Charles, OFM Cap.

"Discontent is the luxury of the well-to-do. If you've got to live here, you might as well like it." (Doc Tydon)

After morning Mass one of our daily communicants often enough has some smart and challenging question about something in the readings, but today's was easy. "What does it mean, 'I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your lions?'" #🦁

Whenever the divine favor chooses someone to receive a special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfill the task at hand. ~ St. Bernardine of Siena, (Office of Readings) #StJoseph #StJosephsDay

20 years old, taking myself way too seriously, going back and forth with great solemnity trying to pick a confirmation saint. St. Joseph. Of my precious few inspired choices in life, one of the best.

Life of Francis of Assisi without context

God’s desire for our salvation is the primary and pre-eminent sign of his infinite goodness. ~St. Maximus the Confessor (Office of Readings)

@BadTheoloTakes Yes.

@FrCharles This is still happening?

Catholic priests be carefully curating a Passover seder but making up their own version of the Mass.

@Shugyosha9 Far out, isn't it?

@FrCharles They’ll meticulously adhere to the Old Covenant memorial meal rubrics (as defined by post-Exilic rabbis), but they’ll wing it by the so-called “leading of the Spirit” when offering up the New Covenant sacrificial fulfillment 🤷🏻

current mood

@LeeGilbert41943 @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork I used to call the church where I work the civic cathedral of the Irish-American memory of the town and a parish of the Catholic faith in its spare time. One year I calculated that St. Patrick stole 17% of Lent (parade, ancillary parade events, etc.).

@FrCharles @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork St. Patrick's Day was located in Lent specifically to circumscribe it and keep it from morphing into the Holy Season of St. Patrick, which otherwise it surely would have done.

Fun email from someone in OCIA, asking if St. Patrick's Day is a break from Lent just for Irish people, which gave me a chance to reply re: the General Roman Calendar and how in some places memorials can turn into solemnities (for everyone). Tags: @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork

@paramylodon @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork I don't think so, but they do seem to have banana shakes mcdonalds.it/prodotti/gelat…

@FrCharles @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork Do McDonalds in Italy have the Shamrock Shake?

@paramylodon @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork Naturally.

@FrCharles @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork So, gelatabile??

@ryanmcj @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork Also

@FrCharles @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork I hope you mentioned the real solemnities this week and next week too!

@the_mclarke Ha ha I love it.

@FrCharles My favorite St. Patrick’s Day accessory from the 1980s

Another favorite file photo for today: the festive St. Patrick's Day tree at Monastery Manor, Yonkers, New York, USA.

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Hollywood on Hudson! Patricius, Apostolus Hiberniae, ora pro nobis!

I came to the Irish peoples to preach the Gospel and endure the taunts of unbelievers, putting up with reproaches about my earthly pilgrimage, suffering many persecutions, even bondage, and losing my birthright of freedom for the benefit of others.~St Patrick (Office of Readings)

@pgoings Yes, also my experience.

@FrCharles Splendid! I've had disappointing experiences with even parish patrons in this neck of the woods.

I always enjoy how the readings for the solemnity* of St. Patrick include 1 Peter 4:7: "Keep sane and sober." *Here in the particular church of Neoeboracum, where he is the principal patron. #StPatricksDay

@pgoings The quarterly liturgy newsletter from the Archdiocese said to do so and had instructions.

@FrCharles Do parishes in New York actually observe the Solemnity, or do they just follow the missalette?