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Tyler Grudi OFM

17 days

Thinking of my dad and all fathers on this happy Father's Day. A bit of a personal blog here about my dad and the love of God the Father.

You showed us the love of the Father

It’s always bothered me that St. Francis had such a bad relationship with his father. Francis never seemed to have reconciled with his father or rebuilt their relationship. Francis’ father, Pietro di...

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Tyler Grudi OFM

@TGrudi

9 months

Once again, the only ones 'confused' by Pope Francis and the synod are those unwilling to listen.

Cardinal Burke

@cardinalrlburke

9 months

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, we have manifested our deepest concern to the Roman Pontiff…

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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2 years

If you have a moment today, say a prayer for my bro Jeff MacNab who went to God yesterday. He was my novice master and was a light for me and my classmates as we grew into our Franciscan vocation. Peace and good bro, until we journey together again.

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1 year

Denying communion is a public act of shaming that can cause great damage to an individual's faith as well as the health of the community.

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9 months

My brothers and I are celebrating the death of our brother and founder St. Francis of Assisi and his 'transitus' into eternal life. To all the Franciscans and Franciscan-hearted people in the world, prayers to you on this Transitus of our little brother Francis.

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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1 year

As a lay Catholic today, I not only know who the pope is, but I have full access to all of the Pope's writings, homilies, and speeches for free online in my own language. If there are "glory days" of the church, they're right now.

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@TGrudi

11 months

Can we agree as a church that this is absolutely screwed up? Or is the prophetic dimension of the church gone? We are killing the body of Christ on this border.

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

11 months

A body has been found trapped in the floating barrier on the Rio Grande at the US-Mexico border. The barrier should be removed immediately, and people’s lives should be put first.

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@TGrudi

11 months

Has the @USCCB responded to this inhumane practice? "Attention must be called to the rights of migrants and their families and to respect for their human dignity, even in cases of non-legal immigration” - 1999, Ecclesia in America, Pope John Paul II This is against our faith.

Laiken Jordahl

@LaikenJordahl

11 months

Texas Gov Abbott has installed circular saws between the Rio Grande border buoys to maim or kill anyone who attempts to climb over. Two bodies have already been found trapped in the floating barrier. He wants more migrants to die.

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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1 year

Lot of hate for Vat 2 today. So tell me what you love about the council? I love how it embraced other cultural expressions of Catholicism that weren't traditionally European.

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10 months

The early Franciscans' habit was not liturgical clothing. Francis prescribed simple, poor clothes. The habit would've been a simple outfit that the poor would've worn in Francis's time. Today I still wear this habit, but often just wear normal clothes I get from walmart.

Dave0987

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10 months

@TGrudi You’re a Franciscan without a habit and pronouns in your bio….

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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11 months

A short thread from Pope Pius XII's apostolic constitution "Exsul Familia" written in 1952 on the Church's priority to protect migrants and refugees. And remember, this was written over 70 years ago now, even before Vatican II. 👇

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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2 years

One popular Catholic channel on YouTube has a video titled "Why Catholicism is Better than Protestantism" This is an unacceptable line of questioning imo. Being a faithful follower of Jesus does not require us to be Catholic supremacists.

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11 months

The Canaanite woman in today's gospel acts as a prophet of faith who reminds Jesus of the deeper significance of his mission, that God's covenant of love extends even to the "dogs" and those in our communities we would rather ignore or send away. Icon: Robert Lentz

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Tyler Grudi OFM

@TGrudi

3 months

Trump calls migrants 'animals.' The CHURCH calls them children of God, the presence of Christ in our midst, humans endowed with dignity and rights to migrate, seek employment, and find opportunities for their family. The Church does not support "enforcement only" policies.

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6 months

Our brother Mike Blastic, renowned Franciscan scholar and one of my novitiate formators who taught me the rule, passed away today. He was a great man who taught me and my classmates that the importance of "the life" is to live "with and among the poor." My brother, rest in peace.

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8 months

I hate when ppl say to religious "you're not just social workers, you're supposed to spread the gospel," as if social work is not exactly the kind of work demanded of us by the gospel. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Franciscan penance is social justice.

