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I'm no expert at any of this, but your plan sounds solid. Thanks! (And I think the admins get double time-out-of-purgatory for dealing with all this.)

I took a few actions: Added stricter spam defense New members now have to answer a question When moderators flag someone as a spammer it now automatically deletes every post they've ever made

I'm on it!

Hey Guadalupe, I'm not sure I have much to add but this is so, so important so I am hopeful. Another thing you could check out is if the community/Order has been under investigation by the Holy See, if they've had an Apostolic Administrator or a Superior from another community come in for oversight or to change things. This might help you figure out if there were things that were wrong in the past that were remedied or changed or whether these practises are ongoing, or whether there really is / was something to worry about. Or maybe they could arrange a call or letter to the current Novice Mistress? Even if she is abroad?! Or you could ask to go and visit the Novitiate house abroad for an experience. Not to enter, just to go for a week to be among the postulants to see. This might not be financially viable. Sisters of Life are beautiful, but if you are being called to the other Order, or desire it more, investigate it as thoroughly as possible lest you be left feeling with a 'second best' sense on bad days when you eventually enter. Prayers, L.

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Yum. This is my dinner plan later this week.

Feel free to Facebook message Dust. We need an admin to look at how to slow the new spammers.

Still feels like the kind of topic that would’ve been better moderated rather than removed completely, since people are clearly going to look for info somewhere anyway.

Lent my be over, but I still look forward to a nice fish fry on Fridays (year round)

Please go away you Eastern Orthodox, UK, gambling spammer. We're not stupid here. We can see that all of these online gambling spams follow the same simplistic patterns - I stumbled on this, I tried it just out of boredom, I lost, but I kept at it, and then I won. . . . . . . . BORING! Completely uncreative. ... and completely untrue. This board focuses on Preaching Holy Apostolic Truth. That's the PHAT in Phatmass. And online gabling has nothing to do with preaching holy apostolic truth. Please turn you pathetic attempts elsewhere.

Hey there, I’m from the UK and found this platform in a pretty random way. I was browsing late at night when I saw someone in a comment section mention playing with “sharp focus” during longer sessions. That phrase caught my attention, so I searched and ended up exploring sharp focus. What stood out immediately was how simple yet engaging everything felt — no distractions, just clear access to games. I spent some time browsing before actually playing, and I liked how fast everything loaded. My session didn’t start well at all; I had a streak of losses that made me consider logging off. But instead of stopping, I switched games and gave it another try. That turned things around enough for me to recover what I had lost. What I enjoyed most was how easy it was to stay in rhythm without feeling overwhelmed.

You do know Lent is over now, right? You don't have to eat such awful food now :)

not all spam is bad. I like spam and tomato sandwiches They're tasty and delicious!

Maybe he's dead? 😅

+ Pax! Hello, Guadalupe I've been an aspirant and or postulant in three different communities. In my case they are contemplative but I consider very important in any type of religious life that, upon arrival, transparency is a main topic to be regarded from both sides. In my case I found information about the formation process very important. In the end we aspire to sainthood, how can this community help me grow towards God? In the last monastery I spent a week at, the nuns kept telling me to ask anything I wanted. They even appointed a day and hour that we would all sit down in order to talk about any doubts I had. One of my questions was regarding formation and I was happy to hear of the different types of "at home" formation and out of it. How I would learn of Patristics, of the spirituality of the order, of prayer, and how I'd be able to join the Benedictines for gregorian chant lessons, etc. They also gave great importance to be able to develop the gifts that God gives each of us thoroughfuly. I know of some monasteries that will accept, for instance, a formed nurse, and put her in the kitchen. I find that not only sad but an ungrateful gesture towards God, who puts special gifts and vocations in everyone's heart for a reason. That is what I look for when I think of my formation towards sainthood. Life brings enough corsses and humilliations when you live it deeply and truly enough as to look for those in fallen forks. Count with my prayers towards finding the right place!

I know it's not your video. I was addressing SenatorArmstrong, who hides his hyperlinks in the quoted part of the post, and then writes - or generates? - something like relevant comments about the quotation. He's not as bad as a lot of the other recent scammers, but he is just another scammer, and I wish he'd leave us alone.

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It’s not my video. It is an interesting discussion point, imo. Thoughts on the interpretation or on the differences in focus of the story?

