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Gen X guy who finally rejected the gay lifestyle and now gladly submits to the teachings of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Gab: @thefourmarks

Chicago, IL
Joined August 2012
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3 years
@chicagosmayor If only so many guns didn’t grow up in broken homes, without their gun fathers, they might be less violent & contribute more to making society safe, stable, & moral.
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Does anyone recall a brief period during the pandemic when sea shanties became popular? Coworkers claim that happened, I’ve been accused of being “in denial.”
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I've started and stopped/deleted, started and stopped/deleted tweets about what happened today. But this sums it up best.
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3 years
Pagan Aztec dance ritual recently performed in St Mary of the Lake church in Chicago’s Uptown
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Found on a South Chicago history website
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6 years
Letter word counts Bp Morlino VS Cd Cupich Sin-Morlino 44 / Cupich 0 Jesus-Morlino 1 / Cupich 0 Heaven-Morlino 1 / Cupich 0 Homosexuals-Morlino 6 / Cupich 0 Clericalist mindset-Morlino 0 / Cupich 1 Policies-Morlino 0 / Cupich 6 Pray-Morlino 6 / Cupich 1 God-Morlino 6 / Cupich 0
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2 years
@ArchCordileone God bless you, archbishop! May the Holy Spirit inspire in Nancy Pelosi true sorrow, repentance, and atonement
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@CatholicSmark I am a celibate same sex attracted male, albeit one who doesn't struggle with Church teaching on my intrinsically disordered inclination. I think the papal claimant's remarks are totally fine. They don't "impugn my dignity." It's no big deal.
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2 years
Due to circumstances I had to attend a Novus Ordo on Sunday. Some observations follow.
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@CardinalBCupich It’s not holy. To call a false religion’s observances “holy” is blasphemous.
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@Synod_va @GrechMario @LMarinOSA @SrNatB @austeni @rafluciani @davidmccallumsj It is a scandal to the faithful that you share & endorse drawings that include “LGBTQ+ IDENTITY” on them as “real works of art.” Shame on you. Repent and atone.
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@SrKarolin @CCP_Rome @CardinalBCupich I don’t know what this is, but it’s not a Catholic mass
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@USCCB @RorateCaeli @Synod_va The only thing they inspire in me is an urge to dry heave
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2 years
Don’t mess with Ukrainian Byzantine Catholics and their holy water on the feast of the Epiphany. (Found this 1968 Chicago Tribune article while researching Epiphany parish)
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Today marks the one year anniversary of Cupich's "Novus Ordo ONLY on First Sundays" Traditiones Custodes policy, a day when many of us leave the Roman Rite, or the archdiocese, sometimes the state of Illinois, to validly fulfill our Sunday obligation
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Front page of Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times
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@PillarCatholic That Blase Cupich will experience conversion, acquire supernatural faith, & profess belief in the Real Presence of the Eucharist Lord, hear our prayer
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Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus; of St Macarius the Younger Holy Name Cathedral, Near North, Chicago, 1949
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@FrDarinSchmidt It’s like some sort of natural … law or something, ya know? Imprinted on the human heart? hmm
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@NoTrueScotist @SeanWolfe89 “…all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls…”
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Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal; of St Maximinus
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@CardinalBCupich Ramadan is not a “holy month.“ May is the month of Our Lady. But you omit any mention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, in this video.
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2 years
I watched the full Barron-LaBeouf interview on YouTube last night. Extraordinary. Was 1h 20m long and worth sitting through. Kudos to Fr Barron for keeping interjections/interruptions to a minimum & just letting Shia talk. Thank you St Pio for interceding for his conversion!
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@SitoAbsichten @consciousphilos He did not intend or will suffering, but He must permit it, because He is love, He made us to love Him, and love requires freedom, including the freedom to reject love. You can’t force someone to love you; that’s called rape.
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3 years
@CityJournal @RorateCaeli @realchrisrufo They’ve been doing this for 3 years and we’re only hearing about it now?
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6 years
Always John Hancock. Always Sears Tower. Always Comiskey Park. Always #Chicago .
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@QasOnline @enternoon And you know they’d never get those divine acoustics in a modernist architecture style church
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@CWBChicago This is what happens when a culture chooses to embrace moral degeneracy & delude itself into thinking there’ll be no consequences if 80% of a community’s babies are born to unwed mothers
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@ArchCordileone Thank you for your pastoral, compassionate approach. This is what a father must do for his children, what a shepherd must do for his flock. May God bless you!
