Tweeting to the Choir: A Collection of Tweets

Fake History Hunter@fakehistoryhunt: I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can’t act like grown-ups get blocked. Finally a book that’s actually useful.

Matt Fradd@mattfradd: Host of #PintsWithAquinas
The Ultimate Catholic Apologist would have:

Fr. Pine’s rhetoric
Trent Horn’s debating skills
Jimmy Akin’s brain
Scott Hahn’s bible knowledge
Ed Feser’s understanding of metaphysics
Fr. Mike Schmitz’s jaw line
Cameron Bertuzzi’s (upcoming) conversion story

What am I missing?

Trent Horn@Trent_Horn: I would rather a Christian be kind yet bad at apologetics than be a jerk who wins every debate (ideally we should kindly win debates!). That’s because the damage caused by mean-spirited behavior sticks around way longer than the damage cause by not being able to answer objections

Word on Fire@WordOnFire:

Building Catholic Men | Husbands | Fathers@BldgCatholicMen

Every person is called to be an artist.

Some use pencils, paint, canvas, or clay.

The rest of us use land, houses, gardens, our bodies, families, businesses, ministries, acts of service, works of mercy.

These are our works of art.

Artvisionᴺᶠᵀ@ArtvisionNFT: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”  – Thomas Merton

Josh Spiegel@mousterpiece:  Film Twitter rules to consider:

1. Tweet about Paddington and/or The Rocketeer.
2. When tweeting about other topics, think about how to make them about Paddington and/or The Rocketeer.
3. Why aren’t you tweeting about Paddington and/or The Rocketeer already?

Icona �@Iconawrites: You must never be afraid to put down the books that bore you. Life is incredibly short, and you have far less time left to read than you think. Instead of wasting it on what does not speak to you, invest it in what delights and enriches you.

Obi-Wan Kenosis��JMJ✝️@elmago3221: Honestly gives me a warm fuzzy feeling that the baptists still find the Eucharist and traditional liturgical trappings spooky

Baptists see a Franciscan in a habit at Costco and are like “please sir do not turn me into a frog”

Hans Urs von Balthasar@h_u_v_balthasar: Supreme beauty is the glory of the invisible God radiating in the visible materiality of the world.

Maria Lesniak ����@MariaLesniak88:I was converted today during the Mass, thanks to the Priest’s homily.
I was angry at all the people that were not wearing masks, giving them unfriendly looks.
I realized I couldn’t continue celebrating the Eucharist without loving them.
My heart was changed.
Thank you Lord!

Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms: Christians are called to make God’s love visible in this world. So our concern for this world and for the world to come must be inseparable. If we fail *either* to promote greater justice and harmony in this world *or* to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, God’s love remains invisible.

Canonize These Men

Fr Matthew P. Schneider LC @FrMatthewLC:
The Catholic Thought of Fr. Matthew P. Schneider LC | Mark Wilson (patheos.com)

It would be great to canonize Frs. Georges Lemaître & Gregor Mendell.

If the heroic virtue & miracles were there (TBD), it would be great to show how science & faith go together. (It would also be interesting to see how many people’s minds would be blown�) For those out of the loop, Fr Lemaître was the first to theorize the Big Bang & Fr Mendell was the first to do modern genetics. So, these 2 central ideas of modern science come from faithful Catholic priests.

bioplastic@plastic_bio: We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.- Georges Lemaître

Grant Hartley@TheGrantHartley: me reading in the Gospels how Jesus and the disciples went “in one accord”: “imagine Jesus AND twelve other dudes fitting in one Honda, that’s wild”

 @CurtJester: So I wonder how much time I will get in Purgatory for punning on a saint’s last name? Sill appropriate for today’s feast.

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“I get in my head so much about how bad my sins are that I forget to keep the big picture in mind that God is there with more mercy than I could ever understand.” – Lino Rulli

Lino Rulli@linorulli:
I am a man with a large nose. And a radio show on SiriusXM.

When the Pope is elected, the Cardinal should come out with an envelope and say “And the Successor of St Peter goes to…” #oscars

When I met the Pope last week, I said (in Italian): “I pray for you all the time.”
To which he replied, “For me or against me?”
I had to lean in closer to understand if I heard him correctly. And then I busted out laughing.
Was still laughing when he gave me a rosary.

Someone just emailed me that my book Sinner is 10 years old. And while it isn’t ranked in books about Catholicism or Biography… It’s ranked in the Terrorism category. Rude.

Talk about it on The Catholic Channel as we address what’s on your mind and in the news, all from a Catholic point of view!

Mark Hart@LT_TheBiblegeek
CIO of Life Teen, Co-host of “The Catholic Guy Show” on SiriusXM, Author, Speaker, ND Alum ☘️. Go Irish! I own a Bible that smells of rich mahogany.

When people annoy me I try to remember that Jesus called me to be a light. So then I like to pretend I’m the Pixar light… and I’m jumping on people’s heads.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn’t necessarily need you… but who desperately needs Christ in you. Be prepared. Pay attention. It’s not an inconvenience, it’s your mission.

Giraffes Are Like Werewolves@GiraffesAreFast·
Catholic and a Giraffe! � Typing with hooves ain’t easy!

@LT_TheBiblegeek you’re right that Easter doesn’t seem as big as Christmas or Halloween… but that’s also because of how commercialized those have become. �
Not sure we want Christ’s Resurrection to go down quite the same path. �

Found an interesting use for my iMissal app… cueing up the Nicene Creed for a coworker who honestly didn’t know (& had asked) if Catholics believed in Jesus.

Giraffes Are Like Werewolves @GiraffesAreFast

We aim to catalog all of the fantastic wisdom that is bestowed upon listeners of the @CatholicGuyShowby  the Nasty Muppet Producer.

This Day in BearsAreFast History: [5/5] Harmonica – An ancient Aramaic Instrument. Example: “I imagine that Jesus played “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” on his harmonica as he hung out with the apostles on their fishing boat.” (1/24/2018)

This Day in BearsAreFast History: Galossians (noun) –  the 74th book in the Bible, created by combining Galatians and Colossians.
Example: “My favorite Bible verse comes from Galossians: “For God so loved the world that he made fast the bears.” (6/12/2018)
Bears Are Fast @bearsarefast (Jun 12, 2020)

Unofficial personality & fan page of Tyler, Executive Producer of Catholic Guy Show. Fan of hoodies, Family Feud, song parodies, March Madness & rotating ovens.

With all of the nasty muppets and rodents around, I am in high demand.

Catholic rat in a nice NYC apartment. Newly converted vegan *This is a fan page and not affiliated with the Catholic Guy Show*

Broadcast location of Catholic Guy Show. Place where husband is exiled. Scared of priest’s bare feet and friend of rats. I love throw pillows.

Domenico Bettinelli ��@bettnet: One thing about the Catholic church in Massachusetts is that there is a decided lack in parish culture for communal food, like Friday fish fry or other meals. Sure some parishes do it, but not nearly as common as the rest of the country.

Anonymous Carmelite: Catholic women need support from other Catholic women. Priests are there for general advice and spiritual counsel, but can’t really be there for women the way religious sisters can. I encourage all Catholic women to regularly visit the local community of nuns for friendship.

Father Chris Pietraszko@FrChrisP: If we demand, resentfully, for others to carry their cross, it’s a sign that we aren’t carrying our own. It amounts to a type of log in our own eye. Carrying our own cross in a spiritual way, always bears the fruits of gentleness, self-control, peace, joy, patience, etc..

James Martin, SJ@JamesMartinSJ: The Spirituality of Fr. James Martin JUNE 23, 2021

Gospel: Today Jesus asks us to “take up our cross daily” (Lk 9). What does he mean? First, it means that all human life includes some suffering that cannot be avoided. This is part of our “cross.” Second, it means letting go of anything that prevents us from following God more closely. Finally, it means sometimes choosing a difficult path, which you know will lead to suffering, because it is the right thing to do. (St. Ignatius Loyola talks about the person who chooses the difficult path because it also means following Jesus more closely. But when we take up each of those crosses, we are not alone. Jesus, who understands the Cross, is with us.

Fr. Andrew Hedstrom@ProtoApostoli: “Celebrating a feast day of a chair may sound strange, but no stranger than celebrating a crucifixion, or believing that God became flesh, or that a human woman gave birth to God.”

tommy@theghissilent: that my tweets be more about you than dune, the filet o fish, or absolutely anything else – Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. From the desire to be retweeted, deliver us Lord.

Gregory Mansfield@GHMansfield:

If you exclude disabled people, I don’t want to hear how diverse you are.

If you exclude disabled people, I don’t want to hear how inclusive you are.

If you exclude disabled people, I don’t want to hear how accessible and accommodating you are.

Sr. Helena Raphael Burns, fsp@SrHelenaBurns
In a ploy to get Ma to eat, I got her a Shamrock shake. She didn’t want it. I brought it to convent.

Nun: Is that a SHAMROCK SHAKE?!
Me: U want it? I hate mint.
Nun: I was JUST telling God how much I wanted one!
I told Ma abt this: Yup. I call that a ‘direct hit’ from God.
#MaSez

Fr. Goyo@FrGoyo: Today I am thanking God for protecting me from what I thought I wanted and blessing me with what I didn’t know I needed.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer@Brcremer: Imagine if our Christian view of the End Times was: centered on preparing for Christ rather than an antichrist. centered on the mark of the lamb rather than the beast. centered on preparing for redeeming the earth rather than escaping it. centered on hope rather than fear.

William Hemsworth@w_hemsworth: If you don’t understand eschatology please don’t stress. It isn’t the end of the world.

@CurtJester: Just how much of a jerk do you have to be on the most glorious day of the year to tape Chick Tracks to all the cars at a Catholic Church? Good thing I am still in a “Forgive them Father they don’t know what they are doing” mood.

Michael R. Heinlein@HeinleinMichael:  “The process of sanctification is a process of Christification: ‘until Christ be formed in you.’ Therefore, we will be saints in the measure in which we live the life of Jesus Christ—or better, in the measure in which Jesus Christ lives in us.” —Bl. James Alberione

Bishop Down Umber@BishopUmbers: One of the greatest sorrows for a Christian is to have been an obstacle for others getting to know Jesus Christ.

� Augustine of Hiphop ��@hiphopaugustine: 
God convert us errin punks
turn these monsters into monks
twist these sinnas into sons
shape the “nones” until they’re nuns

fah’Tim@FrGrumbach: Love the way how in Luke’s Gospel Jesus makes an important distinction between how fish and people are caught. He uses a different word for catching souls, that while fish die when they are caught, people are caught and become even more alive than before.

Spending too much time staying up thinking about how much mediocre graphic design hinders our mission. I mean, the Church already has the most intriguing and convicting message there is. Why do we settle for art that makes it clear “this is not the best we have to offer?”

Paul J. Kim@pjkmusic: I was blessed to know Fr Benedict Groeschel, who personally knew “Madonna’s” grandma. She would ask him to pray for her granddaughter who had a rough upbringing. Looks like the prayers haven’t worked yet, but let’s pray that she puts the crown on the actual Madonna soon.

Father John LoCoco@Father_LoCoco: This current generation of teenagers is not asking, “Did Jesus rise?” but rather, “So what if He did?”

We have to be better at responding to what they are actually asking us instead of what we think they should know. I am saying this to myself as much as everyone else, too.

Rabbi Dr Laura Duhan-Kaplan �����@OnSophiaStreet: Why do so many Christians feel everyone in the world should be Christian? Serious question, not a subtweet.

The Catholic Talk Show@CatholicTalkSho: How terrible would Christians be if they TRULY believed that Christianity is THE truth and leads to eternal life and happiness but NOT CARE if others would get the same? Any religion that doesn’t think everyone should follow it seems either lukewarm or selfish.

Annoymous Carmelite: Proclaiming the Catholic faith is the bravest thing we as Catholics must do, but we must do it charitably. When you tell people the truth on what Christ willed for the Church, they often say, “If He were alive now, He would do it differently.” He is alive now. Listen to Him.

Lyle Enright@YnysDyn:  “It is a mistake to try and find any deeper meaning or some grand divine design in the evils we suffer. The randomness and meaninglessness of evil is precisely what evil is and thus to invest it with a deeper clarity is to grant it a dignity it does not have.” — Larry Chapp

Catholic sinner praying for the Ukraine@RobertO54702108: “The saints are God’s water: they go to the lowest and driest places. Do you live in a society, or a situation, that is full of evil? Don’t complain; practice nursing. That’s why He put you there.”
—Peter Kreeft from his book Practical Theology #Catholic #CatholicTeachers

Msgr Brian Bransfield@BrianBransfield: The Ascension is not an end or a conclusion. It is quite the opposite. As Jesus “goes away” from us into heaven, He actually becomes closer and more accessible to us in every time and place through His Church.

MrCasey@MrCasey62: Ed Feser: “A Catholic leaving the Church because he’s scandalized by heresy/sexual abuse/etc. is like fleeing the scene when one’s mother’s being attacked lest one suffer harm oneself. To abandon the Church to heretics/perverts rather than aid/suffer w/her while they assail her.”

CatholicBard@BardCatholic: In times of crisis—and there have been many crises throughout the Church’s history (and indeed there will be more)—the Church summons new heroes who are committed to holiness and driven to uproot whatever sin and evil have infected the spiritual family.-Brandon Vogt

Catholic Charm ✞ ☀️@CatholicCharm: I don’t get how someone can look at the Catholic Church and know it was established by Christ and our first pope was Peter, an actual apostle who met and followed Christ and decide the Church isn’t true and instead join a church started by Jim Bob 6 years ago

Gianna Bonello@feliixculpaa: One of my favorite parts about Catholicism is that it’s not dependent on our feelings or emotions. Jesus is still present in the Eucharist whether we ‘feel’ Him there or not. Mass is still valid whether we’re emotionally present or not. It’s an objective faith, not subjective.

Matt Fradd@mattfradd: A faithful Catholic should not only submit to what the church teaches authoritatively, he should also not demand uniformity where the church allows diversity of opinion or custom.

Peter Kreeft@ProfessorKreeft: The strongest enemy of faith is not doubt, but dullness. Just as the strongest enemy of love is not hate, but indifference.

Marcel LeJeune@MarcelLeJeune:

What do Jesus & Darth Vader have in common?
They both find your lack of faith disturbing.�

Liberty Hangout@LibertyHangout: Christianity, like Judaism before Christ, is a physical religion. If God wanted us to be purely spiritual, this would defeat the point of the incarnation. The resurrected Christ told his Apostles he’s not a ghost. He made them touch him & became known in the breaking of the bread

webowop@webowop: I wonder if some people mistake the experience of aesthetic beauty for an experience of the Holy, cutting them off from seeing God in the efforts of regular folks trying their best to express their faith at Mass, even if they don’t sound as good as a pro choir singing Latin.

