Fr. Timothy Matkin

Rector (parish priest) at S. Francis Anglican Church Dallas, ACNA, husband and father. Devout Catholic. Creator of bespoke ecclesiastical vesture. (thee/thou)

[John B 🇺🇸🇻🇦✝️ ☦️ @JohnMB69]

Good list of questions for Protestants to answer. I made an infographic for this, which AI had to condense to make it all fit.

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

This alone (with the opponent's stated position) ought to be sufficient to inform one's vote for the US Senate seat from Texas. Thank you @KenPaxtonTX

[Vanessa Sivadge @V_Sivadge]

🚨Today, Texas Children’s Hospital has officially launched their Detransition Clinic 🚨

Under the settlement, TCH must provide multidisciplinary detransition-related care FREE OF CHARGE for five years, including endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, mental health services, social work, and speech pathology.

I extend my heartfelt gratitude once again to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and my attorneys at the Burke Law Group for their extraordinary dedication, sacrifice, and tireless efforts throughout this fight. Their commitment helped turn a painful and difficult chapter into an opportunity for meaningful change. @KenPaxtonTX @BurkeLawTweets

I think of all the detransitioners who have suffered in silence, been dismissed, and fought desperately to have their voices heard. This win is for them.

I hope TCH’s admirable effort to fund and launch Americas first detransition clinic becomes a turning point for the entire country. That this clinic is not the exception, but the first of many.

Today’s a good day. ❤️

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[set phasers to old man yaoi @gaytricorder]

actually the concept of takei and shatner being the only ones left

[Daniel ♱🇻🇦🇺🇸 @danielthepapist]

Asperges Me

[agus pare @agusofpare]

David Wood embarrasses Jay Dyer for boasting that his Church compiled the canon, by pointing out that his (Dyer's) Church has different canons. Wood continue saying that if he want to get an official closed canon he has to go to the Catholic.

[Lone Star Liberty PAC @LoneStar_PAC]

James talarico said, "I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity."

Now he tries to laugh it off. #TXsen

[Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿 @hdpayens]

Many assume that if human reason is a gift from God, it should be enough to work out who God is and what we are for.

Aristotle took reason as far as it has ever gone. He concluded that the highest human life is contemplation of the First Unmoved Mover. And then he admitted, in effect, that we can only say what God is not, and grasp Him for a few fleeting moments at best.

The greatest pagan intellect in history hit the ceiling.

That ceiling is the point. In the Summa Theologiae (I, q. 1, a. 1), Thomas Aquinas argues that Revelation is necessary for two reasons.

First, man's ultimate end is communion with God in a way that exceeds everything natural to us. Reason can know that God exists. It cannot arrive at the Trinity, the Incarnation, or the beatific vision, because those truths surpass the natural capacity of any creature's mind.

Second, even the truths reason can reach, like God's existence, would be known by few people, after a long time, and mixed with many errors, if left to philosophy alone. Aristotle's own school debated these questions for centuries without settling them.

Notice what this is not. It is not a dismissal of reason. Aquinas honors philosophy as far as it goes, farther than most. The claim is that our destiny is supernatural, so no natural faculty could ever map it.

If the greatest mind of antiquity could deduce that God is, but never that God is love, what does that tell you about how much of God reason alone can reach?

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

I've never had a Big Mac.

[Lancevideos @lancevideos]

Ted Cruz really cooked here. I would have said a lot more. Ted really was trying to explain the complexities of foreign affairs to someone who doesn’t know what that is.

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

@dom_lucre El Chupacabara

[Lone Star Liberty PAC @LoneStar_PAC]

James talarico: "What would Jesus do if he visited the Texas legislature? I think he would tell us: 'Blessed are the trans children'" #TXsen

[ParatrooperRob @RagingStorm2872]

Do you ever wonder why “fat chance” and “Slim chance” mean the same thing?

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

@barukalas A lovely green damask on that chasuble.

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

@BrianRoemmele How does steam help one lose weight?

[America @america]

Democrat James Talarico in his own words:

“Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist”

“God is non-binary”

“The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us”

“Our trans community needs abortion care too”

This guy does not represent Texas

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

POWAY, SAN DIEGO COUNTY: This is the only poll I need to see.

As Becerra tries to run out the clock, there is REAL ENERGY on our side!

Don’t wallow. Don’t sit this out. We still have 10 days to maximize turnout. If every Californian who wants change votes for it, we win!

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

Sermon: The law of love https://t.co/GsklRSVewM #ACNA #Anglican #Catholic #AngloCatholic #Jesus #Gospel #Truth @StFrancisDallas @fwanglicans @The_ACNA @diocese_ftw

[Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿 @hdpayens]

Beneath a basilica on Rome's Caelian Hill is the residence where two imperial court officers were killed for refusing an apostate emperor. The Eucharist has been celebrated over that ground ever since.

Their names were John and Paul. Not the apostles. Two brothers who served in the imperial court of Constantine, then refused the orders of Julian the Apostate to renounce Christ and serve the old gods.

They were killed in their own home, quietly, around the year 361. An imperial officer named Terentianus was sent to do it.

Here is why this matters for the whole Catholic-Protestant debate.

The Church did not simply remember them. She built over their house. Excavations beneath the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo uncovered the ancient Roman residence, complete with early Christian frescoes, sitting directly beneath the altar.

A private home. Then a house church. Then a basilica. Layer upon layer of continuous worship on the exact ground where they died.

And their names appear in the Roman Canon, the oldest Eucharistic prayer of the Latin Church. Every time that prayer is said, the Church still speaks their names at her most sacred moment.

This is not medieval legend. This is archaeology matching liturgy matching martyrdom records, all pointing to the same spot.

The early Church did not carry an abstract message. She carried memory anchored to flesh, blood, and stone.

If the faith were meant to be invisible ideas only, why did the first Christians treat the ground itself as sacred?

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

@s_drue91599 I think it's quite good. Keeps overturning expectations. More atmospheric than explicit. Demands a rewatch to catch all the details that only make sense in hindsight.

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

Rewatched 'The VVitch.' The family leaves the covenant community (probably before being excommunicated) because the father condemns the church as heretical. It seems to be that he's gone baptist in his views. The result (death) is what happens when you are outside the covenant.