#ats pios

[thechaoticplayer]

Can I request soft nsfw with doppio dropscythe?

author's note: I got you honey buns serving up this shit at the speed of light

Summary: Doppio wants to show you how much he loves you by making love to you ♡

Contains: nsfw content, soft doppio x reader, praise, sweet fluff and aftercare, its rotting my teeth out help, the author making this days later after valentines day is crazy, theres more fluff than smut but hey what can I say None of my works are proofread!

You shuffle inside the door with a tired sigh, shutting the door with a foot after returning to your shared apartment with your beloved Doppio Dropscythe. Work was insane, your boss expecting so much from you, especially on Valentines' Day! You could hardly believe your luck. All you wanted was to snuggle in your big boyfriend's arms, maybe shower him in a couple of kisses.

The lights were off however, and you quickly assumed he wasn't home. You hang your bag on the hook behind your door and walked further in. You notice a warm glow coming from the dining room, and you approach it warily. You peer inside to see the source of the light: candles. They illuminated the room to reveal a whole gourmet meal, with rose strewn across the tiles. Sitting at the end of the table was...

"Doppio?" You gasp, hand over your mouth with wide eyes. "Is this...?"

"For you and I?" He chuckles with a nod. He excitedly waves you over and you wasted no time on doing so.

"You did all this?" You ask, sitting down as Doppio had quickly pulled out your chair for you, like the gentleman he was.

"Of course! I knew you'd be hungry when you came home, so I figured to make dinner," Doppio responded, gesturing to the ribs he cooked. "Also, it's Valentine's. I need to woo you."

"Consider me wooed," you laughed, picking up the fork and knife. "Thank you so much Doppio. It looks so good, and I bet it tastes just as good!"

You popped a small piece in your mouth, and the flavor! it just melts in your mouth and you cant help but sigh happily, a hand pressed to your cheek with a broad smile. You swayed side to side as you blabbered your appreciation for the dish. Pio watched with a cheesy grin, obviously proud.

"How is it?"

"It's delicious!"

You chowed down so quickly, Doppio worried you were going to choke at some point, sliding a glass of water your way. You went from a bite if ribs to rice, to the mashed potatoes to the salad. Doppio ate himself, pausing to watch you every so often.

"You're making me feel self conscious," you teased, your plate nearly empty.

"What? I'm loving the view," Doppio replied with a wink. You almost snort, ducking your head in slight embarrassment.

Doppio reached a hand over to wipe away some sauce on the edge of your mouth, licking his thumb all the while keeping eye contact with you. You blushed with a scoff, stabbing a piece of meat to offer to him.

"Stop flirting and eat, you nerd," you grumbled and he opened his mouth to eat it.

"Aye aye captain," Doppio said with a laugh and a salute.

It didn't take long to finish the dinner. Doppio brought the dishes to the sink and you follow, helping him dry them as he washed him. You stood shoulder to shoulder in content silence, glancing at each other and exchanging soft smiles.

And after that, you both relaxed in the living room, watching a romance movie, that was extremely cringey but enjoyable to watch with your significant other. Your head resting against his shoulder, his arm wrapped around you as he pulled you closer, him kissing your head every couple of minutes or inhaling your scent. The best evening you could ever ask for.

But it got a lot better.

Once the movie was over, Doppio shut off the TV and guided you to the bathroom, which also had candlelight illuminating the room. You can't help but break into laughter as Doppio looked at you with a raised brow.

"Are you making fun of my work?" A hand to his chest, feigning hurt. "I made it smell good and everything for you."

You hummed approvingly, closing the door behind you with a giggle. "Nono, I love it! it's so cute..." your gaze drifted to the shower. "Even rose petals in the shower?"

"It adds to the romantic atmosphere," Doppio explained, his hands finding purchase on your waist as he leaned down to plant a gentle kiss on your lips. "Besides, I want you to feel how much I love you."

Your stomach flipped once he said those words, your cheeks aflame. You nuzzle against his neck with a soft sigh. "I love you too, Doppio."

Doppio trailed kisses down your throat, slowly lifting up your shirt. You pulled away a moment to let him pull it over you, leaving you in just your bra. You removed his as well, because it would obviously be fair. Your hands traveled his chest and lower body, tracing every outline and muscle. Doppio kissed your shoulder, guiding you backwards.

Off came the pants and undergarments next. The shower had been turned on to a warm temperature, and you entered the shower first. The water running through your hair and down your skin as the petals below swirled and spun. It smelled wonderful in here.

Doppio stepped inside, eyes on you the whole time. You backed up to give him some space, only for him to back you into the wall. The water beat down his back, the steam slowly forming and curling in the air.

You both stared at each other for a brief moment, observing the other's eyes. Full of warmth and affection and love and yearning. You cupped Pio's cheek and he leaned into it with a smile.

"Happy Valentines' Day sweetheart."

You repeated the phrase, leaning in to give him a kiss.

Turns out that one kiss caused an explosion.

Pio's hands roamed your body, up and down and discovering every inch of your skin. His kisses go lower and lower, worshiping every patch of skin as he kneeled before you. His soft gaze locked onto yours from below as you shivered.

"I want to show you how much I love you. I want..." Doppio hesitated. "I want to make love to you."

"Yes," you breathed, giving a tiny nod.

He rose to his feet, the heat suddenly sky rocketing and not because of the water. Pio caged you with his arms, looking quite sexy with rivulets of H20 streaming down his face.

Another deep and passionate kiss, tongues intertwined as you two shared breaths. One hand slid down your stomach, going in between your legs. Your legs gave a tiny lurch as the contact, his digit circling your clit. You moaned quietly into the kiss, chest heaving.

Doppio bit your neck gently, leaving behind a light bite mark underneath your ear. He mumbled something about marking you as his, and the heat between your legs grew. You opened your legs wider for him, supporting yourself on his arms.

With the pad of his thumb still circling the sensitive bud, his middle and index finger slipped inside your wet core. Your walls twitched, and he made a beckoning gesture that made a moan rip from your throat. Doppio chuckled darkly in your neck, his long fingers reaching the deepest parts of you.

"D-Doppio," you gasped, squeezing around his fingers. It was almost embarrassing how close you were already, but you felt all shame melt away as you slowly rode his fingers.

"Are you close, princess?" He whispered against your skin and you nod. "Let's get you over the edge, mmm?"

Another flex of his fingers and you bury your face in his chest. The other hand took your chin and made you look at him. "Look at me while you cum. Please."

Quick pants fanned his face as you kept eye contact with your boyfriend, eyes fluttering shut here and there when you felt your orgasm approaching like a bullet train. With a moan, you released all over his hand, only for it to be washed away in the shower.

"So perfect," Doppio mutters in your ear, his big hands encompassing your thighs to heft you up. You squeaked, instinctively wrapping your legs around him. "Can I...?"

"Of course, love," you murmured, still regaining your oxygen. You kissed his neck, suckling on the skin to return the mark he gave you.

He groaned quietly, the head of his cock nudging at your entrance. You could already feel how hard and needy he was, that he just wanted to ram himself inside, but he wanted to have this moment with you. And it melted your heart.

Doppio slowly sheathed himself in you, moaning as he sank into your hot core. You let out your own whimper, adjusting to his size. Pio squeezed your hips lovingly, marveling the area where you two connect. And after a while, he started to move.

"You're taking me so well, so so so well," your boyfriend praised you, slowly moving in and out of you. The pace was slow but deep, hitting that spongy spot with each loving thrust.

"Doppio, you feel so good," you purred softly, and his hips stuttered for a second. "I love you so much d-darling."

"God, I love you too. I love you so much, that if I ever lost you, that would mean losing myself." You both make obscene noises at the same time as you clench around his dick. He picked up his speed just a tad, his face in your neck and your face in his. You were pulsating around him, and Pio could feel you were getting close like he was. "You're so beautiful, so smart, so funny, so brave, so perfect-"

You captured his mouth in a kiss, conveying your undying love for him as he pumped in and out of your cunt. Pio moaned against the kiss, his thrusts getting sloppy. Moaning against each other, clutching each other as the two of you crash over the edge.

Gasping for breath, Doppio's body collapses onto yours as you slump against the wall. The water washed away any sign of lust into the drain. Doppio slowly pulled himself out, still holding you as your legs were shaking. He helped you sit on the floor and he reached up to change the shower direction. Doppio plugged the drain and you watched with hazy confusion.

Then it hit you. Doppio was turning it into a bath.

The petals rose up and gathered around your arms. You grinned like an idiot as he plucked a bath bomb out of a basket. Pio returned the grin as he plops it into the water.

"Turn around," he said, grabbing a shampoo bottle.

You obediently turned. With one arm, he hooked his arm around your waist to ease you closer to him. A sound of the shampoo opening and closing and your boyfriend lathered the soap into your hair, massaging your head in the process. You hummed happily.

When your head was full of bubbles and a delicious scent, you ordered Doppio to turn around. You run the shampoo through his hair, making sure to be as gentle as possible. He closed his eyes as you do so, a silly smile playing on his lips.

So the two of you relax in the bath tub, talking and giggling and making beards out of bubbles until it was time for bed. What a perfect evening.

