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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 7m

"The liturgy, he believes, is something more than a collection of formal regulations and ceremonies; it is the very core of the spiritual life and activity of the Church."

If true, that's it's as "alive" as a comatose, 400 lbs bedridden man on a ventilator

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 31m

I think it's for the feast of St. Parascheva the New, patroness of Moldova

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 33m

Who is this infantry dork fella?

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 35m

Getting the laity involved in the divine office and Gregorian chant was a "progressive" Liturgical Movement project. Ironically, in many ways some of these elements were taken over by modern traditionalists.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1h

"native born americans"

"man holdin up 3 fingers" meme from the film inglorious basterds

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

I posted this almost 3 hours ago and the liturgy is still ongoing LOL. When I screenshotted it, they were singing the Vespers psalms; right now they are just finishing the first litany of the Divine Liturgy

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

After the necessary Great Awokening of American Catholicism, Knights of Columbus WILL be renamed the Knights of Cabrini

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1h

Still stand by that if KoC and Italian-American Catholics wanted to show someone who came from Italy to the US and showed true Catholic and American spirit, Mother Cabrini is the obvious candidate.

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1d

It is quite a deliberate choice to allow an editorial in a church bulletin that defends Christopher Columbus (if transparency it wasn’t the pastor himself).

It’s even more of an interesting choice when that editorial does so by paraphrasing Tony Soprano.

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1h

Still stand by that if KoC and Italian-American Catholics wanted to show someone who came from Italy to the US and showed true Catholic and American spirit, Mother Cabrini is the obvious candidate.

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1d

It is quite a deliberate choice to allow an editorial in a church bulletin that defends Christopher Columbus (if transparency it wasn’t the pastor himself).

It’s even more of an interesting choice when that editorial does so by paraphrasing Tony Soprano.

Brethren,
When we lead with our faith, we can accomplish wondrous things. Monday reminds us of this truth. Why Monday? Because it is the day our nation sets aside to honor the bravery and exceptional skill of Christopher Columbus, who navigated the Atlantic from Spain to the
"New World."

In this council (and I hope this parish) Christopher Columbus is a hero. He discovered "America", It's what he did. Because of his bravery in service to Christ we have this beautiful nation to call home.
Tomorrow, please take a few moments and remember the bravery of this Catholic hero, and how many good works still stem from his inspiration.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yeah no it's not them

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 2h

My own take on it is I don't think it'll ever happen. The ship has sailed, western liturgical culture has evolved away from its roots in this regard, and it has become something else.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

Depends. To me, the issue reflects on matters of identity, continuity, and guardianship of living tradition that both communions use to identify themselves with "The Church"(TM). It's simply a matter of historical fact that when it comes to sacramental theology and liturgical/spiritual praxis...

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

I agree with Fr Chase that the culture and its attendant expectations simply aren't there anymore. I guess where I disagree is that this isn't that big a deal and who cares anyway.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

I remember when I first started going to Orthodox Great Vespers many years ago, it fascinated me that it truly felt like the parish's own celebration, not "the priest's prayer" that some laypeople happened to have joined in. If Fr was away, there was a Reader's vespers.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

It is for all intents and purposes, and I'm sure @kalanthropos.bsky.social will agree with me here, the priest's private devotional prayer book that some few nerds also happen to be into. It got attached to a personal obligation (something unknown in the Eastern churches ironically).

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

I don't want to make this into any one group's "fault." It's a problem of a breakdown of knowledge, expectations, and leadership, across every level of the church, from longtime bishops down to lay neophytes. I think a lot of the problem is simply the nature of the office in the west as it's evolved

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

I know of one parish where a supportive pastor empowered a lay leader to begin public Sunday vespers. He did it for about 3 months before burning out from doing the whole rigamarole for the 2-3 people who would show up (different people each time, so he'd have to begin w/ Explanations 101 each time)

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

I don't know who the DHS are, so it's probably not about them

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 3h

I'm at a latin mass parish and we do vespers once a month and every sunday during lent/advent. It's english vespers though, and we usually get about 15-25 people. I'm glad the turnout is high enough to keep doing it. Local OCA parish does vespers every Saturday and they get maybe double that.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

I am glad we agree on infant confirmation and communion now, on demand and without apology

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

However, my 4yo whispering to me at Mass, "daddy, can you trick the priest that I am allowed to get Jesus" because of a formal and material discontinuity in the theology of the eucharist with universal first-millennium praxis, for instance -- that, to me, is kind of serious

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

But if you're reading my position as some kind of Kwasniewskian "they dropped the 12 Gospels at such and such a bespoke liturgy, therefore they have lost the True Faith," you're misreading it, to be clear

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

one seems to have a much stronger case for that continuity and identity than the other. Now sure, if you have a Vennu Mallesh ecclesiology where the Pope says "It's my life, what ever I wanna do," and every discontinuity or departure sanctioned by him is fine, that continuity doesn't matter much

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

Depends. To me, the issue reflects on matters of identity, continuity, and guardianship of living tradition that both communions use to identify themselves with "The Church"(TM). It's simply a matter of historical fact that when it comes to sacramental theology and liturgical/spiritual praxis...

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. The fact that it didn't always use to be this way, that this was a specific, traceable development away from and in contradistinction to a common Orthodox Catholic tradition regardless of geography, is to me personally, one of the most compelling arguments for Orthodoxy today.

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