Anonymous Carmelite: I don’t adhere to any radical traditionalism nor do I adhere to any progressivism. I adhere to the Catholic faith, the magisterium, and authority of the Pope. Also though I am not a political person like at all and I voted only once in my life, so there’s that.

Pedro Gabriel Writer@pedrogabwriter:I trust that a person with good discernment who reads Pope Francis’ and V2’s own words, untainted by the propaganda issuing from those sites for years will be able to decide for herself what sites speak for Catholicism or not when she gets acquainted with the core of the religion

Saint John Henry Newman@JHNewman: When we feel that His mysteries are too severe for us, and occasion us to doubt, let us earnestly wait on Him for the gift of humility and love. Those who love and who are humble will apprehend them.

Carl McColman@CarlMcColman: If religion is only a source of sorrow, not joy; a source of repentance but not the assurance of forgiveness, no wonder many abandon it.

David Dark’s Soft Spot for Sci Fi@DavidDark: “Christianity is something to do, not a philosophical puzzle. It comes about not when someone affirms a creedal proposition, but when someone does something. It is a way to be witnessed, not a proposition to be proven.”John D. Caputo

Brian Holdsworth@briankeepsworth: When some think about Traditional Catholicism, it brings associations of superiority media & unwelcoming fringes. When I think about it, I think of the wholesome families that I meet each Sunday that inspire me to love Jesus more. The former has nothing to do with the latter.

Fr. Matthew Schneider@FrMatthewLC: When Sr. Lucia said JP2 consecrated Russia & an overwhelming amount of evidence supports this, we can say Russia was properly consecrated.

To claim otherwise, you have to twist some very complex web that is so astronomically unlikely as to be functionally impossible.

Mr. Automatic@DJMrAutomatic: The Fatima “consecrate Russia” conspiracy theory, is a prime example of the kind of thing that has allowed anti-vax and Qanon conspiracies to flourish in church communities. Faith devoid of reason quickly leads to the darkness of superstition and fear. I’ll elaborate on my Fatima statement. Since childhood, I’ve watched some Catholics waiting for Fatima to apply to anything from the cold war to Ukraine today. Human beings look for patterns in everything, and the desire to be privy to special information is a powerful instinct.

Greg7190@greg7190: I think this rule should apply with apparitions – unless it helps with growth in Gospel values, following Jesus and faith, hope and charity, it can be safely ignored (especially if it has nonsense about the end of the world).

Mary Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo: Wait til the Fatimaniac crowd find out Mary was speaking in Portuguese and not ecclesiastical Latin when she asked for a consecration.

Henry Karlson@HenryKarlsonIII:As St John of the Cross and Rahner pointed out, even if you have authentic locutions and apparitions, this doesn’t mean you properly understand them, and our reception of them can be influenced by our own mind. This is why those who are so literal with apparitions go astray.Their value is not really the words, but grace; the words can be distorted by us, but the grace transcends us. This is also why some can be great, holy saints, have had some sort of apparitional experience, and yet be off in what they say (for example, children).

 The grace was real, but their minds only understood the experience in a very narrow and imperfect manner.

Catholic Joe@catholicjose: Consecration =/= Conversion

I’m seeing too many people confusing this two bcuz “Russia hasn’t been properly consecrated”.

First, you need to read more about the history of Fatima, Sr Lucy, St JPII, Pope Pius XII, and Soviet Union. You’ll see Russia been consecrated

Second, consecration DOES NOT equal conversion. Consecration is to be set a part by God. Conversion is acting on God’s prompting of His Holy Spirit. An example, at birth I was consecrated and baptism to our Lord. I lived a VERY sinful lifestyle until I converted 12yrs ago. See the difference?

So plz get this straight and just don’t believe everything you see on dumb website.

Pax ✌️

TheAmishCatholic@AmishCatholic: The truth of the Gospel does not hang upon whether the Blood of San Germano liquifies, whether Our Lady appeared to Ugandan schoolgirls, or whether the Divine Mercy was a real revelation to Faustina Kowalska. One can believe in all these things (I believe in some), but it’s emphatically secondary. Also, it seems to me that we shouldn’t lump together apparitions and private revelation with miracles, which at least seem patient of some kind of empirical verification. One doesn’t need to go far in the other direction and go around debunking cherished devotions, but it is actually very important not to confuse those devotions with public revelation.

fah’Tim@FrGrumbach: Eating ice cream with chopsticks is a fine art of delicate balance. Eat too slowly and it all melts and becomes a futile endeavor. Eat too quickly and you get the headache. I have practiced and worked out the proper patience to excel in this area.

Bob Rice@deaconbobrice: I ordered a dozen glazed donuts from@dunkindonuts and was told “we don’t have any.“ This is truly the end of civilization as we know it. The devil is driving a truck filled with my toilet paper and glazed donuts, laughing.

Maria Morera Johnson@bego: Today’s head-scratching moment: chocolate hummus. Why? WHY? Can’t you just make a nice chocolate dip and leave the delicious savory chick peas and olive oil to the hummus? #butwhy

The Catholic Talk Show@CatholicTalkSho: Did you know that the Popes used to drink a wine infused with cocaine? This Pope-Cocaine-Wine led a man to make his own cocaine-infused drink as a competitor. That drink? #CocaCola. Listen to the full story on the latest episode of The Catholic Talk Show! http://bit.ly/CatholicTalkShow-Ep9

CatholicBard@BardCatholic: I said to my husband that it is pancake day. He said oh, it’s the last day to eat meat day, because that is what he is giving up meat for lent. He eats a lot of meat so it is a real sacrifice for him. Happy Strove Tuesday everyone and a blessed Lent!

 Fr. Goyo @FrGoyo: Some years ago, I forgot I had to preach one Sunday. Full of nerves, I could only say,

“God loves you.”

When I got out, there was a line of people waiting. One by one they said, “thanks, I thought God forgot about me. You reminded me He hasn’t.”

Nadine Persaud@NPersaud5: A patient at our hospice once said to me “being here is the most loved I’ve felt my whole life”…she was 85. Don’t wait until someone is dying for them to feel like they matter. Make them matter every day so that when they are dying, feeling loved isn’t a new experience.

Sr. Miriam James@onegroovynun: Kindness, safety and truth are the fertile ground that brings forth healing, restoration and love.

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm: In Defense of Fr. Casey Cole 

Everyone has something worthwhile to share. Everyone has something they can teach others.

Never forget that there are things out there that you don’t know, and that you’ll never know them if you don’t listen.

Seek out people who are different from you. Listen to them. Learn from them. Partner with them in a project. Let them lead. Let them make decisions you wouldn’t make and think are wrong. Mostly, stop thinking that it is mine to “let” them do anything, whoever “them” is.

Obi-Wan Kenosis��JMJ✝️@elmago3221: If you’re feeling a road block in your spiritual life instead of trying a multiplicity of spiritual exercises or reading a bunch of mystics think of something you don’t feel like doing that would make someone else feel loved and do it. I’m sure you can come up with something.

TheCheekyRunner�@cheekyrunner123·: Roughly 37 people are killed by vending machines every year.
2-5 people are killed by party balloons.
Falling out of bed kills 450 per year.
Not going anywhere with this. I just have a weird thing for statistics and an even weirder compulsion to share.

judymcdonald@judymcdonald: I enjoy running. I also enjoy tax audits, going to the all night dentist and being beaten with a sock full of nickels by clowns.

To Millennity and Beyond@Drake_OMalfoy: Turn popular locations into subtle haunted houses, but don’t tell anyone. Like Wal-Mart looks completely normal until the guy with the chainsaw just starts chasing people around the store.

Emily, praying for peace ���@EmilyKath319: My great-great-great-grandfather was the bastard of Tsar Alexander II. Unless trying to rebuild the Russian Empire benefits ME by putting me on the throne as Tsarina, it’s a horrible and terrible and bad idea and I reject it

JD Flynn@jdflynn: Lady at the grocery store told me I shouldn’t buy balloons unless I had to because of the helium shortage. The what?!?

emma@emahalli: did anyone else who went to Catholic school think the “Big Bang” referred to the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs- NOT the actual creation of the universe?? just me??

Lex Fridman@lexfridman: I had a dream where Darwin, Orwell, Twain & others called me on the phone, talking only to each other. After a while I said “Hello?” Orwell responded: “Hello, friend.”

I asked “Aren’t you all dead?” They laughed and hung up.

How did all that come from my mind? Can I call back?

Catharine@coffeecatharine:  I feel like we need another Mr. Rogers-like show but for grownups and maybe they could give us tours of things like breweries and the international space station

Kenneth Floyd@Kfloyd1890: Ok ok, hear me out… a Catholic confection company called “Mt. Caramel Caramels”

Side note: someone on Catholic Twitter needs to start a bakery called “The Little Flour”

 Eve Tushnet@evetushnet: what is the opposite of an evergreen tweet. a nevergreen tweet. anyway it’s this

Troopers Andrea Pelachick & Lauren Lesher@PSPTroopFPIO:  Crash Update: All monkeys have been accounted for.

Carolyn Schultz-Rathbun �@CarolynSchultzR: When my friend, a lesbian who accepted the historical teaching of the Church on sexuality, asked her pastors for a ceremony to celebrate a lifelong commitment to celibacy, they asked what she needed from the church. She said she needed them 2B the family she was giving up. They said, wasn’t gonna happen. Folks were too busy, had their own lives.

Gotta choose, traditional church. If you expect folks to sacrifice for chastity, you’re gonna have to sacrifice to support them. Melissa’s story:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4B6ZHvalSjwKCaZlC8E9SF…

Eve Tushnet@evetushnet: “Trusting that gay people have an understanding of our own experience which can offer insights to the rest of the people of God; and trusting that Scripture and church tradition have more to say to us than ‘no.’”

James Martin, SJ@JamesMartinSJ: In the story of Zacchaeus, Jesus invites himself to the tax collector’s house. The crowd’s response?  “All who saw it began to grumble” (Lk 19).

Showing mercy to people considered “other,” as with LGBTQ people today, always infuriates some people. It makes some people want to marginalize them even further.

What is Jesus’s response to the “grumbling”? To continue to reach out, to continue to listen to their stories, and to continue to welcome them into the community.  Basically, to show them mercy anyway.

Jesus reached out to people on the margins even when it made others uncomfortable. That included a Roman centurion (not Jewish); the woman at the well (Samaritan, married 5x, living with someone not her husband); and Zacchaeus (a tax collector for Rome)…. Re: #DontSayGay

Andy Thomas@sophiaseeker_at: Give God everything, especially your honest thoughts and feelings about Him and those circumstances or people you don’t like. It’s not like He doesn’t know them anyway. No LARPing, no pretending.

By being transparent and honest with God, you can let Him in to heal your life.

Patrick Madrid ✌�@patrickmadrid: There is nothing that can be known that God does not know. There is nothing that exists that God does not sovereignly will to exist.

Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack:  #talkedtotheboss God is worth your time, your energy, your sacrifice. He’s more important than hobbies, your children’s sports or your rest. The way to show we believe this is to act like we believe it. If we’ve failed this, ask forgiveness, start over.

Mary Beth Giltner@m_b_baker: It hit me yesterday, and I’m still chewing on it today. Jesus in the Gospel rebuked Peter for thinking like a human. As if “thinking as God does” isn’t just an invitation for us, but an expectation. Lord, keep helping me to let the light in. #FridayThoughts

Pope Benedict XVI@P_BenedictXV: The Word is flesh. It is given to us under the appearances of bread and thus truly becomes the Bread on which we live. This is the joy that God gives us: That he made himself one of us, that we can touch him and that he dwells among us. The joy of God is our strength.

Catholic Kangaroo@CatholicKanger1: I think that perhaps G-d is like a Catholic patriarch in one of the Eastern churches. With a long, unkempt beard. Always quoting Holy Scripture. Dedicated to prayer and the liturgy, but not to the rubrics. Amazingly gentle with penitents, but ferocious with monks and nuns.

Fr. Larry Richards@FrLarryRichards:  God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” Genesis 1:27 God created YOU in His image. He created you to love you! God wanted you, He chose you, and He rejoices over you! Rejoice in this knowledge. Peace

hunter pierce d’armond, s.j.@DArmondSJ: thinking about how God is infinitely more close and near to me than I can imagine

and also how infinitely more transcendent and beyond me than I can imagine

very grateful God is much beyond my imagination. wouldn’t be a very good God if it wasn’t so!

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: Demanding physical evidence for God’s existence is like trying to take the temperature of music.

The Catholic Talk Show@CatholicTalkSho: An atheist would say that you could take the temperature of music because sound waves inherently create heat. Agree with the sentiment though 🙂

Katherine Augustine @kebayf: “What a joyous mystery is Your presence within me, in that intimate sanctuary of my soul where I can always find You, even when I do not feel Your presence. Of what importance is feeling? Perhaps You are all the closer when I feel You less.” — St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

Sr. Miriam James@onegroovynun:  “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.”—St. John Paul II

132Kalpurrnia@kalpurrnia: “We can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God.” – Frank Sheed

God Creating Animals@GodAnimalBooks:

God: you’re a duck.

Duck:

God: you’re a duck.

Duck: God: you’re a duck.

Duck:

God: you’re a goose!

Goose: [starts chasing God around the circle while everyone cheers him on].

God Creating Animals

Fish: uh God, I think you might be obsessed with Fish.

God: why?

Fish: you’ve made like 32,000 different species of Me.

God: so, that doesn’t mean anything.

Jesus: did you guys see the new Earthly symbol Dad made for me? It’s a fish!

Fish:

God: ok that’s just a coincidence.

MB@UnrighteousD: This is the gospel: imagine looking down on a pit of mud crabs, all pinching each other to establish rank as the alpha mud crab, and going “I am going to turn into a mud crab and teach them the love that rules the universe, knowing full well the other crabs will tear me apart.”

Dare We Have a Conversation About Hope?  

Father Chris Pietraszko@FrChrisP: When we die, our grave dispositions are eternalized.  That seems like a long, endless, & tiresome state.  That is hell. Resolve now, all resentments, maliciousness and attitudes towards others that fall short of their dignity.  Rebuild your relationship with God, in trust.

Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms: Objectively speaking, the infinite and absolute God can neither “shove” nor “withdraw” his presence anywhere; by definition, there is nowhere he is not. The common Western idea of hell as the absence of God, then, can only refer to the subjective experience of the Lost.

