Fran

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

[Bryan of Alexandria ✠🕊️ @DBryanRhodes]

"You know having children will soak up all your time and energy, right? You'll have time for little else."

My dude.
What else have I been given time and energy *for*?

What else is so high-and-mighty important, that I cannot allow children to interfere with it?

Please, tell me.

[Fran @0cInane]

@kmtran95 I try to find some good in lay Catholics being so willing to display the cross publicly and I wish we, myself included, had more courage to do so the other 364 days of the year. Perhaps the reluctance to wipe it off comes from a good place.

[Fran @0cInane]

@r0ck3t23 This is one of the reasons people should stop complaining about returning to the office. If it can be done remotely, it will probably be quicker to go as opposed to those jobs that are still dependent on paper and in person interactions.

[Fran @0cInane]

@pluant I’m not 100% opposed to Extraordinary Ministers, but I do agree they are overused. What is the extraordinary circumstance to have one at a daily mass, or have 6 on Sunday? It seems like merely speed of distribution is a poor reason for it.

[Fran @0cInane]

@OkoroMiracle15 @BishopBarron Considering Marxists historically oppress and murder people of faith I think Bishop Barron is right to speak out on this issue.

[Fran @0cInane]

@ModernPapist It is sad that we’re not allowed to have anything just for boys anymore and fewer things just for girls (although girl only spaces are still acceptable to many, where boy only spaces seem verboten).

[🇺🇲🇻🇦 Modern Papist 📊 @ModernPapist]

The Diocese of Lincoln is the only diocese without female altar servers.

Their priest to laity ratio is 1:421.

When the average for American Dioceses is 1:2036.

This is important because altar boys are discerning the priesthood when they serve.

[Fran @0cInane]

@HannahDCox Perspective is required. Life is hard today, but it was also hard 100 years ago. Most of us are blessed and don’t even recognize it. We’re not climbing around coal mines, working in sweat shops, or forced to forage for food in the woods, to name just a few examples.

[Fran @0cInane]

@827js I don’t understand the reason behind releasing criminals like this…to what end? Nobody wants to hire them and they often end up on Public Assistance with nothing to do and nowhere to go. If the taxpayer is going to support them forever, they might as well stay in jail.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I was impressed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference. He indeed addressed a number of particular political issues, but what most grabbed my attention was his stress on the common culture that unites Europe and America. He cited Dante, Shakespeare, the Sistine Chapel, Cologne Cathedral—even the Beatles as expressions of basic cultural intuitions that still inform the West. But he pressed the matter further, insisting, in the spirit of both Christopher Dawson and Pope Benedict XVI, that that culture is grounded ultimately in the Christian faith. It is simply the case that reverence for the dignity of the individual, for human rights, for political freedom, and for equality comes, in the final analysis, from the Christian Gospel. Basic to his presentation was the conviction that Europe and America will truly flourish when each re-discovers its spiritual mooring.

[Fran @0cInane]

@EamonnClark Increasing devotion, involvement, and participation in the Faith among men should be such an obvious first step to resolving the priest shortage, but it’s often not implemented. You can’t get more seminarians if you don’t have the raw materials in the first place!

[Fran @0cInane]

@EamonnClark Let’s study ways to make the Faith attractive to men and reach out to them specifically. This will have the side benefit of bringing back families, since they tend to follow where the father goes.

[Fran @0cInane]

@elonmusk You’re so close to the root of the problem. The ethnicity thing is a red herring. Christianity is the foundation of Western Civilization, and if it is to be saved it is where we must return. If we all have a shared goal, eternal union with God, we can overcome the other issues.

[Fran @0cInane]

@RyanGirdusky It is interesting to think what would have happened had it been invested similar to how certain states manage their pension funds.

[🎤E-Knock (Catholic Rapper) @CatholicKingdo1]

A lot of people say Vatican II called for “active participation” at Mass, meaning everyone needs to be constantly doing something.
But that’s not actually the Latin the Council used.

In Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Council fathers used the phrase:
“plena, conscia et actuosa participatio” (“full, conscious, and actuosa participation”)
Not activa… but actuosa.

what’s the difference?
Activa = outward activity, busyness, doing things.
Actuosa = actual, effective, living participation — especially interior participation of the soul.

Actuoso does not call for more noise, more roles, or more movement. It was asking for deeper union with the sacrifice of Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Ratzinger): “Real participation in the liturgy means that God enters into our lives and we enter into Him… It is not a question of doing something, but of being caught up in the actio of Christ.”

Silence can be more “actuosa” than noise.
Kneeling can be more “active” than constant movement.

Stop using the phrase active participation to justify a tambourine Mass.

[Fran @0cInane]

@OneFlawedMortal May God bless you and your family.

[Fran @0cInane]

@DominicCar515 @ICKSP @frmikeschmitz @AscensionPress I suspect most already do. Many TLM are diocesan. The priests do both. I’ve never been, but I’m told the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius do a particularly good job at offering both the EF and OF.

[Fran @0cInane]

@Will_Tanner_1 No reasonable person would argue that any of the non-qualifying items fall under the umbrella of “Nutrition,” which is right in the name of the program.

[Fran @0cInane]

@mcsquared34 Objectively speaking, most people wouldn’t consider those items to fall under the umbrella of “nutrition.” It’s okay for SNAP to have some strings attached to it, and those limitations are still extremely generous and fair.