Fr Benjamin Roberts, DMin

@BishopDavidT Sermon 108 is one of the best homilies in Church history!

Keep burning continually the sweet smelling incense of prayer. Take up the sword of the Spirit. Let your heart be an Altar (Peter Chrysologus, 5c Bishop, Ravenna).

@MadisonPierce Even at academic conferences in Dreamland, there is a cool kids table.

Last night I dreamed that SBL (in getting smaller) became a catered conference. Dinner and lunch was provided at one place and inexpensive. But then in Dreamland some very random people from high school etc. were suddenly SBL people and ate with me.

@KatiePMcGrady I agree. This is the mural of them hanging out that I commissioned for my parish. catholicnewsherald.com/88-news/fp/682…

I sometimes play a game: “Which Saints hang out in heaven?” wherein I imagine Carlo & Pier Giorgio playing Mario Kart, or Kateri & Isaac Jogues going on a hike, or maybe Thomas Aquinas & Augustine co-hosting a true crime podcast. Today’s Saint, St. Bernadette Soubirous, has a best buddy, I think: St. Juan Diego. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mor…

@BishopDavidT This is one of the hidden gems of the Office of Readings!

On the night He was delivered up to be crucified, He left us this gift as a pledge of his abiding presence…Daily, it is before our eyes as a representation of the passion of Christ. We hold it in our hands, we receive it in our mouths, and we accept in our hearts (Gaudentius, 5c Bp of Brescia, friend of John Chrysostom).

@historyinpearls Prayers

@bktheologian @RyanHaecker Must have. Must read.

The cover for my forthcoming work. It should be out by May. 🍺

@bpdflores @BishopDavidT As a seminarian, I was often the MC and keeping track of the details. As a pastor, I am living the mystery and hoping I get the details right. Listening to the history of salvation and then celebrating the mysteries of salvation is almost overwhelming.

Both as a priest and a bishop, I have found preparing for the celebration of the Easter Vigil the most difficult preparation of the year. What it encompasses is not something I can wrap my mind around. I know it’s not a matter of wrapping the mind around it, it’s a matter of …

@bronwenmcshea I got the same result. I was really hoping Ireneus was an option.

Admittedly, this result was not on my Bingo card. I thought my man Augustine of Hippo would rank #1, easily. (If you want to see which theologian you are most like, here is the link. And feel free to share your results in the comments here! --whichtheologianareyou.netlify.app

@HeinleinMichael @jshocds Sept 24 is the feast day of Our Lady under several titles. That tracks.

I keep looking at this. A long, mysterious wait. But God’s timing is best. Gloria!

@BishopDavidT @spincity615 @RomeroTrust We have the audio of the last homily. He was an amazing preacher! mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/3…

@RomeroTrust This was his last homily. He was martyred the next day, ( 24 March 1980) while celebrating holy Mass at the convent near his home.

In the name of God and in the name of this suffering people, whose laments rise up each day more tumultuously toward heaven, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression! —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Lent (C), 1980 #StOscarRomero

@OSVNews @catholicourtney I've celebrated Mass in that Chapel.

In recent years, it has become a little tradition in Rome to celebrate the anniversary of St. John Henry Newman's Feb. 21 birthday with a Mass in the chapel where he offered his first Mass as a Catholic priest. @catholicourtney writes: osvnews.com/heres-a-look-a…

@JamesMelville Friday nights visiting my grandparents!

Age test. Who remembers watching this…?

@LisaKDeam Happy birthday!

It’s my birthday, pleased to report I haven’t been arrested

I love this book!

#AshWednesday @CatholicNewsCLT youtu.be/SB9lPc6xFmI?si…

@Gen_Ben_Mac Also, why it would be ok to eat snakes, frogs, or alligator.

Small penance: abstaining from meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays Big penance: explaining to your coworkers why you’re not eating meat, and why fish isn’t meat, and why we do penance when you can just pray a little prayer and go straight to Heaven. “Even Hitler, theoretically.”

@DavidPaternostr You gotta wonder what Paul said that he didn't write down!

Some of the most entertaining passages in Scripture come when Paul is having None Of It

@DavidPaternostr 1991 for me

My Eagle Scout rank is now old enough to rent a car. Absolutely wild to think that this was 25 years ago

@Joeinblack At least for myself, I can say that is not true! But, I'm not a canonist.

Everyone knows the real clerical power lies in the hands of the elite unit known as the “Very Reverend”. It’s in Canon Law, somewhere toward the back.