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The Anima Christi of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, January 04, 2025 #Pray

Soul of Jesus,
Sanctify me.

Blood of Jesus,
Wash me,

Passion of Jesus,
Comfort me.

Wounds of Jesus,
Hide me.

Heart of Jesus,
Receive me.

Spirit of Jesus,
Enliven me.

Goodness of Jesus,
Pardon me.

Beauty of Jesus,
Draw me.

Humility of Jesus,
Humble me.

Peace of Jesus,
Pacify me.

Love of Jesus,
Inflame me.

Kingdom of Jesus,
Come to me.

Grace of Jesus,
Replenish me.

Mercy of Jesus,
Pity me. …

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32 Memes That Can’t Stop Coming And Won’t Stop Coming #Fun

Here we are once again. Another day, another list of 30ish memes for you to consume in any way you want to. It’s pretty miraculous that these memes keep on coming. You should be so lucky to get a fresh stack of brand-new memes in a randomized order every 12 hours. Who knew that there were so many memes in the world? It’s like we’re Daniel Day-Lewis in the film adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! We’re excising this incredible resource from the ground and making it available much more ethically than Daniel Plainview ever could. We would never do the things he did to Paul Dano, aka Eli Sunday. Memes are not worth hitting a guy with a bowling pin over. Memes are not worth abandoning your deaf child for. These comparisons might be getting fuzzy, but if you love memes as much as Daniel Plainview loved having a confusing accent, you’ve come to the right place. 

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Saint John Bosco #Saints

Inspired by Saint Francis de Sales, Saint John Bosco founded the Salesians to continue his work among boys. Then, joining forces with Mary Mazzarello, he helped found the Salesian Sisters. All this during a time when established religious communities in Italy were closing their doors.

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‘We don’t have a signed agreement since we’re friends’: Inconsiderate roommate lets her family of 4 stay in homeowners house for 3 weeks, refuses to pay utilities like he asked #Fun

I have lived with friends for 3.5 years of my life. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a great way of living with roommates and far superior to shacking up with a bunch of randos. When you live with people you know and love, you feel responsible for ensuring their living space is a happy, healthy, and calm place to live. I don’t want my best friends to be stressed about the dishes piling up in the sink. Therefore, I will wash the big ones, put the small ones in the dishwasher, and run the said dishwasher. 

Although I trust and love my friends turned roommates, I still make sure we’re doing everything above board. I would never live with someone who hasn’t signed a lease, but pinkie promises to pay the rent. Even if they fully intend to pay it, it’s way too big of a risk to take. 

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Act of Desire: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, January 11, 2025 #Pray

My soul, the happy hour is arrived;
Jesus comes to dwell in my poor heart.
Behold the King of heaven,
thy Redeemer and thy God,
coming to thee;
prepare thyself to receive Him with love;
say to Him with the most ardent desire:
Come, O my Jesus,
come to me:
I desire to receive Thee,
before Thou dost give Thyself to me,
I desire to give Thee my miserable heart;
accept it,
come and take full possession of it.
Come, my God, make haste;
do not delay.
I would wish to …

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Dad demands his 15-year-old artist daughter delete all of her art because it features her late mother and not his wife and 2 kids: ‘I didn’t delete it and I was grounded for 3 weeks because of it’ #Fun

It’s so sad to watch parents s*ck the joy out of things their kids enjoy. So many kids would be delighted playing school sports in a casual, fun environment, but because their parents don’t want them to unless they’re going to be the best at them, many kids don’t even bother playing sports in the first place. There are kids who love to do theater for fun, but their parents make the experience miserable by giving them notes and picking apart their performance before they ever even get onstage. You would think that these parents would be happy that their kid has an extracurricular activity they enjoy, but that’s not good enough in this highly competitive world. Even if you’re not looking at it from a competitive or extracurricular angle, it is incredibly easy for a parent or guardian to take joyful and harmless things away from their dependents. 

