Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻

Dominican (3rd Order) Husband, Father of 6, Radical Distributist, Catholic Land Movement, Society of GK Chesterton, Christ is King 👑 No MAGA 🚫 or Sedes, 🇻🇦

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

Here for Catholic and Orthodox Fellowship, Passionate @CatholicLand Homesteader/Small Farmer in training. First Seeking the Kingdom of God! Not here to sell amything or monetize my account. Please no MAGA politics. @AmSolidarity Party member. Solidarity, Distributism and Subsidiarism. GK Chesteron Society Member and Hilaire Beloc/Father Vincent McNabb fan.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Johnny Cash: “Being a Christian isn't for sissies. It takes a real man to live for God, a lot more man than to live for the devil.”

"Anyone who really wants the truth, ends up at Jesus."

[Diana Henry @dianahenry]

“God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.”

Venerable Bishop Fulton Sheen, pray for us

[Br. Chris Garcia, OFM Conv @friarchrisg]

The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. Pray how God is calling you to your particular vocation and use your gifts for His glory.

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

I was for the guy in 2024, but this is trashy as hell, fit for a Rhinestone Caligula, not the President of the United States. But here we are.

(Don't come back at me with that Biden-&-the-Trannies thing. That was worse than this. Gross indignities are not mutually canceling.)

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer."

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@TaylorRMarshall @mamboitaliano__ Great solution!

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@CultureExploreX Yes, It is a great account to follow. I have been mutuals with this account for over 5 years on my old account.

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@amconmag I can smell them from here. 🤣

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

Realized today that as a corollary to this, "boutique religion" is also basically absent in most truly rural areas.

Like unless I want to drive ~40+mins one-way, I've got about 3 Catholic Parishes I could go to for daily Mass.

None of them would impress a "liturgy snob" at all. They're just regular Novus Ordo parishes of a type that a true Liturgy fancier would find unappealingly austere.

These Churches are generally poor, too. They're working with what they've got, often with small, aging congregations.

When I first came back home to rural Northern NY, I was fresh off an enlistment that took me to CA, NOLA, and NYC. I was spoiled for incredible Churches practically everywhere I went. It was very very easy to be a "Mass of the Ages" guy when I was living in those places. So when I came home, I was distinctly underwhelmed by the Liturgical offerings around here.

As the years have gone on, however, I've given these kinds of Parishes a second look. Just the same way our liquor store sells Franzia box-wine instead of nice Argentinian Cab Franc, or as our grocery sells Valu-brand black olives instead of fresh Kalmatas -- our Churches offer a plain 'ol Novus Ordo Mass and not anything Byzantine or in Latin. And this scarcity has led me to slowly make my peace with a spiritually-nourishing kind of simplicity.

Would I prefer a high TLM in a giant historical Gothic Basilica? Of course I would. But I don't live in a place where that exists, so I go to a regular Church for regular people.

It's not as bad as I used to assume it'd be. In fact, the longer you stick around, the more fine details you pick up that are extremely encouraging. Many "un-wreckovated" Parishes up here; quite a few where at least 75% of the faithful receive the Eucharist on the tongue, and quite a few of the women veil. Sanctus in Latin isn't unknown by any means, St Michael Prayer is common, and pre-Mass Rosaries are almost a given in some parts. I even see incense occasionally.

This has been very spiritually beneficial for me; because instead of insisting upon a more boutique, specific, niche kind of of "alt-Catholicism for aesthetes," I've just been engaging with the wider Church as she really is -- and I haven't seen any Clown Masses or heinous irreverence of the type I was so paranoid about when I was more staunchly "trad."

Sometimes a paucity of options is what drives real growth. You work with what you've got and thank God you have acess to the Mass -- because after all, in many parts of the world, there are Catholics who risk life and limb, walking many miles for a chance at getting to ANY Mass and are grateful for it.

There's something almost "Franciscan" about this; my environs have led me to accept the Mass I deserve rather than to focus the Liturgy on my own preferences. It has been very fruitful for me.

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

The Epstein Class invitational is about to begin I guess. Nice to know who my neighbors are that paid to watch goyslop so I can keep an eye on them 👀

[RT @RT_com]

Marco Rubio, JD Vance stride into the Freedom 250 UFC WH Event

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@timburchett @realDonaldTrump Oh C'mon Tim...you surely didnt fall for it did ya? oh my, not you brother.

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@FredSimonTLM @Joseph_DeMarzo Same

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@bgcts Thanks for sharing...

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@WhiteHouse BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@ReasonTheology everything is a psyop. nothing is real

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@bennyjohnson 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

Random Sunday Reminder - OUR FBI knows - and has known for a quarter century - the identity of the 9/11 Short-sellers who had obvious foreknowledge. Yet, they STILL won’t tell us.
Happy Birthday, America!

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@ReasonTheology I bet none of this is true. There was no deal to begin with. All psyop.

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@CurtMills 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[Christopher Mark of the Forest 🌳🌻 @DominicanDad7]

@5149jamesli Trump lied and y'all know it.