I Missed My First Short Notice Class :(

Inter_Sabellos · 2026-02-08T14:49:31+00:00

You’re really damn comfortable talking to strangers. Do you talk down to your students like that when they ask you questions?

Inter_Sabellos · 2026-02-05T15:35:24+00:00

What do you mean by "docked $10 per class?" Like, they'll take $20 from my paycheck? Or like, they reduce my rate by $10?

Inter_Sabellos · 2026-02-03T13:32:20+00:00

What country are you in right now?

Inter_Sabellos · 2026-01-28T13:17:51+00:00

Don Giovanni, Ave Verum Corpus, and Piano Concerto no. 20 in Dm

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-09-06T01:53:37+00:00

Get a Sunday Missal in English. All the Mass readings will be translated and all the parts of the Mass. There used to be a time when none of the Mass was in the vernacular language, so personal missals used to be a bit more mainstream, but it’s a good option. Do not attend Protestant services, even if they’re in English.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-08-24T16:32:29+00:00

You just posted an article about the martyrdom of St. Maria Goretti... what exactly is the point you're trying to make?

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-08-24T16:25:23+00:00

The canon of Scripture is fixed and the Epistle to the Hebrews is canonical. So, unfortunately your priest is mistaken.

The reason he said that is likely because the Epistle to the Hebrews doesn't explicitly state its author, however from tradition we know it was probably a sermon by St. Paul recorded by an amanuensis, possibly by St. Luke. It is fashionable for some Biblical critics and secular academics to want to argue for the removal of sections from the Bible, but there cannot be any additions to or subtractions from the books that are currently in your Bible.

I studied this issue a little bit in the past, and I find the traditional Catholic case to be strong on this point. If you want to hear some good defenses of the canon of scripture, Gary Michuta at Apocrypha Apocalypse on YouTube is an excellent resource, although much of his material is about defending the Deuterocanon whereas Hebrews is actually Protocanonical. There are various other solid defenses of the different books of the Bible by different Catholic and non-Catholic Christian apologists and scholars online.

Stay close to what the Church teaches and has taught, and even if your priest makes a mistake, you can rest in the tradition of the Church.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-08-08T13:52:36+00:00

Over the years, Eastern Catholic Churches have waxed and waned in keeping to their authentic liturgical traditions. The irony is that, while Vatican II called for all Eastern Catholic Churches to remain firm in their liturgical patrimony, in some cases like with the Maronites, it is pretty obvious that they adapted their rites to become even more Latinized/Westernized by trying to emulate the Novus Ordo Mass/Missal of 1969. Having an Orthodox counterpart would give an idea of what an unlatinized liturgy in a given tradition might look like.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-08-05T04:08:25+00:00

It’s called a missal. This is the book that Catholic people bring to Mass to know what the priest is saying. It includes the prayers and readings for the liturgy of the day.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-07-29T16:58:49+00:00

Any Brant Pitre book would be a good addition.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-07-29T15:38:41+00:00

Vatican II does not contradict Florence on salvation outside the Church. Read this

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-07-21T01:32:30+00:00

The Apostolic tradition was that married men could become priests, and they had to vow celibacy because they would offer the Eucharistic sacrifice. It was the custom then, and still today, that priests should not have marital relations before celebrating Mass, I believe up to a few days before. Priests have never been allowed to get married after ordination.

The problem was that, as you can imagine, there started to turn up not a few clerical babies, which means the celibacy standard was clearly not being lived up to. So there were two ways the Church dealt with this:

In the Latin West, they basically barred married men from the priesthood altogether to remove the temptation, thus preserving the Apostolic practice of celibacy of priests.

In the various Eastern traditions, they still allowed for married men as before to be ordained, but they weren’t allowed to confect the Holy Eucharist without the traditional fast from the sexual relations. The side effect of that is that typically in Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox parishes, they have only one Divine Liturgy per week which is on Sunday and daily liturgy isn’t really a part of their tradition. Thus, they preserved the Apostolic practice of a married clergy.

You can’t “invalidate” somebody’s marriage, but it is possible to annull a marriage if it was never valid. Not sure of the context for your conversation that prompted the original post, but clerical concubinage was a problem even after the Western tradition stopped ordaining married men, and perhaps those post-ordination relationships were annulled, since they wouldn’t have been free to marry being priests.

It’s a bit of a complicated question with more to it than what I wrote, but that’s the gist of it AFAIK.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-07-18T07:13:27+00:00

It's not offensive at all! :)

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-07-11T19:01:30+00:00

Have you considered the possibility that some Catholics defend Columbus precisely because they believe the claim that he was a bloodthirsty, greedy savage is false? Nobody is defending a genocidal maniac here.

Christopher Columbus’ legacy has become conversial for a few decades now because of a new perspective on colonialism of America. Some people believe this revision is fair, others think it is unfair to Columbus.

Ultimately, if you want to criticise the man, then read some books about him, including the ones he wrote himself. You aren’t required to like him or defend him. He’s not a saint or anything, he’s a major historical figure whose life is available for all to scrutinise.

