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Texan. Jesuit. Priest. PhD candidate in philosophy @SLU_Official . Views expressed are my own.

St. Louis, MO
Joined January 2012
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
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“‘If you knew that on one of the stars there is a flower that wants to be tended by you, the whole sky would be different for you.’ [...] This flower exists; the Lord is there on that star of ours, and the whole sky is different because we are expected.” #MorningBXVI
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“Miami University in Oxford, Ohio” is one plot twist after another
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If your peer review system can't catch "the occupation of Hank Hill is unspecified," you need new referees
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Mr. T is dropping theological truths, MC Hammer is dropping philosophical truths, and I’m just glad I’m alive to see it
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The perfect reply doesn’t exi—
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@grethaie Sheer cultural osmosis should tell everyone on the planet two things: 1) This show is set in Texas; 2) Hank Hill sells propane
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The British monarch proclaiming to the realm the words of a Jesuit. We are so back. Guy Fawkes could never imagine how back we are.
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King Charles III reciting Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'God's Grandeur.' The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
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Undergrads are calling Aquinas “Big ‘Nas” and…I think I’m going to encourage it
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Aquinas would actually say Biles is being quite humble in being truthful regarding her abilities
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Simone Biles having zero humility about her ability is exactly my kinda carrying on.
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If you see an “I’m Catholic now!” tweet, you have to smash the fave button. This is the ironclad law of Catholic Twitter
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Once again, I am really impressed that God does not simply smite us
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New in NYC: A cube made from $11.7 million worth of solid gold is sitting in Central Park—and has its own security detail:
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Good to know
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This is the most gloriously unhelpful index entry I have ever seen (Why does it stop at p. 495? Because the book is only 495 pages long)
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This is why we need kids at Mass. You think some adult is going to shout “it’s blood time” when it is, in fact, blood time?
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2yo cheerily announced "IT'S BLOOD TIME" when he heard the chimes at mass
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That’s a solid day, right there
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Last week, I was a judge for a student competition to see who could come up w/ the best analogy for the Trinity. Heresies were an automatic DQ.
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Louisana: Ok, we’re going to fill a crop duster with holy water and bless this whole place Lebanon: Just holy water? How cute...
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This weekend @AFP flew with Lebanese Christian Maronite priest Majdi Allawi as he took to the skies above #Beirut to bless the crisis-hit country and protect it from the Coronavirus as fears of its spread spike | #COVID ー19
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Homeroom by homeroom, yesterday I got to bless all the 8th graders on their class retreat at Jesuit with relics of the North American Martyrs #BestJobEver
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If the UK parliament is dissolved while the US government is shut down, the Jesuit State automatically takes global power
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Chick-Fil-A out there doing the Lord’s work
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Chick-fil-A to serve fish sandwich, nuggets for Lent

Good news for those planning to give up meat for Lent! You won't have to give up eating at Chick-fil-A too.The fast food chain will bring back its seasonal menu items made with cod fish beginning Ash...

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Friend 1: What movie character do you identify with? Me: Jack Aubrey, from Master and Commander Friend 2: Is that a musical? Me, having an epiphany: Not yet…
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My favorite line by Graham Greene: “You cannot conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God”
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One little typo and now half of Catholic Studies thinks I’m about to grill hotdogs in my office
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New Mary painting just arrived
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When St. Francis Borgia was still Duke of Gandia, he wrote to St. Ignatius about how much he was praying, and Ignatius wrote back scolding him for praying so much—as a duke, ppl depend on him for governance and justice, and spending multiple hours in prayer takes away from that
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Shouldn’t a vow of poverty be *within reason* if you’re not part of a religious order? Especially if you have young children who are not within the age of reason to consent to something like that- as the head of a household should you not keep in mind your state in life?
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To avoid calling priests “father,” we will now use a system based on calling clerics “papa” Priest=papa Deacon=little papa Bishop=big papa Archbishop=real big papa Cardinal=red papa Pope=absolute papa Problem solved
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Four-year-olds Medieval theologians 🤝 Asking ALL the questions
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Cardinals! At the Vatican!
