I'm currently writing a defense of the revelations of Christ to St. Faustina and the Divine Mercy devotion in response to the attacks from (some) radical traditionalists. Buckle up.
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This happened in Montana earlier today.
I was on my way to a job interview when I got pulled over by a police officer. Just to set the scene—I’m Native American, and my friend riding with me is Black.
As fate would have it, both of my brake lights decided to stop working at the exact same time. Naturally, as the officer approached, I start…
Blessed Holy Thursday to each of you!
Our littles still have trouble making it through the Holy Thursday liturgy, so we turn our living room into a garden to keep vigil with the Lord at home.
We put sleeping bags out for the kids so they can just fall asleep there while we pray. They look forward to it every year (as do I).
Have a blessed and prayerful Triduum, see you at Easter!
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Last Feb I casually posted this neck stretch on Instagram (that I thought everyone knew 🤷♀️) and it blew up in a way I couldn’t imagine. It’s now been viewed over 8 million times 🫣😬🤣 and has brought so many wonderful people into my world.
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In the US about one-third of us are completely unvaxxed. That's quite a control group and sooner or later people will start noticing that we aren't dropping dead. Not so for much of the rest of the West where vax rates are closer to 90%.
Some day it's going to make a very interesting case study as to why so many Americans refused to get vaxxed despite constant fear mongering, peer pressure, social exclusion, and threats of job loss. Either we are fiercely independent or just belligerent a-hol…
Those are big factors.
Here is a potentially more minor one. I think Americans are tired of being fearmongered by the government for the past 20 years especially, but even the past 70 since WWII. One "crisis" after another. We learned to distrust. And this is why in places where life was pretty damned good and calm, like Australia and NZ, they fell for this new "crisis" hook, line, and sinker.
At the end of the day, THE END IS NIGH! REPENT NOW!, just takes on different forms. And people get tired of it.
It's gone on longer than that. Here's a great quote from H.L. Mencken from around 100 years ago: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
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