In the Eastern Churches the fire of hell and the bliss of heaven are often understood as two different experiences of the same reality—the love of God, embraced by the Blessed, hated by the Lost. This very naturally supports a similar concept of purgatory.

But perhaps this isn’t possible either. Perhaps in eternity there is no hiding from reality (love it or hate it), even in the interiority of subjectivity. Or perhaps both are imperfect, complementary ways of expressing the same reality.

Its Lent w/TheReligiousHippie@HippieReligious: History is His story

it’s Em-mardi gras season �@EmilyKath319: One of the weirder things about my town is there’s a religious art company that also sells flavored popcorn and so they have a flavor called “Iconic Cheddar” with an image of Christ Pantocrator and I feel like having Jesus help sell popcorn is decidedly grifty?

Cuz also then you have a plastic bag with an icon image on it and like??? You probably shouldn’t just throw that away casually? Like maybe take off the paper part with the image to burn or bury it or something? Idk  Part of my issue is that it’s very Latin-centric if that makes sense? Like ok, have cutesy popcorn named after saints. Juan Diego’s Jalapeño. Sure. But icons are not intended to be the same as religious art- it’s not something for aesthetic appreciation, it’s a tool for prayer

Gloria Purvis@gloria_purvis: You don’t have to a hero to be made in the image and likeness of God… you just have to be human.

Pope Francis @Pontifex: The Lord knows that evil and sins do not define us; they are diseases, infections. And he comes to heal them with the Eucharist, which contains the antibodies to our negative memory. With Jesus, we can become immune to sadness.

@CurtJester: I am going through a phase where I do not feel close to Jesus at all. Yet I am super-interested in philosophy, theology, liturgy, etc. I guess I am going through a Dork Night of the Soul.

Peter Kreeft@ProfessorKreeft: All good theology, all authentic morality is an unfolding of Jesus from within. All bad theology and morality are a diluting of Jesus.

Cy KellettCyKellett: “Peace be with you.” “And with your spirit.” These days it feels like we should just keep saying this constantly. I wish I could greet everyone this way, and be greeted in return. We are all so deeply in need of the peace of Christ. “Peace be with you!”

Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC: Why be angry about what someone random posted online when you can be happy about Jesus?

Jim Sichko@JimSichko: Following Christ means more than walking in his footsteps along the Sea of Galilee. As those first apostles he called discovered: it means living like him. It means loving like him. Sometimes, he even means suffering like him.-Dcn Greg Kandra

Ashley McCully@TXTrendyChick: What was Jesus thinking about as He carried His cross? He wasn’t thinking about his wealth or successes, fame, or the meetings he would miss. He was thinking about you and me. Jesus was thinking about His death, and our life.�✝️�#Lent #mementomori @pursuedbytruth

Katie Marquette@marquette_katie
“Hidden Life in Nazareth” by Ukrainian icon writer Ivanka Demchuk.

John Michael Talbot@JMTalbot: A dark cloud of non or anti Christian cultural revolution has settled on our nation and world. But Jesus is Light. Don’t get discouraged!

mariclaire murdaugh@_mariclaire_:  hi! just a reminder that Jesus only ever got angry at super religious, holier than thou pharisees (and tax collectors who completely abused the system). He was completely patient and accepting of sinners and those with a weak faith. this is important! so important!

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave: I want you to know something: you affect the people around you. When you cultivate a perspective on life that is joyful and life-giving, it spills into the lives of others. And your joy will grow as see your joy set other people at ease. It is the opposite of a vicious circle.

Meg Hunter-Kilmer@MegHunterKilmer:  Matthew 25:21

The NAB describes the entrance into heaven with this invitation: “Come share your master’s joy.” Other translations say: “Enter into the joy of your Lord.” I love the imagery of the latter, the idea of stepping into a place that is joy, a joy that permeates me and transforms me. But the former is powerful, too, giving a feeling that the Master’s joy is in some way caused by my faithfulness, that my salvation augments his joy.

Spending my holy hour today imagining this moment, imagining being greeted by him, seeing his face light up, his joy increased by my presence. I’m imagining the joy of heaven, of which the greatest earthly consolation is but a shadow. And I’m trying to let him take his time in bringing me home, but dang. I can’t wait.

#1YearBible day 52

Jolz � Pray for Ukraine ��@Jolz_Aust: I never knew how many people are unknowingly repulsed by God’s mercy until I mentioned that those ‘outside the Church’ can be saved. If you hate that idea then you hate God’s love and mercy.

Emily, praying for peace ���@EmilyKath319: I don’t understand why it’s so hard to grasp that you can potentially be ok with non-Catholics going to heaven without it being religious indifference.
Doesn’t mean I validate their errors, or that I’ll be like “whatever guess it doesn’t matter if I practice or not”

I know from the Church that her sacraments and submission to the seat of Peter are the *known* means of attaining grace for salvation.
Why would I give that up and throw it away just because some people who didn’t have it may have gotten to Heaven by dying for Christ?

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm: Many Christians believe that Jesus came to redeem not just humanity, but to bring all creation to himself. Some, like me, have concluded that this means dogs will be in heaven.

But forget dogs. If this is true, will heaven have alien species from millions of light years away????

Everyone likes to say that our loved ones are up in heaven looking down at us in a happy, comforting way, but I’m just a little creeped out that idea my nana is watching me all day.

I mean, she can’t see EVERYTHING I do, right…?

�ᴀᴛʜᴏʟɪᴄ �ɢʀᴀʀɪᴀɴɪꜱᴛ@PSLM77_34:  After 9 years of praying the family Rosary, tonight we finally did the entire Rosary in Latin: two 6 year olds, a 7 year old, a 12 year old, a 15 year old, my wife & I.

Anonymous Carmelite: Now learn it in Spanish, Italian and French so you can pray it in all the Latin languages!

Amy Welborn@amywelborn2

Me: I set up your Latin tutoring for next week.
Son: Where?

Me: We’ll meet him at a brewery downtown.
Son: (Pause) Catholics are so weird.

Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec: If Limbo is a real place of perfect natural happiness where people who’ve been excluded from the Beatific Vision go, why aren’t the souls of all who do not choose God sent there? Why is it that we say these people choose hell? If a man can’t believe, should he be tortured for it?

niko@suckmeoffdumdog: What happens if Catholics were right and ghosts are only the dead people who’ve made it outta purgatory

Edith 에디스 �@CatolicaEdith: It’s good to remember that St. Thomas actively participated in discussions with others, was a key player in chapter meetings, etc. He wasn’t mute and absent-minded all the time like we often envision him. This perception hinders our devotion.

Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC: God usually speaks to us through ordinary means.

He speaks to us through the Commandments, through ecumenical councils, through the voice of all Catholic bishops in unison, etc.

If your think God is telling you something contrary to that, it probably isn’t God speaking.

TheAmishCatholic@AmishCatholic: It would be imperative to love God even if He damned us. True, it would be entirely impossible for us, as we can only love God with His grace. But that would not change the fact that God is God and deserves the adoration of His creatures, who are little more than nothing.

That time when God used an atheist’s tweet to make the most perfect description of Christianity ever… pic.twitter.com/0LvL3lcYNj

— Dominick (@adefeatedvictor) February 17, 2022

MB@UnrighteousD: If I’m in heaven and the Great Burden imposed on me is welcoming in to heaven the guy who killed me, I would count myself lucky. Holy shit, we both made it, my man! I always kinda feared I was going to hell, then you killed me! Then you died! And we’re in heaven. Dudes rock!

Fr. Goyo@FrGoyo: I have a friend who was agnostic, but one day he saw written on top of a cathedral “Love your enemies.” He thought that was so stupid but wanted to see who would say this and investigated about Jesus. Today, he is a priest.

This is a powerful message and it changes people

When Jesus asks us to love our enemies, it is not just a good sentence, it is a call to love everyone the same way He loves us and others. It is a call to form our hearts like His heart. #LoveLikeJesus

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm: This weekend’s Gospel reminds us that we’ll be judged, not by how we treat good people, but how we treat our enemies.

How’s that sitting with everyone on this fine app? Feeling confident about the love we show everyone?

Patrick Madrid ✌�@patrickmadrid: I’m grateful to God and pray every day for all my friends and for all those who, for whatever reason, consider themselves my enemies. ��

G. K. Chesterton@GKChestertonian: “We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. Hence he comes to us clad in all the careless terrors of nature; he is as strange as the stars, as reckless and indifferent as the rain. He is Man, the most terrible of the beasts.”— GK Chesterton

R Bratten Weiss@Prof_RBW: A Tribute to Rebecca Bratten Weiss 

This might not be a popular notion among Christians, but:

We do not need to “deal with the evil in our own hearts before we deal with the evils in society.”

People need access to food, shelter, medical care, and security even if I keep being petty, envious, and enraged.

If the nation ends up embroiled in a world war, at least the past two years have prepared us to know just how well equipped people in this culture are to come together, make sacrifices, and do the right thing for the sake of the common good.

Massimo@massimuchomucho: Their idea of “love thy neighbour” is basically limited to “admonishing” others about how they will go to hell for any kind of sexual sin, real or otherwise.

Jolz � Pray for Ukraine ��@Jolz_Aust: That’s the line of thinking that’s made Christians more concerned with a sex ethic rather than a ‘love thy neighbor’ ethic. This is toxic.

Andy, the Aggressor of Appenzell��@WestboroPapist:   I am going to pray for you and for myself so I treat people just how God wants and be an oasis of unconditional love to all people I meet

Menny Thoughts@menny_thoughts: Imagine practicing the faith and venerating scared images but failing to recognize and honor the image of God imprinted on your neighbor.

Chezami @chezami: Jesus taught his disciples to find him present in the least of these before he taught them to find him present in the Eucharist. If you try to do the latter while ignoring the former, you will not find him in either place.

Fr. Tom Washburn – pray for Ukraine@FrTomWashburn: “Whoever thinks that they understand Scripture, but interprets them in a way that does not build up the love of God and our neighbor, does not understand them as they should.”

To Millennity and Beyond@Drake_OMalfoy: Caring about people other than yourself should not be a controversial or political action

Fr. Larry Richards@FrLarryRichards: The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ Matthew 11:19 Am I like Jesus? Peace

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Theresa Zoe Williams �@TheresaZoe: The more I read St. Thérèse, the more I love her: “Perfect charity consists in putting up with others’ mistakes, and not being scandalized by their faults.”

Grant Hartley@TheGrantHartley:  The “sin of Sodom” is a lack of concern for the poor and stranger.

Andy Thomas@sophiaseeker_at: It seems to me that some Catholics would condemn the woman caught in adultery, yes, the one whom Jesus refused to condemn. “Mortal sinner! You are going to hell!” They may shout. Christ’s mercy is greater than what we can fathom, but the devil tries to convince us otherwise.

Mary Hammond@spinangora: If Catholics could focus on poverty with the consistency we focus on sex, everybody would eat and be housed.

��Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC:

The Catholic response is BOTH-AND, not either-or.

BOTH pray AND work to help those. less fortunate.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: Catholics: It is just as possible to apostatize through extreme traditionalism as it is through extreme modernism.

Otti A. Okello@oaokello: Accusing the Church of modernism, like any other pernicious idea or ideology, is building a straw-man for divisive shadow boxing. The Church should be viewed through the lens of the Mystery of the Incarnation of Christ, in every age, time, and place, for such is Her communion.

TheAmishCatholic @AmishCatholic: It is so beautiful to think of Our Lady’s interior life and the secret meditations of her Immaculate Heart in those bright days in the Cenacle, between Ascension and Pentecost. (I wonder if she prayed for us – if even then, by the words spoken on the Cross, she knew she had been given the whole Church throughout history as her progeny. Not just the Church; for all mankind has been redeemed in the Blood of Christ. What a consoling thing it is to approach Our Mother’s hidden life in the Cenacle.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: The Assumption of Mary: The DNA of the child remains in the mother’s body for the rest of her life. Mary was assumed into heaven because some of her son was still within her.

DEFCON Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo: When you think about it, mentally I mean: who told Joseph his betrothed was mysteriously pregnant? Mary was the one who had to tell someone about it. Far from never evangelizing anyone, she was the first evangelist after the Angel Gabriel.

Its Lent w/TheReligiousHippie@HippieReligious: A lot of anti Catholics seem to forget that Mary also RAISED Jesus. She didn’t just carry Him for 9 months and give birth.

Liberty Hangout@LibertyHangout: “When Gabriel says to Mary, ‘Hail!’, a salutation of profound honor reserved for royalty, it is God saying these words. Thus, we find the source & origin of Marian veneration is God Himself. Catholics did not invent honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary. God did.” – Fr. Blake Britton

The Art Gremlin@madelynnotmadi: Romantic imaginary scenario: we’re both reading in the library and I show you a page from my book. You show me a page from yours. I go to flip the page in your book and you grab my hand to stop me. Suddenly we’re holding hands and can’t ignore our feelings for each other

I JUST. WANT. TO BE MARRIED. AND HAVE MAYBE A LITTLE BABY OKAY. AND MAKE SOUP.

David Mills@DavidMillsWrtng: Our second child writes of a study in which women rated pictures of men’s faces on how attractive the men were, before and after they ate broccoli for a couple weeks. The men’s attractiveness ratings increased.

An advertisement for marriage: You no longer have to eat broccoli.

fathermikeschmitz@frmikeschmitz:  The Church upholds the beauty, gift, and holiness of marriage. And also upholds the celibacy of Jesus, Saint Paul, and countless others. Celibacy doesn’t reject marriage, but chooses another good.

10Thomas ✝️@TSEliotRocks: St. John Chrysostom, on what young husbands should say to their wives:

“I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself… I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful than to be of a different mind than you.”

Jackie Francois Angel@JackieFrancois:  If when you’re multiplying something by 10, you just add a “zero” to the number, then multiplying by 5 (since it’s half of 10), you just halve the number. Half of 18 is 9. So 18×5 is just half of 18 with a zero added. 90.  

Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec: Just a friendly reminder to all Latin Rite Catholics that if you deliberately eat a single bite of meat today and don’t repent of such an egregious act, the Church teaches you’ll burn in hell for all eternity, because proportionate justice doesn’t exist for God. Seems fair.

Satish JosephFrSatishJoseph: Ending up eating meat on Friday‘s of Lent is not worse than judging, condemning, and ignoring the hungry, homeless, naked, and those in prison. #Lent2022

Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall: It’s truly amazing that people treat “not eating meat on Friday in Lent” as something as hard as running a marathon or climbing a mountain. In reality, we are merely eating like most of the world. The older Lent fasting rule of “one meal and two snacks, not weighing more than 8 ounces each” is already probably more food than what most sedentary adults over 40 need to eat for every day of the year. There are exceptions, but we all eat too much, as is.

