Athena

[James Dueck🇻🇦 @JamesDueck]

If your ancestors were European, they were almost certainly Catholic for 50 to 80 generations. Why aren’t you?

[RetroBayArea @RetroBayArea]

The San Francisco dating scene in the 1990s.

Before all the apps, people met at places like this. In 1994, Marcia Kimpton, KTVU’s San Francisco culture reporter, stopped by Noah’s to get a handle on what was going on in the Marina on the weekends.

You probably don’t know most of the people in this video. But you also know everyone in this video.

source footage 🎥: @MarciaKimpton & KTVU

[CCP IS ASSHOE @CCPISASSH0E]

Ouch

[Uche is a girl 🇻🇦 @UcheMaryOkoli]

Anyone who despises either the Novus Ordo or the Traditional Latin Mass shows contempt for the same Lord Jesus Christ, who is fully, truly, and substantially present in the Holy Eucharist at both.

Neither is greater nor lesser than the other. At every valid Catholic Mass, the one Sacrifice of Christ is made present.

Transubstantiation takes place in both the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo.

Attending the Traditional Latin Mass does not make anyone holier or superior to those who attend the Novus Ordo, and attending the Novus Ordo does not make anyone less Catholic.

The same Jesus is offered. The same Eucharist is received. The same Sacrifice of Calvary is made present.

Even the Vicar of Christ celebrates the Novus Ordo.

Let's stop attacking one another and instead approach the altar with humility, reverence, and love for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

[Athena @AthenaLisbon]

@growing_daniel If you must know: My chain broke and the cross doesn’t fit on my favorite necklace. It’s now another thing on the TO DO LIST 🤷🏻‍♀️
However… I pray the rosary at least once a day so I think I’m still good…
✨🙏🏼♥️✝️

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

The reason every US military chaplain chaplain awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Civil War was a Catholic priest is because Catholic priests have something to offer a dying soldier that Protestant chaplains don’t: last rites.

That’s why they would routinely put themselves in harm’s way to reach dying men on the battlefield, why they inspired their fellow soldiers to become Catholic, and why they alone have been recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor in the modern era.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

Fr. Ripperger: “Don’t get sucked into all the negativity. If you keep your focus entirely on God and all the things that pertain to God, then you won’t lose your intellectual clarity about God, the world, and reality.”

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

It’s a very strange sort of religion where God parts seas, rains fire from heaven, stops the sun, is born by a virgin, walks on water, controls the weather, rises from the dead, etc…

But can’t guarantee His Church remains infallible in its public teaching.

[Tyler | Kenji Capital @KenjiCapital]

This is exactly why it’s hard to leave the Bay Area when you grew up in the Bay Area.

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

https://t.co/pB6zv7lIzB

[Cool Christian Engineer @imcoolchristian]

Your church has men who built their own houses, survived layoffs, raised five kids, and buried their parents.

Two pews away: young men Googling how to fix a faucet, how to propose, how to be a man.

Neither group talks to the other. The knowledge is dying with the old men while the young ones buy courses from 24-year-olds online.

Old men: invite one young guy to breakfast. Young men: ask. That's the whole program.

Who taught you? Who are you teaching?

[Athena @AthenaLisbon]

@SecretFire79 You need to be open minded and attend my “worship service” which is really just a talent show for Jesus with a spiritual TED talk that goes on for hours. It’s so great… 🙄

[Athena @AthenaLisbon]

@catholicpat Cradle Catholic here who loves the Extraordinary Form and does NOT support SSPX. What a ridiculous meme.

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

"We have no record of a pope for 100 years after Peter died."

Tell that to St. Irenaeus.

Sure, nobody in the first century was issuing press releases for each new pontiff. But by A.D. 180, St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, writing about a church 600 miles from his own, names every man who'd held Peter's chair, in order (Against Heresies, Book 3, chapter 3):

Linus
Cletus
Clement
Evaristus
Alexander
Sixtus
Telesphorus
Hyginus
Pius
Anicetus
Soter
Eleutherius

Irenaeus is writing 114 years after the apostles died. That's about the same length of time separating us from the Ford Model T. Try telling people the Model T came with a CD player and see how fast someone's grandmother corrects you. If the papacy were actually a late invention, Irenaeus's own readers (and the Gnostics who despised him) would've laughed him off the page.

"Peter also never served as supreme pontiff in Rome."

Peter signs off his own letter "from Babylon" (1 Pet. 5:13), which was the early Church's nickname for Rome under persecution.

Clement of Rome (named above), writing around A.D. 96, references Peter's martyrdom as something that happened "in our own generation." (1 Clement, chapter 5). That's living memory.

In his Letter to the Romans (A.D. 110), Ignatius of Antioch remarked that he could not command the Roman Christians the way Peter and Paul once did; such a comment makes sense only if Peter had been a leader, if not the leader, of the church in Rome.

