Bill McCormick, SJ

Jesuit priest @JesuitsUCS; Writer @civcatt; Texan gratia Dei

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

@KatiePMcGrady Met those very sisters the other day at the Greg. They are a gift ;)

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

Ex 24,11
viderúntque Deum et comedérunt ac bibérunt.

they beheld God, and ate and drank.

pudieron contemplar a Dios y después comieron y bebieron.

Ils contemplèrent Dieu, puis ils mangèrent et ils burent.

[Francis X. Rocca @FrancisXRocca]

It’s bad enough to use another journalist’s work without giving credit. But it’s breathtaking to see several major outlets claim as their own @eliseannallen’s video of @Pontifex talking about Real Madrid. That is not an oversight but outright theft. (See the original below.)

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

@JoshHochschild You can tell every time that he takes such pleasure in bowing to His Holiness

[Elise Ann Allen @eliseannallen]

Real Madrid vs Barça? "That's easy...the Pope is for all teams, but Prevost is Real Madrid" #españa @Pontifex

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

A recurring irony in discussions of the US founding: critics of the Enlightenment often recognize its religious sympathies, while admirers often minimize them.

[Michael Sean Winters @MichaelSWinters]

Bishop Barron and the American founding: I keep wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it is getting harder and harder.
https://t.co/JGFpo6otKb

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

Incredible generational divide I noticed while watching the Guardians beat the Yankees last night.

I wondered why Aaron Judge wasn't in the lineup, so I of course did what a normal Millennial would do: I Googled "Aaron Judge Injury" and then read an article about it.

Then, I noticed...

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

@lukeburgis This is often something wisdom figures have to do in quiet, gentle ways with those whom they mentor

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

@PTBwrites Nemo dat quod non habet

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

Since being assigned to parish ministry, I’ve been reading more on preaching. Here’s a good note from Ratzinger:

“The simple faith of simple people deserves the respect, the reverence of the preacher, who has no right simply to play off his intellectual superiority against their still simple faith, which in some circumstances grasps the heart of the matter more surely as a simple overall intuition than does a reflection that is divided up into many separate steps and particular findings” (Dogma and Preaching, p. 33)

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

At a rectory in Tulsa, 8 priests live under the same roof.

No, it's not religious life; instead, it's likely the largest community of active diocesan priests in the entire country. And it may offer insights into addressing an epidemic of clerical loneliness.

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

@JLLiedl Great ending: "As Catholics, we understand that our lives are finite, and that our ultimate goal is not to preserve our lives at all costs, but rather to attain eternal life with our Heavenly Father."

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

"Two Thomisms, Two Modernities," n @firstthingsmag, https://t.co/oZKcqh6LGO

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

"The affirmations to be negated in Pius IX’s 1864 Syllabus became affirmations to be affirmed in Leo XIII’s famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum—positive statements of Catholic teaching on modern social and political issues." - Russ Hittinger

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

Ps 33,6
Verbo Dómini cæli facti sunt,
et spíritu oris eius omnis virtus eórum.

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
by the breath of his mouth all their host.

La palabra del Señor hizo el cielo;
el aliento de su boca, sus ejércitos;

[Fr. David Paternostro, SJ @DavidPaternostr]

Bishop-elect Corcoran is a holy missionary and an exemplary Jesuit—truly one of our best. He has a great love for his people, and will serve them well as a bishop

[Hannes Kerber @HannesKerber]

Not a week goes by that I don't think about the first sentence of James Redfield's Nature and Culture in the Iliad.

A great teacher and a true mensch — the Committee on Social Thought has lost one of its finest. He will be dearly missed.

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

Priests are often tempted on Trinity Sunday to “explain” the mystery.

But the Trinity is not a puzzle to be solved with an analogy.

Better to let the mystery remain immense: God is not loneliness, not need, not lack.

He is eternal communion: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

And by sheer grace, He invites us to share in His own divine life.

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

All the posts by Catholics telling us what the pope should have said or should not have said in the encyclical is enough to make a monkish soul grumpy.
Read and think, pray Vespers. It’s Trinity Sunday, which gives us plenty of light to appreciate what the Holy Father is saying.

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

«Everything that appears as a “limit” — incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability — tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship.» MH 118