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

Overheard in the friary. "I don't want to say anything; apparently I can come off as nasty." "You are."

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

Computer wants to correct Reparatrix to separatrix. How the world wants to undo God's creative drawing of order out of chaos!

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 7h

Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. ~ S. Hieronymus (Officium lectionis)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 20h

Mom: "I don't want that muffin. It looks like a mushroom in a German children's book."

Photo of a red velvet cake muffin with white chips of some kind

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: "What are you doing?" Mom: "I'm washing my hands with Windex."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those who deliver messages of lesser importance are called angels; and those who proclaim messages of supreme importance are called #archangels: Michael: “Who is like God?" Gabriel: “The Strength of God” Raphael: “God’s Remedy” (Pope St. Gregory the Great, Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Closing up the church for the night I see that somebody's lunch got delivered to the vestibule. That's why I always give the address of the small building next door.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last night I ordered Chinese food via DoorDash. In the special instructions field I put mustard please, thank you. Well, I got 3 mustards, but no packets of any other sauce and no fortune cookie. So now I'm like oh no I am the annoying, demanding customer.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thinking about the time, I was 11 or 12 maybe, I was in a summer camp art class and the teacher criticized what I was doing, saying it was the approach a much younger child would take. I looked at him and thought something like, bro, don't you see I'm just trying to survive?

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For us next Sunday the *solemnity* of our holy Father St. Francis of Assisi, Deacon, Founder of the 3 Orders bumps the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. So fun. Starting to think about a homily.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great humbling experience. The other day I was short with a parishioner about a request. A few days later I called him to apologize and offer an appointment. Without saying it outright, of course, he was like, no problem Father, don't worry about it; in the meantime I found a better priest than you.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've mentioned this before, but I really wonder if when Pope Francis said we should have the smell of the sheep he considered those of us who have sheep that smell like weed. This one guy at daily Mass. Seriously. It's pungent. I may have to talk to him about it.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"So gird up your loins and serve God in fear and sincerity. Leave aside empty vanities and vulgar error." ~St. Polycarp (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whenever I see an Olive Garden eatery I think of Gli Ulivi Sporting Club on the Via Pisana in Rome, which was around the turning back point on my daily walk when I lived at the Capuchin International College in Rome, where I also talked to the dead rat. (It was a particular time in my journey.)

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Gli ulivi sporting club sport e relax tennis calcetto beach volley piscina estiva eventi bar

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saturday night in the friary kitchen Friar: [opens a bottle of Samuel Adams Octoberfest] me: "Time to give Uncle Sam a kiss on the lips?" friar: 😐 me: "Sorry, it's something we used to say in college."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The rapid descent of the median age in my community produces a surplus of old man stuff, some of it quite nice. Today I inherited one of those powered recliners. Cf.:

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Simpsons: Homer's Lungs Like A Sucker

Alt: Simpsons: Homer's Lungs Like A Sucker

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friar is laughing me as I try to defend my child self regarding taking a long time to learn right and left. Nobody explained to me that it was relative to orientation; I imagined it as absolute like north and south and so kept getting it wrong.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm convinced that this friar's sense of taste works like this: Salty: "This is good!" Any other detectable flavor: "It's too spicy!"

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Children parading into church for Mass Teacher: "Good morning, So-and-so!" Child addressed: ☹️ Me, quietly: "Being a kid is awful." Teacher: [laughs uncomfortably as if I said something one is not allowed to say]

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We who are reborn through baptism have the greatest joy, as we perceive within us the first stirrings of the Holy Spirit ... These gifts, like drops of liquid, permeate our inner self, and so beginning, little by little produce fruits in abundance. ~ St. Hilary (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friar burn of the day: "In fairness, within the context of his room he's a well-known intellectual."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What kind of son would I be if I sent this patronizing, "AI"-generated suggested email reply to my poor mother?

Text that reads: "Don't be too hard on yourself with the Bach prelude. Those things are deceptively complex, as I'm sure you know. It's good to be humbled by a challenge now and then. Love, Charles"

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Google Maps voice changed. It's deeper, curt, with a slight vocal fry. Did I offend the other lady? Go the other way too many times? I feel bad now.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just had a fun chat with a Calabrian kid working the deli counter at Stew Leonard's about how proper mortadella is made from horses.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friar texts without context. "They sent the wrong toilet."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

chat with someone about my brother & sister-in-law's cats "All these cats get along?" "From what I gather there are 2 camps, which the humans call the Smart Cats & the Dumb Cats. The leader of the Smart Cats is Mr. Fluff. I don't think the Dumb Cats have a leader; they're more of an anarchic body"

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The first record is written of whiskey being consumed in Ireland, where it is distilled by Catholic monks. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"If Jesus reveals himself, thank him; if he hides himself, thank him even more: this is the playfulness of love (scherzi di amore)." ~ St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Office of Readings) #PadrePio

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thinking about going to an AA meeting tomorrow and admitting that I'm an alcoholic in order to have an excuse why I can't go to a "theology on tap" on Thursday.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pretty sure the announcement over the Stop & Shop PA just now was, "Marky Mark to frozen receiving, please."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OCIA was a lot of fun tonight. "Can we go over the Trinity again? I'm not sure I get it."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who are these people who just call you on the phone without an appointment or some prior understanding?

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was just dethroned as the SwarmApp (olim: foursquare) "mayor" of my mom's retirement community. I know, I don't visit enough, I'm a bad son, and so on and so forth.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two girls at Dave's Hot Chicken try for a photo of their mozzarella stick pull. What they accomplished was indeed striking, but they went too far. The strand broke & fell to the floor like a cheesy Icarus, & the photo opportunity was lost. Ancient lessons, fried up for our time at Dave's Hot Chicken

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ok, I admit that I find "AI" fun sometimes.

screenshot of a Google search "AI overview" that reads: "The Sisters of Life do not have a height requirement, and they are not actually all tall. The belief that they are all exceptionally tall is a common optical illusion and a bit of Catholic "urban legend." Here is why it seems like they are all tall:"

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At a restaurant and the I kid you not the Colonel from Boogie Nights is at the next table. He's signing the bill thank goodness. Kind of uncomfortable.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I once played chess in a bar with the last girl I ever dated (who led me on in thinking I had arrived at boyfriend status by sending me to Walgreen's to buy tampons and soon after dumped me on my birthday, not that I'm bitter) and I think she let me win which troubled me somewhat at the time.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm thinking of joining the elementary school chess club so kids can feel empowered when they kick my ass

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The paralysis is interior, you cannot come to the physician. But perhaps the physician is himself concealed within. ~ St. Augustine (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sunday Mass fashion winner: lady with pink veil and Hello Kitty t-shirt.

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Nikolaj Bill @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Folks, I was at Kroger's earlier and a woman didn't know what pickles she wanted. She said she wanted something tart and was about to get bread and butter, but she asked me "Do you know if these pickles are sweet or which ones are better?" Lady, I've waited my entire life for this conversation.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last night a man told me about when he was a little kid growing up in Jordan his mother made him wear a Franciscan habit for two years because of a promise she had made to God.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ut unum sint! (Roman Catholic-Coptic Orthodox wedding today)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If this wedding doesn't start very soon I'm not going to have time to clean up and reset the church before confessions and I'll have to give out bits of the clean up as penances.

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