It’s hard to put into words what one feels when staring into the abyss of a place like a concentration camp. One of the things that occurred to me as I walked into Dachau today, where thousands died at the hands of a genocidal regime, is that like so muc… https://t.co/9aBX7W4nhi pic.twitter.com/s2Quy8vQwI
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 29, 2019
Learned about Krampus in German class today.... everything you learned about it on the office is a thing... pic.twitter.com/BAZW50Y2H9
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 28, 2019
The spiritual genius of Goethe was that he understood that we all make a million little deals with the devil. How will you liberate yourself for the God who loves you today? pic.twitter.com/jv7FkS8z2B
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 26, 2019
A great baseball story about food, family, and the things that bridge the gaps. https://t.co/Ef5Fis1yPB via @NYTimes
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 25, 2019
This is the image of #ourlady untier of #knots made famous by #popefrancis. Here #Mary does the patient work of undoing the things that have gotten tangled in our lives. It is in the #church in the main square in #augsburg #germany. #Catholic #placestopr… https://t.co/dEpXk9JtZk pic.twitter.com/razcbsLaHt
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 24, 2019
The Antiquarium of Duke Albrecht V of #Bavaria. He built it in 1568 to serve as a place to house ancient #Roman busts and to have special events. It is the largest #renaissance hall north of the alps. Today it is one of the more spectacular sights of the… https://t.co/kcxw3NpdnM pic.twitter.com/jDmk49i2Ww
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 23, 2019
The #hoffbrauhaus, arguably one of, if not the most famous #beer halls on earth... and yet, Hitler started the Nazi party on the third floor... still #Mozart wrote music there and local legend holds that #Pope #Benedict came up with some of his more impo… https://t.co/rBXCQx71lu pic.twitter.com/RO7lsJr7Hd
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 22, 2019
I stand corrected! Thanks! I’ll still use it and see what happens.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 22, 2019
One of the typical #Bavarian greetings, rather than Hello, is “Groß Gott,” or “#God is Great,” I think I might just start using it full time back in North America and see what happens.... #CatholicTwitter #Catholic
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 22, 2019
So you’re saying you’re not a fan of @airfrance? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 21, 2019
Thanks Iona, I’ll keep that possibility of keeping @airfrance honest in mind.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 21, 2019
“Every people deserves the government it tolerated.” -the white rose movement, Munich 1942
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 21, 2019
True popular devotion. 🤣🤣 https://t.co/sBs048Caqz
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 21, 2019
As the American school year approaches, we urge you to think about supporting our students in Rome. Head to https://t.co/xEPOzkZCeO to find out how
— Gregorian Foundation (@GregorianFund) August 20, 2019
Hahaha oh the halcyon days of yore. Really I’ll just take some small measure of justice from the @airfrance admission that they’re dealing with a high volume of unhappy customers. 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
Oh its fine, I’m flying @Lufthansa_USA this time. 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
When @airfrance twitter basically admits that they’ve got a lot of unhappy customers to deal with. Something to think about if you’re thinking of booking a #flight on #AirFrance... https://t.co/98JiqVekdY
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
I wonder why they have a high volume of claims? Could it be that others have experienced the same level of service that my friends and I have from #AirFrance?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
A prompt and generous response to all of the claims of the group is the least you can do, given all that you have put us through.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
Again, @airfrance, it’s that you have consistently caused these major inconveniences for a group that has been faithful customers at least once a year for at least 10 years. You can understand why we’re looking at other options for our future travel.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
This is the approach that has us very seriously considering taking our 12 round trip fares from the US to Pau every year elsewhere.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
@airfrance a proper apology, at least, would say that you’re sorry for the consistent pattern of cancellations and delays and removing friends from a flight at the gate, rather than simply “regretting that I feel this way.” #AirFrance
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
Thanks, if I don’t receive a satisfactory response from @airfrance to the claim I’ve made I’ll reach out!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
I’d be happy to supply you with the names of the other members of this group so that @airfrance can see to it that these things don’t happen to them again.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
In my case, I lost two travel days and missed ground transportation that couldn’t be refunded because of this consistent pattern. I can understand why your Customer Care departament might need time to fix this issue, since it seems to happen often.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
Beyond the claims, the ways in which members of a group of about 12 people on their way to serve the sick in Lourdes have been treated deserves special attention. 3 members of the group have been pulled off the flight at the last second. Others have lost entire days of work.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
When can I reasonably expect this claim to be handled? Or should we expect another unreasonable delay, as we have come to from @airfrance.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
Other members of the large group that I travel with to Lourdes have had even worse problems, some spurred by seemingly arbitrary @airfrance cancellations. We are all seriously considering taking our tens of thousands of dollars a year in airfare to another carrier.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
Hey @airfrance, as someone who travels to #France annually, and has had flights canceled in 2 of 4 years, I gave up on you this year. I filed claims for those cancellations last week and still haven’t heard anything... this is sadly par for the course.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 20, 2019
“Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.” Wrote the White Rose movement. This monument, in the place where Hans and Sophie Scholl were… https://t.co/PocohacFlo pic.twitter.com/Kl6LY6ic2j
