Josh 🦬 retweeted
It's weird that when you put a tie on a dog, he looks like he's a silly little fellow and when you put a tie on a cat, he looks like he actually does have a job and is probably dissatisfied with it
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Josh 🦬 retweeted
Cyberpunk Lore outside Night City:
El Lore de fallout fuera de América: "Si pues europa era una confederación que entro en guerra con los árabes y tal".
El Lore de Cyberpunk 2077. "Y así es como ETA mato a Juan Carlos I en la inauguración de los JJOO de Madrid por el desvío de fondos del tsunami de Vizcaya"
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I generally like Divine Service setting 4 and think it's especially well suited to newer congregations that aren't super familiar with Liturgical worship, but I can't stand how they decided to leave out the offertory. I think David's words,
"Create in me a clean heart, O Lord
And renew a right spirit within me
Cast me not away from Thy presence
And take not Thy Holy Spirit from me
Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation
And uphold me with Thy free spirit
Amen"
...are something every Christian should have committed to memory. You're going to need them, after all
"Create in me a clean heart, O Lord
And renew a right spirit within me
Cast me not away from Thy presence
And take not Thy Holy Spirit from me
Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation
And uphold me with Thy free spirit
Amen"
...are something every Christian should have committed to memory. You're going to need them, after all
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“In brief, Christ uses two words here: He speaks of ‘My flesh.’ He does not talk like the spirits who flit to and fro, but He chooses the word ‘My,’ asserting that it is His true flesh and blood which He shows them and holds under their noses to gladden them. He is not talking or John the Baptist or an angel or the Virgin Mary or an animal, but He says ‘My flesh.’ The word ‘My’ is definitive and determines the distinction.”
Mary's flesh is linked with the Eucharist
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I can't articulate it but this is definitely a thing. There's a lot of Catholic micro sects that do this sort of thing. Why is that, I wonder?
The smaller Robinson's denomination gets, the more elaborate his clerical garb becomes... by next year he'll be wearing a mitre and crozier with a congregation of 1
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I hate watching my parents get old.
I can and have weathered a lot. But when the day comes, I don't know how I'm going to handle it. God, be merciful to me.
I can and have weathered a lot. But when the day comes, I don't know how I'm going to handle it. God, be merciful to me.
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Solomon really did have supernatural wisdom, because he lived a sensuous life of debauchery and idolatry with a frankly staggering number of women in his bed, the literal dream of many men, and whilst in the middle of it, he has the sense to go "This sucks, actually".
Most dudes that deep in just keep on with that kind of lifestyle, not understanding why they aren't happy, or why they feel hollow. Apart from the Holy Spirit, at least.
Most dudes that deep in just keep on with that kind of lifestyle, not understanding why they aren't happy, or why they feel hollow. Apart from the Holy Spirit, at least.
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Josh 🦬 retweeted
Yes, I did pay attention during my catechesis, thank you for asking.
Certainly you could say that we're linked with the Eucharist because it's Christ's flesh, Christ is a man, therefore it is human flesh. But that's not what the gentleman on Pints With Aquinas seems to be saying. What he said is "His flesh is her flesh". Now, certainly, The Blessed Virgin is, indeed, blessed, and certainly we should honor her as the Mother of God - but this language skirts so close to attributing the substance of the Eucharist to someone other than Christ, that the hem is smoldering.
Christ's human nature strictly belongs to Him. The person on the altar is Jesus Christ. The flesh is Jesus Christ's, and no one else's. We don't need to argue metaphysics because we have Christ's own words, "This is my body". Not "This is our body".
You wouldn't go to adoration and say "I'm adoring the humanity of Hezekiah" or anyone else in Christ's lineage. Why? Because you're shifting the focus away from Christ and His atoning sacrifice. The language used here is entirely unhelpful and, frankly, dangerous.
When you say "Mary, Mother of God, is blessed among women because Christ took flesh from her to save sinners" you're speaking entirely biblically. To say "His flesh is her flesh, and her humanity is indissolubly connected with the Eucharist," is to introduce ambiguity that really makes it sound like you're implying that someone else is present on that altar too. Is anything we are given as the church more sacrosacnt than the Eucharist? Why fire from the hip?
Certainly you could say that we're linked with the Eucharist because it's Christ's flesh, Christ is a man, therefore it is human flesh. But that's not what the gentleman on Pints With Aquinas seems to be saying. What he said is "His flesh is her flesh". Now, certainly, The Blessed Virgin is, indeed, blessed, and certainly we should honor her as the Mother of God - but this language skirts so close to attributing the substance of the Eucharist to someone other than Christ, that the hem is smoldering.
Christ's human nature strictly belongs to Him. The person on the altar is Jesus Christ. The flesh is Jesus Christ's, and no one else's. We don't need to argue metaphysics because we have Christ's own words, "This is my body". Not "This is our body".
You wouldn't go to adoration and say "I'm adoring the humanity of Hezekiah" or anyone else in Christ's lineage. Why? Because you're shifting the focus away from Christ and His atoning sacrifice. The language used here is entirely unhelpful and, frankly, dangerous.
