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“Jesus we behold you lying in the manger…We see you as poor, in order to teach us that true wealth does not reside in things but in persons, and above all in the poor: forgive us, if we have failed to acknowledge and serve you in them.”

— Pope Francis, 2022 Christmas Eve Homily

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“Attention: deep listening. People are dying in spirit for lack of it. In academic culture, most listening is critical listening. We tend to pay attention only long enough to develop a counterargument; we critique the student’s or the colleague’s ideas; we mentally grade and pigeonhole each other. In society at large, people often listen with an agenda, to sell or petition or seduce. Seldom is there a deep, open-hearted nonjudgmental reception of the other. And so we all talk louder and more stridently and with a terrible desperation. By contrast, if someone truly listens to me, my spirit begins to expand.”

— Mary Rose O’Reilley, Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice

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Saint Michael The Archangel. By Giovanni Gasparro.

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sketchbook entry No.5

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“Most people saw housing the homeless as transitional, or as a form of rehab. But Catholic Worker houses are not rehab houses. They are homes. ‘We let them stay forever,’ [Dorothy] Day once told a social worker. ‘They live with us, they die with us, and we give them a Christian burial. We pray for them after they are dead. Once they are taken in, they become members of the family. Or rather they always were members of the family.’”

— The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In-Betweens to Remake the World by Kaya Oakes, p. 119 (via revmeg)

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“It is not enough to look at the cross, or wear it, we must carry it in the depth of our heart.”

— St. Gemma Galgani

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“Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.”

St. Paisios of Mount Athos

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“Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he was not sure of his footing, where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.”

— FLANNERY O’CONNOR, from Wise Blood.

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by Gemma Correll

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My blood. Your blood. Our blood. PRACTICAL MAGIC — 1998, dir. Griffin Dunne

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Saint Dymphna - mixed media by Carrie Joy Byrnes

Saint Dymphna, for those who suffer from anxiety and other nervous afflictions. Healing for trauma that affects our spirit and soul.

Dymphna was an Irish princess, whose mentally ill father became violent and dangerous and wanted to make her his wife. Accompanied by her chaplain, court jester, and servants, Dymphna fled to Gheel, in Belgium, where she used her wealth to build a hospital. When her father finally found Dymphna, he took her life while she defended her chastity. She is said to have performed miracles for the mentally ill.

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“[The eucharist] rang with the music of bells, glowed with light, dissolved on the tongue into honeycomb or bloody flesh, and announced its presence, when profaned or secreted away, by leaving a trail of blood.”

— Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women