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 19, 2019
Hoser. 😉🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 18, 2019
Every time that someone tells me that something in Munich was rebuilt after the war... it’s a sad reminder to me that we can still have nice things, if we’re bold enough to make a push for beauty. (St. Michael’s Church, destroyed in WWII and rebuilt) pic.twitter.com/jawwU9D1Ms
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 18, 2019
The main square of #Munich is dedicated to #Mary. On a day like today, her golden statue gleams in the sun while city hall, with the famous #glockenspiel, sits behind her, and with the sight of the domes of her #church resting just beyond the square. #no… https://t.co/iDAYeO7cTP pic.twitter.com/TQY4vbo5bG
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 18, 2019
I’d suspect that @jesuitnews might have the source
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 18, 2019
Today is the feast day of St. Alberto Hurtado, a Chilean #Jesuit priest known for his work with young adults and the poor and his engagement with Chilean culture. https://t.co/uKgFpCT52j pic.twitter.com/ZHECgptRl8
— Jesuit News (@jesuitnews) August 18, 2019
The Odeonsplatz of #Munich was made a memorial to #Nazi soldiers who were killed during the Putsch in 1923. If you walked in front of the memorial there, two #Fascist soldiers would force you to make the Nazi Salute... so many of the citizens of #Munich … https://t.co/LAWsaIphOr pic.twitter.com/QN1ms4NtXi
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 17, 2019
Sitting here on a street adjacent to where the #Nazi party declared its coup, knowing that people of #Jewish descent, #Gypsies, #LGBTQ people,and protesting #Catholic priests have nothing to fear on this street tonight... and I’m just smiling, #nohate #love
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 12, 2019
Be on the right side of history or not. Choose. The #Church offered an alternative here in 1923. Take it now. #neveragain (This is where the nazis proclaimed their coup. This unfocused photo is far more than they deserve. ) pic.twitter.com/SGMmUiWiuI
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 12, 2019
The #neuschwanstein #castle of #king Ludwig II of #Bavaria. If it looks vaguely familiar, that’s because Walt #Disney based his design for a certain #palace in #orlando off of this one. In truth, for all its #beauty, it’s a sad place. Built by the second… https://t.co/a68caycGf5 pic.twitter.com/FLPQ3agS29
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 11, 2019
The great void of the holocaust is only made deeper by the fact that people went into a room in one of the cultural centers of one of the most advanced civilizations & made hating “the other” in their society the norm. (The Hoffbrauhaus, where the first Nazi meeting happened) pic.twitter.com/Ylgknnht8q
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 9, 2019
The #Catholic #Church of #Saint Ludwig is just behind the house I’m staying in in #Munich, and the beautiful sound of bells wake me up each morning. Inside, it has the second largest altar fresco in the world, a last judgment painted by the #Artist Peter… https://t.co/84s6hsEJuc pic.twitter.com/7Ds6LWVm9d
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 9, 2019
St Bernadette, upon seeing that her Holy cards were only selling for a half a franc, asked: “is that all they think I’m worth?” 😉😇
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 8, 2019
I’m pulling for the @DavidPaternostr mugshot/holycard combo. It’d be a good look. (Though I’m not pulling for David to go to jail, for the record. 😉)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 8, 2019
#mugshots sometimes become #Catholic #holycards. #CatholicTwitter, discuss. (Bl. Rupert Meyer, arrested by Hilter’s regime) @theghissilent @SteveMissionary @JamesMartinSJ @TeawithTolkien @chrisjollyhale @gregorykhillis @MtKeppel pic.twitter.com/kGkMihWJNr
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 8, 2019
This is the tomb & mugshot of Bl. Rupert Meyer. He was a man of such deep charity & preached so powerfully against the #Nazis that they wouldn’t kill him, for fear of making a martyr out of him. Be the kind of #Christian that even Hitler would be afraid of you... especially now. pic.twitter.com/3Q2KUn7VnI
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 8, 2019
Looking back to the #Pyrenees and another #nofilter photo from a place that’s almost too #beautiful to believe, the Pont d’Espange where three #waterfalls come together and have carved a deep #ravine under this #bridge. #grateful for have had good people… https://t.co/KAJHqMLp3E pic.twitter.com/2hZWcqHvqV
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 7, 2019
Raicism is a sin. God is offended by this.
— Archbishop Gustavo (@ABishopGustavo) August 6, 2019
Learning #german fun moment of the day... the word for 11 is “elf.” pic.twitter.com/AdI1tSs97F
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 7, 2019
Today at lunch I was told that I was sitting at the table that #Rahner used to sit at in the dining room because the refectory gets a little loud sometimes... it’s good to know that even the greats have the same complaints as most other #Jesuits. #theology pic.twitter.com/eRxLK8zcNI
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 6, 2019
Thanks @EricHolterhues, much appreciated!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 6, 2019
#Architecture, particularly in a #Church, is often at its best when it pulls us up... the force of the #Frauenkirche is precisely that.. wherever we are in life, #placestopray pull us up and forward. #Catholic #Travel https://t.co/ZXbe1nz8xN pic.twitter.com/BxEMZcuTz6
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 5, 2019
The old candle holders at #Lourdes used to say “This #candle continues my #prayer.” As I leave this #sanctuary once again, I’m grateful for the #friends that I am #blessed to accompany on #pilgrimage here, the #laughter that we share during these days ea… https://t.co/BfSZXf6WqZ pic.twitter.com/GsCcKM112o
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 4, 2019
#Nofilter needed at all, this is the mind-bogglingly #beautiful Lac de Gabe, nearby #Lourdes on the border of #France and #spain high up in the #Pyrenees #mountains. Places like this make you simply have to say #thankyou to #God, and to the friends you g… https://t.co/MIDItr1nHk pic.twitter.com/i8vG3rs26P
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 3, 2019
The #basilicas of #notredame se #Lourdes. Where millions of #pilgrims arrive in the #pyrenees each year to seek #healing and #peace. #catholic #placestopray. #church #travel https://t.co/wBb6AuSKMf pic.twitter.com/RVmjfBiipo
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) August 1, 2019