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Lord, one more day to love you!
Brother Charles de Foucauld

O Jesus, watch over me always, especially today, or I shall betray you like Judas.
St. Philip Neri

Lord, today is the day I begin!
St. Philip Neri

Jesus, shine through me and be so in me
that every person I come in contact with
may feel your presence in my soul.
John Henry Cardinal Newman

My God, send me thy Holy Spirit to teach me what I am and what thou art!
St. John Vianney

May the …

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33 Memes For Being Alive #Fun

We all need someone to hold us too close, someone to hurt us too deep, someone to sit in our chair and ruin our sleep. I, for one, am desperately searching for someone to need me too much, someone to know me too well, and someone to pull me up short and put me through h*ll and give me support for being alive. After all, it’s hard to be alive even when you have someone by your side to do it with. It’s a lot harder when you’re 35 and single, and all of your stupid friends are married, and you’re the star of a musical about the dysfunctional nature of your love life. Being Bobby from Company is something that a lot of us can relate to, but most of us don’t want to be. If you’re screaming the lyrics to ‘Being Alive’ in the shower, these hilarious memes might serve as a pick-me-up. 

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Come Holy Spirit: Prayer of the Day for Tuesday, January 14, 2025 #Pray

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

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Arising from Sleep: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, January 15, 2025 #Pray

O Master and holy God, who are beyond our understanding: at your word, light came forth out of darkness. In your mercy, you gave us rest through night-long sleep, and raised us up to glorify your goodness and to offer our supplication to You. Now, in your own tender love, accept us who adore You and give thanks to You with all our heart. Grant us all our requests, if they lead to salvation; give us the grace of manifesting that we are children of light and day, and heirs to your eternal reward. …

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Prayer for the Family: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, January 18, 2025 #Pray

O God of goodness and mercy, to Thy fatherly guidance we commend our family, our household and all our belongings. We commit all to Thy love and keeping; do Thou fill this house with Thy blessings even as Thou didst fill the holy House of Nazareth with Thy presence.

Keep far from us, above all else, the blemish of sin, and do Thou alone reign in our midst by Thy law, by Thy most holy love and by the exercise of every Christian virtue. Let each one of us obey Thee, love Thee and set himself …

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Getting Closer to God #Paranormal

Irrespective of which religion is being considered, the concept of God as the creator is linked to the origin of the Universe and everything within it. This means that if our scientists had a quantum-gravity recipe for the ingredients and the heating process that resulted in the birth of our Universe through the womb of the Big Bang, then they would be on their way to acquiring the professional expertise of God. The missing component might be a particle collider that can create the necessary conditions for making a baby Universe. Are there any alien scientists in the Milky-Way with…

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Prayer for Healing: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, January 19, 2025 #Pray

Jesus, Master Physician of all times,
Your Divinity did not require a Ph.D.
Eagerly, You resurrected the dead,
Restoring the health of the sick.
Be it physical or spiritual torment,
None were a great obstacle to You:
For Your loving power is omnipotent.
I ask for Your abounding healing love;
Maintain my body and soul vigorous
So I may fulfill my daily functions.
The world will be conquered by You,
All afflictions will be dissipated!

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Heavenly Father,
Thou hast given us the gift of freedom
to love and to follow in Thy ways and commands.
Some parents choose to abuse this freedom
by destroying the gift of life
which Thou hast given to their offspring.
Please forgive those who destroy human life
by aborting their unborn babies.
Give these unborn children the opportunity
to enjoy Thee for all eternity,
if it according to Thy ordinance.
Assist me in being one in solidarity with Thy little ones …

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39 Memes You Can’t Put a Price On #Fun

If the best things in life are free, then the world of memes must be pretty darn wonderful. It is a pretty great thing how so many people on the internet decided to get together and churn out all this entertainment more often than not just for the love of the game. While online ephemera aren’t always as permanent as we expect them to be, we still have an enviable backlog of funny pictures to choose from when we have a hankering to look at some memes. The ones that can be found below are only a tiny sample of the millions if not billions of images that have graced the eyeballs of those eager to have some good old (not so) wholesome fun in the form of a little memeing. Seeing as you’re here, we have to assume that you are one of them. If so, you’re in for a treat.

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Come, Holy Ghost: Prayer of the Day for Monday, January 20, 2025 #Pray

Come, Holy Ghost,
fill the hearts of Thy faithful
and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.

V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created;
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray.