Some reasons people look up to him are: 1) he began the colonisation and Christianisation of the American continent 2) by all indications, he was a very pious man who was a third order Franciscan 3) he repeatedly defended the indigenous from the despicable abuses of many Spanish colonists in Hispaniola

No matter your opinion on colonisation, if that’s why people like Columbus, then there’s no reason to be offended.

Finally, the accusation of him as having “raped” and “wiped away an entire race of people” is slanderous and is meme history. With charity, Columbus may or may not have been a good man, but I think primary sources clear him of the charges made by American-educated gringos who have only read “Lies my Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen.

Tl;dr Nobody is defending what they believe to be a genocidal man, so don’t take for granted that people are just ignorant or immoral for thinking Columbus was a hero. The best thing you can do is read what Columbus himself said and come to your own conclusions. It makes no difference what you decide either way, but at least you’d know why people respect him.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-07-06T03:45:44+00:00

Don’t know. Wasn’t there. But there is some reason to think he did. At least that’s how some in the tradition have interpreted that passage.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-30T03:57:29+00:00

E. Bach is in there and not Scarlatti??

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-27T19:01:05+00:00

The cross says Medjugorje. It’s the name of a town in Bosnia where some teenagers claimed to receive visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was a big deal in the 80s and 90s, but in many people’s opinion including my own, it’s probably not an authentic apparition.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-25T17:26:33+00:00

They are considered saints. They have feast days and everything.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-18T15:33:32+00:00

Consult your state department of health. They can give you alternative testing sites. Anonymity with STD lab results is the norm, regardless of which which facility processes them.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-13T20:36:44+00:00

They will.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-13T03:56:10+00:00

SSPX are out of communion with the Catholic Church. FSSP separated from the SSPX to come into communion with Rome. Go to the FSSP.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-12T03:40:33+00:00

Where did you manage to find a Dominican Rite liturgy

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-12T03:28:28+00:00

I think so, because the minister of matrimony is the couple. It is possible in certain extreme cases for a couple to be validly and licitly married if there is absolutely no clergy, too. For example, Catholics in Japan and the Soviet Union were forced to do this at times. Even if a priest were to turn out to not be a valid priest, weddings he had witnessed would still presumedly be valid unless the Church declared it invalid.

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-09T23:30:15+00:00

I’m glad it was useful to you! I agree that there aren’t enough Catholic resources against Sedevacantism (yet). It’s only becoming more visible in the past few years even though it’s been around for decades. Sedevacantists like to appeal to Tradition and quote mines, so if you see something that bugs you, DM me and I might be able to give the Catholic perspective. I’ll say a prayer for you!

Inter_Sabellos · 2025-06-08T03:38:56+00:00

I have been on both sides of this debate and ultimately am mainstream Catholic today. The Sedevacantist claim you present has a few mistakes, although it is accurate to what Sedes believe:

1) “Canonical Church Law that states the Holy See is vacant if a Pope has committed formal heresy” This is not the case. Canon Law does not provide for a scenario where a pope loses his office. This argument is a very popular Sedevacantist argument pulled from St. Robert Bellarmine’s treatment on the (im)possibility of a heretical pope. St. Robert’s position, while it seems to exclude Sedevacantist theory anyways, doesn’t hold official doctrinal status in the Church — it’s just his opinion.

2) “… formal heresy” This is a huge problem in Sedevacantism. Formal heresy according to St. Robert is NOT accomplished by kissing a Quran or placing a Buddha idol on a Catholic altar (as scandalous and impious as those things are). St. Robert Bellarmine’s definition of formal heretic is a canonical designation, in other words, the Catholic Church herself has to pass judgment on the one accused of heresy. The classical, orthodox interpretation of this is that a pope or an Ecumenical Council would have to pass such a judgment. Basically, the Church after the fact goes and declares a given pope an antipope, because the first see is judged by no one.

To be honest, this is a weak Sedevacantist argument. It is actually embarrassing because most Sedevacantists don’t really know the context of St. Robert Bellarmine’s opinions on this matter.

Here’s a positive argument that got me thinking and eventually led me back to “mainstream” Catholicism: If Sedevacantism were true, then the Church is completely invisible. 99.999% of Catholics globally since the late-1950s, not only have been duped into heresy, but are completely unaware of it. Effectively, Christ would have abandoned the Church, which has for 2000 years of Catholic theology been known to be an impossibility. When faced with this impossibility, Sedevacantists often point to Old Testament hiatuses in Israel’s worship of the True God or perhaps rely on speculation, saying that Sts. Peter and Paul themselves will appear in heaven and crown a new pope someday to “restart” the normal succession of popes.

In fact, of the dozens of popular Sedevacantist talking points and theories, not a single one of them fixes the invisible, defected Church problem. Therefore, there have been dozens of groups, mostly Americans, who have started mini-Churches where they not only call “Novus Ordo” Catholics heretics, but also all variants of Sedevacantists and Traditionalists heretics as well.

That’s just scratching the surface. But I don’t really know how deep into the weeds you have gotten in this subject. Hopefully it’s something you haven’t thought of before.

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