of his hotel singing and shouting his name, and also occupying almost the entire block where there is a FM radio station where he went to give an interview.

The fanaticism generated with his solo career by the former singer of One Direction in Argentina is so great that in fact he will give a recital in the same stadium where he was in 2014 with the mega-boy band. It will be on May 18 in Vélez Sarsfield.

Louis Tomlinson already has two solo albums and is touring the world presenting the most recent, Faith in the Future. It came out in November 2022 and surprised with his most rocky sound, close to the Brit-pop of his beloved Oasis, and less pop. It was number one in England and three singles came out, Bigger Than Me, Out of My System and Silver Tongues.

Hurricane Louis

The visit was really fleeting with the purpose of promoting his show next month, the old-fashioned way, when the artists toured the countries to advertise albums or tours, something they currently do on Zoom or with posts on their official accounts.

Louis arrived on Friday night and spent Saturday fulfilling an intense schedule of activities, to leave early the next day.

First he went to the Vélez football field for a television interview which will be televised later by TN, and then he went to the radio station Los 40 Principales, where his fans filled the entire Gorriti street, between Ravignani and Arévalo, to witness an interview where eight listeners joined to ask him a question each.

He finally arrived at 4 p.m. at the Four Seasons hotel, where hundreds of other fans were screaming for him. There he gave a series of reports and chatted with Clarín in a room equipped as a small television set, with lights and a set with his name and the cover of the disc.

"Never, not for a second, did I think I would be going through some of the same experiences," he said, "that I was lucky enough to live in the band. I thought that was something unique. So being able to come here and feel the level of love and the incredible reaction on today's radio station, means a lot to me. When I imagined what my solo career would be like, I really didn't know what to expect.

Re-filling stadiums

At 32-years-old, Louis Tomlinson has the experience of having been part of one of the greatest pop phenomena of the last 20 years, with sales records and sold-out shows in stadiums around the world. And now he is repeating the fury alone, just as it happened just a little earlier with his ex-bandmate Harry Styles.

In Louis’ case, he first sold out the closed Movistar Arena stadium in 2022 and now he goes through a huge soccer field like Vélez.

Q: Did you think that being a soloist you had to start from below and sing in smaller places?

Louis: Yes, exactly. But it turns out that I can still play in big places, so it's great.

Q: Can we really talk about a mania of a "louistomlinson-mania"? Does it happen everywhere or is it special in Latin America?

Louis: I think that in terms of the level of similar intensity, and seeing what happened a moment ago on the radio station, that certainly doesn't happen to me everywhere. Let me put it this way: it's incredible to be so far from home and feel that level of love. I'm very excited to think about what the show will be like here.

Q: It's incredible that almost exactly ten years have passed since the last time you filled Vélez. How do you feel when you return to the same stadium?

Louis: I feel very lucky to be able to play in those places again on my own. I also feel very, very proud of myself and my fans. I feel like we have created something that is quite special and we did it together. With them as listeners, but also as facilitators. That really helped my confidence and made me feel good on stage. It's a lovely relationship and I'm very proud of it.

Q: This tour started almost a year ago, how did it evolve with respect to the first shows?

Louis: I definitely feel in a good place right now with the show. Anyway, in advance I was excited about this tour because this album was designed for the live show. So I was excited to see how the songs would work. And the energy is great. I am very excited to show Faith in the Future to Latin America.

Q: How did the idea of making a live cover of Arctic Monkeys come about?

Louis: Arctic Monkeys grew up about 20 minutes from where I live. It was something very close, very fresh in the mind and obviously huge. I was growing up and I'm also a big fan. I usually do the song 505 because it's very pretty.

Often, with the versions, I probably think more about what I would like to sing than about what I imagine that everyone else would like to hear, which may be misjudged, but I'm enjoying it.

Q: When you were a teenager you sang Oasis songs and now you have a rock band that sounds very Brit-pop, almost closing a circle.

Louis: Thank you. I am very, very fortunate to have the band I have, but they also perform sonically and visually, everything that is really important to me. They sound absolutely incredible. I don't think I would be able to do this without my band.

Q: Live you also perform songs from One Direction. Did you feel that kind of shadow at the beginning of your solo career and now you are more comfortable looking back?

