My dad’s memorial Mass was supposed to be on Saturday, but we were told it is not safe to have 50 people indoors at the church that seats 600.
He died in May.
We’re not sure if we’ll be allowed to have it in September either.
Maine has 420 active cases statewide rn.
praying for all of my friends who have experienced miscarriage/stillbirth and have had to endure a social media onslaught of hearing that their children were not actually children
We were told we couldn’t have more than 10 people at an outdoor graveside service in Maine literally 10 days ago. People were afraid to come see my family.
Kerri Strug only did that vault because Bela couldn't do math and realize that they had already clinched it.
Also as everyone else said she was literally carried off the podium and handed to Larry Nassar.
I just wanted a hug from my cousins when I buried my dad and to not worry about the police coming to break up the burial bc we had 15ish people, but sure this just a perceived double standard.
I will be saying goodbye to my father this afternoon around 3 p.m. Please pray a divine mercy chaplet around that time. He has received anointing of the sick.
I am very sad.
Please excuse me if I don’t respond to your text or DM right away.
Thank you.
I don’t begrudge Rep. Lewis’s friends for having a funeral and honoring his incredible life. Same for George Floyd. Funerals are an important part of the grieving process, and they were two men with families and friends who loved them.
But non-famous people do too.
Just remembered that my dad, unbeknownst to me, went out at midnight and got the fourth Harry Potter book for me and stood it up facing my bed so it’d be the first thing I saw when I woke up.
I discovered my dad’s last tweet after his death. We did not always have the best relationship, but things had gotten a lot better in the last months of his life.
I miss him.
Newt Gingrich, a three-star Air Force general and former publicist for Michael Jackson and Prince want to create a $2 billion sweepstakes to see who can establish and run the first lunar base
I just want to go to Mass. I want to have a proper wake for my dad and get a million hugs from people who loved him and who love me. I want a normal funeral and normal burial where we don’t have to do a head count on cousins and friends. This sucks.
Please stop spreading stupid rumors about marshall law.
COMPLETELY FALSE
We will continue to see closings & restrictions on hours of non-essential businesses in certain cities & states. But that is NOT marshall law.
ATTN: Calling me fat (I'm aware I'm not thin, I own mirrors), and an old maid (I'm also aware, I own a calendar), or ugly (you're actually objectively wrong on this one) doesn't make anything better nor does it change the fact that, you know, I'd like a family one day.
hey twitter. can you pray for my friend, her husband, and their extremely premature baby who had surgery on Wednesday?
Baby is named James Joseph.
thanks a bunch.
As part of the organ donation process, they request that the families of the donor submit a personal statement, that is read shortly before the procurement begins. Here’s what I said about my dad.
I’d like to invite everyone to the pride march and/or protest we’ll be having in honor of my father’s life in august Bc apparently these causes overrule other executive orders
Are we saying nice things about
@SirajAHashmi
tonight? Because he was super super kind to me when my dad was comatose and talked to his dad, a heart surgeon, to give me advice when I was spiraling. I’d met Siraj irl exactly once at that point. He’s a good dude.
There is no requirement, it's a tradition. Boys (typically) wear suits, nobody says they "look like grooms." We don't say babies who are being baptized look like brides, even though they're in white too.
Dressing up nicely for a special day is a good thing, actually.
A Google spokesperson tells me that
@NBCNews
gets it wrong. Google says The Federalist was notified they *could* be demonetized but hasn't yet been. They can still remedy.
Google also says the sites' comments section not any articles were in violation.
It’s been six months and we still aren’t allowed to have a proper funeral for my dad but whatever, the PPH doesn’t give a shit if you’re gathering for a cause they approve of
But why in the hell did my family (and so many others) go through all of this apparently completely unnecessary fear and anguish and anxiety over social distancing and following all of the rules and hand washing and not hugging people? I don’t get it.
We couldn’t have the normal funeral/wake/grieving process. Maine Medical wouldn’t let my father, who was dying, have more than one visitor TO SAY GOODBYE until the organ donation people fought for us. They allowed up one more.
still wild to me that a story about Canada's biggest province literally harvesting organs from its disabled population was barely a blip in the news cycle
just got a call from the priest back home that he doesn't anticipate the 50-person limit for indoor gatherings changing until Christmas at the earliest, so we're once again rescheduling my dad's funeral.
the church seats 700.
Maine has 9 people hospitalized w/ covid statewide.
9/11/2001 was "turn in your form to pick out your band instrument for fifth grade band" day. I selected a clarinet. Should I have opted for the flute and prevented the war in Afghanistan? Is that how this works?
The DC Catholic dating scene in a nutshell: a local parish is doing a speed dating event. Tickets for 26-30 year old women are SOLD OUT...but they're offering a discount on tickets for men aged 21-30.
when my dad died and i spent his entire burial service wondering if i was going to get arrested and i couldn't invite my best friend due to gathering policies that were proven to be BS 10 days later when nobody cared that hundreds were gathered together outside
Pleasantly shocked by these snow day proclamations from schools in Maine declaring that normal snow days are here to stay and encouraging kids to go play outside and build snowmen.
And I’m sorry for the rant but I’m just so frustrated and scared and sad at literally everything in the world and everything is breaking down at once and I just cannot handle this many crises at one time.
The Eucharist is a privilege, not a right you are entitled to. You are boasting about how you are not in communion with the Church, yet you insist on receiving the Body and Blood of Christ and affirming that you are in communion with the Church.
I don't get it.
Dear
@USCCB
: I’m Catholic and I support:
-Contraception
-A woman’s right to choose
-Treatments for infertility
-The right for people to get a divorce
-The right of same sex marriage
Next time I go to Church, I dare you to deny me Communion.
Hell, even PEOPLE ON THIS HELLSITE were chiding me for wanting to go on a hike with one other person so I didn’t have a meltdown. “You have to isolate for two weeks!! It’s not safe!!!!”
Just when you think things can’t get worse... pray for my family please.
Sorry for the vague posting but we need prayers.
If you know me IRL feel free to dm, I guess.
I just don't understand the point of vaccine mandate when the vaccine doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading covid.
She says, as someone who is vaccinated and just recovered from covid who contracted covid from her vaccinated + boosted neighbor.
@mkhammer
My Grammy would say “Potatoes” like “podaytoes,” and idk why I miss that, but I do. My brother brought that up too, and he was only six when she died.
My Memere would call me “Chou,” which means “cabbage,” but it’s a French term of endearment.
Just out: Depression among U.S. teen girls doubled from 2009 to 2019 and was up 74% among teen boys, according to just-released data from the gov't administered National Survey of Drug Use and Health. What does this mean?
Today would have been my father's 60th birthday.
Please pray for the repose of his soul... and for me, because I've been dealing with a lot of emotional whiplash lately.
Thank you, everyone, for the support, prayers, and Masses and everything else over the last week. It has been an absolute nightmare and the worst week of my life, but I am so comforted and thankful for all of you.
I actually assigned a friend of mine who came to the service a tombstone she could pretend to be mourning at if they police came to break up our gathering. AT A CEMETERY. DURING MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. BECAUSE THAT WAS A LEGITIMATE FEAR AT THE TIME.
Here’s the relevant executive order. For everyone playing by the rules, you’re limited to 5 people per 1,000 square feet of outdoor space up to 100. Does the picture above look like they’re in compliance?