Visiting Associate Professor of Systematic Theology in Edmonton, AB. Doctoral Candidate @MaryvaleInst. Amazon Wishlist for Doctoral Studies in the link.
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gonna post a thread of the Rivendell Lego set.
Took a break for a while because doing Lego with a sling became too hard. so some of these are older. Fun way to keep track of progress
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I can't watch the scene of the woman with cerebral palsy—who was abandoned by her mother before her first birthday—greeting the Pope without choking up. This woman has clearly heard and experienced Good News, and is a witness to the rest of us.
To those who are actively trying to eliminate the possibility of this woman's life—or from her ever having been born—the words from John 9 must be recalled, when Christ is asked why a man born blind exists: did he sin, or did his parents sin? And Jesus answered: “Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
May we never forget. In the midst of the terrible election discourse, AI doomerism, and salacious Chinese spy gossip, the works of God are being made manifest.
This is real leadership in our modern age. It isnt about authenticity. It is about real humanity. Authenticity has a performative character to it. But real humanity, real relationships, evoke empathy and love of neighbour. Pope Leo has a prophetic form of leadership
🟡 🇻🇦 IL PAPA PIANGE❗
Non è facile vedere un Papa che si commuove in pubblico, ma davanti a questa signora, affetta da paralisi cerebrale dalla nascita, abbandonata dalla madre quando era piccola, ospite da 57 anni del Cottolengo, che dice di essere FELICE per avere trovato tanto amore e una casa...
Pensate quello che volete, ma questo è un uomo buono! 🥹
Fr. Harrison Ayre retweeted
I am struggling, perhaps more than at any point since joining this platform and becoming a Vaticanista, to find the words for what we lived tonight.
Pope Leo XIV met with more than a million young people in Buenos Aires just now.
He listened to a young man who overcame drug addiction after the Church welcomed him, fed him and gave him somewhere to sleep. He listened to a young woman who resisted, and then freely embraced, her vocation to religious life — discovering that what she had considered arriving too late was really the story of “a God who knows how to wait.”
He kissed babies. He listened as young Argentines sang beloved Catholic songs such as “Maranatha.” Young content creators spoke about Martín Fierro. There was contemporary tango, folkloric dancing and Nahuel Pennisi singing one of the great songs of Argentine culture: “Who says all is lost? I come to offer my heart.”
There were candles, flags, tears, laughter and a sea of young people who had arrived with movements, parishes and families — and many who came alone.
Pope Leo drew from Pope Francis’ unforgettable invitation to a Church for “everyone, everyone, everyone,” saying he wanted to use it as an inspiration for “what it means to live as disciples of Jesus: everyone toward Christ, everyone with Christ, everyone like Christ.”
He spoke to those raised close to the Church and those only now beginning to seek Christ; to those who had stopped praying, walked away or been wounded by people who should have accompanied them.
“There is a place for you in the Church, with your questions, your wounds and your story,” he told them. “This is your home too.”
It will take me some time to articulate just how extraordinary these past few days have been for me. I have always been proud to be Argentine. After these days, I am even more so.
But pride cannot be the only fruit of what we have lived.
When he arrived, Pope Leo reminded us that “no generation builds its homeland from scratch. It inherits it.” He then expressed a hope that now feels like a task entrusted to every Argentine: “May those who come after you inherit a united homeland, worthy of its history and the possibilities it holds.”
Tonight, for a few hours at least, that united homeland felt possible.
Now comes the harder part: carrying home the joy, setting aside the ideological contempt that has wounded us for too long, and daring to build together the nation we say we dream of.
Or, as Pope Leo told the young people tonight: “May your lives become pages of the Gospel, written in the ink of mercy.”
May Argentina write the next page well.
(Photos from Reuters via @OSVNews)
Fr. Harrison Ayre retweeted
Highlights from Pope Leo XIV’s prayer vigil with young people at the “Monumento de los Españoles” in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“There is a place for you in the Church, with your questions, your wounds and your story. This is your home too. You do not have to pretend that everything is fine or wait until you have your life sorted out before drawing near,” the Pope said in his address.
