Okay everyone gets mad about "Mary, Did You Know?" because they're like "yes she did" but the literal first question in the song is "did you know that your baby boy will one day walk on water?" and I think it's fair to say that she probably did not know that one I would posit that Mary probably did not, in fact, know about 25% of the questions posed.

PSA: the term "demonic oppression" is entirely foreign to traditional Catholic thought on the Devil. It seems to rise to popularity around the Satanic Panic of the 70s and 80s in Evangelicalism.

Much of modern Catholic celebrity exorcist doctrine has no root in Catholic teaching Many texts from a very popular book of so-called "Deliverance Prayers" sound straight out a Pentecostal handbook. They claim to be sourced from traditional Catholic prayer books, but no actual citations are given and reverse searching them brings up nothing.

22 Rules for a Christian Life by Desiderius Erasmus

Rule 1 — "Place great reliance on the Scriptures... there is not a single item contained in Holy Writ that does not pertain to your salvation... nothing you perceive with your senses is as true as what you read in scripture." Rule 2 — Act upon God's promises without hesitation. Be prepared to undergo loss of everything for Christ's sake. There are two paths: the way of gratification of the senses to perdition, and the way of mortification of the flesh to life.

A good confession is one where you confess all mortal sins in kind and number.

Want to know how to make a great confession? 🧵 Say the sin that you're most scared or embarrassed about saying first. It'll make the rest of the confession easier.

Some of you may know that a few years ago, I made a canon law website. Prior to my site, the only place that the code was online was vatican.va which was out of date, poorly formatted, and unsearchable. So I made a tool to be of help.

It is now facing legal action. Sourcing the canons from the Vatican website and other places the code was freely available, I put together a website that for the past several years has helped hundreds of canonists, students, and Christian faithful know the law of the Church.

Got this in the mail and went to the website, looking forward to see how they attempted to defend their grift against five critiques

Turns out, nothing like that on the page at all, it's just a deceptive tactic to get you to actually visit the site. Very cool @DynamicCatholic @DynamicCatholic What's up with this deceptive advertising @MatthewFKelly? Aren't we the best version of ourselves when we're truthful?

Never underestimate how God might use you in ways - or places - you'd never expect.

Last summer, I was going to grab some takeout - as priests are wont to do - at Subway. The line was particularly long and slow, and I had an appointment to get back to. /1 As I was waiting my turn, a middle-aged woman came up to me and asked if I was a Catholic priest. She described to me how she had been feeling a call to become a Benedictine oblate. "That's wonderful" I responded. She asked "Do you know if non-Catholics can become one?"

Hm.

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🧵sometimes in seminary it was easy to get envious of other people's talents, esp. when it seemed like certain people were always getting public praise

it's important to remember all members of the Body of Christ have an integral role to play, even if that role is less flashy 🧵all members of the Body of Christ are vitally important

the big toe carries a substantial amount of weight and without one, walking is thrown off balance

we might want to be the face and hands but sometimes we're the big toe and that's ok