Dona nobis pacem (Ecclesiastical Latin: "Give us peace")

banned from adding stops to the road trip (hill i wanted to walk up was judged a ‘very small mountain,’ the view from the top was of the absence of a view, added time to the drive so we would go past a giant ant statue)

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Ad astra per aspera

"To the stars through difficulties / a rough road leads to the stars"

It’s the motto of many groups (both real and fictional) including government entities, schools, research institutions, fraternities/sororities. It appears in novels including "to kill a mockingbird” and “red rising.” It’s the starfleet motto in star trek. It appears in many songs. It’s the title of a tribute exhibit to the apollo i astronauts and written on a plaque at the site where they died. and it’s recorded, in morse code, on the track called “sounds of the earth,” on the voyager golden records that are on voyager 1 and 2 that are intended to represent the human species to any other life out there that may come across the spacecraft in the distant future.

Si vis pacem para bellum

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

From Wikipedia: "The phrase Si vis pacem, para bellum is adapted from a statement found in Roman author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's tract Dē Rē Mīlitārī (fourth or fifth century AD), in which the actual phrasing is Igitur quī dēsīderat pācem, præparet bellum ("Therefore let him who desires peace prepare for war."). The idea which it conveys also appears in earlier works such as Plato's Nomoi (Laws) and the Chinese Shi Ji. The phrase presents the insight that the conditions of peace are often preserved by a readiness to make war when necessary."

“That’s all, King ? On the ground with a simple "slap". Pathetic !”

si vis pacem para bellum but in the teenage girl going insane way

laying in the ditch in the rain listening to "gilded lily" by cults and thinking about optimus prime as a sacrificial lamb to primus, created to be the giving tree and to harvest and cut of himself until there is nothing left

protags

SE VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM CHAPTER 18: BECAUSE IT WAS REAL BONUS: EPILOGUE

Fandom: Rings of Power Pairing: Haladriel/Saurondriel Rating: M Words:  4.8k + 1k (80k) Summary: John Wick AU. For four years, Galadriel has lived a life in freedom. After executing a mission that was supposed to be impossible, losing two of her brothers in the process, she and Finrod got out of the family business. She left the criminal underworld behind her, fully convinced that she would never return—but then her brother’s dead body is found in New York, branded with the Crest of Angband. After Morgoth’s death, Sauron was left with the daunting task of keeping the Angband family from falling apart. For four years, he’s successfully kept the organization together—but then he finds out that one of his underlings has killed Finrod Noldor. The infamous Daughter of the Golden House of Finarfin has been brought back to life, and she’ll be coming for them. To save his organization, he disguises himself as Halbrand; an exiled member of the Angbands’ inner circle. He knows he can’t defeat Galadriel in a fair fight, but he has no intention of playing fair. As Halbrand and Galadriel team up to take down Sauron, they soon realize that there are more forces at play than either of them thought. The Angbands are not the only ones who want to see Galadriel dead, and Galadriel is not the only one who’s after Sauron. (Mind the tags.)

Chapter 18: “I don’t know what you’re trying to accomplish with all of this, but whatever it is, it’s not working,” Galadriel said. “Nothing you say is going to change my opinion of him.”

“I don’t want to change it. I just want you to take a closer look at it.”

The final chapter, where Varda decides that she and Galadriel need to talk.

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The Knights Templar had many great sayings.

Deus Vult

Da Pacem Domine

Shielded by faith we fight

Kyrie Eleison

Some of these we still use today in Catholicism and Christianity.

The Knights are done! Very happy with them. I'll post some better pics in the coming days. I used a lot of techniques I learned from commissions and other artists. They took much longer than I anticipated, but that's ok- commissions and life take the cake.

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Pacem in Terris

Beneath the canopy of stars, in the silence of the cosmos,A seed lies cradled in the womb of earth, its name is "Pacem in Terris."It is the blueprint of a world reborn, the harbinger of harmony,A testament to the divine, an ode to life's dignity.This seed, a sacred trust, holds within its coreThe hope of every heart, the yearning for something more,Where truth and justice kiss, where charity and…

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"Okay, I can do this. You've done this many times before." She told herself as she was right outside the hideout in her Kingdom. They were making good progress on rescuing some of her trapped comrades and getting steadily closer to taking out Marie once and for all and liberating her kingdom from the wedding obsessed maniac that had gotten so close to getting everything that she wanted.

She felt her stomach, still feeling the wound from earlier but pushed it aside. Revolution required sacrifice, and if she were to get the revolution that she had been sought after, then it would require a lot of it. She swung her spear around, attacking a nearby barrel that she decided would be good as target practice. As she was doing this, someone walked up to her and she almost swung at them by accident.

"Oh...it's you, sorry about that. What's up?"

Super short lesson on what an encyclical is: a special letter from the pope that is meant to be addressed to a wide range of people, on a big social issue of the day. The modern concept of papal encyclicals was kicked off by Leo XIII's Rerum novarum, on work and human labor, in which he decried poor working conditions and defended unions and good wages. Papal encyclicals are foundational to what is known as Catholic social teaching or Catholic social thought, the social justice tradition of the Church.

Rerum novarum

Mater et magistra

Pacem in terris

Populorum progressio

Humanae vitae

Evangelium vitae

Fides et ratio

Deus caritas est

Caritas in veritate

Laudato si'

Fratelli tutti

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Ei mulla kuulkaa sinne naapuriin muuta, kuin että sopii vittu yrittää.

me writing this fic: but what if i added MORE drama?