A very good boy may have just earned his place in the church choir. During Mass at The Grotto’s annual Blessing of the Animals on Sept. 20, one husky couldn’t resist joining in when the music began. In a now-viral video filmed by attendee Blanca Gallardo, the pup lets out a series of enthusiastic howls as a priest sings — prompting the priest to walk over and hold a microphone near the furry vocalist. The moment has become an internet hit, with the Instagram Reel drawing 7.1 million views and 741,000 likes. The husky’s owner and identity were not initially known, though Gallardo said she attended the blessing with her own dog, Phoebe. The clip’s comments quickly turned the impromptu duet into a heavenly punchline. One viewer, @kindsi, wrote: “The priest sang, ‘all creatures of our God and King, lift up your voice and let us sing’ and the husky said ‘HaleAWOOOOOyah!’” Honestly, the dog was just following directions. The Blessing of the Animals took place at 3:30 p.m. in The Grotto Plaza. The annual event welcomes people and pets of all faiths and celebrates the “joy, beauty, love, fidelity, encouragement and comfort” that animal companions bring into people’s lives. And if this dog had anything to say about it, that comfort apparently comes with a powerful set of lungs. Today, on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, it seems only right that one enthusiastic husky reminded everyone at Mass that all creatures are invited to lift up their voices, even if that voice is an awe-inspiring “awoooo.” Read more at Churchpop.com! ✍🏻 Claudette Jerez 📹: IG @divine_phoebe

🔥 There is NOTHING more valuable than the presence of God. You can have money, success, influence, possessions, and everything this world has to offer—but none of it compares to being in the presence of God. His presence is worth more than anything this world can give you. 🙏🔥 #GodsPresence #PresenceOfGod #Jesus #HolySpirit #Faith #Christian #Christianity #Prayer #Worship #GodFirst #JesusChrist #FaithOverFear #KingdomOfGod #Bible #ChristianTikTok #ChristianContent

You want to see “precision” here ya go. 💪🇺🇸🔥 Thanks, @Combat_learjet! 🫡

This description of socialism, communism and capitalism is still one of the best of all time.

Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1903 had to pass a doctor’s exam that checked for diseases like tuberculosis and trachoma. In 1906, 12,432 people were turned away at the door. The ones who got in brought $25 MILLION in cash with them, because they knew nobody was going to hand them anything. There was no welfare, no food stamps, and no Medicaid. They had to actually work, or they were sent back. Also, Back in 1903 assimilation was the goal. Congress passed a law in 1906 requiring anyone who wanted citizenship to speak English, and companies like Ford ran their own schools to teach English, safety, and American history. A Ford English School diploma even counted toward a person’s citizenship application. Back when we were a proper country.. 💔💔

I did not come up with this, but I love it still and you should read it : 8 THINGS YOU'LL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW: 1. Someone out there once fell for you and never told you. 2. You made a stranger's day by being you. 3. Someone still remembers something kind you did years ago. 4, You've been the reason someone kept going. 5. Your name has come up in conversations about the best person someone knows. 6. Someone defended you when you weren't in the room. 7, There's someone who checks your messages and smiles 8. Your life inspires people who will never say a word.

2028’s👇 Had dinner with coaches last night Hung out with 15-20 during the afternoon in Fort Myers Just watched a game with 3 more Common theme regarding positional players: “They have to be really freaking good. Even on a ‘bad day’ their actions should stand out amongst the others playing. Speed, hustle, iq, communication on the field, low pulse, 5-8 pitch at bats, etc.” Other concepts: ✅Touch 1B on a pop up or ez ground out ✅Hustle on and off between innings ✅OF throws to 2B to split the runner vs showing off their arm going 4, when the runner scores easily ✅Take 3B if the pitcher isn’t holding you when at 2B ✅Handling cuts well ✅How they call a pop up in the infield - how loud and controlling are they ✅Show off the arm between innings ✅Show “me” you’re a “we” guy Engaging conversations, but as a 2028 offensive prospect, be really really freaking good at your spot They’re looking for you - HS prospects - SEC/ACC down, they’re looking to build with HS prospects - “they’re the ones we can actually develop and get to buy in to our culture” @PG_Tourney #WWBA