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11 months

"Dumbed down faith" is just a catch-all used to belittle expressions of the faith one disagrees with, while passing off your perspective as the intellectually superior one.

Colm Flynn

@colmflynnire

11 months

"Young people don't want an uncertain trumpet. They want something clear. We've dumbed down the faith too much for too long in order to be relevant... It's tougher being a young person now. We need Christ more than ever." @BishopBarron speaking to me at this year's World Youth

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8 months

Happy All Saints' Day. Honoring the many saints who have had an impact on my life. Who are some of your favorite saints?

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Tyler Grudi OFM

@TGrudi

10 months

When you hear this holier-than-thou speak or priests talking about ppl getting blocked out of heaven, just remember that Jesus said "the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you."

Fr. Stephen Vrazel

@KeytarCatholic

10 months

Discount Alex Jones:

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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7 months

Things outside the church are not automatically demonic. This is not only a dangerous supremacist instinct, but is against the second Vatican council which exhorted us to seek "dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions."

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Tyler Grudi OFM

@TGrudi

1 year

The Franciscans have served this community for years, feeding, clothing, and treating with dignity these children of God. St. Francis Inn and our beloved guests are the church in Kensington. If these images bother you, consider volunteering and encountering Christ in our bros/sis

Matt Walsh

@MattWalshBlog

1 year

People are scandalized that I advocated harsh punishments for criminals like in Singapore My critics are right. Much better to be tolerant of drugs and crime so that every American city looks like a post apocalyptic wasteland. This is working out great!

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Two years ago, I left this lamp in my room in the novitiate. I had it for four years in college before. Well wouldn't you know it, I got assigned to my old room and guess what's still here... Good to be home!

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1 year

If we Christians can't recognize God's image in our LGBTQ siblings, then we need transformation and healing most of all.

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@USCCB

1 year

U.S. Bishops’ Doctrine Committee Issues Guidance to Catholic Health Care Institutions on Respecting the Fundamental Order of the Human Body. Read the complete statement here:

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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3 months

Renewal of vows today with my brothers. 11 of us renewed our vows to live with nothing of our own, in obedience and chastity, to the Order of Friars Minor. Praise God!

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6 months

God forbid we make others welcome in our spaces. The church is not just for "you" and not just for "me." The church is a family of families, and unfortunately there are many for whom the church has not been a welcoming space to encounter God's mercy. We can always do more.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker

@dlongenecker1

6 months

Protestant friend who really wants to come into the Catholic Church responds to me about Fiducia Supplicans..."This isn't helping. We've seen this woke agenda played out in the Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches. What now Rome too?"

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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11 months

Great column, and I echo these questions. "how many young Catholics in, say, 1950 were reading the Summa Contra Gentiles or the Divine Comedy? At Mass before Vatican II, how many people had any idea what the priest was saying?"

NCR

@NCRonline

11 months

. @BishopBarron 's criticism of "dumbed-down" Catholicism ignores the reality that a sincere Christian witness is what's really attractive about our faith, says columnist @MichaelSWinters .

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1 year

At @ChicagoCTU "Blessed are the Peacemakers" dinner and a waiter commented "I didn't know monks drank alcohol." To which I replied, "oh buddy, we invented it."

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1 year

Anybody want to start a podcast called "Beyond the Catechism" where we can talk about theological ideas and the history of the church not mentioned in the catechism.

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1 year

Proselytizing is first a mistrust of God who is always in control of mission. It's also a symptom of supremacism, where the proselytizer believes they have the only correct answer. And it betrays mutuality because what is demanded of the other is not expected of the proselytizer.

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If someone says they're a traditional Catholic, I would ask what tradition? The church is not one size fits all. There are many strands of tradition within the church, and many eras from which one could draw inspiration that are not always so easily reconciled.

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I have a working theory that the recent embrace of the TLM is a reaction to the rise of Catholicism outside Europe and the US. The increase of non-european expressions of Catholicism is seen as a threat to Catholics living in countries where Catholicism has decreased.

