Christine Johnson

Happy Advent! If you’re looking for a way to help teach your children the meaning of Advent & Christmas, may I humbly suggest my Jesse Tree resources from my old blog? domesticvocation.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/kee… There are readings from Dec 1-25. #Advent #Christmas #ReasonForTheSeason #JesseTree

Christians: as you celebrate Palm Sunday this year, remember your brothers and sisters in Jerusalem who are being prevented from doing so.

Speaking from Jordan, the former Custos of the Holy Land makes an appeal for a “great gathering for all” in the name of peace and an end to violence in the Middle East, stressing that the only weapons Christians should use are "prayer and fasting." vaticannews.va/en/church/news…

The cries on the far right from people who say that Alex Pretti wouldn't have brought a gun if he was planning on peacefully protesting are tremendously hypocritical. 2/

@KevinMyattWx @biblebeltman Even during the afternoon snow, Apple’s app insisted we’d had 13” of snow in Salem. Whatever they’re smoking or drinking, it’s powerful.

@biblebeltman I'm glad you identified "they" as being automated phone apps. Because there was never, at any time, any serious view among meteorologists and weather prognosticators that this storm would bring 20 inches of snow here.

For us here in Blacksburg, this was a decent snow. If they hadn’t predicted a snowmaggedeon of 20+ inches, no complaints. But all apps were horribly wrong. Makes you wonder if the gas and grocery stores paid off the apps for a boost in sales.

I impeached Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, those were my articles of impeachment that passed in the House of Representatives. I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement. However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment. Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm. I support American’s 1st and 4th amendment rights. There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing. MAGA, consider it like this. We lost our minds when we watched Biden’s FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest on peaceful J6’ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors. Imaging if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6’ers house while Biden’s FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest. Then Biden’s FBI goes to the MAGA guy videoing it all and shoves a woman with him to the ground and sprays them with bear spray then throws the MAGA guy to the ground as MAGA guy was trying to help the woman off the ground. Then Biden’s FBI beats MAGA guy on the ground, disarms MAGA guy, and then shoots him dead. What would have been our reaction? Both sides need to take off their political blinders. You are all being incited into civil war, yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face, and tragically people are dying.

BREAKING The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jersualem have issued a letter CONDEMNING 'damaging ideologies' such as 'Christian Zionism' In a stunning statement, they lament those who 'have misled the public' and who have an agenda which 'may harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land ane the wider Middle East'

Though the Jubilee year is drawing to a close, the hope that we have sought and received does not end. We always need hope, for without it we are dead; but with hope, we are born and renewed. It is more powerful than threats and violence, because hope generates life in God. #JubileeAudience

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Massive crowds brave heavy rain in Lebanon to catch a glimpse of Pope Leo XIV.

I just experienced a beautiful moment here in Beirut, Lebanon. I was sitting in a coffee shop in the city, watching live coverage of the Pope’s arrival on my laptop. Across the room, I noticed two young men huddled over a phone. Curious, I walked over and realised they were also watching the live images of Pope Leo XIV landing in their country. To my surprise, they told me they were both Muslims, and then warmly invited me to sit with them so we could watch it together. When I asked what they hoped the Pope’s visit would bring to Lebanon, they answered simply, "peace". 🇱🇧 🇻🇦

@franciscanmom @mattswaim Oh we don’t use a hymnal. We have worship aids with the newest translations downloaded and printed on our printer at the parish. Don’t get me started on it. I might mention to our new priest how upsetting that is.

@CatholicMomVA @mattswaim Wait, what? What hymnal do you have?!

What was your opener at church today for the feast of Christ the King?

@franciscanmom @mattswaim We started well, but finished with a new heretical version of an old hymn that removes “sin” and puts in “harm” and doesn’t mention the Holy Spirit or “Eternal Triune God.” Ick

@CatholicMomVA @mattswaim Exactly

Christ is King! Now and Forever! Today, the Solemnity of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 with the encyclical ‘Quas Primas’ amidst the rise of secularism and totalitarian regimes. It was meant to reaffirm the kingship of Christ over all aspects of life, both personal and societal.

@franciscanmom @mattswaim I can’t hear King of Glory without thinking of Stephen Colbert dancing around to it.

@mattswaim Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (next line: His the scepter, His the throne") I am just grateful to get through this feast without "The King of Glory"

You can love the Church without loving Jesus. You can love devotions / liturgy without loving Jesus. You can love doctrine without loving Jesus. You can love an experience or community without loving Jesus But loving Jesus is the only one that matters in the end.

@j_cordeII @HMSoueidan @realDailyWire @megynkelly I literally never say they are anything but aunts and uncles. I don’t really think of my parents’ cousins as my cousins. My cousins are my generation.

@CatholicMomVA @HMSoueidan @realDailyWire @megynkelly Oh I'm sure there are exceptions. I even say "hey brother" to a good friend. The thing is I would not tell people he is my brother. The point is that the majority of Americans would assume if someone references their aunt, they mean their aunt. All he had to do was say "cousin"

Mamdani said his aunt stopped riding the subway wearing a hijab after 9/11 because of Islamophobia. Turns out his aunt didn’t live in NYC or wear a hijab. So, now he says it was his father’s cousin and suggests fact-checking him is Islamophobic.

@HMSoueidan @j_cordeII @realDailyWire @megynkelly I’m a Yank, and I call my parents’ cousins aunts and uncles. Calling them “first cousin once removed Jimmy” is a bit long.

@j_cordeII @realDailyWire @megynkelly Great. So you know.

And yet the Republican Party sent us multiple reminders to vote early and mail in. Whatever.

"The evidence is now in. The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and — most important — it has proved to be bad for the millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain. The sports gambling revolution needs more regulation. It may even need termination." nytimes.com/2025/10/26/opi…

We won’t renew. Your promotions lie. There is no ad free version of your product. And it’s certainly not worth $190/year. #D23 #DisneyPlus #adfree #Disney #DisneyPlusPremium #toomanyads

Why the heck would I pay $190/year for this? Ad free doesn’t mean ad free. And I know you warned us that you could start placing some ads in our “ad free” premium subscription. I put up with trailers for Disney content before movies. But this is ridiculous.

You just lost us, @DisneyPlus. Price for “ad free” version is jumping “$30* a year after jumping $20 last year. And there are ads. Before the movie (not Disney trailers) and DURING THE MOVIE.