Impactful interview with an expert on addiction and dopamine. We are frying our own brains…

I think Mamdani really hit a nerve with the reactionaries this time. Absolute crack pipe take to say that the sacraments of the Church are individualistic. Not a single one of the sacraments is individualistic. Hell is full of individuals though.

“If you're going to vote for politicians who bomb countries and topple governments, you better take in the refugees you've created. Anything less is plain evil.” @joashpthomas.bsky.social

Pray for Pope Leo and Cardinal Pierre as they meet today.

O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ. Amen. #collect #BCP #11dayofXmas

Virgin of Coromoto, pray for your beloved children in Venezuela.

Photos of the reliquaries that have seen better days and need to be restored. 🥹 Thank you @erjwei.bsky.social for keeping this safe for St. Mary’s after our fire & many remodeling ventures and researching with me on who these saints are. 😭 Your reward is in heaven!

Doing research on a 18th/19th century French crucifix that belonged to two former priests at St. Mary’s. It has relics in it. The relics as far as I can tell are of the true cross, Benedicta, Roman virgin & martyr, Darius, Roman martyr, Benignus of Dijon,Theodotus of Ancrya, & Antininus of Primier

What happened to the man who was Marco Rubio?

Does anyone else think that there is a Trinitarian crisis in the American church? I was reading online after I had a dream that I was stuck in a Trinity denying version of Handmaids Tale, and I was convinced if they believed in the Trinity they’d stop being authoritarians… lol Interesting research:

🙃 It is in the same general area as usual… does this make me a liberal, progressive, or a leftist? 🤔

O Lord, arise, help us; And deliver us for thy Name’s sake. O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them. O Lord, arise, help us; and deliver us for thy Name’s sake.

The Book of Common Prayer (1979) provides the Supplication for use "in times of war, or of national anxiety", beginning on page 154. Here is the full text 📕 🧵

Can someone give me something to be hopeful about politically or should I just accept we are headed to an autocracy and there’s nothing I can do about it…. Thanks in advance. 🫩

Said hi to mom for us… begged her prayers for mercy on the US for our manifold collective societal sin… …on a happier note these wise guys sure get around. 😜 put the poinsettias back out after being in the sun for a few days. Held up ok I guess!

O Lord of mercy, look with compassion upon Venezuela in this hour of peril; shield the innocent, restrain the hand of violence, guide the nations to justice and peace, and grant comfort to all who suffer. Guide all your faithful in what you would have us do. Through Christ our Lord. Amen

“Pacem in Teris” signals to me conservative political factions for far too long have been allowed to infiltrate and ride roughshod over the teaching of the church thus we have a megalomaniac who is the antithesis to Christian values mocking the gospel by deception of the once faithful.

“Man has the right to live. He has the right to bodily integrity and to the means necessary for the proper development of life, particularly food, clothing, shelter, medical care, rest, and, finally, the necessary social services.” Pope John XXIII “Pacem in Teris”

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"I cannot understand how there could be so much poverty in the midst of such wealth." - Sitting Bull (1885)

I begrudgingly take mine down around Candlemas. If I was rich I’d have a Christmas room in my mansion turned retreat center that also serves as my monetary and place of rest for the unhoused. 🥰

Yesterday I was talking to my friend @erjwei.bsky.social and we were discussing the Ignatian practice of imaginative contemplation, where you put yourself into the scripture, and experience it with your senses. He asked me: “What would our blessed Mother smell like?” What would your answer be? ⚓️

Lovely Mass for the CIRCUMCISION OF OUR LORD. lol 😂 Just finding out the new priest doesn’t like “Holy Name” 🥹

Interesting place for the Magi to be tonight… as they journey to see the King! Mass for the Feast of the Holy Name in about an hour. 🥰✝️📿

When this pot comes out at my house you know something good is about to happen… collard & turnip greens with pork neck is starting, black eye peas nearly done. Greens (some do cabbage) for wealth. Black eyed peas for health and good luck. 🥰 Happy New Year! 🎆 turnips 🫜 🥬 🥓 🫘

I made the mistake of getting on the scale. 😒 I’ve gained 5 lbs and all I can think about is black eyed peas and collard greens with smoked meats and cornbread. Pray for my gluttony and my waist line. Thanks. 🙏🏼

Happy Feast of the Holy Name!

Am I being a humbug that I absolutely hate fireworks in the middle of a downtown area shot off by morons as their kids watch in a parking lot surrounded by multiple multi story apartment complexes? Lord give me patience and be with those who have PTSD from war… and the scared four legged friends.

I was a busy bee a church all day today. 🙂 Polished Jesus’ house (the tabernacle but I think we need to call it Jesus’ house so the kids catch on), cleaned the “new” presence lamp (mixed feelings, I loved the old one but it started getting black after years of never getting soot).

Put up the antique ceramic stations of the cross at church super excited I found them… was missing the little removable crosses on the top for the 6th station. ADHD is a hell of a thing. 🤣😅

To paraphrase Hank Hill: Radtrads and Orthobros aren’t making Christianity better nor bringing in more people, they’re just making everything else worse.

A pillar of Gospel music has passed away. Richard Smallwood’s music was a foundation in my upbringing in a Pentecostal/evangelical tradition, and his music remains a constant in my day to day. Lifting my hands in total praise for the life and witness of this gifted man and God’s anointing on him.

Said “Hi” to mom for us… I did some work in the church library today. Of the four statues of Our Lady on the campus, this one is the one that calls to my heart. I call her Our Lady of the Library. I like to sit with her and contemplate sometimes when I’m alone. 🙂

“It was always God’s intention to relish the fullness of his creation by joining it and participating in its fullness...” Beautiful sermon by Mtr. @sjchristopher.bsky.social

Kierkegaard taking the Franciscan side over the Dominicans

Why do the people of the Church look into the dark places of the world?

Less Anglican punditry. More Anglo-Catholic mystagogy. This is my New Year's Resolution.

🔥 YES!

Shepherds were people who lived on the margins of society in the ancient near east. God has always been among the people of the margins. It’s not a coincidence he chose them to witness the baby Jesus.

I can’t say whether or not the Angel Studios network is deserving of a subscription because of an obvious right-wing bias but this show so far is pretty good — Modern setting, Acts of the Apostles

Bawling at the Stephen trial episode on Testament 😭

It’s almost like they have a playbook to make everyone hate each other.

Omg!!! Happy birthday to my favorite Protestant [derogatory] lol 😂 jk 🫶🏼 Hope you’re having a blessed birthday @blueberrymill.bsky.social we’re both December Capricorns, whatever that means… 😜

When I was growing up in the South, we assumed that people who used phrases like "Heritage American" in public were definitely in the Klan.

I believe, Lord; help thou my unbelief.

Has anyone watched the show “Testament” from Angel Studios and is it any good?