Chrysten
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Chrysten
@chrystenc
Mom of 7- I love God, family, great architecture & B&W films. I try to have less stuff, more life, and take risks.
Katılım Ocak 2015
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🚨do you understand what this actually means..
in 1920 America amended its entire constitution to ban alcohol.. spent 13 years.. built an entire federal enforcement agency.. raided homes.. jailed thousands.. and failed so badly they repealed it
in 2026 no law.. no raids.. just an economy where rent eats your paycheck and a six pack costs what dinner used to
alcohol consumption just hit the lowest in modern history.. not because people got healthier.. because they got broker
Prohibition had guns.. the economy just had math
Gemini@Gemini
JUST IN: Alcohol consumption among US adults drops to 54%, the lowest in modern history
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@Voyage841918271 Hard to say. Not sure how clean it is. Not sure who is willing to inherit jaded bag holders. But we’ll see
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@chrystenc That’s understandable. What I see though is a clean shell. A clean slate. A tradable vessel waiting for a business.
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$OPTI Do your job. Someone. Anyone. Thanks.
OPTI@OPTEC_
Pleased to announced $OPTI has a verified OTC Profile as of 2/18. Getting financials up to date is the next order of business. Can't give timeline but please know the team is working diligently. Great meeting last Friday updating our soon-to-be partners. Everyone is excited...gb
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I will die on this hill. I will argue till I’m blue in the face. I will produce the data.
Participation in youth sports/activities is as important as many of the classes my kids take at school. Maybe more important.
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@Voyage841918271 @nolaguy27 Faith in anyone that’s ever touched $OPTI is long gone. I just can’t help but complain every 6 months or so for what….7 years…?
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@chrystenc @nolaguy27 Exactly C
Keep the faith.
Brett got us this far.
What’s next is anybody’s guess.
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@nolaguy27 Brett's not in jail. No one is going to jail. Maybe they'll get their hands slapped and pay a fine.
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@chrystenc No job to do. 💩head Brett is where he belongs, jail. Screwed everyone over for years. George Sharp should next we hope. Garbage OTC trash company that they used to self enrich and was attempting it again with a fake AI merger. Throw them all in jail as far as I’m concerned. Opti
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I'm headed to Adoration in several hours. Please list your prayer intentions and I will lift them up before the Blessed Sacrament. Know that if you see this, you're being prayed for. Our God is so good.
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@honorablesaint We are both physical/ spiritual. Maturing in faith is responding justly to the Sacrifice of the Mass reverently. Dressing out of convenience/comfort over intentional worship lacks maturity. Yes, pls come to my wedding, but pls respect me enough to not dress like this.
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Serious question for all Catholics. I want to understand this.
It is in my estimation that we should be able to wear whatever we want to mass. Men should be able to wear cut offs, hats, flip flops, bathing suits, etc. Women can wear yoga pants, booty shorts, sports bras, tank tops, etc.
If you don't think we should allow that, why? Do you think Christ would care that Clarissa shows up in booty shorts and a tank top? Heck we're just glad she's there for Christ. This is all acceptable attire in normal public. So why not mass?
So if this is the case, then why should we care about modesty? Christ doesn't. If he did we'd make sure there is an enforced dress code. Why is modesty such a big thing in Catholicism? Christ meets us where we are. Does a place of worship need outward reverence, or just spiritual and internal reverence?
I want a full logical layout of anyones argument as to why this photo should not be the norm in every mass. If you disagree with that premise then I expect a good logical argument that holds up against critique.
But it seems to me based on all of the comments to Rachel's post that most Catholics agree you can dress this way for mass on any given sunday.
Rachel G@Rachel4TLM
The “reverent” Novus Ordo
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@UcheMaryOkoli Raised evangelical. Served in YWAM for several yrs, often evangelizing to Catholics. Saw many leaders deconstruct & leave their non-denom faith. Was searching for answers & shocked to encounter God in St. Peter's Basilica. Began to study Catholicism & entered the Church in 2006.
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Was born a Catholic, practised Catholicism just out of mere obligations, tried protestantism briefly, hated it completely because of how noisy their services were and how rude the pastor spoke about the Mother of God, ran back home to the one true Church and have decided to remain there till I die.
No place like home, yea?
What's your story?
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JUST IN: Cardinal Pizzaballa & Catholic leaders in Holy Land state their “profound indignation & unreserved condemnation of the desecration of a representation of Jesus Crucified by an Israeli soldier in a Lebanese village.”
Pizzaballa adds:
“This act constitutes a grave affront to the Christian faith and adds to other reported incidents of desecration of Christian symbols by IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon.
It further reveals a disturbing failure in moral and human formation, wherein even the most elementary reverence for the sacred and for the dignity of others has been gravely compromised.
The Assembly calls for immediate and decisive disciplinary action, a credible process of accountability, and clear assurances that such conduct will neither be tolerated nor repeated.
Yet even in the face of such offense, the Cross remains unassailable in its meaning. As Saint Paul the Apostle declares, “far be it from me to glory except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Gal 6:14). For believers, the Cross endures as a source of dignity, hope, and redemption, and as a summons to overcome violence through sacrificial love.
It is precisely in this light that the Church continues to proclaim that true peace cannot be born of violence, but must remain, in the words of Pope Leo XIV, “unarmed… a peace that calls to ‘put [the] sword back into its sheath.’”