LizziesAnswers@LizzieReezay: I’m also getting more brain damaged from bipolar. Everything I do is slower, my reading speed/comprehension is down, so much more memory loss, decreased psychomotor skills. I’ve been researching & it’s normal for the brain to continually shrink even without being in an episode.

There’s currently no treatment to reverse the brain damage, but they’re researching it & hopefully in 5-10 years there will be a medication I can take that will do lots of neurogenesis! I really hate it, because I thought the permanent brain damage would end once I was medicated.

If you also have bipolar, know that the longer you stay off meds & are in a manic or depression episode, the more permanent brain damage, that will continually shrink your brain for the rest of your life. Looking back, I completely regret wanting to be manic & going off meds.

Morris My Tweets are a Penetential Season❤️‍�@Uncouth_Bard: I’m always embarrassed by the time that I got to attend a small group with Dr. Peter Kreeft in University after he delivered a guest lecture and I squandered the opportunity by being a dumb undergrad since I didn’t know who he was.

emily 🙂 †@xemilysmile: Anybody else get this strong urge to belt out songs from Disney movies and veggie tales??

� Augustine of Hiphop ��@hiphopaugustine:
not into CCM but I am a MC
praisin God wit some rhymes full of wit and whimsy

Anna Mae@AMysticMuse:Billy Joel would had quite the time if he were writing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in todays climate

Abigail Favale@FavaleAbs: Nothing like hearing the clocktower bells at my Quaker school sweetly peal out “Onward Christian Soldiers”

Nick Alexander@NickAlexCath: On Saturday, I prayed in an adoration chapel. Then I led the music in a charismatic men’s group. Then I went to a two hour Latin Mass. Before lunch

There’s nothing in the world like crafting a worship song–crafted lovingly from a Gregorian Chant melody–and realizing it sounds best as a heavy metal scorcher.

M.J. Piazza@MJPiazza2: The fact that there is now a Weird Al-themed pinball machine somehow makes me feel like there’s a bit of hope left for humanity.

Give me Bob Chapek’s job you cowards@tonygoldmark: So not only is Weird Al Harry Potter, his dad is one of the Country Bears and his mentor is Dwight Schrute.

Thomas Howard Riley MAD SCIENTIST of EPIC FANTASY@ornithopteryx:
I have to listen to music when I write

It is a necessity

It inspires me

Like a soundtrack for the story I’m still writing

It leads me to places/emotions I would never have thought to go

I just discovered a whole new side to someone I never would’ve known if not for this song

 Justin Sytsma@justinsytsma:  I’m just saying maybe church songs that are like “I’m such a piece of poop, God please don’t squish me like the wretched bug that I am” aren’t great.

But also! Maybe songs that are like “I’m daddy’s special child he’s gonna give me a PS5 he loves me so” isn’t great either

(I’m exaggerating kind of, obviously)

Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms: So today I happened to read the Wikipedia page on Clerihews and watched the first half of PADDINGTON 2… …which means that twice in one day I was reminded that St. Paul’s in London was designed by Sir Christopher Wren WHAT ARE THE ODDS

Happiness is watching Saturday morning cartoons with the kids and discovering one more brilliant and hilarious Phineas & Ferb episode that you somehow missed all these years

Mark@fom4life: This is the one night I actually go on Twitter, usually I’m over on FB. But I don’t have cable or TV and well.. Got to keep up to date on the Oscarts.

Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec: It’s too bad The Witcher has so much boobage (esp. in the first season) because it’s the most fun show I’ve seen in a while, and you just can’t recommend it to people without significant caveats. It would be great if more shows took these needless issues off the table.

Mary Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo: I still only like the Adam West Batman.

Ally Cortés@TalkWithAlly: You wake up as the head of LucasFilm, what’s the first thing you do?

Eve Tushnet@evetushnet: children’s cartoon movie about two girls who are best friends and meet a Wookiee. I don’t know anything about Star Wars but I know what I like.

alternatively, remake “We Are the Best!” except that the Christian girl is also a Wookiee.

primal drew: exiled angel hell mode.@slawbunnygod42:*Ben Shapiro voice* In The Batman, Gotham is too dark and it’s also too wet. It’s always the same villains, like the Penguin, a water based animal that is moist and gross. My wife and I want to see Mr. Freeze again, he’s cold hearted and most importantly VERY dry.

Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest: Now that I’ve had a while to think about the plot of Encanto, I can’t help wondering why the village priest wasn’t freaking out about the weird supernatural stuff going on with that family

fah’Tim@FrGrumbach: I didn’t know that what I wanted most from a Star Wars show was actually a kaiju battle.

Bob Rice@deaconbobrice: Star Wars is my peanut butter, but Jesus is my jam.

John Campea@johncampea: Just a reminder that the dress Leia was wearing in the Ewok village was in all likelihood taken from the mother of a family of 5 who Wicket and his friends murdered, burned alive over an open fire and then ate the week before. Enjoy the rest of your evening.

Morris My Tweets are a Penetential Season@Uncouth_Bard: Was sad today so I came home and put on a Sad Day Movie “The Great Muppet Caper” and it’s hard for me to define how much the Muppets influenced my sense of humor or that I think of

Amy Charlotte Kean@keano81: “The Queen’s Gambit has been viewed by 62 million people. The producer, Allan Scott, is on BBC News talking about how it took 30 years, with 9 rewrites, and every studio he showed it to said that no one would be interested in chess.

Greg Willits@GregWillits: I can’t stop thinking about #ABeautifulDayMovie . Saw it last night and I feel like it is a movie that we as humanity can be studying for how to treat each other. Seriously thinking of seeing it again today. Wish I’d paid more attention to #MisterRogers when he was alive.

Sister Andrew Marie @SrAndrewFSP:

My vocation story in its most succinct form:
Encountered Jesus in the Eucharist.
Couldn’t wait to tell everyone about Him.
Discover that I can fulfill the deep desires of my heart proclaiming
His Love and Truth as a
@DaughterStPaul
#CorpusChristi

Sister Bethany, fsp @SrBethanyFSP: My 15 year old baby brother has started getting up and skateboarding towards the sunrise every morning.
He sends all the siblings a good morning message with the sunrise, and it’s just really pure and makes me smile every morning.

I taught one of the Italian sisters (who is 91) to say “okey-dokey” and she liked it so much that she taught like seven other sisters. So now they’re all just waking around saying, “Okey Dokey” to each other and cracking up.

Hands down, biggest perk of religious life.

One of my favorite moments was giving a little talk to a 1st grade class and when I said that we have a chapel in our house, this little boy stood up and said,
“WAIT A MINUTE!! JESUS *lives* in your HOUSE!? I wanna be a nun!”

Sister Walburga@SisterWalburga:I entered the monastery #OTD 12 years ago! (Dec 12, 2021)

I work that out to be about 11,000 hours of the Divine Office.
With Mass, Adoration, Lectio and private prayer on top! �

Please keep me in your prayers as I pray for you �

Anonymous Carmelite: For a while I have thought and prayed about what my Carmelite name would be and I have for sure decided on using my middle name because of its association with St Paul + my confirmation name and so will hopefully be Melita Teresa of the Blessed Sacrament.

Melita is what St Paul originally named the island of Malta where he ship wrecked. It’s of Greek origin and means “little bee” … some translate it as “honey sweetness” or “affording honey”. Teresa means “to harvest” so my Carmelite name will essentially mean… The little worker bee of God, to harvest the sweetness of the Eucharist.

I think this is very fitting considering my love for adoration and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Also it was on my birthday, November 11 in the year 1215 that the holy Eucharist and doctrine of transubstantiation was defined in the Catholic Church. Lots of providence there!

 Some folks on here have way too high expectations for other Catholics and religious. Yes I’m going to be a cloistered nun, yes I also like classic rock and eating junk food and all the fun things healthy normal people enjoy. And that’s okay. I also like Pokemon, and roller skating disco, come at me!

And for the record, priests, nuns, and friars are some of the funnest people I’ve ever met, great senses of humour there. They are human like anyone else, they enjoy sports and candy and pizza and stuff too.

I don’t know where this idea that nuns are scary mystical creatures from the dank dark abbey comes from lol! Yes being in a cloister is a life of sacrifice and love for Christ, but it’s also community and family, and nuns are certainly not ignorant of the world!

Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC: Europe’s oldest person & the world’s 2nd-oldest person is a Catholic sister, Sr. Andre. She turns 118 today. #HappyBirthday!

210����� (wizened curmudgeon) ����@Not_OfTroy:  Stuff you don’t see unless you live in Steubenville: Dr. Scott Hahn running a stop sign Never meet your heroes

Brett? In this economy?? ��@PapaBret:

I’m Catholic, but I’m also striving for:

The endurance of the Jews

The dedication of the Muslims

The tenacity of the Protestants

The compassion of the Buddhists

The zest of the Hindus.

Each sees life from a different angle. Together maybe they explain what we’re here to do

Shari Lynn@LynnSharig8: I’m a Catholic, married to a Jewish man, with daughters who are agnostic. I have a sister in law who is Buddhist, and a cousin who is Sufi. One of my best friends is a Christian, and the other is an atheist. I respect them all.

The only thing I don’t respect, is intolerance.

Henry Karlson@HenryKarlsonIII: Many people confuse pacifism as being there is no potentiality for self-defense. That’s not the case. Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other pacifists allowed self-defense, even of nations — Hanh talked about how countries can have armies for this. Pacifism says not to be militant.

 Also, of course, one can follow the Orthodox/Eastern tradition which recognizes both the need for such defense, but also the pollution of the soul involved in it, so soldier need spiritual healing after even justified actions.

owen cyclops (+��)@owenbroadcast: if i was an ancient philosopher back when u could write anything i would write that babies are soft + fleshy because they eat from a boob, which transfers those qualities to them, + id make up a story about a baby from tunisia who drank from a stone cup + became hard and then later medieval philosophers would cite me like “in ‘natal theology’ by owenius a certain tale of a tunisian baby is recorded wherein …”

William C. Michael (CLAA)@wcmclaa: The reason why modern Christians talk about Socrates is because they know they can’t understand Aristotle so they pretend to understand Plato.

� Augustine of Hiphop ��@hiphopaugustine
I be bustin out philosophy
to guard against apostasy
I’m wreckin pagans constantly
cuz truth is just my policy

I suggest our times are like the Hunger Games because of how the characters are all so broken and use and wound one another to survive. The big, bad government is merely the surface villain, an instrument of broken people. It’s our story and we’ve been doing it for a long time.
Fr. Timothy Grumbach @FrTimGrumbach

To Millennity and Beyond@Drake_OMalfoy: I keep thinking maybe political discourse and the prevalence of social media are the main sources of toxicity in the world and then a local comic con just announced they’re switching from badges to wristbands and people went ballistic, making me think people just like to whine.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: Priest speaks out on politics: People who disagree with his POV: “Father, stay out of politics! You should mind your own business!” People who agree with his POV: “Preach it Father! Thanks for having the courage to speak out!”

Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack: When Catholics immerse themselves in a political party, they leave Catholicism. When they immerse themselves in Christ, they lose party loyalty.

Anonymous Carmelite: For me that means loving all the approved forms of the Mass, including Syro Malabar, and Maronite, Chaldean, Etc. I am also apolitical and do not vote, because the teachings of the church are apolitical too, I must just simply be a Catholic!

Stephen Colbert@StephenAtHome: Biden thinks it’s better to break up the Build Back Better bill to build Build Back Better back better.

Mike Lewis@mfjlewis: By@GregDalyon the role of faith in the public sphere:

“The problem is that it’s too easy to think that because Church and State should be separate, so too should faith and politics, as though our religious beliefs shouldn’t inform our values and how we think about the world.”
“Coins may bear the image of Caesar, but every single one of us bears the image of God. We shouldn’t be shy about pointing this out.”Also highly recommended:@leavenmag, the Magazine on Irish Catholicism@GregDalyedits.

Peter Kreeft@ProfessorKreeft:  In our hearts we should be ‘bleeding heart liberals’ and in our heads ‘stuck-in-the mud conservatives.’

What we fear about the poor is what we fear about God: How much of my time will this person want? (I’ve got somewhere to go!) What will this person ask me to do for them? What does this person want me to give them of mine? –Fr. John Hollowell‏ @frjohnhollowell 

A Link to the Mass@ALinktotheMass1: If francis were to deny the divinity of Christ, would he still be pope? Honestly, open minded, good faith question

 Anonymous Carmelite: Of course he would be, St Peter who was the first pope, denied Christ 3 times. Why is this question posed at Pope Francis rather than “ A Pope” though?

Stephen Colbert@StephenAtHome: I don’t have a problem with the Pope owning a foosball table. But the white smoke every time he wins a game is a bit much.

Brownson_Review@Brownson_Review: I am not the first to observe that converts like Armstrong and Lofton reasoned themselves into Catholicism with papal authority being the main dish. So it shapes their views on everything else, which creates a distorted picture of what Catholicism really is.

Dave Armstrong@DaveArmstrong58:
I converted because of:

1. Newmanian development of doctrine.

2. Catholic moral theology.

3. A study of the Protestant Revolt from a Catholic perspective.

The words “pope” or “papacy” never even appear in my published story in “Surprised by Truth.”

“Protestants … can flat-out invent doctrines … No pope could even dream of doing that. They wouldn’t dare do it (on a few occasions when they came remotely close to that a mass uproar occurred). They are strictly dependent upon received precedent.”

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: It’s terrible to see friends begin in criticism of the Pope and end in sedevacantism. The worst ones are the crypto sedevacantists who deny they are sedevacantist while dissing everything the pope does and setting up their self righteous plans of “resistance”.

judymcdonald@judymcdonald:  I went fishing with the Pope last night. Still not sure if it was a dream or not.

Anonymous Carmelite: I don’t necessarily think it’s hatred, I think people have deep spiritual wounds and are trying to cope the best they can. Perhaps yes they are uncharitable to Holy Father and that is very sad to witness, but just pray for them. Most are not bad people, just angry and hurt.

Michael Lofton@michaelloftonRT·: I think some have let hatred in their heart for Pope Francis fester for so long that it skews the way they interpret everything he says and does.

I wonder if those who jumped the gun and said uncharitable things about Pope Francis will offer an apology.

Edward Pentin@EdwardPentin: “The Pope made it clear that institutes such as the FSSP are not affected by the general provisions of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, since the use of the ancient liturgical books was at the origin of their existence and is provided for in their constitutions.” twitter.com/LMSChairman/st…

Dave@avemaria76: Please pray for Taylor Marshall and all radical traditionalists today. Pray a rosary for them. At today’s Angelus, Pope Francis lamented how sad it was when people who are proud to be Christians “see others as enemies and think of waging war against each other.”

