Orla, from Derry Girls
“how many pieces of communion do you think you would have to swallow to eat a whole Jesus?”
This, my friends, is a "Nottaufspritze", or "syringe for emergency baptism".
If the midwife strongly suspected that the child would be stillborn, and could not see the child's head, she could inject the syringe into the vagina, and thus sprinkle the child with holy water and provide an emergency baptism before the stillborn child was formally dead.
Because the souls of unbaptized children don't go into Heaven.
#TIL #history #Christianity #baptism
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nottaufspritze_MfK_Wgt.jpg
"Liam isn’t the only child or even the only 5-year-old jailed where he is now. Lawyer Eric Lee, who saw detainees with ashen faces when he went inside the Dilley, Texas detention center last week, told me his clients are dealing with bugs and dirt in their food, putrid water mixed with baby formula, and denial of medical care."
~ Adam Carrasquillo
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #Christianity #cruelty #inhumanity #children #LiamRamos
/16
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liam-ramos-scared-5-year-old-boy-minnesota-national-conscience
"The choices we make now, in our parishes, our communities and our public life, will reveal whether we truly believe what we proclaim.
If we say every person is made in the image of God, then we cannot remain silent when that dignity is denied. If we say families are sacred, then we cannot look away when they are torn apart. If we say the Gospel still speaks to our world, then we must allow it to speak through us."
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #Catholic
/15
"Liam isn’t the only child or even the only 5-year-old jailed where he is now. Lawyer Eric Lee, who saw detainees with ashen faces when he went inside the Dilley, Texas detention center last week, told me his clients are dealing with bugs and dirt in their food, putrid water mixed with baby formula, and denial of medical care."
~ Adam Carrasquillo
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #Christianity #cruelty #inhumanity #children #LiamRamos
/16
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liam-ramos-scared-5-year-old-boy-minnesota-national-conscience
"MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: 'Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!'
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it."
~ TN Holler
Linked posting has video footage of the masked thugs grabbing the mother and whisking her away as she makes a desperate call for help for her children.
#KristiNoem #Trump #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #deportations #Christianity #churches
/10
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mdmbsmem7k2c
"'Every sermon from the pulpit should be denouncing very clearly this injustice, this cruelty, this barbarity,' said a participant at the vigil on the street honoring the 37-year-old nurse who had been shot and killed earlier that day by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/12
"Welcoming the stranger is central to who we are as Catholics and who we must be as a nation. At a time when fear speaks loudly in politics, workplaces and neighborhoods, the church's prophetic voice must rise above the noise. ...
This moment will test the moral imagination of our country and our church."
~ Rigoberto Caloca Rivas
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/14
"The participant at the Jan. 24 vigil was an Iraq War veteran from Kansas City who taught in a Catholic school there. He did not want his name used for fear of retribution but he encouraged other Catholics to become actively involved, saying: 'There is a power in our presence.'"
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/13
"Welcoming the stranger is central to who we are as Catholics and who we must be as a nation. At a time when fear speaks loudly in politics, workplaces and neighborhoods, the church's prophetic voice must rise above the noise. ...
This moment will test the moral imagination of our country and our church."
~ Rigoberto Caloca Rivas
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/14
"'Every sermon from the pulpit should be denouncing very clearly this injustice, this cruelty, this barbarity,' said a participant at the vigil on the street honoring the 37-year-old nurse who had been shot and killed earlier that day by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/12
"The participant at the Jan. 24 vigil was an Iraq War veteran from Kansas City who taught in a Catholic school there. He did not want his name used for fear of retribution but he encouraged other Catholics to become actively involved, saying: 'There is a power in our presence.'"
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/13
"At an outdoor vigil service honoring Alex Pretti and Sunday Masses in Catholic pcarishes in the Twin Cities, Catholics spoke urgently of the need to stand up against injustice in the current immigration crackdown and vowed to continue to offer practical help to the local immigrant community."
~ Tim Montgomery
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/11
"'Every sermon from the pulpit should be denouncing very clearly this injustice, this cruelty, this barbarity,' said a participant at the vigil on the street honoring the 37-year-old nurse who had been shot and killed earlier that day by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/12
"MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: 'Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!'
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it."
~ TN Holler
Linked posting has video footage of the masked thugs grabbing the mother and whisking her away as she makes a desperate call for help for her children.
#KristiNoem #Trump #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #deportations #Christianity #churches
/10
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mdmbsmem7k2c
"At an outdoor vigil service honoring Alex Pretti and Sunday Masses in Catholic pcarishes in the Twin Cities, Catholics spoke urgently of the need to stand up against injustice in the current immigration crackdown and vowed to continue to offer practical help to the local immigrant community."
~ Tim Montgomery
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/11
"For these reasons, we cannot support legislation that expands or sustains enforcement practices without adequately addressing their consequences for families and communities."
#KristiNoem #Trump #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #deportations #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/9
"MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: 'Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!'
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it."
~ TN Holler
Linked posting has video footage of the masked thugs grabbing the mother and whisking her away as she makes a desperate call for help for her children.
#KristiNoem #Trump #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #deportations #Christianity #churches
/10
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mdmbsmem7k2c
"For these reasons, we cannot support legislation that expands or sustains enforcement practices without adequately addressing their consequences for families and communities."
#KristiNoem #Trump #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #deportations #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/9
Orla, from Derry Girls
“how many pieces of communion do you think you would have to swallow to eat a whole Jesus?”
Was the Shimabara Rebellion a peasant uprising or a Christian holy war? This month’s Living Past revisits a brutal reckoning that still echoes through Japanese history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/history/christianity-japanese-history-massacre/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries
"In January 1826, the state of #Maryland passed the so-called “ #Jew Bill.” The 200th anniversary of the bill being enacted into law was last week. The Maryland state legislature will hold an event in February, during the annual legislative session, to commemorate the 1826 #law.
Prior to 1826, only members of #Christian #religions were eligible to hold office in Maryland. In fact, there was a clause in the oath of office that elected officials were required to take that affirmed their belief in #Christianity.
The formal title of the bill was “An act to extend to the sect of people professing the #Jewish religion the same rights and privileges enjoyed by Christians.”
This bill was proposed and resisted for years before it was finally passed in 1826."
https://www.jewishtimes.com/marking-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-so-called-jew-bill/
"In January 1826, the state of #Maryland passed the so-called “ #Jew Bill.” The 200th anniversary of the bill being enacted into law was last week. The Maryland state legislature will hold an event in February, during the annual legislative session, to commemorate the 1826 #law.
Prior to 1826, only members of #Christian #religions were eligible to hold office in Maryland. In fact, there was a clause in the oath of office that elected officials were required to take that affirmed their belief in #Christianity.
The formal title of the bill was “An act to extend to the sect of people professing the #Jewish religion the same rights and privileges enjoyed by Christians.”
This bill was proposed and resisted for years before it was finally passed in 1826."
https://www.jewishtimes.com/marking-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-so-called-jew-bill/
My parish did our usual blessing of the nearby headwaters of the Missouri River today, the Sunday after Theophany. I somehow captured this of Fr. David throwing the ice cross into the river with my 5-year-old iPhone SE. We’ve used an ice cross ever since Fr. David’s attempt to tie a cross to a string failed spectacularly several years ago. 🙂 #Christianity #Orthodox #Theophany
Make it make sense.