STRENGTH, COURAGE, AND DEDICATION ARE WHAT YOU SAW FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TONIGHT 🇺🇸 The storms grounded his plane and his helicopter, and the Secret Service told him Oklahoma was off. Most leaders would have accepted that and called it a night, but Trump doesn't quit when things get hard. He asked how fast the Beast could go, heard close to 100 miles an hour, and ordered everyone into the car. That takes the strength to push through when everyone around you says it can't be done. It takes courage to head out into a storm when the easy choice is to stay put. It takes real dedication to drive through the night because thousands of Oklahomans are counting on you. This is the kind of leader America has been missing, and he shows us who he is every single time 🔥

🔥 ABSOLUTE LEGEND! After HOURS on stage, MORE hours in a car, and a few more hours on a plane, President Trump is STILL doing his full YMCA dance off stage in Oklahoma This is EXACTLY THE SAME ENERGY I want to see from GOP voters in November LET'S DO THIS! 🇺🇸

Tonight the Atlanta Braves play an elimination game against the Philadelphia Phillies, and the man taking the ball first quit baseball to work at a 7-Eleven. Ray Kerr went to Hug High School in Reno, a program that has won 27 games since 2008 and lost 245. He had been to exactly one major league game in his life, a Giants and Athletics game in Oakland when he was 13. He pitched two years at Mendocino College and went 3-7 with a 4.60 ERA. So he quit. Went home to Reno. Took a job at the IMAX theater and a job at the 7-Eleven. Here is how he describes it. "I cleaned up a lot of popcorn. I said, I'm done cleaning up popcorn." And the other one. He "stocked the shelves in the cold fridge, listening to my music, kind of forgetting about baseball." He thought that was the rest of his life. Then a junior college coach named Eric Perry called him. "Let's go back to school. Let's go to Lassen Community College. I still think you have baseball left in you." Here is the part that matters most. Somebody had to pay for that school, and Ray Kerr grew up in foster care. The woman who paid was his foster mother, Lisa McCarthy. In his words. "She's the one who gave me all these opportunities to go back to college, to pay for it if I actually wanted to." He had to earn a 3.5 GPA to get in. He earned it. Then he went 7-4 with a 3.45 ERA over 91 innings. That summer he pitched in Alaska against Division I hitters and put up a 1.11 ERA, and his fastball started doing something it had never done. "I thought I could only throw maximum 92." It kept climbing into the mid 90s. The Seattle Mariners signed him as an undrafted free agent in August 2017. Four years later they traded him to the San Diego Padres, and in April 2022 he walked onto the mound at Petco Park and struck out Justin Turner, Max Muncy and Chris Taylor in order. He called his foster mother first. Then in June 2024, with the Atlanta Braves, he tore his elbow and needed Tommy John surgery. Career over. Again. They re-signed him on a minor league contract. He did not throw a major league pitch again until August 17 of this year. Since that day he has a 1.47 ERA, and left handed hitters are batting .174 against him. Which is why he is getting the ball tonight with Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper due up in the first. Now the honest part. He is an opener, not a traditional starter. He may face six hitters and hand it off. The Atlanta Braves are doing this because of matchups, not sentiment. But a kid from a high school that loses 90 percent of its games, who stocked a cold fridge at a convenience store and figured that was it, is throwing the first pitch of a win or go home playoff game. He is done cleaning up popcorn.

Every HS and college player in America (even 10 and up players these days) … and their parents …need to read these words of a long time MLB Scout. Why? Players don’t seem to believe it when us coaches tell them the same thing. Some do. Most don’t.

Rocky was never really about boxing. That’s why people still connect with it nearly 50 years later. Winning wasn’t beating Apollo. Winning was proving to yourself that you could keep going when nobody expected you to.

