BREAKING - #PopeFrancis on civil unions: “It is right that these people who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else.”
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— Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 (@MLJHaynes) March 14, 2024

@carpathianfriendly this is your fault for breaking your lent vows.

Hi, so long story short my boyfriend and I have been together for 6 years now. When we first started dating he was pretty progressive and he even went to pride parades with me, said he was really disappointed after Roe v Wade was overturned, etc. But in the past 1.5 or so years he really started falling into the “traditional” beliefs, became a lot more Catholic, and socially conservative. We've had a lot of big disagreements in the last year, starting with the Barbie movie last summer…..he has made condescending comments about “woke leftists”, the “west is losing their morals”, etc. Then recently I saw on Instagram reels (I just happened to come across posts he's liked), that he's liked reels that were making fun of pronouns and then one about how couples with kids without a mom are “unnatural”. He also liked one about how modern feminism is destroying society. I am seriously appalled that he has these views and I'm so dissappointed. He doesn't voice it to me because he knows how upset and defensive I get, but now I know what he actually thinks. I just have a feeling he's listening to those podcasts about being “alpha males”, the need for women to have kids, importance of Christianity in society….etc. Anyway obviously it seems like the answer is pretty clear here, but is it possible for a person like this to be convinced otherwise? Could he drop these beliefs? It's just hard because he used to be a different person..and we've been together for so long, we live together, so much is tied up. But it seems like for the most part people who go down this route only go deeper in it. It's not too dramatic of a reason to break up with someone, right? Each time I've brought it up he's said I'm being too controlling about his views and we should agree to disagree. He says I'm being a “militant leftist who doesn't have room for other views”……I can't handle being with someone who has such disrespectful views and I'm just wondering what went wrong..and when…and also, I just hate what Instagram reels, TikTok, and these certain male influencers have done lately. It's bizarre to see so many guys turn right wing in the past year

The are onto you, being Catholic is a Q-adjacent ideology.

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Posted by a woman who is:

trying to lose weight

stained her new couch with period blood and denied it

claims the abortion she had as a teenager was the "best choice in her life" that "saved her" and allowed her to "become the woman she is today" (obese FO76 player)

https://old.reddit.com/user/Queenhotsnakes/submitted/

GM frens I hate satan and pagans

Friends, today's Gospel exposes the pride of the Pharisees and concludes with the prescription of humility. I want to reflect on this virtue.

St. Augustine said that all of us, made from nothing, tend toward nothing. We can see this in our frailty and sin and mortality. St. Paul said, “What do you possess that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are you boasting as if you did not receive it?”

To believe in God is to know these truths. To live them out is to live in the attitude of humility. Thomas Aquinas said humilitas veritas, meaning humility is truth. It is living out the deepest truth of things: God is God, and we are not.

Now, all of this sounds very clear when it's stated in this abstract manner, but man is it hard to live out! In our fallen world, we forget so readily that we are creatures. We start to assume that we are gods, the center of the universe.

The ego becomes a massive monkey on our backs, and it has to be fed and pampered constantly. What a liberation it is to let go of the ego! Do you see why humility is not a degradation, but an elevation?

https://www.wordonfire.org/reflections/lent/

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