Joe Chavez ✝️🇺🇸

“As you deal with your own fears, know that the living and active sword is there for you! The Lord will give you a Scripture verse for your situation. It's the living Word of God. It's always speaking, and there are always new treasures to be found.” Angèle Regnier

"The Son of God who takes upon himself all the sorrow and suffering of the world is now the true power of reconciliation. For the Christian, to be united with his death in baptism means to be surrounded by the forgiving love of God." —Pope Benedict XVI

Transgender in New Hampshire: “If you are a woman with a vulva and you are uncomfortable seeing a woman with a penis- too bad! You have to get over it.” Reopen the asylums!

"The fact that Jesus gives himself forever as food in the Upper Room during the Last Supper signifies the anticipation of his death and Resurrection and the transformation of an act of human cruelty into an act of love and self-giving." —Pope Benedict XVI

@Joeinblack Amen, Padre! You put into words something I've been noticing more and more.

In many ways, American Catholicism seems to be led by people who who’ve never worked in the church for very long if at all. Most of these leaders are influencers, podcast stars, and professional opinion makers. You can tell they’ve never really worked in a church because they’re very busy fighting all these dragons that have very little influence in anyone’s daily life. They want you scared and angry at sins of others, they want you paranoid about all leadership (except their leadership) and they fail to mention those defining sins that tear churches apart: gossip being primary. In the end, if you want to absolutely transform the life of a catholic community, you go to war with gossip. You go to war with pride. You teach people how to have daily personal prayer. How many of these “leaders” talk about these things? Alas, our social leaders don’t talk about these things because it would challenge you and I to personal conversion. The irony, of course being that they claim they want spiritual leadership from their Priest and Bishops. They do not want spiritual leadership, they don’t wish to be led anywhere except deeper into their personal convictions.

"The Catholic Church is not a community of blind faith… We are people of faith and reason and we can give explanation to what we believe." Robert Haddad

@BrandonFugal @sammyhagar @VanHalen Right there with you! Best time in my life and this was its soundtrack.

Van Halen’s 5150 album remains my favorite of theirs & one of the greatest albums ever, released 40 yrs ago today! It inspired me to start my own band in 9th grade (1st cover was “Love Walks In”). Their first #1 album (debuted at #1!!), spent 3 weeks at #1 & went 6X platinum.

"Legitimate questions deserve intelligent answers …apologetics explains how the ‘what’ is based in scripture and the apostolic tradition of the Church.” Robert Haddad

"I think the Christian answer to the loneliness of suffering lies in love: love of self, love of neighbor, and love of God." —Mark Giszczak /2

"But suffering and the grief that accompanies it can also bring me to fall apart, to become locked inside myself. What should I do to move away from the destructive path and toward the hopeful one? /1

"We are changed to be like him: conformed to him in suffering so that we might share in his glory." —Mark Giszczak /2

"Each pain is a new cross, a new challenge to our faith, a new burden, a new grief. Yet we hope in God’s promises that as we take up our crosses, we are conformed to Christ by grace. /1

This isn’t an airport, no need to announce your departure back to stupidville

"If borders don’t matter, neither does who ‘stole’ the land."

Never saw it that way. Interesting insight into Japan and Pearl Harbor.

So who knows what was happening here😂😂😂

“Your purity of life must be made purer still, by frequent buffetings, until you attain perfect sincerity of heart.” St. Raymond of Penyafort

Legend. Requiescat in Pace.

"As you drink the cup of the Lord Jesus (how glorious it is!), give thanks to the Lord, the Giver of all blessings." St. Raymond of Penyafort