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The young life of Jesus, as imagined by Rose Datoc Dall
Little Everyday Ways to Live the Works of Mercy
Feed the Hungry: Take a friend or coworker out for a meal and offer to pay. Invite someone over for dinner. Keep granola bars or other small snacks with you in case someone ever needs a quick bite to eat.
Give Drink to the Thirsty: Leave your change in the vending machine. Brink extra water to parks or sporting events just in case. Give a friend or coworker a couple of dollars to get a drink and tell them not to pay you back.
Clothe the Naked: Let a friend borrow your jacket if they're cold. When you buy new clothes, try to give some of your old clothes away. Always donate instead of throwing away- if the clothes are in good condition.
Shelter the Homeless: Invite a friend to stay over if they're having a rough time at home.
Visit the Sick: When a friend/classmate/coworker is absent, check on them. If it's a classmate, offer to give them the notes they missed. If a family member is sick, make them soup or offer to bring them their medicine. Call an elderly relative.
Visit the Imprisoned: Be kind to someone trapped by a bad reputation. Pray for your state/country's prisoners, especially death row inmates.
Bury the Dead: When you visit a graveyard, pull weeds around some of the graves that are not well maintained or pick up trash as you walk. Volunteer to help in any way you can when a loved one passes, or even the loved one of a loved one.
Counsel the Doubtful: When someone asks you for advice, listen patiently and be genuinely helpful when you answer them. Wish a friend or coworker good luck before a test/presentation/interview. Pay attention to others and point out the strengths which you admire in them.
Instruct the Ignorant: Be patient when someone asks you a question. Read a book to a young relative/neighbor, or help them with homework.
Admonish Sinners: Be open and honest when you do something you shouldn't; it's an amazing example for others. When someone asks your opinion about a moral issue, tell the truth.
Comfort the Sorrowful: Send a kind message to someone who is having a hard time. Listen when someone needs to vent. Be considerate when you discuss mental health issues. Smile at a stranger who looks sad; tell them to have a nice day.
Forgive Offenses/Bear Wrongs Patiently: When someone cuts you off in traffic, pray that they arrive at their destination safely and quickly. Be the first to apologize when you argue with a friend. Be friendly to someone who is rude to you. Help someone to remedy a mistake they have made. Let it go when someone corrects you even though you are right.
Pray for the Living and the Dead: Pick people in your life and say a prayer for them! And always pray for the souls in purgatory :)
Jesus, I trust in You
Sanctificétur nomen tuum!
Hallowed be Thy Name!
here’s a picture of the Angel Gabriel holding Baby Jesus while the Blessed Mother tries to rip off Satan’s head
“kick his ass, ma’am, i got yo baby”
As a Catholic, this is basically what Catholicism is about if any of you are wondering
Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.
Jon Sinclair (via qvotable)
Alternate Hail Marys
The modern Hail Mary was birthed in the sixteenth century; prior to this, the Hail Mary existed both as shortened versions of the modern one, and with completely different structures. The earliest form of the prayer, dating to the twelfth century, was simply “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb”, itself a combination of two Biblical verses that have been used together since the seventh century. By the beginning of the fourteenth century, the name “Jesus” was added to the end (in case you weren’t sure who Mary’s son was, I guess?). But this wasn’t the only “Hail Mary” being circulated among the Catholic laity and monastic orders. In fact, there are a number of German and Latin Marian psalters and early rosary forms that were composed of 150 different Ave Marias each! Here are a couple of examples of some of these other Hail Marys. “Hail Mary, rose without thorns, You were born to comfort me. A queen of high birth, help me that I shall not be lost.” (13th Century) “Hail Mary, branch of Jesse, From you came the Noble One, Jesus, your Child, whose sweet Name Took away from us all our sins.” (late 13th, early 14th Century) “I greet you, rose garden of heaven, The chosen, the pure, the tender one. You noble, sweet rose blossom, Entreat God for me through your goodness.” (14th Century) These different Hail Mary’s were usually correlated to one of the psalms; the prayer would attempt to summarize the theme of a particular psalm, and then connect that theme to Mary or Jesus. “Hail Mary” devotions like this would continue to be composed up until the seventeenth century, but the sheer diversity found even within a single devotion made it hard to memorize; the modern rosary, with its singular form of the Hail Mary and its focus on the narrative of Christ’s life, was much easier to perform without having a written text in front of the devotee. Source: Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages, by Anne Winston-Allen
Um I love??? Especially the “hail Mary, rose without thorns”. I may adopt one of these for my own personal marian devotion
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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.”
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Augustine
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“If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.” - C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (via the-book-diaries)
I have three moods:
I eat because I’m sad.
I get sadder for overeating.
Repeat.
Happy Valentines day! :D
Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (via bluecollarclassicist)