#ulma family

[indynerdgirl]

My friend's brand new baby girl, Vianney, who was born on Sept 1st, has been in the NICU since Thursday (Sept 14th) and has just been diagnosed with hemimegalencephaly. It's a rare, non-hereditary genetic mutation that caused a malformation of one side of her brain, causing seizures. She'll have to stay in the hospital for several more weeks while they try to get her seizures to slow down. She needs brain surgery but has to make it to 6 months before she can have it. Unless a miracle happens, she will need special care her whole life.

I work for the Little Sisters of the Poor and one of the sisters has suggested we start a novena asking for the intercession of the newly beatified Ulma Family, particularly asking for the special intercession of their unborn baby that was beatified with them, for a complete healing of Vianney.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could spread the word to everyone you know, asking them to help pray for a miracle for little Vianney and her family.

Parents are Jennifer & Shad, and Vianney has two older sisters, Cecilia & Zelie.

Prayer for the Intercession of the Ulma Family

Almighty and eternal God,

we thank You for the testimony of the heroic love of the spouses Józef and Wiktoria with their children, who gave their lives to save persecuted Jews.

May their prayers and example support families in Christian life and help everyone to follow the true path of holiness.

Lord, if it is in accordance with Your will, kindly grant the grace for the complete healing of little Vianney, for which we are asking You through their intercession and count them among the Blessed.

Through Christ Our Lord

Amen

Our Father..., Hail Mary..., Glory Be...

#prayers #prayer #prayer request #prayer requests #ulma family #catholic #catholic church #saints #tumblr catholic #tumblr catholics #christian #novena #novenas #miracle needed #catholic prayer #catholic prayers

[girlysword]

Archbishop Gądecki: Ulma family a ‘symbol of Poles rescuing Jews’ - Vatican News

An entire family was martyred for sheltering Jews and they are all being beatified tomorrow. The youngest was born while the mother was dying.

#martyrs #beatification #catholic #poland #ulma family

[marietheran]

you know how you can get used to something terrible if you hear about it many times?

if the germans during ww2 caught a pole giving shelter to a jew they would execute them and their whole family. i've known that since forever, it seems to me. round here you first hear about the ulma family when you're 10 or so... maybe less and then again once in a while. for the last years of the beatification process it's been incessant, to the point that, as bad as this may sound, i started to get bored of hearing about them. how many times can you say the same thing.

anyway, yesterday night, something brought them to my mind all of a sudden and i realised once again. they shot the children. they shot the children.

something that terrible can become mundane through constant repetition. and then you realise it's not.

#original post #therese rambles #ww2 #history #poland #ulma family

[immaculatasknight]

Our hope is eternal

#Poland #Catholic #Ulma Family #marriage #parents #heroism #Jews #martyrs #beatification #history #remembrance

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Ok let's go, nominating venerable martyrs Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children! The pair are recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, and all of the family are to be beatified this September, including their youngest unborn child! Talk about youth recognition in the Church ;)

I found out about them this winter while TTC and I am now 5 months along! I didn't pray about it specifically but well, I do feel as if they are wise family friends to us here. :)

HOLY SHIT THIS FAMILY IS COOL

They hid a family of Jews during WW2 (good) and were killed by Nazis (not good) but they'll all be beatified soon!

I would LOVE to include them but since they won't be beatified till September, maybe we can hold another beatified battle next year????

#the ulma family #ww2 #catholic saint tournament #catholicism #catholic #catholic saints

[maegalkarven]

Another good Astarion/Durge parallel is when Ulma tells Astarion:

"You've lived a life of violence and sin. You've stolen lives, broken families, and caused immeasurable grief. Doing this will not right those wrongs. But it will be a start. You may still be redeemed."

Every single word in that applies to Durge as well. No amount of good deeds will cancel out the horrors they inflicted. But doing so, acting against their father's will, denying him?

It would be a start.

#screaming crying throwing up #idc those parallels are killing me #monster on monster romance #monster on monster recovery #bg3 really says 'astarion did horrible things and so did durge. but the don't have to be defined by their past.' #they can do better. BE better #bg3 #astarion #dark urge #durge #baldurs gate 3 #avery.txt #dark urge: june #meanwhile levi feels no remorse #remorse machine isn't broken it was never installed in the first place

[zawissius]

The blessed Ulma family - Oleg Czyżowski.