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Unusual activity at the Vatican as reports break that Pope Francis may be about to resign. (And we are there!)
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Robert De Niro, as a Jesuit priest in The Mission. Challenged to a duel by a slave trader, he declines, and the other guy accuses him of hiding behind the protection of his priestly collar. De Niro’s response? “You think this collar protects me? This collar protects YOU!”
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cinesthetic.
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name THE hardest line in all of fiction.
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Just for scale, this is the size of the monstrance that is about to process by boat down the Bayou Teche to commemorate Mary’s Assumption
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In two weeks we continue our Eucharistic Revival in Louisiana w/ 8:00 am Mass @ St. Joseph Cathedral on Wednesday, August 14th w/ Bishop Duca followed by the Fete Dieu du Teche Eucharistic Procession w/ the largest monstrance in the world on the Mississippi River.
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I would love to change the calendar of saints so that the day after Christ the King is always Miguel Pro
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The three astrophysicists, three lawyers, two medical doctors, two chemists, the historian, and the Rhodes scholar I’ve lived in religious community with would all like a word
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TOM the Greek Atheist
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I'm sorry there is no possible way that you can be intelligent and be religious.
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My ecclesiology in a nutshell
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I myself have a passion for reading Shakespeare in the original Klingon
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Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.
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Reading the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, in Hebrew. This text’s word choices give a significantly different picture of Jesus, than do English translations from Greek or Latin. This Gospel depict a Jewish rabbi engaged in recognizably Jewish scholarly activities, and the later
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Because the Jesuits don't need to name a nation after ourselves to control it
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Everyone is always so quick to say that studying the Middle Ages isn’t relevant until the Lord Mayor of Pittsburg needs to raise archers to manage the Crown Stags
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The City of Pittsburgh is partnering with the @USDA to host a Deer Management Pilot Program with archery-controlled hunts in Frick and Riverview Parks during the 2023-2024 deer archery season.
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Florida Man sets wild animal loose on children after they mock his bald spot
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If you’re wondering why I don’t believe in intricate and well-executed Jesuit conspiracies, it’s because I’ve seen Jesuits open a carton of milk
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To whichever Jesuit opened this: I sincerely hope this is the biggest struggle you face today. #communitylife
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In the Tower of London, you will find etchings made by Jesuits like Campion, Southwell, and companions. This is what they prayed with to prepare for their martyrdom
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On July 31st, 1556, St. Ignatius died here—not in his bedroom, but his private chapel. He was moved here by his brother Jesuits so that he could die in the presence of Jesus in the Tabernacle. Even to his death, Ignatius had a great love of the Eucharist
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The New Orleans airport has a store where arriving gentlemen can immediately outfit themselves with a seersucker suit, bow tie, and straw hat (sundresses likewise available for the ladies), and I just think that’s beautiful
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Josef Pieper’s claim that leisure safeguards human dignity has practical implications. Among other things, it lets us say “you are more than your productivity,” which lets us tell a 5th grader “it is good that you exist”
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Dennis Prager complains about a school sign reading 'The world is better because you are in it': "What a stupid message. Plus it's not true. What has any 5th grader done to have made the world better because he or she is in it?"
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Yes. Every sinner can come to me expecting nothing but God’s mercy. What you tell me in confession goes in a deep dark hole to die, never to be seen again. And that’s that.
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If you confess you murdered someone to a priest, your secret is protected by the Catholic law.
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A friend just sent me this photo from the library at University of New Orleans It would seem that the raccoons are learning. And I, for one, welcome our raccoon overlords
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Moments like these make me miss New Orleans
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Glad to discover today that saying your second Mass is significantly easier than your first Mass
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What if I told you 1st Century Palestinians were reasonably familiar with how death works?
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“Our removal makes more sense if King’s College Evensong were simply a concert held in a building that used to be a chapel”
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I just heard confessions for an hour and I already feel 100x better about the world
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Yet another reason to forswear all earthly glory
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The world's most successful people start their day at 4 a.m.
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August 14th, 2005—today marks 16 years as a Jesuit, and (as of tomorrow) 14 years in vows. Deo gratias!
