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One night St Nicholas of Tolentino heard the voice of a deceased fellow friar, Brother Pellegrino of Osimo, who said he was suffering in Purgatory. Pellegrino asked Nicholas to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for him and for many other souls. Nicholas was then shown a vision of a great multitude of souls in suffering, pleading for help.
Moved by compassion, he obtained permission from his superior and offered Mass for the dead for seven consecutive days, praying intensely for them. On the seventh day, Pellegrino appeared again, now in glory, thanking him and saying that he and a large number of other souls had been released and were entering Heaven.
From that time, prayer and Masses for the Holy Souls became a hallmark of Nicholas’s spirituality. In 1884, Pope Leo XIII formally proclaimed him Patron of the Souls in Purgatory. He is especially invoked for them during Lent and in November (particularly around All Souls’ Day), and Augustinian churches often hold special devotions to him for the suffering souls.
David retweeted
The assumption: the Real Presence was invented around the 12th century, once medieval philosophy got its hands on a simple memorial meal.
The problem: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, writing around 350 AD, was already teaching newly baptized Christians the opposite.
In his Mystagogical Catecheses, the lectures he delivered to new converts during Holy Week, Cyril tells them plainly not to view the Eucharistic bread as ordinary bread. He instructs them to approach with reverence, sensing by faith that the body and blood of Christ are truly present on the altar.
Cyril does not say the bread "represents" Christ. He says it has become His body, by the power of the Holy Spirit invoked in the epiclesis, and he warns the faithful to approach with clean hands and a pure heart precisely because of what the elements now are.
This is roughly 750 years before the theology critics call a medieval novelty. The catechumens of 4th-century Jerusalem were being taught Eucharistic realism as entry-level Christianity, not advanced speculation.
A doctrine does not get invented centuries after it is already the standard catechesis of the ancient see of Jerusalem.
If Cyril taught this to brand-new Christians in 350 AD, where do you think he learned it?
David retweeted
I once got an acquittal for a guy who grabbed his wife by the hair, slapped her, and then fired a revolver next to her head… and then threw her out of the trailer and fired another round in the air outside of the trailer…
because he was trying to watch the Super Bowl and she wouldn’t stop nagging him.
I tried the case because there was no plea deal even offered. Two felonies, both with mandatory 10 years and no parole. Nothing to lose…
After the wife testified at trial, being particularly nasty to me on cross examination, the jury apparently sympathized with my client, who had been married to her for decades, and just like that… set him free. Even the judge couldn’t believe it.
That trailer is still sitting there - now abandoned - on the side of US 219 and you can still see the bullet hole in the wall.
🚨 #BREAKING: Virginia man charged with duct taping his wife to a chair so he could watch football upstairs “in peace”
David retweeted
In 258 AD, Roman soldiers interrupted a Mass. They beheaded the pope and four deacons on the spot. The record of that moment proves the pre-Constantinian Church had a defined Eucharistic priesthood and a structured Roman liturgy. Here's the ancient witness you were never shown.
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My family (husband and two teen boys) all frequent our gym. Our gym has a men only floor, women only floor and a co-ed floor.
We were recently discussing the SNL female gym clothes joke and realized that this is why none of us go to the co-ed floor.
The women who wear skimpy clothes at the gym do not work out in the women only floor, where most of us are wearing oversized free race t-shirts and basic workout clothes.
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I’m going to @Nance726’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? xitter.cf/i/spaces/1yxBePndpekJN
Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 why so many current singles are worried about Ephesians 5? I agree with it in principle - of course I do, it's Scripture - but I've never worried much about ensuring it's correctly applied in my own marriage, except that I try to show to my wife something of the sublime patience, kindness and love that Christ shows me.
Gentlemen, if you find yourself in a situation where a “Christian” chick utters the words “mutual submission” to you, don’t embarrass yourself by trying to give her a small theology class explaining how “mutual submission” was used in the Bible in the context of church relations, not spousal relations. Just leave and find yourself a woman who actually understands the difference without you having to explain.
For anyone more or less scandalized at the news that a bishop has disallowed the recitation of the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel after Mass in his diocese, here is a detailed clarification from someone who seems to know what s/he is talking about.
I'll try to steelman this. The basic argument is that the form of the Mass is given to us by the Church, and should not gradually accumulate unofficial devotions, no matter how pious and good those devotions may be in se. It's not up to the individual priest to define what the Mass is (Sacrosanctum Concilium §22), and the Leonine prayers were discontinued per Inter Oecumenici (§48). In that sense, it is not even up to Bp. Beckman-- he is simply relaying the decision that has already been made by the Church ~60 years ago. The Prayer to St. Michael is one of the Leonine prayers, so that would seem to be the end of the story.
Some might argue that because the Prayer to St. Michael is recited after the dismissal, it is not part of the Mass. This is a distinction without a difference, as it is clearly part of the *liturgical flow* of the Mass, and perceived by the congregation as a unity. Ask yourself: could a congregant leave directly after Mass without becoming conspicuous or causing a disruption? If not, it's not meaningful to talk of a distinction between the Mass and congregational prayers recited directly after Mass. Besides, given that the Leonine Prayers were already expressly discontinued, it seems that either (a) that the Church takes a similar view about post-Eucharistic customary liturgies jeopardizing the universality of the liturgy, or (b) the Church is simply exercising Her authority to regulate what happens in parish life immediately after Mass, just as She can regulate any other aspect of parish life.