Father Josh Johnson@frjoshjohnson:The most fruitful evangelist, teachers, healers, miracle workers, prophets, helpers, intercessors, administrators, leaders, pastors, craftsman, writers & missionaries in our Church were rooted in daily prayer. If we’re too busy to pray then our ministries won’t bear much fruit.

Pope Francis@Pontifex: Prayer, charity and fasting are not medicines meant only for ourselves but for everyone: they can change history, because they are the principal ways for God to intervene in our lives and in the world. They are weapons of the spirit. #Lent

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: Today I am grateful for all the prayers people have offered for me over the years. I’d be even more of a messed up sinner without them.

tommy@theghissilent: that my tweets be more about you than dune, the filet o fish, or absolutely anything else – Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it

Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest: I once received a spiritual bouquet from a parish kid who pledged that he would pray “10,000 holy hours” for me.

In my more optimistic moments, I like imagining that he decided to dedicate his life to prayer as a Carthusian hermit to make good on the promise.

fah’Tim@FrGrumbach: Fear. Fear that God will be silent, as if we’ve already made up His mind, so we’re afraid to ask boldly and risk feeling disappointed. Fear that we may actually hear His voice, and He ask us to go where we may be afraid, missing the chance to go where He has gone before us.

 Bob Rice@deaconbobrice: It’s two o’clock, but I don’t care I’m going to say my evening prayer It’s always five o’clock somewhere

Emily, praying for peace ���@EmilyKath319: I feel like praying for “everyone I’ve ever met or know of” is kinda cheating the system like wishing for infinite wishes or something, but God is big enough to handle that sort of request so I’m just gonna keep doing it

Fr. Larry Richards@FrLarryRichards:  The LORD hears when I call to Him” Psalm 4:3 YOU got to know this and believe this truth! He is listening – speak to Him now. Peace

TJ Burdick@tjburdick: I need everyone on here to pray for a way for my family to get a border collie. And for world peace. Dang it, okay, just pray for world peace. Not having a border collie will be my penitential prayer.

tommy@theghissilent: reading the last book of the expanse series and came across something I’m going to start saying instead of “praying for you” moving forward:

“we’re hailing an *awful* lot of marys over here”

tea with tolkien@TeawithTolkien: Good morning, did you know Tolkien translated Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be into Quenya so you could almost pray the an entire Rosary in Elvish?

CatholicHeart&Mind@disciple96:  Thank you for praying the Rosary with me. I pray that you will stay safe & well, virtuous & holy, & become in this New Year who you were meant to be: a SAINT! May His Peace be always with you. +JMJ+

Keren Dibbens-Wyatt@HoneycombHermit: It may be New Year’s Eve, but it’s also Friday, which means it’s time for me to ask again, who would like to be in my Rosary intentions? Like or comment if so. If you’ve asked before you’re on my list, any faith, little faith or none, doesn’t matter. ♥️�️�✝️

April Rose Catherine Sixsmith@AprilSixsmith: Catholic Twitter, I’m asking for your prayers for the soul of Cheslie Kryst who jumped off of a building in NYC yesterday.

Her death is taking a huge toll on her family, friends and the pageant community. Thank you.

 ☀️ Catholic Charm ✞ ☀️@CatholicCharm: If you see this please say a prayer for the repose of Evan Leahy’s soul

Raíza@ClassicRaiza: If you see this tweet, can you pray a Hail Mary for me? Please.

 hananah bread �@hananahbrread: Please pray for the repose of my friend Sarah’s soul. She leaves behind a husband and her 4 year old son. �

Fr. Goyo@FrGoyo: “For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.” At this moment, I don’t know what else to say or pray. #peace #peace #peace

Caroline Burt@Carolin80951797: I pray for all those who are finding it hard to buy the basic necessities for everyday living.

HolySoulsVocation@HolySouls3: 

Let’s say three Hail Marys for the souls who are closest to Heaven.

Let’s say three Hail Marys for the souls who died alone.

Let’s say three Hail Marys for the souls who died today.

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.

The Jesus Prayer@TheJesusPrayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner

Dolores del Ano@abjectlatina: Please pray for the soul of a young person who just died very tragically and unexpectedly

Mark Hart@LT_TheBiblegeek: Today, pray for someone who has given up on God. He hasn’t given up on them.

Kalina Boulter@KalinaBoulter: In all my temptations, I place my trust in Thee, O Sacred Heart of Jesus. In all my weaknesses, I place my trust in Thee, O Sacred Heart of Jesus. In all my difficulties, I place my trust in Thee, O Sacred Heart of Jesus. #firstfriday #Catholic #Devotion #February2022 #KalinaB

Dawn Eden Goldstein ��@DawnofMercy· Dear Guardian Angels, St. Michael, and all angels of peace, watch over the whole world, especially over all those who are suffering, and pray for the conversion of all hearts to God. #capitolhillrightnow

Bishop Down Umber @BishopUmbers: An old canon lawyer at the Angelicum used to say that you should not ordain pious but dim seminarians. The piety wears off but the stupidity remains.

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm Replying to @drew_deacon: I think my favorite criticism is when someone says that monks shouldn’t be spending time on the internet making videos which means I’m a bad monk.

Me: You’re right. I am a bad monk. Some might even say that I’m not a monk at all

I’m literally not a monk. I’m a friar, a member of a mendicant order not monastic one. Thomas Merton was a monk, St. Anthony of Padua was a friar.

Mark@fom4life: Monks are men of silence, but they are also men of many words… primarily the Psalms. — Fr. Stephanos Pedranos

A Monk’s Writing Life 

Fr. Goyo@FrGoyo: Hi, I am a Catholic priest, but you might know me by my greatest hits, -No, I don’t know the Pope. -No, I don’t have his number either. -No, I don’t know every priest. -Yes, I go to the movies. -Yes, you saw me at the store. -Yes, I’ll always say yes if you want confession.

SW Prayer@SwPrayer: Let’s offer one Hail Mary for young people to respond to Christ’s call to priesthood and consecrated life. Please comment Amen in response. #OneHailMarycampaign

Edith 에디스 �@CatolicaEdith: I periodically go through the website of the Carthusian monks/nuns and just cry � it’s the most peaceful place on the internet

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: St Benedict says there are four types of monk: The hermit, the cenobite, the sarabaite and the gyrovague.

Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack: If a priest engages a public campaign that his bishop is persecuting him for the sake of righteousness, there’s a less than 10% chance that it’s true.

Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand@FrHilderbrand:  When you say the Salve Regina every night for five months straight, your Compline-specific neurons simply hardwire the connection.

me, at this time of year, finishing Compline every night: “Salve Regina, mater … no, wait … Alma Redemptoris Mater, quæ pervia … no, wait … Ave, Regina cælorum (there we go), Ave, Domina angelorum …”

Satish Joseph@FrSatishJoseph: I spent most of my morning anointing the sick and giving Sacraments to the dying. The last house I visited, the man had turned from God at some point and picked up the Satanic Bible. Today he received apostolic pardon and Holy Communion. That’s how great is the mercy of God!

Fr. Patrick Hyde, OP@frpatrickop:Why I wear a habit on a plane: Today, I met a woman who told me,

“Father, I was on my first flight as a mom with my son. I was so nervous. Then, you got on the plane & I knew it would be alright.”

Priests point others to Jesus.

I’ve also, while traveling, had people ask me to hear their confessions, to pray with them, and simply to listen.

This interaction struck me because it was years ago &, until today, I hadn’t the slightest idea my presence as a priest had so positively influenced someone.

Emily, praying for peace ���@EmilyKath319: At my TLM this morning, the pastor did not use one harsh word or make a passive-aggressive slight. He did not address the dubia at all.

Some traditional priests, believe it or not, do not use the liturgy & pulpit for culture wars.

He simply & faithfully preached today’s Gospel.

What do “young people” in the Church want?
Simple:
• reverent liturgy
• Consistent messaging on Christian social justice
• Clergy who are chill & normal
• Accountability & action for clergy who are not chill & normal

That’s, that’s it.

@dismasop: We priests in the confessional try to be as merciful as we hope others would be to us, and as our Heavenly Father always is. In an unrelated matter, I will not be taking any questions at this time on the cookies that were on the kitchen counter.

Ashlyn Smith@ashlynjeffries: A few days ago a priest sent me a new rosary he personally touched to the Lord’s empty tomb.

Today, another priest told me he offered his Mass today for my intentions.

We are so blessed to have priests who often go unappreciated.

#ThankAPriest

Celeste@Celeste_CC7: No first world nation should ever be considered or seen as privileged if it freely slaughters infants in the womb and endorses euthanasia as a “right”. Where there is no regard for sanctity of life, there is no sense of value.

Mollie@MZHemingway: Totally apart from politics and law, a quick message for younger women: It is a disgusting and violent lie to assert, as some do, that you have to be able to kill your children to have a fulfilling life as a woman. Violence against children is *never* necessary or good.

Caroline Burt@Carolin80951797: I pray a Rosary for pregnant women who are considering abortion, that they may find the support and help they need to choose life for their unborn baby.

Chezami@chezami: “If anyone says, ‘I love the unborn child,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love the unborn child, whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20, sort of). – Michelle Arnold

Alessandra Harris@AlessandraH17:  I wonder how many Catholics who just marched for the lives of the unborn care about the murder of 22 year old Amir Locke who was sleeping before police stormed in and shot him dead in less than 10 seconds. Amir deserves to be alive right now. This is a pro life issue.

I think what a lot of Catholics get wrong about abortion is that it is a “belief” about when life begins. The majority of women I know who had abortions did so even though they personally felt it was wrong but also believed it was their only option.

Sherry Antonetti@sherryantonetti: Pro-life is always love for the others, Pro-life is sacrificial. Catholicism is always a call to embrace the cross of service, of sacrifice, of loving others –from conception to natural death, and all the moments, every moment in between. Love is faith in action.

Jose Rodriguez �@WeirdEducator: I am � against abortion.

I am pro-life: womb to tomb.

This is a public service announcement for all of the MAGA-Catholic trolls who assume Catholics who voted for Biden are pro-Choice.

Carry on, #CatholicTwitter.

#consistentlifeethic

Bishop Thomas Tobin@ThomasJTobin1:

Dear Pope Francis,

You have boldly stated that abortion is “murder.”

Please challenge President Biden on this critical issue.

His persistent support of abortion is an embarrassment for the Church and a scandal to the world.

Thank you.

Very respectfully,

Your brother +Thomas

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm: A reminder that you can care about more than one thing at once and don’t need to wait for one colossal task to be completed before you start another.

We can stand against abortion

AND

Care about babies and families *at the same time.*

Matt Fradd@mattfradd: Those atheists who will #MarchForLife will demonstrate themselves to be freethinkers and courageous. Willing to follow the science where it leads even when it clashes with secular dogma.

��Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC: To all those replying to me claiming that I don’t care about women’s lives because I care about unborn lives too, I want to make an offer reaching accross the aisle: will you all fight beside me to ban sex-selective abortions?

JoAnna@cathworkingmom:  Preventing a person from killing a vulnerable and defenseless human being isn’t a human rights violation.

Deliberately killing a vulnerable and defenseless human being is a human rights violation.

 Hell no. I didn’t vote for Hillary or Biden or Trump. They are all awful.

Rondell Treviño@Rondell_Trevino:

Are you pro-life? Then get vaccinated.

Do you want to love your neighbor? Then get vaccinated.

Do you love America and want it to be great? Then get vaccinated.

Do you care about social justice for Black Lives, Latinos, Immigrants, Asians, and the poor? Then get vaccinated.

Rondell Treviño@Rondell_Trevino: Being Pro-life and Doing Justice means:

Visit prisoners.

Adopt orphans.

Love the elderly.

Respect women.

Feed the hungry.

Protect the unborn.

House the homeless.

Welcome immigrants.

Speak up for the abused.

Care for Pregnant mothers.

Advocate for minorities of color.

Decided Excellence Catholic Media@TweetDecided: 
Your life is not about you. It is
indeed your life, but your life has been
given by another and exists, finally, for
God’s purpose. -Bishop Barron

CatholicBard@BardCatholic:  In times of crisis—and there have been many crises throughout the Church’s history (and indeed there will be more)—the Church summons new heroes who are committed to holiness and driven to uproot whatever sin and evil have infected the spiritual family.-Brandon Vogt

Mark@fom4life: Quiz Question: Quote “can the Quebec Queen Quibble Quintessential Quips Quite Quickly and Quietly? end Quote”

TheCryptoJac .eth��@jacknobers:

Gday!✅Want to grow your follower count?�A few proven paths

1) Genuine insight about a topic you’re an expert in

2) Summarizing Wikipedia articles in thread form

3) “Funny but true” quips about work & life

4) Copying successful tweets from accounts w/more followers than you

Sinister Pixel@SinisterPixeLP:  Does anyone else disguise their innermost darkest thoughts as witty and sarcastic quips or are you doing ok mentally?

Steve SkojecSteveSkojec: Replying to @c_mateer

Thanks for asking this question. First time I think anyone has. I think that being a cradle Catholic imbued early on with a sense of mission, I just never allowed myself to question. When doubts arose, I buried them deep.

Tom Smith@Tom_Smith717: The funny thing about The Batman being called humorless is that it’s actually a pretty funny film. There just aren’t your standard one liner quips. It’s all clever humor.

Peel@RHPeel: This is a minor quibble, but could Catholic churches in a diocese schedule masses on days of obligation at different times? There are 7+ Catholic churches within 20 minutes of me and 6 have their mass tonight at 7.

Madelynn Lyons@MadelynnLyons: When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don’t quibble over the appetizers.

inessentials? in this economy?@inessentials: Quibble: Is GRAVITY science fiction? Do space suits automatically determine it as sci-fi? Not set in future, no new tech, no aliens.

William C. Michael (CLAA)@wcmclaa: The poet’s task is to lead us to something virtuous by some excellent description”. -St. Thomas Aquinas

G. K.Chesterton@GKChestertonian:“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”— GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908).

Billy Collins Poetry@PLBillyCollins: I watched my poem fly down to the front Of the bar and hover there Until the next customer walked in– Then I watched it fly out the door

CatholicBard@BardCatholic: Poetry fills me with the urge to write poetry, to sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the tip of my pencil. And along with that, the longing to steal, to break into the poems of others with a flashlight and a ski mask. Billy Collins, The Trouble with Poetry:

As it governs our everyday life

And when it doesn’t function properly

It can cause turmoil and strife.

But when crosses pop up

For us to carry along

They can inspire A Poem or a Song.

