Kevin Bui

29 - Catholic 🇻🇦 - Vietnamese-American - Musician - Biomedical/Software Engineer - Curling stan

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

Hello!
Just wanted to let you know that you, yes YOU, are fantastically amazing.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
Especially yourself.

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@oneneuronfiring No longer a newborn!! 🤯
That's so real lol. It probably does feel like that until solid foods and a regular sleep schedule comes back

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

@blondemedSJW But that's how all parenting goes. That's how love goes, actually. It's like a muscle. You exercise it, and your capacity grows. You become capable of things you couldn't envision.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

In the weeks leading up to Pope Leo XIV’s first visit to Spain, organizers found themselves facing an unexpected problem: Too many people wanted to help.

Chefs offered to cook. Winemakers volunteered bottles from their cellars. Ham producers dispatched prized jamón ibérico to the nunciature — where the pope will live while in Madrid. 

Singers asked for a chance to perform. Artists called looking for a role, and Antonio Banderas, famous for playing, among other things, Zorro, managed to snatch one.
And all this @inesanma brings to your door @OSVNews ahead of the trip starting not in days, but hours. Olé! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

[OSV News @OSVNews]

After 15 years without a papal visit, Spain is preparing to welcome Pope Leo the Spanish way: with flowers, faith, a packed soccer stadium and jamón.

Pope Leo's trip beginning this Saturday will take him to Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands. Along the way, he will encounter traditions that have shaped Spanish Catholicism for centuries, from Corpus Christi processions and flower carpets to ancient choirs and Marian devotions.

Read more from @inesanma: https://t.co/A6IdlObp3w

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

Is it wrong to starve a child to death just because she has Down syndrome?

That's exactly what happened in 1982 when parents of a newborn with Down syndrome named “Baby Doe” withheld a common surgery to help the baby digest food.

The case made national news and, even though the hospital fought the decision, the courts sided with the parents, who allowed their child to die of dehydration five days later.

In 1984, the “Baby Doe amendment” was added to the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in order to prevent hospitals from withholding food, fluids, or medically indicated care to children merely because they are disabled.

But if it is wrong to starve a child to death just because she has Down syndrome, then surely it is just as wrong to dismember a child in the womb because she has the exact same condition.

In fact, there is a term for this kind of discrimination against the disabled: ableism.

Our society has learned that people with disabilities are still people, and so we reasonably accommodate them with things like handicapped parking and braille on signposts.

But aborting someone because he is disabled is, to put it mildly, not very accommodating. And when it is done systematically, it is a form of social oppression against marginalized communities.

Just as we wouldn’t euthanize a child who became disabled through an accident or an illness, we should not kill a child in the womb for the same reason.

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@oneneuronfiring I think he thinks y'all are the same person still right? When does that wear off?

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@alliepilled22 You got it! 🙏💙

[cherie @PascalWife]

Someone dear to me will be receiving Extreme Unction tomorrow. In your charity, please pray for my friend C.
Thank you, friends 🙏

[Carly @RhyminCarly]

All roads lead to Rome, and by roads I mean thoughts, and by Rome I mean anxiety

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@oneneuronfiring Happy birthday!! 🥳

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@oneneuronfiring Imagine if you guys did an IRL stream of your date for him to watch

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@imaginarylilguy @pjgih If you get less than 3 of them that's a failing score

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

@ThxTom90228 Actually, in humanity there is no shame in being a burden.

We’re mortal. Our bodies get weak, our minds get weak. We will each die. And along we’ll depend on each other.

Love is bearing the burden willingly and generously.

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

@ThxTom90228 I’m not afraid to say that I burden my wife, and she me. Or that parents and children burden us with the demands of love. This is what binds us in a meaningful life.

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@anod0s That's a good point! And maybe that's by design, where actual focused meditative prayer is supposed to require a higher level of engagement than vocal prayer

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

I've been thinking for awhile that the rosary is cognitively difficult! Not everyone can hold an image or concepts in their mind to meditate while reciting something different!

[Catholic Atlanta @NyinaWaJambo81]

Catholics, do you feel like you are actually meditating on the mystery while saying the rosary?

I can't say that I am. I have tried reading an extended passage from the Bible that the mystery references. That helps because I am thinking about it while reading, but once I read it, I am not thinking about it while I am reciting the rosary.

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@LucastaHonoria That's a good point! I think laying it out as a prayer with different layers of engagement would be really helpful for people, so that they don't just give up on it if they feel they're not doing it "correctly"

[Kevin Bui @KevinHVBui]

@RhyminCarly Yeah exactly! Breaking the norm can be sometimes useful! On my college campus, or chaplain sometimes had one sentence homilies for daily Mass that were helpful! Things like "let's meditate on God's love".

[Matt Swaim @mattswaim]

@NyinaWaJambo81 Weirdly enough I just wrote an article about this very thing, because that's something I grappled with, especially early on

You should join us some Monday afternoon for our art and rosary group on Zoom https://t.co/6IrbTYNMtj