Sincerely, “check my public life and all I do. If you find anything reprehensible, point it out [to me], and I shall be grateful to you and do my very best to correct it; but please be specific.”
Although quoting Don Giovanni Bosco, this is a permanent invitation from me.
I don’t think my app missed 5 episodes only to land back at the right point in the narrative 😜 🙃 😂
I’m really enjoying this mini-series & am looking forward to Cato’s special.
@simonahac@MSMWatchdog2013@AmyRemeikis Making rapists properly accountable is tremendously powerful. It empowers victims to speak out and forces rapists to face the reality of their crimes. After all the shame and stigma is theirs to carry, not their victims
Footnotes:
These quotes are from another attestation of our need for Confession, the Twelve Steps developed for Alcoholics Anonymous and which I first encountered in @AlAnon_Alateen.
¹ Step Five
² Step Nine
A fascinating episode on the need we have for Confession.
The recordings of a little kid, of a bloke who couldn’t find a half-safe public bathroom, of a 15yo who felt alone and needed connection: voices of people who needed to be heard.
“When you call, you will be alone with a tape recorder.” Today, an episode about what happened when an artist created a phone line for people to call in anonymously and leave a message apologizing for anything. https://t.co/ROXuDNpaHQ
I need to hear and receive absolution.
I also need to know that my intention only has worth insofar as I both try my hardest and am assured that it is in the gift of the Divinity that my effort will bear fruit. My insufficient strength will be built upon, not supplanted.
We always reform or ridicule, not the customs of the remote past, but the new customs of the day before yesterday, which are just beginning to grow old. This is true of furniture and parents.
#GKChesterton
(Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb 23, 1921) https://t.co/YZIVxZszph
@Joeinblack Those posts baffle me. I’ll wait three hours for a single person ahead of me, and then wait until after Mass, rejoicing that our God wills to be so close to us.
I’m confident that, all else being equal, if I die waiting for that Confession to be heard, Jesus won’t reject me.
They’d tell you to get the train from the station <500m away.
Like, I get what you’re doing, #OohMedia & @Wotif, but it’s particularly stupid placing it so close to the train stn, in a position clearly intended mostly for pedestrians & p/transport users. #BoorlooAesthetics
As discussed recently on @newpolity pod, the symbol and fact of the Virgin, given entirely to the love of God, whole in herself, shows the lie of this instrumentalisation of the person, of the woman.
Such ideology, while yearning for the good, ignores personhood “in toto.”