I got totally destroyed once for telling a woman not to wear yoga pants outside the house
I didn't know how to handle spiteful women at the time, so it hurt real bad
But now that I do, I'd do it all over again
One of the easiest ways for a man to see if a woman is worth pursuing: ask her to dress modestly in public (since most don’t these days).
If she says no, she rejects the authority of Christ, and would thus reject your authority as a husband.
Move on.
Fasting's spiritual benefits are vast but the physical benefits aren't so clear
If you're a young buck, you'll probably be fine..until you're not...
This is why our Church only expects us to do an extended 40 day fast once per year, any longer and the persistent elevation in our stress hormones would lead to a degradation of structure and energy, therefore limiting our ability to serve our neighbors
This only applies to men
If you're a woman, you probably shouldn't be fasting much at all: “She shall be saved through childbearing.”
@gregcello All she needs is the Hail Mary:
"I will put enmities between thee [the serpent] and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel."
@gregcello I'm noticing some videos that are clearly a real person using their real voice, but the script they're reading is clearly AI generated, always disappointing
The weight isn't fat, it's a wound you've been feeding and ozempic is just another bandaid
Address the wound, surrender yourself to God's will, and the results will follow
If you struggle with nuance, you'll struggle with Peating and end up gaining 100lbs by gorging on orange juice and cheese
At least you'll have full eyebrows!
American Catholicism is largely just intellectual Catholicism. Heavily influenced by Protestant converts and the American Protestant culture they converted from. It’s why the videos of Holy Week in Spain get so much traction on this site. The American convert looks on and says look how beautiful Catholicism is while failing to produce our own unique Catholic culture. Im not knocking converts. Just making an observation. I think outfits like Catholic Answers are great for answering Protestant objections to Catholicism, but they’ve also created a Protestant ethos where Catholicism becomes something like faith alone plus the sacraments. It’s still mainly based on what you believe rather than how the faith is embodied. It’s quote mining certain scriptures to combat the quote mining of other scriptures. The closest thing we get to a genuine Catholic culture is at ethnic parishes that have a remnant preserved from their European heritage. A polish parish, or Italian parish will still do processions but there’s nothing that is unique to America. We should work towards changing this.
@megha_lilly That news story is a bit of a psyop. There's been nothing stopping people from hoarding books previously. It's just another poorly written scary story where AI is the monster