Louis: I think a bit about both things. I think that at the beginning of my career I would have been a little more worried about putting too many One Direction songs in the repertoire. What I wanted most was to spread my wings and show who I was. But I think that as time went by, the nostalgic moments are really charming. So it's like a beautiful mixture of nostalgia and it's very nice to do it.

Ping-pong

Q: This is the third time you have visited our country. If you had to describe your Argentine fans in three words, which one would you choose?

Louis: Passionate. Loyal. Affectionate. That’s okay, isn't it?

Q: The soccer player Kun Agüero said that there is a lot of talk to you through Instagram or Twitter. Have you ever met him in person?

Louis: Actually, we have never seen each other in person. Over the years we've talked a little here and there, but I never found time. I have a kind of crazy hope that he can come to the show.

Q: If you had to choose one of your songs, either from Walls or Faith in the Future, that reflects how you feel right now in your life, what would it be?

Louis: I would say that the name of the album (Faith in the future) represents where I am right now, but I think that in the future I would like to always be optimistic.

Q: And if all the One Direction discography was deleted and a song had to be saved. Which one would you save?

Louis: It's interesting... I would probably say Story Of My Life. That seemed like a real milestone. I would say it's a little more serious. And I also think it's a bit of a crazy song.

Q: You are a big soccer fan, do you have any preference for an Argentine club?

Louis: I'm very afraid to say something wrong... I'd better say that I love you all. (laughs)

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[eternal-echoes]

The new document signed by Pope Francis and DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández was written in response to a bishop from the Philippines who had expressed concern at the growing number of Catholics in his diocese who are taking part in Freemasonry and asked for suggestions for how to respond pastorally. The dicastery’s response, dated Nov. 13, calls for “a coordinated strategy” involving all of the bishops in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines to promote catechesis “in all parishes regarding the reasons for the irreconcilability between the Catholic faith and Freemasonry.” The Freemasons are the largest worldwide oath-bound secret society. Freemasonry promotes ideas and rituals incompatible with the Catholic faith, including indifferentism, or the position that a person can be equally pleasing to God while remaining in any religion, and a deistic concept of a “Great Architect of the Universe.” The Vatican document reaffirms that “those who are formally and knowingly enrolled in Masonic Lodges and have embraced Masonic principles” fall under the provisions of the Catholic Church’s 1983 “Declaration on Masonic Associations.” The 1983 declaration, signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger when he was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, declares that Catholics who enroll in Masonic associations “are in a state of grave sin and may not receive holy Communion.”

[the-ghost-bracket]

Polly Geist propaganda:

"Self proclaimed party scientist, one half of the prank masterz, and all around super cool and pretty. She seems pretty one dimensional at first but her backstory/origin is actually super tragic and she uses humour (and also a shitton of drugs but in a fun way) to deflect from it. She’s wonderful and sexy and cool and the best ghost and she was a contributing factor to making me Gay."

"Polly is one of the main romantic options in 'Monster Prom' and a main character alongside Scott Howl in the franchise's third game 'Monster Roadtrip'. She's somewhat of a mascot for the franchise, being described as ""a party ghost with an insatiable hunger for all the wrong things"" in the game's prologue. She's a party animal with a love of sex, drugs and alcohol, and is part of the ""Prank Masterz"" with another romance option and her best friend, Scott Howl. Being a romance option in a dating sim with player characters that can be any gender, along with having an ending were her and the other five base game love interests throw an orgy and being in a friends-with-benefits realtionship with Faith Fernández (a minor NPC), she's canonically a sex-positive mspec sapphic. Despite her love of all thing risque, she's also a really good friend to the rest of the romance options, and is a literature buff with a love for chemistry and chess, the latter being thanks to her mother being a chess grandmaster. It's a running joke in the game for her to make up absurd ways she died, yet purchasing the locket item from the first game's shop reveal how she actually died; her father was an alcoholic who turned to drinking thanks to the pressure his father put on him, and one night while driving under the influence, he got into a car crash, resulting in the deaths of Polly, her mother and her younger sibling. In this ending, Polly expresses that she has mixed feelings over her father, as she hates him for ""splitting their family"", yet understands that he was hurting and misses him deeply. As of 'Monster Roadtrip', she's working on publishing her own book and expand her Toilet Wine empire."