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I kinda want to make this book a reality
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Two hundred students came to our sodality Mass this evening. Two. Hundred. Students.
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I really do like the bishop in the story of Juan Diego. The man clearly has an open-office policy allowing a peasant like Diego to see him in the first place, he’s cautious in scrutinizing an apparition, and when he gets confirmation, he accepts the vision for what it is
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We truly have much to learn from the Middle Ages
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Medieval 'wine windows' are reopening, reviving Italian plague tradition
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Liturgical trivia: on #GoodFriday , the bishop does not wear his episcopal ring at services, because today the Church is a widow
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Put some guac in front of me and see how fast I bless it
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“You may think past ages were good, but it is only because you are not living in them” —St. Augustine
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Aquinas was hilariously blunt about the first purpose of incense in the liturgy
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Swinging censer at Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Spain—which has a capacity of 1,200 people. The cathedral has used it since the 11th century originally to clean the air when crowds of pilgrims having completed the Camino de Santiago arrived in the cathedral after their
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On this day in 1866, Gerard Manley Hopkins was received into the Catholic Church by St. John Henry Newman
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Aquinas would have been awful at Twitter. Never sarcastic or insulting, patient to understand, gentle in correcting, more apt to ask questions than give hot takes. A solid counter-balance for anyone on Twitter, and a good patron saint of Twitter
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The Big Book of Jesuit Tricks: Volume I
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Tonight, I saw seven people baptized and another 12 confirmed. Nineteen new Catholics. The Church is alive, the Holy Spirit is at work, and JESUS IS RISEN, Y’ALL!
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I’m a priest w/ a psych degree and I endorse this take
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hot take, go to therapy AND confession because they're two different experiences for two different sicknesses
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The CDC is now recommending that fully vaccinated people still need to repent and submit to the pope
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Student 1: If Ouija boards expose you to demons, why can you find them at Target? Seems pretty dangerous to sell Me: Dunno. I guess since they keep making money and there’s no social pressure not to Student 2: So capitalism is exposing people to demons? Me: ...In this case, yes
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Give general absolution like crazy
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Would you know what to do during a nuclear attack? Most Americans don't
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Many such cases
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Romeo and Juliet’s love is bad and they are not to be admired
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I’m currently huddled with chem majors figuring out how to make blue incense smoke on Marian feasts. Really, I have the best job
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Macron is finding out that women can be educated AND have lots of kids, Piers is finding out that men can be masculine AND care for their kids. What a time to be alive
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I’m really curious who in Pittsburgh is observant enough to feel obliged to request a dispensation for Good Friday fasting yet oblivious enough to think that it will be granted
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are pittsburgh catholics okay?
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We love the slap story b/c we imagine ourselves to be Nicholas, when the reality is that we are probably more like Arius—and just in need of a slap
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May the holy slap of the real St. Nick—bishop, miracle worker, fighter against sex trafficking, friend of the poor—awaken us to the full divinity and humanity of CHRIST.
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I like having books, except when it's time to move
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*Sigh* I’ll find my holy water and an elderly Jesuit priest who’s seen this before...
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A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside
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Don’t make me tap the sign
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The New York Times
@nytimes
2 years
This meatless gumbo has a distinct Louisiana flavor, thanks to the roux, Creole seasoning and the “holy trinity” of Creole cooking (onion, celery, bell pepper).
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
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2 years
In the words of my novice master (himself a former HS principal), "Jesuit missionaries did not brave storms and pirates crossing the Atlantic just to found expensive schools with good basketball teams"
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Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand
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2 years
If the first mission of my schools is anything other than "create disciples of Jesus Christ who can become saints" then close them and burn them down. We may not always succeed, but that doesn't mean we need to change our mission.
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
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I loved seeing an altarpiece at the Met depicting Mary at the Dormition, showing the reality of her old age. We need more of this
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Alexander Pyles
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The thought hit me during Mass today, Mary was assumed into heaven as an older woman, meaning she was taken into heaven with wrinkles, gray hair, and stiff joints. Really wish American Catholicism had room to think about/talk about aging in a more holistic sense.
