DragonFox91 said:

It is a lost cause for me. This is reality

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Maybe I will grow out of it someday. It all has a season right. One of the 2

Thank you

I have asked so many times for prayer for my son Jakeb. He suffers so much with his mental and physical health. We found out that our doctor is retiring due to health issues and this makes it even more of a challenge Please pray that if it is God's will everything will fall into place to get my son healthy. Please pray that the GI doctor will have an earlier opening and please ask Jesus to heal him. Mind and body and to please let me hear him laugh or talk to friends. It shows me that he is at least having a good night. Pray he won't lose more weight, and that there is nothing seriously wrong and the doctors can help him. It hurts to see him suffer so much and when I do get to hear him laugh it's the best feeling in the world. Days like this is so hard on him and on me his mom. Please pray I can hear him laugh soon. Thank you for your constant prayers. They mean so very much. I ask this in the name of Jesus and God bless you. Carmen

Thank you.

The road of HOOM/ Christ the Savior Brotherhood into canonical Orthodoxy was bumpy indeed. The sex abuse scandals and then later the spiritual abuse / physical abuse in St. Innocent Academy in Kodiak Alaska & St Pasios Academy for Young Women in Forestville, CA (Abbesses Mother Michaila Reed).

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The owner of a Las Vegas home searched by police and the FBI as part of an investigation into reports of an illegal biological lab may be linked to a similar investigation in northern California, Channel 13 has learned.

This comes after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and FBI served a search warrant at the property, near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, on Saturday. Inside the home, investigators found "evidence of possible biological material, including refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids," Sheriff Kevin McMahill said.

Clark County property records identify the owner of the home as David Destiny Discovery, LLC. — a business registered through the Nevada Secretary of State's Office to David He.

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The Taliban has codified slavery and formalized a class-based justice system in Afghanistan through a newly approved criminal procedure code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. Legal experts and international rights groups say the new law strips away due process and institutionalizes privilege based on gender, religion and social status.

“The Taliban has now approved the return of slavery in Afghanistan. We must defund the Taliban,” Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote on X. “Not only is it counter to US interests and an affront to all military members who served there, but the Taliban continue to slide farther backwards.”

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essentialsaltes said:

You thought running casinos into the ground was difficult. Try destroying the nation's premier performing arts center sometime.

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Told y'all.



The new one will be 1,776 feet tall.

I pray that God would restore your blood pressure to a healthy level and also take away your anxiety. In Jesus' name, amen.

I pray that God would grant you wisdom about His kingdom and His righteousness. In Jesus' name, amen.

Donald Trump is hosting an extravagant wedding for his aide Dan Scavino at his dazzling Florida estate - with MAGA bigwigs, from Marco Rubio to Elon Musk, in attendance.

The White House deputy chief of staff is marrying Erin Elmore, the director of Art in Embassies at the US Department of State, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.

Scavino proposed to Elmore in September 2025, sharing footage of himself dropping down on one knee - as his dashing bride-to-be looked elated and said yes.

On Sunday, the top players in the Republican Partydescended on Mar-a-Lago to celebrate the nuptials - including Musk and Shivon Zilis - a high-level executive at Neuralink who birthed four of his children.

The pair, who have rarely been seen in public together, looked dashing as they arrived at the Florida estate for the nuptials - with Musk wearing a red cravat.

The White House's fierce press secretary Karoline Leavittwas in attendance - accompanied by her husband Nicholas Riccio. The pregnant mom-of-one kept her look simple with a classy black dress, with matching high heels.

The pair recently announced that they are expecting their second child later this year.

Trump's Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem surprisingly walked into the celebration with smiling Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff for policy.

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... despite his family's millionaire connections​

Gavin Newsom has been trolled online for attempting to portray his childhood as financially fraught in a new memoir, despite having family connections with powerful politicians and billionaire oil magnates.

Instead of politics, the California Governor's 2026 book focuses on the struggles of his parents' divorce, growing up with dyslexia, and working as a paper boy, according to the New York Times which received an advance copy of the autobiography.

The likely Democratic contender for the next presidential election spent his childhood surrounded by some of the most powerful families in California, who backed his early business ventures and greased the wheels of his political ascent.

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Always in His Presence said:

The closest thing I can think of is the time period when the Roman Catholic Church was selling indulgences.