O God, who didst teach the hearts of Thy faithful people
by sending them the light of Thy Holy Spirit,
grant us by the same Spirit
to have a right judgment in all things,
and evermore to rejoice in His holy comfort.
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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Man flips out when girlfriend of 8 months buys a PS5 without him and says it’s hers: ‘It’s mine until he pays half of it’ #Fun

For many of those in relationships, having a partner that they can share their interests and hobbies with is a matter of importance. What you like to do in your spare time is often a big part of your life, and sharing that with the one you love can be a great bonding exercise. There is a reason people insist on putting pictures of them enjoying their favorite pastimes on dating apps.

However, finding somebody who loves the exact same stuff that you do isn’t all cute dates and dream compatibility. Sometimes, it can wind up being a source of conflict when you have different perspectives on a hobby, or one of you is more dedicated to it than the other. If other parts of the relationship aren’t as solid as your shared interests, disagreements can arise and make things more difficult. There are many layers to any relationship, and your free time is only one of them.

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30-year-old manchild buys girlfriend Pokémon cards for Christmas, proceeds to open them himself when she leaves disappointed: ‘This must be a joke right?’ #Fun

We all know that feeling. You’ve been eyeing that perfect something for months, dropping hints like breadcrumbs, yet somehow, you end up with a nose hair trimmer or a set of kitchen sponges. They say it’s the thought that counts, but, my dudes, let’s admit it, there are some areas in life where thinking isn’t our strongest most dominant quality

Many of us found ourselves panic-sweating hours before a gift-deserving moment or date, thinking, “She’ll totally love this socket wrench set because… uh… she mentioned something about home improvement once”? Yeah, we’ve been there. Like buying your vegetarian girlfriend a BBQ grill because “we can use it together!” 

Self-serving gift-giving is peak man behavior, We’ll just wrap it up all nice, and give it to our partner, and then hover around like a vulture waiting to “share” it. We’re not slick you know. Everyone sees through it. Most of the time it can be regarded as funny and even cute, not when its mixed with a heavy dosage of gaslighty weaponized incompetence.

Sometimes you just have to cut your losses in advance and go home my guy, that’s exactly the case with the following story, I’m telling you, you should drop the idea of defending him at this point.

Now, let me tell you about this champion among us – a true master of self-delusion. This guy bought his girlfriend three boxes of Pokémon cards. Not one. Not two. Three. For Christmas. When she, grab your chair boys because this one’s a shocker, did NOT want Pokémon cards. Amazingly she was actively requesting other items.

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As Mr. Rogers famously once said, “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor.” And if you’re anything like me, you listened and you learned. Having a positive relationship with your neighborhood and your neighbors is an important thing. You need the places you like to go in your neighborhood. Ideally, you need a coffee shop, a dry cleaner, a grocery store, and a hardware store. These are the places you need to identify in your first months of living somewhere. 

Then, you need to discover the little special nooks and crannies of the place you live. The streets with pretty buildings, that one little park with the nice patches of light, that one house that always decorates for Halloween. These are the things that make you fall in love with your neighborhood. They make you enjoy the life you’re living, and you have a community you’re a part of.

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35 Memes Surviving and Thriving #Fun

People love to talk about the difference between surviving and thriving. Surviving, we say, Is just about having your basic needs met. You have a place to sleep, you’re getting up in the morning, you’re eating meals… but you’re not really enjoying it. You’re doing the bare minimum, but anything more than that seems impossible. Thriving, though, is all the basic tenets of surviving plus having fun while doing them. 

This is ideally where we would like to be most of the time. We’re having fun, we’re growing, we’re pushing ourselves, and we’re doing a good job of all of the above. When you’re surviving, it can sometimes it can be hard to push yourself over into the realm of thriving. It may take a good friend shaking you up out of your glum, a vacation from your normal life, or just a commitment to going to the gym the next morning. 

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One phrase from greedy boss makes worker quit their 10-year-long career: ‘It’s a good indicator of how out of touch c suits are’ #Fun

Work is all about attitude. If the people you work with have a bad attitude, it can rub off on the whole operation. You might enjoy the work you do, find purpose in it, and find that it suits your lifestyle, but a business is only as good as its people. If its people aren’t your kind of people or worse- they’re not even the kind of people that you respect, then it’s hard to stay. For example, you might be an educator who finds incredible meaning in working with your students. They appreciate you, and you help improve their lives. Whenever you’re in the classroom, you feel like you’re in the right place. However, the assistant principal (who you directly report to) has no sense of work-life balance and expects you to drop everything for every work-related non-emergency. Even though you love your job, people like that can make it feel hostile

That’s what happened in this situation, when a worker who had already invested a lot in their career, lost all hope when their boss uttered a single phrase.  

