The Instant

Spiritual Psychology and Christian Philosophy

[mirielvairenen]

Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

Christ Has No Body

Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, Yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

[faithshaped]

"Run, therefore, my mother, and let us all run, believers of Christ, towards the object of our reason, the scent of this blood! Then this blood will truly inebriate us, it will set us on fire and consume us in sweet love of God; and we will become one reality with Him. We will become like a drunk, who doesn't think of himself, only the wine, from which he drank and wants to drink again. Get intoxicated from the blood of Christ crucified: it is before you, don't let yourself die of thirst! And don't drink only a little, but drink so much that it inebriates you and you lose yourself."

—Letters of Saint Catherine of Siena, 29

[speakthewordonly]

«  she should be in the club » everyone knows your late twenties are for becoming increasingly offputtingly religious

[metamorphesque]

haiku #15, tathev simonyan

[divinum-pacis]

A priest sprinkles holy water on a pet snail during a blessing of the animals service marking the feast of Saint Anthony, at the San Anton Church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

[dissipateuke]

[apesoformythoughts]

a one-man crusade against Catholics adopting influencer culture and generative AI

[1five1two]

'Bedtime'. Nicole Parker. 2021.

[urgetocreate]

Oil on mounted linen

[the-dauphine]

“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963  (via sartreuse)

[mariaportadoceu]

When you see this, say a prayer for the end of pornography

[apesoformythoughts]

“[David] hated the unjust, as such, and the object of his hate was their injustice, which was their evil. Such hatred is perfect, of which he himself says: ‘I hate them with perfect hatred’ (Ps. 139:22). Now hatred of a person's evil is equivalent to love of his good. Hence also this perfect hatred belongs to charity.”

— St. Thomas Aquinas

[goth-queen]

[mapsontheweb]

Monasteries destroyed by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries

[darnitjack]

Each and every one of these had people in them who had made a vow of stability- to love a place and brotherhood like a family.

To spend their days working with their hands, in quiet prayer, and in daily song.

I think the birds remember, and still sing with them

[chirhos]

no, you are not "running from God". He's in front of you

[chirhos]

you're running laps on a track and He is sitting in the inner field waiting for you to tire yourself out and come sit with Him

[luxperpetualuceateis]

he's in the grass braiding dandelions together and once you're ready to rest he'll put the flower crown on you

[littleflowercerise]

This is one of my favorite quotes in the world.

It is attributed to the great Saint Catherine of Siena

"We’ve had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues- I see the world is rotten because of silence."

How true that is.

[orthodoxadventure]

God often allows us to hit rock bottom so that we will discover that He is the rock at the bottom.

Saint John of Kronstadt

[catholicapothecary]

Those heretics were called Antidiocomarites who denied the virginity of Mary to the point that they claim that after the birth of Christ she had intercourse with her husband.

Saint Augustine, De Haeresibus