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Looking for recommendations for not-so-known or obscure saints to learn about. Mtr Samantha said to find one and get acquainted in her sermon this morning. I take homework seriously… 🤓

A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.

Selfie. A brown t-shirt with lettering in gradient colors that reads “Diversity Equity and Inclusion are Christian values.”

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion are Christian values.” - my shirt 🤓

Happy All Saints! Off to Mass.

“Fall Asleep to Thomas Aquinas’ Philosophy & Theology” video as a suggestion from YouTube

My YouTube knows I have a not-so-secret (loving) contempt for St. Thomas Aquinas, and it’s trolling me… 🤣

Woohoo! 🎉 🥳 Congratulations Padre Santi!

*nods* (as a person who thinks it’s stunningly beautiful but feels the archaic language is also a cross I must bear until someone just updates the possessive pronouns and adjectives to modern usage) 😜

Thanks Father this was quite the homily I didn’t know I needed. 🫶🏼

This was a great homily from Fr. Christopher Poore! 🫶🏼

Leaflet (Missal Mass)

Chapel at St Marys PHX

Mass for Sts Simon & Jude

Selfie in front of a window with rose sheer curtains, a Cimabu crucifix, and Our Lady of Kiev icon on the wall. In the background is a reproduction of the Sistine Madonna by Rafael.

Happy Sunday… ready for church super early somehow. 🥲 Guess I’m real excited for the Eucharist.

Go experience the Triune God, who is Love, the Incarnation, healing and saving grace, of He who humbles Himself so much as to hide in a morsel of ordinary bread. Go to Communion! 🥰

So until recently I hadn’t actually experienced “genuine” Missal Mass. Our previous rector used a lot of it, but he modified it to modern language blended Rite II BCP. It was beautiful. The traditional language Anglican Missal is nice too though. I am fond of Leonine prayers too.

Hiii Serene. 🫶🏼

Hot Take: If I could bring back anything from the Tridentine Rite/Missal I think it would be the Last Gospel. We often say “We are resurrection [Easter] people.” But I think many forget to pay the homage due to the Incarnation.

The kids watched Coco today before they painted sugar skulls and made sugar skull masks. 🥰

Ofrenda at St Mary’s. 3 tier altar draped in yellow and orange flowers, with sugar skulls and colorful table clothes

🥹 I always love when Santa Maria, the Spanish language congregation who shares our space puts up the ofrenda. 🫶🏼 Pictures will be added soon.

Sarcasm. I said right-wing Evangelicals (who typically have an unorthodox view of, completely deny, or disregard the Trinity) who have made Tr*mp their messiah and the state their religion, are declaring orthodox Christian orthopraxy as “woke” in order to glorify the false gospel of mammon & cruelty

ngelus The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary: And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word. Hail Mary... And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us. Hail Mary... Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord. men

It’s time west coast… #TheAngelus 6 AM, 12 Noon, 6 PM

And God too I guess 😜🤓 lol

Text from a friend after I said the right wing Evangelicals will turn on mainline Protestant and pope-loyal Catholics… Text reads: “The Trinity is WOKE propaganda by the radical Nicean LEFT!”

🫡 Comrade… in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the most Holy Trinity, one God, undivided in essence; co-equal, co-eternal…

#1 everyone is looking for purpose and belonging

O God turn hearts of stone to hearts of flesh. 😔

The Real Present—An Anglo-Catholic Vision - The Living Church Anglicanism presents not in-fighting streams, but an authentically evangelical and authentically Catholic witness in life and mission.

Great article on Anglo-Catholicism by Omar Cisneros.

"In the Eucharist, we do not recall Christ like a faded photograph; we encounter him. The past is not gone—it is made present."

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Holy One, bless to me this day the gift of tears, the healing and wholesome waters of our soul's desiring. Bless to me the gift of tears, the hope distilled against the despair and denial of this world. Bless to me the gift of tears, the overwhelming flood of anger at injustice and oppression. Bless to me the gift of tears, the mighty waters flowing with the tides of forgiveness in her streams. Holy One, bless to me the gift of tears. Amen. Bishop Deon K. Johnson

Been cryin’ a lot lately… and I keep thinking I’m “losing it” or I’m just hormonal… but maybe the Lord is blessing me with the gift of tears.

Bishop Deon Johnson’s (Episcopal Diocese of MO) prayer…

On Persistence and Faith Persistence, not losing heart, not succumbing to despair all revolve around keeping faith. We talk about faith all the time. We “keep the faith,” we “practice the faith,” we “walk by faith,” we are “s...

“We do have this absolute gem of a passage by St. Paul addressing what love really is, we have St. John telling us that God is love, but do we really have any one, single, defining passage defining faith, giving us the background and backbone to persist in the face of seemingly unsurmountable odds?”

Talking God - the principle deity of the Yei Bi Chei (holy maternal grandfather) the benevolent mentor, advocate, protector and teacher of human time. His name Haashchʼééłtiʼí literally translates to “Speaker of Peace” and many people draw similarities between Him and the Christ. He was born from the mother of all Creation.

Mass this morning for St. Luke, vestry meeting, drove to Navajo Nation to attend the annual Autumn/winter dances (Yei Bii Chei) it’s been a beautiful day. It’s cold. 🥶 But the songs are beautiful. They tell of the cosmos, creation, humans, animals, seasons, plants and relationship with this guy 👇🏼

I really needed this message today… this week’s issue of The Angelus, St. Mary’s PHX weekly newsletter. 🫶🏼

I think the people unwilling to leave the church continue to love the church despite the decades and centuries of rejection and demonization they’ve faced due to questionable exegesis. It reminds me of Solomon’s judgement somehow… but probably not the best allegory.

100% this. I saw it growing up in evangelicalism. I was a book worm kid on fire for loving and learning Jesus. I remember distinctly being prayed over by youth pastors who thought literacy and scholarship would lead me astray from their idea of the “truth of God” (often lies and garbage).

That’s healthy. I delusionaly think I’m still 25 with a flat tummy free of wrinkles then realize I’m the 40 year old auntie that won’t stop wearing short shorts and 4 way stretch. 🙃