For this reason, the Assembly renews, with urgency, its call to bring to an end the war that has tormented this region for far too long, and to embrace a path where peace is witnessed in restraint, dialogue, responsibility, and reverence for the sacred and for every human life.”
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@realstewpeters @goandsinomore Dictators have murdered their civilians when antagonized by world leaders. The Pope is not weak, he is using discernment.
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HANNITY: “Where are the pointed words from the Pope against Iran? Trump is correct and the Pope is wrong…on so many levels. As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic.”
Hannity leaves the Catholic Church to worship Donald Trump.
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@realmikolson Ironic as Martin Luther did not consider Hebrews part of the Biblical canon.
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I truly do not understand how someone can honestly reading the book of Hebrews and remain a Roman Catholic.
It shreds to pieces their entire sacramental system of atonement.
If you’re a Roman Catholic, I urge you to read Hebrews front to back. And then read it again. And, more importantly, actually listen to what the Word of God says. I’m telling you, it’s much better that way.
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Hebrews is one of the books Martin Luther separated from his personal canon, along with James, Revelation, Sirach etc.
Mikale Olson@realmikolson
I truly do not understand how someone can honestly reading the book of Hebrews and remain a Roman Catholic. It shreds to pieces their entire sacramental system of atonement. If you’re a Roman Catholic, I urge you to read Hebrews front to back. And then read it again. And, more importantly, actually listen to what the Word of God says. I’m telling you, it’s much better that way.
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@LizzieMarbach It is appropriate honor. Our country offers a great deal of honor to patriots and presidents. What honor then should would give the Mother of God? Surely not less.
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This an example of trying to find loopholes and outsmart God.
It’s idolatry and an abomination.
Rev .Vitus@Vitus_osst
This is not Idolatry This is veneration.
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Won’t stop praying for @redeemed_zoomer but I will stop following. Of all the good @Pontifex has brought and will bring, and RZ reduces him to a force of decay in America…😔
Redeemed Zoomer@redeemed_zoomer
You do not have to choose between Trump and the Pope Both are contributing (whether intentionally or not) to the decay of the American nation Both claim titles for themselves which belong to Christ alone. 1800s Protestants like Dabney warned about everything that's happening now and we didn't listen.
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@ReasonTheology Public or private comments from the Pope do not hold the same weight as official Papal documents/ encyclicals.
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Barron says a Catholic can disagree with the concrete application of moral doctrine - suggesting one can disagree with the pope’s condemnation of this war (I guess he is done telling us the pope is just condemning war in general). I find this argument fascinating because it is the EXACT argument used by the liberal German bishops who reject Humanae Vitae and the Church’s teaching on contraception. If Barron gets to disagree with the pope on this war, then the liberals will say they get to reject the pope on contraception. Barron will try to say the two are not the same but that is what everyone does when they are inconsistent.
And the idea that Trump stands up for religious liberty is laughable since he knows very well that two women quit Trump’s religious liberty commission because he doesn’t stand up for it. See my interview with one of them here: youtu.be/su-7nvQ2P3g?si…
And yes, the president owes the pope an apology, but so does Barron for failing to rebuke the president earlier and for shamelessly being led in prayer by the cult prophetess Paula White. And since we are talking about owed apologies - where’s my apology? Barron just came into my comment section crying “calumny” only to be now forced to acknowledge what I was telling him. See here for more on that: youtu.be/_1rAiXwAfCQ?si…
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Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron
The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media. I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.
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@kimthecrow @conservmillen Murder is not the same as stealing a cookie.
1Jn 5:16-17.
“There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.”
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@conservmillen Of course homosexual behavior is morally wrong, but it's not worse than any other sin, sin is sin. Or is sin on a spectrum with God? Lol anyways there should never be a church that says gay marriage is condoned, and especially not recognized.
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Sorry, but no. Only 32% of Catholics say homosexual behavior is wrong. This is compared to 51% of all Protestants, which even includes the fake pride flag churches. 72% of white evangelicals say homosexual behavior is morally unacceptable.
Only 50% of Catholics who attend mass weekly say that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, compared to 86% of white evangelicals
Sean@findveritasx
Thanks Protestants!!!
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@jakedell73 As a convert Catholic in Oregon, it can be hard to find vibrant, faithful, parishes with a thriving community. That is fair. But they always have the Eucharist.
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Here's the thing about all those "recent Catholic converts"
They keep showing up in my Protestant Reformed church
18-36 months after they’ve “come home to Rome” they’re in my office, at my Bible study, or meeting me for breakfast
Asking me about the "bait and switch”
They were promised unity, beauty, and unchanging doctrine
They got a modernist, globalist institution instead, with a deeply anti-American agenda
Catholic Arena@CatholicArena
The more we see posts like this, the bigger the increase again in adults being baptised as Catholic next Easter
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@jakedell73 Work out your salvation with fear and trembling… I have hope in Christ and His mercy, but I do not assume.
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A Catholic really posted this
Roman friends: you don’t have to live like this
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So maybe I don’t get this because I’m not Catholic, but even if I believed this story, the pope is obviously a lefty. He blessed a piece of ice in honor of climate change for Pete’s sake. I don’t get why the Trump Admin would want him at any events.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture. America, Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side. As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will. That scene, broken this week by Mattia Ferraresi in an extraordinary piece of journalism for The Free Press, may be the most remarkable moment in the long and knotted history of the American republic’s relationship with the Catholic Church. substack.com/home/post/p-19…
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