#Catholic groups

[chinook-wind]

I am going to hijack your hijacking. :)

Check out if there is a women's group in your area. In Canada, it is called the Catholic Women's League and we focus on faith, sevice and social justice. Sure, it is mostly old ladies, but only because younger folks don't think to join or that it is only baking and funeral lunches. But, if you join up, you can often bring in fresh ideas (like axe throwing or Matio Kart at games night) or start an evening rosary group or bible study.

The key is that you have to find them and be willing to be the youngest person in the room (even if you are 40). But you will be the change they need and you will find support and friendship there.

Signed, a CWL Diocesan Faith Chair who doesn't want out her location.

I feel like making a long rant post but I don't have the patience for that so I'm going to say this: sometimes, it really, really, really sucks to be a single person in the Catholic sphere because the second you get out of college ministry there's basically nothing for you except singles' events and that can feel SO insulting. I'm not worth less because I'm not in a relationship, I have no DESIRE to be in a relationship right now, but sometimes I just want to find a husband already so I can start being included in Catholic spaces other than online ones and weird speed dating schemes.

[philsbrownquiff]

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

[septembersung]

In real life, the traddest men I know: change diapers; do chores; are present and playful with their kids; take good care of their wives; work 50+ hours a week to provide for their families; literally never think about the 1950s.

[tyrianludaship]

okay im kinda stupid but I don't think selfshipping with Judge Claude fucking Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame, is a good idea

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

Let me know because I'm interested. I didn't have super good experiences but I wouldn't call them bad, just odd. Particularly as it comes to the leadership, but I wondered what other people thought :D

[alizalayne]

beetle and the hollowbones book banning roadtrip travelogue

[transmutationisms]

my mothers approach to having a relationship w me is literally 1. don't ask any information about my life/job/interests when on the phone, let the conversation awkwardly die any time i run out of things to say 2. send increasingly fervent letters (addressed without using any name for me, incl on the envelope) abt how our phone conversations make her sad and shes praying for me.

now listen i understand its hard when your relationship with someone is strained and distanced in a way you didn't want. however when that happens to Me i do things such as, snort amphetamines, and run very far. maybe she should try some of that instead of resentfully moving halfway across the world to do soft imperialism, just a thought

[twoelectrichearts]

Noah Schnapp is literally beyond evil. Like, spawn of satan level of evil. He only deserves to suffer for the rest of his existence. How dare he have empathy for innocent civilians in Israel and Palestine. First of all, there’s no such thing as innocent Israeli civilians. Second of all, you can't have empathy for both. Especially if he is a Zionist. All the Jewish people who identify as Zionists are evil. Israel has absolutely no right to exist and Jewish people have no right to exist in Israel. So many Jewish people who are Zionists claim that’s what Zionism means to them but they’re wrong. Zionism is pure evil. You can’t be Zionist and want peace and self determination for Palestinians. I’m not Jewish but I definitely know better than the Jewish Zionists who claim that. They’re all evil lying monsters. They want every Palestinian wiped off the face of the Earth. Hamas would never want such a thing. It’s not like they had a charter that said that about Jewish people. Even if they did, they supposedly recently changed it to Zionists instead so it’s all good now. Hamas is totally accepting of Jewish people now and would welcome them with open arms as long as they aren’t Zionist. Noah, if you’re a Zionist, don’t be anymore. You can change your evil ways. Hamas changed. Yeah, they may have killed civilians and taken hundreds hostage, they may have said October 7th was just the beginning and that it was going to happen over and over again, but they’re no longer antisemitic. They’re just anti Zionist so they’re good people now. You can change and be good too. You’re so young. There’s still hope for you. Stop lying and telling us how you want peace and self determination for Palestinians. We all know that’s not true. It can only be true if you aren’t Zionist.

You liking something like this makes absolutely no sense if you’re Zionist. I bet you don’t even agree with it and just liked it by accident or something. It’s crazy how I even managed to come across this months ago considering nobody talked about it or brought it to light. You liking that sketch of people in the LGBTQ+ community simping over Hamas got so much attention and caused so much outrage though. Funny how the internet works. Anyways, as a bisexual, I was so offended by that video. Hamas are well known LGBTQ+ allies. How could you like that video as someone who’s gay? It’s probably because you’re lying about being gay too. Shame on you.