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@robkoons @CCityCatholic May Our Lady of Lourdes intercede for its restoration and the defeat of Christ's enemies
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Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1929 group photo of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Society at Immaculate Conception parish (now Immaculate Conception and St Michael) in South Chicago, Chicago
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Feast of St Didacus; of St Stanislaus Kostka St Stanislaus Kostka, Noble Square, Chicago, 1913 Est 1867 Once the largest US parish (45k). Once the largest elementary school on earth (5k). A priest at St Stan's invented the bulletproof vest.
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You’d think a revival that inspires young Catholics to not sleep in on Sunday, to wake up early, dress up, drive (often with their many children) to offer adoration, thanksgiving, atonement, & petition to God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass would be praised & encouraged
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2 years
@FrEdwardLooney @nataliepucillo Maybe we should let subsidiarity play out here & she should approach the priest one-on-one first to reconcile this, before pulling a Karen and speaking to his manager?
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Sexagesima Sunday Feast of the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order; of St Eulalia The Shrine Altar of the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order in Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago
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All your life, your parents' lives, you grandparents’ lives, your ancestors' lives going back centuries, it's been a mortal sin to eat meat on Fridays. Until one Friday it suddenly isn't. How that must have shaken the faith of Catholics & opened up so much doubt ☹️
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St Patrick’s is considered the mother church of all Irish parishes in Chicago Undated photo of the original sanctuary & altars
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Sacred Heart of Jesus, thank you! Have mercy on us!
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@father_rmv @RorateCaeli So many priestly vocations lost to the “clericalism” of the Zanchettas, McCarricks, Bergoglios of the Church
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@bethecreed @J3dwar An oldie but goodie
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@PillarCatholic The Vatican punishing Syro-Malabar priests for refusing to offer sacrifice ad orientem. Meanwhile in the Roman Rite… 😔
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5 years
God bless Fr Kevin M Cusick
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@jmalanchar1 @father_rmv A priest stands in persona Christi Capitis and represents Christ the Bridegroom to the Church within and without the liturgy. It is intrinsically impossible for a homosexual to do so.
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@CardinalBCupich @americamag The sensus fidelium rejected the Freemason-designed liturgy associated with the Second Vatican Council. You are closing parishes & schools, not opening them.
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@TylerLaRiviere @MahoundParadise Religious race wars downtown. The 20s are really something.
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3 years
@CardinalBCupich So this is where the laity’s Annual Appeal donations go? International trips, during a pandemic? One week after hirelings announced 46 parishes to merge or close July 1?
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The “priest” interjected his personal commentary & own prayers throughout. Through. Out.
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@Goalisheaven1 I went thru an atheist phase at that age. My parents didn’t care. They said, “You live under our roof? You play by our rules” & I had to go to Mass.
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@matt_angelone LOL @ "Also, no one was ever fat." That cracked me up, but it's true. My family has home movies going back decades & it's jarring, even as recently as the early 80s, a vacation at Disney World, to see how "flat stomached" Americans USED to be
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@damonimani @vigano_operativ Ok that made me laugh 😆
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114 years ago today, Fr James Bourke died, just a year after his ordination. I don't know anything about him. But someone loved him and his brief priesthood enough to have this magnificent tombstone carved in his memory
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@acatholiclife @ICKSP God bless the Institute. May Christ strengthen Canon Talarico to persevere until the defeat of His enemies & the glorious restoration.
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Every day, 275,000 motorists pass this Divine Mercy image along the Northwest Expressway (I-90/94) in Chicago
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Feast of the Dedication of St Michael the Archangel (Michaelmas) St Michael, Old Town, Chicago Est 1852 Destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 Relocated and rebuilt 1873
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@ErikReed @KorbinianOpn @SethDillon Bravo, well done! I saw this meme around the time Dobbs came out
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@FrJoshMiller "a man likely under diabolical oppression who stole a host from the TLM"
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St Thomas' sanctuary gates were removed after the 1960s but recently reinstalled
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2 years
Today we drove to ICKSP’s oratory at St Joseph in Hammond, IN. It’s a block from the state line and Chicago ArchD-Gary Diocese border. Half the license plates in the parking lot were from Illinois. Inside was overflowing with young families.
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Intact high altar topped by statue of St Michael the Archangel. St Michael's in Old Town, Chicago
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Commemoration of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Friday in Passion Week Chicago police officers fill Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in 1957
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The “priest” ad-libbed words into the Gospel here & there that are not in the text
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I did not go up to receive the Eucharist because I knew kneeling & reception on the tongue probably wouldn’t have been permitted
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5 years
Sadness for the death of a parish & church. Leaving St Adalbert's final Mass
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@StephanieSipe @CrisisMag A male who sexually preys on minors who are also male is still a homosexual. He is attracted to other males. That’s what homosexuality is.