[kakusu-shipping]

A bunch of Mario Family headcanons:

Because I think a very normal amount about the larger Mario family and very very very much want The Super Mario Brothers Super Show Reboot all about them

G-Poppy and his wife moved to American from Italy in their 20′s, making Mario and Luigi third generation immigrants

G-Poppy’s dream was to own and run an authentic Italian a Restaurant in America, but after the birth of his oldest son, Pio, the need for quick cash to pay rent was more pressing, thus why he got into Boxing

Papa Mario’s full name is Pio Mario Jr, he’s named after G-Poppy

Pio is a good 5-6 years older than his younger brothers, Arthur and Tony, who are only a year apart at most

Sense bills were tight, Pio spent a lot of his childhood being another income to the house hold, working hard labor work like construction to keep the family afloat while his brothers were young

Eventually G-Poppy got too old for wrestling and finally realized his dream of opening a Restaurant; Punch-Out Pizza. This put the family in more financial struggle, forcing Pio to take up more work while Arthur and Tony helped in the Restaurant

Now that G-Poppy is retired Arthur and Tony run the business together. Arthur’s the finance guy, where Tony runs deliveries and hands on manages other employees

It was actually their Grandmother who made Mario and Luigi’s caps for them, she’s also made G-Poppy’s. She passed before Louisiana was born, thus why she couldn’t make her a cap as well

Tony’s a huge horror movie buff, he loves old classics and has a huge VHS collection. Part of the reason Luigi is so scared of the paranormal is from catching glimpses or watching whole movies with Uncle Tony growing up

Another big part of Luigi’s fear though may just come from Uncle Tony loving to scare him. A big pass time for Tony was waiting around corners in Halloween masks to jump scare Luigi, or telling him ghost stories any change he got

Mario also got a bad fear from Uncle Tony’s movies; Pianos. He’d just happened to catch a pretty nasty scene of the lid of a Grand Piano crushing someone when he was younger and it stuck with him pretty hard

Louisiana is about 11-12 years younger than Mario and Luigi, so despite being cousins the three have a hard time relating to one another from the large age gap

Louisiana prefers to go by Louise, though only Mario and Luigi call her that. She was also the first one in the family to use the “Lou” nickname for Luigi, which Mario quickly also picked up

Arthur loves baseball, the Mets especially, but really he’ll watch any team play. He regrets not being on his school’s baseball team when he was younger, due to having to help at the restaurant, thus why he signed his daughter Louisiana up as soon as she was old enough. She’s stuck with it to keep her dad happy

Mia makes 90% of the meals in the Mario household, with the occasional help from Arthur. She learned most her dishes from her own mom, and a good deal more from Pio’s mother after marrying into the family

Marie is absolute rubbish in the kitchen. Mia’s given her multiple lessons and had her help with dinner many times around when she was expecting Louisiana, but she rarely made anything edible. The only one who ate her meals was Arthur, who just wanted to support his wife with all he had, even if it made him ill (which it did. Many times. Tony made fun of him for it)

Tony loves to work on machinery, mostly motorcycles, and has bounced around working part time as a mechanic here and there before his duties at the restaurant drag him back

Pio, Tony, and Mario are the only ones in the Mario family with a drivers license, though Tony was the only one who drove regularly until Mario bought the van

The Mario family owns 4 gaming devices; The Brother’s NES that they bought with their saved up chore money in Middle School, a Wii Marie and Mia do Wii Fit on in the living room, Uncle Tony’s PS2 that’s mostly collecting dust, and the Home Computer that Louise plays Roblox and Minecraft on

The Mario family apartment has 3 bedrooms; Pio and Mia’s, Arthur Marie and Louise’s, and Mario and Luigi’s. G-Poppy sleeps on a chair in the living room, and Tony sleeps on the couch

Louise has already called dibs on Mario and Luigi’s room when they move out, Tony says he prefers the couch anyway so he doesn’t mind

Pio pushes a lot of his own raising onto Mario, as the oldest he thinks Mario should be responsible, a support for the family, not chasing his own crazy dream that could crash down onto them into debt

On the flip side, Arthur puts a lot of what he wanted for himself onto Louisiana, pushing her to do new things and plays sports and do after school activities like he never got to do having to work in the Restaurant growing up

Tony’s the only one he sees this happening, and thus has stayed the fun uncle who’ll get you out of that thing you don’t want to do if asked. He’s listened to a lot of vents from the kids as he drives them from one activity to the next, and tries to remind them their parents are doing their best, and love them a lot. For everyone but Luigi that reminder fell on deaf ears

[merotwst]

your writing is chefs kiss. I cant really explain what I love about your writing so I'll try to explain why I love your writing.

I love every little thing you write, to the most obvious thing down to the smallest detail. Your writing feels like a breath of fresh air or finally finding that one thing you ate as a child you forgotten as you grew up. They way you write your scenes makes me feel like I'm a bystander of what happening, they way you explain the feelings makes me feel as if i just felt those emotions for the first time. They way your thought or ideas of the characters seem as if it's really them and something they would do. The way you write is a beautiful art, an art I could watch forever. I could re read your works more than one thousand times and never get bored.

The way you write feels like a connection. Like a string had found me and won't let go. No matter how hard I try to cut the string I always find myself re tying it, causing litte knots to ruin its perfect shape. But I never really minded them knots as long as you didn't.

anon rizzed me up wtf half the time my mind is blank when im writing im so sorry but ON BEHALF OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY, VERY WELL ARTICULATED REVIEW OF MY WRITING SKILLS, ANON. WHOEVER U ARE. SEND ME UR FAV CHARACTER AND ILL WRITE SOMETHING FOR U BECAUSE I MIGHT HAVE JUST FALLEN IN LOVE W U.

if ur fav character is sebek, im sorry tho. i dont write for him sadgely.

fr tho im honored and stunned u think of my writing this way?! i definitely study other writers' works tho! so my style can also be credited to community writers like rosa (@/kalims), amora (@/amorisqasayid), dem (@/demonichikikomori), pio (@/oepionie and pio is more of a recent inspo) and these are only some of them cuz early on, i read their works before i even started writing twst myself and they helped me solidify my twisted wonderland writing skills (unbeknownst to fhem lol)

im blushing!

thank u anon u rly made my night 🥺 i hope ur having so much love and happiness around u rn sending you my love!

[roman-catholic-mass-readings]

23rd September >> Mass Readings (Except USA)

Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) 

on

Saturday, Twenty Forth Week in Ordinary Time.

Saturday, Twenty Forth Week in Ordinary Time

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the feria (Saturday))

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Saturday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading 1 Timothy 6:13-16 I put to you the duty of doing all that you have been told.

Before God the source of all life and before Christ, who spoke up as a witness for the truth in front of Pontius Pilate, I put to you the duty of doing all that you have been told, with no faults or failures, until the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who at the due time will be revealed by God, the blessed and only Ruler of all, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, who alone is immortal, whose home is in inaccessible light, whom no man has seen and no man is able to see: to him be honour and everlasting power. Amen.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 99(100)

R/ Come before the Lord, singing for joy.

Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing for joy.

R/ Come before the Lord, singing for joy.

Know that he, the Lord, is God. He made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the sheep of his flock.

R/ Come before the Lord, singing for joy.

Go within his gates, giving thanks. Enter his courts with songs of praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.

R/ Come before the Lord, singing for joy.

Indeed, how good is the Lord, eternal his merciful love. He is faithful from age to age.

R/ Come before the Lord, singing for joy.

Gospel Acclamation Psalm 118:18

Alleluia, alleluia! Open my eyes, O Lord, that I may consider the wonders of your law. Alleluia!

Or: cf. Luke 8:15

Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are those who, with a noble and generous heart, take the word of God to themselves and yield a harvest through their perseverance. Alleluia!

Gospel Luke 8:4-15 The parable of the sower.

With a large crowd gathering and people from every town finding their way to him, Jesus used this parable:

‘A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell on the edge of the path and was trampled on; and the birds of the air ate it up. Some seed fell on rock, and when it came up it withered away, having no moisture. Some seed fell amongst thorns and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some seed fell into rich soil and grew and produced its crop a hundredfold.’ Saying this he cried, ‘Listen, anyone who has ears to hear!’

His disciples asked him what this parable might mean, and he said, ‘The mysteries of the kingdom of God are revealed to you; for the rest there are only parables, so that

they may see but not perceive, listen but not understand.

‘This, then, is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God. Those on the edge of the path are people who have heard it, and then the devil comes and carries away the word from their hearts in case they should believe and be saved. Those on the rock are people who, when they first hear it, welcome the word with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of trial they give up. As for the part that fell into thorns, this is people who have heard, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life and do not reach maturity. As for the part in the rich soil, this is people with a noble and generous heart who have heard the word and take it to themselves and yield a harvest through their perseverance.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) 

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Saturday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading Galatians 2:19-20 I live now with the life of Christ who lives in me.

Through the Law I am dead to the Law, so that now I can live with God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live in faith: faith in the Son of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 127(128):1-5

R/ O blessed are those who fear the Lord.

O blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways! By the labour of your hands you shall eat. You will be happy and prosper.

R/ O blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the heart of your house; your children like shoots of the olive, around your table.

R/ O blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Indeed thus shall be blessed the man who fears the Lord. May the Lord bless you from Zion all the days of your life!

R/ O blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation Matthew 23:9,10

Alleluia, alleluia! You have only one Father, and he is in heaven; you have only one Teacher, the Christ. Alleluia!

Or: Matthew 28:19,20

Alleluia, alleluia! Go, make disciples of all the nations. I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. Alleluia!

Or: Mark 1:17

Alleluia, alleluia! Follow me, says the Lord, and I will make you into fishers of men. Alleluia!

Or: Luke 4:18

Alleluia, alleluia! The Lord has sent me to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives. Alleluia!

Or: John 10:14

Alleluia, alleluia! I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know my own sheep and my own know me. Alleluia!

Or: John 15:5

Alleluia, alleluia! I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty, says the Lord. Alleluia!

