February 18, 2026 - Ash Wednesday

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Our Morning Offering – 18 February – The Glory of These Forty Days By St Gregory the Great

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Roman Station Church: Santa Sabina
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With wars breaking out everywhere, the economy getting increasingly worse and the elite being outed as being actual pedophile satanists it is very obvious that these are the end times and the people making illuminati exposed videos and the likes were right lol

Back then it felt kind of scary but now I stopped caring so I'm just waiting now

To whom are these words spoken? To those who are in Christ Jesus by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing (see Ephesians 2:8-10). And who are they? They are all who no longer walk (in conduct, in practice) according to (in agreement and in cooperation with) the flesh, but who walk (in practice, in lifestyle) according to (in submission, surrender and obedience to) the Spirit of God (See Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).


So, if we want to claim Romans 8:38-39 as our promise from God, then we must be those whose lives are surrendered to the will of God, who have died to sin, who are still dying to sin daily, and who are walking (in conduct, in practice, yet not necessarily in absolute perfection) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, by the grace of God, in the power of God, and by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ which denies self, dies daily to sin, and obeys our Lord and his commands as a matter of life practice.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

So, please take this to heart. We should not and cannot, in truth, claim the promises of God for his people if we are still living in deliberate and habitual sin against our Lord in willful disobedience to him and to his commands, as a matter of life practice, the dog always returning to his vomit.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

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God’s Promises Have Conditions
An Original Work / February 18, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Late-night host Stephen Colbert said his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was pulled from Monday night’s broadcast over network fears it would violate regulatory guidance from the Trump administration on giving equal time to political candidates.

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If Christians need yet another off ramp from Trump, here you go.

Precious is her name. Our lovely little girl. She is a purebred cocker spaniel.

She has been coughing and hacking a lot and struggling with breathing, and as it turns out, she has a three-way combination of severe allergies, bronchitis, and pneumonia. That is what the vet told us.

Yes, she was prescribed medicine. We will be giving it to her.

Please pray for a full recovery.

Today, we see that many people create their own identities. I read a interview today of a celebrity who is pregnant criticizing gender reveals parties, that it is homophobic, and that it is her child once it's born, will chose it's own gender and identity.

Since it is God who created us, it is Him who gave us our identity. Let's read what the Creator has to say

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

God gave us an identity, we are His image bearers. What that means God created us such as we reflect His glory and goodness back to Him, like a mirror reflects our image back to us. But we sinned and sin corrupted this image, it shattered it to pieces. Still, we are an image of God, but a broken one. That's why He sent His Son, to restore us into the image God made.

Our true identity is therefore an image of God. All other identities are false.

And God created two genders, therefore there are only two genders, no matter what anyone says. And it is God who choses the gender, not us. He creates us in whatever gender He choses. We cannot change our gender. We can call ourselves whatever we want, it will never change the reality.

If you are confused today about who you are, the answer is in the Word of God. You were created as a beautiful image of a loving God. God who has no sin in Him, God who choses to be merciful, God who never lies, God who restores what is destroyed. God who despite our constant evil, looks at us in His love and desires no one to die. In His love He sent His only Son to suffer and die on the cross, raised on the third day, that whosoever believes in Him, will not die in sin, but have an everlasting life. Come to Lord Jesus today, and He will restore what the sin has broken.

Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old maths student and nationalist activist, died on Saturday, two days after being beaten up on the street by a group of young men.
State prosecutor Thierry Dran told a news conference on Monday afternoon in Lyon that a murder investigation has been opened into the death.
He said that Deranque was kicked and punched by "at least six" individuals, and that the autopsy showed fatal damage to his skull and brain.

On Thursday afternoon Deranque had given support to a hard-right feminist collective Némésis, which staged a small protest against a left-wing politician's visit to Lyon's Institute of Political Studies (IEP), commonly known as Sciences-Po.

Admittedly, the the label "hard right feminist collective" sounded kind of odd to me... After looking into it, it would appear they're getting the "far right" label due to their protesting against mass migration and the concerns surrounding women's safety issues that go hand in hand with it.

But obviously the Overton window is a little different in Europe (evidenced by the fact that they refer to Macron as "Centre-right"), so if that's their baseline, then perhaps that's why they would refer to anyone to the right of Macron as "hard right"

RULES FOR DISCERNING WHETHER YOUR PRAYER TONGUES ARE AUTHENTIC

(1) To avoid making tongues a fetish seek the Giver, not the gift.

(2) Don't pray with a prompter who urges your to just speak it out. Such a prompter is just promoting the flesh.

(3) As you start to feel the sweetness of the Spirit's pressence, get lost in praise.

in other words, feaswt on the Lord's presence in such a way that you are not controlling your flow of thought, but are spontaneouisly just listening to your heartfelt gush of praise.

(4) When the tongues just explode from your lips without any control, here is the test of aothenticity: the real thing will fill you with wave after wave of liquid love, each wave sweeter and more intense than the last. And God will seem more real than you have ever experienced.

Washington — An 18-year-old man allegedly carrying a shotgun and running toward the Capitol was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday, the head of the police force said.

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan said the man parked a white Mercedes SUV near the Capitol just after noon and exited the vehicle with the shotgun. He then began running toward the West Front of the Capitol, the side that is adjacent to the National Mall.

"This individual was challenged by United States Capitol Police officers in order to drop the weapon, which he did comply with," Sullivan said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. "He laid down the weapon and then laid down on the ground and was taken into custody by our United States Capitol Police officers."

