#Ancient Catholics

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What makes being Catholics different?

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Do you guys ever think about how we are a small culture and we have created holidays that we celebrate with each other and sometimes people take off work for them and we have traditions and gifts and crafts that we make for each other

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08/09/2024

Happy (almost) feast day of St. Lawrence, my patron saint!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY:

St. Lawrence was a deacon of Rome in the mid-200s during a time of heavy persecution. When the prefect of Rome demanded all the treasures of the Church, Lawrence asked for a few days to gather it all together. In those few days, he gave all the material wealth of the Church to the poor. When it came time to face the prefect, Lawrence showed up, not with gold and jewels, but with a crowd of poor people, declaring, "Behold, these are the treasures of the Church." The prefect was so amused by this that he had Lawrence roasted alive on a gridiron. Just before he died, Lawrence gave one last quip: "Turn me over, I'm done on this side." Hence, he's the patron saint of cooks and comedians.

[aithusarosekiller]

The black cousins do have religious trauma to me

idk they just do

Like very strong, deeply imbedded, constant-self-doubt and fear

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Mosaic of the Emperor Justinian I from the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:PetarM

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hear me out: robin has been around for thousands of years, including during the roman occupation of britain. julian went to fancy private school and cambridge. it is therefore entirely possible that they BOTH speak latin.

[bloodfin]

I personally think that Catholic-in-life Phantom Ghoul has the best curse alternatives. See below:

Stubs toe: "Lucifer's taint!"

Annoyed: "For the love of Satan's sack."

Angry or surprised: "Son of a six-winged-harlot!"

Disappointed: "You muppet."

Instead of the fuck word in pleasure, has been caught saying:

glorious

dazzling

sensational

Dew had to take 5 the first time Phantom called his cock splendiferous. Rain and Swiss wouldn't have believed him if they weren't in the room to hear it.

Will also unironically use movie/pop culture/vine references instead of expletives ie:

You hamster!

Eat my shorts -

Will never say christ, only Chrysler

You are ✨️StIlL A PiEcE oF gArBAgE✨️

You're killing me, Smalls. (Dew hates this in particular)

Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow.

Way to go, Paul. (Aether is so confused, no one in the entire ministry is named Paul)

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Photo by Cole Keister.

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano in Rome, Italy

Under the basilica that stems from the 12th century, there are two more layers that you are able to visit: a basilica from the 4th century and a mithraeum from the 2th century.

In my opinion the most interesting church Rome has to offer.

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Mythology Olympics tournament round 1

Propaganda!

In the Catholic faith, Dymphna was the only child of a pagan king who is believed to have ruled a section of Ireland in the 7th century. When the queen died at a very young age, the king ended up propositing his daughter to marry him and become his new queen. Disgisted, she fled from home to avoid the danger of her refusal. She fled with a party that included her priest confessor and took a vow of chastity. When her father eventually located her, he ordered his men to kill her and the priest. They murdered the priest but were unwilling to touch Dymphna, who was only 15. Enraged, her father killed her himself. She is honored as a saint and her feast day is May 15.

Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. Eventually, he was conflated with Dis Pater and Pluto. The Romans sometimes conflated Orcus with other underworld gods such as Pluto, Hades, and Dis Pater. The name "Orcus" seems to have referred specifically to the malicious and punishing side of the ruler of the underworld, as the god who tormented evildoers in their afterlife. In the charitable interpretation for such a place, it was believed to be an abode for purification of the souls of the deceased.

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Not fit to hate

People ask where I get the stuff that I write about.

I pray with the daily Mass readings. Then I read commentaries. Mostly InterVarsity’s “Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture.”

The series gives you a few sentences to a paragraph on each verse. That someone wrote during the first 500+ years of the Church.

Maybe from someone famous, or someone not so famous. Sometimes nobody knows who wrote it. But always the good stuff, stuff that’s stood the test of time.

Like this one, on today’s Gospel (where Jesus says to “love your enemies”). It’s an anonymous work* from the 5th century, that reads like it was written this morning.

“I think that Christ ordered these things [to love our enemies] not so much for our enemies as for us: not because our enemies are fit to be loved by others, but because we are not fit to hate anyone.

For hatred is the prodigy of dark places. Wherever it resides, it sullies the beauty of sound sense.

Therefore, not only does Christ order us to love our enemies for the sake of cherishing them, but also for the sake of driving away from ourselves what is bad for us.

If you hate [your enemy], you have hurt yourself more in spirit than you have hurt him in the flesh.

Perhaps you don’t harm him at all by hating him. But you surely tear yourself apart. If then you are benevolent to an enemy, you have spared yourself rather than him.”

(* Known as the Incomplete Work on Matthew, St. Thomas Aquinas was so fond of it that he once said that he would rather have the complete work than be mayor of Paris.)

Today’s Readings

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Imagine a post-apocalyptic story where there’s only one person left in the world and they realize Jesus died for them even though they’re the only one left and it’s what gets them through.

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A procession. Ink and brush on paper.