Matthew Roth
@MatthewJRoth
Ma vie n’est qu’un instant, une heure passagère… (sainte Thérèse de Lisieux)
Today is the feast of the translation of the relics of Saint Benedict. It’s time for me to start passing on what was handed on to me. We are hosting a Gregorian chant workshop here in Nashville with the choirmaster of Clear Creek. I’m the point man for your questions.
I don’t have a podcast but am running a chant workshop
Not taking any of the Catholic Podcast bros seriously unless I see a picture of them helping organize an event in their church in the last calendar year If they're a dad, I'll expand the range to the last two years If they don't have any proof of involvement in their…
You make us scream like Peanuts characters because it boils down to not being able to live with our past and transcending the pre and postconciliar periods to something different (because inevitably the future will be different !)
In the past year or so I've had many conversations about the reformed liturgy and the TLM (or Vetus Ordo), and I wanted to put some of my thoughts out on the table here for discussion. 1/17
I’m just going to beg people to understand that dioceses rightly own in one form or another parochial churches and that it is a horrifically stupid idea to let religious orders own parishes (not that it’s rosy when simply inviting them to a parish and establishing a house…)
I have a deep loathing for suggesting that a society of apostolic life simply purchase a parish church Why would they take on the title?! How is that supposed to be viable? How is that supposed to make for an apostolate? No bishop would ordinarily allow this!
The Church teaches that celibacy is higher - better - superior - more preferable - than marriage. We should embrace this truth rather than getting offended. Article below!
IMHO US policy needs a top to bottom review is also true
IMHO US agricultural policy needs a top to bottom review.
There are people who don’t necessarily contribute to their parishes directly but who build up the work therein by their online work, by teaching and scholarship But too many people think that things happen like magic and don’t put their money where their mouths are even trads
Years ago I was asked by my pastor to speak to our parish about “time” in our annual “time, talent, and treasure” stewardship drive. I was supposed to encourage everyone to volunteer at the parish. Instead I told everyone to sign up for an hour of adoration. Parish…
There’s a reason for that. The messiah is Jesus of Nazareth, not Jesus of Nashville
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
You be the judge of who has the weird-ass reply Two weeks is an unreasonable amount of time to stay in someone else’s apartment when your roommates are present
Weird ass reply. 2 weeks is not a long time for a long distance couple to visit each other for. Why are you worried about the contents of your fridge and locking your door? They’re not gonna go in there anyway but what are you hiding bro
We should have one, but we don’t We should pay the people behind the Nordic countries (Faroe Islands but I think some of the other main countries too?) a million each to redo our system
The actual "myth" here is the belief that the US has a real time database of who is working, such that we can effectively identify workers in order to determine Medicaid eligibility.
Meanwhile the Orthodox, Eastern and Oriental, are just completely outside of the American Christian imagination But to me, the two pictures are the same
Thank you. I'd love to see a summary of Rome's corruption of Christianity (exaltation of Mary, praying to saints and assigning patronage, transubstantiation, etc) showing for each corruption when, how, and why they went there.
I’ll even eat and drink the Word made flesh But like is not the Lord, ya know, God? What else could Elizabeth have meant, given that the Forerunner leapt in her womb? This is c-c-cope.
The only reason you’re calling me a Nestorian is because you’ve confused sound Christology with Roman dogma. Let me say this plainly. Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. He is one Person with two distinct natures, divine and human. This is the biblical truth. But Mary did…
There is an element of this though that is talking to people like there’s some neat trick, some argument that I haven’t heard before And there’s no way to actually discern from the map what the actual practice is This site is not useful for determining what Mass to attend
A lot of the most extreme TLM advocates will brandish Reverent Novus Ordos as impossible to find unicorns But in truth they're significantly more common then Latin Masses
Protestantism has been Judaizing from the beginning!
We are now in day three or four of a social-media messaging campaign targeting American Protestantism as a false/corrupted/Judaized form of Christianity that must be redeemed by the "authentic" Christianity of the East, despite the latter's categories of thought being completely…
Yes they should
It would be wrong to scrap the pensions triple lock to cover the cost of spiralling welfare. Pensioners on fixed incomes shouldn’t pay the price for a broken system.