Fr-Faulkner
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Priest, high school teacher, and nerd. I like words, history, and philosophy. I love Totus Tuus.
Beatrice, NE
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Wait. Has “Avengers: Endgame” maybe not screened in Russia yet?
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In case anyone was wondering: it doesn’t really matter if racism is labeled a “pro-life issue” or not— it’s a grave sin, so stop doing it or go to hell in the literal sense.
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@reddirtgatekpr
@TheWapplehouse
But couldn’t she have just taken like, you know, a real fine arts class?
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Priest Move Day was Monday, so we turned out some cluttered corners and found some gems. The left pic is Christmas in the late 90s, and the right was last month.
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“The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belong to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not.”
—Basil the Great
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What if we survive COVID, only to learn that the real danger was the preternaturally strong, collective intelligence that is about to coalesce out of all these sourdough starters people have been growing during quarantine?
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@thebettinaarndt
When somebody asks if you understand Spanish (or French), you say “Un poquito” (or “un peu”) and make that hand signal. Or a thousand other times you need to convey “just a bit” using hand signs.
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My opinions are formed by the New Testament and the Church Fathers. But you are correct: I do, in fact, believe that Black lives matter.
@fr_faulkner
@austeni
So disappointing. I followed you happily because I thought I could rely on TLM priests to be faithful. Scrolled through and found pro BLM-Democrat crap. With all due respect, Fr, and considering your opinions are informed by the media, unfollowed.
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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ABANDON PATRICK AND CHRISTIANITY
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It’s impressive that they hiked and camped up that far. But it’s even more impressive that people were saying Mass thousands of years before the Incarnation.
🧵Lepanto Institute President, Michael Hichborn, recently climbed to the top of Mt. Ararat with a group of friends. While on the summit, he and his group held the first Catholic Mass on the Summit of the Mountain since Noah exited the Ark.
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Holy crap. Of COURSE he knew they were being killed. That's why he acted to save many Jews in Italy. And why the Chief Rabbi of Rome afterward commended him for it. What a flawed headline.
Pope Pius XII, accused of silence during the Holocaust, knew Jews were being killed, researcher says
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Starting a thread: HIGH ALTAR at St. Wenceslaus, Wahoo, Nebraska:
1) Arrival
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Dangit, people, it’s an idiom. “Essential” in “essential services” is not a philosophical, theological, or even a perfect Maslowian sense of “essential”. It means “If we’re on lockdown, what things do we need to minimize deaths, riots, & black markets, and yet limit contact.”
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@1_adrien
This dude trying to get free phone sex by acting like a men's rights activist. Phew. That's quite the hustle.
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Hey, I know there are plenty of people on here who love Tradition incl. the Latin Mass, Extraordinary Form but who also recognize the evil of racism & see its systematic presence. I don’t want to presume to name people, but put your name (& friends’?) below to edify Tim & others.
@fr_faulkner
I think you’ll find the union of Twitter’s Latin-massers and those who think Black Lives Matter is close to a null set. Sorry.
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@finalsoundcheck
@jacksondame
@kirkfranklin
I have a feeling he wouldn’t have been cut off though if he was bringing up abortions, Christians in the Middle East, religious freedom, or praising the President.
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I ordered my niece this coloring book for her birthday. Big pictures, few words. And then it started getting WEIRD. When “Guadalupe loves Frida” is one of the least weird things, I knew my niece was not going to receive this book!
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15 years ago today I celebrated Mass for the first time, in the Ordinary Form. Today I’ll celebrate it for the first time in the Extraordinary Form. I’ve got some explaining to do, and some apologizing, and both are in this blog below.
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Just leaving a wedding consisting of a beautiful bride and groom and their exactly eight family members, and I can tell you, friends: It was good. Maybe the coolest one I’ve been to.
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Simple. Catholics say “uh-GUS-tin”, Protestants say “AUG-us-steen”. Cool?
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Holy crap. Did all of America suddenly switch from sourdough starter-ing to kimchi brewing this weekend?? Are we just a rotation of fermenting and brining processes anymore? Dare I hope that in mid-May everyone is gonna start making whiskies?
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Side altars are just so good. Beautify the whole place, give people a place for devotions, and priests can do private Masses without making it awkward for everybody or blocking the Blessed Sacrament. 100% win.
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Heard confessions tonight & when I exited it felt like Good Friday night. But Eucharist, candles, cloths, were all there. Somehow it was palpable that this time the Bride was gone, the Body. Every year we lose the Head & Groom but tonight you could feel the Bride was locked away.
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@RVAwonk
Can you imagine if If a group of middle-aged black guys showed up with semiautomatic guns in front of the school and hung out day after day?
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I am utterly impressed that in a single day a person could pull ratios of 20:1, 40:1, and 50:1.
