Barbara Martin

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, DAMOZEL 2018 #dooeet @NDMUDamozel

Blessed Ascension! Almighty God, as Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, ascended into the heavens, so may we also ascend in heart and mind and continually dwell there with Him, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

On this holy Ascension Day, we celebrate Christ’s ascension into Heaven and the promise of eternal hope, peace, and salvation. 🙏 May God bless you and your families today and always. ❤️

“Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.” Acts 1:11

Footage of an Iraqi journalist visiting a Church destroyed by ISIS. Mosul, Nineveh, has been a Biblical heartland since Jonah preached to the Assyrians in the Old Testament. It continued as a hub once the Assyrians embraced Christianity in the first century AD. Iraq is full of abandoned churches & monasteries. It even contains ancient Jewish sites like the Tomb of Prophet Nahum. I once heard a story of diaspora Assyrians going to Akre, which no longer has a single Assyrian, only to find a Kurdish farmer using an old monastery to house his cows. This was reportedly the monastery which trained the Church of The East missionaries that took Christianity to China. Cows grazing & defecating on ancient Christian heritage. The Patriarchs of the Church of The East - Mar Awa Royel & Mar Paulus III - should immediately launch a joint international campaign to save this history. Enough is enough. We need to pressure Iraq, the KRG & the USA: use Iraq’s infinite oil money to restore ancient Christian heritage sites & protect them like any civilized country would.

@JoshSeefried For a few days there, I thought Steve was dehydrating down to a rug, but guess not. Poor ol’ Steve.

Somewhere in Maryland government, a performance review this quarter reads “Removed 50% of deceased deer, ahead of schedule.” Steve is still here. The other half of Steve is not. You can say they did a half-assed job ;) #justice4steve

my friends, it is time: in conjunction with @avemariapress and a new book they released, i spent the last few months illustrating the entire structure of the summa theologica, by thomas aquinas. in my shop here: owen-cyclops.myshopify.com can i show and tell you, in this thread:

The priest whose final words will be remembered forever. Islamic gunmen approached Fr Ragheed in 2007 after mass in Mosul. They asked why he hadn’t closed the church. His response: “How can I close the house of God?” One of the many Eastern Martyrs the world has forgotten.

