The Four Marks
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Gen X guy who finally rejected the gay lifestyle and now gladly submits to the teachings of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Gab: @thefourmarks
Chicago, IL
Joined August 2012
@chicagosmayor If only so many guns didn’t grow up in broken homes, without their gun fathers, they might be less violent & contribute more to making society safe, stable, & moral.
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Does anyone recall a brief period during the pandemic when sea shanties became popular? Coworkers claim that happened, I’ve been accused of being “in denial.”.
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I've started and stopped/deleted, started and stopped/deleted tweets about what happened today. But this sums it up best.
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Pagan Aztec dance ritual recently performed in St Mary of the Lake church in Chicago’s Uptown
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@realJoelFischer @Uman85 It was her husband, not a random stranger, & police arrested him & charged him with murder.
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Letter word counts.Bp Morlino VS Cd Cupich.Sin-Morlino 44 / Cupich 0.Jesus-Morlino 1 / Cupich 0.Heaven-Morlino 1 / Cupich 0.Homosexuals-Morlino 6 / Cupich 0.Clericalist mindset-Morlino 0 / Cupich 1.Policies-Morlino 0 / Cupich 6.Pray-Morlino 6 / Cupich 1.God-Morlino 6 / Cupich 0.
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@ArchCordileone God bless you, archbishop! May the Holy Spirit inspire in Nancy Pelosi true sorrow, repentance, and atonement
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@CatholicSmark I am a celibate same sex attracted male, albeit one who doesn't struggle with Church teaching on my intrinsically disordered inclination. I think the papal claimant's remarks are totally fine. They don't "impugn my dignity." It's no big deal.
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Due to circumstances I had to attend a Novus Ordo on Sunday. Some observations follow.
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@Synod_va @GrechMario @LMarinOSA @SrNatB @austeni @rafluciani @davidmccallumsj It is a scandal to the faithful that you share & endorse drawings that include “LGBTQ+ IDENTITY” on them as “real works of art.” Shame on you. Repent and atone.
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@CardinalBCupich It’s not holy. To call a false religion’s observances “holy” is blasphemous.
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Don’t mess with Ukrainian Byzantine Catholics and their holy water on the feast of the Epiphany. (Found this 1968 Chicago Tribune article while researching Epiphany parish)
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Today marks the one year anniversary of Cupich's "Novus Ordo ONLY on First Sundays" Traditiones Custodes policy, a day when many of us leave the Roman Rite, or the archdiocese, sometimes the state of Illinois, to validly fulfill our Sunday obligation
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@MrCasey62 How many priests are we missing because they were never allowed to be born, let alone conceived? 😔.
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@PillarCatholic That Blase Cupich will experience conversion, acquire supernatural faith, & profess belief in the Real Presence of the Eucharist. Lord, hear our prayer.
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@FrDarinSchmidt It’s like some sort of natural … law or something, ya know? Imprinted on the human heart? hmm.
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Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus;.of St Macarius the Younger. Holy Name Cathedral, Near North, Chicago, 1949
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@NoTrueScotist @SeanWolfe89 “…all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls…”.
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Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal;.of St Maximinus
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@CardinalBCupich Ramadan is not a “holy month.“ May is the month of Our Lady. But you omit any mention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, in this video.
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I watched the full Barron-LaBeouf interview on YouTube last night. Extraordinary. Was 1h 20m long and worth sitting through. Kudos to Fr Barron for keeping interjections/interruptions to a minimum & just letting Shia talk. Thank you St Pio for interceding for his conversion!.
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@SitoAbsichten @consciousphilos He did not intend or will suffering, but He must permit it, because He is love, He made us to love Him, and love requires freedom, including the freedom to reject love. You can’t force someone to love you; that’s called rape.
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@CityJournal @RorateCaeli @realchrisrufo They’ve been doing this for 3 years and we’re only hearing about it now?.
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@QasOnline @enternoon And you know they’d never get those divine acoustics in a modernist architecture style church.
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@CWBChicago This is what happens when a culture chooses to embrace moral degeneracy & delude itself into thinking there’ll be no consequences if 80% of a community’s babies are born to unwed mothers.
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Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1929 group photo of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Society at Immaculate Conception parish (now Immaculate Conception and St Michael) in South Chicago, Chicago
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@robkoons @CCityCatholic May Our Lady of Lourdes intercede for its restoration and the defeat of Christ's enemies.