R Bratten Weiss@Prof_RBW: Odd when random individuals assume that because one has a writing career, one doesn’t know what work is.

As though writing isn’t work.

As though writers don’t often have other jobs.

As though the ability to write couldn’t be compatible with the ability to do physical labor.

J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien “I coined the word ‘eucatastrophe’: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears…” —J.R.R. #Tolkien #Easter

sToday is the feast of St. John Bosco. He’s the patron saint of editors, children, and magicians. That may seem a strange combination, but as an editor it makes perfect sense to me.— Michael Lichens, editor of @cathexchange

Owl! at the Library ��‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze: stop shaming people for reading kids’ books. adult books are about sad people having affairs while kids’ books have a magic tree house or a worm driving an apple. you tell me who’s winning

Mark Brumley@mabrumley: As you get older and take to heart that there are fewer days ahead than behind, you realize you must choose well what you read or re-read.

Poets lie through their truths and speak truth through their lies.

I feel attacked. pic.twitter.com/R2VEDEMMFb

— William Hemsworth (@w_hemsworth) February 24, 2022

@CurtJester: Have you ever heard parts of a book quoted so much that you thought you had read it? Tonight I wanted to look up a quote from C.S. Lewis’ “Weight of Glory”, but found that not only did I not have a copy; but had apparently never actually read it.

J.R.R. Tolkien@JRRTolkien: “I write…because I find it easier so to say such things as I really want to say. If they are foolish or seem so, I am not present when they fall flat. My whispering asides are most often due to sheer pusillanimity, & a fear of being laughed at by the general company.” #Tolkien

Alix E. Harrow@AlixEHarrow:  i respect that fantasy as a genre has simply refused to standardize the spelling of “fairy.” faerie. fae. fay. fair folk. fayrie. just an F followed by whatever vowels you have in your heart

Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec:  I wish I could get people to stop sending me huge walls of text. I get so many messages and emails. When I see a huge block of text my brain runs screaming. Make paragraphs. Separate out single, important sentences. Cut needless filler. I’m riddled with ADD. I beg you.

Meg Hunter-Kilmer@MegHunterKilmer: Look, I just think that if you’re going to write an Amazon review of a book criticizing the writer’s grammar and saying it’s bad writing, you should be required to show your work. Because if you don’t understand that sentence fragments can be stylistic, I can’t help you.

is the only online Catholic publication in the universe with regular contributions from a cloistered nun, a former SSPX priest, and a hermit who lives in Spain with four mules. Are you reading it?

4TJ Burdick@tjburdick: I know a guy who has only 2 chapters left in his novel but delays writing them because he low-key doesn’t want to end the story and high-key doesn’t feel like he has the energy to write book 2 in the series because of the three years of effort he put into book

It me. I’m guy.

Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms: Over half my recent reviews were written after two or more viewings. I watched Cyrano, Dune, and Midnight Mass twice, Tragedy of Macbeth and Green Knight three times. It makes a difference. We try to get it right the first time. but a second viewing can be almost as important.

Alessandra@alessabocchi: Italy’s main University in Milan just banned teaching Fyodor Dostoevsky because he’s a Russian writer. Dostoevsky was sent to a Siberian labour camp for reading banned books in Tsarist Russia. We are reaching levels of hatred and stupidity that I thought were never possible.

David@schaalfan: Today a woman with developmental disabilities came into the library, and said she was lost. She didn’t know her address, but her phone number was in her pocket on a piece of paper with Elmo on it. She kept saying, “The library is a safe place.”

Scott Eric Alt@ScottEricAlt: Scott Eric Alt Gives A Defence

Somehow I can’t imagine St Benedict approaching Pope Pelagius II and saying, “Holy Father, I’m the author of The Rule of St Benedict.”

William Hemsworth@w_hemsworth: My kids are blown away by all the things that the library has available online.  They have been reading non-stop for two days.  I’m not mad at that.

Morgan Nic Somhairle-Daimler@MorganDaimler: I know some people argue mansplaining isn’t a thing, but I just had a guy in a folklore group claim “most” fairies are male & when I disagreed & gave examples he suggested if I just read “loads of folktales” like him I’d know he was right.

Spoiler: he is not

Anonymous Carmelite: This is hilarious because fairies are not even real.

Daniel P. Horan, OFM@DanHoranOFM: ·It’s worth remembering that Sacraments are not magic and that the true minister of a Sacrament is always Christ. While Thomas Aquinas talked about validity according to Aristotelian categories of matter and form, he also said a lot about secondary causality. We don’t control God.

Kenneth@kennhistoria: I believe what the Church teaches. God uses the sacraments for salvation but is not bound by them. He applies efficacious graces where He sees fit. It’s not impossible for a non-Catholic to be in a state of sanctifying Grace (such as the baby John the Baptist, before baptism).

Michael Lofton@michaelloftonRT:  I trust God makes up for whatever is lacking when we don’t know about an invalid sacrament. Once we discover it, however, we are obligated to rectify it. God is not bound to the sacraments but we are. There is even a part in the byzantine rite of ordination that speaks of the Holy Spirit making up for whatever is lacking.

Bishop Down Umber@BishopUmbers: As a Seminarian in Rome I lived, studied & worshipped with people from all parts of the globe, including two young catechists from Mongolia. The baptised are all members of the one body of Christ.

Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest: Baptized another kid today. Get wrecked, Satan

(((Simcha Fisher)))@SimchaFisher: You think it’s crazy that Catholics believe a single word matters, wait till you hear what we believe baptism DOES.

Scott Eric Alt@ScottEricAlt:  If the marital sacrament is permanent independent of my failures, so is my membership in the Body of Christ (which is the Church) by virtue of the sacrament of baptism.

These sacraments are permanent and unrepeatable, and no sin cancels them: baptism, initiation, marriage, and Holy Orders.

This is not opinion; it is dogma.

A laicized priest is still a priest; a separated or divorced spouse is still a spouse; an excommunicated or apostate or heretical Catholic is still a Catholic and still belongs to Jesus Christ.

JD Flynn@jdflynn: And the Christian life is about more than not going to hell. Do I think someone will go to hell b/c the priest said the wrong word. No. Don’t be ridiculous. That’s a childish cartoon version of Christianity- a strawman. But I do think baptism – real baptism – has actual effect.

The Penitential of Theodore@DiscipulusU:  In baptism sins are remitted; but not loose behavior with women, since the children who were born before the baptism of the parents are in such cases in the same status as those born after their baptism.

Catholic Answers@catholiccom: Will “We baptize” guarantee an invalid baptism? Yes. Will “We baptize” guarantee you go to hell? No. Does baptism still matter? Emphatically, yes.

23Feral Spamlet, Adorable Trash��@feralspamlet: It’s not a trivial point, Melanie. If you’re a baptized Catholic and also transgender then transgender persons can also be Catholic. That’s basic logic. You may quibble with how devout you think they are (or aren’t), but their ontological status remains unchanged.

Chezami@chezami: The first speculative fiction concerning what we now call “aliens” was created by late Roman and medieval Christians wrestling with whether creatures who look different from us, but are rational beings, counted as human and candidates for baptism. Consensus: yes.

Fr. Goyo@FrGoyo: HOT TAKE: I know many of you express the wonderful feelings you get after confession and those are great, but sometimes we feel nothing after confession and it doesn’t mean that confession was bad. Don’t let feelings bully you into thinking that they make confession good or bad

Catholic Centrist@catholicentrist: I can’t fathom how almost every single Catholic Church in my city doesn’t offer weekday confessions and only offers them on Saturday for 30-60 minutes at most. It’s infuriating

Dawn Eden Goldstein ��@DawnofMercy: Confession. Seriously. Just make a good confession and then you won’t have to fear death.

I make confession before I go on an airplane. Then, if it’s a turbulent flight, I have nothing to be scared of.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1:  Scapulars are not magic. You won’t save someone’s soul by hiding a scapular under their pillow.

Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest: One day after Mass, a parishioner asked me to bless their St. Benedict medal. As I finished the prayer of exorcism, they asked, wide-eyed, “…Is it normal for the medal to get really hot when you do that?” No… but it was a nice reminder that these things are real, and serious

DEFCON Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo: I got such a rash from that wool scapular. Switched to a medal on a lanyard and it felt like cheating.

Christine Sarracino@ChrisMSarracino: A good Catholic man may be a keeper when you think you lost the St. Benedict medal on a chain you got at church and he offers you his. �

Ashlyn Smith@ashlynjeffries: A patient asked me about my medals today. I was trying to describe my Our Lady of Fatima medal.

The patient is hard of hearing and thought I was saying “Geez Lady you’re fat”.

She kept responding with “I know I’m fat, but what’s on your necklace!”

This is my life.

Anonymous Carmelite: The lack of people on Twitter who put medals on their rosaries is astonishing! Is this a long lost tradition? Do people just not care anymore about medals and devotionals or having their rosaries Blessed my priests or taken to cool places on pilgrimage or touching relics anymore?

 LivesPeter Kreeft@ProfessorKreeft: A saint isn’t somebody who tries harder. A saint is somebody who trusts more.

John Cavadini@JohnCavadini: Also, is it wrong to consider John of God a badass Saint? Let’s face it, he single handedly chopped a burning hospital free from the adjacent building and by himself pulled all of the patients out of the burning building. You judge. Also he has the coolest name of all saints.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: I  met Mother Teresa and shook her hand. Would that make me a second class relic?

tommy@theghissilent: Catholicism is amazing because you could be martyred for the faith by being disemboweled and then 1,700 years later you’re getting bothered for help by some dude in Terra Haute who gets diarrhea after eating a bad burrito

��Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC: Today’s saint lived 1971-1990. Many of us were probably alive at the same time as Bl. Chiara Badano.

Katie Prejean McGrady@KatiePMcGrady: Chiara Badano, knowing her illness was terminal, worried for her mom & dad. Fearing their marriage would suffer, she made a dinner res. for them for Valentine’s Day & insisted they go out & not sit in her room that night. Live that kind of generosity. It could change the world.

Fr John S. Hogan, ocds@jshocds: Irish Causes about to open: Fr Colm O’Brien (whom I knew), who lived a life of humble, dedicated priesthood, a man of prayer & service.

Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest: HIGHLY recommend watching the documentary film on Sr. Clare Crockett’s life – I was impressed and very moved. The hype is deserved.e; & the more famous Sr Clare Crockett, vibrant, evangelical, full of joyful zeal. Two new apostles to assist the evangelisation of Ireland.

Anonymous Carmelite: Other saints thought to be on the autism spectrum are the close friend and companion of St Francis of Assisi, Brother Juniper.Leonie Martin did not become a Carmelite like her other sisters, but instead joined the religious order of the Visitation Sisters.  It is thought that St Therese of Lisieux and her sister Leonie were possibly on the autism spectrum, though post-mortem diagnosis isn’t a thing, biographers have noted they both exhibited certain behaviour traits, which may point to it. Everyone has a cross to bear!

Melissa Marie-Therese Cecilia@MelissaCeciliaG: I received a copy of the chapter where the story of how Bl. Carlo Acutis’ intercession saved my life is included. Y’all, I want to cry. I’m not writing the book but I get a chance to approve what’s written. I’ll share book title & details when I know more.

Ave Maria Press@avemariapress: Do you ever think of the #saints as your friends? This week on #AveSpotlight special guest @MegHunterKilmer chats with host Chenele Shaw about how she has befriended saints who are different from her and how it has blessed her.� Listen now: https://avemariapress.com/spotlight/podcast-hunter-kilmer

Anonymous Carmelite: Someone should publish a really cool book of all the Eucharistic miracles that have been documented around the world, with photographs and geological information and little history tidbits and dedicate it to Blessed Carlo Acutis.

Theresa W@thinkbossmom: Meaning of my name.

The name Theresa is a girl’s name of Spanish, Greek, Portuguese origin meaning “to harvest”. The popular appeal of the strong, intelligent Saint Teresa of Avila, combined with the selfless compassion of the more recent Mother Teresa.

#tbt #temperance Angela@TheWakingTulip: “The saints are present and available to us. They are family to us. They are elder siblings, only purified of all rivalry, impatience, and irritability. They want to help us become as they are (holy). They want to help us get all the way home.”— Scott Hahn

Matt Swaim@mattswaim:

Halloween/All Saints Day

Save yourself the hassle of putting together two different costumes for the two different occasions: dress up as Blessed Carlo Acutis dressing up as Spider-Man.

 You’re welcome.

Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron: Bl. Carlo Acutis, video gamer and computer programmer with a deep devotion to the Eucharist and the first millennial declared blessed, pray for us!

TOM the Greek Atheist@ParosTom: I’m sorry there is no possible way that you can be intelligent and be religious.

Fr. David Paternostro, SJ@DavidPaternostr: The three astrophysicists, three lawyers, two medical doctors, two chemists, the historian, and the Rhodes scholar I’ve lived in religious community with would all like a word

Daniel Joachim@danieljoachim: But science isn’t “true”, just like chess, waltz or harvesting crops isn’t “true” (or false).

Science is an accumulation of human activities, that proceed according to set of methods, builds theories, that hopefully unveils something real about quantitative aspects of our world.

CatholicScientists@SocCatholicSci: “Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other to a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.”–St. John Paul II, letter to Fr. George Coyne. https://vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_19880601_padre-coyne.html

We have to look at the issue of who speaks for the Church, and it is not an informal society where a public opinion poll establishes what it supports or doesn’t support. Instead, it is hierarchically structured, and policy is set by the hierarchy.  Since the Church’s Magisterium (teaching authority) has set a pro-science policy, we thus can say that the Church is pro-science. That’s the Church’s policy. Even if one were to conduct an opinion poll, it would not turn out that the majority of Catholics are anti-evolution. There are a bunch of things that could be said here, but Traditionalist YEC Catholic are quite a small group. As to their being the most devout, they are more passionate than various other Catholic demographic groups, but one cannot judge the overall position of an organization by a passionate minority within it

Thy Geekdom Come@ThyGeekdomCome: I can control my home thermostat from an app. My wife, who works from home, just texted me at my office across town to turn on the heat. It was quicker that way.

What a time to be alive.

R Bratten Weiss@Prof_RBW: If I were to write one of those “Screwtape” rip-offs I’d have Screwtape saying “get people terrified that trends from non-white cultures are channels for evil forces, but tell them actual evils like racism, anti-semitism, or spreading a deadly virus are just “different views.”

Jeannie Gaffigan@jeanniegaffigan:  “My Dear Wormwood, Be sure that patient remains completely fixated on politics. Arguments, political gossip & obsessing on the faults of people they have never met serves as an excellent distraction from advancing in personal virtue, character, & the things patient can control.”

it’s Em-mardi gras season �@EmilyKath319: The idea that the orgasm is some sort of inalienable right has caused untold damage to society.