Or: 2 Corinthians 5:19

Alleluia, alleluia! God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. Alleluia!

Gospel Matthew 16:24-27 Anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life?

‘For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and, when he does, he will reward each one according to his behaviour.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

[blackusnake]

ate pio

[carry-me-high]

February 24, 2024

Today, woke up and did something productive. Worked out for day 3/4 weeks and went for a fun run which is mandatory btw. Then we ate at Rufino's for dinner afterwards. Went home to take a bath then worked with Pio at Medyo

[lamilanomagazine]

Violenza sulle donne: Giusy Versace porta gli studenti in Senato per parlare di femminicidio e cambiamento culturale

Violenza sulle donne: Giusy Versace porta gli studenti in Senato per parlare di femminicidio e cambiamento culturale Nella Sala Zuccari del Senato, la Versace ha organizzato una conferenza stampa sulla violenza di genere, alla quale hanno partecipato istituzioni, artisti e studenti. Anche qui è stato osservato il 'minuto di rumore' per Giulia Cecchettin! Nella settimana in cui l'Italia è sconvolta dall'ennesimo brutale femminicidio della studentessa Giulia Cecchettin e a pochi giorni dalla Giornata Internazionale contro la Violenza sulle Donne del prossimo 25 novembre, Giusy Versace ha organizzato martedì 21 novembre, in Senato un importante momento di approfondimento e confronto sul tema, al quale hanno partecipato figure di spicco della politica ed istituzioni, l'artista e fondatrice della onlus 'Wall of Dolls' Jo Squillo, la psichiatra e Direttore Socio Sanitario ATS Città Metropolitana di Milano Rossana Giove e una trentina di studenti del Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate paritario 'Pio IX' di Roma. La conferenza è iniziata con un minuto di silenzio in memoria della studentessa veneta e di tutte le donne vittime di femminicidio, seguito poi da un minuto di 'rumore per Giulia', come da volontà della famiglia Cecchettin e come sta accadendo in diversi istituti scolastici. L'incontro è entrato poi nel vivo con la proiezione di un estratto dell'emozionante docufilm 'La Bellezza della Rinascita' realizzato da Jo Squillo e dalla giornalista Francesca Carollo, nel quale sono state intervistate tre donne sopravvissute alla brutalità dei loro mariti e fidanzati e che sul loro corpo sperimentano adesso un nuovo concetto di bellezza. "Attraverso l'arte e la comunicazione cerchiamo di parlare ai giovani, stimolare le donne a denunciare la violenza prima che sia troppo tardi e far capire agli uomini che la donna non è una bambola. Da nove anni ho fondato la onlus 'Wall of Dolls' che si batte contro la violenza di genere, attraverso l'installazione di veri e propri muri di bambole in diverse città italiane e da oggi inizia il nostro tour in giro per l'Italia. Oggi pomeriggio saremo al muro di bambole a Roma in via degli Acquasparta 16, mentre domani saremo al teatro Gerolamo di Milano, il 23 novembre a Udine e Cesena, il 24 novembre porteremo le scuole in via De Amicis 2 a Milano, il 25 di nuovo a Milano e a Genova con una manifestazione in Piazza De Ferrari e il 26 novembre a Brescia in via Calatafimi 1 e a Trieste in via dei Navali 9. Questo è il nostro modo di agire e di fare cultura", ha raccontato Jo Squillo.   Un'ora e mezza di serrato confronto, dialogo, spunti e riflessioni su come agire per fermare quest'atroce piaga che solo quest'anno ha già mietuto ben 105 vittime in Italia. Dal dibattito è emerso che scuola, famiglia e politica sono i tre ambiti sui quali continuare a lavorare per innescare un cambiamento culturale e invertire questa terribile rotta. La politica, che già molto ha fatto in questi anni con l'introduzione del numero nazionale antiviolenza 1522, della legge contro lo stalking, del 'codice rosso' e dell'introduzione del 'Revenge Porn' come nuova fattispecie di reato, del finanziamento dei centri antiviolenza, dell'inasprimento della pena e dell'educazione sentimentale a scuola proposta nel disegno di legge 'Roccella' che proprio domani sarà votato in Senato. "Sono felice che oggi molti studenti abbiano colto il mio invito a partecipare a quest'importante mattinata di discussione perché loro sono il futuro ed è da loro che dobbiamo partire per costruire una società migliore e per la loro presenza ringrazio anche il preside, Prof. Rusconi, che assieme agli altri docenti hanno autorizzato la trasferta", ha ricordato Giusy Versace. Infine, una buona notizia arriva dalla dottoressa Rossana Giove: "A Milano e Lodi è partito il progetto 'Luna Nuova', promosso da 'Telefono Donna' e sostenuto da ATS Città Metropolitana di Milano, che offre un servizio aggiuntivo alle donne vittime di violenza che arrivano in pronto soccorso nei weekend o la notte, garantendo loro accoglienza presso un alloggio segreto, in attesa di essere poi destinate ai centri antiviolenza. Tutto questo in accordo con la Questura e il Tribunale di Milano". Inoltre, sempre Rossana Giove, ha ricordato come sia fondamentale nel processo di recupero degli uomini violenti, anche una adeguato e costante supporto psicologico, troppo spesso sottovalutato. Il dibattito ha visto anche la partecipazione attiva dell’On. Martina Semenzato, del Sen. Roberto Marti, della Sen. Mariastella Gelmini, della Sen. Valeria Valente. Anche l'On. Elena Bonetti l' On. Mara Carfagna hanno partecipato. "Ringrazio tutti i colleghi intervenuti, che si sono resi ancora una volta disponibili per arricchire questa mattina, aiutandomi a rendere il tema sempre più condiviso e trasversale" ha concluso Giusy Versace.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[dheudeghetlaust]

💛Book♥️of🩵LOVE💚 - "The book of love"

Originally written by Padre Pio - Here it is:

 Ready ?

Book of Love

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will learn what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

Originally written by Padre Pio, published with the help of Luigi Gaspari & abridged and revised by U.D.U. Dragomir.

April 1968 - Padre Pio tells Luigi. "The words in the book of love are written in/from heaven." They decide to include this excert from the bible on the opening pages afterwards.

"Then, I had seen an angel, powerful, commnig from heaven. The angel was wrapped in a cloud, in front of the angel a rainbow. The angels face was a sun and it's legs as if pillars of fire. The angel had a small book opened in it's hand. The angel had put it's right foot in the sea, and the left on the eart.

Then I heard the voice of heaven again. The voice spoke and said "go!, take the open book from the hand of the angel that stands on the sea and the land". 

I approached the angel, and requested to be given the little book. The angel replied to me "take the book and eat it; it will fill you belly with bitter but in your mouth you will taste the sweetness of honey".

I took this book from the hand of the angel and I ate it. In my mouth was the sweetness of honey, but as I swallowed it, I tasted the bitterness.

Then the angel said. "Still the prophecy must be fulfilled, to speak to nations, people, and kings."

Revelations, Chapter 10.

      Now for the book of love.

And so springtime blossoms, our very own spring. When we leave the winter behind, with all of it's dryness and ice. The winter that carrys with it our worries and shows us our delicacies.

We have healed, and shaked the winter off us. Now it is easy to foresee what we will occupy our time. It is a freedom free of the old worries.

Our friends that we have loved have betrayed us. We have left them free to leave, to passionalty chase after their own allusions.

Now time is ours, time for our own springtime.

Now either alone or with others, can joy for the fruits of happiness and happiness for reinvigorated energy be expressed.   

The longing for our old friend is gone. Better said those that have betrayed, are without us. Our love is alive because those that have betrayed us have returned. Love can be shared now, better than before, because now we are better prepped for it, than before.

We are wealthy in knowledge & pain. Our love is the kind that can be known and appreciated.

We continue journey freely, in the presence of our accumulated wealth. Peacefully we will rejoyce of the harvest we reap and calm we will observe what happens around us.

It is worrysum, the destruction of those who think they can oppose the greater good. It is the down-fall of those who chase after allusions.

Though, the evil with-in their hearts is unknown to us.

We see faces without light, that accuse to avoid being accused. We walk righteously on the path, and we will see further.

Above good & evil, there is a great crusade to partake in. It is a crusade for life, our own lives. A life which will be the center of strength, love and happiness for eternity. 

Gods power works with the will of the people.

This will provokes power.

But people judges each other.

Love means to forgive every person for every sin.

(To my dear friend Luigi, for your birthday, to show you my love and acknowledgement. To give you courage and strength to take my heart into the world). 

A note written by Padre Pio to Luigi before the next 'chapter'

                              Bologna, 8th-9th April. 1968

Tonight I need to talk, please listen. 

I want to share important ideas about our love to help make it easier to understand.

We are in the heart of all, and our love lives through the heart of others. We are endeared to live where we are welcomed.

Our love unites love.

Bonds are broken without us and any union is called love only with our presence and the heart of heaven.

Our love is free of evil and grief, it is pure, full of joy. Joy exists only in us. Love will lead us to know the uselessness of our greed and of our temptations. 

I want to help people understand that all we are looking for is inside of us. Why should we worry, why ?

Listen to love and you will find all that you need.

Much more generous than is believed are the gifts of love, and it gives much more than is asked of it.

What do we what from love ? Ask and we shall recieve. 

Ask what? A good truth ? We get it first hand.

A neccesary evil ? Love is forbidden to provide it.

Love can give us everything, if we can give all of our hearts with open arms to love. Never has the world had an open heart. On many occasions we have given a piece of our love, but greed, and our desires have kept us at bay.

We need to remember that everything exists because of our will. 

Many times we have hidden love, and held it for ourselves, and what has happened ?

