Context: Bong churches are now so low on attendance that they're running out of money. Obviously the solution is to start hosting raves where everyone wears headphones.

This has made the ladies of Conservative Woman very angry.

!catholics !christians Lent has begun! I didn't make a thread on Ash Wednesday since it's not a holy day of obligation.

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First Reading

God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

"See, I am now establishing my covenant with you

and your descendants after you

and with every living creature that was with you:

all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals

that were with you and came out of the ark.

I will establish my covenant with you,

that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed

by the waters of a flood;

there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth."

God added:

"This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come,

of the covenant between me and you

and every living creature with you:

I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign

of the covenant between me and the earth.

When I bring clouds over the earth,

and the bow appears in the clouds,

I will recall the covenant I have made

between me and you and all living beings,

so that the waters shall never again become a flood

to destroy all mortal beings."

-Genesis 9:8-15

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Responsorial Psalm

R. (cf. 10) Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;

teach me your paths,

Guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my savior.

R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Remember that your compassion, O LORD,

and your love are from of old.

In your kindness remember me,

because of your goodness, O LORD.

R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Good and upright is the LORD,

thus he shows sinners the way.

He guides the humble to justice,

and he teaches the humble his way.

R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

-Psalms 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9

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Second Reading

Beloved:

Christ suffered for sins once,

the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous,

that he might lead you to God.

Put to death in the flesh,

he was brought to life in the Spirit.

In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison,

who had once been disobedient

while God patiently waited in the days of Noah

during the building of the ark,

in which a few persons, eight in all,

were saved through water.

This prefigured baptism, which saves you now.

It is not a removal of dirt from the body

but an appeal to God for a clear conscience,

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who has gone into heaven

and is at the right hand of God,

with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.

-1 Peter 3:18-22

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Verse Before the Gospel

One does not live on bread alone,

but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

Matthew 4:4b

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Gospel

The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert,

and he remained in the desert for forty days,

tempted by Satan.

He was among wild beasts,

and the angels ministered to him.

After John had been arrested,

Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:

"This is the time of fulfillment.

The kingdom of God is at hand.

Repent, and believe in the gospel."

-Mark 1:12-25

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Today my priest spoke about how Lent is a time for healing the wounds caused by sin. While Jesus is famous for healing ailments of the body, his true work was healing ailments of the soul. On an unrelated note, I think God's covenant with Noah proves that global warming won't lead to apocalyptic flooding.

Yes, Redditors are usually wrong, but this is exceptional doubling down even when firmly reprimanded by fellow soys.

Jesus isn't saying it any of those times.

Oh lord

It's his book. The whole thing is his words. Whether they're “direct quotes” or not is irrelevant.

It's extremely disingenuous to take a bunch of quotes from Jesus, put them in the same book as quotes from a bunch of other guys, and then say all of it was Jesus. The Bible is a bunch of different books written at different times. You can't attribute all of it to Jesus retroactively. You're silly. You have no point.

The Bible is the inerrant word of God, no?

No. It's not. It's different books put together that directly contradict each other. And we're talking about the person Jesus. Now you're trying to defend being wrong about that by equating the Bible with God and Jesus with God so Jesus wrote the Bible? Stop.

Are you confused about your religion? Jesus = God so yeah, it's his book. I never said he wrote it. I said it's his word. Which you just said it's not. If the Bible isn't the inerrant word of God, then there's no reason to pay it any mind whatsoever. Thanks!

Lol. MY religion? I'm not Christian. Am I talking to a literal 10-year-old?

That isn't my sacrifice, though; no, my presence is what rDrama is giving up for Lent. There's a No Man's Sky update due out either later today or tomorrow morning. New space stations and stuff. You're going to miss out on my tismposting over it. You'll miss my review of the new Godzilla movie at the end of March. You'll miss countless hot take threads with the cute girls love the blahaj image.

You'll miss a huge number of carp's curated funny family man moments volumes.

It will hurt, and it will hurt badly, but you will all be spiritually richer for it.

Similarly, though to a much lesser extent, I will miss bringing joy with these things to our dozens of users. I've also got some other stuff I'll be doing for Lent but that's not the sort of thing one broadcasts. That said, remember to sacrifice something yourself. rDrama's collective carp sacrifice is not your own, nor is it something you have control over. The convict does not give up his freedom for Lent. It's also not supposed to be a bad habit; you shouldn't be doing bad things anyway. Give up something good and that you enjoy but distracts you from God. That can even be time. Commit to just a rosary per day even, that's an excellent habit to be in.

Remember that Fridays aren't meant to be an excuse to binge on nice seafood. It's not a sacrifice at all if you're having a big fish feast or eating lobster or whatever on Friday, that's a treat. The fast is meant to be solemn and bring you closer to God, it's not a fancy fish party.

Bye rDrama don't bother engaging the small-souled wicked who are sure to appear below see you in April x

Forgive me Marsey for I have sinned. I've never been to confession before.

I've gazed up /r/christianity and I've wished death and despair on my fellow believer, or at the very least, fellow human

I've shitpost and called people "cute twinks" and told them to "kill themselves"

I've relentlessly trolled children on the internet until they've deleted their accounts

I've gazed upon a beautiful woman lustfully

I've coveted my neighbor's car

I repent of these sins, please forgive me, amen.

Rome🇻🇦

…..Satan’s house 👹 pic.twitter.com/iPEdvKr40e

— ♛𝟏𝟒𝟒,𝟎𝟎𝟎🎟 (@FrmNGGStoGODs) February 12, 2024

Priest Alexey Laushkin answers whether Orthodox Christians can watch Japanese anime. pic.twitter.com/ufKMmsJheF

— Bishoy Saxon (@golgothapravda) February 11, 2024

!badgemaxxers

!catholics

It's Sunday and @TheDunceonMaster hasn't made the Weekly Mass Discussion Thread yet. Since the christards forgot to make a thread, I'm making one, with the scripture being discussed today being the spine-tingling, bone-chilling, slow-burn, politically relevant film Mass.

