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how to handle religious crises

"i think god hates me"—go to adoration

"it's been x years"—go to adoration

"i can't feel god in my hurt"—go to adoration

"my relationships feel lonely"—go to adoration

"i think god is cruel, or neglectful, or negging"—go to adoration

"the locusts consume too much of me"—go to adoration

"my thrumming heart is leaky"—go to adoration

"i'm lost"—go to adoration

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Posy ring with inscription "Loyalte ne peur" ("Loyalty not fear"), engraved with a hare, a hound, a hind, a fly, and plants.

England or France, 17th century.

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g. k. chesterton, saint francis of assisi

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Mini Prayer Book 1935

I just bought this in an online auction and I have been giddy ever since. It's super tiny and will be well taken care of for years to come.

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Gardening Nun - Ladywell Convent, Surrey, England. 1968 (Image: TMS)

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Today, most people, almost self-evidently, understand the word "soul" more with the ancient Greek (particularly Platonic) and less with its biblical meaning. They believe that, as there exists within the body of man blood, lymph, bone marrow, in the same way there exists an immaterial element, spiritual, essentially different from our material composition and precisely this is the soul – something transparent and indefinite, which leaves us with the last breath when we die and goes "somewhere else". But this is not the biblical meaning of the word. The Seventy translators of the Old Testament carried over into Greek with the word psyche ("soul") the Hebrew nephesli, a term with many meanings. Anything which has life is called a soul, every animal, but more commonly within the Scripture it pertains to man. lt signifies the way in which life is manifested in man. lt does not refer just to one department of human existence – the spiritual. in opposition to the material – but signifies the whole man, as a single living hypostasis. The soul does not merely dwell in the body. but is expressed by the body, which itself, like the flesh or heart, corresponds to our ego, to the way in which we realize life.

Yannaras, C. (1991) Elements of Faith: An Introduction to Orthodox Theology. Translated by K. Schram. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. p. 55.

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namie amuro, baby don't cry (2007)

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today's sermon was all about the holy spirit (of course) but one thing that really stuck out to me was. what are your gifts of the holy spirit? and do the people around you think of you in terms of those gifts? do they think of you as joyful and kind? generous even when you barely have enough for yourself? and it really convicted me to do better and present myself in a way that is loving, so that my family and my neighbours think of me and think "ah yes, faustina. she's always been a joy to be around."