"she is awesome. she's made up many stories about how she died. also she does drugs and is considered the biggest literature buff of the game. i love her."

"Fun, hardcore, party girl who’s not afraid to be herself. On the reckless side but is truly very emotionally intelligent. Has a real love for Russian literature and is skilled at chess. Uses the fact that she can’t die again to just take crazy amounts of drugs and party as hard as possible, though in life she was responsible with this and believes in safe practices when it comes to recreational drugs. Frequently jokes about the many different ways she’s died but the actual story is so emotional and told so well. Makes great(?) toilet wine, founding member of the PRANK MASTERZ (with a z!)"

[pasiempre]

DATA.

An album created by Marcos Efraín Masís Fernández, AKA, Tainy.

In recent years, Reggaeton has transformed and evolved into such a versatile genre of music. This is thanks to Tainy — creando himnos desde los 2000s ⚜️ You hear EDM behind tracks from Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez and you wonder how it mixes with reggaeton. It’s the perfect potion.

Tainy created a masterpiece with DATA. Beats that have never been heard before travel through each track, and each transition brings you to a new beat — but tells you a story. This album houses the voices of number one reggaetoneros in the game. The messages displayed through advanced technology: confidence, patience, tribute, faith, talent…

Give Tainy the credit he deserves. This album is impeccable.

Te amo tanto Tainy ⚜️🫧🩶

PHOTO CREDIT: santiagosanjuan48 tik tok

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG AND COMPANIONS Feast Day: July 9

Augustine Zhao Rong and his companions, also known as the Martyrs of China, are the priests, religious, and laity, either foreigners or Chinese nationals, who were killed between 1650 and 1930 because of their Christian faith. The protomartyr of China was Francisco Fernández de Capillas, a Dominican priest and a missionary to Asia, who was beheaded in 1648.

In 1724, the practice of Christianity was banned under the punishment of death. Many Catholics and missionaries fled to foreign countries, but others remained secretly behind; and those who were captured were executed. After some years of tolerance, the persecution resumed more violently in 1805.

Prominent among the martyrs of this period, was St. Augustine Zhao Rong, a Chinese diocesan priest. He was previously a soldier, but after witnessing the heroic death of the martyrs, especially that of Bishop Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse of the Paris Foreign Mission Society, whom he escorted to Beijing, he converted to the Catholic faith and became a priest. In 1815, he was arrested, brutally tortured, and strangled to death.

In 1846, the anti-Christian laws were abolished, but a deep distrust for Christian missionaries, who were association with foreign imperialistic nations, remained among the people. Moreover, many of them failed to inculturate the Gospel in the Chinese tradition.

A new wave of persecution began in 1900, in connection with the Boxer Rebellion. In the next three decades (30 years), there were thousands of martyrs, including the 119 who were executed in 1930 at Li-Thau-Tseul. The Communist regime, that came to power in 1949, continued to persecute Christianity, which is still legally outlawed till the present times. The Martyrs of China were collectively canonized in the year 2000.

The Martyrs of China were beatified two times: Pope Leo XIII on May 27, 1900 and Pope Pius XII on November 24, 1946. The martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 2000.

[nova0000scotia]

As #PopeFrancis said... "Who are we to judge?" .... and the #Vatican goes even further today....

The Vatican’s declaration on same-sex blessings is a huge step forward for #LGBTQ Catholics https://outreach.faith/2023/12/the-vaticans-declaration-on-same-sex-blessings-is-a-huge-step-forward-for-lgbtq-catholics/

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The Vatican’s declaration on same-sex blessings is a huge step forward for #LGBTQ Catholics

BREAKING NEWSVIEWS James Martin, S.J. / December 18, 2023Print this:

Photo courtesy of iStock/MarijaRadovic

Today, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, issued a declaration that will long be remembered by LGBTQ people. Entitled “Fiducia Supplicans” (from the first two words in Latin, meaning, “Supplicating trust”), the declaration opens the door, for the first time, for the official blessings of same-sex couples by ministers of the church—something that has long been desired by LGBTQ Catholics and their families and friends. 

The declaration also includes a larger meditation on blessings in the Catholic tradition and cautions that the blessings for same-sex couples and others in “irregular” unions should be done in a way that does not confuse these blessings with sacramental marriage or suggest a liturgical rite. But even with those provisions, this is a major step forward for LGBTQ Catholics. 

