David Messick

Please pray for my father. He suffered a stroke last night. Thank you in advance and may God bless you now and always.

Are people actually seeing this post, too? I think my account has been suppressed longer than those I am seeing talk about it. 🤷‍♀️ A picture of a lovely girl’s 5th birthday and my first amateur “fancy” cake.

@BreeSolstad The miracle is the multiplication of the bread. A foreshadowing of the Blessed Sacrament.

Please give me your honest take on this quote. The context is the Feeding of the 5,000 with the multiplied fish and loaves. Thank you. 🙏 "The multiplication of the loaves and the fish happened while sharing: that is the miracle!”

I believe the Shroud of Turin was forged by a medieval artist. I believe he chose a very expensive linen cloth to wow only the very few who would notice, matched the Gospel accounts in extraordinary detail, rejected the artistic conventions of his own time in many ways for the only known time in history, depicted crucifixion with striking anatomical realism, used real blood or blood-derived material instead of simply painting the wounds, created an unremarkable faint image whose most remarkable property would not be recognized until photography revealed it as a negative more than five centuries later, embedded three-dimensional image information that would only be discovered with modern image analysis, produced an image so superficial that modern microscopy still can’t explain it, anticipated details that align perfeclty with modern forensic understanding of crucifixion, executed the entire work without mistakes or corrections on a valuable cloth, he nailed it without error in one shot, invented a technique that no one has convincingly reproduced, left no record of how he did it, inspired no known followers, and did it to wow only us centuries later as nobody viewing the work at the time would even see it for what it is, and then disappeared from history without anyone ever mentioning the greatest technical achievement of medieval art.

A man in Kansas City told me the meat would be ready at four in the afternoon. He started it at three in the morning. Thirteen hours. For one meal. I want that understood. In my country we have fought entire battles in less time and gone home. I asked if I could keep him company. He said, "If you want." That was the longest sentence he spoke for two hours. I prepared for the vigil the way a man prepares for a vigil. I brought a notebook. I intended to record what the fire did, in case I was ever called upon to do this alone. I asked what wood he was using. He said, "Oak." I wrote down oak. He watched me write down oak, and he said nothing, and I have decided that his silence was a kindness. He sat in a folding chair beside a black iron drum and watched a fire that did not need watching. Every so often he opened the lid, looked inside, and closed it. He adjusted nothing. He consulted no device. He was simply confirming that the fire was still keeping its word. I offered to take the second watch. He told me there was no second watch. There was only him. And now, apparently, me. At 4:15 in the morning he handed me a beer. I drank it with both hands. I want to explain what I understood, sitting in the dark beside that drum. He was not cooking. Cooking is a thing you do to food. This was something else. Thirteen hours before one single guest would arrive, alone, in the cold, with no one to watch him and no one to thank him and no possibility of ever being properly thanked, he was tending a fire so that people who were still asleep would eat well. He was keeping a promise to people who did not know he was awake. Where I come from we would have built a shrine to a man like this. We would have carved a poem into it. We would have forgotten his name within a century. Here he is called Dave. He does this most weekends. He has a coupon for the wood. At six he stood, stretched, and held out the tongs. He said nothing. He simply held them out. I want to be clear about the gravity of what was being transferred. A man does not hand his fire to a stranger. Where I come from, this is an adoption. I took the tongs with both hands and bowed so deeply that my forehead very nearly met the lid. He said, "Just don't open it too much." I did not open it. I did not open it for forty minutes. I did not open it while a bee conducted a full investigation of my face. When the people arrived at four in the afternoon, they ate, and they laughed, and they said it was good, and not one of them asked who had been awake at three in the morning. Dave did not tell them. I have decided that I will not tell them either. But I would like it recorded somewhere, by someone, that a man named Dave rose in the dark to keep his word to a backyard full of people who had not arrived yet, said nothing about it afterward, and ate his own plate standing up. I have bought a black iron drum. I do not yet know anyone here well enough to feed. I am starting the fire anyway.

THEY call themselves the Synodal Church. I am Catholic. I do not profess a belief in a Synodal Church. I believe in one, holy, CATHOLIC and apostolic church.