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@bropostle
I know I’m loved.
I realize how merciful he is.
I just can’t believe he’d do this for me.
I can do nothing except trust.
I look at him and he looks at me.
I want to stay with him always.
I’m without words.
I see my sins, and yet his mercy too.
I have no other hope.
I trust in you
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Happy Snow Day from St. Joseph Church in Beatrice, Nebraska!❄️🎉📚
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I’m hungry.
I want tacos.
I know the place whence I want tacos.
The places whence I want tacos is 3 ½ blocks from here.
Why am I not getting up to go get tacos?
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It’s hard to ask for personal prayers on a day like Beirut had today, but nonetheless I could use them myself if you have a sec.
(This picture is “Hope” by George Frederic Watts, a great picture for a hurting world.)
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Trying out some of the filters on my new camera: Trad, Wed, Glow, and Glister.
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<Opens loot crate>
“Let’s see! Umm... 200 miraculous medals. 50 rosaries. Uh, 4 Scott Hahn books. And a First Communion dress??”
So last night our bookstore in Chicago was looted.
I'll bet people were really disappointed when they got home and found that all they had to show for it was a handful of religious books.
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People who’ve been waiting 10 months for Fall to get going again:
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School back in-session means the 1st Adoration Club with the new high altar today.
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@DavidJollyFL
@soledadobrien
They can do this. It’s allowed. But I’m glad they are saying it aloud and so regularly, and I hope their constituents remember it and vote them out for it.
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@Popehat
@alexwagner
DM: you’ll stay focused in the interview. Roll a 10 or above.
Me: <rolls a 2>
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@JonEHecht
@rowast
Same people that lecture blacks in the NFL that they should be thanking white America for the opportunity to become millionaires (in exchange for CTE).
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Whenever “TLM ban” topics come up, there’s inevitably good-hearted folks who say “I know it’d be hard to lose your local, but this is a call to assimilate to a different Mass/parish and be a leaven & help make it beautiful from the inside.” But here’s why that mostly won’t work:
@GREGORIVS253
@FrTotleben
@JLLiedl
.This is something I wanted to agree with in July ‘21. Unlikely then & crazy now.
For even a tiny traddening, former TLMers must convince the local pastor (possible), but when ~10 families are coming from a TLM church to his 2500-family parish, is he likely to start antiphons 1/x
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@peternguyenn
is always saying we need more color in the Church. (And he shows regularly that even bright color can look holy/solemn instead of gaudy/girl.) Peter, what do we think of this? I think it works.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus was built in 1894 in Idaikattur, Tamil Nadu, South India as an Indianized replica of the Rheims Cathedral in France.
Its stain glass artwork highlights the life of St. John de Britto who was martyred in Tamil Nadu in the 1600s.
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Good King Wenceslaus looking out from his new turret on the Feast of Stephen.
(Sorry, I was morally obliged to do this, given my position.)
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Do you want 32 zombie feral hogs? Because this how you get 32 zombie feral hogs.
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@JacquesGallant
@gztstatistics
@TorontoStar
I thought this was considered a solid first date in Canada.
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@adamsteinbaugh
@Popehat
When you want to play libertarian, but all you’ve got is authoritarian costumes and props.
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In two hours we’re gonna have the first Solemn High Mass in this church in 50 years (and probably way more). Say a prayer for the minds and hearts of the musicians, servers, all parishioners, deacon, subdeacon, and the slightly-overwhelmed priest!
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Hey Gringos: You don’t have to be Mexican to have an ofrenda on Nov. 2. It’s a great way to teach kids who liked “Coco” about All Souls. There’s no requirement that you use skulls and bright colors; just get pictures, decorate according to taste &teach about prayers for the dead!
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tfw the 80-something man in the front row at the nursing home Mass says his “My Lord and My God” (x3) at the Consecration just quiet enough that the bells hide it, but just loud enough that you as the priest can hear it. That.
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Just said “comma” in the middle of a voicemail I was leaving someone like it was a voice-to-text, so now I need to go crawl in a hole and die.
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@ianvanheusen
Yeah if someone says “I’m a cradle Catholic and I…” I want to know your age: If you’re 75+, I know what you learned & saw growing up. If you’re 40-60yo, I don’t doubt your sincerity, but even if you’ve never stopped practicing, I know how little we learned & saw then. Grain o’🧂
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@CharlemagnumPI
His “I discovered much later that I actually liked books” is telling. There are so many books that I hated at 11 or 15 or even 22 (often started & gave up) that I loved when I read them 10, 5, or even just 3 years later.
I think you’re right: he couldn’t have done Iliad at 14.
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Wouldn’t it be hilarious if everyone was focused on avoiding pandemics or riots or civil war or rising oceans, & God just decided at like 10am on a Tuesday he was gonna end the universe? He’s like “I told you ‘anytime’. Why’d you think your apocalypse timeline was same as mine?”
