Jason Michael Peter ☧ 🇻🇦☘️

It's "Easter is Pagan in Origin" time again - it seems to come around faster every year. Yet again, neo-pagans, anti-theistic atheists and historically illiterate evangelical Christians are uniting in a chorus that "Christians stole Easter and its pagan in origin". Except, ...

الجمعة العظيمة ✝️ ”يَا أَبَتَاهُ، اغْفِرْ لَهُمْ، لأَنَّهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ مَاذَا يَفْعَلُونَ“ 🙏 Good Friday ✝️ “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do” 🙏

Even before we can speak of our love, our longings and our desire for God, we must ponder and behold first of all the unfathomable love of God for man: a love that takes him to this day, Good Friday; a love that leads Christ to willingly suffer and be nailed to the cross. But drawing close to Christ – going to him and choosing to be with him – not only satisfies our thirst for love, but, more astoundingly, it also satisfies God’s longing for us, for our love. This is how the Saints have understood the thirst of Christ on the cross. As Mother Teresa said in one of her letters to her sisters: "At this most difficult time He proclaimed, “I thirst.” And people thought He was thirsty in an ordinary way, and they gave Him vinegar straight away; but it was not for that which he thirsted – it was for our love, our affection; that intimate attachment to Him, and that sharing of His passion. He used, ‘I thirst’ instead of ‘Give Me your love’… ‘I thirst. ’ Let us hear Him saying it to me and saying it to you." Christ thirsts for the chance to satisfy the deepest hunger of the human heart. He thirsts to give himself to you in the Eucharist. He thirsts for you to come to him and to let him love you. // This reflection is from Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P., extracted from his book Lenten Devotions, which you can get as an eBook to read this week or as a physical book for future use: ctsbooks.org/product/lenten…

As true God and true man, Christ offers us the example of self-giving, service, and love. We need His example to learn how to love, not because we are incapable of it, but precisely to teach ourselves and one another what true love is. Learning to act like Jesus, who is the living sign that God has placed within the history of the world, is the work of a lifetime. #HolyThursday

Defend us in battle

Gospel of the Day (John 18,1-40.19,1-42) [...] Aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I thirst." There was a vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit. Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may (come to) believe. For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled: "Not a bone of it will be broken." And again another passage says: "They will look upon him whom they have pierced." After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and took his body. Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom. Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried. So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day; for the tomb was close by. vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the…

Today the Catholic Sacred Triduum begins: Holy Thursday’s Last Supper Good Friday’s crucifixion of Christ Holy Saturday’s silent tomb. The three solemn days constitute one unbroken mystery of Christ’s Passion and Death, leading to his glorious Resurrection!

Let us immerse ourselves in Christ for this Triduum

@Tom_Crampton @British_Airways I agree there app is awful. I don't think I have been able to download a boarding pass for 5 years!

After trying three time to book a flight, I’ve given up. @British_Airways must have the worst app of any airline. It never works, regularly crashes or glitches. Pathetic!

@LozzaFox @realmocktheleft Only one King.

Fuck the king. Fuck the royal family. Sick of paying for these people and the invaders they welcome in to live the good life based solely on the womb they happened to pop out from. No kings.

@Crawfish1924 @MichaelRosenYes @gu47351 I’m always open to correcting my understanding if it’s wrong. But I try to follow the teaching of the Catholic Church, which I believe Christ founded to guide Christians in truth.

@JayPBell @MichaelRosenYes @gu47351 Jews are no longer part of God’s covenant. They wanted Him dead, the deal was broken as is your understanding of Christianity.

Is this the 'Judeo-Christian culture' we keep hearing about?

@Crawfish1924 @MichaelRosenYes @gu47351 New Covenant in Christ supersedes the Mosaic covenant and includes both Jews and Gentiles in one people of God.

@MichaelRosenYes @gu47351 When Jews chanted CRUCIFY HIM, it ended their covenant with God. Jesus IS God, and they had God killed. What’s so hard to understand about this? Jews have practiced a false religion for 2000 years.

@RhonddaBryant You wont get the point I'm making Chris that is the point. It's not that I'm taking exception particularly my comment was prompted by a realisation that you, like most politicians are liturgically tone-deaf.

@JayPBell I don’t think you’ve made a point yet. Unless you’re just denying the validity of Anglican orders. Fine. Your prerogative. But I do t understand what you’re taking exception to otherwise

Happy Maundy Thursday everyone. Always one of the most beautiful days in the church calendar when priests renew their vows and receive the oils of Chrism, Unction and Catechumens, blessed or consecrated by the bishop.

@RhonddaBryant Thank you for proving my point.

@JayPBell I was ordained as an Anglican priest. What are you taking exception to?

@RmSalih "There is zero proof that............" = There is irrefutable proof that......

Stop talking sh#t. There is zero proof that the police treat white people more harshly than ethnic minorities. Although there is plenty of proof of the opposite. Have you ever heard of stop and search or Schedule 7?

Let's offer one Hail Mary for all Catholic Priests. Please comment 'Amen' as a response. #OneHailMarycampaign

Humiliation is the penance of the intellect; and how many, in rejecting it, have become apostates before God, if not before man!

The Protestant Revolution is the mother of the French Revolution and all the evils we suffer today that resulted.

Lord, send us holy and faithful priest