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Charles, OFM Cap.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · Nov 23

"Social media has contributed to your intellectual deterioration, as it has for so many others." (my dad, Z"L)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 13h

My two sets of two siblings baptism today proceeded with remarkable smoothness. However, I somehow lost one of the church's towels. So hopefully the pastor doesn't count them.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 17h

Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity or we fall into a cesspool. ~ Pope Leo, Dilexi te, 95

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 18h

Not for nothing is he called the Great

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 19h

Genghis Khan born, Thomas Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org Tag: @lampallib.bsky.social

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 19h

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Ravioli Street

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 19h

Try to get your Wendy's to put an egg on your burger and see what happens amirite?

Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 1d

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 19h

We are called bishops to our detriment, for we retain the honorable office but fail to practice the virtues proper to it. Those who have been entrusted to us abandon God, and we are silent. They fall into sin, and we do not extend a hand of rebuke. ~ Pope St. Gregory the Great (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Same but with A Clockwork Orange

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Nonetheless, my all-time favorite wonderfully Italian insult, Italian friar to Italian friar even, about a habitually grumpy friar: "His mother's milk was sour."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched the trailer for Nuremberg and I wish I could remember where I read this but it's some Italian official remarking on Hermann Göring's coat as something "a high-tone prostitute would wear to the opera." Just a wonderfully Italian insult.

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

same

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me a pic of a letter I sent him years ago on which I had put this as the return address

photo of the top left corner of an envelope on which the hand-written return address reads, "Old Stradlater/Pencey/N.J."

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Discussion of the insuccess of the fruit fly trap one of the brothers constructed.

"Like grandma said, you catch more flies with apple cider vinegar than with, uh, vinegar."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

News from the friary kitchen window: "Mrs. So-and-so is walking into the church with a Christmas tree."

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

11 is my record

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Since Covid this church has done baby baptisms individually. But tomorrow I have 4. How did this happen? It took a long time to get things in place, e.g. sponsor certification. Godmother realized she should baptize her baby. A sibling to the original baptizandus was born. Godmother had another baby.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Friars are making fun of me because I said it was more geometrically challenging to set a certain number of places on a round table than on a rectangular one. This is clearly the case so I don't get why the ridicule.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Friary meeting discussion on Pope Leo's request for a daily rosary for peace in October.

"This is for whoever wants to show up?"

"This is for whoever wishes to accept the invitation of the Holy Father."

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Friary supper chat. Ping pong mishaps during a game with Avery Dulles.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

wow

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

While saving a PDF of Dilexi te to send to my Kindle the program offered to make an AI summary and this is what happened. The gospel just can't be digested with such haste, bro.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 3d

We were first

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 4d

Hang on. Are there Capuchin monks AND Capuchin monkeys?

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 3d

We're proud of our bone chapels.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 3d

At some point my dad's doctor told him to eat two squares of dark chocolate a day for his heart. So he went and bought chocolate bars far more bitter than they had to be, saying, it's medicine, and medicine is supposed to taste bad.

Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 3d

Told the story today of early in my seeking phase when I asked my mostly just culturally Jewish girlfriend if I should become Jewish for her. "Oh no," she said, "I know you, Charles, and you will want to follow every little rule no matter how ridiculous, you'll grow a big horrible beard. Please no."

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