at RCIA we all got St Benedict medal bracelets

looks kinda like this, but with only 3 medals: https://www.amazon.com/Benedict-Nursia-Silver-Adjustable-Bracelet/dp/B014VZIGFK

does the priest give a homily in English at TLM? do they do announcements?

@Joe the boomer sounded good! need more stories like that

children tax credits, marriage tax credits, first time home buyer tax credits, paid parental leave, enforce obscenity & decency laws against pornography

promoting the trades vs. forcing everyone to go into debt for a college degree and delay starting a family

https://twitter.com/__manes/status/962541488172224517

no meat, fish & eggs ok, eat one full meal, you can eat two smaller meals that don't add up to the full meal

@sbbu I've only read Men Among the Ruins, but he seems supportive of Catholicism, for example:
> Christianity has been largely corrected and mitigated in Catholicism through the aggregation and assimilation of principles from various origins (especially Roman and Classical), as can be seen in the theological domain of Thomism, which would be inconceivable without Aristotelianism.

his criticism of Christianity & Catholicism from that book are more about the modern/liberal/communist influence on the faith, not fundamental problems with Christianity itself

the ideal form of the state he describes is Ghibellinism, the belief that the State has a supernatural origin and function, on par with the Church, with only God above it, e.g. the Holy Roman Empire

he sees Christianity as part of a broader, more universal, more essential tradition, and wants to move in that direction
> something wider, more austere, and more universal than mere Catholicism
> pontifical function preexisted Christianity and were intimately associated with the Roman, pre-Christian idea of sovereignty
> the Knights Templar, [with] their own initiation and esoteric doctrine, reserved to higher degrees, which were not reducible to the mere Christian religiosity
so yeah like @Nicholas István said, there's lots of good stuff to take away from Evola, but probably an equal amount of material that is too impractical, too ideologically pure, too extreme to be useful today

I agree with lots of Evola's points about what's good/bad about Christianity and Catholicism, but I don't think we're ever going to get back to his ideal of a pre-Christian monarchical society founded on the imperium and mannerbund of priestly knights and ascetic warriors bla bla.., so I just focus on what's good about traditional Christianity and stay away from the bad modern parts

that's one reason why I'm Catholic and not protestant or pagan, Catholicism is the most viable model we have for right order in the church, state, and home

what kind of background

@NormanLord take the Imperial Units Pill: imperial is directly related to man and our lived experience over thousands of years: feet, acres, horsepower, cups, pounds, etc., it's something we intuitively understand, SI is a modern invention and mostly invented for use in industrial process, scale, science, calculations, machines, greater "productivity", it's dehumanizing, post-human, or trans-human (aka it's gay)

it's easy for them to retcon stuff like that, look at Hidden Figures

https://www.twitch.tv/princehubris_/