We grow worried, tired, dissappointed, and sad. Always confused with no interest into why. The motive is our lack of love.

We, wait for a sign. A call to come out of where we have hidden. Love is here, if we call on it, and even more when we love. We need to help each other in keepin love by our side, because if we so desire, love  it can be everything for us.

For us to want this, it means to surrender ourselves, our ego, or sine, the me & the I, to love. When we surrender to love, we are permited to recieve everything.

It is tiring to see the world as it is. Without the holy love that can nurture life, without the love only we can have for each other.

What we usually desire, is often only our own ill-fates. Rarely, do we know this.

What is truely good ?

It is a sound mind in a sound body, for a peaceful soul and a warm feeling of life in our hearts

What does warmth do ? It warms us, and it lights our hearts. Warmth gives us a happyness for living, loving and bringin love and warmth (and joy) every-where.

For real? yes, we know this well. Many times we have even lived it.

But why have we lived that feeling for so little a short of time ? Because it was love in those moments the magic that warmed our hearts. Love has done everything for us to let us know it, and to let us be loved, and then ?

It was unknown how or it was undesired of us to sustain love.

We have been free to follow other paths, and then ?

Look at the result. A world empty and dry and with no love, but still, it exists. It exists because even the smallest unoccupied corner is enough for love to blossom. It lives and waits there. It waits until a day when many suffer, so that we share the pain amongst each other, all of it created by ourselves. Our suffering makes us aid each other. Do we really need a call to arms?

We hear a call for help, and we run to help. How ? If we call for help, we already have help there. If we stay quiet, there is another way. What way ? It is a person, exactly like all of us, just that this is a person of love, in this way we are helped by what is in this person (love). Forever has loved helped us through these people.

What do you want to do ? Love can give us everything.

Nothing is impossible because everything is possible for us. Love belongs to us all, and is our kingdom. Thus, what belongs to love belongs to us all, so, why are there worries ?

We have everything love has, we just need to want them. And what does love ask of us ? It asks us to have an open heart. 

Are we scared to open our hearts ? And to give back what ? It is a great ease to open our hearts. A kingdom of love is everything. 

What is everything ?

Everything means knowledge, knowledge of us, and knowledge of everything that is to see, touch and feel (and eat). What we can know is unfathomable to us. But through love the unfathomable becomes knowlesge to us.

Why should we love so much ? Because we have been created, and we create everything that makes us more happy, more greatful, and more full of love. 

Why should we ask to be loved ? With how much we grow in love so dus our happiness grow. This grows in us or joy. Love is infinite, and so love will always grow more love for ourselves. 

Growing love, we grow our knowledge. With how much more we love with that much better we know, but; only those that can love can know.

What belongs to love, and only to love can be obtianed only with permission. The blessings we recieve are only charge of will. We need only to show our will to love and the rest and everything will be done with love. Because love is all.

The heart of heaven is a massive lamp that illuminates all of eternity. It is the fire that burns in us. This fire makes us live. Life exists only with the warmth of heaven, and the cooling of our hearts (when) darkened they become is warmed from the heat of the heart of heaven.

Every single heart is responsible for keeping a particle of creation alive. When dry, darkened and tired any of these hearts become. This particle should disappear, because the heart arbitrates everything.

What does love do ? 

Through the heart of heaven we are warmed. The heart of heaven fills the void in our hearts. It sustains us, and sustains life through it's warmth.

Love is a reserovoir of energy, that intervines and stops disasters occuring from the mishandeling of the energy given to us by love. It is a back-up heart for us all.

What stops us from loving each other ? What keeps us from acknowledging each other ? Why do we want to control each other ?

It is an inconsistent mind, a constant storm in our brains, driven by turbulent (in the sense that they all flow from one to the next) waves of external thoughts. 

The inconsistent mind, cools the heart and rejects love.

How ca we control the mind ? How do we hold it together ? Try to leave in silence all thoughts that belong to anything else but love and goodness. You have to conquer instability by listening to the laws of love. 

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will love what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

When a person asks for a little love, give them love without asking whom they are. That love will bind them and with the love given. 

The people whom are sent to us and ask for goodness and love, never send them to abaddon, for they are a part of us. They will be with us through the love that always gives.

We want to unite, to always be constantly bonded within our hearts. We are everything and everyone.

The loss of one of us leads to our reduction. We are bound together by binds that are imposible to see. Binds that lead to the heart of heaven.

Love is one. We are the scattered remnants of the infinite joy in heavens. 

Be united and let nothing stray you.

We must be concerned for the divisions amongst us, the discrimination between majorities and minorities, races, nations (people) and species (oh wait, we haven't evolved that much yet). 

Those that want to love will stand-fast. They will have be united, if we keep segragating it will be impossible to unite.

We must be gentle and kind to each other, helping and leading one another, but never casting away.

When temptation asks us to send away someone. Love immidietly intervenes. Loves intervenes with all of its energy to prevent it. 

That is the will of love; that we all take one small step towards each other and than love will free the power with-in each of our hearts.

When we are far from each other, remember the memory of each other and in this way love will live in thy hearts.

Love will always be among us, and will help us unite. It will help us over-come our fears, and it will help those whom wish to segragate themselves from us. Love that can love someone who wants to seperate from us can defeat any obstacle.

Longing for love is the will of love at work. Love is much more powerful than any resistence. And we should desire to unite and to love any-one who trys to evade the bounds of love. Love knows how to turn any lost soul back. It is impossible to evade and here is why.

Love defends our rights for those whom have been loved and run from us. To run from us is to run from love. Do ask for help when you feel burdened. Love will immiedietly intervene in our favor, our unity is our will.

              Bologna, 9th April 1968

"Today I am 24 years old; it is the middle of the night and I still feel close to everyones heart, and of Gods heart. It is God who has blessed me with 'happy birthday' and wants to keep me company.

I am a bit confused. It is hard to say why. I listen quietly to the beats of my heart, that is now so full of love for me. Am I worthy of this much ? I am certian it is to much.

God of course looks at me and conveys to me, and keeps m company, and so I feel good, satisfied. Tonight I feel as if the whole universe is with-in me.

What is this heart that beats in me ?

It is love and God that knows my needs, and my desire to have God close to me. In this night I could be sad, and certainly alone with my thoughts. Everything changed because I hear a voice telling me to be calm. This voice tells with goodness that tomorrow will be a good day.

Today is a new day, but it seems that everything has gone back in time. A past I have forgotten even exists, even in the heart of heaven. My childhood, my teenage years, and my maturaty are all here and I can relive every moment instantly. The only thing I lost is the memory of anything I may have done wrong, and a few unfaithful moments to God.

Buy why is it so imposible for me to remember my sins ? Maybe this is gift from God, a blessing to let me forget the bad things that I have done. 

Certainly these words in my head about the heart of heaven are a calling to be brave, faithfull and convinced that everything will be set right."

What does love ask from us ?

It asks for nothing. It tells us to love as much as we can, and then our love lets us feel more and more.

Love will lead us to see and recognize not holy places but heartful places (another word lost in translation) and in those places we will have vision (we will see).

What do we give to those we love ?

We give them authetic friendship and all of our trust and love.

Love is our friend, the friend we have always searched for. It is a friendship that makes the friends of love to be our friends too, all whom wish to be honest, loving friends.

We should also remember those whom are anything but a friend, of course with love we certainly can become friends with anyone we desire.

Now love holds us, and love guides our every step and forbids us from running from the truth.

There are many diseases in the world but only one disease that witholds our understanding of the power of love. 

It is an eternal ocean of blessings, happiness and wealth of which very few know of and no-one desires to benefit from. 

The remedy is there, in the unlimited ocean where we can take everything and yet we take and have taken nothing until now.

What is good we have learned naturally, by Gods grace. Now we must learn to recieve and to request. The supply is endless and the blessings are infinite, and at everyones disposal ready for those that know how to ask and whom so desire.

To recieve we must turn to God; only one ray comming to the heart of heaven will bind us to the eternal supply for the joy of everyone. That ray is love.

Morning, 9th April same year.

At times love can make the heart a prizoner. It is important to be free of this penitenciary and to listen to your heart first. Your heart will speak and tell you what is good for yourself.

The love we have given and the love we have been given is always in our hearts. Our acts of love, all remaine and relive in our hearts. Listen to its voice. 

Here we can find again all that we have loved and all that we will love.

Who loves, is loved. Those that love will truly know themselves. Love lets us bee seen. If someone cries, we cry, and our happiness is my happiness.

Pain from the knowledge of our mistakes is what provokes love to push on. Love gives us the comfort to ask for fogiveness (and to forgive) and, when we do desire, to try again.

 

Love is the salvation for all those that return and will return: the love that binds us is so great that in every day and every moment there is something new to see because we still have more to learn.

Our lives must flow the way they do, just like the lives of others.

Love forbids anyone to judge. The time for clean powerful words has come. We must become infuential through authority, to be better known.

Love will make its order known through the authority of those whom love. Love will make words breath inspiration and to lead.

That is what love asks of us, that is what love desires of us all, especially those whom serve love. 

Love how-ever refuses to serve those that ask to be served, and pretend to serve mercy, love and kindness. When these people only want us to help them because they know what power love has. They know everything is in our hands and bow as proof to the acknowledgment of the omnipotence of love. But that is another path, one that is not made of love.

Love prefers people whom stand tall when in the presence of grace/peace. Those that pray for power are people less responsible.

Those that bow and pray, begging and praising, at times are completely void of love. Better said they want the world to beckon to their every whim and egocentrical desires.

To us, those that love, what happens ?

