DB Sweet 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇪🇺

Pray for the souls in Purgatory.

@AZ_CactusCat @DerrickEvans4WV Give me a break. War with Mexico.

@DerrickEvans4WV Another reason for WAR w/Mexico along with illegal immigration, drug trafficking etc.....

🚨Mexico is creating a “Permanent sewage canal” to dispose of their sewage into the United States from Tijuana. This is DISGUSTING. Why is this being allowed to happen?

@tapatiotrad @RorateCaeli @holysmoke Who are you?

@FrBradSweet @RorateCaeli @holysmoke Yes of course, I believe this attack to their reputation and good name is defamatory and it will cause grave scandal among the faithful. Also, I don't understand what are your intentions with these comments and wonder if it's so bad, why do you continue associating with them?

It isn’t. There’s a loony fringe to which Mawdsley belongs, but these days anti-semitism is much more prevalent on the far left.

@zain_alzain77 Amen

@RorateCaeli @holysmoke To many in FSSP it is fundamental.

@FrBradSweet @holysmoke That it exists is one thing. It exists everywhere. That it's something fundamental or essential is something else.

@uxixu @edhauschild Where do you think I spent the first 10 years of my priesthood. 3 parishes far from the city so remote there was no village. When I celebrated an EF Requiem Mass at home and it was mentioned by Rorate Caeli bishop was furious. So trust me I have been through all that. Many have.

That's true. There are a few layers to this, though. Original post from Richard was about tradition minded men. Unless they can compartmentalize and turn that off fior awhile, they just won't make it through a seminary like Los Angeles or Chicago. They'll be identified and marked and given an offer they can't refuse (usually to voluntarily quit in exchange for a job or booted with nothing). Those able to turn it off will be relentlessly wore down. They can't even turn it on after ordination (I've seen the 70s pastor give negative reviews to young vocations and that tends to haunt them in the next assignment). I saw one really good young priest (and a good confessor) get a series of miserable and remote assignments assaulted on all sides until he called uncle and requested laicization. He wouldn't have liked going to the other side of country, either, though couldn't have been much worse than his situation here.

I understand this viewpoint, but I disagree: I had a choice when discerning the priesthood - a traditional institute or my home diocese. I felt drawn to the FSSP, and yet I looked back over my shoulder at the people I grew up with... /1

@uxixu @edhauschild We all had to do that.

@uxixu @edhauschild Not everyone is called to community life and can't live that way. I agree with Fr here, suffer through and pray for the day TC is lifted and the EF is celebrated again in the parishes.

@edhauschild OTOH, saw too many vocations lost to the institutional inertia of the Card Mahonys who would have made fine priests in the FSSP or ICRSS.

@JamesMartinSJ @americamag @StephenAtHome @marykarrlit @AntheaButler @JimGaffigan @Spotify Couldn't imagine wasting 1 minute of time listening to your guests. Not 1 of them holds any opinions that would uplift or edify. Why not interview those who uphold Catholic teaching. Why not, you yourself, uphold Catholic teaching?

A new podcast from @americamag launches Tuesday, with the help of @StephenAtHome @marykarrlit @AntheaButler @JimGaffigan Whoopi Goldberg, Cardinal Radcliffe and many others. On @Spotify, Apple, YouTube and everywhere you listen to podcasts. More info here: americamagazine.org/thespiritualli…

@zain_alzain77 Hahahaha

« Un écrivain n'a vraiment besoin que d'une chambre tranquille, de papier et de soi-même...» ~Gabrielle Roy

En un ambiente de júbilo para la Iglesia Católica, la Arquidiócesis de Guadalajara en Jalisco (México), celebró la ordenación de 30 nuevos presbíteros. Esta nueva generación de sacerdotes refleja la continuidad de una tendencia vocacional positiva que se ha mantenido durante los últimos tres años en la región. Entre junio de 2022 y mayo de 2023, Guadalajara vivió uno de los periodos más intensos para la promoción vocacional, con 107 ordenaciones sacerdotales. A esta cifra se sumaron otros 32 ordenados en mayo de 2024 y, ahora, una cantidad similar en este mes de junio. Según datos del Semanario Diocesano de Guadalajara, desde que el Cardenal Francisco Robles Ortega asumió la conducción pastoral en 2012, se han ordenado 553 sacerdotes diocesanos. La Misa tuvo lugar en el Santuario de los Mártires Mexicanos, coincidiendo con la Solemnidad de Pentecostés, el domingo 8 de junio. Durante la homilía, el Cardenal Robles Ortega dirigió un mensaje a los nuevos ministros ordenados, exhortándolos a vivir su llamado con autenticidad y sin “ajustes”. El Arzobispo de Guadalajara señaló que la mayoría de los presbíteros son “testigos de Jesucristo vivo y presente en medio de su pueblo”; sin embargo, reconoció que algunos “comienzan a hacerle ajustes a esta vocación, a esta identidad, a esta misión”. Precisó que esos “ajustes” ocurren cuando los sacerdotes sólo aceptan ciertos aspectos de su vocación y piensan: “Este destino sí, pero no. Con esta gente que se me confía, sí, pero no me siento cómodo. Con este compañero, con este hermano, sí, pero no”. Advirtió que hay quienes “comienzan a hacer reajustes a su identidad sacerdotal y a su misión de encarnar la persona de Cristo y acaban en el regateo, acaban tristemente por ser todo menos presencia de Cristo”. “Esto es lo que hay que cuidar”, añadió. En esa misma línea, el purpurado recordó que “Cristo los invita a seguirlo cercanamente todos los días de su vida, no por ratos, ni por meses, ni por años; toda su vida”. También les aseguró que, para perseverar en su vocación, “cuentan nada menos que con la fuerza del Espíritu Santo”, y subrayó que el Espíritu Santo “es la fuerza de Dios, y díganme si hay fuerza más grande y más poderosa que la de Dios”. “Ustedes van a ser revestidos con la fuerza del Espíritu Santo, para ser testigos de Jesucristo, con su palabra, con sus gestos, con su vida. Por eso digo, no están solos. Es grande la misión, es grande el compromiso, pero por eso es grande el don para responder a esa misión”, concluyó el Arzobispo de Guadalajara.

@zain_alzain77 Amen

@AntiTrumpCanada This man should not be allowed into Canada for the G7. He doesn't have even the smallest understanding of the medical system in the provinces. And his constant diatribe about Canada feeding off the USA is just stupid. It's going to be a long 4 years.

Dear Howard Lutnick, If by “socialist regime” you mean a country that believes in not letting people die just because they can’t afford insulin, then we’ll wear that label with pride. So in closing, go fuck yourself you smug prick. Sincerely,
Canada 🇨🇦

Defacing a Holocaust monument isn’t pro-Palestinian, it’s anti-Jew.

@zain_alzain77 Amen

@AZ_CactusCat Prayers at Mass tonight!

@FrBradSweet A Thanksgiving prayer please, Fr. Sweet. My son William age 20 survived after a 4x4 lifted truck rammed the front of his car yesterday. Too close for comfort. Thank you too, Guardian Angels!

@JeremyTate41 Notre-Dame de Montréal is a work of the Fathers of St Sulpice not the diocese or local priests.

This is what Canadians built before they went insane.

@kennedyhall @JeremyTate41 Not all of them. Can't generalise! 😁🙏

@JeremyTate41 Hold on, the average Canadian Catholic did not commission or design these. It is the job of bishops and priests to have churches built. Canadians did not go insane more than any other people, but our bishops and priests certainly took a wrong turn.

30 new priests ordained for the archdiocese of Guadalajara. Deo gratias.

@sitsio Happy Feast Day.