#st. simon

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saints & fancy border decorations

in the hours of catherine of cleves, dutch, c. 1440

source: NYC, Morgan Library, MS M.917/945, pp. 228-280

[leeloooonfire]

Me reading a Boston Bears | Boston Raiders Team Ensemble & Ilya Rozanov story: omg I love these guys. these guys, who I don't even know. these guys who aren't even real. manno :(

[foreverpraying]

October 28 is the feast day of St. Simon and St. Judas Thaddeus Apostles

Source of picture: https://catholic-line-art.tumblr.com

"Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household..." Ephesians 2:19

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Peter Paul Rubens - St. Simon from the Twelve Apostles series (c. 1611)

[radioteopoli]

Happy Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles!

Gospel LK 6:12-16

Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

[sittinwithyou]

Just reminding you how simple things turn into shit in a hurry.

On September 7, 2019, the Golden Ray eased into the harbor, where stevedores offloaded 285 Hyundai Accents and Kia Fortes from two decks and loaded 339 brand-new Kia Tellurides onto three. Harbor pilot Jonathan Tennant then joined the crew to navigate the boat out of the narrow shipping channel. Around 12:45 a.m. the next day, the Golden Ray raised its 275-ton stern ramp, and captain Gi Hak Lee declared it "ready for sea" and the voyage to Baltimore. Flanked by the Dorothy Moran tugboat, the Golden Ray made for the Atlantic with Tennant giving commands to the quartermaster at its helm. "Our job is very much about feel," he says. "You become in sync with the vessel." It was a still, 72-degree morning—"cupcake conditions," Tennant says. He remembers looking out at the moon, the lighthouse on St. Simons Island, and the lights on the Emerald Ace, an inbound car carrier. Once he felt in control of the vessel, he dismissed his tug so it could assist the Ace and pressed on, eventually ordering 10 degrees of starboard rudder to make the fourth turn of the voyage out to sea. But 10 degrees wasn't enough, so Tennant called for the next logical thing: 20 degrees starboard. That's when the ship began to lose it.

THE VB 10,000 HEAVY-LIFTING VESSEL SERVES AS BOTH SAW AND CRANE IN THE GOLDEN RAY SALVAGE OPERATION. IT PULLS A CUTTING CHAIN THROUGH THE SHIP TO SLICE OFF A SECTION, WHICH IT LATER PICKS UP BY THE LUGS WELDED TO THE SIDE AND DROPS ON A BARGE. EACH PIECE THEN MAKES ITS WAY TO A RECYCLING FACILITY IN LOUISIANA.ILLUSTRATION BY MORON EEL|CAR AND DRIVER

It was normal for the Golden Ray to lean while making the turn, but this "felt like she was going to spin out of control," says Tennant. Trying to slow the swing, he immediately called for midships (0 degrees), then 20 degrees port, then hard to port. When the ship didn't respond, he turned to Lee and asked, "What is happening?" Lee's reply—"Whoa!"—prompted Tennant to ease off a bit, to 20 degrees port. Suddenly, the ship's stern slid out "like someone kicking a stool out from under you," Tennant recalls. "The lights were gone. All I saw was water." Nevertheless, he kept driving, calling for full lock again, still hoping to right the ship. But unbeknownst to him, the rudder and propeller were already out of the water. Nothing could stop the Golden Ray from plowing into the sound. The crash threw Tennant against the wheelhouse windshield, and he held fast to a gyrocompass to keep from sliding away. Water rushed into the vessel through an open door in the hull. Inside the upended engine room, engineers similarly clung to life in the dark as the seven-cylinder lost power and fires broke out across the disabled ship. With the stern stuck out in deep water, a flotilla of tugs and taxis responding to Tennant's distress calls converged on the capsized carrier to shove it onto a sandbar. The Golden Ray risked being dragged to the bottom of the channel, which could have choked off the busy shipping lane and drowned everyone aboard. Tennant is an Eagle Scout who still lives by the preparedness mindset at age 46. As he dangled 50 feet in the air, he thought about the rappelling gear in his work-issued F-250 Super Duty that was parked a half-mile away near the pier. U.S. Coast Guard teams arrived by air and sea to contain the ship's fires and help Tennant, Lee, and 18 others escape. (True to maritime tradition, the captain refused to abandon ship before all members of his crew were safe, but Tennant convinced Lee he'd have a better chance of saving his men by leaving the vessel. That way, he could share his knowledge of the Golden Ray's access points with the Coast Guard.) Trapped in the bowels of the ship, four engineers stripped down to their underwear and climbed into the floodwaters seeking relief from air temperatures that hit an estimated 150 degrees. They banged on the hull to make their presence known. Nearly 36 hours after the accident, they were rescued through a hole cut in the hull. Tennant shudders to think what the outcome might've been had the ship rolled over at sea. "I don't believe there would've been any witness to it happening," he says. "And the ability to call for help would not have been there. I truly think that I essentially witnessed a miracle."

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Thu, Oct 28 - Holy Mass from the National Shrine

O God, by the blessed Apostles have brought us to acknowledge your name, graciously grant, through the intercession of Sts. Simon and Jude, that the Church may grow in our belief in you.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (February 18)

St. Simon is a relative of Jesus.

His father was Cleophas, St. Joseph's brother, and his mother, according to some writers, was our Lady's sister.

He would therefore be our Lord's first cousin and is supposed to have been about eight years older.

He is in the Gospel of Matthew and is one of the brethren of Christ mentioned in Acts who was present at the birth of the Church on the first Pentecost.

Reported to have been at the martyrdom of Saint James the Lesser, he was chosen to succeed James as bishop of Jerusalem.

In 66, before the city fell to the Romans, the Christians received a divine warning and evacuated to nearby Pella, with Simon as their leader.

In the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem, Simon led the Christians back to the city where they flourished, performed miracles and converted many.

Simon was eventually arrested, tortured and martyred for the twin crimes of being Jewish and Christian.

His death was that of crucifixion.

Sources: Catholic News Agency / Catholic Online