#Poland #Polska #Ulma #catholicism #Ulmowie #2023 #catholic #art #painting #Oleg Czyżowski

[sakrumverum]

Heute beginnt die Novene für die Seligsprechung der Familie Ulma ➡️ https://de.catholicnewsagency.com/news/13953/heute-beginnt-die-novene-fur-die-seligsprechung-der-familie-ulma

[veilkeeper]

Ulma: But things have changed. You have changed. Is it true you left your master? That you broke the spell that binds you to him? Astarion: Well, I mean... kind of? It's a long story, honestly. Roz: What business is it of yours? Ulma: For those your friend stole from us, it is a matter of life and death. We have tried to save our children once already, attacking Cazador Szarr's palace at first light. Even then, it was too well defended. But if his own spawn approached? Someone he thought he could control? He would throw his doors open and welcome you in. And once inside, you could do what we could not. You could save the children you damned. Astarion: You don't know Cazador like I do - he's merciless. You want me to march into the lion's den and save your children, but I promise you, they're already dead. Roz: How can you be sure, Astarion? Astarion: I spent two hundred years bringing him victims. Each and every one was whisked away to be fed on that night. Ulma: But you never saw him feed yourself? He could keep prisoners for days before killing them. If our children are truly gone, then we ask for blood. I know you can understand that, spawn. Roz: You owe them revenge, Astarion. If nothing else, you owe them that. Astarion: I suppose... Yes. Yes, revenge I can do. Ulma: You have lived a life of violence and sin. You have stolen lives, broken families, and caused immeasurable grief. Doing this will not right those wrongs. Astarion: If you're trying to encourage me, you're failing abysmally. Ulma: But it will be a start. You may still be redeemed.

this is a long one, but i didn't want to cut anything out because i think the whole exchange is really fascinating! it's interesting to see astarion be confronted with people he has hurt - people he hurt under cazador's orders, of course, but people he hurt nonetheless. until now, astarion's been in control of the narrative around what he's done... which has really resulted in him being very vague and dancing around what he, specifically, had done. but he can't really downplay the implications when ulma's right here telling us he condemned children to death. it's kind of a vulnerable moment for astarion, and you do see him get a little defensive there.

but hey, we're going to kill cazador anyway. might as well give the gur some peace of mind while we do it.

#also SHOCKED that ulma was willing to talk to us after we killed gandrel.... #i sort of feel bad maybe ill bring his crossbow over and leave it on the ground here.... #astarion #ulma #gur #roz pt #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 dialogue

[loulou1943]

The entire Ulma family, including one unborn child, will be beatified in Markowa, Poland.

[indynerdgirl]

[Image Text: Please, please, please, if you even so much as glance at this post - share it for us and help us storm heaven!!! Our little girl needs a miracle and I beg any and every one of you to pray, pray, pray! Even if you don't know how to pray, please just ask God to heal Vianney’s brain. Now is the time for her miracle. We are devastated. Ever since we first found out about her diagnosis of left hemimegalencephaly, we have been praying and asking you all to pray that her right brain be spared. And you have shown up and helped us pray for this intention! All along the doctors have told us how strong and beautiful her right brain looked. However, this all changed sometime in the night between Friday and Saturday. At a time when we thought we were in the clear and were actually making plans to go home in a couple of weeks (!), something happened. The doctors can't explain it, they are looking into every avenue, as this was completely unexpected and unexplainable. She was awake. She was breathing on her own. She was moving. Shad was with her Friday night and video chatted me and I could not wait to see her the next day, finally alert! But suddenly very early that morning she took a turn and stopped responding. That's when her seizures started and they were indeed coming from the right side this time, due to whatever injury the right side sustained. They said her injury looks consistent with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy but none of her vitals ever changed and her labs have remained great. There is truly no explanation at this time. My heart is broken. I cry out to God to understand why, in this final moment, when we were so close to her recovery, did this happen? I am trusting in Him with all my might and KNOW in my heart and soul that He is loving her far greater than I, but oh man I am absolutely broken. She has lost 40-60% of function in her right brain. Even typing it out and reading it in this post is too cruel to bear. They don't expect that she is in dire life threatening circumstances yet but they also can't say that her brain won't be injured further - since we still don't have a cause. Even if she survives all of this and is able to come home, we don't yet know what kind of life our little, beautiful perfect girl will have with only 25% of her brain. At this point, the most basic expectation is that she will not be able to walk or talk along with many other difficulties. She is outside of what they can do (other than trying to prevent more damage) and is truly in God's hands now. I told our priest yesterday before we got the full news - perhaps God is giving us the most dire of circumstances to give us the most miraculous of recoveries. In a world that needs to witness a miracle more than ever, I am praying to God that He show us one now. Please, please, please, keep praying for our Vianney - that her brain is completely healed and she can defy all medical expectations. And if now is the time for a miracle, then we are asking you to also beg for the prayers of the Blessed Ulma family. Soon I will share more about this incredible family, but for now we are asking them to pray along with us for our little Vianney’s miracle!]