First Reading:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mass_2021/reviews

MASS is an ASTOUNDING, RAW, HEARTSHATTERING, & EMOTIONAL Movie. Incredibly written/directed by Kranz, but MASS is a performance driven movie. Isaacs & Birney are EXCELLENT.

This is just one of the amazing reviews you will see for this genre-defining film by the critics we all know and trust.

Responsorial Psalm

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mass-movie-review-2021

An out-of-nowhere triumph, "Mass" is the sort of American drama that you rarely see anymore: an intimate four-character piece about the aftermath of a school shooting that unfolds mostly in one room, letting a powerhouse cast and a thoughtful script carry much of the burden of meaning.

Martha Plimpton and Jason Isaacs play the parents of a teenage boy who was one of ten students murdered in a school shooting. Ann Dowd and Reed Birney are the parents of the killer, a depressed and disturbed young man. The couples agree to sit at a table in the basement of an Episcopalian church and talk about, well, everything, in hopes of moving past depression, grief and anger, through catharsis, and toward a state of acceptance, or at least insight.

There's a brief setup featuring Michelle N. Carter as the social worker handling the details of the meeting, and Breeda Wool as a woman who works at the church, and is helpful to the point of being unnerving, but the vast majority of the film consists of the four main characters doing the hard work of confronting the unspeakable. The results are never less than riveting, and there are multiple moments—democratically distributed among the four leads—that are as good as screen acting can get.

Although "Mass" is an original work written for the screen by its director, actor Fran Kranz—in his feature filmmaking debut—it has the feel of a stage play or live TV drama that was subsequently adapted for the big screen, during an era when people would happily pay to see theatrical films about adults in the real world, dealing with life-changing events that could actually happen. Film buffs may be reminded of such claustrophobic stage-to-screen classics as "Days of Wine and Roses," "Marty," "12 Angry Men," "Vanya on 42 St." and "Glengarry Glen Ross." The film's excellence in every department earns these comparisons.

From the moment that Plimpton and Isaacs's characters, Jay and Gail, arrive at the church, tension starts coiling up, and you just know that when it's finally released, it'll be something to see. Plimpton, a 1980s youth star whose character actor phase has been consistently fascinating, captures the buried rage of a mom whose agony over losing a son in an act of obscene violence was magnified by the frustration of seeing the parents of the perpetrator protect themselves from legal and financial blame on the advice of legal counsel. From the second that she appears onscreen, you expect her to explode at some point; her exasperated and openly hostile expressions as the other couple obfuscates, minimizes, qualifies and otherwise tries to tamp down the tension in the room are all little masterpieces of reactive acting. Isaacs, however, catches up with Plimpton, as we start to discern that, even though Jay carries himself as a "voice of reason"-type who has done the right reading and consulted the right experts and thinks of himself as a mediator between his wife and the rest of the world, he's sitting on a megaton of anger himself.

Dowd's Linda and Birney's Richard initially come across as representatives of a specific type of middle American suburbanite, with a placid, peaceful-yet-resolute demeanor that reads as conciliatory and sensitive but that pretty soon starts to seem condescending and self-protecting. You see their vibe rather often among reactionaries who've figured out how to come across as presentable when dealing with people outside of the tribe.

Richard, the only character dressed formally, warns Jay and Gail at the top of their meeting that he has somewhere to be, and spends much of the first third of the sit-down seeming as if his main goal is to deflect blame from himself and his wife. He keeps reminding the others that this is a complicated situation and that the tragedy has many possible causes, that it's not possible to reduce it to any one problem, and soon enough you're rolling your eyes along with Gail, because it seems as if Richard has come to this meeting with a bad faith attitude, and cares mainly about not saying or doing anything actionable (even though both couples signed papers stating that they wouldn't use anything said in that room for legal purposes).

The film touches on the deeply relevant issue of Bad Faith attitudes in debates, especially about mass shootings.

Second Reading (actually viewing)

What's incredible is that this revelation comes 36 minutes into the film. Until then, you don't even know why these people are having this conversation. Masterpiece of a screenplay

The most intense and raw film you'll see in a long time....four stars to all the cast...heartbreaking...

Wow, you can FEEL the tension, this movie looks outstanding

Gospel

https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/s0800p/i_never_post_in_this_sub_but_mass_2021_was_hands?sort=controversial

I just saw this film on Amazon Prime because I saw that Ann Dowd was in it and I'm a huge Handmaid fan. I went in almost completely blind reading nothing other than the description.

I was completely blown away by this movie. It's unbearably tense, and it really feels…real. Like we as an audience are a fly on the wall in the conversation taking place. All the performances are excellent, but Jason Isaacs in particular I think gives an Oscar worthy performance. Martha Plimpton coming in close second.

I just finished, and I am sitting here trying to process what I saw and frick, the acting and the dialogue. Just wow

Which leads me to ask: How are more people not talking about this movie?!?! Maybe it's because the subject matter is so heavy, and utterly heartbreaking.

Please, do yourself a favor and watch this movie. It's only 3.99 on Amazon in the US.

What are your thoughts on the film? What does it say about society?

!atheists

I think the Pope is a meme, but we should be able to find common ground.

THEY FRICKING CAN'T. because they believe "screwing" is wrong and they'll go to heck for doing it. Also, they are too stupid to actually do it.