The declaration opens the door, for the first time, for the official blessings of same-sex couples by ministers of the church.

“It is precisely in this context that one can understand the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage,” wrote Cardinal Fernández in the document, approved by Pope Francis. 

Why is this a major step? First, it is the first time that a Vatican document treats same-sex couples with such pastoral care. It marks a dramatic shift from the dicastery’s (then congregation’s) responsum two years ago, which said that priests and deacons could under no circumstances bless same-sex couples because “God cannot and does not bless sin.” As an aside, a “declaration” is more substantial and, therefore, authoritative than a responsum, which is usually responding to a more specific question (called a dubium) and is narrower in scope. (For some context, “Dominus Iesus,” a landmark document on other Christian denominations and other religions, published in 2000, was also a declaration.)

There was widespread reaction to that responsum, as the new declaration notes in its opening. In particular, LGBTQ people and their friends and families felt that the focus on such relationships as sinful ignored or rejected their experience of loving, committed and self-sacrificing same-sex relationships.��News reports also suggested Pope Francis was himself unhappy with that statement, and eventually the person responsible for its publication was removed from the C.D.F. So the Vatican’s pastoral approach to same-sex couples (as well as other couples not sacramentally married) has clearly shifted in the last two years.

It is the first time that a Vatican document treats same-sex couples with such pastoral care.

The declaration is also in line with the letter that Pope Francis wrote to Cardinal Fernández when he was installed as the new prefect of the D.D.F., in which the pope encouraged him to support the “harmonious growth” in theology and, quoting from “Evangelii Gaudium,” noted that the church itself “grow[s] in her interpretation of the revealed word and in her understanding of truth.” Many observers saw that as a new way of understanding the role of the D.D.F., which in recent years had been more concerned with responding to errors. 

Second, you may hear from some quarters that “nothing has changed.” It reminds me of my church history professor, John W. O’Malley, S.J., who said that when church teaching changes, the most common introduction is “As the church has always taught… “

Here, Father O’Malley’s insight is made manifest in a slightly different way. Some Catholics oppose any steps toward greater inclusion for LGBTQ people in the life of the church. We saw some of this during the Synod on Synodality, where I was a voting member, with significant pushback from certain quarters on even using the term “LGBTQ.” So, for some, this declaration (even though it specifies that the blessings must not in any way seem like a marriage rite) will be threatening, and the temptation will therefore be to say, “Nothing has changed.” 

The change here is that these blessings are now officially sanctioned by the Vatican.

But a great deal has in fact changed. Before this document was issued, there was no permission for bishops, priests and deacons to bless couples in same-sex unions in any setting. This document establishes, with some limitations, that they can.

Of course, some may say that there are many restrictions (as noted above), while others will note that in some places (most notable in the German church) these blessings were already widespread. (One German bishop told me during the Synod that he himself blessed such unions outside his cathedral.) The change here is that these blessings are now officially sanctioned by the Vatican. Today, with some limitations, I can perform a public blessing of a same-sex couple. Yesterday, I could not.

Third, it is a major step because it continues Pope Francis’ continual outreach to LGBTQ people.

To take but one example, during the month of October, Pope Francis met with LGBTQ representatives three times. A few days before the Synod began, he met with me in a private audience at the Casa Santa Marta; halfway through the Synod, he met with Jeannine Gramick, S.L., along with her New Ways Ministry team; and finally, during a general audience toward the end of the month, he met with Marianne Duddy-Burke and other representatives from the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (G.N.R.C.), an umbrella group for LGBTQ Catholic groups worldwide. (Speaking of umbrellas, on the day of that final meeting with G.N.R.C., an immense rainbow appeared over St. Peter’s Basilica.)

I welcome this new declaration and see it as a much-needed pastoral response to Catholic same-sex couples in loving, committed and self-sacrificing relationships.

Some LGBTQ people may be disappointed that this declaration doesn’t go as far as they might hope—that is, allowing same-sex couples to be married sacramentally. Others, especially in countries (and dioceses) where the entire topic is off-limits, will think it goes too far. Both groups, however, can agree that this is a significant change.