Y’all need to take a step back and decide if having your nethers feel good for 15 seconds is really worth our world being the mess it is right now.

(Hint, it is not.)

David Mills@DavidMillsWrtng: “If Christianity is so difficult to know and therefore so hard to accept these days, it is because the only content of Christianity, for a century, has seemed to be the moral question…reduced to one point, the sixth & ninth commandments, in other words the problem of sex”

Abigail Favale@FavaleAbs: Seems a little weird to say to the Church: yes I totally buy that a 1st century Jewish man was actually God and he rose again from the dead and I get to eat his body at Mass, but you are totally wrong about that sex and marriage stuff, that’s crazy

My Catholic peeps: don’t be conservative, don’t be progressive, just be CATHOLIC

R Bratten Weiss@Prof_RBW:  Amusingly recalling the student who wrote in a course evaluation that I “should have assigned Theology of the Body.”

It was a class on women writers.

I taught that class for years. Loved teaching it. Almost every student who went through that class had only great things to say about it.

But, it would have been better if we’d read Theology of the Body. Clearly.

Bishop Down Umber@BishopUmbers: To be Catholic is to hold a countercultural understanding of life & marriage issues. It is epistemically taxing and invites much discussion about one’s own beliefs. As shepherds we need to provide good resources & support to prevent a slide into fideism or practical apostasy.

Brändøn@brannylives: The only thing thing that Jesus destroys — the only thing he takes away — is sin; everything else he elevates and perfects.-Fr. Gregory Pine

Patrick Wyman@Patrick_Wyman: One of history’s great lessons is that you don’t have to be profoundly evil to do terrible things; stupidity and apathy are more than enough, and almost always a better explanationp

Father David Hogman@FatherHogman:Our addiction to sin, which the Apostle refers to as the sin that is in us, is also a strange cover for us. Our inability to stop sinning prevents us from seeing that we prefer sinning to righteousness. This is why the Saints accurately insist that they are the worst of sinners.

Anonymous Carmelite: What’s with so many anti-Semitic people identifying as traditional Catholics on Twitter? My old prayer books from before Vatican II are not anti-Semitic at all, in fact refer to Christ as Son of David. Jesus was and is Jewish. Deicide is also a heresy. Makes no sense to me.

(((Simcha Fisher)))@SimchaFisher:  Very often, when I say I’m tired of the Church, I really mean the weird, ugly little quasi-church I’ve built around myself out of sheer cynicism and snark and self righteousness. It’s a very flimsy, ugly, broke-down place. No wonder I don’t like it there.

Bishop Fulton Sheen@Bishop_Sheen: A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.

Jackie Francois Angel@JackieFrancois: “In all you do, remember the end of your life, and you will never sin.” – Sirach 7:36 #MementoMori

Elizabeth Scalia@TheAnchoress:  Have you ever touched the hand of a corpse? Even ten inches above the body, you can feel the cold, the thorough cold, all around. The life is gone. The shell that remains will soon be only dust—sterile, absent of potential, and full of nothing. @WordOnFire Moses’ Stark Choice Lies Before Us: All or Nothing – Word on Fire

Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest: I offered the Last Rites this weekend for a parishioner.
Even as she prepared for her own death, she was still praying for her priests, and the repose of the souls of all her loved ones who had gone before her into heaven.

I hope I have that much faith at the end of my life.

Naths@nathu147: “We’ve all got a terminal disease. It’s called life.” —Benedict Groeschel

 None of us are making it out alive. The earlier we realize this, the better.

Steffi@Schajen: “We cannot avoid dying…but it shocks us…we don’t know how to respond. We can prepare for it by trusting God with our first fruits and with our final fruits…they are externally insignificant but eternally irreplaceable.”@frmikeschmitz @BulldogCatholic  Homily

Emily, praying for peace ���@EmilyKath319: So while in line for confession today (#NoSinGang – feels good!) I was reading the names of former parishioners on the stained glass windows & stations, etc. And I thought, what if the names aren’t there because they want recognition but because they want prayers when they die? So if you are ever waiting in line at Mass and you’re wondering whoever the person who paid for the 9th station might have been, you may as well offer a prayer for the repose of their soul.

And I thought, what if the names aren’t there because they want recognition but because they want prayers when they die?

So if you are ever waiting in line at Mass and you’re wondering whoever the person who paid for the 9th station might have been, you may as well offer a prayer for the repose of their soul.

Haley �️‍⚧️@pankhearst: Can ghosts exist underwater? Like, is the wreck of the Titanic haunted?

Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC·: If we are separated souls for all eternity, then death still has some victory over us.

Instead of a body-less heaven, St. Paul teaches us that we can expect to be body & soul united forever at the final resurrection. #HomilyTweet #TodaysReadings

Chezami@chezami:  I think it is a sign of great spiritual health that zillions of Catholics, including the generally non-observant, instinctively desire and show up for Ash Wednesday. There is something sane in the human soul that needs to be reminded, “You are dust and to dust you will return.”

Gianna Bonello@feliixculpaa: There was nothing more chilling than having ashes sprinkled on my head today as the priest said ‘you are dust & to dust you shall return’ in Italian … hearing it in a different language in a big stone church gave me CHILLS

Ed Latimore@EdLatimore:

Remember that no matter what you do, you’re going to die.

And unless you do some Jesus or Hitler level shit, no one will even remember that you were ever alive.

You’ve only got 40 or so more *good* years on this rock.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer@Brcremer: In times of crisis and despair, Christianity sounds like, “my heart is breaking with yours and I’m grieving with you,” not “everything happens for a reason.”

Sr. Miriam James@onegroovynun:  Miracles happen all of the time. Grace pierces our heart at every moment and a sudden breakthrough of love is always possible. Don’t give up. Keep praying, keep doing the right thing. Love never fails.

Anonymous Carmelite: People struggle with the faith and understanding what true love really is and means, especially in the way of divine filiation. It isn’t easy being a Catholic in a fallen world, people have their own ideas of love and fall into despair or pride and need compassion.

The Simple Catholic@simplecatholic1: God has the power to transform our deepest sorrow into something greater. It’s always going to be sad but somehow He injects beauty, truth, and goodness into the sorrow.

Punky Mantilla �@PunkyMantilla·: “Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin.” Francis de Sales said that. As an anxiety and depression sufferer, I used to hate that quote until I noticed that it says …”except sin.”

Fear is not sin. But it is a plague sent from the Evil One.

Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC·: In Gethsemane, Jesus had the most intense temptations to despair yet did not despair. We can look to him when we have similar temptations.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1: At this stage in my life and spiritual journey I am realizing how hard it is to persevere. The climb gets steeper and the air thinner as you attempt to ascend the mountain.

Sister Anne@nunblogger: Nobody likes obedience. (Well, maybe Jesus and the saints.) Obedience is hard. 43 years of vows hasn’t made it easier for me. It involves sacrifice: you have nothing to stand on but faith that God is in charge. Please pray hard for those whose faith is being tested.

#LatinMass

the moon’s wife@bookishseawitch: every time the world feels unbearable I have a hearty bowl of soup and suddenly everything is okay

the Pilgrim �@MyselfUnholy: I used to be such a good Catholic. I knew all the saint quotes & said my rosary everyday & did my morning offering.

I want to be a good human now, to enjoy the warmth of the sun & the smell of jasmine tea & the feel of rubbing lotion into my skin. I hope it’s just as holy.

Carl Strehlow@carlstrehlow: It’s so hard to be a Catholic. It seems nearly all the Church hierarchy, with the pope downwards hate tradition call people like me ‘ridgid’. Coming on here, I am being attacked by some Catholics for not being ridgid enough. I am just trying to be a faithful loving to the Church.

Fr. Stephen Vrazel@KeytarCatholic: The hierarchy are making it hard enough for people to want to become Catholic (sexual scandal, financial impropriety, etc.)

People have enough legitimate barriers to entry.

Let’s not make it unnecessarily worse by embracing geocentrism and young earth creationism.

Chezami@chezami: I certainly believe in the miracle taught by the Creed: the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So does Francis. I think history is crowded with the genuinely supernatural.

Fr. Tom badil@Bomcalix517:  When Mario dies, he has a halo. This implies that he immediately enjoys the Beatific Vision upon death. A likely explanation is that his death at the hands of Donkey Kong was in odium fidei, making him a martyr. In this essay I shall

Augustine of Hiphop ��@hiphopaugustine

can’t measure God like a gram or a kilo

He created space-time, did it ex nihilo

three Persons, one God, one substance, one nature
if you call us polytheists betta check ya nomenclature

I aint no Arian
straight Trinitarian
three co-equal Persons
wit a love unvaryin

the word Trinity aint simply educational
it means the ground of all being is relational

Sachin Jose@Sachinettiyil: “The household of Jesus, Mary and Joseph became a ‘home away from home’ for the eternal Son of God. It was an outpost of heaven, an image of the Trinity in the world.” – Dr. Scott Hahn Father

Glenn J. Devlin@gjdevlin:  So my WIP is a time travel story about a deaf historian with a hearing daughter child (CODA) and a deaf-blind son. She is hired to serve as a consultant in history and gets more than she bargains for when she and her family are trapped in the space-time continuum.

The Vault of Lost Ideas@VaultOfLostIdea: Time Travel doesn’t #exist. Nakamura, who invented it, went back and prevented himself from creating the first time machine. What they didn’t realise was that since there was no reason for them to go back, the machine was built anyway. Time travel is a pain. Don’t do it.  #vss365

Pope Benedict XVI@P_BenedictXVI: Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

Portfolio Carmel@PortfolioCarmel: Time will go by the way it did, before history, pure and unnoticed, a mystery that arose between the sun and moon before there was a word for dawn or moon or midnight —Billy Collins

CatholicBard@BardCatholic: Sometimes time flies faster than the speed of light and you suddenly realize a week has past or even a month You work, you pray and you help others, and you spend time with your family then you tweet about it then time keeps flying before you know it eternity will be yours

Hans Urs von Balthasar@h_u_v_balthasar: Theology is supposed to be the study of the white hot fire that burns at the center of creation.

Dr. Michael J. Svigel@Svigel: Theology 101: “It is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality unless they are prepared to take their stand upon the fundamentals of Christian theology.” (Dorothy Sayers)

Fr. Matthew Schneider@FrMatthewLC: Not all untruths are lies, so it’s better we use “untruth” when unsure of the subjective reality of the person.

A lie requires not only it be untrue but that the person knows, or has reasonable grounds to judge most probably, it is untrue.

Our language, even in non-religious circumstances, can often express our faith & worldview. For example, simply referring to “creation” shows a sense of Christian metaphysics.

� Augustine of Hiphop ��@hiphopaugustine: 
just because I spit the truth don’t mean I’m virtue signallin
and I got a righteous dance I call it virtue wigglin
nah you best not be that joker in the church who gigglin
cuz the Spirit’s gonna find you when he search you little friend

Fake History Hunter@fakehistoryhunt: Nobody knows everything, even people on the internet can be mistaken. On top of that our ideas and knowledge of the past changes regularly. If you have doubts about something, do your own research, check several sources, never trust anyone blindly, and yes, that includes me.

Joseph Nolla, SJ@JosephNollaSJ: It’s ironic that some people who believe in a sinful fallen world will not accept that the market is untrustworthy, systemic racism exists, and climate change is real. I can’t tell you what the fix is, but it definitely isn’t complacency or denial.

Fr. David Paternostro, SJ@DavidPaternostr: Aquinas would have been awful at Twitter. Never sarcastic or insulting, patient to understand, gentle in correcting, more apt to ask questions than give hot takes. A solid counter-balance for anyone on Twitter, and a good patron saint of Twitter

Michael Lofton@michaelloftonRT: Friendly reminder: You are welcome to post disagreements with something I’ve said. However, you are not welcome to post misjudgments about my character or intentions. Neither are you welcome to post personal attacks. If either of these are done, your account will be blocked.

Anonymous Carmelite: Disagree with others but be mindful not to invalidate them. Just because our views may differ from someone else’s does not make our views any more meaningful or valid than theirs.

1 – Latin Mass

2 – Yoga

3 – Vaccines

4 – The President (pick one)

5 – Essential oils

Fr. Stephen Vrazel@KeytarCatholic: There are three distinct parts of Catholic Twitter:

1. Rad trads who are impossible to talk to.

2. Common folk with reasonable differences of opinion but a shared communion of belief and goodwill.

3. Progressive Catholics who are impossible to talk to.

Be in the second group.

CatholicBard@BardCatholic: Everytime we come across another Catholic with a different opinion, how about not labeling them a heretic or fake Catholic as if we were so awesome to have the monopoly of truth discovered by our own brand of cleverness and not the grace of God.

Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC: Part of Christian charity is that if someone writes or says something that has two possible interpretations, we should assume the more charitable interpretation unless solid evidence says otherwise.

Rene Albert ☕️✟@coffeencrucifix: Honestly, if anyone is ever interested in becoming Catholic, the best advice I can give for those who are easily troubled is to stay away from any Catholic social media.

 For many, it has led them to the Church and to connect with likeminded individuals. But for many others, it is enough to shatter any hope they have in humanity or in a loving, merciful God.

Scott Eric Alt@ScottEricAlt: We’ve reached a dangerous state of public discourse if people are afraid to dispute an idea because an algorithm might think they’re advocating it.

Jimmy AkinJimmyAkin3000: Though we have quite different views on various issues, it has not stopped Tim and I from having productive discussions. He’s been a gentleman toward me, and I seek to be one toward him–and to everyone. Differences of opinion don’t mean we can’t be charitable toward one another.

Christopher Miller@ChristopherJM: Zelensky: “We never wanted this war. But it was brought to us. We never dreamed of killing. But we have to knock out the enemy from our land and from our lives. We have to endure what no other European country has seen in 80 years.”

Pope Francis@Pontifex: For the followers of Jesus, now is not a time for sleeping, for letting our souls be sedated. One of the great tragedies of our time is the refusal to open our eyes to reality and instead to look the other way. #PrayTogether #Ukraine #Peace

Кайл Де Вольф �@KyleDeWolf3: I once met a guy who believed in KJV only because it has “unicorns” while other translations just have “wild bulls.” He felt that “modern” translations (technically KJV is modern) changed the Bible to “hide the truth” about unicorns. Later, I spoke to an Assyrian Christian (ACOE) about the issue, and he said that there was an underground cult of people who worshipped unicorns in the Middle East. I never met any of these people, but he said that they are very secretive bc of Islamic strictures against idols. I don’t know if he was yanking my chain or not. He also said that I am not “allowed” to read the 2ce apocryphal Protogospel of James because it was “illegal.”