A 49-year-old nun forced open the gates of a Nazi prison camp with her bare hands. Then she built a secret network that would save 2,000 lives—and outwit the Gestapo for two years. July 1940. Metz, France. The city had just fallen to Nazi Germany. Alsace-Lorraine was annexed directly into the Third Reich. French flags burned in public squares. Speaking French was now illegal. 40,000 French prisoners of war were starving in camps around the city. Sister Hélène Studler was 49 years old. A Daughter of Charity. White habit. Rosary beads. And a truck. She drove straight to the camp gates. When the German guards refused entry, she didn't negotiate. She forced the doors open. Shoved food and medicine through the bars. This wasn't recklessness. This was calculation. She'd lived in Metz for 22 years. Ran the Hospice Saint-Nicolas. Cared for poor children. Visited every sick family in town. Everyone knew her face. That trust became her weapon. Within weeks, she'd turned that hospice into the nerve center of an underground railroad. Forged identity papers. Hidden cameras for fake ID photos. Safe houses across Lorraine. Farmers, priests, shopkeepers—all recruited into a network that would smuggle hundreds of French POWs out from under Nazi occupation. She didn't just feed prisoners. She helped them vanish. One escaped POW at a time. One forged document. One midnight handoff to the next safe house. Then the next. Until they crossed into unoccupied France or Switzerland. By February 1941, the Gestapo knew. They arrested her. Charged her with treason. Sentenced her to one year in prison. Under interrogation, she gave them nothing. No names. No addresses. No contacts. Not one single person was betrayed. The network kept running while she sat in a cell. After eight months, she collapsed. Cancer. The same disease that killed her mother when Hélène was five years old. The Germans released her, assuming she'd die within weeks. She walked out of prison and went straight back to work. On December 10, 1941, a young French lieutenant arrived at a church in Metz. His name was François Mitterrand. He'd been a German POW for 18 months. Escaped twice. Recaptured twice. His third escape had brought him here. Sister Hélène's network gave him false papers. Civilian clothes. A new identity. A train ticket to Paris. That lieutenant would survive the war. Join the Resistance. Eventually become the 21st President of the French Republic. He owed his life to a nun with a truck. By early 1942, the Gestapo was hunting her again. She had to run. Her own network smuggled her out. She made it to Lyon. Then to a hospital in Clermont-Ferrand. By late 1942, she could barely walk. Cancer spreading through her body. Bedridden. But from that hospital bed, she kept coordinating escapes. On November 22, 1944, American forces liberated Metz. She heard the news from her hospital bed in Clermont-Ferrand. The city she'd saved thousands from. The city she'd had to abandon. The city she'd never see again. Days later, General Henri Giraud—one of the most famous French generals of the war, a man whose escape from a Nazi fortress she'd helped coordinate—came to her bedside. He pinned the Legion of Honor on her hospital gown. Eleven days later, on December 3, 1944, Sister Hélène Studler died. She was 53 years old. In 1946, her body was returned to Metz. Over 100,000 people came to honor her. More people than lived in the entire city. French soldiers she'd smuggled to freedom. Families she'd hidden in safe houses. Orphans she'd raised before the war. Widows she'd fed. Almost every family in Metz owed her something. François Mitterrand, when he became President of France in 1981, reportedly kept a photograph of her in his personal study for the rest of his life. Here's what makes this story so staggering. She wasn't trained. Wasn't a spy. Wasn't a soldier. She was a middle-aged nun who ran a children's hospice in a small French city. And when her country fell, she built a resistance ...

Thanks to @powerthefuture and our incredible attorneys work dating back 4 years, she no longer has a taxpayer slush fund to finance her corrupt political agenda. $2 billion government grant to “fight climate change” in Georgia. People should be in jail for such BS.

GONNA LOOK GREAT 🤩🇺🇸

What's the point of having the greatest military in the world if they can't remove 100M invaders in the homeland?

@EdsPurgatory Dear St Francis! I hope it finds the right home. I’m pondering this one now, but don’t know what saint it is, anyone know? Female, medieval habit (not 🇫🇷 1640, not 🇺🇸 1810), but clenchingfabric in outstretched arm? 🧐

At an estate sale this weekend there was the most incredible statue of St Francis out back that I've ever seen. Very old cast iron statue. Incredibly heavy. I wish I could have gotten it. They wanted $850 for it. Too much for my wallet. I pray it goes to a good home.

@chrisburnettcd6 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

CD6 Saturday in Mountain Maryland!

@JoshSeefried Colette (Lettie for everyday use) 💗💖💗

Happy CATURDAY friends!!!! Let’s see those kitties!!!!!

@MeganFoxWriter Got a power washer? Turn item inside out, set it flat on driveway/patio, use lowest pressure and tiny bit of soap. Wring out liquid and check progress, repeat. Run through washing machine again, check status before drying. 🧺 ✨ 🧺

I feel like I'm in a laundry commercial right now. I don't think these stains are gonna come out. Oxy and Tide you better WORK!

@mrddmia @Article3Project He’ll be off to 🇻🇦 next to coordinate with the Pope. 😡 🤬😡

What’s Obama, a subversive Marxist, cooking up in Canada?

@7NewsDC Maryland in the news 📰 again. 🙄

A former substitute bus attendant in Maryland has been arrested after police say he sexually assaulted three special needs children on a school bus. bit.ly/4uzMncm

@AllisonPapson @JLNetoFox5 💔💔💔

#Breaking Teen boy stabbed on the 3800 block of St Barnabas Rd at 12:25pm. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead a short time later. Detectives are on scene working to establish suspect(s) and a motive in this case. #PGPD 📸: @JLNetoFox5