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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
An explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these “sparks” is a direct measure of its ability to develop into an embryo.
In other words, life begins with a flash of light: ow.ly/qO4130nsBqc
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Jesus Christ is the Messiah. He died for our sins, rose again and is coming back. This is the greatest news the world will ever hear!
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Years ago I remember seeing the drawing prompt "cold front". Although I never submitted the design, this is what I made. 🤷♂️
So now I am just submitting it to whoever comes across this post.
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Charlie Kirk debated peacefully on campuses. They killed him.
James O’Keefe exposed Minnesota’s voter scam. They’re trying to imprison him.
Nick Shirley exposed Minnesota fraud. He now requires security.
Trump exposed the Deep State. They arrested him & tried to kill him.
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A New York real estate creator spotted the woman behind one of the city’s most controversial housing laws on the street in Brooklyn, and he didn’t let her walk away quietly.
He followed Deyanira Del Rio, director of the group that pushed for COPA, and called her out on camera, accusing her of pushing communism. COPA gives approved nonprofits the first shot at buying certain apartment buildings when owners decide to sell. Supporters say it keeps housing affordable and protects tenants. Critics say it slows down sales, scares off investors, and could shrink the housing supply in a city already desperate for more. Either way, it says a lot when the people behind a policy won’t stop to defend it.
Does COPA help New York tenants, or will it make the city’s housing crisis worse?
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⚔️🕊️ THE ELEVENTH MONTH. THE ELEVENTH DAY. THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
Did you know that November 11 was a soldier's feast day more than 1,500 years BEFORE it became Armistice Day?
Today is Veterans Day in the United States, Armistice Day or Remembrance Day elsewhere, and the feast of Saint Martin of Tours.
And the history connecting them is almost too good not to put to music.
⚔️ A ROMAN SOLDIER WITH AN UNUSUAL USE FOR HIS SWORD
In the fourth century, Martin was a young Roman soldier stationed in Gaul. Outside the gates of Amiens, he encountered a freezing beggar.
He drew his sword.
Not to attack anyone, but to cut his military cloak in half and give the stranger something warm to wear.
That night, Christ appeared to Martin wearing the cloak.
And here's a fascinating detail: Martin wasn't even baptized yet! He was still a catechumen, preparing to enter the Church.
Later, Martin declared himself a soldier of Christ and refused to fight. Accused of cowardice, he offered to stand unarmed before the enemy. According to his early biographer, the opposing army sought peace before the battle could begin.
⛪ AND THEN THERE'S THE BENEDICTINE CONNECTION...
About 150 years after Martin's death, Saint Benedict established his monastery at Monte Cassino.
What did he do with the pagan temple of Apollo on the mountain?
He converted it into a chapel dedicated to Saint Martin!
We know this because Pope Saint Gregory the Great recorded it in his Life of Saint Benedict.
That's a rather wonderful connection for those of us with Benedictine roots.
🕊️ FAST-FORWARD TO NOVEMBER 11, 1918.
The eleventh month.
The eleventh day.
The eleventh hour.
After four terrible years of war, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.
On the feast day of a Roman soldier who had laid down his weapons.
Was the date deliberately chosen to honor Saint Martin? We don't have evidence of that.
But the coincidence is extraordinary.
And one final historical curiosity: Martin actually died on November 8, AD 397. His feast falls on November 11 because that was the day he was buried.
So today, I'm resharing my bonus Peter's Barque song:
🎶 "The Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour (Saint Martin of Tours)"
It's a story about a soldier, a sword, a cloak, a monastery, and the peace that all soldiers ultimately hope to secure.
On Veterans Day, we honor those who have served, remember those who never came home, and pray for a peace founded on justice and charity.
A sword can wound. A sword can share. And Christ was the beggar standing there.
Saint Martin of Tours, patron of soldiers, pray for us!
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⚔️🕊️ THE ELEVENTH MONTH, ELEVENTH DAY, ELEVENTH HOUR 🕊️⚔️
A Roman soldier. A divided cloak. A Benedictine monastery. And the day the guns fell silent.
November 11 is Veterans Day in America. Armistice Day in much of the world.
But long before the trenches of France, November 11 was already the feast of a soldier.
Saint Martin of Tours.
In the fourth century, Martin was serving in the Roman army when he encountered a freezing beggar outside the gates of Amiens.
He drew his sword.
Not to fight.
He cut his military cloak in two and gave half to the stranger.
That night, Martin dreamed of Christ wearing the very cloak he had given away.
"I was naked and you clothed me." (Matthew 25:36)
Martin eventually refused to take up arms again, declaring himself a soldier of Christ. According to his early biographer, he offered to stand unarmed before the enemy rather than fight. But the opposing forces sought peace before the battle began.
Martin went on to become a monk and bishop.
And here's a connection especially dear to the Benedictine tradition.
When Saint Benedict established Monte Cassino in the sixth century, he replaced a pagan shrine with a chapel dedicated to Saint Martin.
A Roman soldier's act of mercy had become part of the spiritual foundation of Western monasticism.
Then came November 11, 1918.
The eleventh month.
The eleventh day.
The eleventh hour.
After four years of catastrophic war, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.
On the feast of Saint Martin.
We don't know that the date was chosen because of the saint. But the coincidence is extraordinary.
And the symbolism is difficult to miss.
A soldier who used his sword to clothe the poor.
A soldier who laid down his weapons.
A soldier whose feast would one day coincide with the end of the Great War.
This isn't a condemnation of soldiers. The Church has always recognized the legitimacy of defending the innocent and the sacrifice of those who serve.