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@ArchCordileone Thank you for your pastoral, compassionate approach. This is what a father must do for his children, what a shepherd must do for his flock. May God bless you!.
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You’d think a revival that inspires young Catholics to not sleep in on Sunday, to wake up early, dress up, drive (often with their many children) to offer adoration, thanksgiving, atonement, & petition to God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass would be praised & encouraged.
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@FrEdwardLooney @nataliepucillo Maybe we should let subsidiarity play out here & she should approach the priest one-on-one first to reconcile this, before pulling a Karen and speaking to his manager?.
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Sexagesima Sunday.Feast of the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order;.of St Eulalia. The Shrine Altar of the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order in Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago
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All your life, your parents' lives, you grandparents’ lives, your ancestors' lives going back centuries, it's been a mortal sin to eat meat on Fridays. Until one Friday it suddenly isn't. How that must have shaken the faith of Catholics & opened up so much doubt ☹️.
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Feast of St Didacus;.of St Stanislaus Kostka. St Stanislaus Kostka, Noble Square, Chicago, 1913.Est 1867. Once the largest US parish (45k). Once the largest elementary school on earth (5k). A priest at St Stan's invented the bulletproof vest.
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St Patrick’s is considered the mother church of all Irish parishes in Chicago. Undated photo of the original sanctuary & altars
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@father_rmv @RorateCaeli So many priestly vocations lost to the “clericalism” of the Zanchettas, McCarricks, Bergoglios of the Church
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@jmalanchar1 @father_rmv A priest stands in persona Christi Capitis and represents Christ the Bridegroom to the Church within and without the liturgy. It is intrinsically impossible for a homosexual to do so.
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@PillarCatholic The Vatican punishing Syro-Malabar priests for refusing to offer sacrifice ad orientem. Meanwhile in the Roman Rite… 😔.
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@CardinalBCupich @americamag The sensus fidelium rejected the Freemason-designed liturgy associated with the Second Vatican Council. You are closing parishes & schools, not opening them.
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@S_Armaticus @WUWTS @MahoundParadise @SteveSkojec @CMReport @j_sullivan @Katrina_FIFY @ALucieSmith @BruvverEccles @brmartin91 @JZmirak @Johnthemadmonk @LeoTheLess @TheCrushedBones @remnantnews @ValiantWoman45 Left: What young Catholics want.Right: What old Catholics want young Catholics to want
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@CardinalBCupich So this is where the laity’s Annual Appeal donations go? International trips, during a pandemic? One week after hirelings announced 46 parishes to merge or close July 1?.
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@Goalisheaven1 I went thru an atheist phase at that age. My parents didn’t care. They said, “You live under our roof? You play by our rules” & I had to go to Mass.
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@matt_angelone LOL @ "Also, no one was ever fat." That cracked me up, but it's true. My family has home movies going back decades & it's jarring, even as recently as the early 80s, a vacation at Disney World, to see how "flat stomached" Americans USED to be.
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@acatholiclife @ICKSP God bless the Institute. May Christ strengthen Canon Talarico to persevere until the defeat of His enemies & the glorious restoration.
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The “priest” interjected his personal commentary & own prayers throughout. Through. Out.
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114 years ago today, Fr James Bourke died, just a year after his ordination. I don't know anything about him. But someone loved him and his brief priesthood enough to have this magnificent tombstone carved in his memory
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Every day, 275,000 motorists pass this Divine Mercy image along the Northwest Expressway (I-90/94) in Chicago
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Feast of the Dedication of St Michael the Archangel (Michaelmas). St Michael, Old Town, Chicago.Est 1852.Destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.Relocated and rebuilt 1873
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@ErikReed @KorbinianOpn @SethDillon Bravo, well done! I saw this meme around the time Dobbs came out
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Today we drove to ICKSP’s oratory at St Joseph in Hammond, IN. It’s a block from the state line and Chicago ArchD-Gary Diocese border. Half the license plates in the parking lot were from Illinois. Inside was overflowing with young families.