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@RogerDylan8
@KatiePrejean
I heard a good take that people who want a “quiet Mass, to pray uninterrupted” are admirable, but what they need is a holy hour. Do a weekly holy hour to get in that quiet focused extended prayer. And then come to Mass to worship with the whole church, incl kids & the handicapped
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@michaeljknowles
@seccathaholic
More importantly, it’s not the OK sign in this case, it’s a “three point shot made” sign
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So, we added three Masses to the weekend so we’d be certain we could keep SocDist. Normally our earliest Sunday is 7:30, but 47 people came out for the new 6:30am Mass and I’m pretty darn proud of them.
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In case anyone needs clarification, that is not the Christian position. ⬇️🚫
"Sacrifice the Weak" – imagine not just thinking of this but actually writing it out AND taking it out on the street in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Started class by apologizing to my all-girl class that yesterday was poorly planned, poorly executed, and I had blamed them. They took it, but asked why so formal? I said b/c it’s fair, but also cuz I doubt you often get apologies from adults, esp men. And heads in unison nodded.
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We priests have GOT to move people away from the “2 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Marys” penances as soon as we can in their formation, and constantly point to this moment as a place of growth and a new beginning of goodness.
@traceitback
@FMesstm
@foundationif
Ok, let me just say, I’m sorry you were so constantly given HMs & OFs for penance. I purposely only ever give that to 2nd and 3rd grade. All other ages get “Pray in your own words to the H. Spirit and ask for strength against X that you confessed” or for hope and courage, or...
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If you groan about “dad jokes” but you love the perfect date/April 25 joke from Miss Congeniality, realize that’s a dad joke, just told by somebody prettier than Dad.
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Tacos are flawless. God in His wisdom couldn’t give one civilization all the good things, so for 1500 years, until world travel began, the old world had Jesus alone and the new world had tacos alone. In His mercy though, God let us find each other and share both. The end.
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Don’t make sin so cute then?
Guys, you’re not supposed to identify with the Sin Goats, plz stop
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Huge thanks to my classmate Fr. Kelly for coming to celebrate Candlemas for me yesterday. And thank you all for all your 100s of prayers. 😘
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We hear regularly that TLM-ers distrust & oppose this pontificate. Maybe that’s true. But at least in America, the vast majority of Catholics frustrated with Francis are suburbanites/rurals, who watch a mix of CNN and FOX, and have only attended Mass in English the last 50 years.
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Theology Twitter is good, especially for learning.
Theology Debate Twitter is ok, but risky.
Multi-denominational theology roadhouse fight with no shared premises Twitter is a flaming trash dump with no redeeming qualities.
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I'm a celiac & a priest. This is off. The Catholic Church has always rejected gluten-FREE bread. Low-gluten is fine
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@NakedWonderr
@Rogan_OReilly
@Nabeyin
@Antisocial_Kwan
@1_adrien
This might be reasons
#4000382
-4000399. There's a lot in one.
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Good news. I did the thing I have been directly avoiding for two days and indirectly for many weeks. It took <10 minutes. And my awareness of not having done it yet ruined every free moment of time for the last 48 hours. Cheers.
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Boy. The Boomers are being very Boomery today, and booming on and on about their Boomerism. And being very anti-family on the Feast of the Holy Family. Much sadness.
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We don’t talk enough about how great the risk of despair is for people with chronic illness, chronic pain, undetermined diagnoses, etc., nor how much one of the graces from the Anointing of the Sick is courage and hope when that despair is threatening. These are real.
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@creid815
@ryanavent
@mattyglesias
@JamesSurowiecki
Also, very few people alive today **literally remember** 1929 and the Great Depression, but everybody “remembers” the Depression as a thing. Hell, it’s kind of the entry level concept for the OP’s discussion.
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@RadioFreeTom
One of my most loudly conservative friends in my seminary (and no, not a libertarian, but actually conservative) really freaked out when watching news conference when Bush announced DHS founding. He said, “This is always the first step in something that’ll always get abused.”
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Yes, the Church has been hurting this month. On the other hand we had 20 servers and two acolytes at the 9 o’clock mass this morning at St. Wenc.
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In Dec when we got the high altar I picked up a chunk of new followers and starting then I got lazy about vetting any followers on whether to follow back, so I think I’m just gonna follow everybody back and then if I conclude your tweets are crazy, I’ll unfollow. Seems easiest.
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Did Lifesite News just go full schism here? Hopefully it’s just an overzealous Headline Editor who didn’t think about the implications of that one.
2020 election is Trump/Viganò vs. Biden/Francis for future of global order
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This is cute. My question is: why aren’t extrajudicial killing and police overreach conservative/religious causes?
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