Possum Lover
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Likes and follows ≠ endorsements; Be. Possume, ora pro nobis
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How can we rejoice in the Lord if he is far away? He is not far away! If he is, that is your doing. Love, and he will draw near; love, and he will dwell within you. The Lord is at hand; have no anxiety. Do you want to know how he will be with you if you love him? God is caritas.
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How can we rejoice in the Lord if he is far away? He is not far away! If he is, that is your doing. Love, and he will draw near; love, and he will dwell within you. The Lord is at hand; have no anxiety. Do you want to know how he will be with you if you love him? God is caritas.
really thinking abt tradition and liturgy lately for some reasons
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
really thinking abt tradition and liturgy lately for some reasons
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For a fourth year in a row Michigan’s leader in yards from scrimmage in a winning effort is Michigan State Unsportsmanlike Conduct Penalties
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
For a fourth year in a row Michigan’s leader in yards from scrimmage in a winning effort is Michigan State Unsportsmanlike Conduct Penalties
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It’s not a Rutger, but there should be a term for getting more penalty yards than either rushing or passing yards. Can we call it a Sparty? We didn’t get there this year but it was close
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It’s not a Rutger, but there should be a term for getting more penalty yards than either rushing or passing yards. Can we call it a Sparty? We didn’t get there this year but it was close
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Paul Bunyan stays in Ann Arbor!!!
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Paul Bunyan stays in Ann Arbor!!!
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My $0.02 on the liturgical reform: it was well-meaning... but based on disastrous pedagogical assumptions (that ironically both patronized and overexalted the capacities of the laity), and ended up too beholden to specific scholars' petty hobbyhorses, so it ended up a mangled, compromised mess
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My $0.02 on the liturgical reform: it was well-meaning... but based on disastrous pedagogical assumptions (that ironically both patronized and overexalted the capacities of the laity), and ended up too beholden to specific scholars' petty hobbyhorses, so it ended up a mangled, compromised mess
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And I'd add, since this is a personal hobbyhorse... deciding to chuck the entire tradition and remake it from scratch, essentially bankrupted the flourishing liturgical publications industry. They literally had to pulp warehouses' worth of missals, breviaries and other books gone obsolete overnight.
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
And I'd add, since this is a personal hobbyhorse... deciding to chuck the entire tradition and remake it from scratch, essentially bankrupted the flourishing liturgical publications industry. They literally had to pulp warehouses' worth of missals, breviaries and other books gone obsolete overnight.
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Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady for St Francis Day.
Pilgrims from St Paul the Apostle and St Therese the Little Flower parishes in Corpus Christi were present.
I made my First Communion at St Paul’s, and grew up in that parish til I entered the seminary. I am very grateful to that community.
Pilgrims from St Paul the Apostle and St Therese the Little Flower parishes in Corpus Christi were present.
I made my First Communion at St Paul’s, and grew up in that parish til I entered the seminary. I am very grateful to that community.
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady for St Francis Day.
Pilgrims from St Paul the Apostle and St Therese the Little Flower parishes in Corpus Christi were present.
I made my First Communion at St Paul’s, and grew up in that parish til I entered the seminary. I am very grateful to that community.
Pilgrims from St Paul the Apostle and St Therese the Little Flower parishes in Corpus Christi were present.
I made my First Communion at St Paul’s, and grew up in that parish til I entered the seminary. I am very grateful to that community.
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Head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette by Vincent van Gogh, 1886.
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette by Vincent van Gogh, 1886.
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Why is Chris Fowler saying last year's Michigan season was a disappointment? Do the numbers "13" and "10" mean nothing to him
September 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Why is Chris Fowler saying last year's Michigan season was a disappointment? Do the numbers "13" and "10" mean nothing to him
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no: good men create good men, who create good times, because and goodness only lasts as long as people are in fact being good; weak men destroy any kind of time with their weakness because they’re weak.
adversity makes a lot of people weaker and more foolish, not good.
adversity makes a lot of people weaker and more foolish, not good.
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
no: good men create good men, who create good times, because and goodness only lasts as long as people are in fact being good; weak men destroy any kind of time with their weakness because they’re weak.
adversity makes a lot of people weaker and more foolish, not good.
adversity makes a lot of people weaker and more foolish, not good.
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Who could fail to be moved by those frequent expressions in the psalms in which the immense majesty of God, his omnipotence, his ineffable justice, his goodness and mercy, and all his other infinite attributes so worthy of praise, are so highly exalted?
August 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Who could fail to be moved by those frequent expressions in the psalms in which the immense majesty of God, his omnipotence, his ineffable justice, his goodness and mercy, and all his other infinite attributes so worthy of praise, are so highly exalted?
