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Catholic leaders highlight fasting, prayer and digital restraint

As Ash Wednesday approaches on Feb. 18, Catholics are preparing to begin Lent, the Church’s 40-day penitential season marked by fasting, prayer, ...

Quickly approaching the first hike, camp, and fish of the year. A small warmup for another, lengthier one next month. 🎯 Smallmouth Bass There's a good feeling of printing a map, scouting and planning a timeline with some good buddies. 🎯 White Ribbon Trout I've got some gear to prep in the meantime. Godspeed Nostr!

GM Nostr! It feels like with the advent of this AI virality, I feel encouraged to stick to my analogue roots. Writing in a physical bullet journal, reading physical books, and long, focused windows of time in silence. Today is Monday the 16th of Feb. My first Lent coming this Wednesday with ashes as I continue conversion towards my confirmation. I wasn't sure if I would stick this journey out at first; the more I learn, the more I pray, the more questions I ask, its become quite clear the this is the right journey to be on. Blessed be God forever. A few larger projects at work this week as we overhaul our D2C site structure. I'm wrapping up some analytics reports (we had a pretty solid 2025, so that's motivating), and strategizing methods for aligning content and content updates across our various channels. It's going to be a beautiful day. I'm grateful to say the least.

I'm not letting go of my optimistic view of the world. I'm not letting go of hope.

'Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead...'

Really enjoying Psalm 118 tonight. 24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

Excuse me while I take a minute to digest and think...

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

Spring time fishing can not arrive soon enough 😅

Giving into the hype. Recently thrifted books: - Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) - The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) - Life of Christ (Fulton J. Sheen) That should take me a good while 😅

"Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering." Fulton J. Sheen - Life of Christ

GM good people of nostr After some time away in more of a digital detox, I'm back and fired up. Hope you're having a great day. Let's get this bread.

Mary's soul magnifies the Lord. December 8, 2025; Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception; “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” (Luke 1:28) The Greek word used, kecharitomene, implies a perfect and permanent state of grace. From the Cross, Jesus looked down at the two people who loved Him most in the world: His Mother, standing in sorrow, and John, the disciple whom He loved. And in that moment of supreme agony, He gave them (and all of us) the greatest gift after Himself: “Woman, behold your son.” Then to John: “Behold your Mother.” (John 19:26–27) Ave Maria. Blessed be God, forever.🙏

I'm having such a good time with life right now. Just thought I'd share how beautiful things are currently. Wife and I expecting our first child. Joining a beautiful local parish and approaching confirmation in Spring. Reading and studying my Bible for the first time in over a decade. Training BJJ and weightlifting. Work is going well and it's been really enjoyable lately. Friends consistently wanting to hang out, fish, camp, skate, play music or just spend time with each other. The Lord has truly blessed me beyond what I could ever imagine or measure, and I don't deserve any of it. Thanks be to God. It's easy to get stressed out. Sometimes I miss the feeling of boredom. So I'm just flexing a muscle here of appreciation and gratitude. ⚔️ 🙏

Happy Thanksgiving nostriches ⚔️ Thanks be to God

“I believe; help my unbelief!” I seek to know and do your will, O God.. Let not my doubts disqualify me, Lord. "Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! … You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness." Merely say the word, and my soul shall be healed.

Ignatius (disciple of John) referred to the "Catholic Church" (in ~107 AD) as the visible, unified body of believers under episcopal authority, distinguishing it from heretical groups lacking that structure. In his Letter to the Smyrnaeans, he equates its presence with Christ's, implying a concrete institution rather than a vague universal idea. The term functioned as a proper descriptor for the apostolic Church, not just an adjective. The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans - Chapter 8. Let nothing be done without the bishop; "See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid."

Good morning nostr! Proud to note here that my wife and I are expecting our first child. 🙏