Bridget O’Brien

It was really very moving. I am very moved.

(yes i am taking an uber home; i am a True Urbanite and do not own a car. but not so True an Urbanite that i will wait an hour at 9:30pm to take the regional rail i took here.)

I was invited to preach at a prayer service in the suburbs, about an hour from the church where I work…
…and about 20 members of the church where I work came, and several told the organizers, “We’ll go anywhere to hear Bridget preach,” and now I’m crying a little in the Uber home.

No absolutely; anyone grouping Haugen & Haas either hasn’t heard about Haas or has truly terrible priorities (or both, I suppose).

OH LORD.

I WILL say it is true that churches should not use Haas’s music, but that is because he is a serial sexual harasser who used his work as a liturgical music composer to harm women.

Bluesky can’t move on from Talarico discourse fast enough, truly.

- your bishops firmly stand against an attack on birthright citizenship, calling it "immoral"

...and your move is to call their teaching incoherent?

(2/2)

What, exactly, is "Catholic" in your culture when:

- 1 in 5 Catholics in the US are either at risk of deportation or live with someone who is

- 61% of immigrants vulnerable to deportation are Catholic - 29% of US Catholics are immigrants

- 14% of US Catholics are the children of immigrants

(1/2)

AAAAHHHHHH

Screenshot showing a google search for "usccb birthright citizenship." The first hit is a link to the USCCB titled "The Catholic Church's Position on Birthright Citizenship." The second hit is a link to a First Things page titled "What the USCCB Gets Wrong About Birthright Citizenship."

I was just trying to find the amicus brief.

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.