One of the more common readings we hear at funerals is that portion of the gospel we just heard: “ Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me.” If the congregation at a funeral recalls that the deceased lived a long life, shared love and kindness with others, then the words of Jesus sound consoling: an acknowledgment of present sorrow and a solemn promise of comfort and life in Jesus. “ I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too.” It is a beautiful promise, and it is true. It marks an end even as it opens a beginning. But when funerals are occasions where sorrow is when the cause of death is violent or when life is cut short by disease or disability or war or accident, then death comes as the ancient enemy—not the natural end to life, but the thief who breaks in and steals. In these times, Jesus’s promise of resurrected life comes crashing down as fickle comfort in the wake of such loss. We see evidence of such experience among the disciples in the wake of Jesus’s resurrection. Even after they’ve rationally accepted the reality of the bodily resurrection of Jesus; even after seeing the scars from the nails and his pierced side; even after watching him eat—thus confirming that he was neither a ghost nor a zombie but a resurrected person—the disciples still had a spiritual problem that it took them time to overcome. The resurrection overturns the order that we have come to accept. The bodily resurrection of our Lord invades and overthrows what we thought we know, revealing that the world does not have to be the way it is, and that, in the fullness of God’s time, through the resurrection of Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, it will not be. Violence and war, hate and malice, pain and tears; the stones hurled at Stephen in our passage from Acts and thrown still at martyrs today; even death itself: all of these are being overcome—in real time. Jesus says, “ I tell you most solemnly, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, he will perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father.” The ascension of Jesus to the Father and the giving of the Spirit to the disciples unleash and disperse the power and life of Christ among the baptized in all time and space. Jesus has ushered in the kingdom of God, and it is up to us to listen and watch for the Spirit to speak and move among us, leading us to receive what God has done in Jesus and continue to build the body of Christ. You have heard it said that in the midst of life, we are in death; but it is also true that in the midst of death, we find life. When we stop listening to one another; when we stop listening for the Spirit; when our concern is focused on the preservation of the self, rather than the flourishing of all, our own faith becomes impoverished, and the bread and wine of the Gospel is turned into stone and vinegar. The task St Peter gives us in this letter today is to keep faith, to run along these apostolic creases, making them the track down which our lives run. In this way we are built up together into that spiritual house as the living stones, he’s talking about. Meditating on his words (and digging down into their Old Testament roots) will give us a much deeper awareness of what is at stake in our faith, what it is we are hoping for, and how to understand the trials and temptations always threatening to derail our path. Fidelity to that hope despite its apparent failure—perceiving it, through God’s faithfulness, as strangely and wonderfully the first moment of victory—is what he means in this passage by faith. Jesus has called us to build his kingdom, and he has entrusted us with all the tools we need to do it. When we take those stones in our hands, do we use them as building blocks for the work to which we have been called, or do we use them as weapons to defend and isolate ourselves from risk, vulnerability, and honesty? Because, in the end, one response requires us to lay down our life so that we may participate in God’s resurrected life… …And the other?

This is a profound meditation on the 'fragility of life' and the true essence of repentance. I’ve always found the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree to be one of the most sobering yet hopeful moments in the Gospel it perfectly captures that tension between divine patience and the urgency of our own mortality

I appreciate that! 😊 it’s been a tough journey at times, but in the end it’s been worth it. We’re not promised anything but God himself and it turns out that’s enough. More than enough. Even if other Catholics reject me, God doesn’t.

Yeah, I think a few of us would stick around if the spam issue was taken care of.

Sr. Margaret and Sr. Mary were having a face-to-face conversation in St. Peter’s square. Sr. Margaret commented on how she had, at that moment, a lovely view of St. Peter’s Basilica. Just then, Sr. Mary saw the Pope walking towards them with his crozier in hand. Sr. Mary said, “Oh, but if you were to look where I’m looking, you would have an even more special view.” Sr. Margaret shook her head and said, “No, I can see the reflection of what you are seeing right now in your eyes, and trust me. The sight of the basilica is much better than a pope in the eye with a stick.” What happens to a member of the Swiss Guard who, in the exercise of his duty to protect the Pope, find himself running in front of the Popemobile?……He gets TIRED! -https://epicpew.com/catholic-puns-laugh-hysterically-or-groan/