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Boonville, N.Y. - Four firefighters and a church pastor are in critical condition following a “catastrophic” explosion at an Oneida County church Tuesday morning, according to the State Police.

The Boonville Volunteer Fire Company chief and three firefighters - along with the pastor of the church - were all inside the building when it exploded, according to Jack Keller, a spokesperson for State Police.

The blast and fire at the Abundant Life Fellowship Church on Route 12 in the town of Boonville left little of the church standing.

The five injured people were transported to either Upstate Hospital in Syracuse or Wynn Hospital in Utica:

• David Pritchard Jr., 60, Boonville fire chief
• Brandon Pitts, 43, pastor
• Allan Austin, 67, Boonville firefighter
• Nicholas Amicucci, 43, Boonville firefighter
• Richard Czajka, 71, Boonville firefighter

All five are listed in critical but stable condition, Keller said.

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Ummm, so. What is a ticket? What is a banner? What is trade? Help me get a clue. Thanks.

Statements along the lines "I'm spiritual not religious" are often made these days. But in the case of true rather than nominal religion isn't this a contradiction? How can one be truly religious but not spiritual especially with regard to the Christian faith which involves being indwelt by the Holy Spirit?

Members of the Creation Care Ministry share some of their favorite meatless recipes.

• One-Pot Lemon-Broccoli Pasta with Parmesan
• Sheet Pan Gnocchi
• Black Bean Burgers
• Creamy White Bean Lemon Pesto Orzo Soup
• Oat Focaccia
• Shrimp Bahn Mi Sandwiches
• Mediterranean Wraps
• Green Bean Stir Fry
• Mexican Sweet Potato Soup
• “Lent”il Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie
• Cream of Tomato Soup
• Easy Broccoli Quiche

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Fr. Matthieu Salenave was sprinkling holy water when the mayor demanded he leave, which he did, but was later jailed on charges he committed violence against an elected official.

In his first term President Trump was handicapped by the fact that he was often a one man band. He has been better served during his second term, and nowhere is that more the case than with Secretary of State Rubio. He sees Trump’s goal of taking down our adversaries with a minimum of military force and is a skillful advocate of the better and more peaceful world that Trump is attempting to bring about. The memes that show endless new jobs for Marco accurately underline how important he is to Trump. Let us hope we can soon add to his list of jobs President of Cuba and Shah of Iran.

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The Diocese of Lincoln is the only diocese without female altar servers.

Their priest to laity ratio is 1:421.

When the average for American Dioceses is 1:2036.

This is important because altar boys are discerning the priesthood when they serve.

Lincoln Dioc. is the Only Dioc. w/o Girl Altar Servers & the Most Vocations – Modern Papist on X

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines for her appearance over the weekend at the 62nd Munich Security Conference, which took place in Munich, Germany, from Feb. 13 to Feb. 15.

Clinton had multiple viral moments at the conference, during which she warned of lax Western immigration policies, criticized President Donald Trump over the Russo-Ukrainian War and engaged in heated clashes with a Czech foreign minister over foreign policy and gender ideology.

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At least half a dozen Texas schools have pledged to either change or cancel plans to use a popular student photo vendor due to parental concerns after a former executive was mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Officials overseeing several school districts, primarily located in East Texas, referenced reports about Leon Black, the former CEO of Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm that acquired Lifetouch Photography in 2019. Black was mentioned as part of a recent Epstein files dump in which a woman accused him of initiating sexual contact during a massage as recently as 2012, according to The Associated Press.

An attorney for Black told the AP he was a client of Epstein’s who paid the disgraced billionaire investor for estate planning and tax services. The attorney denied Black was engaged in any misconduct and had “no awareness of Epstein’s activities,” according to the report.

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Bishop Robert Barron joined a chorus of criticism against statements by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., at the Munich Security Conference last week, and singled out a remark she made about Western culture that he warned is evidence of encroaching Marxism in the Democratic Party.

Barron, who has served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester since 2022, noted in a Monday social media post that Ocasio-Cortez was dismissive of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's address at the conference, during which he said the U.S. and Europe share a cultural identity built on Christianity.

Describing Rubio's idea of a shared Western culture as "thin," Ocasio-Cortez claimed during a subsequent panel that "culture, for the entire history of human civilization, has always been a fluid, evolving thing that responds to the conditions that we live in."

Barron praised Rubio's worldview, but discerned that Ocasio-Cortez's philosophy is "right out of the Marxist playbook" and increasingly shared by younger Democratic political leaders in the United States.

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Former President Barack Obama recently claimed political social media has become "a clown show" and accused President Donald Trump of demeaning the presidency when his social media account posted a meme earlier this month that depicted him and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

Speaking with liberal podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen on a Saturday episode of Cohen's YouTube show, Obama lightly chuckled when Cohen brought up the clip, which was initially uploaded to Trump's Truth Social account late on Feb. 5 in a video about claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

In what appeared to have been screen-captured as part of an auto-play feature, Trump's post ended with the Obamas' faces superimposed on ape bodies amid the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The full joke video, which subsequently went viral, also shows the heads of multiple Democratic politicians superimposed on the bodies of various animals indigenous to Africa.

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Two education entities are pursuing a federal lawsuit to strike down a Colorado state constitutional amendment that prohibits public funding for religious schools, arguing it violates the rights of faith-based schools and religious families.

Education ReEnvisioned BOCES, which authorizes and oversees various schools, and the Christian school Riverstone Academy filed the lawsuitlast Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

The defendants named in the complaint include Education Commissioner Susana Cordova and members of the Colorado State Board of Education.

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