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
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6 years
Hanging purple curtains behind the high altar, I noticed something odd: on the reverse of the Crucifix is Mary holding the infant Jesus
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
6 years
Coffee is also cool
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Pope Francis
@Pontifex
6 years
Support your priests with friendship and affection.
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
6 months
@just_cato It was a tie between Suave three-in-one for kids and an interpretive dance done to a beatboxed version of the Apostles Creed
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
2 years
Happy Ides of March!
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
6 months
It is a mortal sin to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die without grave reason
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marlene ocampo ⚔️✨️
@Bridesheads
6 months
It is a mortal sin to have apple bottom jeans and boots with the fur without grave reason.
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
2 years
On this feast of St. Ignatius, our superior general has reconsecrated the Jesuits to the Sacred Heart. Pray that we can grow as fervent apostles of God’s incarnate love
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
4 months
Dear Entertainment Industry, I am a priest w/ a performing arts background. I will write your on-screen homilies and sermons for you, in the proper character voice needed. You don’t have to wing it (I’ll even throw in liturgical advising for free. As a treat)
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Ruth Graham
@publicroad
4 months
I love Grantchester but the sermons in this show (delivered freestyle in front of the chancel?) are simply atrocious
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
4 months
All marginalia is good. Some marginalia is great. And every now and again, you come across something like this piece of glory
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Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand
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4 months
The ultimate in “what were you doing when” left by a deceased brother priest from my diocese.
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
3 years
All my life has been a preparation so that I could understand and share this pun
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
9 months
Ten years ago, when I left teaching at Jesuit Tampa to do theology studies for ordination, one of my theatre kids said “if I get engaged after you get ordained, you’re doing the wedding,” and I agreed. Today, she called to say she got engaged AND Y’ALL, I AM IN THE BEST MOOD
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
4 years
Got told after Mass today that my preaching sounded Dominican. I’ll take it as a win
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
1 year
Five years a priest!
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
4 months
I’m skeptical that AI is correct about snake fights at a defense but…maybe I could still ask about it for mine?
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
6 months
We can barely run a Saturday waffle fest
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John Cleese
@JohnCleese
6 months
The US legal system is being run by the Catholic church
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
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False humility is false. Don’t have false humility. Be honest about the gifts God gives you, be grateful for His unearned gifts, and use the gifts you have been given—let your light shine before all
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
5 years
Wild hogs cause over $50 million in annual crop damage to Louisiana farms, including $18 million in damage to our soybean crops alone. If you want to eat vegetables, this is what needs to happen
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
3 years
It would seem that God stans evil… I answer that God does not stan evil, and this can be shown in three ways. The first, which slaps the hardest…
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Fr. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P.
@ThomasAquinasOP
3 years
The Summa, but translated for Gen Z.
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
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When Rickman says “By Grabthar’ s hammer…what a savings” at a store opening, the pain, despair, boredom, and sheer ANNOYANCE he puts into it (especially the pause) makes those 10 seconds some of the finest acting ever put on a screen
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Catherine Warr
@HiddenYorkshire
1 year
Galaxy Quest is massively under-watched, especially because Alan Rickman *perfectly* captures the vibe of an actor who did a sci-fi show for a paycheck and then realises they're going to spend the rest of their life at conventions being asked about what really happened in ep 42
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
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Aquinas thinks there’s four species of pride 1) Thinking you’ve got a quality you haven’t 2) Thinking the quality you have is your own doing 3) Thinking the quality you have is a gift God gave you b/c you’re awesome 4) Thinking God’s unmerited gift is only for your benefit
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
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Said Mass at my alma mater, and pulled out an alb that turns out belonged to a now-deceased Jesuit who taught here for decades. Strange to think how many times I went to his masses or went to him for confession while he was wearing this very alb, and now it’s my time to wear it
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
3 years
Fun fact: when Aquinas gets around to defining virtue, he doesn’t quote Aristotle. He quotes Augustine
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
@DavidPaternostr
4 years
Undergrads were given a chance to earn extra credit by creating philosophy memes and y’all...they did not disappoint
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