Rich Heinz

@TheDonStein @In_awe_of_God

@In_awe_of_God Yes. This was a joke.

Martin Luther, totally, definitely, for sure implying life on other planets: “The heart is a constantly yawning chasm; it wants everything, and even if it obtained everything, it would go on looking for more. Look at Alexander the great. He was Lord of almost the whole world.

@LutheranAnswers My church plant would be Out Lady of Concord Lutheran Church.

If I were to plant a church it would be Saint Paul Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews Evangelical Lutheran Church

@JoshPhillipsPhD Looks like a prison from the set of some Outer Rim planet in Star Wars. But even that would have more architectural character.

I really was trying to be optimistic during construction 🚧: “it’s under construction. It just looks bad because it’s unfinished. It’ll look better once it’s finished.” But this is horrendous. Everyone obviously knows this. And no amount of gaslighting will fix it.

@EduardHabsburg @LoopyCrown3

Won't be able to check it out today, but I will be back

Lois gave us this. It had two leaves back then. Told her it turned into Audrey 2!

@shebringsjoy So I think the intentions of the original AAL would be that Lutheran congregations could always reproduce if it was helpful to ministry and catechesis.

@shebringsjoy Also, they were always distributed for free.

I am seeking someone knowledgeable about how the Aid Association for Lutherans was formed/ended, etc. My daughter was given some Bible maps that the church was discarding, which were printed by the AAL and copywriten in 1966. They are quite beautiful, and I think people may like these for home teaching use. I would be willing to take them to scan at Staples, on one of their big machines, and have them create a downloadable file which could be taken to your local printing shop- but I don’t know what the copywrite around this would look like from a company which is defunct, but whose assets were merged with another companies assets.

@JoshPhillipsPhD @AlexAndBooks_ We used Houghton Mifflin readers in the 1970’s, which used excerpts from real children’s literature. As we grew, teachers supplemented with novels; we also had book reports on various novels. And in my high school in the 80’s, we read novels each year.

@RevFrHeinz @AlexAndBooks_ Many schools are moving towards short stories and excepts

@JoshPhillipsPhD @AlexAndBooks_ I have never been able to wrap my brain around how you can graduate high school and never read an entire book.

@AlexAndBooks_ In the last few years, I’ve started encountering college freshmen who’ve said they’ve NEVER read a book.

@HansFiene More and more after 50, the back of my hands look like my grandmother’s! 😂

The moon is made of old people hands

Visiting Jerusalem, there are lots of dubious tourist traps. But the place where Jesus rose from the grave is not one of them. It’s 99.999999% accurate. National Geographic actually had a great article about this history a few years ago when the Aedicule was being refurbished.

@WmWeedon Ooh! I have increased our parish from 3 to 4 readings. Gradually “boiling the frog” so no one was shocked and upset at the length of 12! 😂

Tonight’s Vigil will feature pages 169 through 199 of the Lectionary: Gen 1:1-2:3; Gen. 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18; 9:8-13; Gen 22:1-18; Ex 14:10-15:1; Is 55:1-11; Ez. 36:24-28; Deut. 31:19-30; Ez. 37:1-14; Job 19:20-27; Jonah 3:1-10; Zeph 3:12-20; Dan 3:1-30; Mark 16:1-8.

@fumio_takano May you always know the peace and forgiveness of Jesus through His Word and Blessed Sacrament! Congratulations!

今日、東京都内のカトリック教会の復活徹夜祭にて受洗し、カトリーヌ・ラブレの霊名をいただきました。全世界の兄弟姉妹の皆様、よろしくお願いいたします。

@lukei4655 @Jeremyakee Even then, Father, you as an individual are receiving on the tongue from the Celebrant. (Who happens to be you.) 😃

@Jeremyakee Always, if I’m not functioning as a celebrant or concelebrant.

Catholic friends - Do any of you receive on the tongue? I suspect a few of you do, but am not sure how common it is.

Attend an Easter Vigil to experience the conclusion of that rest tonight!

In 1542, when communion wine was accidentally spilled at St. Mary’s in Wittenberg, Martin Luther and Rev. Bugenhagen rushed forward, wept, cried out, “O God help,” and even licked up the spilled wine from the rail. To many modern Christians, that sounds extreme. But perhaps that reaction reveals something uncomfortable. Maybe the problem is not Luther. Maybe the problem is us. If this account strikes us as excessive, does it reveal that we no longer truly understand—or perhaps no longer truly believe—the real presence of Christ in the Holy Supper? pastormattrichard.com/2026/04/revere…

People are getting excited about the King not issuing an Easter message this year. Calm down, chilluns-the Monarch NEVER does; last year was a one-off due to HM’s joy at beating cancer. His stay at Windsor right now is still Easter Court, he’ll be attending church on Sunday. 1/3

@KatiePMcGrady Sorry for all the nitpicking. A friend takes Lincoln’s “you can't please all of the people all of the time,” and adjusts it for parish life: “You can’t please anyone. Ever.”

Me: posts an ad on social media inviting people to tell their stories of conversion on air Armchair Theologians: "Well actually they aren't converts, that word is much more precise than the way you're using it on social media & you're ruining the Church. I hate you." Me:

Word made flesh, the bread He taketh, By His Word His flesh to be; Wine His sacred blood He maketh, Though the senses fail to see; Faith alone the true heart maketh To behold the mystery. —St. Thomas Aquinas, LSB 630:4

People who spend 6 hours a day doomscrolling and watching Netflix telling me I’m wasting time because I read for one hour per day 🙄