As for me, I welcome this new declaration and see it as a much-needed pastoral response to Catholic same-sex couples in loving, committed and self-sacrificing relationships who desire God’s presence and help. And as a priest I look forward to blessing same-sex couples, and sharing with them the graces that God desires for everyone, something I’ve waited years to do.

James Martin, S.J.

James Martin, S.J., is the editor of Outreach and the editor at large of America Media.

All articles by James Martin, S.J.

#LGBTQ #LOVEisLOVE

[chaosmultiverse]

🏠🏠🏠 joy, faith, and hope!

Naturally they live together, they have always lived together even when they were children at the same orphanage.

It is a large house on the outskirts of the main mass where monsters live on the edge of a small town where more human-lite monsters live (such as magic users, some undead, some that are close to scp-like & monster worshipping cults).

The house itself on the outside has a very cozy feeling being made of old stone and having a overgrown gaurden that slowly is overtaking the house and fence Grace used to tend.

it is a two story home, semi loft style where most of the upstairs is visble downstairs in the living room.

Downstairs is pretty messy with multi use rooms, the round living room also is cloest to a downstairs hallway and is also a library the coven stores their spell books and lore important books, this room also houses a teleport circle that takes them to a Monster Acmandy dorm room.

The kicten doubles as a dining room and a potion making room, the backroom is for laundry and storing Hope's flying brooms.

Each ofthe witch'shave a spacious bedroom on the second story.

Hope's is full of tarot & other divenion tools, sports gear for multiple flying broom based sports, pet supplies for a pet she doesn't have anymore & dusty sewing supplies.

Faith's is full of shelfs with potions & books, has a large light in the center of the room made of many small crystal shards, & an alarming amount of broken mirrors. She also tends to keep her room pretty unlit.

Joy's is full of old & no longer useful mythgovons, many books she can never find the time to read, posters for cheesy adventure & monster of the week shows, & a closet full of different clothes. Before Joy lived here the coven used the space to store extra items

Then there's a door to Grace's bedroom, which is sealed both with locks and runes.

It should also be noted this house was one of the many boons The Goddess offered her coven when they left the orphanage.

[royalreef]

@chaosmultiverse inquired: ☠️ Faith Fernández To kill - Accepting

"I have already made clear my position upon this entire question and the places where it is lacking — my manner of disposal is far more efficient and far less to show for it, so I will not belabor you again with further comments there.

Likewise, while I could pull a similar trick as I mentioned with the last — she hardly has the same amount of reserves within her, so I am hardly expecting as much fun. Maybe I could send her to extractions — but, then, the same was true for the other as well, and the other would have been a far bigger wellspring. As enjoyable as it would be to see her sucked dry and hollowed out, or to watch the disposal of her husk, I do not feel like I would have much to gain. If you were to shove a tap through her, maybe... five, six years? Nothing really to write back about, minimal returns.

......... You know, there is a hypothesis, regarding the presence of a damaged soul within an intact body, or a mismatched soul. Introduce degradation, and the theory grows more complex, particularly because it is difficult to meaningfully extract the soul without triggering degradation. The degradation of the soul inside of its own body is its own source of study, although currently we are not seeing too many returns, primarily due to focus being settled elsewhere.

I might be interested, in watching her soul rot inside of her body. There are some rather telling physical manifestations as well, things which you truly cannot get anywhere else, things which I feel as though Faith would be simply fascinated to experience all upon her own. Cutting it apart, fracturing it, watching the patterns of spread are all things which are of interest, and all of which have certain implications going forth. It'd be slow, of course, but you are asking for a manner of death, and you are not interested in professionalism, so this shall do.

Alternatively, I may simply cease to deal with the Coven as three entirely. It is quite a lot to put up with, and I am sure I could feed their bodies back in on themselves with minimal threat of rejection, and I am sure they could benefit from sharing their bodily systems together. It would certainly take up less space, and far less of my time. Perhaps then they might even be worth actually sending to extractions."

[tinavy35]

It seems the quotes in this post are made up, but this event did happen, though in a much less heroic context. Ivan did help Abel and did the honorable thing by not taking advantage of Abel’s confusion, but he’s not as honorable as the fake quotes above make him out to be.

