Catholic High School Teacher

Catholic educator. Former CIA officer. Turbo Catholic. Ed.D. student @umary

[Catholic High School Teacher @CatholicHSTeach]

One of the pleasures of Heaven is going to be listening to Mary tell us all those stories of Jesus that she held in her heart.

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@TheNewsPress I thought this was America!

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@catholic_comedy A quiet Place

[Catholic High School Teacher @CatholicHSTeach]

So cool

[ks. Daniel Wachowiak @DanielWachowiak]

Diakon Robert Prevost (Leon XIV) asystuje Papieżowi Janowi Pawłowi II w czasie Mszy Świętej w Watykanie (rok 1982).

[Catholic High School Teacher @CatholicHSTeach]

@MTMehan I’ve come across the high school model in which the humanities concentrate on one virtue for each of the four years. I’d love to institute that.

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@ChristySimm23 @Burgess7281975 South America is Christian because of Catholic missionaries. Catholic missionaries converted millions in every continent.

[Catholic High School Teacher @CatholicHSTeach]

@ChristySimm23 @Burgess7281975 No. You’re supposed to realize that other people have different experiences than you do. Then you should recognize the folly of generalizing based off of your own narrow experience.

But I suspect you’re merely engagement farming.

[Catholic High School Teacher @CatholicHSTeach]

This is an interesting idea.

[Erica Stevens @erica_d_stevens]

I no longer really care abt teaching writing. I'm teaching reading.

I took this idea from a dear colleague: this year we're having students record themselves literally reading assigned texts aloud—yes, just reading aloud, word for word—before they then reflect on what they read.

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@ChristySimm23 @Burgess7281975 My timeline is full of them.

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To see the world like this and write of it is a gift.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A potluck. Everyone brings one dish. I have never been so out of my depth in my life.

I was invited to a gathering. "Just bring a dish to share," they said. Simple words. I did not sleep for three days.

Because I understood instantly what this was. A summit. Every guest, a lord of their own house, arriving bearing tribute. And tribute is judged. Tribute is ranked. To bring the wrong dish to the wrong table is to fall in standing before your peers, possibly forever.

So I prepared. I made my finest dish. I carried it to the door with two hands and a straight back, braced for the weighing of my worth.

The first lord arrived with a bowl of orange powder noodles. Macaroni and cheese. The crowd roared. He set it down at the center of the table. The CENTER. I noted this. The center is the seat of power.

The second lord brought a tower of small brown meat orbs in red sauce. "Meatballs," he announced, like a man laying down a sword. They were placed beside the macaroni. A strong showing. An alliance, perhaps.

I studied the table like a battlefield map. Potato salad: defensive, reliable, old money. A vegetable tray, untouched, clearly a hostage offering no one expected to win. And then a woman walked in, raised a flat box overhead, and the entire room turned and CHEERED.

Pizza. She had brought pizza. Store-bought. Still in the box.

I was stunned. She had not even cooked it. And yet the people rejoiced as if a king had entered. I revised my entire understanding of the hierarchy on the spot. Effort means nothing here. Only the roar of the crowd decides rank.

I placed my dish down, humbly, near the napkins. A peasant's position. I accepted it.

And then a man tapped my shoulder, pointed at my dish, and said the words that changed everything.

"Whoa, did you make this? This is amazing. Everybody, you GOTTA try this guy's thing."

The room turned. The room came. The room ATE. My dish vanished in ninety seconds. The pizza woman herself took a second helping and looked at me with respect.

I had won the summit. By accident. With a dish I placed by the napkins.

I understand nothing about this country. I have never been happier. I am hosting the next one.

So tell me, America.

Is there a system to the potluck? A secret rank? A hidden law?

I have decided there is not.

You just bring the thing you love, and everyone eats it, and somehow everybody wins.

It is the most insane way to hold a war.

I will fight in every single one.

[Catholic High School Teacher @CatholicHSTeach]

@warmonksociety 11 abandoned Jesus. 1 betrayed him. Only one stayed by his side.

So modern bishops are getting their proportions about right.

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Five favorite American authors:

T.S. Elliot
Myles Connolly
Mark Twain
Elizabeth Bishop
Jane Greer

[Matt Mehan @MTMehan]

Five favorite American authors:
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
John Adams

[Catholic High School Teacher @CatholicHSTeach]

Got my American Book of Fables from the famous @MTMehan !!!

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@MTMehan I ordered mine!

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@JudsonCarroll1 How are you seasoning the breading?

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@theblessedsalt Circumcise the Gentile converts, iirc.

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@theblessedsalt Ok, I’m not SSPX or even sure what I think of them, but how do we square St. Paul’s disobedience to St. Peter with this understanding of papal authority?

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@greg_ashman I did a little research on this, and it seems the danger comes from heavy metals vaporizing into the “smoke” and being inhaled.

The vape industry is addressing this, but it looks like only the high end THC versions have figured it out.

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@theblessedsalt I actually did gain weight on Semaglutide. Switched to Zepbound and lost, but then I lost insurance. Lost 30 pounds with diet and exercise. Kind of glad I did it that way instead.

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@catholic_comedy Desperately wanted that game for my Commodore 64.