Caleb Brooklyniensis

Practical Catechesis, Public Commentary, Prayer, Penance. Eremitical Life

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

Returning this Summer...(God willing!)

St Gabriel, pray for us!

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@pontificatormax @MLJHaynes @FSSPXFR Does put to bed any thoughts of somebody helping out. This being a fully internal affair... There's optics. I don't know if they're bad optics yet so, we'll see.

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@JeffCassman I'd give it 10 years. I've been back for 12, and I'm not sure I need to be speaking. Yet.

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@OVTweetmarck I saw him on video a couple weeks ago claiming he was voting Democrat in 26,and probably 28 too. He's at war with the GOP. This sounds like BS.

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@Catholicizm1 The wife of a family friend literally died mowing the lawn. Brutally. She hit a ditch and flipped it.

She was such a delight of a woman. My mother's best friend at the time.

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@Catholicizm1 Only if it's a Roomba-type, electric, auto-driving self-parking one. And by operate you mean push the On button so it can do its thing.

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@FreeIrishman7 I'm a fan of "entrusted with the Deposit of the Faith."

[Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier]

I was not at all a fan of Pope Francis but I am grateful to him for two things:

1. Promoting the cult of Our Lady, undoer of knots and
2. Refusing to take part in hysteria about the SSPX. When they needed to be recognised by the Argentine Republic as a Catholic organisation he, as Archbishop, confirmed this status. As pope he confirmed in writing that those who go to SSPX masses are faithful Catholics; he gave faculties and status in the church to SSPX priests.

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@michaeljknowles I try not to, but they refuse to be ignored. Like an obnoxious toddler in a store, they need to be spanked. Hard.

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@ShaneSchaetzel @StarWarsDaily_ It also would've made more sense for the council to say Anakin was too old.

[Nancy Charles @cancelwok3]

Getting cast out of the garden was less of a punishment and more of a repercussion for choosing to live outside reality itself.

As the serpent entered the words of scripture for the first time he begins by manipulating Eve's sense of reality itself. A direct attack on the relationship of trust between the Creator and His creation.

Notice how the serpent begins his dialogue with Eve as a question... "Did God really say...?"

Its a direct attack on her intellect. The God given intellect that allow us to know who God is.

Then he uses the attack on the intellect to further manipulate the will. Our other God given gift...the will....the one way in which we are able to choose God.

In a few short devastating lines of questioning, the serpent is able to produce a tinge of doubt in Eve.

Not just any doubt....a doubt between her and her understanding of God.

A doubt of reality itself.

The serpent is asserting in his line of questioning, that the created cannot trust the Creator.

Once Eve submits to this lie, she brings it to her loved one, Adam.

He eats.

The destruction of the family.

God doesn't need to cast them out of the Garden. The Garden represents reality itself.

The place where Truth itself lives.

The mere repercussion in their failure to accept reality as it had been revealed by God, made it impossible for them to stay.

It's like oil and water.

They don't mix.

The Father then, realizing His beloved has fallen outside the beauty of His splendor, let's them go.

We rarely allow ourselves to see how agonizingly painful that must have been for Our Lord.

Could you even imagine? The one thing that you love more than anything, chooses to leave you....

And He lets them...

Not because it's easy, or because it's even what He wants.... But because to force them to stay would be to violate the very thing that makes true love possible.

Choice.

We often see this story as an act of God's condemnation. Adam and Eve did wrong, therefore God sends them away as a punishment.

I don't see that reality in this story.

I see, two children who made a choice to exist outside the scope of what had been revealed as True.

The Father in His infinite love, lets them go. Let's them stumble. Let's them choose.

Free will.

Because ultimately, real love is a choice.

We see the evidence of this cruciform choice in the Father's return for us.

He came back for us.

A lesser love would have said, fine.... you've made your choice. I don't want you anymore. Go.

Not Our Father.

He said, yes, you've made a choice.....But you don't know what choice you've made.

I will bear the astronomical price of what it is that you don't yet understand, so that one day you might finally be able to.

Let me show you by example, how to come back home again.

I lay myself down to give you the roadmap to come back home...

A love so total, so selfless, so cruciform, that it allows its own death so that you can finally see....

Come back home.

❤️‍🔥

[Daniel O'Connor @DSDOConnor]

Today is the 15th Anniversary of my Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

I cannot encourage this strongly enough. If you aren't yet consecrated, look up St. Louis de Montfort's 33 Day Consecration—"Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus Christ Through Mary"—and do it!

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@OVTweetmarck I was going to say "digitards"

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Hot Take: 93% of Catholics aren't Catholic. A reserved number would be about 75%. A harsh reading would claim 98%.

This is based on statistical data. What makes it a hot take is the fury you can't read in my words. 93% is roughly 11 of of 12, btw.

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

She missed the point, entirely.

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As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.

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@MattGaspers Can we please wait until Tuesday to start this fight up again? My biggest complaint has been over the months spent arguing about something that hasn't happened yet.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:

“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”

And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument.

But later I realized something:

That question was not exposing Christianity.

It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be.

Because the real question is not:

“Why would God become weak?”

The real question is:

“What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?”

Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable.

But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.

And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me.

It became proof of love.

If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.

If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.

If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.

He entered it Himself.

Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh.

Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.

And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves.

That changed everything for me.

Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity.

Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.

And no prophet in history ever claimed that.

[Dr Taylor Marshall™️ @TaylorRMarshall]

Name 2 things for which you are grateful to God: 🙏🏻

[Caleb Brooklyniensis @CalebMechanic]

@TaylorRMarshall Everything I'm grateful for, which is an extensive list, is directly connected to the miracle that was God bringing me home to the Faith. The list includes being liberated from homosexuality and the torrent of demonic subjugation I was under. People underestimate true freedom.

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@Jclearfield2 @LeMeTellUSumtin Did you just waste your time responding to a jesuit?