Layman

Christian ✝️ Perennialist 🏵️ Canadian 🍁 Swiftie 🫶 Lover ❤️, fighter ⚔️ and Twin Peaks enjoyer 🏔️🏔️

[Layman @lay_man_]

@credenzaclear2 thinking of my favourite tweet of all time rn

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The human heart is not filled by accumulating experiences, possibilities, or temporary guarantees; it is filled when it discovers a call, when it understands that life reaches fullness only if it is given. Following Christ does not impoverish existence, but expands it. #ApostolicJourney

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Charity admits no delay. Our responsibility before those in need makes every encounter with others a unique and unrepeatable moment of grace for love, not to be missed or postponed. The love of Christ impels us toward our brothers and sisters, and the charity and care with which we respond are the test of our faith. #ApostolicJourney #Spain

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Silence can help us most to recognize the voice of God, since it fosters attention and recollection. Freed from the noise of a thousand voices, we come to recognize that some voices deceive our desires, others buy us without nourishing us, and still others speak out of self-interest. In silence, we understand that ideologies pass away, while truth remains. https://t.co/lbaMqHx1cJ

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

If you care about your health, wellness, and fertility, you need to floss

Apparently this is not common knowledge, so here’s a dump on why you NEED to floss daily. Honestly, I’d say it’s even more important than brushing.

Gum disease is a chronic low-grade infection that your whole body is fighting. If you doctor asks “Are you flossing?” you have some visible evidence of gum disease. He’s not just making small talk.

This comes in stages. Gingivitis is the most common, and a majority of adults who don’t floss have it. This means your gums are inflamed (that’s why they bleed when the dentist pokes them)

Periodontitis is more serious: this means your gum disease is destroying the bone and connective tissue supporting your teeth. If you’ve ever needed antibiotics for this, pleaseeee consider it a come to Jesus moment.

The whole issue with inflamed gums is that it’s letting bacteria into your bloodstream that doesn’t belong there

This bacteria works its way throughout your body, and has been linked to:
-Cardiovascular disease
-Strokes
-Insulin resistance, weight gain, and diabetes
-Cognitive decline
-Alzheimer’s disease
-Adverse pregnancy outcomes (periodontitis specifically has been shown to increase risk for preterm birth, low birth weight, preeclampsia, impaired placental function, and miscarriage!)

Finally, the rest of us have to look at you and smell you. And yes, we can tell!

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

The horror film “Obsession” is a surprise hit at the box office this summer. Made for around one million dollars, it has already grossed over a hundred and fifty million. But it's not only a financial success; it's also a spiritually quite interesting film. What drives the plot is a young man's ardent desire to be loved by the woman whom he loves. Seeking a gift for Nikki in an occult store, Bear finds a device that advertises itself as “One Wish Willow.” If you break the stick and make a wish, it will come true. In his desperation, he follows the instructions, and it works like a charm. The previously diffident Nikki becomes totally devoted to the delighted Bear. All his dreams, it seems, have come true. Then things go, shall we say, south. I won't spoil any more of the plot. Suffice it to say that Nikki proceeds to devour the young man and push him toward despair.

Throughout this film, I kept thinking of Oscar Wilde's famous line: “the only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.” The spiritual issue here is one that the masters have recognized for centuries and one that stands at the very heart of Biblical revelation: if you tie your deepest desire to anything or anyone other than God, you will find, not satisfaction, but destruction. This is the moral teaching behind the great Shema prayer: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is Lord alone.” Jesus reiterates this when he says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and all your strength.” The psalmist affirms it when he sings, “Only in God will my soul be at rest.”

During the rite of Confirmation, I ask the young people a series of questions, the first of which is “do you renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises?” Up and down the ages, Satan has made the same empty promise: I will give you something less than God and it will make you happy. In point of fact, it will ruin you, and the more you seek to acquire it, the unhappier you will become. What becomes clear in the course of “Obsession” is that the owners of the occult shop where Bear bought the fateful wish-willow are in fact involved with very dark spiritual powers. In my conversations with exorcists, I hear over and over again that those who get ensnared by the devil commence by dabbling in the occult.

“Obsession” is a good horror movie. If you like the genre, and you're not too squeamish, go see it. For it won't just scare you; it will offer some important spiritual truths.

[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

[Layman @lay_man_]

@HettrickMichael I see the comments are being reasonable about this lol

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

Happy Victoria Day! (Canada)

[Victoria Rose @woahhvickyyy]

The wages of sin is death

[jolly @woja999]

“Now I know how Joan of Arc felt” was actually crazy as hell for Morrissey to say. He absolutely doesn’t know how she felt

[max @lynchinist]

i use the voice memos app to record my dreams immediately after i wake up so i don’t forget them and to decrypt them later

[🔞lynchian homoeroticism ⌖ (00/05) @licensedfag]

cooper: wow im really stressed out
the touch of the sheriff of joy and tranquility:

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

You are part of a story of love—that of the Lord for His people—which began before you and does not end with you. You are part of it as unique and necessary pieces. You are part of it so that you may kindle a light, even amid the dense patterns of darkness. #PastoralVisit #Naples https://t.co/1ho0ge1iyH

[Modern Notoriety @ModernNotoriety]

Pope Leo XIV rocking Nikes with his clerical vestments

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Reducing your community’s weight in Parliament to own the Libs 🤔

Pro tip: the Prime Minister will never see your note. Canada has been conducting a census since 1867 regardless of the party in office. Every country on Earth does a census.

By boycotting the Census, you’re not striking a blow for freedom or privacy. You’re reducing the population weight of your area when Parliamentary seats are allocated.

Not smart.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

There is an order of nuns in Spain who are currently going viral because they are saving a breed of GIANT rabbits from extinction

[Patrick Schwarzenegger @PSchwarzenegger]

You got no idea…