My wife and I adopted a baby boy who contracted spinal meningitis.
On the feast of St Gemma Galgani, who had been healed of spinal meningitis as a child, he was completely healed.
Weeks earlier, not ever having heard of the saint, I had approved naming a chapel after her.
Last night’s Corpus Christi Procession saw hundreds of participants marching through the heart of midtown Tulsa, from the Parish of Christ the King to Holy Family Cathedral.
A six-foot monstrance carried the Body of Christ through the streets as participants sang, prayed, and
Bizarre from Dawkins, who wrote a book called ‘The God Delusion’ claiming religion was a deeply malevolent, dividing force in the world.
Now he’s calling himself a ‘cultural Christian’? Find it odd to use religion to extend your secular political points.
Yesterday, I took my family to a diner in small town Oklahoma.
We were a family of six in a small diner, but the kids behaved well. Next to us was an ancient looking man, alone, wearing a “Vietnam Combat Vet” hat.
As we packed up to leave, the elderly man waved me over… 1/4🧵
The humbling nature of his words, that a man I suspect had seen some of the worst this life can offer, would felt it proper to say the words he did about our family.
The most existential moment I’ve had in years.
We are praying for him. Say a prayer for him as well, please. 4/4
Setting Dionysus upon a perverted parody of the Last Supper was an intentional sign.
But of what?
Dionysus and Jesus represent two spiritual movements at war in the world.
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When the major cities in the West are being terrorized by leftist and Islamist mobs, this happened in New York City. More than 3,000 Catholics, including young people, peacefully processed through the streets of NYC, giving testimony to the Eucharistic Jesus.
Same sex attraction is not a sin.
It is disordered.
It is a temptation to sin.
But temptations are not sins.
Same sex acts are sins.
A poor understanding here does a great disservice to our brothers and sisters who pursue holiness while having same sex attraction.
I love Advent as a Catholic.
Expectation: I bet we hear some Mass readings on baby Jesus tender and mild. Christmas is coming!
First Sunday of Advent: Stop having orgies and getting drunk. He will come like a thief in the night. PREPARE YOUR SOUL.
In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave his famous “Regensburg Address.”
Can faith be spread by violence?
No, because: “not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature.”
BXVI compared Islam, in which Allah transcends reason and can thus be unreasonable and command
The altar at Subiaco Abbey, Arkansas, was desecrated yesterday. A man took a sledge hammer to the altar and removed the relics. He was later caught.
More:
Pray for the monks.
My daughter is the first child in our family to be baptized Catholic in over 400 years.
The last Catholic, Bl. Nicholas Garlick, was martyred under Queen Elizabeth in 1588.
Everyone is made in the Image of God, yes, but the last part of that verse is notable:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; *male and female he created them.*”
My father died Monday evening.
In so many ways, he was the last of certain breed of men.
He dropped out of college to run the family business in oilfield after his father died when he was in college.
He was a volunteer sheriff. He gave back to his community and put himself
No, America was not evil for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And no, “just asking questions” doesn’t make you a critical thinker. Evaluating evidence, claims, and counterclaims does.
With my infant in tow, I had to get quite close to be able to hear him.
With teary eyes, he pointed to my family and said, “this is what I fought in the war for.”
The immediate solemnity of the moment was staggering, palpable.
I grasped his arm, looked him in eyes… 2/4 🧵
Today is the 120th anniversary of the death of Pope Leo XIII.
A defender of authentic freedom and Catholic political thought, Pope Leo XIII condemned the errors of liberalism and launched modern Catholic social teaching.
Here are some great quotes ⬇️
Porn should be illegal.
The Catholic Church teaches it should be illegal.
It apes God and deforms the soul.
Let’s look at how porn corrupts your self-identity and perverts our love.
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Lust is a descent into the subhuman.
Purposeless and wallowing in effeminacy,
June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
It is only in that Heart that we will find happiness. It is only in that Heart we will find our rest. It is in that Heart that we understand what it means to be human and to be made in the image of our God.
June is for humility.
Today is my ordination anniversary.
I was ordained to the diaconate of Jesus Christ three years ago today on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Empress of the Americas.
God be praised.
