Secularists: "Thoughts and prayers literally do nothing". Also secularists:.

What is the fruit of celibacy? "The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided" (1 Cor 7:32-34).

Practically speaking, I understand: For us priests and ministers, it means a kind of alienation from our family and friends, 99% of whom have weekends off. But again, this is where we work to catechize our families (for those married ministers) or else enjoy the fruit of celibacy.

Why do priests and ministers "work" on Sunday? Because the worship and contemplation is not work in the same way that the Sabbath rests from. It is a participation in the sanctifying work of God. It is rest in the heavenly sense.

RT @FrTotleben92742: Progressive German Catholics call Traditionis Custodes a failure and call for a return to the "pastorally wise" provis….

Of all my recent tweets to have popped off, I didn't expect this one to do anything at all. And yet. Happy 4th of July to all my American homies 🇺🇸.

One of two things:.1) Praying the Liturgy of the Hours (or some other way of internalizing the full liturgical calendar). 2) Actually resting, praying, and spending time with family on Sundays.

Not-so-fun fact: One of the monasteries that Henry seized and dissolved had developed a prototype blast furnace. Had the English Reformation not happened, the Steel Age, and thus the Industrial Revolution, may have begun 200-300 years earlier.

RT @FrTotleben92742: There are two concrete steps toward Catholic-Orthodox unity that would make a huge difference. One that the Catholic s….

Low country boil, as God intended.

RT @MargoCatholic: Reminder that the 4th of July is on a Friday this year so Catholics: NO HOT DOGS OR BURGERS!. You’re welcome 🤗. Have a p….

RT @ClassicalTheis: If you do not believe that Jews and Muslims can believe in *the* One God (despite their errors), then you are implicitl….

The TLM calendar is sort of easier since it envisions the possibility of 1st class feria—abstinence and fasting laws still retain despite the liturgical elevation. The NO calendar however says, "1st class=1st class! Yay!" And, tbf, the laity like this.

Sed contra, we live in a Novus Ordo paradise, where there's no further subdivisions of Solemnities and Feasts of the 1st and 2nd class.

I've also seen some tweets asking about Unitarians, eg., JWs. I think Unitarians are closer in their philosophy of God to Muslims—esp since JWs and Muslims both uphold the traditional divine attributes—than they are to Mormons.

Mormons, otoh, completely reject the Unity of God, proposing instead Tritheism.

To add to this: I can say Muslims worship the same God while also affirming Mormons worship a different God. Muslims at least believe in *One* true God, regardless of whether they believe this Single Substance is hypostatically united to the humanity of Christ.

RT @FrTotleben92742: I think the "do they worship the same God" question actually reveals two different epistemological presuppositions --….

I'm lucky to live in a state that enables a freedom of choice in schools, but the local Catholic schools are still considered rich kid schools, again, despite being vastly cheaper to other private schools.

RT @AnthonyEsolen: One thing that happened in the Catholic Church in the USA, that nobody talks about, was that the sudden collapse of the….

The sad problem of financing Catholic schools now is twofold: The schools don't have enough money to pay their teachers a competitive wage relative to other private schools and are too expensive for the average Catholic family despite being cheaper than other private schools.