 We are forbid to say no, and others come to us to obtain through us what is forbidden for them to pray for (either because it is unfair, unholly, or just beneath their merit). Furthermore we are saddnedded when they return to us with what only appears to be love.

This happens so that they will bound themselves to us. All that has been obtained through prayers and worship, all that has been taken through lies and deciet still belongs to us all.

Love defends the order of all and everything, and forbids any intelligence to pass judgment. Love condemns any form of demeaning because love is mercy and respect.

Love does for us more than we can see or believe, with love all of our sins will be forgiven.

We can be well and un-injured from the sinful desires that we have made in the world. We have been put into this world and in direct contact with its allusions to consolidate them.

We know how to change thoughts from good ones to bad ones (and the other way around). Our experiences are knowledge. Knowledge into how to defeath evil from our lives. 

I want us to be without fear, fear is a sign of weakness and a lack of knowledge. Loves resilience is more powerful than any human promise and eliminates any transgression.

Just maintain love in your hearts, know that love will eliminate our weaknessess and love is our greatest strength.

Remember to never judge each other. Remember that love will help allevieate pain and sadness. Love is goodness

Love that is given brings mercy to the world. A great love will make us sweeter to each other. The benefits of love will attenuate any path.

Be extremely strict when offering love, because it will bind us. This uninion means that we have to let everything be done fore love. 

When we have to right a wrong or to offer recompension let love freely take action. Often times love is blocked by our own actions. Our own intelligence can succumb from out-side influences, and from various beliefs. Love can see through the suggestions and see those whom make them and why, so just let love do everything.

Love does need permission. It respects our desires and mistakes. Love lets us live our lives in what ever way we wish: there are many paths. If we desire, love will show us an easier journey through life one free of risks, or it can lead us on a more beautiful journey through life. Love can be a great guide for our footfalls through life, but it does not have any concern for social posturing.

Love will prevent us from unforseem damgers. It can protect us from traps.

At times we already have all the blessing we seek, without ever seeing just how close they are; that is were love intervenes to help us open our eyes.

We mistakenly miss the opportunity to take what is ours, because other souls, or spirits hide or steal them. Ask thy heart what belongs and love will prevent others from stepping on your blessings.

Love needs us to be very clear, when love accords our wishes it has to listen to our words.

The words are engraved on our hearts, exactly as we speak them. It is important to meditate and think deep before having any desires. Try to determine everything desired free of any uncertainty, or fear that it may be something bad, its better to seek advice instead in those instances.

Our hearts will illuminae what is the most urgent for us to wish for, for the benefit of everyone.

Love lets us hear things simply and clearly. 

Love can make us understand everything in a day, in a blitz, everything that we've wanted to know our whole lives. Knowledge of ourselves is possible only through love (for ourselves). 

Love knows where we are from, where we are going and what we live for, because life is energy commisioned by our hearts to make us who we are.

This energy makes flesh that gives a face to a soul. A soul that exists before it was wrapped in meat. Our souls are just like Adams and Lilithes, and it gets to different people through different ways. The spirit transported by the mind, led by the heart. But the love in our hearts is the constant presence of God in us all.

If love can make a good heart, then the mind can drive the heart to excessive passion that can tarnish a soul. Thoughts implicate the mind to desires that kill the spirit of love in us. Without the spirit of love we are but victims and prey of our carnal passions. 

These carnal passions help to divide and seperate us. They turn us against our brothers and sisters. But our hearts can save us, because it is a magnet that has been put in us. Use that magnet to find love.

Love is more powerful than any passion. Love is the light that illuminates the mind. The mind illuminated by love brings the holy spirit to drive intelligence and manifestations of peace and joy.

Everything for a peaceful harmony between mind and heart.

Rome, 11 April - Holy Thursday

The mind can be influenced, but the heart can only be conquered: a well conquered heart is the stronghold that breathes desires and commands the mind. Violence can never win the hearts of the people. 

Kindness, goodwill, sacrifice, perserverence, and devotion are what wins/conquers a heart.

Pure violence consists of an never ceasing desire to enter into that heart. That death on the cross has opened us a path, and it has left us a key to open the path when it is closed.

It was given to us on a cross of wood in a moment of agony. The hope we had been given then is that one day we will return our world to a peaceful one. With no more wars, is based on the choices made then.

Out of the people whom have saved the world from ruin, among them were the diciplies of Jesus as well. The few remaining today live their lives to help others. They bring the mercy and forgiveness of our God much more effiecently. Choosen people continuely recieve a blessing to balance and to keep them steady against the chaos created by the dominion of ambigition and passions.

We have to acknowledge the source, the origin of our love. 

It is pointless to ask why we do not understand. We could understand everything if we stop asking. The best solution for everything is to be calm and patient. There is light in all of us. 

We will be enlightened when we are humble about what we know and what we have. When we stop bragging about what we know, what we have, and what we know. We all need to express only greatfulness/gratitude thankfulness and love. In those moments we can know, have, and see much more than we bragged about. 

Our acknowledgment gives us the right at a love that permits us everything.

When goodness remains with a person that is free of the desire to find love or truth, or to know love. That person is an instrument used by love to unite us.

More so, the absence of love becomes a search, it makes us concerned that we lost it, or that we have lost interest, or love, or the will to never achieve our plans in life. 

What is thought, stays, what is said, has been said, what is planned is ordered. Negligence is something that does not exist for us.

Love wants to prevent us from confusion or from adopting ideas that detach us from the peace and the enthusiasm we need to seek out and share the truth.

Be like a mirror of the truth. The truth a person wants to create is just their will to bring others to their decietful narritives. Any person that seeks a truth to impose on another person is a person that is only imposing themselves.

The power of the truth is the patients to watch the fall and death of what cannot live without the light of the truth.

Those that know of the lies of the world will fight with all of your spirits against these lies, and when the damage done by these lies becomes apparent. Loves intervention will destroy the false beliefs imposed by people with the desire for revenge or the desire to dominate.

When we accept a truth through suggestion, or force, or fear, concern, it means to stay away from love for the truth. We are led to all sorts of fabricated narritives and slowly can build ourselves a world of lies. From the biggest to the smallest lies. The lies that oppress our progress and those that provoke us to war. 

Lots of good people do nothing, this is because their goodness prevents them from doing harm to anyone. Than to live a quiet life, they avoid standing against evil. The empire of evil will strike all, good people who do nothing only help bring more disorder and more lies.

Only those that refuse, those that fight, for themselves and for others, they need the most help.

Those that compromise, and toil with the lies of the world are void of love. We should forbid people to live in lies.

Do help those that pray for a signle cause; truth for justice, and love.

Prays with no point (pointless prayers) do not exist.

In prayers we meet. In a conversation that is a gift to our hearts. Our words spoken as whispers that create; they create a world. A world full of the love we wish to give. The spirit of love will create what our words ask for. Ones thoughts will become our thoughts and will show us everything we desire and think. The light from our eyes will reflect in the eyes of the world.

The creative words will immediately bring light to a person. The word addressed to the holy ghost is the spirit of love from the heart of a person to the creator.

It is the word that becomes prayer, acknowledgment and the gift/blessing of love. With the word and the gift/blessing of love a person can create everything that is good. When we offer everything. Then we can create everything we desire, with the love we express with words.

Thoughts that are addressed in silence are part of a very intimate conversation between us. Thoughts that would keep us at a distance are impossible to keep us away from each other. Love is always present, even if we believe or desire it to be absent. Love is present but invisible to heavy hearts that are devoted to conquering creatures or other things of a possessive nature, or hearts that hunger for power.

Through creation we have placed before us the dispostional order to find our creator. To find the creator in us. 

                          Light & Darkness

None have bine high in heaven except for those that have stepped down (from their posts in heaven). Our children.

Those that are in heaven. And how moses raised the snakes in the wilderness, so must our children be rasied. And so all that know of God will be freed, but those that believe they are already condemned, for them it has been refused the name of the only son created by God. And how with this motive condamnation:

Let their be light on Terra, but people preferred to stay in the dark.

                          San Giovanni Rotondo, 14 April 1968

                                Holy Easter of Revival

The creator is present in everything that is created. Today I have been revived to bring our life to God. I have offered to sacrifice for every one of you, and God has accepted my offer to free us from death. My blessings can be found, and I will always show my presence to the world, in all of creation and in everyones return to the love for God.

From my heart, blood has flowed, and it has stopped living, to give my life to you. My life and my heart has brought a new uninion between us and God. My blood has become one with your blood. In the name of my blood, God has brought back love in your blood and your lives. Gods love for me has become Gods love for you. Everything create has brought us back and so we can have everything. Because in creation, there lay the love from the creator. 

The desire to free what you love, for those whom possess it, is the only way to obtain everything. That is the law of our hearts. That is the law of love. To love what you have.

I have died on a cross for you. I had suffered instead of you. I ask that you love me for the love I have given you. I have been revived so as to let you stand besides me. I have returned to the kingdom of heaven to prepare the best chairs for you. I have taken my place to permit you to take yours.

My return to the world has already happened, it is a return where I ask to keep me in your hearts. My body. My blood, are all their waiting to be given. I cannot wait to be called to help, and so I still send people out into the world who can talk about me, and whom love to unite people. A person whom teaches and recites everytime you need me.

                   

                          San Giovanii Rotondo 15 April 1968

Naturally it is impossible to live without light. Without warmth and love. That which is life. Life can not rezist the fear of the abyse. There is no peace in us without light, that which gives us knowledge and love, and unites us.

Psalm 98/97

Sing to God a new psalm. For God has done great things! Gods right hand and Gods holy hand have brought us Victory. God has made known the salvation of our nation.