The newest church in the Diocese of Tulsa!
Built for our *college students* on the campus of Oklahoma State University right next door to the football stadium.
Beauty evangelizes 🧵⬇️
And said “thank you, thank you.”
My words paled in comparison to the gravity of the moment, but he could tell his statement had an immediate effect upon me - one I tried to return as intentional gratitude.
My eldest could tell something happened, I tried to explain…
3/4 🧵
Porn should be illegal.
The Catholic Church teaches it should be illegal.
It apes God and deforms the soul.
Let’s look at how porn corrupts your self-identity and perverts our love.
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Lust is a descent into the subhuman.
Purposeless and wallowing in effeminacy,
Going to rapid-fire all the reasons I can quickly think of why this take is a discredit to both Homer and Jesus.
1. There is a distinction between Homer asking the Muses to sing of the divine-rage of Achilles and him celebrating it.
2. Achilles regrets his decision to seek
Bishop Ambrose denies Holy Communion to the Roman Emperor Theodosius after he massacred thousands in Thessalonica.
The Roman Emperor is told he must confess and do penance before returning to the Holy Sacrament.
Why do some Christians become angry when great sinners convert?
It comes from a misunderstanding of the purpose of the Christian life.
The purpose of the Christian life is not reducible to “avoid sin.”
That’s is not the goal.
But, if you feel it is, then when a depraved
The New Testament is a new Genesis.
If Christ is the “New Adam,” how is Mary the “New Eve”?
Let’s look ⬇️
Eve listens to the words of the serpent (Satan), and damnation enters the world.
Mary listens to the words of the angel, Gabriel, and salvation enters the world.
As
One of the reasons I converted to Catholicism was that I was free to go be a Christian and not be doomed to spend the rest of my life trying to reinvent what Christianity is.
The freedom in just receiving the faith and living it.
How can we read the Bible like St. Thomas Aquinas & Dante?
In the 1300s, Dante wrote a letter to his patron saying you read the Divine Comedy, his epic poem, the same way the early Church read Scripture -- in four senses: literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogical. 1/6 🧵🧵
"We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires."- Cardinal Ratzinger
Every day this man is proved correct a 1000 times over.
“The Eucharist is not a reward for the holy but medicine for the sick.”
Yes, but a soul in mortal sin is not sick, it’s dead.
The Eucharistic remedy is for venial sin not mortal sin.
Jesus gave us confession as a remedy for mortal sin.
It's public!
Holy Family Cathedral, a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, is happy to announce it has entered into an agreement to purchase First Christian Church of Tulsa’s campus in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The property, located at 913 South Boulder Ave W., is a
"We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires."
Cardinal Ratzinger
The Catholic Church is suffering from some type of Stockholm syndrome under liberalism.
We’ve adopted lies about our own history and identity as Catholics and now use liberal grammar to describe love, the human person, freedom, etc.
In many ways we’ve been tamed.
My father died Monday evening.
In so many ways, he was the last of certain breed of men.
He dropped out of college to run the family business in oilfield after his father died when he was in college.
He was a volunteer sheriff. He gave back to his community and put himself
Here is a brief list of words our culture now struggles to define:
Man
Woman
Life
Marriage
Freedom
Common Good
Science
How long can we function like this?
How did Aquinas and Dante read the Bible?
How, as moderns, are we reading it incorrectly?
Let's read the Bible like our forefathers.
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In the 1300s, Dante wrote a letter to his patron saying you read his epic poem, the Divine Comedy, the same way the early Church read
Protestant accounts keep posting about the good thief as a proof against either (a) faith and works or (b) the sacraments.
But the thief dies under the Old Testament, yes?
When he died, he didn’t go to heaven but Abraham’s Bosom with Christ.
Also, things that hadn’t happened
The “freedom” Protestantism gave us to all choose our own religion led to liberalism where we can choose our own gender.
Protestantism ➡️ Liberalism ➡️ Relativism ➡️ Nihilism
America wasn’t just a Christian nation at its founding—it was a Protestant nation.
