Beanie-wearing future Saint

Catholic. Hipster. College student. Future saint. And yes, I will post an awful lot about JP2, who was totally hipster before it was cool. #scapular #luminousmysteries #myaesthetic 

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK  "So much cultural & personal hurt due to sexual sin. Maybe the church should see its sexual ethics as a gift of common grace to the world.“ Andrew T. Walker.

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Why did you and your husband not wait to have a kid after you got married? Don't you feel like you missed out?

I feel like this question has a lot of hidden messages about how our culture views children in general.

Anon, here’s a quick rundown of what our 9 months of childfree life was like:

Dinners at restaurants, lots of sex, cuddling, going on walks, watching movies, laughing, talking, making plans for the future, reading in bed, tickle fights that end in me crying from laughing so hard, discussions about philosophy and theology, road trips to relatives, wondering what our baby would be like, painting at Color Me Mine, church, praying and reading the Bible, whispering sweet nothing to each other, promising each other the whole world and the universe beyond

Here’s what the past six months have been like:

Dinners at restaurants, feeding baby dots of whipped cream from our desserts and watching his face light up, lots of sex, cuddling each other, cuddling baby, going on walks with baby and pointing out the world, watching movies, laughing with each other, laughing with baby, talking. making plans for our future, making plans for baby’s future, reading in bed, tickle fights that end in me crying from laughing so hard, discussions about philosophy and theology, road trips to relatives with an extra pit stop to change the baby, wondering what our baby will grow to be, painting at Color Me Mine, church, praying and reading the Bible, playing with baby, marveling at baby, tickling baby, buying baby clothes, good-natured bewilderment at baby furniture assembly, awwing at baby’s every gurgle and giggle, whole minutes of just watching baby sleep, promising each other and our son the whole world and the universe beyond

What, exactly, do you think I’m missing out on?

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So much love for this post. So. Much.

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I couldn’t scroll past this without reblogging.

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Fr. Robert Barron, Catholicism, episode 8

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Divine Mercy Prayer given to St. Faustina

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“Abandon hopelessness, all ye who enter here.”

— G.K. Chesterton

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Sometimes crying is the holiest thing you can do. Sometimes it’s sleeping. Or cooking for a friend. Or sending a note in the mail. Or listening to someone share how bad their work day was or about how scary the future seems. 

Sometimes sitting in silence - really sitting in that excruciating emotional pain and muttering the words “I don’t understand” and “God, please help me” over and over - sometimes that’s the most intimate and raw and spiritual thing.

Sometimes what we think is the least “holy” is actually so close to the very heart of God.

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It’s okay to be human.

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[hipsterandcatholic]

Do you ever find it hard to be single and Catholic? I think it's a lot easier than just being single in the secular world, but it's still hard. Once you know that your vocation is marriage, once you have the burning desire for as many kids as God wants to give you, the desire to be a good wife with an awesome home, and yeah to have lots of sex, it's just hard to wait. It's hard to not know. It's hard to be alone.

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Christianity isn’t church attendance, it’s Christ-likeness. It’s being so in love with who God is in you, that you wouldn’t want to be like anyone else.

(via sonofhislove)

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The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas (via quotethat)

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Night Fever in Sacramento last night. Each candle is from a random stranger that went inside the beautiful cathedral to light a candle from our street teams.