God has remembered to love and cherish the house of Isreal.

All the tents on Terra have seen the victory of our God.

Make a sound of joy and sing a psalm of praise.

Sing praise for God with a lyre, with a lrye and the sound of a melody. With a trumpet and the sound of a horn make a joyful sound for the creator!

Let the sea scream, with everything with-in it; Terra and all those that exist on her!

Let the floods stop their waters; Let the hills sings their joy together with God. For God comes to judge Terra. And God will judge Terra with righteousness and people with equality.

Saint Teresa de la Avila

"I have herd the words. I realized the truth; 'What I do for you is not a little, certainly this is one of the ways you will be debt to me. All the evil of the world is because of the mis-understanding of the truth in the holy scripturs. All that is written in them will happen one day'

I have always believed this, that all the rest have only added on"

"And so daughter, how few are there that truely love me? If they truly love me, why would I hide from them things ? Do you know what true love means to me ?

It is to convince yourself that everything that does not satisfy me is a lie. You will understand with clarity everything you doughnut understand now with the benefits that will be given to your soulz."

"Though Jeses revived from the dead, the first fruit put to sleep. And from the death of a person, the revival of the death came from a person. And just like Adam every person dies. And through Jesus everyone will be brought to life. But each one in their order. Jesus was the first fruit, then all those that belong. Then comes the end, when the kingdom will be given back to God. After we have destroyed all the kingdoms, and authorities, and powers. 

For God needs to be, until all are under Gods slipper. And the last under Gods slipper is death"

             Corinthians 15, 20-28

"But everything is subjective, and clarity of this does not involve the creator of everything. For God everything is relative. And than when everything is, the son will come and belong to God just like everything else. For God to be in everything in everything".

   

I Samuel 15, 22-26

"And Samuel said 'What pleases Yahweh ? A holocaust and a sacrifice or to listen to the voice of Yahweh ? Yes it is better to listen than to sacrifice. To listen to footfalls is better than to eat the fat of the lamb. 

For a sin such as divinity is rebellion, and stubborness is a crime of idoltry. 

Because you have refused the commandment of God, God has refused you as a king

Saul responded to Samuel: I fell into sin because I did not adhere to the commandment of God and your words. In my fear of people. I did what the people asked of me. Now please forgive my sins and return me to my prayers and to God.

But Samuel told Saul: Nu, you will not return because you have rejected the word of God, God has rejected you"

                 Psalm 71/70

"You have done good things:

Who, God, is comparabil with you ?

You have sent me sadness and difficulties.

But you have given me life again.

You will raise me again from deep in the soil.

And again you will caress me."

            Chronicles 1.17 16-27

"King David entered and in front of Yahweh, he said ' Who am I Yahweh God, and what is my home that you have brought me this far ? But in your eyes, God, it will never be to far to promise me that you will extend the home of your servant to a distant future. You show me as if I am a line of men, and this is, Yahweh, God, what you promised. Yes Yahweh, you are God, independent is You have made such a promise to your servant. Be happy with the blessing of your servants home, to always be in your presence. For you Yahweh have blessed, and will always remain blessed."

            Psalm 105

"Do not touch those annointed by me, and do not harm my profits! Than he brought famine to the country, and broke the rod that was their bread"

John 3:15

"that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"

"PRAYER REQUESTS - HOW CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU?"

   

 

 

 

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                                so glad I waited for technology to catch up

[mattohonbung]

pio pio

🇵🇪 peruvian

📍 great falls, virginia

📅 dinner; July 2023. 1st time.

😐 overall: "when they say Best Ceviche in the DMV" THEY'RE NOT LYIN!!!! but umm the entrees were underwhelming. I'd give this place another try and order other dishes... but only for a special occasion. 😬

more food pix + detailed review under the cut!

🍸 caipirinha - cachaça (sugarcane liquor) + muddled limes + sugar. brazil's national drink and pio pio's cocktail of the day for Wednesday! it was $7 instead of the usual $10 so I said why the hell not. the lime was strong and it pretty much tasted like sweet lemonade, which is dangerous 🤪

but turns out that they didn't fully dissolve the sugar; my last sips of the drink were full of undissolved sugar crystals ☹️ if I were to get this again, I'll def stir it.

🍸 chicha cooler - pisco + bacardi + malibu + chicha morada (peruvian purple corn drink), maracuya (passion fruit), pineapple juice. delicious. pretty sweet tho. the diced apple pieces on top were a nice touch and got a little boozy at the end of the drink :3c

this was my dining companion's drink but hell yea I'd order this again

🐟 ceviche clasico - nicely presented, and tasted as good as it looks! I havent had a plain fish ceviche in a while haha it kinda felt like eating sashimi. 🍣 every bite of fish (for $4 we upgraded from tilapia to mahi mahi) was sooo tender... virtually no connective tissue!!! I loved the contrasting textures of it combined with the soft sweet potato, starchy corn kernels, and cancha (toasted corn kernels). Best Ceviche in the DMV fr!!!

I'd get this again but simply close my eyes at the price tag 😌 that upgrade was totally worth it tho

seco de carne - this was a super hearty stew. this dish prob would've hit different in the winter haha we did NOT expect it to come with this much beans. for some reason I didn't particularly enjoy the taste of the stew itself 😕 it was almost... plain? idk. it said it was stewed with beer

this was my dining companion's dish but I wouldn't personally get it again. he prob wouldn't either cos he ate nothing after this dish and got food poisoning the next morning. he's kinda convinced it did him in.

🍝🥩 tallarin saltado w/ tenderloin steak - decided to switch it up from the lomo saltado that I was craving! the steak pieces were very tender and the onions were cooked just enough to still have a slight crunch. I enjoyed how big the onion slices were. the linguine tho... I understand the marinade was just soy sauce + vinegar + "some spices" but where were those spices tho???? it got boring to eat 🥲 flavor wasnt complex at all. I had hoped they maybe had a dry spice rub on the steak but I think they were also soy-marinated. overall everything was kinda flat. I'm a little disappointed ngl

I wouldn't get this again, but I'll try the separate elements in other dishes. if I get tallarin, I'll try it with pesto sauce! if I crave lomo saltado, I'll just get that!

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💲 price - $115 for 2 people = $77.50/person 🥲 yeah .

🗒️ other notes - maybe they can command these prices cos they're in great falls. legit drove past mansions to get here

[altvea]

09/24/22

The next day we left again we went to Batangas there in St. Padre Pio at Sto. Tomas and I went to church there when we finished church we went to Sm Sta. Rosa we also ate there and then we took pictures there again.

[sunb0rn]

ate charm ang kyut naman po naging pio kayo dito haha

public information officer ba yung pio byyy??

[nncastle]

June 24, 2021 :: We arrived in Arpino at 2pm on June 24th and stayed for three days.  Although we were there for business, the day soon turned into a party. We began our culinary tour at a local trattoria where we were treated to wonderful dishes of fresh pasta, patatine al forno, and veggies. Once the wine and champagne began to flow, it kept flowing into the night. Yes, you heard that right. We went from the trattoria to Bar Sport where more libations were served, to another trattoria where we ate beautiful appetizers. I counted 16 bottles, but there could have been more. As the sun set, the whole square was lit up by a terracotta glow and I just smiled. Arpino is what I needed! This amazing food and this amazing piazza and these wonderful smiling people who surrounded us. Arpino is not high on the tourist hit list, but what it lacks in star power, the city of Saturnio makes up with genuine charm, warmth, and vibrancy. This town is so alive, so full of passion. It’s not too large and not too small. No throngs of tourists, just authentic Italian awesomeness, with a good helping of culture thrown in. Life in Arpino struck me as good. People seemed happy to be alive, there was a sense of community, but also of worldliness. The piazza is like a grand living room where you can drink, eat, cheer during soccer matches, dance, and play. It’s a quaint town with meandering streets also the birthplace of Cicerone, Gaius Marius, Marco Vipsanio Agrippa, Giuseppe Cesari (Il Cavalier D’Arpino), and Pasquale Rotondi. Stilas of carved poems waxing poetic about the city dot the facade of houses and street corners. Flowers grow in pots and cascade down balconies. This hidden gem hasn’t seen the last of me. 

Arpino is said to have been founded by Saturn, the patron god of harvesting. Its first inhabitants have been identified with the mythical Pelasgians, the pre-Hellenic people who are believed to be the builders of the huge fortifications called “cyclopean or pelasgian walls which are still to be seen at Civitavecchia. 

PS That big palazzo with the rows of windows in the third photo is Palazzo Miani on Via Pio Spaccamela. It’s currently for sale for 175K€ and in need of some TLC. Shhh...but it will sell for less. It’s 500sq meters and enormous; three huge apartments with grand cellars. If you’re interested take a look here. 

Photos ©2021 Narcisse Navarre. Do not use without my permission.

[murusagi]

[Ambush Meal] A Collaboration with Lord Toma!? Love and Madness of Delicious Meal Ft. Cage Translation

This is a part of Otomate’s April Fool’s Special Event in which the cast of several of the company’s franchises turn into social media personalities.

Orlok: ...Bonjourno. [Pio House] Episode 1926. Today, we're going to film your favorite series, "Oruru's Ambush☆Delicious Meal Next Door".

In this series, I'm going to make a surprise visit to someone's home and enjoy a meal there.

Nicola: Orlok, can you hear me?

Orlok: Yes. The earphones are working perfectly.

Nicola: Great. I also can see you clearly through this camera.

Gilbert: We better explain the rules to the viewers.

[Rule No. 1: Oruru must obey any instructions given to him through the earphones.]

[Rule No. 2: Oruru must eat the given food without being picky.]

