@LeahLibresco Have you seen this? creativeorthodox.com/harrowingofhad… There's a panel that depicts this scene, and I was not expecting to choke up in the middle of a graphic novel.
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@LizEHansen
Writer (@MagnificatMag, @ncregister, @Plough, @osvnews). Marketing content editor. Great Lakes defender. Will always talk about books. Views my own, etc.
Michigan, USA Katılım Nisan 2018
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Crying over this poem on Holy Saturday again.
certumindeo.wordpress.com/2023/04/08/lim…
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@amywelborn2 @DHiddenness 💀 I remember one childhood parish, as late as the mid-90s, where the pastor had us take off our shoes and come to communion in socks/barefeet to remember we were on holy ground.
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@DHiddenness I am about to bust out with a thread/post of "things they made us do" - the historical memory is so short.
Starting with the trend of having everyone in the congregation wear a nametag so the Eucharistic minister could say, "BOB, the Body of Christ!"
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And there's the era in which in some places, they replaced foot-washing completely with the members of the congregation washing each other's hands.
Which always struck me as curious, not only because it obliterates the symbolism of the foot-washing completely, but because of the not-great symbolism of washing one's hands during the Triduum, of all times.
TL:DR - Pilate.
Divine Hiddenness@DHiddenness
Once again, I have to wonder if Catholic Xitter has been living under a rock. I've been at Maundy Thursday at Catholic Churches for over 30 years in several different parishes in a few dioceses in the US. That's my sample size. Except for the years I was able to avoid the Novus Ordo entirely, this is what it has *always* been. First the priest washed the feet of twelve people. Sometimes women. Then he retired to his celebrant's chair, and other people took over the washing and being washed. At first it is people who have been nominated, but soon it shifts to a voluntary basis. Sometimes children get involved. It goes on for some time. My impression is that enthusiasm for this on the ground level waned under Benedict but came back under Francis. I think the reason Catholic Xitter is so surprised by such things is that being on Catholic Xitter is a filter and the people who end up in each other's feeds are above-average knowledge and interest, indicting they aren't at average parishes. This leads to the strange situation that as much as people complain about our the state of Catholicism on here, when they are confronted with average perish reality it is *much worse than they expected*. To the point that they think average parish behavior is worthy of an apostolic visitation. People. No. This is what typical Catholicism is. This is what happened Thursday night at my neighborhood parish. That's why I was somewhere else.
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I hear we're talking about converts. I have thoughts, but what struck me today (while walking all over the grounds of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) was that Juan Diego was a fairly recent convert, he was absolutely earnest in his love of the Lord, and Mary chose him.
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@emzanotti A couple weeks ago my husband had to tell my sons to stop playing a game they described as "we take turns doing something terrible to each other."
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*Child crying* “Tom hit me in the face with the mop!”
“WHY DID YOU HIT HIM WITH THE MOP?!”
T2: “He told me to, so I did.”
“You told your brother to hit you in the face with the mop?”
“Yeah.”
“And now you’re upset he hit you?”
“Yes.”
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This is why our kids now demand “All of Les Mis, straight through!” on long drives.
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Freyy@Freyy_is
when you’re driving your kids around, don’t play kiddie music. play your music. you’ll hear enough cartoon soundtracks at home anyway. the car is where you introduce them to the time stevie nicks wrote “silver springs” about her ex and then made him stand there and play it while she sang it to him on stage.
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High numbers of adult converts seem to be coinciding with scores of (young) Catholics leaving the Church. This suggests a) the sacramental encounter w/ Christ via the Church is still compelling in our day b) & we have not figured out how to effectively communicate this to our own
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Priests, please don’t do this.
Palm Sunday Mass is long and challenging with young kids in the best of circumstances. The priest today came over before Mass and made a point of telling me that today is “very somber” and I needed to make my kids “behave.”
🙃
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@LCTMH @LizEHansen Lol delivery makes a difference!
Also, "nice" is the bare minimum compliment, guys should ALWAYS feel free to be more effusive.
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Men! I am telling you this right now: if you go on a dinner date with a lady, you should greet her by saying "you look nice."
Ideally you give a little up-down look before you pay the compliment, and you say it while looking into her eyes.
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Are they concerned someone is going to try to eat the pope?
Catholic Sat@CatholicSat
Two PETA activists tried to protest the Pope’s visit in Monaco today. They were rapidly dealt with by Vatican Security.
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Thanks to the TSA cluster-f, I’ll be driving to Chicago on Sunday
Have just realized that I haven’t done a solid road trip since nicotine was involved (30 years ago)
I haven’t seen Indiana without Marlboro as my co-pilot and I’m skeered
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Brb googling “how to seal leather”
кєνín@notcee_fan
what would be your reaction in this situation?😭😂
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@HSRdirector Unironically, The “Fall of Civilizations”Podcast is fantastic:
open.spotify.com/show/44DE64rRp…
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In a four hour + line rn for TSA at IAH.
music overhead is Billy Ocean “when the going gets tough” and there are news crews here, and ICE agents just standing around grabbing their vests handing out water
please send podcast, music recs etc as it’s going to be a long afternoon
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