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kit-power replied to your post: Astrology posts are fun but I never reblog them...
dude I’m Scorpio and SO don’t relate, too. what’s our deal?!
Literally all Scorpio descriptions are “You are a mysterious evil mastermind” and it’s like, no?? I am an embarrassingly open book and am terrified of what everyone thinks of me??
Was tagged by Blake Baggott
In a text post list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag some friends (and me so I’ll see your list).
1. Wounded by Love by St. Porphyrios 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright 4. St. Silouan the Athonite by Archimandrite Sophrony 5. The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian 6. The Philokalia + The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology 7. The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith 8. Monastic Wisdom by Elder Joseph the Hesychast 9. What Are People For? and Bringing It to the Table by Wendell Berry [both are collections of essays so I'm counting them as one. 10. King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight
In 1932, following the collapse of her marriage, her bishop, Metropolitan Evlogy, encouraged her to become a nun, but a nun with an exceptional vocation. Metropolitan Evlogy blessed her to develop a new type of monasticism — a “monasticism in the world” — that centered on diaconal service within the city rather than on quiet withdrawal in a rural context.In a time of massive social disruption, Mother Maria declared, it was better to offer a monastic witness which opens its gates to desperate people and in so doing to participate in Christ’s self-abasement. “Everyone is always faced … with the necessity of choosing between the comfort and warmth of an earthly home, well protected from winds and storms, and the limitless expanse of eternity, which contains only one sure and certain item … the Cross.”
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh provides an impression of what Mother Maria was like in those days: “She was a very unusual nun in her behavior and her manners. I was simply staggered when I saw her for the first time. I was walking along the Boulevard Montparnasse. In front of a café, there was a table, on the table was a glass of beer, and behind the glass was sitting a Russian nun in full monastic robes. I looked at her and decided that I would never go near that woman. I was young then and held extreme views.”
Life in community was not easy. Conflicting views about the relative importance of liturgical life were at times a source of tension. Mother Maria was the one most often absent from services or the one who would withdraw early, or arrive late, because of the pressing needs of hospitality. “Piety, piety,” she wrote in her journal, “but where is the love that moves mountains?”
kit-power said: I saw Ian Randall Thornton play last night. Had never heard of him before, but his set left me in tears. It was actually kinda embarrassing.
One song in and WOW. If it is any consolation, I would be in tears with you
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If you meet up with Tumblr people, but don't take pictures together and post them on tumblr, did you really meet them?
kit-power replied to your post: Belmont is a Christian school, and the...
it wasn’t a piece of cake getting it though. major scandals (firing a gay coach) and protests.
Yeah, I just read about those. Still, things have apparently changed. I read a press release from their President that said that sexual orientation is no longer taken into account when accepting students or hiring staff.
kit-power said: I got really excited about that app just now but it’s $10 :( at least I have the book. I guess it’s the same thing.
I can't recommend purchasing the app enough. They have alarms that alarm you to pray the hours and for that alone, it's worth the price of admission. I was always so inconsistent when I only had my book. Now, I'm still able to keep up with at least the morning prayers, along with the daily readings of the Orthodox Church as well.