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Cupich denies Tridentine mass permission to 4 of the 7 parishes offering it; Only Cantius, maybe St Peter’s (Volo) authorized for 1-2 years, ICKSP status unknown; 4 parishes permitted to replace TLM w/ Novus Order in Latin, ad orientem
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After the banal homily which included trying to teach the congregation (audience?) a Spanish song, he sat down in silence for a few minutes. Then arose, stood in center of sanctuary, lifted up his chasuble & showed off his socks to laughter.
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@AspiringTemplar @JohnThePapist Excellent photoshopping
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@WSJ @RaymondArroyo May God bless President Donald Trump
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The Gloria was not the normal Gloria. It was a vaguely similar variation sung to the tune of Angels We Have Heard on High.
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@RCAnnaKate But nobody looks askance at Olympic athletes for devoting countless hours to training, limiting their diet, giving up a "normal" social life and relationships, etc.......
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Our Lady of Czestochowa enshrined at Mary's altar (surrounded by relics on All Saints Day) at @SJCantius
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The “priest” began the Gospel saying: ”Sisters, brothers, the Lord be with you”
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The “priest” came out & made a joke about Notre Dame & the Bears. He then told everyone to stand up & wish people around them a happy new year.
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@raylblake Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now & at the hour of our death
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@washingtonpost @RorateCaeli Story laden with Catholicophobic bigotry. God bless the Coloradan laity behind this purification charism.
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“Priest” announced his brother & sister-in-law were bringing up “the gifts.” When they reached the foot of the altar, “priest” took out his smartphone & they took a selfie.
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@CardinalBCupich How does encounter with, say, Satanists enrich us as Catholics & grow our faith?
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I don't remember where I found this, but I eventually made a printout of it & framed it, to remind me what my sins caused.
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@PadreInAtlanta @MModsiw Encouraging mortal sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance and may result in eternal damnation is the opposite of loving your neighbor.
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Pentecost Thursday Feast of St Anthony of Padua St Anthony of Padua, Bridgeport, Chicago, 1913 Established for German Catholics in 1873, St Anthony's stood at McGregor & Hanover (now 24th & Canal in Chinatown). The building was demolished shortly after these photos were taken
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And at what point does all that ad-libbing invalidate the mass? Is it, “Well he got the consecration correct & sorta followed the general outline” considered “good enough?”
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"Quite frankly, they also don’t like him because he’s a Latino." --Cupich in 2018, on Bergoglio's critics
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Brazilian Bishop: Vatican Document on ‘Same-Sex’ Blessings Cannot Be Applied in Diocese - CatholicVote org.
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The Nicene Creed was not said. The priest asked the audience to affirm their baptismal vows & reply “I do” as he asked 3 questions. (“Do you believe blah blah blah…”)
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2nd Sunday of Lent Feast of St Patrick; of St Joseph of Arimathea; of Bl John Sarkander St Patrick Catholic Church (Old St Pat’s), West Loop, Chicago, circa 1850s-60s
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St Joseph in Hammond, IN The Diocese of Gary parish church served as an oratory of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest until recently.
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The Alleluia was just the choir singing “Alleluia” to a preschool melody with no psalm. Not sure if that’s normal in the Novus Ordo. Can’t remember.
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@EdwardPentin Cd Kasper's in a corner somewhere muttering to himself, "They should not tell us too much what we have to do"
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@JamesMartinSJ So his/your morality ultimately comes down to, “Everyone is their own God and their own Pope with their own magisterium. Do whatever you want.”
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@canonlawyered To think some people smirked 12 years ago when there were warnings about Obamacare death panels
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@johnntremain @rioiiano And it doesn’t drive a block, stop, wait, drive another block, repeat. And no human waste on the floors. No bodily secretions on the seating. Surfaces you need to grab or grasp aren’t oily.
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@inflammateomnia Yup. "You must not only affirm my filth & sin, but participate in it - or else"
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@DFKendra @jwesleyharden @breeadail @SpeakerPelosi I agree with Mr Harden’s comments 100%
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Before the “prayers of the faithful” the “priest” announced, “I’m going to break a rule here” & instructed the audience to sing the chorus of the Spanish song from his homily instead of saying, “Lord, hear our prayer”
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The Preface prayer sounded made up, talking about winter & trees & “opposites be praised” & a “wounded earth”
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