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1 year

People will use the woman caught in adultery as a way to give themselves permission to judge people. "But Jesus said go and sin no more..." Exactly. Jesus, the one without sin, addresses the woman's sins. Everyone else drops their stones and walks away.

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8 months

This is essentially how I go about believing in Jesus anyway. I don't follow him because he threatens me, but because he calls me a friend.

That “demonic hell witch Meg Wise” ☕️

@_nomadic_soul

8 months

A question to Christians: Would you still follow Jesus if the threat of hell was removed?

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1 year

Absolutely. And there are groups in the church like the Franciscans for whom proselytism is actually forbidden in our constitutions. This is an approach to evangelization that we should foster. Pope Francis calls us to encounter God in the other, not to change them.

D.W. Lafferty

@rightscholar

1 year

Reminder that @cnalive still uses selective presentation of the news to foster hostility toward the Holy Father. The bishop is simply stating that Catholic youth should encounter Muslim youth, Jewish youth, or youth of no religion in a spirit of fraternity, not proselytization.

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Not everyone is meant to be celibate. Being gay doesn't automatically mean the healthiest thing for you is a life of celibacy. This is a pastoral approach that should be clear to any celibate religious. We discern in community for years before we know if celibacy is right for us.

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7 months

Thinking about my queer Catholic siblings during this time and praying for all of your good today.

David Dault is editing today (He, His)

@DaultRadio

7 months

Queer Catholics are beloved and are blessed by Jesus

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11 months

Our Lady of Guadalupe will be the patroness of the new OFM Province for the USA. She appeared to Juan Diego and his uncle as an indigenous woman, speaking in their native Nahuatl, and ensuring them of her motherly love, mercy, care, and healing. Pray for us, holy Mother of God.

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2 years

I don't take the @USCCB seriously when they talk about having compassion for and supporting the dignity of LGBTQ+ folk. They took the time to lobby against marriage equality laws and publish statements about it, but were silent for the Club Q shooting. Tone deafness at its best.

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7 months

The religious "Hippie" hates yoga?

The Religious Hippie NFP

@HippieReligious

7 months

Yoga is a religion and it is not compatible with Catholicism.

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1 month

The Prophetic mode of dialogue involves criticizing and energizing, or unmasking and suggesting. According to Walter Brueggemann, prophecy "dismantles the politics of oppression and exploitation by countering it with a politics of justice and compassion.”

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10 months

Jesus, like all humans, underwent a process of enculturation whereby he acquired the norms and traditions of his culture. A christology that takes seriously the incarnation in a particular time and place should take the enculturation of Jesus seriously.

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3 months

Still Catholic, still hopeful, still wearing my dress!

New Ways Ministry

@NewWaysMinistry

3 months

The Vatican's new document, "Dignitas Infinita," fails transgender and nonbinary people terribly by not applying its wonderful rationale in defense of human dignity to gender diverse people. Our statement:

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@TGrudi

2 years

Getting tired of the "pronouns in bio" crew that spam my timeline. Stop being so fragile about some words in my bio that have nothing to do with you. Pronouns are a courtesy to my trans friends. Maybe ppl need to make a few friends with LGBTQ folk before they crusade against them

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@TGrudi

1 year

If you're free to say a quick prayer, 3 of our brothers have covid.

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@TGrudi

10 months

I listened to Hahn growing up, but his style of apologetics -along with others- often led me to argue and debate with my protestant friends about why they were wrong. I fought with ppl I thought were fundamentalists and became one myself. Apologetics often makes fundamentalists.

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10 months

Scott Hahn joins the US rad trad schism. But the signs were long since there. By @mfjlewis of @Where_Peter_is

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11 months

If anybody has followed @tonyannett for any amount of time they'd know he speaks out against pornography. Also the faithful are not obligated to adhere to strange Marian apparitions that speak more about hell than of heaven, punishment than of mercy.

Elena

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1 year

God sent His mother back to earth to warn us about eternal Hell being filled foremost with sinners against chastity, but still we make excuses for watching soft pornography just because we don’t want to be considered prudish by other men for a few seconds of our earthly life

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9 months

Hey Twitter fam! As you may know, the US Franciscans (OFMs) are now one province, and this week we have been discussing the priorities of our new province and our missions as friars in the US. Here are a few highlights I wanted to share with y'all...

