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

Honestly, that should have been St. Clare as patroness of television, but I wasn't yet a Franciscan in those days and didn't know such things.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 5h

I imagine, but I'm not going. Just the paperwork priest.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 5h

Like the summer I was with the Benedictine Sisters in KY and they had various homegrown intercessors for various needs, e.g. St. Tvina for the satellite dish, St. Startamamower, St. Weedwackerina, virgin and martyr

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 5h

Just FedEx'd a prep envelope to the Archdiocese for a Christmas wedding in the DR. Gonna have to pray to St. Expeditus on this one.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 10h

This is just the sort of thing I enjoy about this neighborhood; the small, urban, neighborhood grocery store for some reason carries Żywiec porter.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking of this girl from my work between my times as a friar who always said you had the get the Deutschmacher brand bologna, but she always pronounced it /douche-maker/.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 12h

An example of the subtle, imprecise calculus of friary economics: is the savings of purchasing the 3-pack of big bottles of ketchup worth the aggravation some brother(s) will suffer when there are at least two, big, opened bottles of ketchup in the refrigerator?

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

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 · 13h

Look about you and see how full the world is of priests, yet in God’s harvest a laborer is rarely to be found; for although we have accepted the priestly office, we do not fulfil its demands. ~ Pope St. Gregory the Great (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Overheard in the friary "I tried that place Seven Woks." "That's a lot of woks."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Adult child: mom just moved into assisted living, it's a difficult transition, and so could I, as her priest, visit her. I call mom to set up a time. Mom: "Oh hi Fr. Charles. I'm in the middle of a game of rummy. I'll call you back in half an hour." Doesn't. pastoral judgement: mom's fine.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The pastor has an 8 bridesmaids-2 maids of honor wedding this afternoon. That's an advanced level I have yet to unlock.

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Mitch is tired 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @mitchell509.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New reaction image just dropped

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here's another favorite: "Be careful about inviting people to express their feelings if you haven't arranged for someone to come collect the bodies."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In honor of Fr. Michael Marigliano, OFM Cap., who passed away yesterday, may he rest in peace, my favorite of his many sayings. [of two friars] "The only thing they have in common is that they don't know how to get along."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Neither a sarafan or some other less cute dress means anything, but only a new creation." ~ Russian St. Paul

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Friar sends me an email marked 'high importance.' LOL I'll be the judge of that bro.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Happy birthday to good old Sacred Heart in Yonkers, NY, USA. ⛪🎂

interior of a Roman Catholic Church, looking down the nave toward the sanctuary

photo of a note posted crookedly on the inside of a church sacristy cabinet, which reads: "This church was dedicated on October 7, 1917 by His Eminence John Cardinal Farley D.D. when Rev. Capistran Claude, OFM Cap. was pastor. The annual liturgical celebration of the dedicated takes place on October 8th so that the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary may be observed."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

friar doesn't believe me about the nap after dinner called the duodeciesta

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It looks just about the same today, just fewer friars.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Overheard, friars discussing whom to ask to preach at a Mass for a special occasion: "We need someone who can, like, speak in complete sentences."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I recently had the humbling inspiration to send a thank-you note, ten years overdue, to a friar I used to work with. We got to chatting and he sent me this lovely video of the parish church where he is now:

youtu.be

Zmartwychwstanie 2024 - Kościół św. Antoniego

YouTube video by Pawel Teperski

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✝️ / 🔄🌐 Stat crux dum volvitur orbis Happy feast of St. Bruno, especially to all you Carthusians (whom I doubt are on this website).

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rejoice, because you have reached the quiet and safe anchorage of a secret harbor. ~ St. Bruno (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In three thousand years this historical period is going to be called the Oil Age Collapse.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Most fascinating comment from the OCIA group tonight: we did the Bible basics session and one of our people, whose native language is Arabic, said of the Sacred Scriptures, no offense, but English is not the right language for this sort of thing.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My nephew, who started high school last month, has reportedly already identified the girl who will be his rival in the quest to be valedictorian.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On the standard parish errand today I finally saw the owner of the car with two First Order (Star Wars) logos on it. You will be relieved: the person appears hardly menacing.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A college friend of mine worked as a housekeeping supervisor at a casino and had the idea of snooping in performers' rooms to see what drugs they were on & then sell the info to the tabloids. He tells the story of being caught in the act by Macho Camacho and being lucky to lose only his job that day

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kind of random how I came to see it, but I have to say that the Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital in Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE has beautiful stationery.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Savior says to go into your room – the secret space within you in which your thoughts are enclosed ... That is your prayer-room, always with you wherever you are, always secret wherever you are, with your only witness being God. ~ St. Ambrose (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"We have cast off the light burden, namely self-accusation, and taken on the heavy one, namely self-justification." ~ Abba John the Dwarf

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Friar-Brewer Father Pat (seen here in file photos) delivers his verdict on this year's Sam Adams Octoberfest: "It needed more malt."

Fr. Pat holds up his Solanus Casey Porter. Get it?

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To me one of the most encouraging things about Francis of Assisi is how you can see his rather chaotic trajectory as a saint as an effort to figure out the traumas of whatever he saw at the battle of Collestrada and went through in his imprisonment in Perugia. The worst things can make us amazing.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Br. John is making the feast of St. Francis dinner. Me: "What's that?!" Br. John: "It's a potato thing. I got it out my mom's Polish church cookbook." mmm...Polish church food

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagining myself as a bishop in the mold of Paulie from Goodfellas. "For a prelate who moved all day, Charles didn't talk to six people. If there was a parish problem or a beef in the chancery, only the top people could talk to Charles. Everything was one on one; Charles hated conferences."

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

gmail suggests I replace incensation with incestation, which I don't think is even a word. Our world is quite ill.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh, but, instead, we must be simple, humble and pure. We must never desire to be above others, but, instead, we must be servants and subject to every human creature for God’s sake. ~ St. Francis of Assisi (Office of Readings)

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Various of our friars studied Spanish in Cochabamba. I must ask them if they visited this Kingdom.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When people come with interest in OCIA I just ask them, totally open-ended, how they arrived at their curiosity. I hear amazing things. One recently mentioned the Epstein Files (i.e. the reality of evil) and another young man brought up Plotinus and Nabokov in the same sentence.

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

parish mom keeps texting me dad jokes. is there something in theology of the body I can cite to explain to her that this is unfitting

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The feast of St. Francis got me thinking about saints whom we know by nicknames. Are there others? Does St. Peter count?

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We had Fr. Theodosius's funeral today, may he rest in peace. I was in my currently usual role of sacristan/MC/altar boy. The good news is I didn't burn down the church, just a little bit of carpet.

photo of a small burn mark in some blue institutional carpet, also with some incense grains strewn about

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