Deus Meus et Omnia

Roman Catholic. 30. Wife & mother. House keeper. Philocalist, melancholic, minimalist. I like art, theology, history, & literature. “If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.” – St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.

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Adoration of the Magi, 1460, Andrea Mantegna

Medium: tempera

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“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” — Benedict XVI

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“There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Three Methods of Reform (via tolstoyanddostoyevsky)

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As we move deeper into March, this is your reminder that St Patrick was a brutal mass murderer who subjugated Ireland and converted the Irish people to catholicism at the point of a sword. He’s not someone anybody should celebrate, least of all anyone of Irish ancestry.

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As we move deeper into March, this is your reminder that the Irish conversion to Christianity was a largely nonviolent affair, and was in fact one of the most peaceful Christianizations in history. Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant, which is understandable, or maliciously twisting the information, which is not. And as a side note, you don’t get to tell Irish people which figures from their own history they get to celebrate.

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St. Patrekt.

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"If you learn everything except Christ, you learn nothing." - St. Bonaventure

Image: Evening Prayer by Pierre Edouard

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"Take Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To Thee, O Lord, I return it. All is Thine, dispose of it wholly according to Thy will. Give me Thy love and thy grace, for this is sufficient for me." - St. Ignatius Loyola

Image: St. Bruno Praying in Desert by Nicolas Mignard 

(St. Bruno founded the Carthusian order) 

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"And I see that all is vanity and vexation of spirit under the sun, and that the only good is to love God with all one's heart and to be poor in spirit here on earth." - St. Therese Image: St. Clare Praying in the Choir of San Damiano by Jose Benlliure y Gil

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"It is no coincidence that Mary's last biblical words say everything that needs to be said: "Do whatever he tells you." If we followed that one piece of advice, heeding Christ's every order and suggestion (those in Scripture, those of his Church, and those in our conscience), the water of our normal, everyday activities would quickly be turned into the wine of supernatural joy and fruitfulness. We would no longer be mere men and women; we would be saints." - Fr. John Bartunek Image: The Wedding Feast at Cana

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"You're not part of the kingdom of this world, you're part of the kingdom of Heaven. Turn your eyes away from yourself and onto Jesus. Do what He does: give, sacrifice, love. It's the secret of joy." - Peter Kreeft Image: St. Vincent de Paul

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"Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the Earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he was created. Hence, man is to make use of them insofar as they help him in the attainment of his end, and he must rid himself of them insofar as they prove a hindrance to him. Therefore, we must make ourselves indifferent to all created things." - St. Ignatius Loyola, First Principle and Foundation. Image: "Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary" (detail) by Edmund Blair Leighton

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"The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud." - St. Faustina Image: At Prayer by Edwin Longsden Long

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"Detachment is not self-denial for its own sake, but self-denial for God’s sake. It is emptying oneself to make room for God. This is our goal – to be filled with all the fullness of God! Detachment makes room in our hearts for Him. It clears out the clutter, so that we can focus on and accomplish His will. It prepares us for divine union." - Connie Rossini

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"I need to be detached from my own opinions in order to be open to the quiet inspirations of the Holy Spirit. Only then will I be able to discern what he is saying and what he desires." - Mother Angelica Image: Woman Praying in Church in Bochnia by Leon Wyczolkowski (1910)

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