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@TGrudi

2 years

@marvel_updat3s Doesn't look like he needs training

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1 year

After telling Richard Rohr today that I was a 5 on the enneagram, he asked if I liked books. I said I love books but I'm bad at finishing them, always moving to the next one, to which he said, "ah yes, 5's are almost horny for books." I felt completely exposed.

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1 year

Once again I feel the need to point out that Francis did not succeed in converting the Sultan nor receiving martyrdom. If these were Francis's sole motivations for encountering the Sultan, we could rightly call his pilgrimage a failure. However,...

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22 days

Glad to see this representation of Franciscan values from my Alma Mater. St. Bonaventure is where I was first introduced to the Franciscan intellectual tradition with its emphasis on the uniqueness (haecceity) of every person. We either have a prophetic voice, or we have none.

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St. Francis of Assisi saw even inanimate things as being 'creatures' of God. The sun, the moon and stars, fire and water, the wind, and Mother Earth are to Francis his sisters and brothers. Or as Nicholas Black Elk would say, we are a relative to all that exists.

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@TGrudi

8 months

Huge

Diane Montagna

@dianemontagna

8 months

JUST IN: #PopeFrancis has relieved Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler (U.S.A.) & appointed Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin, as Apostolic Administrator of the vacated diocese, @HolySeePress announced today.

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1 year

2020 was the last year I went to the #ProLifeMarch . By then it was just a mini Trump rally. While MAGA banners flew, the Franciscan postulants (which I was at the time) argued for a consistent ethic of life. Issues like Immigration, war, and the environment are also life issues.

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Grateful to be with my Brother Dan from Mount Ireneaus. Both of us are Bonas grads. We're all going to the @StBonaventure basketball game against Loyola. Go Bonnie's!!!

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9 months

Today, a few of my brothers and I will be driving to Kansas City for our chapter of Unity where 6 Franciscan provinces in the US are becoming one, new Our Lady of Guadalupe Province. Pray for us as we begin this journey together.

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10 months

I kind of want to make an underground, Catholic-punk zine for the Chicago area. Have short radical essays with alternative art/iconography featured throughout. Open it up to fringe theo. perspectives. Who's in?

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@TGrudi

1 month

St. Joan, patron of crossdressers, prayer for us.

Friars of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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St. Joan of Arc was a 19-year-old French peasant girl who received visions from God that led her to fight for the French during the Hundred Years War. She was eventually captured, sold to the English, then burned at the stake. St. Joan of Arc, Secular Franciscan, pray for us!

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Bishop, I do recall not too long ago your media organization senselessly threatening legal action against @commonwealmag for opinions about your work. Does this display of power model the fraternal relationship we should have with people we disagree with, or do you get a pass?

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Friends, while I used to be annoyed by Bill Maher, I’ve recently found myself, time and time again, nodding my head in agreement with him. Read more:

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"I encourage you, as native people belonging to the different tribes and nations... to preserve and keep alive your cultures, your languages, the values and customs which have served you well in the past and which provide a solid foundation for the future." - JP2

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LGBTQ voices "are the voices the Church needs to listen to and learn from to better love the children of God and be a better family for families of these times." As promised, here is my essay on Amoris Laetitia and LGBTQ inclusion in the Church. 👇

Here are My Mother and My Brothers and My Sisters

Exploring Amoris Laetitia and paths forward for LGBTQ inclusion in the Catholic ChurchIntroduction In Amoris Laetitia, the 2016 Apostolic Exhortation following the Synod on the Family, Pope Francis...

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It's a fallacy that the church after Vat 2 diminished. It may have in Europe/US, but the church saw its largest expansion in history in the last century, and I'd be willing to bet that this expansion couldn't have been possible without the implementation of vernacular liturgies.

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Religious life embodies the breaking of societal gender expectations. The Franciscan tradition knows this well, as Clare's male relatives hunted her down after she ran away to follow Francis but abandoned their quest after she cut her hair and they realized she would never marry.

