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Deus meus et omnia. Pre-Vatican II Catholicism. Traditional Franciscanism. Recusant. Englishman.
Apr 24, 2022 19 tweets 7 min read
The apparitions to Sr. Faustina Kowalska did, primarily, not come from God - a thread

Thank you to @ascent_of for many of the quotations which I will be using in this thread. Sr. Faustina Kowalska was a Polish nun who is most well known for the Divine Mercy. Her confessor was Fr. Michael Sopocko.
In this thread, I would like to highlight how the apparitions did not come from God, and also how Fr. Sopocko abused and manipulated the nun.
Sep 7, 2021 14 tweets 6 min read
Franciscan Saints on Modesty

A thread detailing the writings and teachings of Franciscan saints regarding modesty. The whole Franciscan spirituality is, in a sense, based around modesty. Poverty is a very modest form of life, with no vanity or pride, and the clothing of the Franciscans reflects this. In its early forms, the habit was a mere peasant’s tunic with a course rope girt around them.
Jul 14, 2021 16 tweets 6 min read
The Capuchin Friars of Villiè-Morgon, France.

A thread about the Capuchin Community of Traditional Observance. Image Founded by Fr. Eugene de Villeurbanne, a friar of the Province of Lyon, it was created to be a community of brothers observing the traditional Capuchin way of life - faithful to the habit Fr. Eugene professed as a novice, the rule he vowed to observe, and the traditional Mass. Image