Just Another Goth Catholic

With my posture yeah that checks out

thank you!!!! this was so so fun

I guess I’m Ursula???? But aside from that, I love watching videos about octopi solving puzzles, and I love solving puzzles, so I guess this checks out 🤣 (also @marian-devotee ur result is so accurate)

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

This child (who is used to taking meds via a 5ml syringe) is still refusing to take a bottle. But he tolerates it through a syringe (but only the 5ml - nothing else). An ounce is 30ml and he needs at least 4 every 2 hours.

That's a lot of 5ml syringes to get him to take and, as one can imagine, it is a PAIN. He'll eat baby food sometimes and we're going to try him on some new foods today in hopes there will be something he likes.

If you're looking for some Catholic specific resources, I'll list and link some below and also tag @paula-of-christ because she is my go to resource 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 (Well, her and my wonderful and very patient priest 😂)

Catechism of the Catholic church, which is what the church believes. There are simpler versions out there though, and I started with those because it was just so much information all at once 🥲 The Baltimore Catechism is a commonly used one

So much great stuff on Ascension Press, my fav is Fr Mike Schmitz's Bible in a Year podcast which I listen to on Spotify 🎧

A Catholic study Bibles, I personally just have this one but there are so many great ones out there. They help tie together sacred scripture and church doctrine. And Catholic bibles contain the 7 deuterocanonical books that protestant bibles (like the very popular KJV) omit from the Old Testament.

Catholic Answers has some pretty good stuff, especially about some of the more complex subjects in the church

Institute of Catholic Culture also has interesting things to read through, my favorite is the Sunday Gospel Reflections

And then recently @g0thiepi3 recently shared free courses from Christendom College (a small Catholic university) which have some really interesting topics

There are so many amazing books out there. That could definitely be its own extremely lengthy post. But my very favorite when I was first reading books about Catholicism was A Map of Life by Frank Sheed. It is so approachable, and helpful, and got me into reading other Catholic books, and now I'm such a nerd 🥲🤓🥲 (He also has Theology for Beginners which is great too.)

But definitely your very best resource is a local priest who can get to know you, understand your spiritual needs, and answer questions with the authority of God's Church behind them 💕💒

God bless, friend! 🩷🩷🩷