and all manner of thing shall be well

reconstructing catholic

[vintagenational]

Kodachrome by Thomas Nebbia.

A two-page spread from “Where Jesus Walked,” National Geographic, December, 1967.

Carefree age of innocence leads children to a sunlit meadow outside Nazareth, where Jesus spent His childhood – the “hidden years” unchronicled by the Gospels. Jesus probably devoted much of His day to studying the Law of Moses, like most Jewish boys, or helping His foster father, Joseph, in the carpenter shop. But there must have been time to play and dream in the nearby fields, where He came to know the birds and flowers, the fig tree and the mustard seed – the wonders of nature that He used to illustrate His teachings in later years.

[transingtheeucharist]

i think it's so so funny how many people think of science and religion as antithetical because my approach to this is "wow God made such a wacky wild interesting fascinating world. how amazing is it that i get to partake in the experience of unpacking and understanding it?"

[francesderwent]

“God exists, God is infinitely good, there is evil. What we do with that third piece is critical, and not to over-analyze it, but to simply say, we know one thing: that God has not exempted Himself from the implications of that evil. He has entered into that evil, and descended into it, and suffered through it. So ours is not an absentee landlord god. The tenement in which we live might have rats and roaches, but God is living there, too.”

—Larry Chapp, Living in a Sacramental Cosmos, The Benedictine Dialogues