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off to the monastery

thanks for everything

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this is my favorite goofy pun ever, I have told it at least five times

I don’t care, fuck you

okay ready

as you all know, saint patrick walked barefoot as an act of contrition, which made his feet rugged and blistered. he ate an ascetic’s diet, which made him weak and additionally gave him bad breath.

all of this made him

a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis

[anniephantom]

oh my god

[frytha]

I choked

[catsbeaversandducks]

Russian priests pose with pet cats in hit 2016 calendar In a rare venture into popular culture, bearded Russian Orthodox priests have posed as models for a glossy 2016 calendar — cuddling their pet cats.

Via PRAVMIR.COM

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this is AMAZING

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Are you a nun?

getting there! :)

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a kazakhstani novice

[susietwobruise]

Rejoice therefore with joy and exult with exultation, for today the Lord God has selected you and set you apart from life in the world, and has set you, as before his face, in the post of the Monastic order, in the service of the angelic life, in the height of the life which imitates Heaven, to worship him angelically, to serve him wholly and completely, to seek those things which are above. ‘For our way of life,’ according to the Apostle, ‘is in the Heavens.’

- from the Orthodox service of monastic tonsure

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‘There is no greater love than this: that a person would lay down his life for the sake of his friends.’

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a russian novice

[tesserariuss]

every true feminist knows that in order to end patriarchy, they must slay the master patriarch

[crownedpatriot]

Orthodox Christians look out!

[johnny-jacobite]

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novice in the icon studio

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High Altar of the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, Überlingen, Germany

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honest question for catholics of tumblr: does art like this move you to prayer?

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A Madonna covered in rosaries by passersby

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a novice getting her charge ready for the day

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novices in church

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novice masha alone in the refectory