Jesus, Our Lady, St. Thomas Aquinas, forming men’s groups, leisure, bacon, whisky, and homesteading. These are a few of our favorite things #CheerstoJesus
Contraceptive speech?
We talk about Dante, fraud, and the purpose of language with @michaeljknowles in an upcoming episode.
Shoutout to @HarrisonGarlic1!
What are the common threads that make a good day for you?
I considered this question and realized 3 things typically happen when I consider a day to be a “good day”.
@genvatican2 That’s a bit disingenuous.
He said he could do it and even tested it. That doesn’t mean we used it.
The real conversation was the cost and whether it’s actually better. Then we got into the real issue… what guardrails should look like, even if doing it right costs more.
Today is the feast of St. Gemma Galgani, a mystic, stigmatist, and patron of pharmacists & those suffering illness.
We have a 1st class relic of hers right by Mary Colette’s bedside.
Today we’re also taking the paralytics off Mary Colette as she continues to fight and grow.
St. Gemma, pray for our daughter and for all who carry heavy crosses in body and soul.
There is a longer game than willpower. It requires more patience at the start. But it is the game that actually holds.
Post for entrepreneurs and dads 👇
PALM SUNDAY HOMILY
✝️You are a thought of God made flesh.
The thought of you has been with God and within His Divine Mind since before He laid the foundations of the earth.
Before he knit you together in your mother’s womb—he knew you AND HE LOVED YOU.
You are a thought of God made flesh—and it is the Mind of God that gave you existence and continues to hold you in existence today.
When a carpenter makes a chair, the chair exists separately from the carpenter—but when God made you, you do not exist separately from him—no more than a thought can exist outside of the mind.
He created you and continues to hold you in existence.
You think of things because they exist, but things exist because God thinks of them. (x2)
For God not to think of us would mean the end of us—a thought no longer held in the mind.
And who is this Divine Mind? Not a what but a who. The Divine Mind is a Person.
St. Augustine tells us the Mind of God is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Son – and it is this same Divine Mind that became Incarnate in Jesus Christ.
What does this mean?
It means the Mind came and dwelt amongst his own thoughts.
That the same Jesus Christ who walked the earth is the same Divine Mind that holds all reality in existence.
In fact, as Mary was giving birth to Jesus, Jesus was also holding Mary in existence.
And on the Palm Sunday, this gives us a brutal but beautiful truth about the Cross of Christ.
That as the Centurions are mocking Jesus, He is holding them in existence.
As the Jews are betraying their own Messiah, Jesus is holding them in existence.
As they are hammering the nails into his hands, Jesus is holding the nail, the hammer, the wood, and the Romans in existence.
All he had to do to escape his torment was to THINK otherwise, and it all would have ended.
But He did not. He did not because he LOVES you.
He did not because the Divine Mind desired to suffer to reconcile its thoughts back to the Mind that gave them existence.
To invite you, a thought of God, back into a beautiful harmony with your own Divine origin.
This week is a week of Love.
This week is an invitation to a reality that is honestly too beautiful for us to even comprehend.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
By now, the resolve we brought to Lent on Ash Wednesday has likely begun to cool. The sacrifices we committed to at the start of the season are starting to feel heavy, and if we are honest, our motivation is not what it was nearly forty days ago.
The best sales training I ever gave my son cost $5 a dozen. He's 12. We moved to a town of 700 people in Oklahoma. We built a farm stand. He was producing more eggs than he was selling. So I taught him the same framework I use in boardrooms.
It's called Teach, Tailor, Take Control.
Teach → help them understand why they want it, in their own terms
Tailor → read who you're talking to before you say a word
Take Control → guide the conversation with intention, not pressure
Near the end, he looked at me and said: "So I'm not trying to trick them. I'm just making sure they understand." That's the whole lesson. Right there. From a 12-year-old at a farm stand.