Sometimes people I've met after my Mom passed away forget that my Mom is no longer alive and either mention seeing me with her, or ask how she is and sometimes I don't have the heart to tell them she's no longer with us and so I just smile or give a bland answer π
The Diocese of Wichita is doing something right.
They have a 195% priest replacement rate (meaning the diocese has nearly double the number of seminarians needed to replace retiring or deceased priests).
The vast majority of seminarians come from homeschool or parochial schools. The diocesan Catholic schools are authentically Catholic.
Adoration chapels across the entire diocese. Praying for vocations is part of every parishβs culture.
Weekly Mass attendance is through the roof. Liturgies are reverent and embrace tradition.
If Iβm a Catholic bishop, Iβm looking at this diocese and taking notes. The blueprint for Catholic renewal in the USA is in Kansas.
ppl don't realize how isolating it is to grow up thinking and knowing that nobody around you likes or had a crush on u. I genuinely think that itβs not possible to find me pretty in that way and that I will never find someone. when someone gives me a compliment my first thought is that they are either making fun of me or lying.
@learning_yohei Spanish is what is primarily taught in schools,but I think Mandarin is becoming one of the more taught languages now especially in city schools.