Please storm heaven for my friend's little girl! 🙏

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Prayer for the Intercession of the Ulma Family

Almighty and eternal God,

We thank You for the testimony of the heroic love of the spouses Józef and Wiktoria with their children, who gave their lives to save persecuted Jews.

May their prayers and example support families in Christian life and help everyone to follow the true path of holiness.

Lord, if it is in accordance with Your will, kindly grant the grace for the complete healing of little Vianney, for which we are asking You through their intercession and count them among the Blessed.

Through Christ Our Lord

Amen

Our Father…, Hail Mary…, Glory Be…

#prayer request #prayer #prayers needed #blessed ulma family #catholic #tumblr catholics #yes i have permission to share all of this #jennifer's fb is public due to her A Love So Strong ministry

[crossdressingdeath]

Ulma: You have lived a life of violence and sin. You have stolen lives, broken families, and caused immeasurable grief. Doing this will not right those wrongs. Astarion: If you're trying to encourage me, you're failing abysmally. Ulma: But it will be a start. You may still be redeemed.

I love how Ulma bluntly tells Astarion "You can't fix what you've done, but you can do better in the future". Sure, it's not an encouraging thing for Astarion to hear! But it's also true; trying to save the children he brought to Cazador won't make it so he didn't take them to Cazador to begin with. Pretending otherwise isn't going to help anyone.

Also, this conversation definitely hits different on a Durge run. Lots of the companions have excellent potential dynamics with Durge, but Astarion's is definitely one of the more fun ones! ...Partially because the other companions with fantastic potential dynamics with Durge don't get nearly enough attention in the writing but still. There's this shared thing of "You've done terrible things, it wasn't entirely your fault and you may not have liked it or wanted it but you still did it and you have to live with that" between them and it's absolutely fantastic.

#bg3 #astarion #bg3 durge

[deaconjohn1987]

#saints #martyrs

[astarion-appreciation-station]

early act 3, Astarion past:

Ulma: He will throw his doors open to you, lower his defences, and you will save the children you damned.

Ulma: You have lived a life of violence and sin. You have stolen lives, broken families, and caused immeasurable grief. Doing this will not right those wrongs. But it will be a start. You may still be redeemed.

Damn, didn't expect to confront the consequences of my (past) actions so soon.

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #first playthrough

[theologyforthelayman]

Polish family’s martyrdom paves way for beatification

Józef and Wiktoria Ulma secretly gave shelter to eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland Published: January 28, 2023 05:19 AM GMT Updated: January 28, 2023 05:21 AM GMT Urszula Niemczak keeps a regular schedule. At least twice a week she carefully checks whether winter decorations or fresh flowers growing in the summer […]Polish family’s martyrdom paves way for beatification

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#martyrdom #martyrs #sainthood

[ruminativerabbi]

Rosh Hashanah 5784

It’s been a complex, difficult year, this one that now finally draws to its close. Tension in Israel between those either side of the PM’s efforts dramatically to diminish the power of the Supreme Court made some wonder if Israel would in the future the same place it was in the past. Tension on the West Bank rose and continues to rise precipitously—both the kind related to violence directed against Jewish settlers in the heartland of ancient Eretz Yisrael and the kind directed against Palestinian Arabs who too live in that place and have for centuries. On the home front, anti-Semitic incidents reached a new peak in our nation’s history. A full quarter of our nation’s Jewish college students reported having witnessed or been the victims of anti-Semitic assaults on our nation’s campuses. And both of our nation’s major political parties have made room in their ranks for overt anti-Semites, both the kind who hide their bigotry behind a thin veil of anti-Israelism and those who don’t bother hiding it at all. So it would be easy to look back and say, basically, good riddance to a year filled with worry, anxiety, and violence.

