o, abyss of Love!

Caroline / Catholic / "I am heart to Heart with Jesus."

[burning-lampstand]

“Let nothing so fill you with sorrow that you forget the joy of Christ risen.”

—St. Teresa of Calcutta

[loveridden1999]

[speakthewordonly]

St. Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), tr. Susanne Batzdorff

[ramblingpilgrim]

“The drive of God Himself, however, is towards the small and the particular, the “insignificant” and the forgotten. In the incarnate work of Christ, God enters our world in weakness and in a constant action of self-emptying. He identifies people by name and engages them as persons. Obviously, Christ could have raised a finger and healed every ailment in Israel in a single moment. He doesn’t. That fact alone should give us pause – for it is the very thing that we would consider “important” (it is also the sort of thing that constituted the Three Temptations in the Wilderness). Everyone would be healed, but no one would be saved. Those healed would only become sick and die later. This is also the reason that we cannot speak in universal terms about salvation. For though Christ has acted on behalf of all and for all, that action can only be manifested and realized in unique and particular ways by each.” (Father Stephen Freeman)

[ericidle]

Our age of strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is collapsing

[cupidjoy]

i want Things. i'm sorry marx

[aevum-meditations]

Calligraphy by Bip Pares (from Evelyn Underhill's book, The Spiritual Life, published 1937).

[digihowl]

more ppl need to get hooked on this drug called album in order. not enough people on album in order these days

[psalmlover]

“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”

James 1:2-4

[damazcuz]

wasting away again in tumblrinaville...

[gratiae-mirabilia]

the odyssey starts to make more sense when you realize that all stories are trying to tell the same story which is the Gospel story

[postarcadian]

bouncing off of @an-ruraiocht’s Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid poll I’m curious about some other ancient Greek and Roman texts

Which of the following Greek or Roman texts would you say you are most familiar with?

The Iliad (Homer)

The Odyssey (Homer)

The Aeneid (Vergil)

Antigone (Sophocles)

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

Medea (Euripides)

The Bacchae (Euripides)

Another Greek tragedy (tell me in the tags!)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Pharsalia/Bellum Civile (Lucan)

Thebaid (Statius)

Another Greek or Roman epic poem (tell me in the tags!)

Voting ended onJul 26

[naomisramblings]

i think too many people reach for the word unforgivable when what they actually mean is inexcusable

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know about a news story, but my first "political" memory was something about the torture memos

[doorsclosingslowly]

my first political memory is photographs from abu ghraib

[ashtabharya-deactivated20240717]

[gratiae-mirabilia]

finally get to write NA/homemaker under "employment"

[physicsgoblin]

I am fascinated that while looking into homeric greek and translations of old epics that I keep seeing some translation of the Odyssey by the first woman being hailed as the most accurate ever. I then google "most accurate translations of the Odyssey" and I see either old forums in hot debate over a few translations over and over or articles from various mainstream sites that all list this woman's translation as the most accurate. I look up this version:

I swear some woman are hell-bent on making my entire sex appear lame. This suckssssss. Homeric Greek is supposed to sound epic and big and these other three examples do that, at least. Her's is like a 6th grade level. Maybe it is word-for-word more technically accurate, I don't know but style is still crucial to conveying the story. Plus again it just sounds so bad to the ear I don't even care if it's "more accurate."