Post a non-religious photo (gif) you think is holy
August 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Post a non-religious photo (gif) you think is holy
Interesting thoughts from a great novelist, as quoted by @bpdflores.bsky.social
Certainly challenging—how do we balance the legit desire to alleviate suffering w the value of poverty
Certainly challenging—how do we balance the legit desire to alleviate suffering w the value of poverty
August 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Interesting thoughts from a great novelist, as quoted by @bpdflores.bsky.social
Certainly challenging—how do we balance the legit desire to alleviate suffering w the value of poverty
Certainly challenging—how do we balance the legit desire to alleviate suffering w the value of poverty
post a random pic or everything goes bad in August
August 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
post a random pic or everything goes bad in August
For some other history:
- what if Chiang's Encircling Campaigns succeded?
- what if Mao died before the Cultural Revolution?
- what if Chiang Ching-kuo never stopped Taiwan's nuclear program?
- what if An Lushan didn't revolt?
- what if Wu Sangui didn't open the northern marches to the Manchus?
- what if Chiang's Encircling Campaigns succeded?
- what if Mao died before the Cultural Revolution?
- what if Chiang Ching-kuo never stopped Taiwan's nuclear program?
- what if An Lushan didn't revolt?
- what if Wu Sangui didn't open the northern marches to the Manchus?
followed up by: man what if they didn’t burn Constantinople, those complete fucking idiots (1204 AD)
1054 AD
August 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For some other history:
- what if Chiang's Encircling Campaigns succeded?
- what if Mao died before the Cultural Revolution?
- what if Chiang Ching-kuo never stopped Taiwan's nuclear program?
- what if An Lushan didn't revolt?
- what if Wu Sangui didn't open the northern marches to the Manchus?
- what if Chiang's Encircling Campaigns succeded?
- what if Mao died before the Cultural Revolution?
- what if Chiang Ching-kuo never stopped Taiwan's nuclear program?
- what if An Lushan didn't revolt?
- what if Wu Sangui didn't open the northern marches to the Manchus?
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13-10.
Who won the National Title? OSU. And we didn't have to cheat nor plant our flag on anyone's logo. Now go cry in your Michigan coffee cups. Boo hoo. Shouldn't have tried to plant that flag, Bozos.
August 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
13-10.
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1 Co 12,26 Si un membre souffre, tous les membres souffrent avec lui. #HG « D’où vient cette impression que l’Église a toujours mieux su faire avec les pécheurs qu’avec les victimes ? » (J.-B. Metz) La nomination du chancelier du diocèse de Toulouse est inacceptable et intenable.
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
1 Co 12,26 Si un membre souffre, tous les membres souffrent avec lui. #HG « D’où vient cette impression que l’Église a toujours mieux su faire avec les pécheurs qu’avec les victimes ? » (J.-B. Metz) La nomination du chancelier du diocèse de Toulouse est inacceptable et intenable.
Sure why not
One like, one non-political opinion
One like, one non-political opinion
One like, one non-political opinion (I don't have any interesting political opinions anyway)
Back from vacation, so let’s go.
1 like = 1 non-political opinion
1 like = 1 non-political opinion
July 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sure why not
One like, one non-political opinion
One like, one non-political opinion
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Thirty years ago today I was a novice in the OFM, singing in the choir for the feast of St. Bonaventure at the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University. It has since been surpassed, but I remember thinking at the time that I had never been happier.
July 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Thirty years ago today I was a novice in the OFM, singing in the choir for the feast of St. Bonaventure at the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University. It has since been surpassed, but I remember thinking at the time that I had never been happier.
Tbh I prefer DC’s fake nonexistent cities more when they are obvious stand-ins for real life places
This is obviously the case in Donner’s first Superman where the Statue of Liberty is magically in Metropolis
Otherwise I prefer Marvel’s approach of setting everything in NYC
This is obviously the case in Donner’s first Superman where the Statue of Liberty is magically in Metropolis
Otherwise I prefer Marvel’s approach of setting everything in NYC
July 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Tbh I prefer DC’s fake nonexistent cities more when they are obvious stand-ins for real life places
This is obviously the case in Donner’s first Superman where the Statue of Liberty is magically in Metropolis
Otherwise I prefer Marvel’s approach of setting everything in NYC
This is obviously the case in Donner’s first Superman where the Statue of Liberty is magically in Metropolis
Otherwise I prefer Marvel’s approach of setting everything in NYC
apparently Guy Gardner went to Michigan
wtf I love Guy Gardner now
wtf I love Guy Gardner now
July 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
apparently Guy Gardner went to Michigan
wtf I love Guy Gardner now
wtf I love Guy Gardner now
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The year is 2006. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2013. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2025. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2013. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2025. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
July 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The year is 2006. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2013. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2025. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2013. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
The year is 2025. I am at the movies, watching the reboot of Superman.
Orion should be stronger than Superman
July 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Orion should be stronger than Superman