John G. Blanchard

My name is John, I'm Catholic, with five kids, and a big baseball fan. And a wonderful wife!

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

“He upbraideth not;” when we pray to him he does not reproach us with the insults we have offered to him, but he appears then to forget all the injuries we have done him, and to delight in enriching us with his graces.

-St. Alphonsus

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@CaleClarke It's a good time to be an LA sports fan. If the Lakers start being more analytical it might get tough for the rest of the country.

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@Maria_my_name Oh she's doing fine. I'm just laughing that she forgets how her politics have changed ever so slightly over the years.

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

It just might be possible that s*** happens

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Kendall George, the Dodgers prospect who injured his knee while while trying to get out of the way of a bat dog, did not sustain ligament damage, according to an initial MRI. He’s going to get a second opinion

Watching the video he did not need to jump like that lol. He didn't even have to move, it's a dog not a venomous python.

[Father George Despodov @GeorgeDespodov]

“Blessed is he who has known his weaknesses, for this is the foundation of every virtue. He who does not know his weaknesses is deprived of humiliation. And whoever does not have humility is far from the truth." - Saint Isaac the Syrian

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@Maria_my_name My mom used to say you can't legislate morality in the 90s and now she's all pro-life Republican. She also barely remembers she used to say that back in the day lol.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

For seven consecutive seasons since 2019, the Los Angeles Dodgers re-signed outfielder Andrew Toles, who has Schizophrenia so he could keep access to the team’s health insurance and mental health services.

He wasn’t expected to return to the field but the team support allowed him to continue to receive, medication, therapy and counselling.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

I guess Pedro eats all the food in the family

[David Vassegh @THEREAL_DV]

Ramon Martinez back at Dodger Stadium!

1990 struck out 18 Braves.
1995 No Hitter vs Marlins.

[David Vassegh @THEREAL_DV]

Ramon Martinez back at Dodger Stadium!

1990 struck out 18 Braves.
1995 No Hitter vs Marlins.

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@Maria_my_name Things were moving too fast and people just didn't see the consequences... Humans take a long time to get it through their heads. Life has been moving fast probably since the enlightenment of the 16 to 1700s And it reached some kind of crescendo at this point in the '60s.

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@CaleClarke All in the name of being an extreme competitor

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@Maria_my_name

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@TimNeverett How about your covid curveball?

[(Stephanie) Slade @sladesr]

Congratulations, Twitter is good again.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

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[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

[Patrick Madrid ✌🏼 @patrickmadrid]

St. John Vianney (1786–1859), the famed Curé of Ars, was and is well-known for his great sanctity and humility.

Ars was a podunk little French town of fewer than three hundred inhabitants situated about eighty miles west of Geneva, where St. Francis de Sales had ministered two centuries earlier, converting tens of thousands of Calvinists to the Catholic Church.

Unlike the illustrious Francis de Sales, St. John Vianney was neither erudite nor polished. In fact, most people felt he wasn’t nearly smart enough to learn Latin, philosophy, and theology, much less pass his seminary final exams, a prerequisite for priestly ordination. And they were nearly right!

Though clearly holy and virtuous, he was the furthest thing from an intellectual and struggled mightily to learn what seemed to come so easily to the other seminarians.

Knowing he was unlikely to make it through the seminary, John Vianney prayed earnestly every day that God would grant him the necessary clarity of mind to pass his tests.

He was such a poor student that he indeed would have flunked out of the seminary had not a kindly older priest interceded on his behalf with the seminary faculty, arguing that holiness is more important in a priest than book knowledge and that they should ordain him anyway.

Reluctantly, they agreed to do so. Shortly before ordination, John Vianney struggled with a theology exam.

According to a longstanding anecdote, the professor conducting the exam exclaimed in exasperation, “What could the Lord possibly do with such a complete jackass?!”

With just a hint of a smile, John Vianney replied, “Reverend Father, if the Lord, through Samson, could slay a thousand Philistines with just the jawbone of an ass, imagine what he could do with a complete one.”

St. John Vianney, ora pro nobis! 🙏🏼

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The equality of the sexes does not consist, as some have supposed, in the fact that women can, if necessary, be soldiers, or that men can, if necessary, be housemaids. If anything it consists in the fact that men are bad housemaids and women bad soldiers.

[John G. Blanchard @isednom]

@ScotBertram @baseballcrank Maybe chan ho park jr