I am a real Catholic Priest (@FrMatthewLC) who's autistic. I post about the intersection of autism & spirituality. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticPrayer
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🧵My book, God Love the Autistic Mind is coming out tomorrow with @PBMPublishing.
I hope it helps a lot of autistics and those who love us.
Here's how to order it (print or digital).
This will be a thread of reviews or comments for anyone interested. 1/
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"The confessor is not a judge in the legal sense of the word. Rather, he is a witness, a healer, a counselor." -Archbishop Joseph Raya
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Jesus said, "learn from me, for I am meek & humble of heart." (Matthew 11:29)
Do we really learn this from Jesus? Does this really impact how we live our lives?
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We need to keep seeking God's will in our lives. We discern our vocation writ large, such as which community to join or who to marry, but we need tos eek to obey in the little things too.
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"Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very center of our personal lives." -Vladimir Solovyov
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WordPress comment spam is getting trickier, likely with AI.
This comment on my sensory-friendly Mass directory frmatthewlc.com/blog/2022/02… looks good until I see the profile is advertising a scammy website.
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The @autismspeaks website appears to be down. Does anyone know why?
Someone had asked me something about their faith leaders page & I could not access it.
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"Faith is a gift of God. It is pure gift, & only he can bestow it. At the same time, he passionately desires to give it to us." -Catherine Doherty
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"There are 3 ways of touching God: in the Blessed Sacrament; in deep faith & love for priests; & in our neighbor, especially the forgotten, lonely, hungry, thirsty, dispossessed neighbor." -Catherine Doherty
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My book is now available to blind Catholics from the Xavier Society.
Check out our newest Talking Book: "God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us" by @FrMatthewLC. This title was requested to be made accessible by Laurie M. in @archdiocesesf. Published by @PBMPublishing. piped.video/Hj8QEHZ1mLw
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Our main moral question should be "Who should I be?" not just "What should I do?"
This is a key to virtue ethics & deeper moral transformation.
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As we let ourselves be drawn closer to God, we will slowly become aware of the secrets of his heart with which he loves us.
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This is something to add to future work on sensory-friendly Masses.
Of 143 autistic participants, 48% reported being distracted by other noises in church, such as the fan or people whispering, etc. For more, see: autismchurch.com/
ALT Text reading 48% of autistic participants reported being distracted by other noises in church (e.g the fan, people whisper, etc.) and shows a graphic of someone sitting thinking. the website www.autismchurch.com is shown
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Autistic Priest✝️ (FrMatthewLC) retweeted
Please pray for someone I know who was in an accident & is in ICU right now.
(I don't know more & won't share the name out of respect.)
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"The goal cannot simply be to determine whether autistic people can fit into existing structures. The deeper challenge is whether our structures themselves reflect the Church’s belief that every person is made in the image of God." deaconmarkblog.wordpress.com…
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This article about autistic seminarians & priests has a good conclusion - we should be open to them - but is a little lacking in all that gets to that conclusion: it's over focused on deficits & lacks any contact with autistic seminarians or priests.
wordonfire.org/articles/stra…
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