Nor does the future feel particularly inviting these days. The year to come could well be the year that Iran finally becomes a full-fledged nuclear power, an eventuality both President Obama and President Trump promised explicitly (and on multiple occasions) that our country would prevent from ever happening and yet which seems to be about to happen nonetheless. The United Nations, once a true force for good in the world, continues apparently to have nothing to do with its time (and its gigantic budget) other than to work to support the enemies of Israel. In our own nation, gun violence will surely continue to increase—and we are already at the point at which a mass shooting in which no record is set with respect to the killed and wounded is not considered front-page news. The political turmoil in Israel will surely continue until there are new elections—and then only if Bibi is sent on his way and coalition representing a large majority of voters (and not a razon-thin majority of them) is put in place. And there is no reason at all to expect the dramatic changes in weather—the extreme heat, the rising seas, the shrinking ice caps, the unprecedented wave of forest fires and smoke pollution—there is no reason at all to expect that all just to go away on its own now that we’ve all had more than enough of it.

It would be easy—more than just easy—to throw up our hands and declare defeat. I feel that way all the time! And yet I also feel—and truly believe—in the power of the few to alter the course of the many. And I believe as well the power of the individual—and not just the famous ones like Rosa Parks or Malala Yousafzai, but regular, garden-variety individuals like ourselves—to alter the course of history, one good deed at a time.

I was reading a terrible story in the paper the other day, the story of the Ulma family, people of whom I had never heard and probably would never have heard of had the Pope not beatified them as potential saints of the Church last week. But their story has to do with Jews, not with other Catholics: Josef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children were murdered by the Nazis on March 24, 1944, for the crime of having hidden two Jewish families who would otherwise have been deported to their deaths in the camps. (The eight Jews they hid, seven adults and a child, were murdered the same day and by the same execution squad.) Also, Wiktoria Ulma was pregnant at the time and her unborn child too was beatified. (There is something both strange and very stirring in that detail as well: because the unborn child was obviously not baptized, it should theoretically not have been a candidate for beatification. But because the thought that the family would be honored but not its soon-to-be born youngest member was unacceptable, the Pope determined that the child had indeed been baptized…in the blood of its murdered mother, a woman whose sole crime was refusing to be party to the murder of Jews. Whether that decision can be justified with respect to canon law, I have no idea. But the thought of the Church recognizing the concept of an infant being baptized in the blood of a woman paying with her life for having hidden Jewish people from their more than willing executioners is particularly moving to me.)

I have read a thousand stories like this—each tree on the Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem represents a similar story about regular, everyday people risking everything so as not to be party to evil—but I never fail to be moved by them. Would I have had that courage, that moral stamina? I’d like to think so. But which of us really knows what he or she would do in such a situation, one in which acting bravely and nobly requires putting your own children’s lives on the line as well as your own?

And so I return to the power of the individual. The Nazis had the guns and the ammunition, as well as the depraved indifference to the value of human life necessary to murder children. The Ulmas had no weapons at all and were armed solely by their faith and their absolute refusal to be party to evil. Yet which of us would say that that Ulmas did not alter the course of the world with their actions? And, yes, I say that fully aware of the fact that the people they protected did not survive, as did they also not. Nor am I troubled in this by the fact that until this week I hadn’t ever heard of them. Instead, I find myself certain that the world itself exists in our day because of their willingness to do good in theirs. And, no, I can’t prove that. But it’s still what I think.

Single acts by decent people possessed solely of the will to do good in the world—that is something we are all capable of…if we find the courage to act. The world is awash in violence, but I truly do believe that the Jewish woman who lights her Shabbat candles in the privacy of her own home, consciously ushering light into the world and bearing witness to the presence of God in that space—that that single person has the capacity to alter history far more profoundly than masses intent on doing evil.  And communities of faith exist precisely to foster that kind of behavior. And that worldview as well.

And so, as 5784 dawns with all that it will bring us, I invite you all to join me in stepping into that picture. The world is awash with haters, bigots, racists, and anti-Semites. We can throw up our hands and declare defeat in advance. Or we can address evil in the world by lighting a candle, by putting a coin in the pushkeh, by coming to shul, by saying a chapter of the Psalms, by reciting the Shema…and so forth. We belong to a community dedicated to the finest Jewish values, to tradition, and to the foundational belief that the redemption of the world will be triggered not by demagogues haranguing their audience and not by generals leading their armies into battle, but by children reciting the Shema, by women lighting their candles, by people willing to stand up and be counted on the side of righteousness, justice, and decency. And that, in a nutshell, is what these High Holidays soon to be upon us are about.

#Rosh Hashanah #Righteous Gentiles