May we be thankful for the reformation and all the freedom & prosperity it brought to the western world this thanksgiving. 🦃
One of the reasons I converted to Catholicism was that I was free to go be a Christian and not be doomed to spend the rest of my life trying to reinvent what Christianity is.
The freedom in just receiving the faith and living it.
Porn should be illegal.
The Catholic Church teaches it should be illegal.
It apes God and deforms the soul.
Let’s look at how porn corrupts your self-identity and perverts our love.
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Lust is a descent into the subhuman.
Purposeless and wallowing in effeminacy,
Spiritual and moral obesity are realities many miss—their self-discipline in some areas blinds them to their gluttony and sluggishness in others.
Great job to
@LilaGraceRose
of
@LiveAction
for bringing truth to this table. Well done.
Classical liberalism is just secularized Protestantism.
Atomized persons reject and reduce the traditions handed to them in favor of creating an agreement informed by consent and individual freedom.
Once people were taught they could create their own religion, all was game.
Our Cathedral was attacked today.
The man had a sword and what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail. Please pray for our brave employee who is in the hospital after confronting the attacker.
I just arrived home from the Cathedral. I’m proud of them all.
“The Eucharist is not a reward for the holy but medicine for the sick.”
Yes, but a soul in mortal sin is not sick, it’s dead. The Eucharistic remedy is for venial sin not mortal sin.
The Divine Physician gave us confession as a remedy for mortal sin.
“So we now know what gods the Dodger admin worships…”
Not sure who could deny that our battle today is not between religion and some “neutral secularism” but between competing religions.
God bless
@ArchCordileone
.
The goal of the spiritual life is not avoiding sin.
The goal of the spiritual life is to flourish, to ascend to God and have a mystical union with him *in this life*.
Avoiding sin is a part but not the whole.
Oklahoma approves a public charter for a *Catholic* school.
The charter enshrines the school’s religious liberties, including the ministerial exemption.
The first in the nation:
MARY IS THE NEW ARK OF THE COVENANT
5 reasons God made her the New Ark
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How should we read Scripture?
If we are going to read the Bible like our forefathers, like Dante or St. Thomas Aquinas, we have to understand allegory.
A good principle to understand Scripture:
There are no true relativists.
They are only relativists about the truths they want to tear down and destroy. They are absolutists on the truths they want to impose.
Relativism is always a trojan horse for power.
Read the Abolition of Man.
“The Eucharist is not a reward for the holy but medicine for the sick.”
Yes, but a soul in mortal sin is not sick, it’s dead.
The Eucharistic remedy is for venial sin not mortal sin.
Jesus gave us confession as a remedy for mortal sin.
The surrogacy-defenders view “natural law” as a religious concept.
Reminder:
Modern man is so divorced from the morality of nature and reason that when faced with having to obey a natural moral precept he declares he is being forced to become “Catholic.”
God is Goodness. And in His mercy He gives us small glimpses of His love for us. If you’re me, the greatest example of which is tiny babies. Praise be to God for our newest member, born Saturday ❤️
@HarrisonGarlic1
Happy feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas.
“He enlightened the church more than all the other doctors. By the use of his works a man could profit more in one year than if he studies the doctrine of others for his whole life.” John XXII
My friends, intellectual conversion comes *prior* to moral conversion.
Remember that knowledge comes before love! And love is prior to service.
Not all who truly believe “Christ is King!” have reconciled their morality with what their intellect knows to be true.
Be patient
"We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires."
Cardinal Ratzinger
This morning, our Republican AG will argue *against* our new Catholic, charter school, St. Isidore before the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Our AG wants the Church to give up her religious liberty, because of his concerns over Islam.
We do not predicate nor exercise the rights of the
Clerical dress is a sign.
And the priest and I wore our clerics in the midst of next day disaster recovery.
A few observations:
1. People came to us as a safe place to share their stories.
2. Law enforcement saw us as partners, etc., would stop to talk about the
I was honored to work alongside such fine people today.
Pray for the town of Barnsdall. They have a long road ahead.
Such good people. 🧵⬆️
(Video of when I pulled into town)
I thought I couldn’t love him any more than I did when we married on this day 13 years ago. I was wrong. I’ve loved him more every day since. Thanks be to God for marriage. ❤️