"Discontent is the luxury of the well-to-do. If you've got to live here, you might as well like it." (Doc Tydon)

I do appreciate the qualifying "across locations," Google Photos.

After all these years, still my favorite friar to friar opening greeting: "You're still alive? Didn't I preach at your funeral?"

The snow grants the deceased brothers a brief moment of anonymity.

Parish child's cool review of winter Ordinary Time: "What happened to the baby Jesus?" 😟 #ExOreInfantium

Wrigley Field in the summer can’t come soon enough ☀️

Capuchin Franciscan Father John Aurilia -- the former assistant to St. Padre Pio whose final interview last October on the Wilmington's Diocese's Catholic Forum broke records as it was viewed nearly 300,000 times -- died Jan. 13 in Wilmington. https://t.co/CCbBIaQSrI

Riding in the hearse at the cemetery where local figure DMX is buried. The driver is telling me about various drama around his recent posthumous "ordination."

I do miss my spiritual director from before I entered the Capuchins, Mr. Zepf, may he rest in peace. Me: "What do you think? Should I join the Capuchins?" Mr. Zepf: "How on earth should I know? If it's a good way for you to keep close to Jesus, do it."

#OFMCapFTW

scented garbage bags are an abomination and should be outlawed

Here's the decree on the indulgences for the Franciscan jubilee year in English:

Martyred OTD in 1220, the first, or 'proto' martyrs of the Franciscan Order, Ss. Berard, Peter, Adiutus, Accursius, and Otho, after preaching in Morocco. Upon hearing of their martyrdom, St. Francis is said to have said, “Today, I can truly say that I have five friars minor.”

Indulgences issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary for the jubilee of the 800th anniversary of the passing of our holy father St. Francis of Assisi (in Italian).

Huh. I'm almost sure I saw a reply/mention about the liturgical use of a bubble machine. I can't find it now, which is too bad, because I have a 100% true story on this topic.

So too the wisdom of God holds the world like a lyre … and brings each part into harmony with the whole. By his decree and will he regulates them all to produce the beauty and harmony of a single, well-ordered universe. ~ St. Athanasius (Office of Readings)

I enjoyed, in my homily today, correcting the unfortunate choice of the lectionary editors to omit the hilarious and instructive account of the Philistine captivity of the Ark, with the hemorrhoids and the mice and the cow cart with the golden tumors and all this mess.

I saw this at the end of one of the benches when I was closing the church tonight. Liquidum non frangit ieiunium? Tag: @JoseCuervo

Quick, Catholic Twitter. Parish authority has asked me what kind of incense I want. Something that smokes good and smells pretty.

Today's instance of the religious life phenomenon of putting notes on things: "Frie5 in frezzer"

With all this talk of #Greenland, ever wonder about the Catholic Church there? Well, it's under the diocese of Copenhagen and there's one Catholic church there, Christ the King in Nuuk. Check out their Christmas photos and so on:

Doctor's assistant: "Are you sexually active?" Me: "I'm aware that the erotic energy that moves all human drive toward attachment and generativity, ultimately reaching out for God who is the final and full object of human desire is active in me, yes." Just kidding. I said, "No"