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Charles, OFM Cap.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · Nov 23

"Social media has contributed to your intellectual deterioration, as it has for so many others." (my dad, Z"L)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1h

I lived a summer about 2 miles from this place and it looks familiar, but I couldn't say for sure that I've been there.

Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 7h

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2h

It's one of the longest on that record

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2h

Our Leaders Horrendous Policies

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 9h

A parishioner went on a mission trip to the Philippines and brought me back this rosary. Often enough I regift rosaries but this one I decided I would keep. Today I took a short day off road trip to have it blessed by a Friar Preacher. They have a special little prayer for this and it's lovely.

mobile phone photo a 5-decade Dominican rosary, made of carved olive (?) wood beads and stout-looking cord. The cross has a thorn-crowned head of Christ carved into the middle in bas-relief.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 10h

I find it odd that whenever other friars go to the supermarket there isn't any pumpernickel but when I go there is.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 10h

"Prayer is the reverse of the will to dominate." ~ St. Dumitru Staniloae

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 11h

I went black during a vegan period, decided I liked it better, and have had my coffee that way ever since.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 13h

A friend sent me this picture of a piece depicting the stigmata of St. Francis from the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. I love how Brother Leo is just trying to read his book like, "Oh boy, what's he gotten into now?"

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 13h

Christ, our gentle saviour, in your kindness light our lamps so that they shine for ever in your temple and lighten our darkness and dispel the shadows of the world. ~ St. Columbanus (Office of Readings)

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

so much for my day off plans

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

This friar, who is 83 years old, asserts that he is a living refutation of "the whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead."

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

That cheese rice
And beans called pinto
All wrapped and salsa-ed in steamed dough
A cheap treat
to eat in the street
When there's no place else to go
To eat those
burrit
os

(Burritos by The Beanigs)

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Friary supper chat. How friars were tougher in the past, with examples of friars emerging unscathed from various calamities, such as falling off scaffolding in Honduras, an accidental explosion in Guam, and getting hit by a cab in Manhattan.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

All right, tonight's appointment is on Zoom so I don't have to brush my teeth

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

After a couple of days beating my head against the Amharic gerundive, allow me to formally retract all my pro-language learning content from over the years and say whatever, I don't care, let ChatGPT do it, get the Mark Zuckerberg pervert translation glasses, I'm out

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

More like Foxxy Cleopatra big hair

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Aww

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

There's a young lady who comes to daily Mass wearing a veil over big hair. It's just such a look, I love it.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

"No saint has gone up to heaven on a carpet of roses." ~ Blessed Honorat Koźmiński, OFM Cap. (Office of Readings) He would have been a novice in 1848. And we think our historical-political moment is complex.

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Today in the Capuchin calendar we celebrate Blessed Honorat Koźmiński. He founded 27 religious congregations. That has to be some kind of record. Follow the link for a list in Polish. Tag: @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorat_Ko%C5%BAmi%C5%84ski#Zgromadzenia_honorackie

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to help a friar make rice.

"Ok, two cups of water, one cup of rice. How much rice will that make? One cup?"

"'Until all the water is absorbed?' How am I supposed to know that?"

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

ay popi

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Too Much Joy - Drum Machine

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Friar 1: "You prefer vampires to aliens? They suck your blood."

Friar 2: "Yeah but they're elegant."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Sono frati minori ma grazie del shoutout

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