Thousands of Christians killed after yet another massacre of innocent people in Nigeria. When will the world stop ignoring this?

Yes, people frequently drive from Yorkshire to Devon to murder elderly conservative politicians for entirely non-political reasons, such as disliking the similes in their novels. We are at late-stage Soviet levels of official lying.

Please a Hail Mary for my mother who is in the hospital recovering from hernia surgery. Thank you.

Lindsey Graham, in life and in death, everyone deserves prayers. Everyone deserves mercy. No man knows the hour or the day of his own judgement. May God have mercy on you.🙏

Quite the drive to take. For no reason. At all.

@FiatLuxGenesis @fr_james1 Yes, a little strange that’s two Senators who have had massive heart attacks. But many elderly in the Senate. But if a third has a heart attack I may start to wonder. Maybe.

It's reasonable to believe that an older man died of a heart attack after taking a long flight which is known to significantly increase the risk of blood clots. Just saying.

@OVTweetmarck I’ll consider a conspiracy when a 3rd Senator has a massive heart attack in the coming days. Then I will remember the Senate is an old folks home.

That’s so true. 71 year old men with a family history of heart problems never just suddenly die.

Stop worshipping JFK as some great Catholic hero / trailblazer In reality he preached absolute separation of Church and State and was a sex addict His family hosted the 1964 Hyannisport meeting where Jesuit apostates coached them on supporting abortion while pretending to be 'personally opposed' Modernists love to fawn over every celebrity, athlete, or professional who *is catholic* and instantly hail them as heroes Worldly adulation over genuine faith JFK was a scumbag

Please pls pray for the repose of the soul of Jayden Adams. He passed away suddenly at the age of 25. Eternal Rest grant unto them O Lord.

I’m going to have to take a break from Twitter for a while. I was diagnosed yesterday,colon cancer. The good news is that it’s in the early stages. I’m having surgery the day after tomorrow. No giving up,I’m going to beat this.

Saint Benedict, Abbot, pray for us!

Everyone today criticising Ann Widdecombe for having deeply held Christian values would never say a word about Islam Cowards, all of them.

@AnsweringRCs @Burgess7281975 Elizabeth's Lord is God in both Luke 1:25 and 1:43. Emmanuel is God, Emmanuel is Son of Mary in Matthew 1:23. Mary is the Mother of God.

@Burgess7281975 No Brian, Jesus as God in the flesh, has a mother, but the eternally existing God has no mother. And Scripture is NEVER so sloppy as to call Mary the “Mother of God.”

No Jim - Jesus is God and the Blessed Virgin Mary is His Mother. (1) Jesus is God. (A) Of Christ’s Nature (Uncreated, Fully God) John 1:1, 14 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. John 10:30 — I and the Father are one. John 20:28 — Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Colossians 1:19 — For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. 2 Peter 1:1 — ... our God and Savior Jesus Christ ... Hebrews 1:8 — But of the Son he says, ‘Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of thy kingdom.’ (The Father actually calls the Son God in reference to Psalms 45:6-7) (B) Christ is Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent Philippians 3:20-21 — ... the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself. Colossians 2:2-3 — ... Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.  Ephesians 1:22-23 — ... the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. (cf. Colossians 3:11) (C) Jesus as Consubstantial with the Father Matthew 23: 34, 37 — Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. ... O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! Christ in Philippians 2:10-11 is described in the same terms as the Father in Isaiah in 45:23. Colossians 2:9 - “For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity* bodily” (also see Colossians 1:19). John 10:30 — I and the Father are one. (2) The Blessed Virgin Mary is His Mother. Matthew 1:23 “virgin shall . . . bear a son . . . shall be called “Emmanuel”” Luke 1:35 “child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God” Luke 1:43 “the mother of my Lord” Galatians 4:4 “God sent forth His Son, born of woman” Isaiah 7:14 “a virgin shall conceive and bear a son” John 19:27 “Behold your mother.” Luke 2:6-7 “While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn son.[c]She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” Matthew 1:16 “Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Messiah.”