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harrison butker: “the most important title for catholic women is homemaker” catholic nuns: “excuse me?!?!?”

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Ppl would rather blame Sunday school catechists for the empty churches than the clerical abuse of children and the widespread institutional cover-up.

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If Adam and Eve had not sinned, Jesus would still have come, because love - not sin - was his primary purpose for coming. Before all time, God desired to be with you and among all God's creatures. #dunsscotus

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Three questions I try to ask myself before writing or using social media, - Does this need to be said? - Does this need to be said by me? - Does this need to be said by me right now? It's a good practice for cultivating discretion.

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1 year

Everyone in our house is picking a saint to spend time with this Lent. I decided I would spend time with Nicholas Black Elk, whose presence I felt while praying by his grave last week. Nicholas Black Elk, servant of God, pray for us!

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Just had the privilege of listening to a professional recite the Qur'an for us in class. What a beautiful experience to be able to listen to someone use their voice to spread the word of God like that.

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In the gospel today, the whole church, and not just the apostles, are given the responsibility to bind and loose - to reconcile ppl and relationships. When we forgive one another this and gather together, no matter how small our number, Christ is really present among us.

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Exactly this!! I've said, despite the declinists, that the church has seen its greatest expansion the last hundred years. The alarm and calls for TLM is because of a perceived loss of "European" or white Catholicism in US and Europe while other cultural expressions are expanding.

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Growing up in the early 2000s, the term 'novus ordo' was totally unknown to me and my peers at my home parish. We just knew it as 'the mass.'

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Religious Life is an interreligious phenomenon. As a Catholic religious, I admire Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) because he founded his own monastic tradition. Christian monks lived among Buddhists in China in the 6th C. and shared the gospel using Buddhist terms. Short thread 👇

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1 year

Please say a little prayer for my classmates and me as we travel to South Dakota today to spend an extended weekend with the Lakota people at Pine Ridge reservation.

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1 year

Prayers and many good blessings on our trans and non-binary siblings on this #TransDayOfVisibility . I consider myself abundantly blessed by the presence of trans folks in my life who bear God's image and are beautifully made by our creator. Peace to you this day and always.

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Until you realize "carrying your cross" is not just some ascetic practice, but a call for all people to take part in the liberation of the oppressed by accepting the inevitable punishment of the political oppressors.

InspiringPhilosophy - Michael Jones

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Progressive Jesus is not the real Jesus! “Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.’” – Matthew 16:24

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11 months

Let us recommit to #LaudatoSi

Latest in space

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11 months

Passenger plane captures devastating wildfires happening in Lahaina, Hawaii

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@dailywireplus @jordanbpeterson I literally took a vow of celibacy in the church to remind people they don't need to be defined by whether or not they have romantic relationships. Maybe I did it all wrong... I guess 2000 years of virgins, monks, hermits, sisters, nuns, and brothers all got it so wrong.

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10 months

Pints with Aquinas undermining the Pope again. This time with the help of Ben Shapiro.

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2 months

The bible does not condemn sexual orientations or gender identities as such. This would be highly anachronistic.

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1 year

Took Part in a beautiful Easter Vigil celebration last night at Benedict the African in Englewood with my brothers where we welcomed 6 people into the Church. To all of my sisters and brothers on Twitter, I hope your Easter is filled with the hope of Resurrection and new life.

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At an annual sexuality workshop, and just feel the need to pass on the message to y'all that your body and sexuality are gifts from God. Shame tells us that if we are the way we are, no one will love us. But this is a lie. You are wonderfully and beautifully made.

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If all one does is quote the Summa in response to every question, you're not actually doing theology, you're reciting your lines like an actor.

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Francis Kisses the Leper Hung outside my room at St. Joe's friary. I'm not sure of the artist, but it evokes many conflicting emotions which is what I love about it.

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Since Vat II, European Catholicism has become the minority, while the church has thrived in places like Africa, Asia, and Latin America which now make up 3/4 of the church pop. To Americans and Europeans this is seen as a "loss of culture," so they romanticize pre-vat 2 liturgy.

