Fr. Herman ❤️🔥
@hmkherman
UGCC priest, Chicago Eparchy. MTS, Notre Dame. Liturgy, music, spiritual life, English language. Not hating on fellow Christians.
Vulnerability in the presence of the Lord—which can be discovered, for example, in a non-anxious recitation of the Jesus Prayer leading into silence; in uncluttered, wordless adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; or in frank and honest conversation with the Lord about one’s fears…
Something cool that a lot of people don’t know about me is that the fire alarm in my building has been going off for 30 minutes and there’s definitely no fire.
Fake people listening to fake music. Teachers using AI to grade papers that students didn't write. It makes sense once you understand that many tech moguls believe humanity has no purpose other than building the machines that will replace us. They view us as unnecessary.
Human cultural replacement. Not just AI music but AI listeners too - a fake and fraudulent way for Spotify to generate Ad revenue. Who needs humans when bots can click on links and trick advertisers into paying for fake engagement.
What’s the ground-zero tweet re the current confession argument?
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
According to Origen’s commentary on Genesis, the lowest deck of the ark was only for the animals’ (not insignificant amount of) dung. (I used to deploy this factoid to show how seriously Origen took the literal level of Scripture.) Not seeing the dung here.
The perfect gift doesn't exis-
“The press release uses that absurd st swash ligature – a telltale sign of typographic dilettantism.”
This one station in Philly where you sort of have to just intuit what track your train will arrive on
Holy King David really did *not* like it when people killed his enemies thinking that he’d be pleased
Another day of having to tell my self repeatedly, “If the tweet seems too stupid to exist or it makes such an easily-debunkable claim, it’s almost certainly engagement bait,” as I scroll past the dumbest statements imaginable.
Every now and then I come across a YouTube channel with a criminally low subscriber count. Fr. Agapetos is one such case. He is a hieromonk of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in CA and a scholar of the Psalms who has served in Israel, Ethiopia, and India. His channel, where he…
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On his Substack, @hmkherman wrote about how the zeal of the young traditionalist can become a shield against vulnerability before God. It can also be a proxy for virtue alongside apologetical skill. Both together: virtue and zeal, virtue and skill. Do not separate them.
Today's gospel reading is the Good Samaritan. I think of a reflection by @JesseHake: "Instead of answering a question about who qualifies as a neighbor that the lawyer must love, Christ flips the script entirely and suggests that the lawyer needs the help of a neighbor who the…
Happy St Ambrose explains why we should be having Mass ad orientem in the office of readings day to all who celebrate
A good troparion for all of us here on Twitter
Now I speak boastfully, with boldness of heart; yet all to no purpose and in vain. O righteous Judge, who alone art compassionate, do not condemn me with the Pharisee; but grant me the abasement of the Publican and number me with him. (Great Canon, ode 4) 5/10
Ok this is interesting. I’ve always wondered where the move to July 3rd came from. (In the Byz Rite St Thomas is Oct 6th). While generally I don’t like moving feast days around, the old date of St Thomas on Dec 21st seemed to take the focus away from Sapientiatide and the more…
A Chaldean rite influence in the Latin tradition with the Mass of St Paul VI. As in the Tridentine Mass calendar St Thomas the Apostle feast was on 21 Dec. But with the new Mass, they adopted the July 3rd feast of the East Syriac tradition.
A great thread; I’m glad to see this problem getting attention. The “bleaching” of our built environment discussed here is not just about lighting. It’s also about painting and other decorative use of color. Everything from floors to walls to furniture to car exteriors has been…
Heaven or Hell on Earth: The Aesthetic War of Lighting, a thread 🧵