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@megbasham @jbendery Mass of the presanctified. I was there all day today.

@jbendery Catholics don’t have Mass on a Good Friday.

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. huffpost.com/entry/news-liv…

@TogetherRising I just listened to the recording of the prayer with @FatherChenal - may God rest the child's soul and may Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin comfort the sorrows of the family.

Looks like Iran just regime changed the US.

I’m going to @FatherChenal’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? twitter.com/i/spaces/1vJpP…

@garrettham_esq @JoshuaTCharles You could go even a step further and reconsider it in light of tradition, and its fruits. traditioninaction.org/religious/k019…

Coming from an evangelical background, I always thought the Augustinian tradition on sexuality—and Humanae Vitae in particular—was prudish, overly restrictive, and out of touch. It seemed like the Church was policing something that didn't need policing. Then I spent years prosecuting sex crimes. What I saw was the full downstream consequences of a culture that had systematically detached sexuality from its proper context, from permanence, from fidelity, from openness to life, from the dignity of the other person. The people I prosecuted weren't monsters who appeared from nowhere. They were the products of a logic that, followed to its end, produces exactly what Paul VI warned it would produce in 1968: the reduction of the human person to an object of use. Humanae Vitae reads differently when you've seen what it's describing. The document isn't prudish; it's prophetic.

This was certainly one of my more emotional, carnal hangups before becoming Catholic. Many (most?) protestants believe that getting married is a “free ticket” to just about anything you want in the bedroom. The Church says no (and scandalously most Catholics don’t obey either).

@LaocoonofTroy No way

Men playing tennis on the wings of a biplane in 1925.

@AdamChenal33 @Catholicizm1 Amen Father Chenal!

@Catholicizm1 Correct, it especially shouldn’t be recommended by lay theologians. The priest has to diligently determine from case to case.

You don’t need to leave the church if you marry a non Catholic. You can still get a sacramental marriage in the church. Spouse has to agree to raise the children Catholic. I don’t recommend this, just stating facts.

@ThemBeforeUs May God have mercy on my soul

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The IVF reality no one warns couples about. Before the injections, before the egg retrieval, before the transfer… there’s something most people are never told: Almost every embryo created through IVF will be frozen. 🧵

@VaticanNews This completely contradicts the magisterial teaching of the Church most expressly shown in the encyclical Moratlium Anomos of Pope Pius XI. Keep in mind this is an audience with the pope while Mortalium Animos is binding on all Catholics as in line with Tradition.

@FatherAltman Resignation is cowardice: conversion is courage! He could have a conversion to the correct Catholic Faith but you calling for his resignation doesn’t work towards that.

@HilarityjaneArt see page 6. GASP! traditioninaction.org/Questions/WebS…

The Bennets really were impossibly vulgar as a family, and Mr. Darcy was right to try to prevent Bingley marrying in. So was Lady Catherine. All five girls out at once was harmful, and Elizabeth should have practiced her piano more and learned to shut up about her ideas.

My eldest son once told me that he believed my attention and devotion were required as his mother but that attention and love from his father was something that must be earned. I realized that he felt this deeply and so do all of us at some level. “You have to love me, you’re my mom.” Which is why fathers leaving makes a person feel so worthless.

New research indicates that fathers build bonds best with their children (and craft secure attachment in them) by "destablizing the child" in a "safe environment. Fathers in the study had a unique ability to make their children laugh and therefore create more perceived safety for the child which led to stronger attachment. Mothers made children feel safe too, usually with repetition and soothing, but the laughing and playing did not make the children as attached as it did when fathers performed it. Several things jump out from this at me: First, a father who is relaxed enough to laugh and play indicates a safe environment. Fathers are biologically the providers of safety, so if dad is relaxed, the world must truly be safe. Children may be picking up on this. Second, being worthy of a father's time and attention is a huge marker for kids. A father's attention may actually mean more in many cases, as we've seen in other studies. The bond with mom is equally as important, but sometimes the bond with mom is taken for granted, where the bond with dad is taken as remarkable due to perceived other demands on his time. What this means: Dads, you've got to be playing with your kids. As silly and disruptive as possible. They need this from you. It's one of the strongest ways they can bond to you. More about the research: psypost.org/laughter-plays…

@InezFeltscher You buy insurance for stuff you don't want to happen. If you want preventative care, pay cash, shouldn't go through insurance. otherwise gets loaded with costs.