[The ones giving instructions in this episode.]

Orlok: I'll do my best.

Direttore: Nice answer. Now then, without further ado, let us ambush our target this time around! Please press the interphone in front of you.

Orlok: ...Clicks.

Ding Dong

Toma: Who is it--oh, if it isn't Orlok from [Pio House]! Did you come here by yourself? What a good boy.

Orlok: Y-Yes…

Dante: ...He's stroking his head.

Nicola: That's Orlok for you. He's quick at gaining someone's favor.

Orlok: Umm… I'm happy to be able to meet Toma from "Love and Madness of Animal Channel".

Toma: Me too. So, what brings you here? Do you want to hang out with me or what?

Orlok: No. Actually…

Toma: I see, so you want to have dinner here. Hmmm… let's see.

Orlok: Huh… A-Am I not allowed to?

Direttore: ...We already made an appointment, right?

Gilbert: Yeah, we should have made it…

Toma: You kind of remind me of Shin, Orlok.

Orlok: R-Really…?

Toma: Yeah. He's like a lil brother to me. ...Right. Can you try me calling me Onii-chan?

Orlok: What?

Toma: I'll let you in if you do. How?

Direttore: That's quite the painful request from someone whom you just met.

Nicola: I understand his feelings, though. "Onii-chan"... It has a nice ring to it.

Dante: I'll give it some thoughts if you want to be called that…?

Nicola: I don't know how to feel if you call me Onii-chan at this age… You think so, right, Direttore?

Direttore: Fufu… I will hate it, for sure. Well, I don't have little brothers? No need to worry about that?

Orlok: U-Umm, so what should I do?

Gilbert: Oops. M'bad. We stopped giving you instructions. ...Do as he said. We can't go on with the filming if he doesn't let us in.

Orlok: Okay.

...To-Toma Onii-chan.

Toma: Hm? Sorry, your voice is so small I couldn't hear it. Can you say it again?

Dante: He definitely heard it!

Nicola: Orlok, one more time!

Orlok: Toma Onii-chan…!

Toma: ...Nice. This feels satisfying for some reason. That guy will never call me that, after all. Alright, come in.

Orlok: I… I feel like I lost something important… In any case, I'm coming in.

Toma: I'm making dinner right now. Wait a bit, 'kay?

Orlok: Y-Yes.

Nicola: Orlok, how's the target doing?

Orlok: U-Uhh…

Toma: Bolognese with lots of minced meat~I feel like an Italian already~♪

Orlok: He's humming… some spells, I think? He's frying something while doing that… Looks very focused.

Dante: I see. It's time for our usual "House Tour" then.

Yang: Go to his closet.

Orlok: ...What!?

Nicola: Hm? You're up, Yang? Too bad. I wish you wouldn't wake up for eternity.

Yang: You sure are messing around with me, filming while I was sleeping. 5 billion women are crying right now.

Dante: 5 billion…!?

Yang: In any case, off you go to the closet, Orlok. Let's uncover the true nature of our targ--What are you all…?

Knocks.

Orlok: H-Huh? I can't hear you guys all of sudden...

Gilbert: ...Orlok, can you hear us?

Nicola: Don't mind us and just go on, Orlok. Yang is currently reflecting.

Orlok: O… Okay. So, I don't need to go to the closet?

Dante: Unfortunately, you must obey any instructions that have already been given to you. Let's head there while Toma is cooking.

Orlok: A-Alright.

***

Orlok: ...I found the closet.

Gilbert: Looks normal to me.

Nicola: Hey, Direttore? You've been quiet for a while. Come on, say something interesting.

Direttore: ...Ridiculous.

Dante: Where did all his tension from before go!?

Gilbert: H-Hey, you okay? Is your stomach hurt or something?

Direttore: ...I'm not interested in peeking into someone else's room.

Nicola: Hey, your real self is starting to show, you know? Be careful.

Direttore: ...Oops. I sincerely apologize for the mistake, letting out my honest opinions like that.

Orlok: ...I found the closet. It doesn't look suspicious.

Nicola: Where should we go next? He lives in a one-room apartment so there's nothing to look at.

Orlok: The balcony, maybe?

Gilbert: Nice idea. Let's take a look. Maybe he has a kitchen garden or something.

Orlok: Then, I'll open the curtain…

Opens.

Orlok: ...This is…

Dante: ...A cage.

Nicola: A cage.

Direttore: That's undoubtedly a cage.

Dante: This must be… the cage he uses for "Love and Madness of Animal Channel", right?

Orlok: To observe the animals…?

Gilbert: Y-Yea. Let's just think it that way.

Nicola: But any animals who could go into this cage… For example…

Direttore: Human beings.

All: …….

Nicola: ...Let's just pretend we do not see it.

Dante: I-I agree. My capo's intuition tells me this isn't something you can touch carelessly.

Orlok: Y-Yes. I'll close the curtain.

Closes.

Toma: …..

Orlok: !!?

Toma: ...Did you see?

Orlok: I-I didn't…

Toma: Really?

Orlok: (gulps)

Toma: Fine. Follow me, I just finished cooking.

Orlok: O-Okay.

Toma: I could only make this much.

Orlok: Whoa… Amazing.

Gilbert: How could he make this many in such a short amount of time!?

Dante: Now that I look at it again, what are those strange ingredients!?

Toma: You're in your growth period, right, Orlok? Eat a lot.

Orlok: Tha-Thank you. But is it really okay for me to eat this much…?

Toma: This is Latium's famous Volcano Bocca, a soup containing shrimps, shellfish and vegetables. You can warm up your body with this.

Direttore: Latium… I feel like I heard about it somewhere.

Orlok: I'm digging in...ugh!

Dante: A-Are you okay!? Did he put in poison or--!?

Orlok: S-Spicy… But it has such deep flavors…

Toma: These are steamed crab dumplings, dobin-mushi, and fried sesames. I used the vegetables from Kaga, queen crabs and barracuda stocks.

Orlok: T-These are great too! It tastes like something a pro chef makes.

Nicola: I get him. They look like the high-quality food you receive at the inns around Kanazawa.

Gilbert: That's an awfully detailed comment you have there.

Dante: Where is Kanazawa, anyway…?

Nicola: A place with the best onsen around.

Toma: I also have a cake. I heard your birthday is on April 23? Mine is on April 12. Since our birthdays fall on the same month, I made it for celebration.

Orlok: T-Thank you… Hehe… I'm happy…

Dante: …

Direttore: What is wrong, signore? Are you jealous he got sweets?

Dante: W-Why would I…!? I-I-I just think the appearance gets my taste buds tingling…!

Nicola: Endure it for a while. I'll buy you gelato after this.

Gilbert: Anyway, how come Toma knows Orlok's birthday?

Nicola: ...Now that you mention it…

Dante: …

Direttore: Let's put that aside. It's better to keep that a secret.

Orlok: (munch munch)

Toma: How? Is it tasty?

Orlok: Yeah. ...It makes me happy.

Dante: I don't know how to explain it but seeing Orlok eat makes me feel peaceful…

Nicola: I get you. Seeing Gilbert and Yang eat doesn't make me this happy. It's not heart-warming at all.

Gilbert: Yang aside, why do you have to connect it to me?

Yang: For crying out loud, don't put me and Redford on the same shoes.

Nicola: ...Oh? I'm sure I already locked you up. You broke out already?

Yang: Of course. After receiving such a warm welcome, I should give my thanks…

Gilbert: S-Stop it, Yang! Don't pull out your blade!

Dante: You too, Nicola! Put your gun away! We're still filming!

Direttore: Oh… What a scandalous dispute. It pains my heart.

[We are experiencing poor reception issues. Please enjoy this beautiful view of Sakura.]

Orlok: Thanks for the food.

Direttore: What a good boy. He ate them all without leaving anything.

Toma: Amazing, you ate them all by yourself. I was planning to put the leftovers into a container so you can share it with the others.

Gilbert: I wanted to try some after seeing so many interesting foods like those.

Orlok: So-Sorry. All of them were delicious so I just…

Dante: It's all right. Finishing them off is part of the rules so you didn't do anything wrong.

Nicola: Great job, Orlok. We have enough footage with this.

Orlok: Thanks for today, Toma. I'll be going now.

Toma: Ah, wait a minute. I actually have a request for you.

Orlok: ?

Toma: I still need more footage for my channel, can you help me with that?

Gilbert: Well, why not? He helped us wrap up the filming without any troubles.

Dante: We should return the favor.

Orlok: Okay. I'd like to help if there's anything I can do.

Toma: Great to hear that. Now--.

Can you get into the cage?

Orlok: ….Huh? ...What?

Toma: I've been keeping my eyes on you. Since you look like a small animal, it’s just perfect.

Gilbert: I see, so it's come to this…

Toma: I figured you'll be lonely so I put some plushies inside.

Orlok: T-That's not the problem here…

Toma: Now, now. You can't tell unless you try. Get in there.

Orlok: I don't want to--.

Toma: Only you can do this, Orlok. Please.

Orlok: ….

Toma: Can you look here? ...Yes, nice. It'll gain more viewers, I'm sure.

Orlok: Can I… get out of here already?

Toma: No, you just got in here. Oh, right. I have some chains. Can you put them on?

Dante: Even chains… This is abnormal…

Orlok: U-Uuuhhh… Guys, what should I do…?

Nicola: You'll be fine, Orlok. It surprisingly suits you.

Direttore: I agree. I'm sure there are people who are into this kind of thing.

Orlok: ...I'm not fine at all…

Toma: It's not as cute as hamster, but there's a huge demand for something like this. Do you mind if I turn it into a series if it gets good feedback?