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Some Roman Catholic priests were definitely selling indulgences, which was forbidden to do by the Magisterium of the Church.


I am a Catholic, and I think there are, unfortunately, many bishops in the USA and around the world today who are like money-changers. Their recent money-changing scheme was to apply for and receive USA government grant funds for their own NGOs in order to aid and abet their unscriptural position on illegal immigration. There were many other leaders of other churches who were doing this same thing.

Why do I think their current position on illegal immigration is unscriptural?

These bishops are pushing the members of their dioceses to accept unlimited illegal immigration. They expect us to provide for them with our tax dollars, regardless of what it costs us, even if we are already in debt for $39 trillion dollars. This is not the teaching of the traditional, historical Magisterium of the Church.


What these bishops should be teaching is the following:

1. Every country has the responsibility to protect their own citizens by limiting and vetting who is allowed to enter. Every country has the responsibility to protect and defend its borders.

2. Countries must not harm the culture of their countries by admitting people who do not share the traditions and religious values of their own citizens.

3. No country should admit unlimited numbers of illegal aliens. It will cause disastrous consequences. The illegal aliens will birth many children, and when they become the majority, they will impose their cultures and religions upon you, even by violence if you do not submit to their laws.

4. Tell illegal aliens to return to their own country, humble themselves, pray, seek God's will, and repent of their sins. Then God will listen to them, have mercy on them and their country, forgive their sins, and heal their country so that it will be a good place for them to live.


2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.


The church leaders also need to teach the following:

If you are a legal immigrant, you must pay for what you need and do not expect others to support you.

2 Thessalonians 3:8
and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it; but with toil and labor we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet​

22 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’ 5 But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ 10 Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, 12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

The banquet is the kingdom of God/heaven.
The king is God the Father.
His son is Jesus Christ.
The original invited guests are the unbelieving Jews.
The slaves are God's prophets.
Everyone else are the Gentiles.
The man without the wedding robe was a Gentile who disrespected the king and his son. When he was called, he wasn't found worthy to attend. 1 Thessalonians 2:12

Jesus warns the unbelieving Jews:

Matthew 21:43
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.

Revelation 19:9
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.”

JAM2b said:

I do believe God communicates through dreams and visions. The Bible tells us this is true and that it will continue. It does not indicate that it is something that will stop.

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I concur and had my share pertaining to myself and others. Something I dreamt several years ago has come to pass and I learned about it in December. During a planning event the Lord nudged me about relationships. It wasn't an area I intended to focus on in 2026 and I put it on the back burner to address more pertinent areas.

The nudge was enough and He didn't have to explain. I looked at my calendar to see the astronomical alignments in the heavens and the sun was in ophiuchus which is a constellation often associated with healing and transformation. The period is extremely short roughly 12 to 14 days if I recall. It's the time for breakthroughs and the event was taking place during that period and that was happening manyfold. It was powerful.

I had a dream about someone two weeks prior and shared it via email. He didn't respond but I reached out to two others. Believing them to be the situations He wanted me to address before the year closed. The second was quiet as well but the third was not and responded immediately. On the last day of the alignment we were messaging back and forth and it was incredibly emotional and you could feel something bringing things to a head.

I was resisting but her hand was outstretched. There was a point when a song appeared in my thoughts that I knew quite well. I heard the opening line, let's stay together loving you whether times are good or bad; happy or sad. Something within me broke and I said to myself what are you doing? You have 22 years together. And while it isn't a marriage in the natural the parallel was the same. We had too much to lose and I could resist no more.

During our exchange she revealed the dissolution of her marriage and said the divorce was finalized in the summer. I was surprised to hear it but not that it occurred. I dreamt it would come to pass many years prior and the split brought her to me physically and I helped her. The dream was so pointed that I asked her afterward many questions pertaining to her spouse and their relationship in respect to the children.

In the dream he had custody and her daughter's behavior was odd and hostile towards her. I felt it was a warning and spoke with my aunt about it and she concurred and said she knows what it means. You don't but she does. In response, I was adamant about her circumstances and advised her intentionally to insure she would be well fixed if it came to pass.

As a result the outcome switched. She has the home and primary custody of the children. The lone issue is the mortgage. She took a smaller settlement to buy him out and has a year to do so. That's where I come in. Nine days after our reunion I presented her with a business idea, 6 quarter plan and promise to assist her. Two weeks later she had a product to sell online and the last part to be fulfilled is underway.