Catastrophic insurance is actually what “insurance” is supposed to mean. Routine costs (doc visits, occasional urgent care, prescriptions, the sort of stuff that people predictably use) were paid in cash - and were cheaper because of it. INSURANCE was supposed to be for unpredictable costs, like getting cancer or hit by a bus. And catastrophic insurance was fantastic for that purpose without breaking the bank. “Insurance” for predictable, routine costs that most people incur is just called “paying overhead on top of expenses,” which is why most people carry accident insurance but not maintenance insurance on their cars. It wasn’t consumers who were stupid.

I just bought a Ralph Lauren dress that I realized after I got home is labelled "recycled polyester." I thought about returning it, but it's so hard to find a pretty modest dress, I just kept it. and I like how it fits too... it doesn't bother my skin, but I think it will always bug me, that it's made of "recycled polyester." what does that even mean.

@YardSaleYoda Everything sucks. But what sucks the most are terribly made things from china that are 100% cotton but become misshapen after two washes. Polyester fleece is what repulsed me today

I’ve got a crunchy wife who has steadily moved my clothing to 100% natural fibers over the years. It never mattered to me but now my skin literally bristles at the feel of synthetics. Similar thing w seed oils- most of my longstanding digestive issues went away. She’s a smartie.

@MattWalshBlog @FischerKing64 Oh yes it does

I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.

Christopher Columbus is the ultimate IQ test. You immediately know that someone is a retarded halfwit if they start screeching some nonsense about how Columbus was a genocidal maniac or whatever. Intelligent students of history understand that he is one of the great men of western civilization. This is an awesome move by the White House.

@BobMurphyEcon @AaronNuttle @martyrmade Same

@AaronNuttle @martyrmade lol (literally) I read the sentence 3x and only your comment made me go back yet again

Enemy: The Germans' War, pt. 2 - The Work of the Men As the starving, exhausted people of Germany process their defeat in the Great War, they face a new enemy more terrible than any they faced in the trenches. (Link below)

@TridentineBrew @ArchangeloRom Actually all of our priests are my favorite

@TridentineBrew @ArchangeloRom Lord grant us many holy priests. I have favorite priests in our own traditional parish who were properly formed. I pray we all have those locally soon, and don’t have to find them on the internet. 🙏

People can say what they want about Fr. Ripperger, but I have seen too many serious conversions to Catholicism from people listening to him that I will never criticize him. His mastery of Thomism is par none, and he avoids any excesses while retaining the full impact of St. Thomas’ hard hitting theology. He conveys everything in an easy to understand and down to earth manner. I am immediately suspicious of anyone who is very critical of him. Sure, you cannot trust what demons tell you during an exorcism, but nothing Fr. Ripperger conveys is at odds with the faith. It’s almost always a confirmation of something a saint said elsewhere in different terms. Just because demons lie, doesn’t mean they can’t be compelled to admit humiliations, such as the fact that they are miserable and in perpetual and immense pain. He is my favorite Latin Rite priest and I would recommend all his content to any person. Send his videos to your friends.

@JimJatras @1776Diva @Ikennect Makes me think of that segment from Twilight Zone: the Movie” called Kick the Can.

@1776Diva @Ikennect Personally, although I've had a wonderful life, I couldn't bear to go through a do-over. Knowing what I know now wouldn't be a plus. Ignorance of youth is a kind of blessing.

I'm sticking with RED! 💊 How about you?

It seems this war really is a world war and bringing out the best and the worst in some people. It’s a spiritual war which is pre dividing the goats from the sheep. For example: those who justify bombing innocent civilians vs those who will always stand for the innocent.

@LaocoonofTroy What a crazy photo

Lover's Lane in New Jersey, 1983.