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Anglican Christian • Plumber • Teacher • Obl.S.B. • Seminarian (CTH) • Postulant (REC) • Writer • Manual Labor Apologist
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I’m excited to share my debut article with
@CTmagazine
! It combines themes I tweet about a lot: work, prayer, Basil, and Benedict, focusing on ways our work & prayer relate
Thanks to
@drewdyck
for suggesting and
@karabettis
for allowing it!! 🛠🙏🏼
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Astonishingly aesthetic chicken, a silver sebright bantam. 10/10 do want.
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We couldn’t find my youngest daughter as we were trying to leave this morning.
Checked the bathroom. Nope.
Checked the playground. Nope.
Checked the classrooms. Nothing.
Turns out she was before the sanctuary in prayer. I ju-
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We all need a timeline cleanse once in a while. Here’s a thread of cats with their monastic humans. Happy Caturday.
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I debated whether to share this or not but I think the pros outweigh the cons:
I am exactly one year sober from p*rnography & m*sturbation.
The longest I’ve gone without p*rn since I was 7 and without m*sturbation since I was 13. I’m 32 now.
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It’s
#BatAppreciationDay
which is as timely as ever since they’re being vilified and could probably use a little love! 1800s Japanese renderings of
#bats
are probably my favorite. Artists in order:
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Yamada Hōgyoku
Biho Takashi
Utagawa Hiroshige
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Spotted in the wild while in a customer’s home. Byzantine Catholics!!
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I grew up going to Christian bookstores and in all those years I never saw a single Church Father on the shelf smh
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@ElonMuskAOC
This morning. Yesterday. The day before that. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the day befo-…
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I’ve been working the last three Saturdays so it was nice to be able to wake up this morning and pray
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My church made the stations sensory: the kids washed their hands with Pilate, carried logs too big for them on their own, sipped apple cider vinegar, smelled myrrh oil on their fingers as they wrapped a cross in burial linens.
“…touched with the feeling of our infirmities…”
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I shared this a few days ago and it generated a lot of interest. I got with our Director of Community, Karisa Hughes, and asked if I could share what she so carefully crafted. She has graciously allowed me to share with y'all what she made:
a sensory Stations of the Cross🧵
My church made the stations sensory: the kids washed their hands with Pilate, carried logs too big for them on their own, sipped apple cider vinegar, smelled myrrh oil on their fingers as they wrapped a cross in burial linens.
“…touched with the feeling of our infirmities…”
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Blue scholars and laborer theologians, rise up
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@GodRemembrancer
She knew her family’s love and the prayers of the saints. You gave her a sweet life.
Until the resurrection, Elsie.
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@dieworkwear
I was the “metrosexual” kid in the 2000s at my junior high, a figure skater from 6-8 grade, and a cheerleader all four years of high school & got “Best Dressed”.
I’m also a plumber, married to a woman, and have two daughters.
Style and sexual orientation aren’t causally tied.
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My favorite philosopher, Matthew Crawford, has officially confirmed his conversion to Christianity.
Absolutely massive W.
Drop some Js in the chat for King Jesus.
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So take heart: God is able. Do not weary in doing good. Exert every effort to walk in holiness even when you don’t feel changed. Trust that He is doing His work in you.
Thanks be to our God and Savior Jesus Christ who joins us in our death and raises us to new life in Him.
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The thief to whom Jesus said, “This day you will be with Me in paradise,” called St Dismas by the church, is often pointed to by some as proof that we don’t need to be baptized
Hear me: he died with Christ
That’s what baptism *is*
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My dad transformed my daughters’ room at their house into an absolute fairytale, and now my mom’s gussied up the bedding for the holidays
Christmas Fantasymaxxing
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I encourage all Christians to carry cash. Even if it’s only a couple dollars or some spare change.
Jesus commanded that we give to everyone that asks of us, and I don’t know that “Lord, we’re a cashless society and she didn’t have Venmo” is going to cut it as an excuse.
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In years past, when I couldn’t sleep I would spend many dark hours searching out and watching porn
Now, by God’s exceeding grace, I cannot sleep but am reading the Apostolic Fathers and putting away the dishes. Alleluia.
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My younger daughter served for her first time as child Crucifer today, and I got to sit by her side to coach her through the liturgy.