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St Thomas' sanctuary gates were removed after the 1960s but recently reinstalled
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Commemoration of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Friday in Passion Week. Chicago police officers fill Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in 1957
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Intact high altar topped by statue of St Michael the Archangel. St Michael's in Old Town, Chicago
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Sadness for the death of a parish & church. Leaving St Adalbert's final Mass
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@StephanieSipe @CrisisMag A male who sexually preys on minors who are also male is still a homosexual. He is attracted to other males. That’s what homosexuality is.
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Cupich denies Tridentine mass permission to 4 of the 7 parishes offering it; Only Cantius, maybe St Peter’s (Volo) authorized for 1-2 years, ICKSP status unknown; 4 parishes permitted to replace TLM w/ Novus Order in Latin, ad orientem.
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The “priest” ad-libbed words into the Gospel here & there that are not in the text.
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I did not go up to receive the Eucharist because I knew kneeling & reception on the tongue probably wouldn’t have been permitted.
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After the banal homily which included trying to teach the congregation (audience?) a Spanish song, he sat down in silence for a few minutes. Then arose, stood in center of sanctuary, lifted up his chasuble & showed off his socks to laughter.
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@RCAnnaKate But nobody looks askance at Olympic athletes for devoting countless hours to training, limiting their diet, giving up a "normal" social life and relationships, etc. .
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Our Lady of Czestochowa enshrined at Mary's altar (surrounded by relics on All Saints Day) at @SJCantius
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I don't remember where I found this, but I eventually made a printout of it & framed it, to remind me what my sins caused.
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The Gloria was not the normal Gloria. It was a vaguely similar variation sung to the tune of Angels We Have Heard on High.
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@CardinalBCupich How does encounter with, say, Satanists enrich us as Catholics & grow our faith?.
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The “priest” began the Gospel saying: ”Sisters, brothers, the Lord be with you”.
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@washingtonpost @RorateCaeli Story laden with Catholicophobic bigotry. God bless the Coloradan laity behind this purification charism.
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The “priest” came out & made a joke about Notre Dame & the Bears. He then told everyone to stand up & wish people around them a happy new year.
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“Priest” announced his brother & sister-in-law were bringing up “the gifts.” When they reached the foot of the altar, “priest” took out his smartphone & they took a selfie.
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@PadreInAtlanta @MModsiw Encouraging mortal sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance and may result in eternal damnation is the opposite of loving your neighbor.
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Pentecost Thursday.Feast of St Anthony of Padua. St Anthony of Padua, Bridgeport, Chicago, 1913.Established for German Catholics in 1873, St Anthony's stood at McGregor & Hanover (now 24th & Canal in Chinatown). The building was demolished shortly after these photos were taken
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"Quite frankly, they also don’t like him because he’s a Latino." --Cupich in 2018, on Bergoglio's critics.
Brazilian Bishop: Vatican Document on ‘Same-Sex’ Blessings Cannot Be Applied in Diocese - CatholicVote org.
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2nd Sunday of Lent.Feast of St Patrick;.of St Joseph of Arimathea;.of Bl John Sarkander. St Patrick Catholic Church (Old St Pat’s), West Loop, Chicago, circa 1850s-60s
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And at what point does all that ad-libbing invalidate the mass? Is it, “Well he got the consecration correct & sorta followed the general outline” considered “good enough?”.
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St Joseph in Hammond, IN. The Diocese of Gary parish church served as an oratory of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest until recently.
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The Nicene Creed was not said. The priest asked the audience to affirm their baptismal vows & reply “I do” as he asked 3 questions. (“Do you believe blah blah blah…”).
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@canonlawyered To think some people smirked 12 years ago when there were warnings about Obamacare death panels.
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@EdwardPentin Cd Kasper's in a corner somewhere muttering to himself, "They should not tell us too much what we have to do".
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@JamesMartinSJ So his/your morality ultimately comes down to, “Everyone is their own God and their own Pope with their own magisterium. Do whatever you want.”.
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@johnntremain @rioiiano And it doesn’t drive a block, stop, wait, drive another block, repeat. And no human waste on the floors. No bodily secretions on the seating. Surfaces you need to grab or grasp aren’t oily.
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The Alleluia was just the choir singing “Alleluia” to a preschool melody with no psalm. Not sure if that’s normal in the Novus Ordo. Can’t remember.
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@catholicpat @DarenZehnle If only we had portable computers that fit in our pockets which could run an application that automatically displays all that info in the right order for us
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