And in 1968, archaeologists confirmed what Christians had claimed for 1,900 years: Peter's bones, beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, in a tomb first-century believers had already marked as his. Historian Eamon Duffy calls this shrine "overwhelming evidence of a very early Roman belief that Peter had died in or near the Vatican Circus" (Saints and Sinners, p. 8).

"The Church was born in Jerusalem."

True! And Jerusalem had a single bishop too, James. "One city, one shepherd" was the pattern everywhere, including the mother church.

Peter's authority was never competing with Christ's. It's just the way he set it up.

[Claire Taylor 🇬🇧ioekah Lumish , ( Alcyone ) @ClaireT13274488]

"Your great-grandmother was not trying to manifest a beach vacation. She was not curating an aesthetic. She was not optimizing...anything. She had a list, and the list was short, and the list was sacred.

A full pantry. Healthy children. A roof that did not leak. A husband who came home. A garden that produced. A few good dresses. A reliable stove. Sunday dinner with people she loved. Enough flour for the week and enough kindness for the neighbors.

That was the whole dream. That was the whole life. And by the standards of most of human history, achieving that list was a roaring success.

Then the twentieth century happened, and somebody figured out that a woman who is content is terrible for business. A woman with a full pantry is not running to the store. A woman who is satisfied with her kitchen is not redoing it every four years. A woman who knows what enough looks like cannot be sold the next thing.

So they got to work. They made the small house embarrassing. They made the old car embarrassing. They made the home-cooked meal embarrassing, and then when nobody knew how to cook anymore they sold it back as a meal kit with a celebrity chef on the box. They raised the cost of living until both parents had to work, and then they sold daycare and convenience food and weekend therapy to fix the exhaustion that working both jobs created in the first place.

They took your great-grandmother's list and called it poverty. They took her life and called it limited. They took her contentment and called it a lack of ambition.

And then they sold you ambition. They sold you a bigger house you cannot clean, a car you cannot pay off, a wardrobe you do not wear, a calendar you cannot survive, and a vague constant feeling that you are still falling behind.

You are not falling behind. You are running a race that was designed to have no finish line. The race itself is the product.

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[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

'What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church's faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place'

On this day in 2007, Pope Benedict XVI gave the Latin Mass to a new generation of young people with Summorum Pontificum

[Athena @AthenaLisbon]

I’ve been inside this church. Heart breaking 💔

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

Another day, another French church up in flames

This time in Bordeaux

The reign of Emmanuel Macron is second only to the French Revolution for the era with the number churches destroyed in France

[Fr. James A (Faith-Chat Platform) @frjamesa]

My 13 blessings for you on my 13th Priestly Anniversary:

1.May God surprise you with the answer you have almost given up praying for.

2.May the Lord heal the silent pain you have never found words to explain.

3.May every closed door that is not God’s will remain shut, and every door He has prepared open before you.

4.May Christ walk with you through every valley until it becomes a testimony.

5.May your tears never be wasted, but become the seeds of unexpected joy.

6.May the Holy Spirit give you wisdom when life leaves you with difficult choices.

7.May the peace of God quiet every fear that has been stealing your sleep.

8.May the Lord restore everything life, sin, or suffering has taken from you.

9.May your family become a home where love is stronger than every wound.

10.May God use your deepest pain to reveal your greatest purpose.

11.May you never miss the grace, people, and opportunities God has prepared for your destiny.

12.May your name never be associated with tragedy, shame, or sorrow; instead, may it be remembered for God’s goodness, favour, and faithfulness.

13.May unmerited favour locate you. May God bless you beyond what your efforts alone could ever achieve, and may His grace open doors no human being can close.

As I celebrate thirteen years of priesthood, I impart my priestly blessing upon you: may the Father watch over you, the Son walk beside you, and the Holy Spirit dwell within you. May your prayers be answered, your home be blessed, your work be fruitful, and your life become living proof that God is still faithful. Amen.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Both the Portugal and Spain's jersey kit honor their Christian history, the Reconquista and the age of discovery!

Christ is Lord 🇵🇹🇪🇸

[Shane Schaetzel †☧ @ShaneSchaetzel]

The only thing the SSPX proved last week is that they can be defiant and disobedient even when the pope gives them unprecedented favor in the Church. I know the SSPX think they will one day be welcomed back into the Church as an organization. I don’t think so.

Pope Benedict XVI lifted the original 1988 excommunications and opened dialogue with the SSPX. Pope Frances granted them faculties, recognizing their sacraments of matrimony and confession. Pope Leo XIV maintained this standard and signaled openness to eventual regularization. Then, in the face of all this, and after multiple warnings, the SSPX committed the exact same act that got them excommunicated in the first place back in 1988.

No pope can ever trust them again. And this is why I believe all dialogue with this organization (as an organization) is over. They have gone into schism for a thousand years (like the Orthodox). They’re so stubborn about it, they won’t even recognize the excommunications as valid. This is why I think it’s over.

Henceforth, SSPX clergy have the FSSP to go to when they’re ready to submit to Rome. SSPX laity are free to come back to any jurisdiction in the Church they want. Until then, they all remain outside of the Church, excommunicate and in schism.