pray for us

[infectiouspiss]

when god closes a door you reach your little paws under it and go mrrwwaaaooow mmreeaaow

[mary-our-hope]

[mary-our-hope]

Ezio Anichini

[mary-our-hope]

[mary-our-hope]

nuns have the most beautiful, joyous smiles in the whole wide world. what a blessing to have Christ as your spouse.

[cripsyintumbles]

Catholic in Protest

Not for the first time, scandal comes to the Catholic Church.  French cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard has admitted to the rape of a child 35 years ago in what is the latest in a cavalcade  of  abuses. It is clear now more than ever that much of Church authority has little interest in actually cleaning up the clergy. So for the Catholic who stays, how do we live our faith? I am but a poor layman, but I offer these options.

1. Be Not Silent

It feels, for me and for many, that complaining does nothing, but despite the ecclesiastical authority of the Church, there are millions more laymen than there are clergy. Report abuse, do not believe people who tell you that by defaming clergy you anger God. Even if pressured to stop, stay the course. Call your parish, call your diocese, call your conference of bishops. Pressure clergy to behave as godly leaders.

2. Be a Safe Haven For Those Abused

The victims of this abuse may have any number of feelings about the Church. They may blame themselves , they may feel they failed, they may be enraged against the Church and wish it destroyed or want nothing to do with it. See to their needs where you can. If you can help them receive medical or psychiatric care or otherwise see to their needs, do so. Do not defend the Church, merely let them know that YOU care for them, and love them as God does.

3. Practice the Beatitudes

Prisons  are overflowing and abusive, the sick are dying, the hungry are starving, and homeless lack shelter.  Women, people of color, people of  marginalized groups like Jewish people, and the LGBTQ+ are targets of grave cruelty. Government and an ineffective clergy seek no change, so we must. As the hands and feet of Christ we are to render aid where possible and do as much to press our governments and clergy into effective service as possible, by letter, by public address, by protest, by calculated resistance in all things. Jesus flipped tables and caused a ruckus in defense of the poor and disenfranchised. So should we.

4. Avail Yourselves of the Graces of the Sacraments

People will tell you that by not being in lockstep with hatred and bigotry, by being LGBTQ+ or liberal/leftist, by caring about all people and not strictly the unborn that you aren’t or cannot be Catholic. Those people are delusional. The indelible mark of baptism does not come off. After you have done everything tangibly to help those in need, avail yourself of Mass, of Confession, of the Anointing of the Sick, of the Eucharist. Be in prayer in whatever way seems best to you. Above all else, remember that God so loved the world and all the downtrodden, and so should we. Peace be to You

[little-theatre-fairy]

Catholic academia in November

stories of obscure saints, watching the fiery leaves die, flowers and candles lighting up the cemetery at night, dreaming of Italian espresso and the Lateran Basilica, reading st. Albert the Great instead of doing your chemistry homework, memento mori & vanitas vanitatum, putting a picture of st. Cecilia on your piano

with special thanks to @valiantlydecadentsuit2

[indynerdgirl]

For most people, Halloween is just a fun (or sinister) secular holiday that stands on its own. But it actually used to be an important part of a short liturgical season focused on death, Allhallowtide. All Saints’ Day has been celebrated on November 1st since the first millennium. It was sometimes called Hallowmas (Hallow = holy/saint; mas = short for Mass), or All Hallows. Its origins were practical: With all the great martyrs and saints of the early Church, there weren’t enough days in the year to honor them all. All Hallows was a catch-all day. The Vigil for this important feast was called All Hallows’ Eve, which got contracted to Halloween. It was often a day of fasting and praying in preparation for the great feast on All Hallows, which began in the evening with a Vigil Mass. There was also the popular belief (not of the Church) that the “veil” between our world and the spiritual realm of the dead was “thinnest” on this day. In the 13th century, St. Odilo of Cluny popularized a feast for remembering and praying for all the dead, All Souls Day. While we ask the saints in heaven for their prayers, we pray for the rest of the faithful departed, in case they are suffering in purgatory. This completed the triduum of death: All Hallows Eve, All Hallows, and All Souls. These feasts were so important that, in the mid-15th century, Pope Sixtus IV expanded the triduum into a full octave, or eight day observance. This expanded form of Allhallowtide lasted for centuries until 1955, when it was eliminated by Pope Pius XII as a part of a greater (pre-Vatican II) liturgical reform. This is why Allhallowtide is not normally celebrated today even by traditionalist Catholics, since the Extraordinary Form of the Mass follows the 1962 Roman Missal.

The Triduum of Death: The Forgotten Season of Allhallowtide

[harlecore]

The coquettes, they just listen to their lana del rey and post their anya taylor joy smoking a cigarette and that’s fine. They can do what they want. But then they listen to fiona apple and start talking about eds and it’s just absolutely terrible. The things these girls will post about, just a bubble. And you know what they don’t know? They don’t know what fiona was talking about. And now fiona apple knows and she’s upset so we’re all upset. It’s absolutely terrible. It’s getting bigger every day and it’s just not healthy. It’s not healthy behavior.

But see what you can do is you can blacklist the tag. You can just go and mute coquette. And i know it’s crazy. Crazy stuff. Very good tumblr feature.But you’ll mute it and then you’ll see a muted post on your dash and you’ll unmute and what do you see? You see something not even related to coquettes like a picture of jennie from blackpink or a post about grocery stores and it’s just terrible what they’ve done to the tumblr economy. Because unless you have it muted you’re posting it and your mutuals are posting it so then you see a post on your for you page and you know what it is? It’s anya taylor joy smoking a cigarette. It’s plath. It’s sofia coppola. And you realize then that it’s unavoidable. Horrible. Just absolutely horrible what these coquettes are doing. Absolutely terrible. SAD.

[ad-crucem]

The Sisters of Aquinas chant Adoro Te Devote

“Devoutly I adore thee, O hidden Deity”

[little-theatre-fairy]

Catholic academia in October:

old rosary tangled with earphones in your pocket, reassuring texture of the beads between your fingers. cold hands and hot coffee. late blooming roses reminding you of st. Thérèse. scribbling latin phrases on the margins. reading The Interior Castle on rainy afternoons. going to the evening mass at sunset and leaving when it's already dark, crunchy leaves under your feet.

[ave-immaculata]

[mary-our-hope]

“Our Lord has given me immense opportunity to attend mass. it was not possible before and once it was, i disgustingly put Him aside. it feels as my soul is rotting and i fear i will die in this state.”

[belle-mademoiselle]

Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Dukla, Poland 

[divineedaughter]

I will forever be obsessed with Mary Gardens.

[angeltreasure-deactivated202505]

St. Joseph, pray for us.

[perpetual-adoration]

The Jesus Prayer by Andy Schmalen

Via: schmalen.com