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A perfect example of the diversity in Catholic theology. Bonaventure and Thomas were contemporaries and yet disagreed and nuanced their theology differently. Important to keep in mind that the church's tradition is wide and deep and not a static, lifeless thing.

Church Life Journal

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However friendly Bonaventure and Aquinas might have been in the refectory, their works, both from the 1250’s and following, reflect a number of deep disagreements... --Brendan Case

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.... Am I reading this correctly?

Catholic Answers

@catholiccom

2 months

Introducing Father Justin, the New Interactive AI from Catholic Answers Catholic Answers, the number-one lay Catholic apostolate of apologetics and evangelization, is excited to announce the release of our new “Father Justin” interactive AI app. This innovative digital

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My personal feelings about the threat of free masonry to the Catholic Church is that it's the "cooties" equivalent of problems the church should be worried about right now.

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Traveling to Mission San Luis Rey in southern California this morning to be with some of my brothers for a few weeks of Franciscan studies. Say a prayer for us traveling today if you're able.

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St. Francis' favorite language to describe what it means to be a friar is maternal. He encourages all the brothers to care and love for one another as mothers, and even encourages brothers to take on the roles of mother and son while in hermitage.

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#CatholicTwitter take note. In order to dance the electric slide in a habit, one must delicately hold it exactly like my cousin is holding her dress. This pic from a recent family wedding basically confirms my theory that the habit is just a long brown dress.

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I still really have no idea what the difference is between a memorial, feast, and solemnity. One of the church's many mysteries.

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@TGrudi

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While I'm at it, why the secrecy in Fatima? Isn't "Secret revelations" just code for gnosticism? Just spit-balling here, but maybe if something as important as heaven or hell is on the line, don't keep it a secret.

Tyler Grudi OFM

@TGrudi

11 months

If anybody has followed @tonyannett for any amount of time they'd know he speaks out against pornography. Also the faithful are not obligated to adhere to strange Marian apparitions that speak more about hell than of heaven, punishment than of mercy.

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Hmmmm... a conservative Catholic commentator insecure about the loss of "white" culture and fearful of other cultures, including Latinos and indigenous ppls. Who could've possibly predicted that...

The Serfs

@theserfstv

11 months

BREAKING: New leaked audio of Matt Walsh arguing with his co-host about how you can't "separate race and culture" and how Mexicans can never be Americans or "white". He goes on to mock Indigenous genocide and boast about the superiority of white culture and society (🧵1 of 3)

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2 years

Happy feast of #OurLadyOfGuadalupe

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1 year

I feel humbled to have been given the opportunity to pray at the graveside of Black Elk (servant of God) as well as the graves of the fallen Lakota massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890.

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Many ppl seem to have a problem with this which seems odd to me. First, learning is not a sin and is fundamental to human nature, growth, and development. Two, humans learn only through relationships. Three, Jesus was the fullness of humanity.

Tyler Grudi OFM

@TGrudi

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Jesus, like all humans, underwent a process of enculturation whereby he acquired the norms and traditions of his culture. A christology that takes seriously the incarnation in a particular time and place should take the enculturation of Jesus seriously.

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I have seen straight and gay people alike discern out of religious life because they could not healthily live a celibate life. These were good discernments. What's not good discernment is forcing a life of celibacy on anyone who has not carefully considered it.

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Tyler Grudi OFM

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One thing I noticed during Bobby Barron's interview with Shia is how many times the bishop interrupts him and tries to impart some nugget of sage wisdom. He almost can't help himself.

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@TGrudi

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A Lakota woman encouraged us this past week to encounter ppl from other cultures with an empty cup. If you come with your cup full, there's no way anyone can fill it, and you'll never be able to experience God anew.

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The church is not an end unto itself. The church is not the telos of our faith - the reign of God is. The church doesn't have a mission, the mission of God has a church. Some people mistakenly worship the church when they should be worshipping God.

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I do feel God's presence in the church. But the church can never constrain or limit God who is present in all of creation, in other cultures and religions.

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