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"Nature Morte.", Joseph Brodsky (tr George L. Kline)

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'The Descent to Hell' by Mikhail Nesterov (1897)

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Our liturgy is not just about remembering, but participating in, the life of Christ.

Fr. Michael Hilbert, S.J.

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Pictures of the English Liturgy, by Martin Travers (1916)

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I would be fascinated by a rant in Anglo Catholicism!

A rant in Anglo-Catholicism! My vernacular! *sips wine* Seriously, though: I am both fascinated and heartened by this tradition, which now has about 150 years behind it. One of the things I love about it is its love for history, that is nonetheless not fetishistic. It embraces sensuality as a welcome and desirable part of spirituality, and I think that rejection of the post-Cartesian body-mind dichotomy can only be a good thing. Also, as my invocation of the post-Cartesian body-mind dichotomy may suggest (!), Anglo-Catholicism seems to attract a particularly high proportion of nerds, queer people, and queer nerds. So… MY PEOPLE. We like angst and candles and incense and hope. It’s a good time. Drop by for Mass sometime. We’ll go to the pub afterwards.

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i like hearing about saints who were friends, family, comrades, or student-teachers. it’s so cool to see that connection within the faith. saints not as lone towers in the wilderness, but as individuals connected with a greater faith community, helping and supporting each other. nobody gets to heaven alone, i guess.

#nobody gets to heaven alone <3

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 these are the only things in the world worth buying

#I got one of these recently for my dog & I love it sm !!! #the money from them goes to a charity that saves animals from wartorn places and reunites them with their owners !! #very cool :’) & I got to hear the story of the man selling them and how he escaped afghanistan and saved dogs there #I pray their work is more and more fruitful #also huge shoutout to st francis ofc #my niece is named after st francis and I love her sm too

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Hippolyte Fournier St. Cecilia

oil on canvas, 228 x 126.7 cm, 19th or 20th century

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girl, boy, non binary, fuck all that. I am a creature of this earth

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“The most unusual martyr of the Middle Ages was a dog. This was St. Guinefort, a greyhound that had been wrongly killed by its owner on suspicion of taking the life of a baby, when in fact it had bravely protected the child. The site where the dog was buried, at a castle north of Lyons, quickly became a shrine: “the country people, seeing the dog’s noble deed and how it was killed although innocent, visited the place and honoured the dog as a martyr, invoking its help in illness and need.” The outraged Dominican Stephen de Bourbon eventually had the dog’s bones dug up and burned. The essence of martyrdom, a brave and innocent death, here transcended the line between species, at least in the eyes of the local people.”

— Bartlett, Robert. “Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?.” Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?. Princeton University Press, 2013.

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“No amount of thought will ever result in any greater formulation than the three words, ‘Love one another,’ so long as it is love to the end and without exceptions.”

“Those who know the details of her life tend to regard Mother Maria Skobtsova as one of the great saints of the twentieth century: a brilliant theologian who lived her faith bravely in nightmarish times, finally dying a martyr’s death at the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany in 1945…”

Read the full biography: Mother Maria of Paris: Saint of the Open Door  by Jim Forest

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A glorious thing. New from Skira and author Sara Salvadori, Hildegard Von Bingen: A Journey into the Images.

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not to be annoying or anything but its all about love.

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Via “Contemplative Monk” Facebook

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The Rector’s dog at the Rogation Procession (2019)