But it is a reminder of what peace is ultimately for.
Not merely the absence of gunfire.
The presence of charity.
🎶 "The Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour (Saint Martin of Tours)"
To our veterans: thank you for your service.
To the fallen: may God grant you eternal rest.
Saint Martin of Tours, patron of soldiers, pray for us.
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Peter's Barque is a catechetical musical project by Justin West. He's a catechist, not a musician. The music and art are created principally through digital means, including AI-assisted production. The words, research, and creative direction remain his own.
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🥧 IS GOD'S GLORY A PIE? | Honor vs. Worship
Does honoring Mary steal a slice of God's glory? We salute flags, honor military heroes, and celebrate faithful Christians without confusing honor with worship. Why would honoring the saints be different?
🎨 You don't insult the master by praising the masterpiece.
Romans 12:10 tells us to outdo one another in showing honor. Saint Paul says, “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). And Mary herself declares, “All generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me” (Luke 1:48–49).
We honor Mary BECAUSE God has done great things for her. His glory isn't a pie!
💬 Which saint has inspired you to follow Christ more closely?
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One of my earliest commissions was a single line crescent moon. After talking with the client, I learned it was meant to honor a cat they had recently lost.
Around that time, I was experimenting with hiding details in my artwork, so I decided to hide their cat in the moon.
Why does it feel like the desperation for this stuff is going to blow up 8n their faces?
JUST IN - House will vote in the coming weeks on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II after lawmakers completed a petition forcing the legislation to the floor.
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In the late 1980s, Mr. Tape, real name Modris Skaistkalne, was one of the first Soviet DJs to compete at an international level.
The Iron Curtain had cut off the USSR from most Western music for decades. Vinyl records of Western hip hop and funk were essentially impossible to find. State produced Soviet records of Alla Pugacheva and other approved pop stars were useless for the kind of DJing developing in New York and London.
So Mr. Tape improvised. He recorded Western music directly off foreign radio broadcasts onto reels of magnetic tape. Then he taught himself to mix, cut, and scratch using two reel to reel decks.
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Heinrich Hofmann never meant for you to see this painting.
He painted it for one wall. The one over his own bed.
Dresden, 1894. He was about seventy, and one of the most celebrated religious painters in Germany. His Gethsemane is among the most copied paintings in the world. He had painted this face so many times he no longer needed a model.
For his last one, he took no commission. He painted Christ looking straight out of the canvas and hung it where he slept. Every night he looked up at it and asked himself one question.
Have I kept the commandments today?
Now here’s the thing about that face.
Nobody knows what it looked like.
Four gospels. Eighty-nine chapters. Two of them carry the names of men who ate at His table.
Not one tells you the color of His eyes. Not His height. Not His hair.
They tell you what He said. Where He walked. Who He touched. That He slept in a boat and wept at a grave.
About His face, nothing.
That silence is strange, because of what the face of God used to mean.
Exodus 33:20. Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Moses asked to see it. God hid him in a crack in the rock and covered him with His hand until He had passed by.
Then John 1:18. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son... he hath declared him.
John 14:9. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
God got a face. Men looked at it across a supper table for three years. Then they wrote it all down and left the face out.
Watch what happens after the resurrection, and you may see why.
Mary Magdalene stands in front of Him and takes Him for the gardener. She knows Him when He says her name.
Two disciples walk the road to Emmaus beside Him and don’t know who He is. They know Him when He breaks the bread.
Seven men in a boat see Him standing on the shore. John 21:4. The disciples knew not that it was Jesus. They know Him when the net fills.
Three times the people who knew Him best looked right at Him and didn’t know Him.
And every time, what opened their eyes wasn’t His face.
A voice. Bread. A catch of fish. And for Thomas, the wounds.
So every painter has had to guess. Hofmann guessed too. This is not a likeness.
But look at what he put with the face.
Light behind the head. And a raised right hand.
Numbers 6:24–26. The blessing God gave Aaron to speak over Israel.
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
A shining face, turned toward you. That is the blessing.
And the priest gave it with his hand lifted. Leviticus 9:22.
Now the last thing the disciples ever saw Jesus do.
Luke 24:50–51. And he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
He left in the middle of a blessing. Hands up.
The last sight this world had of Him is the one an old man hung over his bed.
Decades later, John saw Him again. John, who had leaned on His chest at supper.
Revelation 1:16–17. His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not.
The face like the sun. And the right hand.
Now go back to the old man’s question.
Five years before this painting, Hofmann painted a man who put that same question to Jesus in person. Christ and the Rich Young Ruler, 1889.
Mark 10:20. Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
Before Jesus answers him, before He names the one thing he lacks, Mark records what His face did.
Mark 10:21. Then Jesus, beholding him, loved him.
He looked at him. He loved him. Then He told him the truth.
Hofmann knew what that question does to an honest man at the end of a day. And he did not hang a judge over his bed.
He hung a hand raised to bless.
Now you.
You lie down under the same question every night. Did I do enough today? Was I enough?
Most nights the honest answer is no.
You have never seen His face. Neither have I.
1 Peter 1:8. Whom having not seen, ye love.
But the day is coming. Revelation 22:4. And they shall see his face.
Until then, you know the look. Mark told you.
Beholding him, loved him.
And you know what His hands were doing when He left.
They’re still up.
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Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States.
PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million.
Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp.
In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono?
More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.
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🥤 ORIGINAL RECIPE. SINCE 33 AD.
Bold faith. No artificial doctrine.
100% Catholic. No substitutions.
Peter's Barque: serving up Catholic catechesis with a little bite. 😏⛵
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