Bridget O’Brien

hi athena 😍

many parts, one body, yadda yadda (but seriously)

I played the violin from 3rd through 6th grade but I was truly terrible at it & my closest friend from childhood whom I still text every day is a clarinetist, so I support you in this.

the algorithm will truly have advanced when we can pick from a list and mute current discourse

"Hi Bridget! Today we are arguing about: Why cheddar cheese is counter-revolutionary; Whether walks in the park are inherently rude; Why Americans don't understand what dessert is. Click to mute."

Truly came to the replies to say exactly this.

"hysterical"

Yeah. I personally do not care for "Eagle's Wings," but it comes directly from scripture and other people do have strong attachments to it, and I am not the only person whose aesthetics matter when planning liturgy!

(Also, "Eagle's Wings" isn't Marty Haugen; it's Michael Joncas.)

This is the 🤯 place that this post started, honestly.

I just keep blinking in shock.

Yes, this is it exactly.

Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” painting, showing a man in flannel and a well-worn jacket standing up in a crowded room to speak

I don’t hate Marty Haugen or the St. Louis Jesuits. Not every liturgy is the same and there are contexts in which their compositions contribute to a prayerful and joyful Mass.

I’m sorry WHAT.

The thing that's REALLY gross is the number of times people who should know better have told his story & claimed he died to save the life of a Jewish man. No!! Not true.

There are good, valuable reasons to begin the Sign of Peace w/ those one actually knows—spouses and parents/children have actual conflicts & sins they need to make peace about!—and also

boy do I have Feelings about "& now: the part of the mass where I stand awkwardly while The Nuclear Family hugs."

Clicked the "In Season Now" link at the grocery store's website and was informed that NERDS Cherry Lemonade Gummy Clusters, and Topo-Chico Raspberry Lemon are now at peak freshness, so.

Make note as you do your weekly shopping.

a) who says the Church is becoming more lax?! that’s WAY earlier

b) what about when there is no gloria? is it impossible to be on time during lent?

I was actually just coming here to say:

1. lolllllllllll
2. This does make me wonder where that “common knowledge” about “as long as you hear the whole gospel it counts” comes from!

…because each human person is of inexhaustible worth, every person warned away by whistles and kept alive through food deliveries and underground midwives and released through the exhaustive labor of lawyers and activists is an inexhaustible victory, that counts and will never stop counting.

I was having a low moment, but this is true and important. To give into despair is to choose powerlessness, when in fact we have so many other choices available to us.

Each human person is of inexhaustible worth, and the US government is pursuing harm that can never be undone.

—AND…

It’s really true; there are thousands of people doing concrete things every day that range from very visible to things that will never be seen by anyone else, and we each have the ability be one of those people.

No, I haven’t! I’ve read a good amount of her work, but not that one. I just added it to my holds list; thank you!

Black Catholics in America Most Black Catholic churchgoers are racial minorities in their congregations, unlike White and Hispanic Catholics – and Black Protestants

3 million Black Catholics in the US, per Pew; 2.6 (self-designation) or 1.5 (church enrollment) Episcopalians in the US.

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

148 people at a girls’ school.

As 'border czar' challenges Pope Leo, Archbishop Wester warns of 'Bonhoeffer moment' Two U.S. Catholics, 'border czar' Tom Homan and Archbishop John Wester, agree that immigration remains a challenge — but each has starkly different viewpoints about what their faith demands of them du...

Catholic Archbishop John Wester (Santa Fe) "told [journalist Michael O'Loughlin] in a recent phone interview that he believes we're living in 'a Dietrich Bonhoeffer moment.'"

Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon Hegseth has criticized Scouting America's historic rebrand in 2024 from the Boy Scouts and other changes he sees as part of "woke culture."

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Brother Jayson, Sister Cayleigh

40 people at a girls’ school.

Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester on why he's imploring the White House to change course on immigration, why he sees this as "a Bonhoeffer moment," and why Catholics must keep speaking up. Read more at @ncronline.bsky.social: www.ncronline.org/news/border-...

Also, Interesting to me that they can choose any sort of anachronism that suits their idea of how society should be…

but no one thinks to say, “Hey maybe it was JOHN who couldn’t have children.”