Last thing I’m gonna say is fuck Israel and fuck Israelis. That country and all the people living there are evil. They’re all colonizers and occupiers. It needs to cease to exist and all the people currently living there need to go back to where they originally came from. All of them came from Europe, right? That’s what I’ve been hearing. They all need to return to Europe. Gosh, why’d they ever leave there in the first place? I know Jewish people say otherwise but they’re wrong. They’re either lying or in denial. They’re not indigenous to Israel. They’re indigenous to Europe. Us non Jewish people really need to educate them more about their own history, religion, ethnicity, etc. We need to teach them what antisemitism actually is. A lot of them don’t seem to understand what it is. We do that to every other minority group that we aren’t apart of, right?

[momentsbeforemass]

The non-answer answer

“Lord, will only a few people be saved?”

It’s a real question. It was real when it was asked in today’s Gospel. It’s still real when you and I ask it.

There are a lot of people out there who don’t believe. And a lot of people who don’t know what to believe.

Because there are a lot of people who wear the label “Christian” (liberal, conservative, progressive, traditional, pick any of them) that only add to the confusion. Often by giving some of the most off-putting presentations of what it means to be a Christian.

The lived sermons of some of the loudest “Christians” are no help at all. So it’s no wonder that people don’t know what to believe, and are asking,

Whose example should I follow? What does it really mean to live my Faith? How do I have a real relationship with God?

This is why – “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” – is a real question. 

What I love best is how Jesus answers it. He doesn’t give numbers or percentages. He doesn’t have statistics or projections or trends.

Because Jesus doesn’t care about numbers or statistics or trends. What Jesus cares about is people.

But not as anonymized data or members of a group. Not as collections of identifiers and labels.

Jesus doesn’t care about groups. Jesus doesn’t care about labels.

What Jesus cares about is you.

Which is why Jesus’ answer is about our part, is about what you need to do and what I need to do – “Strive to enter through the narrow gate.”

Jesus doesn’t want a relationship with a group. Or a collection of labels.

Jesus didn’t preach the Kingdom of God to a group. Jesus didn’t give His life for a collection of labels.

For Jesus, all of it is personal.

Because Jesus wants a relationship with you.

Today’s Readings

[peppermintquartz]

I want Buck and Tommy to break through Eddie's defensiveness by kissing the heart of his palms, left and right. One of them touching him so tenderly at his side, just under the ribs. The other cradling his head close, fingers digging into his hair, nails scratching so so lightly at his scalp. Caressing his back, easing the tension he carries. Kissing the tops of his feet.

There will be no more wounds or hurt or loneliness. There is comfort, and companionship, and closeness.

[gxlden-angels]

As you all know, I was raised in one of those wack ass "non-denominational" pentecostal churches. I was always taught anyone not pentecostal/baptist/methodist or within that realm weren't actually christians. Essentially, if your group had a Name™️ like Mormons, JWs, Catholics, etc. then u were that group, not "[That Group] Christians"

[edwinisms]

I know how it sounds at first, but I really gotta feel bad for the boys that sacrificed edwin; I mean even the term “sacrificed edwin” paints them in a more sinister light than they really deserve– considering that wasn’t really, actually their intention.

they were bullies, they were homophobic (and/or were self loathing gay boys themselves taking it out on edwin, or were equally likely peer pressured into acting a certain way), they planned something stupid and mean to do to an innocent, anxious boy with the goal of scaring the shit out of him, all because he was effeminate and an easy target. but they didn’t know or expect any of the ritual stuff to be real. they were all laughing and joking during the ritual because it was just that to them– a joke. a cruel joke, but a joke.

teenagers can be mean and stupid and they usually regret it as adults and grow out of it / grow from it. they were stifled the chance to grow out of it, at least while alive. none of those boys deserved to be instakilled and sent to hell; they’re really not that much less deserving than edwin himself. they were all just kids, after all.

