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Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom by Lawrence OP on Flickr.

Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom

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Poland Cookies 

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Saint Mary’s Philadelphia

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There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.

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Only a fraction of you will understand this.

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The Liturgical Year

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Ely Cathedral, UK (+)

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. —2 Corinthians 4:16-18

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The bread and the wine are not merely figures of the body and blood of Christ (God forbid!) but the deified body of the Lord itself: for the Lord has said, ‘This is My body,’ not, this is a figure of My body: and ‘My blood,’ not a figure of My blood. And on a previous occasion He had said to the Jews, ‘Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. For My flesh is food indeed and My blood is drink indeed.’ And again, ‘He who eats My flesh shall live’ (Jn. 6:51-55). Wherefore with all fear and a pure conscience and certain faith let us draw near and it will be assuredly to us as we believe, doubting nothing. Let us pay homage to it in all purity both of soul and body: for it is twofold. Let us draw near to it with an ardent desire, and with our hands held in the form of a cross let us receive the body of the Crucified One: and let us apply our eyes and lips and brows and partake of the divine coal, in order that the fire of the longing, that is in us, with the additional heat derived from the coal may utterly consume our sins and illumine our hearts, and that we may be inflamed and deified by the participation in the divine fire.

From St. John of Damascus (The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series Vol. IX; Eerdmans pg. 83)

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H2O by Xualá Tobal

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Several of the most well-known regional costumes from Poland. Edited from the source.

Check out my side blog polishcostumes to explore other traditional costumes from Poland~

Examples of costumes from the photoset above: Kraków / Nowy Sącz - Lachy Sądeckie group / Łowicz / Opoczno / Lublin / Kujawy / Kaszuby / Podhale / Rzeszów / Szamotuły / Kurpie Zielone [area of Puszcza Zielona (Green Forest) in the Kurpie region] / Kurpie Białe [area of Puszcza Biała (White Forest) in the Kurpie region] / Żywiec / Bytom

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Orense, Spain

photo via corey

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“Great indeed is the Baptism which is offered you. It is a ransom to captives; the remission of offences; the death of sin; the regeneration of the soul; the garment of light; the holy seal indissoluble; the chariot to heaven; the luxury of paradise; a procuring of the kingdom; the gift of adoption.”

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Lectures on The Christian Sacraments(c. 348 A.D.)