Fr. Patrick Allen
@chasordinariate
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Priest for Corpus Christi Catholic Community, Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter: The Anglican Patrimony in the Catholic Church for Charleston, SC
Charleston, SC
Joined February 2013
First Communion for Henry and Confirmation for Lucy yesterday - beautiful day, beautiful Mass!
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Today Lucy portrayed Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia.
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Breaking this Twitter hiatus to say that my wife has been selected by the graduating med school class to give a “Pearls of Clinical Wisdom” lecture tomorrow.
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Happy Easter! Here’s the view from my undisclosed location.
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Having placed the unbleached candles on the altar and consumed a bacon cheeseburger, I now wish you a fruitful Lent and abandon Twitter. God bless you!
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NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft. This is Art.
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Courtesy is not dead in South Carolina, and it pays!
South Carolinian claims largest jackpot ever paid to single player at $877,784,124. Winner, who wants to stay anonymous, said he/she allowed a fellow player in front of them to make a ticket purchase before the winner stepped up to the register.
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“Hip Brooklyn socialist” has me cracking up.
everything else aside, i’ve never met a hip Brooklyn socialist who didn’t regard my religious faith at least with interest: and most were also respectful
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My latest piece for @HistoryToday is about a medieval poem which challenges its readers to think about greed, over-consumption, and the waste of time and words https://t.co/egejUfZeKQ
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Lucy knocking out a little minuet at her recital today.
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True Charity consists in bearing with all the defects of our neighbor, in not being surprised at his failings, and in being edified by his least virtues" Story of a Soul, Ch 9
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I say to myself that if I had seen her fall once, she may well have gained many victories which she conceals through humility; and that even what appears to me a fault may in truth be an act of virtue by reason of the intention." ...
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Here we go: "If, when I desire to increase this love in my heart, the demon tries to set before my eyes the faults of one or other of the Sisters, I hasten to call to mind her virtues, her good desires; ...
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What is the St Therese line about being surprised and pleased by discovering people’s virtues rather than concentrating on faults?
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Seems like it would make your steering wheel dangerously greasy.
The guy in the car behind me drummed on his steering wheel with actual drumsticks at every red light and now I really, really need some drumsticks.
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Great art theft content via @prufrocknews
https://t.co/E7Qk8W6TV5
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