As to why discontinue the Leonine prayers in the first place, it is completely historically normal for liturgies to grow by accretion, especially at the beginning and end, and especially when due to the sense that the participants in the liturgy have not "done enough" to either prepare themselves for the liturgy or to fully complete it. (I am speaking of a completely normal human spiritual impulse, not casting aspersions here. See Fr. Aidan Kavanaugh's On Liturgical Theology for more.). This process is accelerated by the psychological difficulty of objecting to any given accretion, especially when it is not objectionable in se ("What, you want to suppress the Prayer to St. Michael? Perhaps because you're in league with the devil?") If the Church desires liturgical universality, which She generally does, then these accretions must from time to time get pared back, otherwise the liturgy tends to grow without bound.
The Leonine prayers were introduced only in the mid-19th century, for the particular purpose of praying for the defense of the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See. This intention became obsolete in 1929, whereupon the intention was rededicated to religious freedom in the Soviet Union [a state that no longer exists]. When the Leonine prayers were suppressed in 1965, it was simply a return to the Mass as it was celebrated in the period 1570-1884.
Quite aside from the fact that the Church has a right to define the form of the Mass, there may be additional reasons to think that this particular decision is a good one. The Mass is the "supreme act" of the Church's prayer (Sacramentum Caritatis), and the institution of supplementary prayers to angels or saints immediately after the consumption of the Eucharist can have a jarring effect, let alone risk the implication that the Eucharist is not sufficient for our spiritual protection. At the very least, as Bp. Beckman argues, they run contrary to the spirit of "noble simplicity" of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
At least, that's my steelman.
David retweeted
I would argue that men are born with the spirit of Adam and women are born with the spirit of Eve. Both men and women need to overcome that.
A man needs to overcome his need to placate to women and instead obey God first. A woman needs to overcome her need to usurp authority from a man in order to gain power.
Man must stop making a god out of the woman. The woman must stop making a god out of herself.
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Some of us do tell men, but when men are young, hormonal, and desperate for sex and female attention, it tends to fall on deaf ears.
The women that know this but don’t tell any man hide it because they abide by the code of the sisterhood which says that a woman’s interests must be protected and pedestalized at all costs. A woman that wants to manipulate you is not going to tell you this because, well, then she won’t be able to manipulate you. It’s against her interests. The snake is not going to tell the mouse where snakes hide before they attack.
Also, from my observations, men tend to only learn the hard way and through experience. You see, men are born with a savior complex that sooner or later, has to get crushed. A man starts out eager to save and rescue women that are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. That is, of course, until they see with their own eyes that women are not actually sugar and spice and everything nice.
David retweeted
Story time!
By the time I was in 5th grade, I had grown my hair to be very long, all the way to my hips. It was my mom that made me grow my hair that long. Up until that time, I never really cared about my hair or my looks so I never gave it much thought. None of my friends ever commented about it in any way.
Then I got to middle school. We all hit puberty. Suddenly, my friends were telling me that my hair was too long and that I would look better with shorter hair. I distinctly remember that one of the girls who would tell me this had long hair herself, mine just happened to be longer.
One day in 7th grade, as I was walking out of the school cafeteria after lunch, a girl tapped me on my shoulder and asked “is that your hair?” as she pointed towards the floor. I was confused and didn’t know what she meant until I looked down and saw a lock of hair of about 3-4 inches just lying there. I asked her, “Whose hair is that?” and she said, “Yours.” I looked at my hair that was in a braid, and sure enough, a chunk was cut and missing.
I was shocked until I heard a laugh behind me. It was one of my “friends”, she was laughing out loud with a pair of scissors in her hand. She thought it was hilarious. Of course, I was very hurt. The ends of my hair were uneven for months (I didn’t want to cut it so I just waited until it grew back).
Anyways, girls commenting about how much better I’d look with shorter hair continued throughout my entire adolescence. Female intrasexual competition is 100% real, it starts out very young, and it is vicious. A lot of times women don’t even realize that they’re doing it. The jealousy and desire to bring a woman down in order to bring themselves up comes naturally for many.
Any woman that isn’t being dishonest and that grew up with women will confirm that. You don’t really need a study to know this, but in this case this study is based on reality.
David retweeted
Pretending to be afraid of people who don’t give a shit about you, doesn’t work.
It only works to elicit care, duty, sympathy, obligation, and kindness from people who fundamentally care about women, don’t want them to go through life terrified, and will go out of their way to make women’s lives better.
And that, like every one of these gross subversive tactics, is why it is so repulsive. They’re taking advantage of the good will men have for them, and weaponising it against them. It’s really gross.
David retweeted
If you saw that Duke Football Le “Incident ™” and rightly detected that she clearly played the crybully game and women are lapping up the foidnip excuse to use Le Medical Staff plausible deniability cope you’ll be pleased to find I put into words an analysis of a similar incident.
Women have particularly gotten away with subtle condescension like shoving you or talking down to you for long because beards and boobs masculinity dorks tout Le “Stoicism” and Le “Out Of Kontrowl” neurotically, amounting to excuses for cowardice.
If a woman condescends you don’t ever let the idea that it strips you of masculinity to infect your mind and prevent you from standing up to them. Nothing more contemptible and insufferable than women who think they’re entitled to that, and every bit of it implying you’re “immasculine” is strictly defined by them and wifeguys/girlfriendguys. They have no authority over masculinity, and the least masculine thing is not setting your boundaries for fear of women declaring you immasculine because of it.
