Charles, OFM Cap.

"Social media has contributed to your intellectual deterioration, as it has for so many others." (my dad)

Come to think of it I’m surprised this hasn’t happened before. I guess I forgot at the rehearsal to tell them to make it easy on each other and present the correct finger for the rings because the groom was just standing there. So the bride says firmly, “Give me the finger.”

I have spent too much on gifts for this confirmanda. But I've never been a sacramental sponsor before and it's exciting!

I just kinda feel like "when you leave" would have worked just as well

Pope St. Leo the Great on this life of ours after the Ascension of the Lord: "Our Redeemer's visible presence has passed into the sacraments." "Quod itaque Redemptoris nostri conspicuum fuit, in sacramenta transivit." (Office of Readings)

@EricRSammons @TaylorRMarshall Last night and tonight I told the people how fortunate they were (here in the Archdiocese of NY).

To paraphrase my friend @TaylorRMarshall: If you didn't celebrate the Ascension today, you're not on the team.

@DavidPaternostr @franciscanmom @timothypomalley We Franciscans suffer from this same issue.

@franciscanmom @timothypomalley It’s usually translated “Go, set the world on fire,” and Jesuits attribute it to St. Ignatius—though Jesuit historian Fr. Bart Geger is fond of pointing out that we don’t actually have any text where Ignatius says that

When commencement speakers exhort students to set the world on fire, they’re risking confusion among highly literal potential arsonists.

@edhauschild I remember that oddness from living there. Corpus Christi too.

@FrCharles I live in the only city (I think) in which the ascension both is and is not celebrated today! Our Lord has ascended from the Vatican but is staying around until Sunday for the slow learners in Rome!

Condolences to all of you, unfortunate majority, who celebrate today Matthias, Apostle, patron saint of wait-list admissions. Signed, someone in one of the last places on earth where the Ascension of the Lord is celebrated on the biblical 40th day of Easter.

Little kid at wedding rehearsal looks up at me. "Hello, church!"

@Neb_Phil yes!

@FrCharles Nebraska?

It is with deep sadness that the Sacred Heart High School community mourns the passing of Sohail Nabi, Class of 2022. Sohail was a kind, intelligent, and compassionate young man whose warmth and spirit touched all who knew him. He will be remembered with great love. “Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.”

Guy to me, from the window of a school: "Why you dressed like Moses?"

@JaySusan Like I always say when I hear that weekday holy days of obligation are a burden, well, everyone comes out for Ash Wednesday, apparently no problem there.

@FrCharles The Solemnity of the Ascension should never have been changed to accommodate the faithful. We made it to Mass on Thursdays before this change. The accommodation would have been adding the Vigil Mass, so there are no excuses. I still don't get it.

One time I visited a parishioner and he showed me his musket.

@meepbobeep It has it's nice points, but so as everywhere else I've lived. We have an assignment cycle in the coming months, so I could be moving!

@FrCharles It’s nice being in NY, isn’t it?

Hodie Dominus noster Iesus Christus ascendit in cælum; ascendat cum illo cor nostrum. Today our Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven; let our hearts ascend with him. ~ St. Augustine (Office of Readings) #InAscensioneDomini #AscensionDay #Ascension

@deliavatican "Luminous beings are we."

“We are not matter, casually assembled by a mute cosmos. We are a desire, not an algorithm!” Pope Leo XIV to university students at Rome’s Sapienza

This is funny. youtu.be/eeXtqYaEzc8?si…

@MisfitCatholics I don't know.

@FrCharles Can you still get the bowl haircut?

Exciting days at the old friars' home. Haircuts today, podiatrist tomorrow.