Like a Rose trampled on the ground

In addition to the pain and the exhaustion, he recalled how waiting on the cross between takes became tedious. To fight the boredom, he listened to music on headphones. One particular song called "Above All" (Like a Rose ...) by Michael W. Smith helped him through his most difficult moments. "It arrived when I was confused and angry. I didn't think I could go on. The song described how Jesus was rejected and alone. That thought took me to a place — it opened an interior door that held me while on the cross," an emotional Caviezel explained. "The experience of feeling rejected and alone as all those around me laughed while drinking their hot coffees, oblivious to what was occurring. Jesus must have felt like this — forsaken, rejected, alone, and despised. It helped me pray in a very deep way — to pray without words, to pray from the heart. The discomfort, the loneliness, the split shoulder, the raw flesh all forced me into the arms of God because I had nowhere else to go for a performance I knew I was unable to create." Jim Caviezel, Shamelessly Catholic

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An Orthodox Christian monk feeds the cats at Sinai Monastery, a Greek Orthodox Monastery built between 548 and 565, and is the world's oldest continuously-inhabited Christian monastery.

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Es ist mein 13. Jahrestag auf Tumblr 🥳

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I love her so much! She is one of my favourite saints. Dear Mother Xenia, pray for us! ♥

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You who pray, give God your heart, that loving true heart, with which you love your children, your father and mother, your benefactors and friends, and in which you feel the sweetness of pure unfeigned love.

Saint John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ

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Yippee! Autumn finally arived!

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The Immaculte Heart of Mary Unknown artist

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(Spotted on facebook)

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It would be good to commemorate inaudibly the names of the dead, as many as we can, immediately after the Consecration of the Precious gifts, when the priest says, “especially for our Most Holy, Pure” and while the chanters are chanting the hymn “It is truly meet”. At that moment the priests in the Holy Altar and us commemorate the names of the departed Orthodox Christians. Thus, as the hymn “It is truly meet” is being chanted inaudibly you will say: “Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on those who are asleep…” and you will be commemorating their names. Hence your commemoration is united with that of the priests into one supplication..

Experiences during the Divine Liturgy

Greek Artist Christos Bokoros. Display of absent souls

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Christos Bokoros (Greek, 1956) - Flowering Hive (n.d.)

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love ... Love ... LOVE

(found somewhere on IG - if it belongs to you, let me know and I'll take it down)

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Russell Crowe as Cort and Sharon Stone as Ellen in The Quick and the Dead (1995)

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Love me tender ....