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Look at Him as risen. Just imagining how He rose from the tomb will bring you joy. The brilliance! The beauty! The majesty! How victorious! How joyful! Saint Teresa of Avila The Way of Perfection, ch. 26, no. 4 Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and  for the restoration of the Church. Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet. The Catholic Monitor The Catholic Monitor https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com I ask all The Catholic Monitor readers to also   pray   for the   end   of thi...

The Surrender Novena Day 1 Why do you confuse yourselves by worrying? Leave the care of your affairs to me and everything will be peaceful. I say to you in truth that every act of true, blind, complete surrender to me produces the effect that you desire and resolves all difficult situations. O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times) Day 2 Surrender to me does not mean to fret, to be upset, or to lose hope, nor does it mean offering to me a worried prayer asking me to follow you and change your worry into prayer. It is against this surrender, deeply against it, to worry, to be nervous and to desire to think about the consequences of anything. It is like the confusion that children feel when they ask their mother to see to their needs, and then try to take care of those needs for themselves so that their childlike efforts get in their mother’s way. Surrender means to placidly close the eyes of the soul, to turn away from thoughts of tribulation and to put yo...

"Tragic describes  events involving profound sadness, destruction, or death, often originating from a hero's fatal flaw ( hamartia ) leading to an inevitable, disastrous downfall, typically in literature or real life . Key elements include emotional suffering and thematic solemnity, often ending with the downfall of a 'tragic hero'  and evoking catharsis" Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker Just wrote a big reflection on the sunk cost fallacy to be published on Epoch on Monday. I did not give this example – ran out of space – but it occurs to me that this is the #1 problem with Trump: he is unwilling to admit past errors so keeps doubling down on them. 8:17 AM · Apr 5, 2026 · 10.5K Views Boston Mom @LaGrecca333 Republicans are not going to lose because of the “Woke Right” they are going to lose because they folded on every single campaign promise and allowed Trump to launch a war that could potentially plunge us into a depression. This guy is giving way too much cred...