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Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
Modern life is a form of slow torture for most people. You get painless dentistry, abundant calories, and 500 channels in exchange for this opaque, ceaseless horror.
This is such a bleak story about what it's like to try to land a job right now. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
Does anyone remember kneeling alongside the bedside to say prayers at bedtime as a child? Do children ever do this now? What if we go back to this practice as adults?
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
People who are responding to this post with some variation of “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” should take Amtrak from NYC to Chicago.
You’ll see one sad exsanguinated town after another—husks of an America that was but is no longer—places where the concept of a “neighborhood” was a lived reality.
We are an atomized, isolated, drugged-to-the-hilt society now, despite the well-off enclaves where families trick-or-treat in parking lots before sundown and pretend the poors are just a bunch of complainers.
You can just lie in the grass, soak up the sun, and wonder at the beauty of the bluest October sky and no one will stop you.
Attended a “Priestly Parastas” (evening vespers for the deceased) for a former priest of our parish who died of illness much too young. Our Archbishop and approximately 10 other priests conducted the service and everyone in attendance sang the responses in a mix of English and Old Church Slavonic. It was a beautiful and moving service that provided a deeply spiritual comfort to the family.
Have been thinking about this all morning and how much more meaningful this “communion” and fellowship was than anything else I did all week. Even though I attend church every Sunday and all Holy Days, there is something mystical and incomprehensible about such a service. We should participate in this type of communal prayer more often. Our lack of time and access to these services in modern life is one of our greatest losses.
So, looks like I have to go to battle over the obscenely bright and intrusive LED lights that were installed a few days ago across the street from my home and are flooding the front of my property and the inside of my house with light. God, I’m so tired. Why does. everything have to be a fight anymore?
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
A fall full moon photo I took a few years ago with my Canon 7D and 135 mm zoom. Photographic serendipity is a thing.
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
I homeschool the same reason I bake my bread.
It IS ridiculous. And I'm NOT a pro. I should be able to buy decent bread and send my kids out to receive decent instruction. But we live in a society that's decided bread and public instruction should be extremely soft and sweetened.
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
This is a case where you really can just tell the Bishop to pound sand and pray them anyway. People really can just start praying them aloud after Mass because a Bishop can't say you can't pray a prayer after Mass inside the Church.
Our local bishop is banning the St Michael prayer from the end of Mass.
His article, in the local Catholic paper, explains that in order to celebrate the liturgy “in accordance with the mind of the Church” priests need to “catechize the people of God as we move away from additional prayers recited together immediately before, during, and immediately after Mass.”
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
We simply have to stop appointing bishops whose ability to manage exceeds their desire to.
The Francis Papacy in particular has been dominated by choices of bishops who are perfect reflections of the failed 1980s version of American Catholicism.
There is not one intelligent person who would spend time in any Diocese, look over the landscape and think to themselves “You know what we really need to do? Ban the Saint Michael prayer after mass.”
Final note on this topic:
Not two months ago a left-wing publication put out an article about why we shouldn’t pray that Saint Michael prayer after mass.
If you do not think this is a coordinated effort, you haven’t been paying attention.
Our local bishop is banning the St Michael prayer from the end of Mass.
His article, in the local Catholic paper, explains that in order to celebrate the liturgy “in accordance with the mind of the Church” priests need to “catechize the people of God as we move away from additional prayers recited together immediately before, during, and immediately after Mass.”
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
Many people have ceased to be able to imagine a life for themselves at a small enough scale that their nervous systems can handle it.
We have all been trained to imagine the Good Life is one of extreme achievement or extreme consumption, often both.
The trouble is that trying to live at an inhuman scale ruins our bodies and souls.
Still think there isn’t spiritual warfare?
Dear friends, during some recent medical examinations, the doctors found a small, localized nodule in my lung. It was detected at a very early stage and is well-localized. The doctors believe that it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to remove it. The operation is already scheduled to take place in the coming days. I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers.
Held our church’s annual Cash Prize Bingo today, it was an overwhelming success and lots of fun too. It’s amazing what a small group of faithful and determined people can accomplish.
Want to make a difference? Join your local parish and get involved.
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
It seems clear to me that the Great Replacement is a subcomponent of a broader phenomenon, the Great Abstraction: words on paper are more real than blood and flesh, abstract values are more real than sensory information, virtual objects are more real than physical matter. The endpoint is that the human body itself and the world we experience will be replaced with something else, something truly putrid & evil, unless we can gain clarity & reroot ourselves
Someone on here called me lazy…I was so lazy today I took a PTO day to clean the house; have the furnace serviced, radiator vents and thermostat replaced; prepped and painted the foundation myself; checked on my friend’s father who lives around the corner, is on chemo, and wasn’t having a good day, took him homemade bread and an apple turnover made earlier in the week; went to the pharmacy for a neighbor. Just a typical non-work day.
Bonnie 🇺🇦 retweeted
If you want Christendom back, go to Church. I know the churches are mostly full of awful people but that’s no excuse. Go to church. Demand Christian doctrine and the liturgy that embodies it. Demand all the things that Christianity gave to civilisation. Choirs, architecture, schools, music, faith hope and charity.
All these things will return but only if you go to church.