When you say "Mary, Mother of God, is blessed among women because Christ took flesh from her to save sinners" you're speaking entirely biblically. To say "His flesh is her flesh, and her humanity is indissolubly connected with the Eucharist," is to introduce ambiguity that really makes it sound like you're implying that someone else is present on that altar too. Is anything we are given as the church more sacrosacnt than the Eucharist? Why fire from the hip?
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By this logic Hezekiah's flesh is also "linked with the Eucharist" because he's way up there in Christ's bloodline
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Josh 🦬 retweeted
Here's another prayer request:
My father is more open to Christianity now than ever before. Pray for the Holy Spirit to move him to come to church with us, be baptized, and receive the grace that pours forth from Christ, crucified
My father is more open to Christianity now than ever before. Pray for the Holy Spirit to move him to come to church with us, be baptized, and receive the grace that pours forth from Christ, crucified
My father is 70 & in poor health. He is disabled, poor, w/ no assets. His wife passed unexpectedly in March. His residence in OH is unsafe, so we found an apartment 7 miles from my house, clean, safe, modern. I just signed the lease. A new challenging chapter, but better for him
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Josh 🦬 retweeted
I've been saying this for years. I am thankful for the moves Rome has made on this issue, but it is clear that this is not the view of many during and after Trent. The popular portrayal is sometimes hardly distinguishable from a Lutheran or Anglican view.
A lot of the popular-level Roman Catholic apologists today are actually quite dull on the subject of Eucharistic Sacrifice when compared with the vast majority of Roman theologians after the Council of Trent.
For example, they commonly just say that "the Mass is a sacrifice of the Cross," or simply "applies the sacrifice of the Cross" while being unaware that most confessional Protestants also agreed to this without any difficulty.
The real issue was that Roman Catholic theology has always historically held to the idea that a real immolation of the sacrificial victim is necessary and essential to the nature of a proper and external sacrifice. Without it, you merely have an oblation---but not a sacrifice.
The views held by the Catholic Answers bros are actually out of step with even Trent itself, since they hold to something more like the view of Gabriel Vazquez or perhaps Maurice de la Taille, who were criticized on this very issue by other prominent authors, such as Emmanuel Doronzo.
If you want the best survey possible, check out L'Idée du sacrifice de la messe by Marius Lepin. It is a 900-page study of all the different theories, and ultimately comes to the conclusion that the majority of them are wrong and inconsistent in explaining how some immolation of Christ occurs in the Mass.
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Friends, please pray for the entire Kirk family, who learned they'll wait until at least June 2028 for justice, news likely made doubly painful by remarks about Charlie this week that are beneath contempt.
On the “I’ve Had It” podcast, so-called culture commentators Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed at the idea of digging up Charlie’s body and “doing it again.”
Then Dave Chappelle told a sold-out Madison Square Garden that “life got better” after Charlie was murdered, and that Charlie is now “looking up, laughing so hard he can’t breathe.”
I have often defended comedians, and I understand that pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable is part of the gig. But this is different.
This is laughing at the murder of a young husband and father of two small children, who was killed with a microphone in his hand, inviting those who disagreed with him into honest, respectful dialogue. Shame on you.
There have always been people in the fever swamps who cheer when someone dies. What is new is that it now comes from the main stage and is met with applause.
How did we get here?
This is what a culture looks like when it drifts away from God. Remove God, and with him any sense of the transcendent and the sacred, our objective sense of what is true and good is left in ruins.
What remains is relativism, “my truth” and “your truth,” and finally a game of power: my team against yours. In a world like that, a man's death can become a punchline.
Charlie understood this cultural disease and spent much of his life trying to heal it. It's why he went onto hostile campuses to sit with young people, many of them unmoored and unaffiliated, and make the case for God, for truth, and for a moral order beyond themselves. He listened patiently, argued charitably, and spoke openly about Jesus Christ.
It is my hope, then, that many more will take up this vital part of Charlie's work.
On the “I’ve Had It” podcast, so-called culture commentators Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed at the idea of digging up Charlie’s body and “doing it again.”
Then Dave Chappelle told a sold-out Madison Square Garden that “life got better” after Charlie was murdered, and that Charlie is now “looking up, laughing so hard he can’t breathe.”
I have often defended comedians, and I understand that pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable is part of the gig. But this is different.
This is laughing at the murder of a young husband and father of two small children, who was killed with a microphone in his hand, inviting those who disagreed with him into honest, respectful dialogue. Shame on you.
There have always been people in the fever swamps who cheer when someone dies. What is new is that it now comes from the main stage and is met with applause.
How did we get here?
This is what a culture looks like when it drifts away from God. Remove God, and with him any sense of the transcendent and the sacred, our objective sense of what is true and good is left in ruins.
What remains is relativism, “my truth” and “your truth,” and finally a game of power: my team against yours. In a world like that, a man's death can become a punchline.
Charlie understood this cultural disease and spent much of his life trying to heal it. It's why he went onto hostile campuses to sit with young people, many of them unmoored and unaffiliated, and make the case for God, for truth, and for a moral order beyond themselves. He listened patiently, argued charitably, and spoke openly about Jesus Christ.
It is my hope, then, that many more will take up this vital part of Charlie's work.
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