Orlok: !!?

Toma: I think we were meant to meet. Shin would scold me again if he were here, though.

Orlok: I want to go home…

Toma: Hm? You want to meet him? He's off for another recording right now, so he probably won't return for a while.

Orlok: ….

...I realized something. I shouldn't trust others. The only one I could rely on is myself…

Toma: Haha. That's a nice expression you have there. With that said, it all depends on you guys whether I should make this a series or not. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel!

T/L Notes:  Dobin-mushi: Food steam-boiled in an earthenware teapot

[roman-catholic-mass-readings]

23rd September >> Mass Readings (USA)

Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) 

on

Saturday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Saturday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the feria (Saturday))

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Saturday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading 1 Timothy 6:13-16 Keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Beloved: I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5

R/ Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.

Sing joyfully to the LORD all you lands; serve the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful song.

R/ Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.

Know that the LORD is God; he made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends.

R/ Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise; Give thanks to him; bless his name.

R/ Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.

For he is good: the LORD, whose kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness, to all generations.

R/ Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation cf. Luke 8:15

Alleluia, alleluia. Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Luke 8:4-15 As for the seed that fell on rich soil, they are the ones who embrace the word and bear much fruit through perseverance.

When a large crowd gathered, with people from one town after another journeying to Jesus, he spoke in a parable. “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled, and the birds of the sky ate it up. Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew, it withered for lack of moisture. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew, it produced fruit a hundredfold.” After saying this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear.”

Then his disciples asked him what the meaning of this parable might be. He answered, “Knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God has been granted to you; but to the rest, they are made known through parables so that they may look but not see, and hear but not understand.

“This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God. Those on the path are the ones who have heard, but the Devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved. Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, but they have no root; they believe only for a time and fall away in time of temptation. As for the seed that fell among thorns, they are the ones who have heard, but as they go along, they are choked by the anxieties and riches and pleasures of life, and they fail to produce mature fruit. But as for the seed that fell on rich soil, they are the ones who, when they have heard the word, embrace it with a generous and good heart, and bear fruit through perseverance.”

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) 

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Saturday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading Galatians 2:19-20 I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me.

Brothers and sisters: Through the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5

R/ Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored.

R/ Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around your table.

R/ Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. The LORD bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

R/ Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation Matthew 23:9b, 10b

Alleluia, alleluia. You have but one Father in heaven; you have but one master, the Christ! Alleluia, alleluia.

Or: Matthew 28:19a, 20bc

Alleluia, alleluia. Go, and teach all nations, says the Lord; I am with you always, until the end of the world. Alleluia, alleluia.

Or: Mark 1:17

Alleluia, alleluia. Come after me, says the Lord, and I will make you fishers of men. Alleluia, alleluia.

Or: Luke 4:18

Alleluia, alleluia. The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives. Alleluia, alleluia.

Or: John 10:14

Alleluia, alleluia. I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know my sheep, and mine know me. Alleluia, alleluia.

Or: John 15:5

Alleluia, alleluia. I am the vine, you are the branches, says the Lord: whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit. Alleluia, alleluia.

Or: John 15:15b

Alleluia, alleluia. I call you my friends, says the Lord, for I have made known to you all that the Father has told me. Alleluia, alleluia.

Or: 2 Corinthians 5:19

Alleluia, alleluia. God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Matthew 16:24-27 Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay each one according to his conduct.”

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

[with-love-ally]

🌻January Dumplings🌻

Hello dear internet!

Kamusta? I know, it’s already February and I’m done with my first semester for this year. Next semester, I will finally take up my pre-service teaching and be officially “gradwaiting” (yey confetti). Wow, three years ago I was so giddy with the idea of practice teaching and sharing experiences with students. But two years into this pandemic and that feeling somehow grew a little bit out of me. :( It would’ve been nice and interesting to teach kids in an actual in-person class. Because as someone with enough resources for this new normal learning set up and still struggles, imagine for students who cannot avail the same privilege. And the amount of additional works and problems given to teachers, it actually makes me rethink “should I still go for this?” ('te reality lang talaga). I know certainty is a question, but I’m still hoping for better days. I kept reminding myself that the chance to make the world a little kinder starts with what you can offer. I’m not an angel and I definitely have financial shits to think of. I’m still wondering how far my “ambags” will go. Chariz. (I need money kadi mga mars. I have baby number 2 coming up. pls pabulong naman diyen)

Anyway, here’s a photo I saw on Facebook the other day. And it was something that was stuck in my mind ever since.

It’s not just “grief”. I think it applies in whatever we feel: from pain to passion. Sometimes, the world is bigger than what you think it is, and so are you. Stay safe and sane everyone.

With love,

Ally

⬇️⬇️⬇️ I dont have many ganaps, but here's some 2D dumps ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Baby 2 Update! I'm on my 2nd/3rd trimester na. We're planning to have a "gender" reveal this February. Does the bb number 2 have pepe or tete hahahaha I'm very thankful to my sisters-in-law (ate gina and maymay) and ate (nanay) Sharm for planning our party huhu my heart loves you three so much mwaaaa I'm so excited!!!! 😍

Pio's "House" This is Pio's tent gifted by his daddy (isama mo na rin ako kunyare) last christmas. When I was young, I always dream on having my own smol house for bahay-bahayan and Jep always dream on having his own tent. We are so happy Pio's able to achieve that dream for us. Char. Yes, I always tick off "clean and organize Pio's toys" everyday on my to-do list. As a virgo, I love organizing. But as a mom, sometimes, I just don't have a choice.

Mi Pamilia. ♥

Spent some January nights re-watching our old favorite movies.

Building and playing legos

Random singing of Encanto's movie soundtracks. Pio's ultimate favorite song: WE DONT TALK ABOUT BRUNO. He even sings it while he poops and takes bath. 🎶 THUNDEEEERRRRRR 🎶

End of Sem. Ending my semester with virtual demo teaching in one of my subjects. Sleepyhead, Pio. Slept for almost 12 hours grabe!!! Di nagpatinag sa boses ko habang nagtuturo! (Photo below: accidentally screenshot or captured myself while setting up my phone). Also, we're finally done with the final manuscript of our thesis! Orayts.

SIX YEARS. I love you, Jep! Tuloy lang ang biyahe, mahal. ♥

😊 January Daily Bean Moods 😊

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Bari: L’inaugurazione del birrificio sociale “Fuori Orario” finanziato dal bando Urbis

Bari: L’inaugurazione del birrificio sociale “Fuori Orario” finanziato dal bando Urbis. Si terrà domani, venerdì 26 maggio, alle ore 20.30, presso l’ex Scuola Media Statale “A. Moro”, nel quartiere San Pio, alla presenza del sindaco Antonio Decaro e dell’assessora alle Politiche educative e giovanili Paola Romano, l’inaugurazione del birrificio sociale “Fuori Orario”, realizzato grazie al finanziamento del bando comunale Urbis all’interno della vecchia palestra scolastica, per oltre vent’anni abbandonata e ripetutamente vandalizzata. “Fuori Orario” è oggi uno spazio sociale gestito dai ragazzi del quartiere che hanno appreso le tecniche della produzione di birra artigianale immersi in un luogo da reinventare nel quale co-progettare eventi aggregativi e culturali con l’obiettivo di promuovere una maggiore inclusione culturale e sociale. Capofila del progetto la cooperativa sociale GET, attiva sul territorio da circa 20 anni con l’esperienza dell’Accademia del Cinema Ragazzi, in ATS con l’associazione “Ragazzi di San Pio”, destinatari diretti dell’intera l’operazione: sono loro, infatti a occuparsi della produzione della birra e della gestione del birrificio con il supporto del circolo Arci “La stanza di Cesco”. “Quella di domani non è una semplice inaugurazione ma l’apertura di una porta sul futuro di ragazze e ragazzi che hanno deciso di credere in loro stessi e investire su una opportunità di riscatto per la loro vita e per il quartiere dove sono cresciuti e hanno scelto di vivere - dichiara il sindaco Decaro -. Dai “ragazzi di San Pio” in questi anni abbiamo imparato che non è il quartiere in cui nasci a decidere chi sei o cosa farai nella vita ma ogni individuo è padrone del proprio destino. Quando li ho incontrati la prima volta quasi con diffidenza mi hanno accolto tra loro, in un locale della palestra che avevano letteralmente occupato. Da quel momento in poi, con l’aiuto della città e grazie allo straordinario lavoro che porta avanti a San Pio l’Accademia del Cinema Ragazzi, abbiamo stretto un’alleanza basata innanzitutto sulla fiducia reciproca e sull’impegno a sostenerci nel percorso di riqualificazione e valorizzazione di quello spazio del quartiere che avremmo affrontato insieme. Il risultato di quell’alleanza è questo birrificio e la voglia di questi ragazzi e di tutta San Pio di vivere delle proprie scelte, costruendosi una possibilità e provando a dare il proprio contributo alla comunità”. La realizzazione di “Fuori Orario” è stata possibile anche grazie al co-finanziamento di: Fondazione Opere Laiche Palatine Pugliesi, Cippone&diBitetto srl e ANCE-Puglia e a una rete solidale di aziende e cittadini che hanno voluto offrire il loro contributo e sostegno a questo progetto. Nel corso dell’inaugurazione sarà possibile degustare le birre prodotte dai ragazzi - Kieślowski (Keller-Pils), Fassbinder (Weiss), Lynch (Ipa) e Burton (Stout)- e assistere al concerto dei The Rumblers, al termine del quale è previsto il Dj Set di Japanorama. L’evento, a ingresso libero, è aperto a tutti.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article