She did a wonderful job! We gifted her a necklace to remind her of her liturgical role and Christian vocation: a carrier of Christ’s Cross.
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My wife got me flowers because she heard that most men don’t receive flowers at any point until their funeral and that made her sad
So here I am with my lil bouquet🥹🥰
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I know this risks being TMI on one hand and tooting my own horn on the other, but I share in order that other men & women who feel enslaved by their disordered passions may be encouraged and have hope in God.
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This morning we processed one mile through the parish surrounding our church. We asked God’s blessing on gardens, schools, children, police and firemen, businesses and the unemployed, families and the homeless and poor and neglected.
A blessed Rogationtide!
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I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the best way to evangelize is to just…be a Christian. Whole-heartedly, unabashedly, unapologetically.
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“The Word became flesh and picked up a hammer.”
- Pope John Paul II
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I didn’t work with my hands before I started plumbing. I didn’t want to.
I wanted to read books, study theology, write & preach sermons, pray with folks, pastor a church.
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The more I read Church History and the Church Fathers, the more stunned I become that any Christian body can exist without knowing them
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Kardashians?
Cappadocians.
Sts. Gregory, Gregory, and Basil.
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What’s an accidental tradition in your family? One that no one intended but by golly it happened and it’s here to stay.
When my youngest daughter was 3, we were driving away from my parents house, windows down, everyone saying “bye.” She goes, “SEE YA LATER, SUCKERS.”
It stuck.
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Your periodic reminder that there is only one form of Sexting approved by the Church
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And if I’m honest, I still don’t quite understand how I’ve remained sober as I’ve not really done anything different than I did before: Daily Office, Mass, mortifications, confession, etc.
But, by God’s grace and my poor best to cooperate with Him, I have resisted.
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A couple of powerful Anglican voices will be at my parish church this coming weekend to speak to us, pray with us, and, on Trinity Sunday, to worship with us
If you’re around Marietta, GA: you are warmly invited to Christ the King Anglican!
@calvinrobinson
@CPCollister
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The fact that the first people the Bible tells us are filled with God’s Spirit are craftsman, artisans, tradesman, clothing makers, artists? Unironically thrilling.
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It struck me this morning that "common" in "The Book of Common Prayer" is harmonic with the word "catholic".
Anglican Christians that dedicate themselves to prayer according to the BCP will have a life recognizable to both Orthodox and Roman Catholics.
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Welp: here goes.
Remember me during Ember Days from now on! Advent’s are around the corner!
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Just here to add to what will certainly be a prodigious ratio
If HOAs maintain a way of being human in which I cannot be in direct communion with the soil or the community that depends on it, I never want anything to do with HOAs
Here’s my trashy unkempt veggie yard or whatever
Thank god for HOA rules.
People wanting to grow veggies in their front yards, leaving trees untrimmed, not getting weed control treatments.
Parking dumb shit like trailers, boats and RVs in driveways. Doing work on cars in driveway.
I’ll never live in a neighborhood without
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Okay I’m not usually an Orthobro anime meme guy but I like this one, actually
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I spent years cycling between shame, acceptance, indulgence, and repentance, ad nauseam.
After a certain point, I genuinely didn’t think I could or ever would be free from it. I just didn’t see how it was possible. I’d read the books, watched the docs, knew the data.
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Communion must be bread and wine, actually.
The Nicene Creed is great, actually.
Epiphany is January 6th, actually.
Goodnight!
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Rode shotgun to a job with a guy who’s been exploring religions but was raised Christian. We had a big religion discussion earlier this morning. I asked him if he wanted to listen as I prayed Morning Prayer. He said yes. So I did.
That was cool.
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This isn’t the life I expected, but it’s turning out to be the life I prayed for.
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I bind unto myself today, The strong name of the Trinity: By invocation of the same, The Three in One and One in Three
Another L for Satan
Another W for Christ the King
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Happy Easter from the Marshalls to you and yours!
Christ is risen! Alleluia, alleluia!
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The “time for me to be a Christian again” starter kit (not pictured: Bible & Prayer Book).
It’s been a rough 8 months. Death, disillusionment, spiritual decay, overwhelming darkness. My whole being feels the need for the penitence and hope of Advent this year.
