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catholic. say a prayer for me. side blog: @naalover

[cithaerons]

it’s so interesting how our automatic reaction when looking at the passion narrative is to want to save christ, whisk him away from the guards, take him down from the cross, bandage his wounds, but this causes a fundamental theological conflict: christ has to die for our sins. he can’t be saved. so instead the narrative switches: the spectator wants to die on the cross with christ, to suffer with christ, to “hang upon him that hangs upon the cross, there bathe in his tears, there suck at his wounds, and lie down in the peace of his grave.” 

[scrapironflotilla]

[erotophobiac]

scrapironflotilla:

Priest saying Mass for Italian troops on a mountainside in the Tyrolean Alps, 1916.

[whattheendoftheworldlookedlike]

Avezzano, Italy, 1915.

[leregretdestempspasses]

Cemetery somewhere in Slovakia, 1940 (Štefan Tamáš)

[catholicsoul]

Iesu Rex admirabilis

O Jesus, King most wonderful! Thou Conqueror renowned! Thou Sweetness most ineffable! in whom all joys are found!

When once Thou visitest the heart, then truth begins to shine; then earthly vanities depart; then kindles love divine.

O Jesu! Light of all below! Thou font of life and fire! surpassing all the joys we know, and all we can desire.

May every heart confess Thy name, and ever Thee adore; and seeking Thee, itself inflame to seek Thee more and more.

Thee may our tongues for ever bless; Thee may we love alone; and ever in out lives express the image of Thine own. Amen.

[hieromonkcharbel-deactivated202]

“I am happy in every way that Jesus wills, and if Jesus wants the sacrifice of my life, I give it to Him at once. If He wants anything else, I am ready. One thing alone is enough for me; to be his victim, in order to atone for my innumerable sins, and if possible, for those of the whole world” - St. Gemma

[fruhlingsreigen]

Jesus Christ, the one and only Son Of God The Father, died on the cross for your sins. He was not sent here to condemn us, but to save us(John 3:16-17)! He knows you more than anyone else! You are wonderful and loved by Him. Let Him lead your life, and love Him with all that you are.

[ordocarmelitarum]

Holy Card made by Saint Thérèse 

Refuse nothing to Grace, refuse nothing to the Cross

[aadeguzman]

“Lord, lead me each day to a closer relationship with You and help me to appreciate Your coming among us as a little child. By your grace,Lord, I will accept the trials You send me, knowing that Your comfort and strength will accompany them, so that they do not overwhelm me. Amen.”

- Padre Pio

[paintingthesaints]

Saint Martin Announcing to His Parents That He Will Become a Christian - Unknown

[vintagepales]

[coriesu]

“In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in æternum”

— Ps. XXX, 1 I have put my hope in thee, Oh Lord, and I will not be confused (via coriesu)

[pamphletstoinspire]

[triptihosmrti]

[tabernacleheart-deactivated2025]

If you find that there is no love in you, but you want to have it, then do deeds of love, even though you do them without love in the beginning. The Lord will see you desire and striving and will put love in your heart.

Saint Ambrose of Optina

[eternal-echoes]

“Mary becomes the first human person to realize the historical destiny of the faithful as members of Christ’s mystical Body, beyond time, beyond death, and beyond judgment. By her Assumption she goes ahead like her Son to prepare a place for us. Mary always seems to be the Advent of what is in store for man. She anticipates Christ for nine months, as she bears Heaven within her; she anticipates His Passion at Cana and His Church at Pentecost. Now in the last great Doctrine of the Assumption, she anticipates heavenly glory, and the definition comes at a time when men think of it least.”

— Archbishop Fulton Sheen, World’s First Love (via eloquence-of-the-light)

[koredzas]

Pietro Befulco - Coronation of the Virgin Between Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome. Detail. 1492