Find Your Tribe

if you want to find your life's mission, not this nonsense generated by a female academic living an atomized life.

To Find Your Life’s Mission, Follow Your Questions https://t.co/wwuGI87cQL

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 18, 2021

Wage Slaves

“We have never been in a better place than we are today to grow both horizontally and vertically, reaching more young people in our current chapters and in cities across the country." @YCPNational https://t.co/klf2af1FZ2

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) July 9, 2021

A Cult of Virginity

Tie it to legalism and elevating some form of consecrated life as being more "noble" than that of the ordinary Christian vocation, and what results? Things to consider, also in relation to the Latin emphasis on clerical celibacy and their relative absolutism with respect to ecclesial divorce.

CWR Dispatch: Peter M.J. Stravinskas

SSH Goes Mainstream

Vox Day.

Can we better understand monastics or those especially living an eremetical form of life as being sigmas? I suppose the normal hierarchy could be found where there is more of a monastic community. Monasticism then could be understood in such "sociological terms," though those who extol the perfection of living the evangelical vows would not be satisfied. But it would allow a place for continued development of our understanding of the "lay" Christian vocation.

Monastics leave the world because they reject its unwholesome spirit. But in leaving the world, they don’t abandon the human person. https://t.co/YaViC2mKlM

— OCN (@MyOCN) January 11, 2021

Meanwhile, in the AmChurch...

After a period of political gloom, I spent a few days with these outstanding young men: serious, curious, based, totally in love with the Lord and with Saint Josemaria.

Now I’m perfectly refreshed. pic.twitter.com/H50nmb8TFQ

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) January 29, 2021

Though our students were unable to travel to D.C. this year for the @March_for_Life, our @UDCFL joined the march in spirit. Last Saturday, over 75 of our groundhogs prayed together outside of an abortion clinic. We are so proud of our students and stand united in prayer today!💙 pic.twitter.com/8VpPUZtXIw

— University of Dallas (@UofDallas) January 29, 2021

The AmChurch continues to fail Roman Catholic men.

Durable Trades

“Mr. Groves recovers a profound truth: a job is not an end in itself; it is rather one means—and only one means—toward building a rich and satisfying life, toward human flourishing.”

—Allan C. Carlson

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) November 19, 2020

Wipf and Stock

Life Lessons

Teach your children the importance of being rooted in a place with a tribe to their divine vocation. As collapse proceeds, circumstances will make this even more clear.

Staying put is underrated.

I was taught that places were fungible. It never sat right with me.

This is great thread h/t @quachelsey https://t.co/Bx59Kqj0Mx

— Full President Joe Norman (@normonics) November 12, 2020

Complete thread by Taran Ann Thieke

Traditional Craftsmanship

Craft, Vocation, and the Decline of the West (essay by Matthew Pheneger) https://t.co/7tkrwQHzZy

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) September 7, 2020

Imaginative Conservative

Even Jesuits?

We’re all monks now https://t.co/iEj360ObGk

— America Magazine (@americamag) April 23, 2020

America

Published on the same day: A Monk’s Guide to Quarantine by Teresa Mull

One might think that one would find similar articles by Orthodox Christians, but I have not seen many -- rather there is more of an awareness that Christian faithful should be building up their "domestic churches."

Two Important Points Made

OrthoChristian: Don’t Look for New Ideals. The Monastic Life Has Always Been an Example for the Laity by Hieromonk Thaddeus (Pestov)

 —Should we endure financial and family problems, or should we fight for a better life?

—It’s not for nothing that they say a place does not save a man, but a man is saved in that place where the Lord put him. If you have the strength and opportunity, why not fight, move, change jobs? We are strangers on this earth.

It’s another matter when you can’t change anything and you have to accept circumstances as a given. You mustn’t lose courage, but turn to God, live the spiritual life, and enjoy those blessings that you have at the moment.

Christ teaches us to love God and neighbor, to fulfill the commandments—no one has or will abolish this until the end of his earthly life. Everything else is temporary, but we must do what depends on us.

—What should a parish community look like?

—The most ideal community is a monastery: people united by the same aspiration, living by the same spirit. Monasteries have always been models for the laity too. You won’t find any new templates.

Will Christians fight or will they resign themselves to the revolution being an accomplished fact?

As for living the same spirit, even monasteries are dependent upon that unity of purpose to provide limits for behavior of its members. However, the unity of spirit for parishes requires unanimity regarding their place in the political sphere.

Which brings me to the following... Three Years Of ‘The Benedict Option’ by Rod Dreher - three years since its initial publication and Dreher hasn't learned much about what is required for community.

Common Good and the Order of Charity

Beating a dead horse, the Latin bishops.

RC social teaching unmoored from the order of charity and a full understanding of the common good becomes easily changed into liberal morality and SJW activism. Let Latin bishops return to teaching the order of charity and the Natural Law before they talk about political matters.