ADVICE MY DAD GAVE ME AS A KID THAT STILL GUIDES ME TODAY 1. Always keep some cash in your pocket. 2. Never let your fuel tank get too low. 3. Work hard, but never put work above family. 4. Use your vacation days. You've earned them. 5. Show up for people if you want them to show up for you. 6. Never forget to say thank you. 7. Leave places better than you found them. 8. Put the cart back. Pick up trash, even when it's not yours. 9. Don't brag about your income. 10. Do good things when nobody is watching. 11. It's okay to want nice things, but take responsibility for earning them. 12. Never forget what makes you valuable and different. 13. Stay committed to the things you start. 14. Do what you say you're going to do. 15. Live with integrity, always.

Perhaps one of the hardest lessons of parenthood is discovering how much lies beyond our control. We can love our children, teach them, warn them and try to protect them, but sooner or later they must walk roads we cannot walk for them. Prayer is the recognition that God can go where we cannot. He can reach the child who has wandered far from the Faith, strengthen the one who is struggling, protect the one who is beyond our sight and work silently in a heart that seems closed to everything we might say. That does not mean every prayer will be answered in the way or at the time we expect. Christian hope is deeper than that, it means entrusting those we love to the providence of a Father who loves them even more perfectly than we do. So perhaps one of the greatest things a mother or father can ever do for their children is also one of the simplest: Never stop praying for them. St Padre Pio, pray for our children, and teach us to trust them to God.

TV viewing for today, reruns of Perry Mason and Fulton J. Sheen. 60+ year old programs still entertaining and relevant today. 😍

Be Case Keenum. > Grow up in West Texas. Two-star recruit. One scholarship offer. > Take it. Rewrite the NCAA record book at Houston. > Marry your high school sweetheart, the girl you took out for snow cones before any of this started. > Go undrafted anyway. > Spend your rookie season on the practice squad. > Get cut. Get claimed. Get traded. Start over. > Get your chance in Minnesota when the starter gets hurt. > Throw the Minneapolis Miracle. > Help take the Vikings within one win of the Super Bowl. > Keep moving after that, too. > Eight franchises. Different jerseys. Different playbooks. Another chance to prove you belong. > Through all those moves, keep building a life with the girl. > The girl from the snow-cone date becomes the mother of your two children. > Spend years preparing for opportunities that rarely come. > Go 1,009 days without a start. > Keep showing up. Keep doing the work. Stay ready. > Then, at 38, get the call. Chicago needs you. > Walk onto Monday Night Football. > Throw two touchdowns. Run for another. Beat the Eagles 27–7. > Do it with both your kids watching you play in person for the first time. > Finish the night on SportsCenter with your little girl beside you. All those years. All those moves. All those Sundays waiting for a chance. And when this one finally comes, you fucking crush it with your kids looking on. Imagine what that feels like. There are a lot of ways to teach your children to keep going. Letting them watch you do it has to be one of the best. Absolute legend! 🫡

🚨 Dr. Mary Bowden Predicts the Fallout From mRNA COVID Jabs Will ‘Turn Out Worse Than Thalidomide’ “I continue to see patients in my clinic almost daily whose lives have been completely destroyed by these shots. I've never seen anything like it in medicine … and we have not seen the full fallout because we don't even know the cancer data.”

GIVE GOD THE GLORY. Case Keenum just led the Bears to a beatdown of the Eagles, and the first thing he did was thank God on national TV. He didn't take the credit or talk about himself. He said he wouldn't be there without Him. That's the kind of man kids should look up to, and it's exactly the kind of faith the media wishes athletes would keep quiet about.

What an incredible milestone for the Lt. Dan Band. After more than two decades on the road, this weekend we officially made it to all 50 states! From Pease Air National Guard Base in New Hampshire and Camp Johnson in Vermont, to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York and finally Newport Naval Station in Rhode Island, I found myself thinking about all the places this band has taken us and, more importantly, all the extraordinary people we’ve had the privilege to meet along the way. I’m so grateful to everyone who has welcomed us into their communities over the years and given us the opportunity to say thank you to our nation’s defenders, veterans, first responders, and their families. All 50 states! What a journey. Thank you, America. God bless you! 🇺🇸