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‘This man doesn’t like you’: Helpless boyfriend neglects to give girlfriend a Christmas gift despite her begging for one #Fun

Giving a gift is a super easy way to show you care about someone. This is why it’s one of the 5 love languages. It shows that you’re thinking about them, and that you know something about who they are and what they enjoy. It doesn’t come naturally to everyone, though. Some of us are better gift givers than others. For example, one of my friends gives the most thoughtful gifts every year that it could make you cry (and usually does). While another friend of mine manages to consistently pick out things I wouldn’t wear, or items I wouldn’t keep in my house. 

However, as they say, it’s the thought that counts. All that matters is that they put a little effort into something– it doesn’t matter the result. That’s why this story struck such a nerve, when a boyfriend couldn’t even manage to try giving something to his beloved. Read on for the story. 

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St. Theresa of the Child Jesus: Prayer of the Day for Monday, December 30, 2024 #Pray

O wondrous Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, who, in thy brief earthly life, didst become a mirror of angelic purity, of courageous love and of whole-hearted surrender to Almighty God, now that thou art enjoying the reward of thy virtues, turn thine eyes of mercy upon us who trust in thee. Obtain for us the grace to keep our hearts and minds pure and clean like unto thine, and to detest in all sincerity whatever might tarnish ever so slightly the luster of a virtue so sublime, a virtue that …

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I Came to You Late: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, December 29, 2024 #Pray

I came to You late, O Beauty so ancient and new. I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside where I rushed about wildly searching for You like some monster loose in Your beautiful world. You were with me but I was not with You. You called me, You shouted to me, You wrapped me in Your Splendour, You broke past my deafness, You bathed me in Your Light, You sent my blindness reeling. You gave out such a delightful fragrance and I drew it in and came breathing hard after You. I …

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This Day’s Thought-Friday #Christian

The Christian faith engages the profoundest problems the human mind can entertain and solves them completely and simply by pointing to the Lamb of God. A. W. Tozer Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant. Psalm 119:76 The English Standard Version Following Jesus starts with the house next door.  […]

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Saint John the Evangelist #Saints

Saint John, traditionally thought to be the “Beloved Disciple,” was the writer of the fourth Gospel, and presumably, the only apostle who was not martyred. He is also the disciple to whom Jesus entrusted his mother from the cross. Symbolized as an eagle, Saint John’s Gospel “soars” in its theological treatment of the Good News.

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Saint Stephen #Saints

If it weren’t for Saint Luke telling us about the selection and martyrdom of Saint Stephen in Acts of the Apostles, we would know nothing about him at all. The little we do know, however, speaks volumes about what kind of man he was, his love for Jesus, and the early Church community.

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Skating into Winter

Though ice skating has been around for centuries, it only came into its current form and fashion in the mid-19th century and was still taking shape as a professional and competitive sport when Charlotte Oelschlägel (1898 – 1984) wrote The Hippodrome Skating Book in 1916.

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Fueling Our Economy with Hydrogen #Paranormal

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the cosmos. The reason is simple. Its nucleus was already made a second after the Big Bang, when the early Universe was filled with a hot soup of protons and neutrons. Composite nuclei like helium or heavier elements required synthesis of multiple protons and neutrons, a fusion process which took longer than the age of the Universe when the matter density and temperatures were suitable. During the first few minutes of cosmic history, only 8 helium nuclei were made per 100 free protons. About 400,000 years later, the Universe cooled below 3,000 degrees…

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25+ Star Wars Memes for Aficionados of the Force (December 11, 2024) #Fun

Everybody needs a good story. Like Joan Didion said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” We need tales of heroes overcoming all odds, ordinary people achieving extraordinary things, and good conquering evil, or else we may never know that we can do the same. Star Wars is a great example of that. The story is so baked into our bones, and similar old patterns and structres (e.g. The Hero’s Journey) that it becomes part of our DNA as a culture. We believe we can take on the forces of evil if we have good on our side. We know we all have a “force” within us that we can harvest when we need to. We all… want to play with lightsabers because it looks really fun. 

This is why we love and need Star Wars. It teaches us how to be human. Memes also do that. Probably. So scroll on. 

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