Baby captured smiling in the womb by ultrasound

smileFour dimensional scans show that Leo David Hargreaves, five months, has been smiling since before he was born, and he hasn’t stopped since.

Little bundle of joy Leo David Hargreaves could just be the cheeriest baby in the country, according to his parents. Not only does the five month-old smile all the time, he’s been smiling since before he was born. MORE

VIDEO: POPE FRANCIS: HEAVEN ‘A PARTY!’

party“The Lord never says that the Kingdom of God is a show,” said Pope Francis Thursday. “It’s a party! But it is different. And a party is beautiful, of course. A big party. And Heaven will be a party.”

In his homily during Mass at the chapel in his Saint Martha residence, Francis contrasted the idea of show or spectacle—where people go to see and be seen—with the idea of a feast or party, where people rejoice together. MORE

VIDEO: ARCHBISHOP TURNS TO EXORCISM TO COMBAT SUICIDE INCREASE

Flavio-Calle-Zapata-SiteArchbishop Flavio Calle Zapata, of Ibagué, Colombia, has instructed local parishes to offer an exorcism prayer because of the alarming increase in suicides in his archdiocese.

During the year 2014, seventy people have committed suicide in the region, and violence has also been on the rise.

Last Sunday, the archdiocese sponsored a “day of exorcism.” The Archbishop said that in today’s world “there is a culture of permissiveness” and what disturbs us “is that Satanism has also spread among our young people.” MORE

Rev. Franklin Graham: Muslim Prayer Service at National Cathedral ‘Sad to See’

MUSReverend Franklin Graham, son of world renowned evangelist Billy Graham, said the Muslim prayer service on Friday at the Washington National Cathedral, an Episcopal church established under a charter granted by Congress more than 100 years ago, is “sad to see”  because the church should only open its door for worship of “the One True God of the Bible.”  MORE

 

55 Preparedness Items

PREThis list of 55 preparedness items (or categories) purposely avoids some of the preps that you might expect to see and is not intended to be a list of essentials or to be all-inclusive in any way. In fact, the list is intended to get you thinking ‘outside-the-box’ about your own needs for preps – to think of things beyond that of just rice-and-beans, bullets and band-aids. MORE

VIDEO: POPE FRANCIS TO INSTALL SHOWERS FOR HOMELESS

shower-APNext Monday, work will begin to renovate Vatican restrooms for pilgrims, but Pope Francis has also given instructions for showers to be installed where Rome’s homeless can wash.

Bishop Konrad Krajewski, or “Don Conrado” as he is familiarly known, is the Pope’s “almoner,” the person in charge of distributing alms on the Pope’s behalf. He recounts that it was a Sardinian homeless man named Franco who brought home the need for washing facilities. MORE

‘You filthy, abnormal animal’: graphic contents of anonymous letter sent by FBI to Martin Luther King

mkluThe graphic contents of an anonymous letter in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation called Martin Luther King a “filthy abnormal animal” have been made public for the first time.

Written in 1964 by a deputy of the feared FBI chief J Edgar Hoover posing as a disillusioned civil rights activist, the typewritten note appears to have been a heavy-handed attempt to blackmail King into taking his own life. MORE

The purpose and meaning of the General Judgment and the Great Chastisement

general judgmentFaith is the subjective pre-condition for the communication of eternal life, and for the preservation from damnation at the judgment.
In so much as the need to be prepared for our personal judgment, many  of the enemies of the faith will not make it past the Great Biblical Chastisement. Those who survive need to focus on the fact that Purgatory will not be available for us. This is what the Church teaches.

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