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What Pope Benedict said about clapping at mass, it’s not an option if you know what’s going on. It’s not a party or even entirely a commemoration or a rejoicing in one another’s presence . . .,. . . or entirely a holy meal celebrating sisterhood and brotherhood per membership in the Mystical Body . . .
Regrets
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Regrets are a pain in the behind. And lots of other places. They can consume you if you don’t watch out.
Solution lies somewhere between accepting God and accepting God very much.
Don’t worry about overdoing it. That won’t happen. In a million years it won’t, which is short for never.
Why he used a manual typewriter,The late Kevin McGowin, 1970-2005
SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL (362 A.D.) Martyrs and what they can tell us about going along to get along . . .,They lost their heads over Jesus. In their own back yard.
Biden and his lifelong borrower friends, stuck with outstanding loan debt which they entered freely, lured to good things by when you get down to it, the gummint and his agencies. Pied Piper.
Six-pack Joe to the barricades:
“I’m not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need,” the president said at the White House on Friday hours after the Supreme Court overturned his plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt for Americans making under $125,000 a year.
He’s a man, who’s a man? Our pal Joe.
Affirmative Action’s Demise and Higher Education,Fruits of a credibility collapse. Diversity is compelling interest? Really? Who says? Deans with spleen?
SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL (362 A.D.) Martyrs and what they can tell us about going along to getting along and what happens when you don’t
They lost their heads over their faith. In their own back yard.
[They] were brothers and officers of the Roman army in the days of Constantine the Great, and life was good. But their preferments and rewards for loyal service were about to go away.
New man in charge, Julian the Apostate raised a Christian, had returned to the cult of idols and was attempting to re-establish it in the empire. dropped all that and embraced paganism and would restore it to its former ascendancy. The brothers resigned their position in the palace, seeing many who went along with this and prospered.
Not for us, they said. The emperor tried to win them back. Gave them ten days to think it over. They spent the time giving everything they had to poor people. The emperor sent the imperial officer Terentianus, who brought “a little idol of Jupiter for their adoration.” He found them in prayer. They said no and in the middle of that night were decapitated in their own garden, secretly because the emperor feared their execution might cause a sedition.
He instigated a rumor that they had been exiled but demons used people to broadcast their martyrdom, including the officer’s son, and it was only after the father prayed at the martyrs’ tomb that the child was liberated. This so impressed him that he became a Christian, with all his family, and wrote the history we have reported.
The brothers? By their renouncement of favors and their heroic resistance, they purchased never-fading glory, more than the emperor could provide in a million years, figuratively speaking.
Their basilica
. . . sits atop one of the seven hills of ancient Rome and since the fifth century, their names have been included in the Roman Canon of the Mass. Their feast day is celebrated on June 26, the date of their martyrdom.
Such a little thing the officer asked, just worship this little idol and we’re outa here. Nothing would have happened here. Was that too much for the emperor to require? Turns out it was, and we 21st-century worshipers can pray these days,
O Almighty God, let our joy be doubled on this feast of the victory of blessed John and Paul, for they were made true brothers by sharing the same faith and the same martyrdom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with God the Father almighty and the Holy Spirit, world without end.
Amen.
The Homosexual Infestation of the Catholic Church. The predominance of homosexuality within the ranks of Catholic clergy is a chief cause of the clerical sex abuse crisis and it fundamentally undermines the Church’s core mission
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
The Catholic bishops of Spain released a clerical sex abuse report at the beginning of the month, based on testimony from nearly a thousand abuse victims and revealing a staggering 728 predators, over 99 percent of whom were male. The report also revealed that nearly 82 percent of victims were male.
This statistic shouldn’t be shocking, as it is consistent with clerical sex abuse reports across the globe, demonstrating that the chief and even the root issue behind clerical sex abuse is homosexuality.
Oh?
In 2004, the U.S. Catholic bishops commissioned a now-infamous report from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which reported that 81 percent of clerical sex abuse victims were male. In France, a landmark clerical sex abuse report released in 2021 reported that over 330,000 children were abused by priests and other diocesan employees and noting that 80 percent…
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Japanese get trained in ‘Hollywood’ smiles as masks slowly come off
TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) – In one of Keiko Kawano’s recent classes, more than a dozen Tokyo art school students held mirrors to their faces, stretching the sides of their mouths upward with their fingers: they were practising how to smile.
It’s not something most people would think to pay for but Kawano’s services as a smile instructor are seeing a surge in demand in Japan, where mask-wearing was near universal during the pandemic.
Himawari Yoshida, 20, one of the students taking the class as part of her school’s courses to prepare them for the job market, says she needed to work on her smile.
“I hadn’t used my facial muscles much during COVID so it’s good exercise,” she said.
Kawano’s company Egaoiku – literally “Smile Education” – has seen a more than four-fold jump in demand from last year…
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