“Whoever you are and whatever you may have done, Jesus Christ knows you, loves you and wants you to be close to him.”
I am falling in love with all of Byung Chul Han’s works in part because they are short. In a world of over publication and more books and articles on anything you can shake a stick at, shorter books help you feel both engaged and accomplished when finished reading them.
I love this sale so much. I went twice and packed an extra suitcase to bring books home because they were so cheap!
The University of Notre Dame Press will host its popular Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Dirty Book Sale on November 10-11, from 10 am - 6 pm in the Hesburgh Library Concourse. The annual sale is open to the entire Notre Dame and South Bend community.
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So ive thought about this a bit since the last Superman movie
I really enjoyed it & thought it had that Comic book feel the Marvel movies even lacked
But it didnt have the grabability and rewatchability that is necessary for a cultural franchise. It’s probably the right move
Inside James Gunn, Peter Safran's DC Ouster: Exec Tensions and a Fateful David Ellison Visit hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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Here is my take:
Robert Pattinson as Bond.
Cuando anunciaron que Daniel Craig sería el nuevo James Bond, internet se volvió en su contra.
Era 2005.
El rubio, el físico compacto, la ausencia del aire clásico de Sean Connery o Pierce Brosnan causaron rechazo inmediato. Lo bautizaron “James Bland”. Surgió un movimiento online llamado *Craig Not Bond*. Firmas, foros, burlas. Para muchos, Craig simplemente no encajaba.
Craig no respondió con declaraciones grandilocuentes. Se limitó a trabajar. Llegó a Casino Royale (2006) con una interpretación más áspera, más física, más vulnerable.
El Bond de Craig dejaba de ser un ícono impecable y se convertía en un hombre que sangraba, dudaba y envejecía.
La apuesta de Eon era clara: menos seducción de escaparate, más desgaste real.
La franquicia cambió con él.
Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) y No Time to Die (2021) construyeron un arco más largo y personal de lo que la serie había intentado en décadas.
Craig sostuvo al personaje durante quince años, atravesando el escepticismo inicial hasta convertir su versión en una de las más influyentes del catálogo de 007.
El final llegó en el rodaje de No Time to Die.
En el discurso de despedida frente al equipo, Craig no pudo contenerse. Con la voz quebrada dijo:
“Mucha de la gente aquí presente ha trabajado conmigo en cinco películas. Sé que se han dicho muchas cosas sobre lo que pienso de estas producciones... pero he amado cada segundo de estas películas, y especialmente de esta, porque me he levantado cada mañana y he tenido la oportunidad de trabajar con ustedes. Y ese ha sido uno de los mayores honores de mi vida”.
El actor que había sido rechazado por no parecerse a Bond terminó despidiéndose del personaje entre lágrimas, rodeado de la gente con la que lo había reconstruido.
El rechazo fue ruidoso.
El compromiso, silencioso y largo.
Y al final, más elocuente que cualquier campaña en su contra, consciente de que su paso por la franquicia cambió a 007 para siempre.
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This aint it. Not saying the lay gesture is right or wrong: but this is a bad bit of reasoning. Furthermore, I think “legislating lay natural gestures” is pretty impossible. People will do whatever is natural to them. No amount of legislation or catechesis will change it.
Our Office of Divine Worship explains why the faithful should refrain from extending their hands during the Our Father at Mass:
"Further, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, states that “no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.” (SC 22.3) Since the GIRM is very specific that the priest is instructed by the GIRM (152) to extend his hands when he prays the Lord’s Prayer, for the deacons or the laity to extend their hands would be adding to the liturgy. Therefore, the practice of the lay faithful extending their hands (or holding hands) during the Our Father should not be done."
Read more: archdpdx.org/news/divine-wor…
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"Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matt. 25:37-40
Prayers for Krakow. 🙏🙏
My favourite city and location in Europe. That square is a sign of life and human community! How tragic that violence such as this could happen in a place like this. Prayers especially for the dead, the victims, and the first responders!