Have a Blessed Good Friday 2026

Not too bad for almost 82 and can’t spell worth a heck.

1) Romans 3:23 does not mean literally every individual human being without exception has personally committed sin. If it did, you just made Jesus a sinner. Obviously you recognize an exception because Scripture gives you reason to recognize one. There are others. Infants have not committed personal sins. Paul explicitly speaks of Jacob and Esau before they "had done nothing either good or bad." - Romans 9:11 So "all have sinned" is a statement about the universal human predicament Paul is describing, not a mathematical proposition forbidding every possible exception. The question therefore isn't, "Does Romans 3:23 contain the word all?" The question is whether Scripture gives us reason to recognize Mary as an exceptional recipient of God's grace. 2) And you've overstated the Greek argument. Luke calls Mary: κεχαριτωμένη - kecharitomene That's the perfect passive participle of charitoo, and Gabriel actually uses it in addressing her: "Rejoice, kecharitomene, the Lord is with you." - Luke 1:28 The perfect tense points to an action already accomplished whose effects continue in the present. Ephesians 1:6 does indeed use the SAME ROOT VERB, charitoo. But Paul does NOT call every Christian "kecharitomene." He uses ἐχαρίτωσεν - echaritosen - an aorist active indicative verb describing what God has done for us in Christ. Same lexical root does not mean identical grammatical construction or identical statement. And no informed Catholic argument should be: "Kecharitomene exists, therefore Immaculate Conception. QED." It's one piece of a cumulative biblical case. 3) Mary calling God her Savior is not remotely a problem for the Immaculate Conception. Catholics believe Mary was SAVED BY CHRIST. The doctrine doesn't say Mary didn't need a Savior. It says Christ saved her in an extraordinary way, by preserving her from original sin through the merits of Christ. If I'm falling into a pit and you pull me out, you saved me. If you stop me from falling into the pit in the first place, YOU STILL SAVED ME. In fact, you saved me more perfectly. The Immaculate Conception is not salvation apart from Christ. It is salvation BY Christ applied preventively. 4) Scripture explicitly says God is capable of preserving a human being from falling into sin: "Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory..." - Jude 24 So there's no theological problem with God giving someone sufficient grace to preserve that person from sin. Mary isn't sinless because she's divine. She's sinless by GRACE. That's rather the point. 5) And then there's the larger biblical typology you're ignoring. Genesis 3:15 establishes ENMITY between: THE WOMAN and THE SERPENT and between: HER SEED and HIS SEED. Then Revelation 12 gives us: THE WOMAN THE MESSIANIC CHILD THE ANCIENT SERPENT THE SERPENT WAGING WAR AGAINST HER OFFSPRING. And John rather conspicuously has Jesus call His own mother "WOMAN" both at Cana and from the Cross. - John 2:4, 19:26 Mary is the New Eve precisely because Christ is the New Adam. Eve encounters the serpent, disobeys, and participates in Adam's fall. Mary encounters God's messenger, answers: "Let it be to me according to your word." And through her comes the New Adam who defeats the serpent. That's why the extraordinary grace of Luke 1:28 matters within the larger biblical picture. So no, the Catholic case isn't: "Here's one Greek participle. Dogma established." It's cumulative: Romans 3:23 allows exceptions rather than logically excluding them. Luke uniquely addresses Mary as kecharitomene. Mary absolutely needs and receives salvation from Christ. Jude explicitly says God can preserve someone from falling and present that person without blemish. Genesis introduces the Woman and her Seed in complete enmity with the serpent. John repeatedly calls Jesus' mother "Woman." Revelation returns to the Woman, her messianic Child, and "that ancient serpent." And the early Church recognized the Mary/Eve parallel extraordinarily early. You can argue that this cumulative case doesn't establish the Immaculate Conception. That's a legitimate argument. But "Romans says all and Ephesians uses the same verb" doesn't make the Catholic case disappear. x.com/i/status/1998015900234…

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Movie industry I refuse to watch shows where the background music is louder than the dialog and the background music is annoying on top of that. So stupid 😡

I’m Iranian. Islam has destroyed my country.

The double standard is UNREAL!

Since Lindsay Clancy's trial. 82 mothers have killed 123 of their children. Why is this not being talked about?

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USA Today: "The shooter, a 16-year-old who used a shotgun, was killed by a bystander who was legally carrying a concealed weapon and followed the shooter, the law enforcement source said. Another child and another adult victim were taken to the hospital to receive life-saving measures, and their conditions are touch-and-go, the source said." eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n…

Jack Smith built a database of the name and home address of every single person who bought a MAGA hat between 2021 and 2025. That’s what real fascism looks like.

🚨 A foreigner truck driver is seen peeling off the company name and DOT number off his truck and switching it to a new company The new company he changed it to is DH Trucking LLC in Dearborn Heights, Michigan I looked up the company and it’s operating authority status is “NOT AUTHORIZED” This means the company does not currently have active federal authority to haul freight for hire across state lines. It’s only allowed to operate inside the state This needs to be investigated, you have a foreigner swapping out trucking companies on his truck, and the new company isn’t even authorized to cross state lines Foreigners couldn’t care less about our laws The company is: D H Trucking LL USDOT: 2503008 Physical address: 19250 Plymouth Rd, Detroit, MI 48228 Phone: (734) 224-2211 Company officer: Hameed Alburkat

Please keep a local Catholic family in your prayers. They have ten children, homeschoolers, and the young father passed away this week.

I need prayer. I'm being attacked spiritually, and I'm not okay.

During the pandemic I quit my gym because they mandated masks. I asked the manager if they were losing a lot of members. He told me lost members counted as covid cases if the gym reported those cancelled memberships to the state department of health. What? It wasn't even the names of the members, just how many cancelled, and the gym was reimbursed by the state, is what he told me. I came to old Twitter to post what I'd been told and ask if anyone knew about this. In less than 3 minutes my account was suspended. I was reporting what I'd been told and asking if this was true. And yet, in 3 minutes I had a month long suspension. Twitter (pre-Musk) was here to block truth and punish questioning. How many lives could have been saved if we had been allowed to hear from concerned doctors and citizens? How many truths were blocked by Twitter? Who put old Twitter in charge of our population?

I’m studying the interior castle more as an academic exercise rather than a goal to actually enter the castle very far. Needless to say it’s not easy.

I like the Luminous Mysteries but I’m going to do this Monday Joyful and Luminous Tuesday Sorryful Wednesday Glorious Thursday joyful and Luminous Friday Sorryful Saturday Glorious Sunday Glorious

That’s sovereignty. That’s national pride. That’s how a country stays Japanese. America used to understand this. Time we remembered. Do you support this? 🔥

This is how they treat women under Islam. I will never understand why Western leftist women vote for this.