Andrew Casad

husband and father, pastoral liturgist, cultural anthropologist, and aspiring farmer

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

Buon onomastico @Pontifex and @crazylove St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us!

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Jesus, by welcoming sinners and eating with them, reveals to us that God is just like that: he excludes no one, he wants everyone at his banquet, because he loves everyone as his children. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 15: 4-32)

[West Seattle Blog @westseattleblog]

Photo by Bill Wellington:

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

@hankgreen Oak galls!

[Carey Nieuwhof @cnieuwhof]

The real competition for the local church isn't another church, the megachurch, online church or the weather. It's indifference.

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

@timothypomalley A text for a future/updated STEP course?

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

Trying to untangle the etymological knot of the English word "horse." I'm used to some relationship to Latin (equus), Germanic (pferde) or Scandinavian (hest), or borrowing from Romance languages (cheval, jumet, or caballo) or Greek (hippos or alogo). But what's up with "horse"?

[Nicky Gumbel @nickygumbel]

St. Valentine was imprisoned beheaded & buried on 14 Feb 269 AD for helping persecuted Christians & marrying Christian couples! While in prison he prayed for his jailer’s daughter & her blindness was healed. On the day of his execution he left her a note signed, ‘Your Valentine.’

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Former head of Eritrea's Orthodox Church, Abune Antonios, has died at the age of 94 on Wednesday.

Abune Antonios who had been under house arrest for 16 years, was a fierce government critic and seen as a symbol of resistance.

Read more: https://t.co/8wMPG1f6eA

#BBCAfricaLive

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

@BBCAfrica May his memory be eternal

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

@justinscoyle Whatcha working on? Persian Christianity or Indian Christians?

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

The Presentation of the Lord in the Temple https://t.co/QUQNqMk6xf

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

…religious 20-somethings who marry directly without cohabiting appear to have the lowest divorce rates. https://t.co/n3E6U5myPP

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

@bibleproject Come, Holy Spirit!

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

@wsferries How is this possible? Some of us on Vashon work in Tacoma and points south. Others of us have children on sports teams here on Vashon who play teams in Pierce County. My primary care physician is at Tacoma General. This is dangerous and needs to be remedied!

[Archbishop Etienne @AbpEtienne]

Return To The Lord; Return To The Eucharist - https://t.co/VK0VXK1qIs

[Andrew Casad @acasad]

@justinscoyle @protoclete, what’s your “go to”nominations?

[Bishop John Stowe @BpStowe]

When the Roman authorities demanded St. Lawrence take them to the treasures of the Church, he showed them the poor.

[Archdiocese of Pretoria @pretoria_of]

The Holy Father has appointed the distinguished Professor Mpilenhe Pearl Sithole, lecturer at the University of the Free State Qwaqwa Campus in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa, as ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. https://t.co/xWQgf0rceX

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

Today's Pope Francis & Latin Mass news pushed me to write something for @americamag that I've been thinking and praying about for a long time.

The Latin Mass gave me a hunger for beauty and a reverence for the sacred. It also made me bitter and arrogant.
https://t.co/vm4Ssfupcq