CNA: ‘Never accept’ separation of faith from political engagement, Chaput says (also posted at CWR)

Charlotte Allen on the Response to the Lincoln Memorial Incident

First Things: Covington Catholic and Our Inferiority Complex

Rod Dreher uses it as a springboard for this: Catholic Rebels: ‘We Don’t Care Now’

What options do apostolic Christians have with respect to weak but recalcitrant bishops who refuse to resign? When will bishops understand that their measure of political prudence, if they have any, is in no way better by virtue of his episcopal office than that of a lay Christian's?

CWR Interview with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

CWR: Abp. Cordileone on how lay people can strengthen their local Church
The archbishop of San Francisco discusses the centrality of stewardship in education, vocations, and the Church’s charitable endeavors.
By Jim Graves

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, 59, has served as archbishop of San Francisco since 2012. The archdiocese is home to 90 parishes, 248 diocesan priests, and 450,000 Catholics. It has a rich tradition dating back to California’s Gold Rush days, and is notable for its cool climate, windy bay, progressive politics, and diverse immigrant groups. ...

Archbishop Cordileone: When I arrived, I tried not to bring too many well-defined, set priorities, other than the timeless Church priorities such as catechesis, liturgy, and evangelization. That said, three things come to mind, two of which were decided upon before I arrived.

The first was to develop a ministry to young adults, of which there are many in the archdiocese. We created an office of young adult ministry which is separate from youth ministry.

The second area of concern was marriage, as we’d seen a steep decline in couples marrying within the Church. We wanted to find ways of being more encouraging, welcoming, and accessible to couples, so we established a separate office of marriage and family life under a single director.

Has anyone at the chancery or the young adult ministry office swallowed the red pill?

And a third priority I’ve been promoting since I came is developing a spirituality of stewardship. When people hear the word stewardship, they think of fundraising or responsible administration of resources. But it’s much more than this; I preach on it when I do parish visits.

Difficult to talk about stewardship when those who have the main responsibility to be "stewards" of the parish are men who have been excluded. What has the local Church done to promote patriarchy?

Life on the Rock - 2014-11-28 - Eric and Ginny Dooley

The video could be analyzed from quite a few different angles...

Hype for the KoC

“McGivney prepared the Knights of Columbus to help the Popes”

New Book Presents Founder of Knights of Columbus as Model for Priests, Helper for Families

Some videos after the jump...

Yes, What If?

Post by The American Conservative.

Post by The Economics of Happiness.

Msgr. Ronald Knox on Fatherhood

Post by Ignatius Press.

Yes, But?

Post by Zenit News Agency.

Of the nature of vocation and its current modern distortions (via Tea at Trianon)

"Hell is other people." Not quite, but other people can challenge us in both good ways and bad. Can we tease apart the different trials that can affect marriage, the different sins to which each sex is prone without negating the distinct (and unequal) roles of husbands and wives?

The New Singleness by Maggie Gallagher

"Adults" who have children expecting them to be as easy to handle as pet animals. Children are not more complex only by degree - parents
are charged with forming the character of their children, and not to be the target of unrestrained or unreasonable emotion.

Pope Francis and the Reform of the Laity

NCReg: Pope Francis and the Reform of the Laity
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father has identified ‘ecclesiastical narcissism’ as the fundamental illness the Church needs to address.

This was based on remarks made to the cardinals before the conclave - has he changed his mind since then?

Cardinal Bergoglio was the principal author and presenter of the Aparecida Document, which not only echoes many of his fundamental themes but is a reliable indicator of his thought.

The reform of the laity, the document says, must involve re-forming them to become “missionary disciples in communion.”

Those four words define the lay vocation: converted followers of Jesus, who together with others who share Jesus’ life, faithfully seek to spread their joy, life and love to those who have not yet come into that two-fold communion.

It’s a community of believers trained and inspired to go out to transform politics, society, education, neighborhoods, family and marriages.

It’s a brotherhood of Good Samaritans drawing near to neighbors with love and mercy.

It’s the faithful who are salt of the earth and not just salty critics of the Church.

It’s a body of torchbearers radiating Christ’s light rather than hiding it within the bushel basket of self-referential, spiritually worldly and ultimately “sick” parochial or diocesan structures.

Pope Francis has begun the exodus leading to this reform, taking us by example to the outskirts of human existence and sketching for us the journey ahead.

The real work, however, still needs to take place in hearts, homes, parishes, movements and schools across the Catholic world.

First things first - the laity need to be taught about the order of charity and the meaning of friendship before parish life can then be reinvigorated - only then can any large-scale (i.e. at the level of the parish and the local Church) credible evangelization effort be launched and maintained. Otherwise, Christians are open to the following criticism:

"You Christians talk about love, but you live like the rest of us, in your homes, without any real friendships, even with your fellow Christians. How can you talk about the love of neighbor when you do not live it?")


Related:
APARECIDA - Concluding Document
The Unprecedented "Presumption" of Changing the World
Vatican Diary / The reform of the curia has already begun
Francis: A Step Towards Collegiality - Pope Francis' reasons for deciding to appoint eight cardinal advisers
Mercy. The first encyclical of Pope Francis