Pray for me.
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The half cow
Picked up a half-cow I bought from a ranch in the North GA mountains and had to swing through Helen to get back home, so it’s German food for lunch with my mom
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Some folks have asked for a “tour” of my prayer cabinet so here is a 🧵 to show each part and how I organize my space!
Here it is all closed up and unlit. 1/
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In my Orthodox Christian Prayer book, there is a prayer to be said upon leaving the house:
“I renounce Satan, and all his pride and all his service, and unite myself to thee, O Christ, in the name of Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
I like it. 1/
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My oldest daughter served God’s Church this morning as a crucifer, a liturgical fulfillment of her name - Evangeline, bearer of Good News. We got her a cross pendant both to commemorate the occasion & as a reminder that she bears this news every day of her life!
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My employer has graciously allowed me to host a "Plumbing Crash Course" for the men of my church, so I'll get to give them some of the skills I've learned over the years and (ideally) save them some money on home plumbing repairs in the future.
Working on it now. Stoked.
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My heart is surprisingly full this morning thinking about how many public figures are finding themselves in the arms of Jesus.
Kat von D and Hulk Hogan have recently received baptism. Shia LaBeouf was just confirmed as a Catholic and is reportedly discerning a vocation to Holy
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Just got word that my dad has bronchitis, the flu, and COVID.
In your charity, please pray for Jeff.
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Just got word that a friend died from Covid-related pneumonia. My wife is very worried now as she has the same thing & is getting noticeably worse.
Please keep her in your prayers & also pray for the repose of the soul of Daniel C. He died in faith.
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If Lent has been hard or disappointing; if you’ve broken your fast or ceased from the discipline you’d chosen to take up; if you’re tempted to give up rather than start again:
God is with you. He delights in you. Your weakness does not bother Him. Pray for strength & plod onward
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To remain human will be the true wealth
Begin now
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Photo of Satan taking the L
I got to photograph this baptism a couple Sundays back in Gesimatide. My wife is the usual photographer but she was home sick so I got to fill in and she edited.
Not pictured: parents & godparents going outside to spit on the world, flesh, & devil
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Please pray for my coworker, M. Baptized and raised Roman Catholic, he left the faith young. He went to Mass with his wife and kids for the first time in 20+ years a couple weekends ago. Felt like the homily was tailor-made for him. He’s now asking about the hope that is in me.
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My oldest daughter, with whom I’ve been learning how to knit, spent hours and hours, weeks and weeks, knitting this scarf for her Gram (my mom). They both wept in each others arms after my mom opened it.
Reader: I, too, cried.
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Now joining Kat von D in the “not on my baptism bingo card” category for 2023 is Hulk Hogan, who wore the customary white not only on his upper body but also on his head
Massive W
Welcome into Christ’s fold, beloved brother!
Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life. No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love!
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You think your life is hard.
I’m a breakfast-loving guy married to a breakfast-hating woman who brought two breakfast-hating daughters into the world.
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8 y/o: What’s the name of that one Christmas song? “Who’s That Baby”?
Me: Um, you mean “What Child is This”
6 y/o: I’VE ALREADY TOLD Y’ALL, IT’S DANG JESUS
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But does he worship God? Serve his neighbor? Cultivate virtue? Sin less and less? Make his epigenetically younger members instruments of righteousness?
Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year to be 18 years old again.
In 2021, he reduced his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months (a world record)
His 13-steps for a long healthy life:
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Don’t forget to say the Athanasian Creed in place of the Apostles’ Creed at Morning Prayer, brothers and sisters!
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It’s okay for priests to consecrate a gluten-free option. This is the first time in human history that people have developed an intolerance to gluten and the Church is supremely pastoral, aware of peoples’ needs and humble enough to meet them.
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Thank you for your prayers! God was kind.
Friends, remember me when you pray: I preach tomorrow’s homily for my church.
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This was not in my bingo card.
Prayers for endurance and growth in faith, hope, and love for the newly baptized in Christ!
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Showed up for Matins. The Cantor was going to be late. It was just me.
“Do you know how to chant?” Father asked.
“Yes, I chant a bit,” I replied.
“It seems God sent you then.” He gestured to the stands. “Start here.”
So that’s how I accidentally helped lead Orthodox Matins.
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