What Ivan actually said (according to this El Pais article):

Ivan: “In the Burlada cross-country race there was hardly anything at stake [...] apart from being able to say that you had beaten an Olympic medalist, but even if they had told me that winning would have earned me a place in the Spanish team for the European championships, I wouldn’t have done it either. Of course it would be another thing if there was a world or European medal at stake. Then, I think that, yes, I would have exploited it to win... But I also think that I have earned more of a name having done what I did than if I had won. And that is very important, because today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.”

In short, Ivan admitted he didn’t think it was worth it to win in such a way for a one-off race. This wasn’t a European, World, or Olympics race. That’s why this story isn’t well-known. It didn’t take place at a big competition where such a gesture would have more meaning. Ivan was honest enough to say that if it was a bigger competition, he might have taken the chance to win the race since it would have bigger rewards. I’ll give him credit for admitting that, but he’s not the great, selfless hero the (fake) quotes made him out to be.

What bothered me about the original twitter post is that it didn’t said which race this was. It said “one of the most notable moments in sports history”, but failed to say where and when this moment took place. That’s a red flag.

People in the notes said the interviewer sounded weird, calling Abel “the Kenyan”. This is because the quotes from the “interviewer” and Ivan in the tweet are entirely made up. My guess is that someone wanted to twist this story into a heartwarming story to get attention and made up the quotes to pull heartstrings.

I love a heartwarming story about sportsmanship, but misinformation is not the way to go. We love a honorable, selfless hero, but mindlessly accepting a fake story is not a good way to build faith in humanity. Humans are complex. Yes, Ivan is a good guy for not taking advantage of Abel’s confusion, but Ivan is not an ideal sportsman as he admitted he might have taken the win if this was a big competition. Sorry, but sometimes there is no perfect hero for us to idolize.

[martinwilliammichael]

Excellent news for the Shrine of Our Lady of Pellevoisin

This is excellent news: on Friday, August 30, 2024, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith made public the positive decision (nihil obstat) concerning the spiritual fruits of the fifteen apparitions recounted by the visionary Estelle Faguette in Pellevoisin, a French commune in the Indre region, during the year 1876. 

In a letter from Cardinal Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, entitled “Our Lady of Mercy, lead us to the heart of Christ”, addressed to the Most Rev. Jérôme Beau, Archbishop of Bourges, the faithful are authorized to join in Marian devotion at the Pellevoisin shrine: “Not only can I affirm that there are no doctrinal, moral or other objections to this spiritual event, [...] but that on the contrary all will find in it a path of spiritual simplicity, trust and love, likely to do you much good. It will certainly be good for the whole Church,” declared Cardinal Fernandez.

The Pellevoisin apparitions took place between February 14, 1876, and December 8 of the same year. Mary appeared to a young woman named Estelle Faguette, who was terminally ill at the start of the apparitions and was cured at the fifth apparition (February 19). Mary presented herself as “the most merciful” (3rd apparition) and later told Estelle that she had come for “the conversion of sinners” (7th apparition) and for “the little ones and the weak” (13th apparition). 

Mary presented Estelle (9th apparition) with the scapular bearing her Son's heart on the front. Later, with the approval of Rome, an image of Mary was added to the other side. This is the core of the apparitions: the “All-Merciful” leads to the heart of her Son, the source of mercy.

In the 11th apparition, Mary invited us to pray especially for the Church and for France.  She appeared fifteen times in just a few months to Estelle Faguette.

Today, the message of Our Lady of Pellevoisin, the All-Merciful, is particularly timely and relevant to the thirst of more and more seekers of God, who come to entrust themselves to the Mother of Her Son in great hope.

Adapted from fr.aleteia.org

Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

[apenitentialprayer]

[T]he Holy Father invites us to value the simple faith of the People of God, who, even in the midst of their sins, emerge from their everyday lives and open their hearts to ask for God's help.

Cardinal Victor Fernández, ("Press Release Concerning the Reception of Fiducia supplicans," §4)

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Events 10.28 (after 1920)

1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. 1928 – Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress. 1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later. 1942 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada. 1948 – Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. 1948 – Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania. 1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board. 1956 – Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries. 1954 – Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19. 1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope. 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. 1965 – Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths. 1971 – Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket. 1982 – The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. 1990 – Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule. 1995 – The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured. 2006 – A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police. 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina. 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program. 2009 – US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. 2013 – Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China. 2014 – A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia. 2018 – Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.