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"The Christian is not a homo religiosus, but simply a man." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The Prague Orloj in Prague, Czech Republic, is the world’s oldest astronomical clock still in operation. The clock is flanked by Catholic saints and features an hourly procession of figurines representing the Apostles.

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Oh another dream? Okay well last night I had a dream that I was at a mall of sorts and they had a replica of the Prague clock except it had even more cool christfaggy animatronics. I saw it do its hourly performance and went "wow next time I need to take a video to post on my tumblr blog". The very blog you are reading now. So I had an hour to mill around before the next performance but when it came time to get back to the clock I encountered various setbacks, such as dropping my phone somewhere and having to find it, running into an old friend from elementary school (Steven), and getting lost and forgetting where the fucking clock was. I also worried about Steven talking while I was taking the video and my husband asking why there had been a man with me at the mall if he ever happened to watch the video. Also JR Chandler from the soap opera All My Children was there for some reason and wearing the most 2015 pants I've ever seen. I never found the clock before I woke up.

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Last night I had a dream that for some reason My Chemical Romance was having a concert in the small college town I live in, so I went with my husband and my older two boys and my parents (my one year old was not there for some reason). However for like the first hour of the concert it was just a bunch of random dance performances (including a ballerina recreating the mirror room scene from the Suspiria remake) and the members of MCR were just kinda occasionally doing some instrumentals but otherwise just sitting there behind their instruments. At some point my husband just went "I'm not sitting through this shit" and walked out with my mom. Like the dancers and stage special effects were neat and all but I was getting really impatient and wondering when MCR was gonna start playing their songs?? Then I woke up.

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HEEEELP i can't stop listening to the new interpol song help help help

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On 14 June 2026, a Russian drone attack damaged the Dormition Cathedral (est. 1073), Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

The damage, likely from a Geran-2 drone, included destruction of a significant portion of the roof, damage to the main dome and cupola, and significant fires within the structure. This was the first time the structure was targeted in an armed conflict since World War II.

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when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn't have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you're okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like 'aww, is this a baptism gift?' and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we've got, you'll definitely be safe' and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao

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my 5 yo son: this is a song about people and animals dying when they get too old! *harpsichord noises* and this is a song about silly fighting men dying in the war! *harpsichord noises* actually it's a cello song *cello noises*

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DA Tradiției - DA Maramureșului Photo by Mirela Badea

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Serbian Orthodox worshipers at an Easter service in Gracanica, Kosovo. (Credit: Armend Nimani - AFP)

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Shepherds selling goats the day before Easter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Goat meat is a delicacy commonly consumed at religious feasts in Ethiopia. (Credit: Foodie International)

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HE IS RISEN!

Shots from the Ethiopian Orthodox midnight Easter service at the Holy Sepulcher 

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A march celebrating Orthodox Easter in Moscow’s Red Square (May 1918).  This would be the last big Orthodox celebration in the city for over seven decades.  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow is in the centre of the second photo.  He would be arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1922, but not executed, probably because of his great influence.

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A priest blesses the faithful as they collect cakes and painted eggs for Easter at Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Church in Kiev, Ukraine. (Credit: Evgeniy Maloletka - AP)

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Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony the day before Orthodox Easter outside the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank. (Credit: Musa al-Shaer - AFP)

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A Ukrainian Easter egg, or pysanky. (Photographer/artist: Yaroslav Lyakhnovsk)

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Easter Procession, 1915, Boris Kustodiev

Medium: oil,canvas

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A traditional Easter procession of the Sorb community in Ralbitz, Germany, 2015. (Photographer: Matthias Hiekel - Agence France-Presse)