Fr. Matthew Siegman

Priest for the Diocese of Wichita, KS.

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

@lukei4655 I enjoyed the joke, but welcome to the club!

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

@lukei4655 I thought it was fairly limited where you can offer that Mass? My Mass was in honor of St. John Berchmans, since he is the patron of our TLM server guild. I didn't have the English one.

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@AthletaChristi7 @lukei4655 Oh my. That’s one of those things where father needs to say no. One time, I had a family who wanted fried chicken for a funeral dinner on a Lenten Friday, I said no, and they cancelled the whole thing. Sad, but sometimes we have to say no!

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@AthletaChristi7 @lukei4655 Fair point, my only experience is in the US. I would hope that priests everywhere care about the souls in their care, but with things like that chancellor in France and the guy in the Dicastery (or whatever) of State… I wonder…

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@AthletaChristi7 @lukei4655 I can understand the frustration. And there are some who just refuse to care. (They drive me nuts!) But usually it’s an inability to recognize that temporal stuff they do is not necessarily for the salvation of souls.

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@lukei4655 @AthletaChristi7 This. Exactly this. Many truly don’t know how to prioritize. (I’m not perfect here either!) Then there are men who are great priests in many ways, but they are simply not suited to be pastors. But there aren’t enough pastors so they get made one anyway.

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@AthletaChristi7 @lukei4655 That’s quite uncharitable. Most of us deeply care about the salvation of souls. It’s easy to get caught in the other stuff when people depend on you for their family’s livelihood. Also, lots of guys get thrown into being pastor before they’ve had a chance to learn to be a priest.

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@OVTweetmarck Lawrence is a hell hole 🤣, but Wichita usually has a ton of aviation related engineering. A lot of engineering is mostly remote. (The group I worked in before seminary is still mostly remote these days, from what I hear.)

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

@PaulinusOfTrier @kalezelden @Aethelbertfred The servers most certainly know when I’m in a hurry and rushing it. They know some priests are excruciating perfectionists and which are “speed racers” (their words not mine). The MC at Sung Mass hears nearly everything.

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@MattSorrell3 @FrTotleben92742 @quovadis74 Wow! I got behind on my notifications. This is an incredible thread. Fascinating stuff that tweaks the theology and engineer sides of my brain. I learned some stuff on both sides today! All told, the processions stuff in the ST I.27-43 (esp. q. 27) are most comprehensible to me.

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

I had to take Thermo for my Electrical Engineering degree, and it was not my favorite (conversion factors are ick!), but I didn’t remember H2O simultaneously existing as all three phases even at the triple point, just that all three are a possibility. If that’s the case, it would still technically be modalism, but TBH it is one of the better analogies.

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@FrTotleben92742 @Perl_of_Wisdom Drat! Now I will have to go on an excavation of 16th century documents. We went back to Pius X, but I just believed the professors when they said that was really when the term was coined. (It was hard to focus on class deacon year.)

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@FrTotleben92742 @Perl_of_Wisdom I’m fascinated by this. (& tempted to ask to read it!) In my courses it was always fuzzy. The best answer I heard was to be aware of what was happening and offering yourself to Christ alongside the bread and wine to be transformed and the offered to God-Liturgical Movement ideas

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@FrHilderbrand @reginaamericae I recently acquired this vestment, and it's a very nice cut: https://t.co/mUFDQmZWNL

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

It sucks. Remember what St. Peter taught: "for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 1:6-7)

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

Sometimes you just have to take the risk and hope that what you've done is recognized as good and beautiful, and then you hope others value that. Even if it isn't valued and in 50 years is destroyed, remember: "everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life." (Mt 19:29)

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

@DavidLa24721654 @BackwardsFeet Not technically, but in practice he can make your life hell if you don’t do what he says. Letters like this make me glad my diocese has a good & holy bishop, and pray that we get to keep him a long time.

[Fr. Matthew Siegman @MattSiegman1]

@FrHilderbrand Agreed, haha

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Today, the Church honors Venerable Emil Kapaun, a priest and military chaplain who laid down his life in service of others. May his witness inspire us to bring the hope of the Gospel to every corner of our lives.