When she sells the house she's following me southward for a time and overseas afterwards. This is not the crux of the point. I had a vision during the pandemic of remodeling her home. In the vision I'm sharing my desire and seeking her husband's agreement lest I step on his toes. I was responsible for everything and added an addition too. I saw every room in exquisite detail and revealed the outcome much like you see on HGTV with their loved ones in tow.

In her office there was a mural on the wall with butterflies and quiet nod to she and I in the form of a slogan we created long ago that was placed in the image. Bound by love and a promise. I shared the vision with her and it brought her to tears. It was once on the site but I took it off for privacy reasons. She was given a 6 figure remodel free of charge in the vision.

When she agreed to cross the pond unreservedly the gravity of her love and commitment compelled me to say. You don't need to buy a house. You can stay with us on the land and we'll work together and that's when I recalled what I saw and understood what would follow and the reference to a woman with children He wanted me to aid. I never knew who she was until that moment.

She was baptized last year and it was recorded. Each participant was allowed to make a statement and hers brought all of us to tears. She spoke graciously about Jesus and how she yearned to have a relationship with the Lord and the connection she lacked in the past in other settings that was filled with His presence in the now. She radiated joy and to know that I'm a small but lengthy part of her betterment is all the reward I need.

God changes not and always has a ram in the bush. Whether we know it or not. We take Him at His word and believe all things are possible. Not some or modern limitations. We put no restraints on our faith or His promises.

~bella

I have a favorite fantasy fiction from childhood that I absolutely love and revisit. It is Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. It's heavily derived from Tolkiens Lord of the Rings series, but it is not as heavy of a read and is more age appropriate for children's reading level. The target audience is upper elementary-middle school students. It is a coming of age and rite of passage story. I never get tired of it. It is a great escape.

Peace in Christ.

We are to TURN from the power of Satan unto God. In other words, “Get thee behind me Satan.” We are to turn…be “converted”...TURN…from darkness unto light. When we "turn", then Satan is behind us and we face God.



The apostle Peter is symbolic of what has happened to His church throughout history….to the believers that believe that Christ is the Son of the living God.

We must pay attention to what happened with the man Peter 2000 years ago to see what has happened to His people who believe in Christ, the Son of the living God throughout this time period of 2000 years.

Mat 16:15-18
(15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
(16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
(17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Satan has made war with His people. He was given authority to do so: “And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you (PLURAL), that he may sift (you) as wheat.”

Satan was given authority to test His people…sifting them as wheat…just as he was given authority to test Job. Job 1:12 .

His tares…his own ministers… were sown among the wheat. The enemy has sown them among us. The man-based churches are the domain of darkness where Satan has his throne as he was given authority to test the believers of Christ.

Satan’s ministers…their mouths… are the “gates” that open up and speak falsehoods (deceit) rather than the truth and lead many astray to their mortal deaths…without manifesting the life of Jesus in their mortal flesh which would have given them an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life”).

Their throat (singular for they all do this) is an open grave.

( Rom 3:13-14 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(14) Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness)

They are the gates of “hell”…that is, Hades which means “unseen one, grave, death.”

They have the power of death in their tongues as they speak/preach falsehoods to their congregations….leading MANY astray down the broad way to their mortal destruction.

(18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell (Hades) shall not prevail against it.

Satan has desired to have “you” (PLURAL). While addressed to Peter, the original Greek uses a plural "you" which means that this applies to ALL of His people….the believers who believe that Christ is the Son of God.

Luk 22:31-34
(31) And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you (PLURAL), that he may sift (you) as wheat:

He prays for us…to be filled with all wisdom and knowledge.

We are to be “converted”…to turn again…back to God. We are to turn from the power…the authority…of Satan unto God. We are to turn from darkness to light. Get behind me Satan.

We are to leave the man-based churches and not be unequally yoked together with them. What does light have in communion with darkness?

We are to strengthen our brothers by preaching the Word of Truth to them.

(32) But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted (TURN), strengthen thy brethren.
(33) And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
(34) And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.

The eyes of our understanding are to be opened so that we might turn from darkness to light….from the “power” (Greek word = exousia = AUTHORITY, privilege) of Satan unto God.