Maybe that’s the discipline of his church. I am not aware of it being “forbidden” to read apocryphal works in this era. Anyway, I have read somewhere (probably chabad) that the unicorn was a supernatural creature that appeared once in the mists of the shekhina at the dedication of the temple. I would honestly like to believe that is true. Strong’s concordance says that the same word could be translated “unicorn” or “wild bull.” The descriptions are ambiguous and could apply to either. Seriously this is the #1 theological issue that we need to address today. Are there unicorns in the Bible? What do you think?

Fr. Matthew Schneider��@FrMatthewLC: Maybe the best translation is “Rhinoceroses.”

fah’Tim@FrGrumbach:  Really excited to work with some of our honors students as we take a deep dive into Lumen Gentium. They likely have little idea how controversial VII is these days in some circles, so a faithful study of the documents will be a great way to introduce them to the spiritual depth.

Andre van Heerden@AndrevanHeerde2: I urge you to read ‘Reclaiming Vatican II” by Fr. Blake Britton. As ST. John Henry Newman pointed out, the problems we worry about in the Church in our time, are found in the Church in every age during the past 2000 years. The question is “How do we respond?’

Brian Holdsworth@briankeepsworth: Overheard in the homily at mass yesterday: If the virtues are like beads on a rosary, then humility is the chain that binds them. Humility is the handmaid of all the virtues.

Jaymie Stuart Wolfe@YouFeedThem: Not every Saul becomes a Paul. But we must all be like Ananias: open to the possibilities of grace.

TinaBob ™@TinaBob: Do people actually understand what nuclear war means?

 Anonymous Carmelite: The Japanese do, because they have so far been the only victims of a nuclear bomb and they know the horrors that come with it, even if on a small scale. The nuclear bombs we have now are like a million times more powerful to what existed in 1945 so no, people don’t understand.

Jay Black@jayblackisfunny: Hey, millennials and zoomers who are dealing with your first bout of World War III panic:

Find yourself a Gen X friend to see you through it.

We spent the entirety of our childhoods prepping for nuclear war, alone, while eating Pop Tarts cold from the foil.

We got you.

Jen Fulwiler is on tour@jenfulwiler: Last week we were live tweeting the Super Bowl and this week we’re live tweeting a war. Modern life is surreal

CRC@ICRC:  � The rules of war �

1. Civilians cannot be targeted.

2. Civilians cannot be used as human shields.

3. Civilians must have safe passage to flee.

4. Humanitarian organizations must have access to deliver aid to civilians.

Fr. Brad’s �fasting after the feast�@fr_quizzical:  Have you ever danced so hard at a wedding reception that you got a workout?! If not, move to Louisiana and get a wedding invite.

Shannon Monaghan@Shonomatopoeia: One time, while meditating on the Wedding Feast at Cana, it hit me that the bride and groom probably had no idea there was even a problem. Jesus just took care of it. Every time I’ve heard it since, I wonder how many problems in my life He’s taken care of, unbeknownst to me.

Theresa Zoe Williams �@TheresaZoe

Too gay for the straights

Too straight for the gays

Too secular for the Catholics

Too Catholic for the seculars

…Right where God wants me

Mark Brumley@mabrumley:  When you don’t like some part of the Word of God, you can always affirm its contrary and attribute the contradiction to ‘mystery’ or ‘transcendence’. When someone else tries that on something you like, you can insist on the need for ‘critical’ theology.

❄�Lauren�❄@lil_laur_: It’s a wonderful rainy Saturday morning to snuggle with my dog and listen to the Bible with Fr. Mike Schmitz ���

Sr. Theresa Aletheia ☠️@pursuedbytruth: Wordle except the word is always “DEATH.”

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave: wordle is a gateway drug to quordle. this hunger can’t be satisfied.

Mary Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo: As an elder Millennial whose first memories are from the 80s, it’s weird how we’re on the verge of a hot war with Russia and we’re all just playing Wordle and cracking jokes and pretending to have a good time.

I  remember being so young I’m not in preschool yet and watching Mr. Rogers go to Moscow to meet the Russian TV host. I remember being confused because I already knew Soviets are evil and hate us, yet Mr. Rogers was just talking through his puppet to some ordinary-looking kids.

Stephen Simpson �� ProperGander �@BamaStephen

“You say Gestapo

I say Gazpacho

You say Nazi

I say Nacho

Gestapo! Gazpacho!

Nazi! Nacho!

Let’s call the whole thing off!” �

Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms: “Multiversal” seems like a decent enough adjective, but as I mull Spider-Man: No Way Home in comparison/contrast to Into the Spiderverse, I find myself driven to coin the term “multiversiferous.” Or possibly “multiversiverous,” I haven’t decided.

Mr. ((Vincent)(The Catholic)) Linguist: @FilologLX_X: “Have you found that what languages people speak affects how they see and celebrate their faith? I’m thinking of how different churches have different liturgical rites and traditions, and wondering if that extends to, or is caused by to some extent, the various languages spoken.”

! Overall, I am a weak Whorfian. That is to say, I do believe that our native language INFLUENCES but does not definitively determine the way that we see the world. It is my observation that in most of the Eastern Rites and the Orthodox, it isthe culture/language which influences and shapes the faith. My main exceptions to this are the Melkites, Maronites, and Chaldeans, as their faith does not transcend macro-cultural boundaries. However there are other communities, like the Lakota, who have had clear influence of their Catholic faith on their culture.
By the way, we as English speakers are not immune to the influence of our language on our faith. We love taking “becoming” from Scripture and turning it into “making.” We’re busy busy busy Saxons!

Fr. Matthew Schnieder:

AMEN comes from the Hebrew root אמן (‘MN) which is the verb to be firm, confirmed, reliable, faithful, have faith, believe.

1. It has nothing to do with the word “men.”
2. Most verb roots are 3 consonants in Hebrew, the first here is a silent consonant though.

The thinkers’ views@thinkerviews #Inspirational #Quotes The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man’s head because she turns his heart. –Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton: Being a mother is indescribable; joy, worry, delight, frustration, but ultimately the greatest satisfaction and deepest human love of your life. So grateful.

A.J. Jacobs@ajjacobs: “It’s odd that birthdays focus on the kid, when they should honor the mom. What did I do on that day long ago? I came out, cried, demanded food, got a mediocre score on my Apgar. The real hero is my mom. She’s the one who had her body dangerously distorted by my infant skull.”-Me

Peccatrix@CatholicAwesome: So many pregnant woman talk about how they miss laying on their stomachs but I miss being able to lay on my back without passing out.

Hans Fiene �@HansFiene: Gentlemen, if you stop playing video games and use that time to learn how to make furniture and stuff, attractive women will want to marry you and have your babies.

Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec: I’ll be sure to tell my beautiful wife, who has given me 8 children, that we must stop gaming together so she can marry me and have my babies.

Catholic Joe@catholicjose: Twitter fam, My bros, rather than your wife calling you “My Lord” to defeat toxic feminism (not all feminism is toxic). How about we change the culture by living like Paul exhorted us… “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” -Eph 5:25

judymcdonald@judymcdonald:  Bless me father for I have sinned. I just told the telemarketer that I was breast-feeding the baby and I’d call them back. I don’t have a baby and cancer took my boobs. Oops.

Nicky Gumbel@nickygumbel: 2000 yrs ago Jesus repeatedly liberated and affirmed women- treating men and women as equals.

Women were the last at the cross and the first at the tomb – the first to be entrusted with the news of the resurrection of Jesus.  #InternationalWomansDay2022

Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco: One thing I love in the letters of St. Francis de Sales is his confidence that God sends us the pains and penances we need. He cautions a pregnant woman not to fast, since God has already sent her “holocausts enough” in her pregnancy.

There is no life the Cross is absent from.

☀️ Catholic Charm ✞ ☀️@CatholicCharm: Pregnancy is an absolute blessing and everything mothers go through to bring their child into the world is worth it- but that doesn’t mean the process isn’t hard.  If a pregnant friend of yours is venting, please don’t dismiss her feelings by saying “well just be happy”.  Of course we are happy.  It’s possible to feel grateful and still struggle with aspects of it at the same time.  It’s not one or the other.  Pregnancy and motherhood can already feel isolating in some ways, and it just makes it worse when others don’t acknowledge our feelings.

Puking sucks.  Having intense headaches sucks.  Seeing your body change can suck.  After labor, having bleeding nipples sucks.  If you have stitches and feel them throb every time you sneeze or go to the bathroom.. really sucks. Not every aspect of pregnancy is romantic and that’s okay.  I’d do it over and over again to have as many children as God will bless me with.

And it’s all worth it to have my son in my arms and to be expecting my second child.  I wouldn’t change it but it can still be tough.  I just hate seeing other women struggle and feel like they have no outlet.  If they complain they’re painted as ungrateful.  So they keep it in and feel all alone.  Please be there for your pregnant friends.

G. K. Chesterton@GKChestertonian: “What makes Christmas wonderful and merry, according to Dickens, is ‘keeping’ Christmas. Scrooge’s life changed overnight, and his conversion turned him from a miser to a giver. What if we had a night like Scrooge? What if we woke up changed?”— GKC, ILN, December 24, 1921.

“A mass of legend and literature, which increases and will never end has repeated and rung the changes on that single paradox; that the hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle.” (GKC, The Everlasting Man)

Fr. Paul@BackwardsFeet: The Word becoming flesh was the most significant act in the history of the universe. That which holds the very universe in existence humbled Himself to enter the universe which turned away from Him.

Tomás Insua@tomasinsua: “One Person of the Trinity entered into the created cosmos, throwing in his lot with it. From the beginning of the world, but particularly through the incarnation, the mystery of Christ is at work in a hidden manner in the natural world” (#LaudatoSi 99)

Merry Christmas!

Michelle Ule@Michelleule: Thomas Howard wrote about the incarnation:

“He didn’t come to thin out human life; He came to set it free. All dancing & feasting & processing &singing & building & sculpting & baking & merrymaking that belong to us, &stolen into serving false gods, are returned in the gospel.”

A Tribute to Thomas Howard 

(((Simcha Fisher)))@SimchaFisher: who wants to hear my medieval Christmas hymn lyrics? all purpose

“Twas a garden, sin & death entered in, loo raloo.Then the little babe was born & he was like a rose, like milk, like a sweet little apple was he, loo ra, loo ra! Then he died and sweet Mary saw SO MUCH BLOOD, but he rose again!O happy little apple,Christmas day!Loo ra loo, amen”

I forgot to put in about a deer

Rod Jones ���@rj_cubed:  I’m not normally a hate mail sender, but in yesterday’s show Lino was wrong, totally wrong, about Saint Nick. Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus, in pop culture, have been the same person for hundreds of years.

Lino Rulli@linorulli: St Nicholas was a Catholic Bishop in the 4th century. He’s dead and is now in Heaven. Santa Claus lives at North Pole and brings me stuff for Christmas. Definitely not the same person. Bishops in Heaven never stop by with presents. Santa is awesome but not a Bishop. Boom.

Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest: I got invited to a 12-year-old’s birthday party at an Italian restaurant where a professional Santa showed up and started singing Christological Christmas carols and now I’m not sure if anything is real.

Micah ��@MicahTGC: Hot Take: The only Christmas songs are chants, hymns, & carols about the Nativity. Secular “Christmas songs” should be categorized separately as “Christmas-adjacent.” They must not compete with proper Christmas songs. That’s like Dolly Parton losing the Parton look-alike contest.’

Ryan George@theryangeorge: Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” is about friends practicing witchcraft but then someone walks in and they have to suddenly play it cool

Augustine of Hiphop ��@hiphopaugustine:

Merry Christmas
y’all don’t wanna miss this
we was different continents
Christ is the isthmus
makin us his business
can I get a witness
out the Lord’s poverty
we been given richness

Mark@fom4life: Yogi the Yetti Yawns Yodeling while Yogaing while Your Yellow Yackity Yak eats Yams

Glabau@allergyPhD: It feels like science fiction to me that a person can grow another person inside of them? Mini me enjoyed yoga this morning and is doing a vigorous tumbling act still, four hours later, so I can’t stop thinking about this

Jeremy McLellan@JeremyMcLellan: Doing yoga for my back pain but before any Catholics get mad I am doing all of the poses very poorly as an insult to the Hindu gods.

Raymond ✝️����@deux_raymond: Catholic twitter revealed the sinister reason women wear yoga pants was so that men would gouge their eyes out.

214vin; androgyne@hologramvin: ah, this reminds me of how my mom would only go to yoga classes if it was “catholic yoga” and poses were named after different parts of the rosary (im not kidding)

Christopher Stevenson@CBenStevenson: I wish I could be as excited about writing library science papers and I am fiction, but I can’t talk about yeti-werealligators in a paper about metadata application profiles.

Cryptids And The Unknown@AndCryptids: The Yeti, also known as the Abominable Snowman, is an Asian Bigfoot found in the Himalayas. Inhabiting Nepal, Tibet, Russia, and India, the Yeti is probably the closest living relative to Gigantopithecus, a prehistoric ape that lived in Asia three hundred thousand years.

Todays #BeastOfTheDay is the Tibetan white yak. pic.twitter.com/DuqI3Y2Rpk

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) March 5, 2022

angelina.@whyangelinawhy: The one thing about West Side Story that NO one is talking about is the incredible Kushner line where Tony suggests getting beer and weed and hanging out at the zoo, instead of going to the rumble. Imagine that West Side Story.

Glenn J. Devlin@gjdevlin: Three Men and a Zombie When a Jew is buried in a Catholic cemetery in Ireland, he comes back from the dead and forces a gravedigger to carry him to Tipperary, USA before he decomposes and his soul ends up in Sheol (hell) #Producers #screenwriting

chrismpadgett@chrismpadgett: As the zombie apocalypse takes place all vegans will realize that lifestyle was a cute convenience.

The Gentle Freak@mitchysuch:Gen Z continues to be a generation too mentally weak to bring back catholic monk hair, just like millennials. Maybe next generation will be real.

Michael Paul@falcigl5: As a member of Gen Z, this is should be worrisome. As a true Catholic, seeing my Generation turning away from religion is sad and I pray for civilization to survive, because I don’t believe Western Civilization will survive without true religion.

Katie Prejean McGradyKatiePMcGrady: I realized today while praying as the plane took off, that for the past 3 years I’ve said roughly the same thing to end my private prayers: “Lord, keep safe all those I’ve spoken to, done ministry with, who have read my books, & crossed my path” So consider yourself prayed for