[spale-vosver]

exvangelicals/exmos who haven't deconstructed their cultural Christianity when you politely ask them not to shut down every discussion about (any) religion because of their specific trauma:

(Goyim can interact but do not clown, more info in the tags)

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about Buck and learning and or teaching.

Something something about Buck teaching when he really needed to be learning.

I just keep thinking about how the show has increasingly - especially last season - put Buck into the role of 'teacher' - including his coma dream. (i'm using teacher for the lack of a better term!) and how in the aftermath of the coma dream - he's been trying to teach but it hasn't worked - instead he's been learning.

I've been musing on the fact that even back in season 1 Buck has been in a teacher role -

Abby learning to chose herself and go for her happiness,

Bobby learning to let people in and Buck being a major part of that because of their developing father-son type relationship

'teaching' Eddie that he could rely on other people for help

Maddie learning at Bucks hand that she didn't need to keep running, that she could lean on him for support and build a new life for herself

Ravi being tutored by Buck in the fire house

even Lucy being given advice by Buck - teaching her through his own experiences in dumb luck

Buck making himself into a teacher in his coma dream and the idea that all these people he has helped teach teaching him that he has a place with them and that he is important

and so many more examples through the seasons that I won't list or I'd be here forever!

Because there has been a lot of emphasis on teaching and learning since Buck woke up from his coma - he learnt he was good at maths, but then wasn't allowed to help Chris with his maths homework because it would be cheating.

used his maths skills to win at Poker - but got taught lessons even in victory - rather than teaching others lessons (whatever they might have been)

Natalia being interested in him because he could teach her about death and things going south pretty quickly when it became evident that Buck needed to learn how to live again rather than be stuck in death

And now we've had several mentions by Tommy of him teaching Buck things - teaching him to fly, teaching him Mauy Thai, all the way to him being his bi awakening is teaching him about a part of himself he didn't know. Things are turned on their head - Buck is the student not the master now

Even with Eddie this season, we've seen him teaching Buck things - rather than Eddie learning from him - Eddie handing over this really important thing going on with Chris - Eddie knowing that Buck would be a better option - that Chris would open up to him more - is teaching Buck about his importance in the Diaz family - re-enforcing that he is part of their life. Its also Eddie who has had the good advice for Buck this time rather than the other way round.

Something something about 'you like to be the guy with the answers' to Buck becoming the guy with the (maths) answers - only for it to fade away and now he's having to learn

Something something about the tie to Buck and death and the resurrection and how Christ was the teacher up to and immediately after his death and resurrection when he left others on earth to spread his teachings and he ascended to learn at the right hand of god

Something something about how that is the key to happiness and that is what Buck has figured out and that is why his journey to figuring that out has had him wearing the bright blue - because in Christianity - that shade of blue is the colour of the kingdom of heaven (because it is the colour of the sky!) so putting Buck in it at all these key markers of his journey is showing him as being on the road to ascension.

This post is a mess - I don't even know what it is any more! I started with one idea about teaching and Tommy and then more kept coming and we ended up here!!!!

[weepingfireflies]

I feel like "leftist politics that descontruct the patriarchy and heteronormativity are not inherently anti-men" and "many LGBTQIA+ and feminist spaces exclude anyone masc-presenting, reconstructing a 'men bad, women & fem-presenting good' gender system under the form of 'protection'" are statements that can and should coexist. You can't argue you're not anti-man if you also refuse to stand in solidarity with them when they're oppressed (due to being non-white, trans, gay, bi, pan, etc.) simply because they're the ~evil~ man. You have to actually not be anti-man.

[Terfs & Exclusionists DNI. I hate you, and nothing you say will ever change my mind.]

[the-busy-ghost]

Minor throwaway sentence in a book on corruption I've just finished was talking about 1930s gangsters and about certain organisations in Chicago which the author stated were more ethnically diverse than the Italian mafia, and whose members were said to have included 'Irish, Welsh, Italian, and Jewish' gangsters.

Now call me sheltered but I've seen MANY Italian American gangsters immortalised in film, I've heard of the Jewish mob, and the police Irish American gangs but I have yet to see a movie about the Welsh mob. As a rule I don't go in for gangster movies but I feel there's an unfilled niche here and also I need more info.