Act 26:17-18
(17) Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
(18) To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power (authority) of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

He delivers….rescues …us from the power (Greek word = exousia = authority) of darkness and translates…to transfer…to carry away… us into the kingdom of His dear Son. We are delivered from the man-based churches…the power/authority of darkness.

Col 1:12-14 KJV
(12) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
(13) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

What we have witnessed so far in Christian history are the vessels of His wrath. This applies to both Jew and Gentile.

Rom 9:19-24 KJV
(19) Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
(20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

The vessels of His wrath were sown in dishonor. They believed in Christ, the Son of God but mortally perished because of listening to false prophets who led them astray from the path that leads to His manifest life.

They attended man-based churches all of their lives and mortally perished without hearing the word of the truth of the gospel that their preachers did not preach to them because they had no understanding of it.

The vessels of His mercy shall be delivered from the man-based churches unto glory. They will hear the Word of Truth and depart from them and be separate.

(21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
(22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
(23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

This applies to both groups.

(24) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

The vessels of His wrath will be saved for Jesus is both the Lord of the “dead” and the living.

Christ both died and rose and revived that He might be Lord both of the dead (vessels of His wrath that mortally perished) and the living (the vessels of His mercy who will inherit an age-lasting life in their mortal bodies).

Rom 14:7-9 KJV
(7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
(8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
(9) For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

The vessels of His wrath were sown perishable…they all have mortally perished…but they shall be raised unperishable (incorruption). They were sown in dishonor but will raised in glory. They were sown in weakness but will be raised in power.

1Co 15:42-43 KJV
(42) So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
(43) It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

The vessels of His mercy shall not “sleep” as the vessels of His wrath. They will not mortally perish for the duration of this age like the vessels of His wrath did. They will be changed from mortal to immortal (without ever seeing mortal death) at the LAST DAY of this age.

1Co 15:50-56 KJV

The vessels of His wrath…the corruptible…will then put on incorruption. The vessels of His mercy shall then have their mortal bodies (that did not perish ) put on immortality.

(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

When both groups (the vessels of His wrath and the vessels of His mercy) will ALL have been “changed” at the very last day of this age, then death is completely swallowed up in victory. Death is the LAST enemy to be conquered and happens at the very end of this age…the last day of this age.

(54) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
(55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
(56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Tranche of government-held files filled with ‘ham-fisted redactions’ and expose survivors’ identities, say attorneys

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation have reacted to the voluminous – and possibly last – tranche of government-held investigative documents with calls for further accountability for the scheme’s alleged clients.

“It is without question that a significant piece of Epstein and [his convicted associate Ghislaine] Maxwell’s vast sex trafficking operation was to provide young women and girls to other wealthy and powerful individuals,” said Sigrid McCawley, a partner with Boies Schiller Flexner, a firm representing survivors of the scheme.

That practice, McCawley said, gave Epstein and Maxwell “control and power over individuals who were implicated in the sex trafficking”.

McCawley added: “Those who find themselves entangled in the mire of newly released information, no doubt, will play the deny and distance card, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is exactly how the sex trafficking operation worked.”

The comments came after the Trump administration’s justice department on Friday released about 3m files related to the late financier and convicted sex offender. Some files that were immediately appraised included references to and correspondence with prominent individuals, including multibillionaire businessperson Elon Muskand commerce secretary Howard Lutnick – who were at times associated with Epstein but have not been accused of wrongdoing.

Deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said several categories of pages were withheld from release, including personally identifying information of the victims, victims’ medical files, images depicting child sexual abuse and pages related to ongoing cases.

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5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release​

A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.

They had a pending asylum case but no order of deportation directing that they be removed from the United States, ABC News previously reported.

In the order releasing Liam and his father, Biery said the case "has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children."

But in a statement after the judge's ruling on Saturday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, "The facts in this case have NOT changed: ICE did NOT target or arrest a child."

They were merely targetting his father who has a pending asylum case and no deportation order against him.

McLaughlin's account differs from what the family's attorney and schools officials said occurred.

The pontiff echoed Cuban bishops’ call for “sincere and effective” talks after Washington announced new measures tightening economic pressure on the island.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday voiced "great concern” over news of rising tensions between Cuba and the United States of America, urging leaders to pursue “sincere and effective” dialogue to avoid violence and further suffering for the Cuban people.

