A Trail Of Night Lights From The International Space Station

You know when a black hole just goes yeet

St Constantine Ukranian Catholic Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

As Christians it is actually our duty to be joyful. We have been commanded unto joy. This is not an impossible ask, for no cross can crush the joy of Christ, not even depression, grief, or sorrow. The joy of the Lord flourishes mysteriously, simultaneously, in the midst of such joy-blackholes; for when our own joy has disippated, God's Joy finally has full room to settle. God does not command the impossible, and so it is only fair that we ask not for Joy like timid slaves, but command it as a right as sons, as daughters of God. Yes, in Christ we possess this right, but only by faith can we claim it, and by the cross can we live it. Let the world have its joy, and we will have ours. Maybe out of envy they will seek out this Christ, this Joy of ours.

womb and the cloud

153 - A Narcissistic Number

153 is a narcissistic number–a number that can be generated from its own digits (so it’s obsessed with itself? hence the narcissism?) like so:

More precisely, a narcissistic number is a natural number that is the sum of its own digits each raised to the power of the number of digits. So since 153 has 3 digits, each digit is cubed and then summed together. There are only four 3-digit  narcissistic numbers:

A very interesting thing about narcissistic numbers is that, unlike may other sets of numbers (e.g., even/odd numbers, prime numbers, triangular numbers, etc.), there are only finitely many of them. In base 10, there are only 88 (10 of them being the 1 digit numbers). The largest narcissistic number has 39 digits, this guy:

115,132,219,018,763,992,565,095,597,973,971,522,401 

Why is this? Essentially, the sum cannot keep up with the size of the number. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_number

there is something about Sunday that makes people obnoxious

Hello, could you please help to spread awarness about the persecution its suffering Catholic Church in Nicaragua for helping the people that has been protesting since last year against the narco-communist regime of Daniel Ortega? They are about to kill priest Roman in Masaya city (they are under siege since last thursday with no water/electricity or any aid) and now the cathedral and 3 more parishes. The communist goons has profaned the cathedral and hit a priest just today. Pray for us urgently

Health of Mothers under Police Siege Deteriorates in a Masaya, Nicaragua Church

HAVANA TIMES – A group of citizens trapped within the San Miguel Archangel Church in Masaya, Nicaragua, currently find themselves dehydrated and with no food. Father Edwin Roman, who suffers from diabetes, has been suffering from fierce headaches due to the lack of food and insulin he needs to control his blood sugar levels.

The Ortega regime’s police have maintained a siege of the church for three straight days, with a police cordon that has closed off a perimeter of 300 meters around the Catholic church.  Electricity and running water were cut off, by government order.  Within the church, the priest is accompanying ten mothers of political prisoners and one female protestor who are on a hunger strike. They’re also accompanied by two released political prisoners, a human rights advocate and one employee of the church.

This is urgent everyone please pray!!

“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.”

— St. Thomas Aquinas