Jose de Vivre

Male. Married to female. RTs, likes ≠ endorsements.
Pronouns hisbiscus, herbiscus. Deadpan sarcasm lives.
Ad Catholicismum iterum magnum facendum

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@annmtave Ann, where are you ? Your facebook looks like it was hacked

[Climate Warrior🐬 #ClimateJustice🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ClimateWarrior7]

I don't understand how we ended up with John Cleese as Defender of the Christian Faith while the King goes on about Islam.

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

Must be the Babylon Bee

[Fr. Matthew Venuti @mvenuti1980]

Why? WHY?

[Clinton Shaw 🇻🇦 @Clintonshaw88]

Today, I was confirmed into the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
It wasn’t easy. Honestly, it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. When people like Keith Nester, John Bergsma, or Scott Hahn say many converts “come into the Church kicking and screaming,” they aren’t joking.

I grew up in an evangelical/Reformed world where some sermons were solid, and others felt like they were stitched together by proof-texting verses to support a particular message. At the time, I accepted a lot of the anti-Catholic ideas like, the whore of Babylon, the church of Antichrist, and all the usual claims. But even when I believed those things, something in me always felt… unsatisfied.

It was like an itch I couldn’t scratch, a thirst I couldn’t quench, a hunger I couldn’t satisfy.
And because of that, I wandered, spiritually, like Israel in the desert, searching for a home.

Every new church required reading the mission statement to make sure it aligned morally with Scripture, especially on issues where the wider Protestant world was deeply divided. Despite hearing, “We’re all unified in Christ,” it was painfully clear that the teachings were anything but unified. I must have visited nearly every church in the Phoenix area, and yet that spiritual thirst remained.

And when the soul is starving, it begins to look elsewhere.
Sin becomes tempting, like an apple hanging from a tree, bright and perfect on the outside, but turning to ash and vinegar the moment you bite into it. And sadly I found myself there ALOT.

As I dug deeper into my faith, I asked myself:
Would a loving, all-knowing God really leave us wandering spiritually homeless, trying to piece together truth on our own?
The idea of an “invisible church of visible members” never made sense. And in every debate I watched, the Catholic side didn’t just argue well, they argued coherently, biblically, and historically.

Everything changed the night I attended a Midnight Mass on Christmas.
The liturgy, the incense, the music, the Scripture readings, the reverence, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. It washed over me with a sense of peace and belonging, a feeling I had never experienced in worship before. It felt exactly like coming home.

It was like the Father in the parable of the prodigal son. Running toward me, arms open, patiently waiting for me to return. In that moment, something deep in my soul whispered: This is it. This is the Church.

As I read the Church Fathers and studied history, I realized the Church Christ founded was not a tiny mustard seed lost to time, but a towering mustard tree, ancient, rooted, full of saints and sinners, good popes and bad popes, and yet unchanged in the faith it has carried for 2,000 years.

Today, before entering the confessional for the first time, I understood why many leave the Church or fear entering it: because holiness is hard.
Walking into that confessional was humbling. It exposed how far I had fallen from grace, but also how deeply God longs to draw us close. And when I walked out, went through the Mass, and received the Eucharist for the first time, the priest’s words pierced me:

“Peace I leave you, my peace I give you… look not on our sins, but on the faith of Your Church.”

At that moment, I felt the peace, unity, and love Christ gives through His Church. I saw how the Holy Spirit had been working through so many people, apologists, friends, Bible study discussions, debates, all planting seeds like patient gardeners for the Lord.

If you’re reading this, I want to extend the same welcome, kindness, and embrace that the Church extended to me.
Please, come to Mass. Experience the liturgy.
It is truly heaven on earth.

And I pray that one day, you, too, will find your way home.

God bless.

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@aGim_asf @AdamSchefter Right, once they snap the ball it should be too late 2 call timeout.

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@RichRaho Rigid Raho

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

I'm quite sure he is a cousin of Elvis
too

[Eccles @BruvverEccles]

O.K., so we have our first black pope.

[fr. raymond blake @raylblake]

#FiduciaSupplicans
Blessing homosexual unions, yet another example of pastors leaving the Sacred Tradition and leading souls to hell.
When will enough be enough?

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@jeffersonmorley And why didn't the JFK Review Board get them ?

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@dlongenecker1 Maybe he has a pair of these in his closet already.

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@BruvverEccles Yeah baby !

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

I didn't even know. Maybe he has a pair of these in his closet already

[Fr. Dwight Longenecker @dlongenecker1]

Not a good look when trads are already trashing Pope Leo because he's not wearing red shoes.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Francis’s trad critics must resist the temptation to give in to bitterness, which distorts the intellect and will. But his admirers need to face up to the reality that this bitterness is a natural human reaction to treatment of trads that was unjust, arbitrary, and indeed cruel.

[Caroline Farrow @CF_Farrow]

As the Catholic sphere celebrates the election of Pope Leo XIV, please remember our friend Father Ray Blake, whose blog was once an essential read and an integral part of Catholic online life.

Fr Ray is dying in hospital. 🙏🏻

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@EduardHabsburg Fair enough, but the details will spill as they always do

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@CoffinMedia Who are multiple sources ?

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

The plot sickens..

[Jefferson Morley @jeffersonmorley]

On Trump and the JFK files, some basic question beg for answers.

Where exactly did these 80K docs come from? That's far more pages than are found in the 3,886 docs held by NARA and the 2,400 docs recently found by FBI (which totalled 14K pages).

Are these new JFK documents digitized? Or will they be released on paper? If they're digitized and searchable and they come from DOD, we'll have news. But NARA has little capacity to digitize a lot of documents on short notice. If the docs are paper, it will take weeks, if not months to analyze.

Are the people doing the releasing familiar with what's been released before? The debacle of Pam Bondi's breathless release of ancient Jeffrey Epstein documents does not inspire confidence.

I think Trump is responding to @TuckerCarlson criticism of last week. How substantively he is responding is the question of the day tomorrow. #JFKFacts

[De La Salle University @DLSUManila]

Today, we remember the lives that were lost on February 12, 1945 when the Japanese forces entered De La Salle College during the final days of World War II. Among those who perished were 16 De La Salle Brothers and 29 civilians.

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

@JBKSchlossberg I have no idea what you are trying to say but there is nothing to be feared from full disclosure.

[Jose de Vivre @TSentenil]

Yeah !

[Jayden Daniels @JayD__5]

One day you guys gonna here my name everywhere😈💯💯💯🏈