Charles, OFM Cap.

"Discontent is the luxury of the well-to-do. If you've got to live here, you might as well like it." (Doc Tydon)

Hey @grok, who is the most famous Twitter account to block me?

Continuing my hagiographical campaign of telling folks that San Giovanni Rotondo is the same personage as Round John Virgin from Silent Night.

Seen in the wild. But it kinda begs the question; what is the scent?

For the feast of Ss. Anne and Joachim today, a favorite statue of St. Anne (St. Augustin church, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA)

I was reminded today of the old friar who told me that when he was a kid he observed that the priest would shake a host slightly before lifting it from the ciborium for a communicant. For this reason he came to believe that the hosts came packed in syrup, like canned peaches.

For all of y'all who say St. Christopher didn't exist, here he is on the Vatican Printing Office page-a-day calendar today. That's an organ of the Holy See talking. So there.

Another issue here is that folks want to receive on the tongue but sometimes don't know how to do it, making it hard on the priest. Because many pastors are tradition-allergic, it's hard to bring up as a teaching point. And they certainly wouldn't allow patens. Tradition allergy.

I've fumbled hosts before & dropped them. It happens. What I do is calmly step back, genuflect down to pick it up, & either consume it myself immediately or hold it in such a way in the ciborium that I can consume it later. Accidents are an occasion to model reverence.

This, this, THIS!!!!! Thank you, Bishop Erik Varden!!! coramfratribus.com/life-illumined…

My particular martyrdom in friar community is being the brother willing to finish jars of peanut butter and jelly. Today might be a record: two peanut butters *and* and jelly.

Jesus calls his suffering a baptism (cf. Mk 10 : 38) to show that it will effect a great cleansing of the entire world. ~ St. John Chrysostom (Office of Readings) #SantiagoApostol #StJames

For reasons too laborious and boring to go into, today I recalled with amusement this moment from our provincial chapter before last. "We will now take a vote on adopting the Laudato si' Action Platform." Friar: "Where's the Humanae vitae action platform?"

Not that this matters to anyone, but if you go on the ofmcap . org website for English translations of letters of the General Minister from 2012-18, if you download the Word files they have my translator's notes footnotes in them, which do not appear in the pretty layout PDFs.

Consolation for parish staff meeting provided by Scandinavian Swimmers.

Still doesn't beat that girl who drank a six-pack of Stella in a Target dressing room.

Recalling how when I took the SAT and saw the word "contrition" I had absolutely no idea what it meant. Joke's on me, two years later in college I became a Catholic and I was thinking about it like all the time.

TIL about "sad beige." When we moved into our new friary for studies in 2002 the brother in charge had the friars' rooms painted in "beaux-arts beige." Was it sad? I don't remember. I do recall that he got annoyed when we called the color "lunch bag."

Today I saw that New Haven is demolishing the last structures of the Winchester gun factory. It was such a fixture of the neighborhood where I grew up.

I think I know the answer, but a situation is making me second-guess myself. Do liturgical texts for proper feasts of a religious order need to be approved by the Holy See or can the religious institute just publish them for the use of members?

N.B. this is from a work of fiction.