His appeal, delivered after he recited the Angelus from the Apostolic Palace, came after Donald Trump’s administration issued an executive order late Thursday intensifying economic pressure on the island, including the possibility of imposing tariffs on countries that supply crude oil to Cuba. The order describes Cuba’s posture toward the U.S. as hostile and calls it a “national threat."

The pope explicitly aligned himself with an appeal from Cuba’s bishops and called on those responsible to choose dialogue over escalation: “I join the message of the Cuban bishops, inviting all those responsible to promote a sincere and effective dialogue, to avoid violence and any action that could increase the sufferings of the dear Cuban people.”

He then entrusted the Cuban people to the patroness of the island: “May the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre assist and protect all the children of that beloved land!”

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This will be the first public display of the beloved saint’s bodily remains.

About 350,000 people have registered to venerate the relics of St. Francis of Assisi — the first public display of the bodily remains of the beloved saint.

From Feb. 22 to March 22, the Lower Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi will welcome pilgrims from around the world who will come to the Italian city to pray before the body of the man whom ecclesial tradition has described as “the living mirror of the Gospel.”

The event marks a moment of great historical and spiritual importance on the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death: For the first time, his body will be transferred from its resting place in an underground chapel and placed in front of the papal altar in the Lower Basilica. In this way, the church will hold a “revealed treasure” for one month, granting pilgrims time for veneration and prayer.

Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special jubilee year for St. Francis of Assisi on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of his death. The year will extend until Jan. 10, 2027, during which the faithful may obtain a plenary indulgence.

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Life flourishes as we focus on what really matters and seek what is above.

Sunday, Feb. 1, is the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13; Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10; 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Matthew 5:1-12a.

Life becomes blessed and flourishing when we are single-hearted and centered, when we “see God” because we are no longer distracted by so many lesser things. That’s what Christ teaches us through the beatitudes.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of God is theirs.

In other words, what happens when our hearts are centered on the eternal glories of heaven? These glories are a promised treasure that will not disappoint! Blessed indeed are we if we grasp this truth.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

What happens when we are no longer emotionally addicted to the need for worldly happiness and accept that this world has its trials?

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Among the most ancient in Christianity.

Known among people of Mexican descent in the U.S. as ‘La Candelaria,’ the traditional Feb. 2 feast bids farewell to the Christmas season not with a whimper, but with a bang.
Husband and wife Jose Luis Ortiz and Sylvia Monroy plan to take their made-in-Spain resin, life-size ‘Niño Dios’ to church for a blessing on Feb. 2. (photo: Cristina Treviño)

Sylvia Monroy vividly remembers Christmas Eve 1991.

The housewife had prayed to God that her family, which had been separated, would be together for Christmas. That night, at 11 p.m., a friend brought a gorgeous, life-size figure of a Nativity Baby Jesus to her home in Nogales, Mexico, located just next to the Arizona border.

“My friend told me I had won it in a raffle. But I cannot remember ever taking part in a raffle,” recalled Monroy. “But that night, we got our sign. Our family got together. We carried the Baby Jesus and sang lullabies to him. It was a miracle.”

This Monday, Feb. 2, Monroy and her husband, Jose Luis Ortiz, plan to take their made-in-Spain resin, life-size Niño Dios(“Divine Child”) to their parish for Candlemas Day. Monroy says that the statue inspired her to start Santa Filomena, her small Catholic gift shop, which to this day is still going strong.

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Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), SpaceX, and Tesla, has been shown in the newly-released Epstein Files to have had a number of friendly exchanges with the late pedophile financier. Emails show Musk expressing a strong interest in visiting Epstein’s private Caribbean island, known as a notorious hub for his abuse.

In one November 25, 2012, email, Musk replies to a question from Epstein about how many people he planned to bring to the island, writing: “Probably just Talulah and me. What day/night will be the wildest party on =our [sic] island?” At that time, Musk was married to British actress Talulah Riley.

A December 2013 email shows Musk asking about visiting the island over the holidays. Epstein responded: “always space for you.” However, Epstein later had to cancel on the tech mogul due to a scheduling conflict, writing, “Bad news- Unfortunately, my schedule will keep me in New York. I was really looking forward to finally spending some time together with just fun as the agenda. so i am very disappointed. Hopefully we can schedule another time in the near future.”

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