Tiny Catholic Bean

I'm a married disabled Catholic woman. I'm doing my best to listen to God and do what He wants me to do. If anyone needs prayers feel free to ask! I am uninstalling the app for lent though so I might not see it until Easter (queue will be running though so you’ll still see things from me in your dash)

[tinycatholicbean]

Becoming a teacher, an engineer, a chef, a fire fighter, an accountant, or any other job/profession is a good thing- but they aren’t your purpose in life, and no one is less human if they are incapable of working

Your job is not your purpose in life

Becoming a wife/husband, a mother/father, a Sister, a Nun, a priest, a Brother, a religious, or a consecrated virgin is a good thing- but they aren’t your purpose in life either, and failing to find your vocation, or being unsure of what it is, doesn’t make you a failure

Your vocation is not your purpose in life

Your purpose in life is to know, love, and serve the Lord so that you may, by His grace, spend eternity with Him in heaven

Your purpose in life is to love God, and become a saint

[comfortfoodcontent]

The iconic moment from the 2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade when Rick Astley Rick Rolled everyone on the Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends float

[acatholicrose]

[by-grace-of-god]

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

[catenaaurea]

God is unbelievably good.

[keepcatholic]

Non-Catholics getting mad about Catholics enjoying Tolkien’s work is like an atheist art lover visiting the Vatican to admire the art but getting mad about all the Catholics who are there for mass.

[kishinosato]

[acatholicrose]

[valtsv]

i think my favorite thing in tragic narratives is when there's no question that everyone is doomed and there's no going back, but instead of just angsting dramatically about it the characters choose to sing or dance or share a meal together one last time before they go to meet their fates. whether it's a couple swaying together in each other's arms and allowing themselves one last moment where all that matters is each other before it all has to come to an end, or a ragtag group of misfits and rebels united by a single cause despite their differences singing and sharing food and drink around a fire, or whatever scenario you can think of, there's just something so painfully human about it, about that fierce determination to find joy and comfort in the most hopeless situations while you still can. otherwise what are we fighting for. what are we suffering and giving our lives for if not that there will still be singing and dancing, and good food and better company to share it with, when we are gone.

[valtsv]

something about how before stars burn out, they shine brighter first

[ohifonlyx33]

[warrioreowynofrohan]

I hadn’t really realized until now what this line, from the scene where Gimli asks Galadriel for a strand of her hair, means:

'Treasure it, Lady,' he answered, 'in memory of your words to me at our first meeting. And if ever I return to the smithies of my home, it shall be set in imperishable crystal to be an heirloom of my house, and a pledge of good will between the Mountain and the Wood until the end of days.'

Now, the reason Fëanor asked Galadriel for a strand of her hair was because it recalled the light of the Two Trees, and was part of what gave him the idea for making the Silmarils. That line about ‘imperishable crystal’ is Gimli (unknowingly) envisioning something that - not visually but symbolically - recalls a Silmaril, but whereas a Silmaril was the initial source of strife between the Dwarves and the Sindar, this is to be a pledge of goodwill and friendship. This moment really is a healing of old wounds in a way that is immediately evident to Galadriel and Celeborn in particular.

[peartreetheft-deactivated202407]

"If Mary no longer finds a place in many theologies and ecclesiologies, the reason is obvious: they have reduced the faith to an abstraction. And an abstraction does not need a Mother." -- Pope Benedict XVI

[cloudy-ghost]

no offense but you’re lovely and you matter a lot

[coriesu]

St. Anthony of Padua Antonio d'Enrico, known as Tanzio da Varallo ––17th. century

[bizarrelovesquare]

unironically love the phrase “but I’m being so brave about it” because truly, like, what other choice do we have in this wretched existence? what a beautiful way to remind yourself to keep going, even if only out of spite

[tomicscomics]

02/17/2023

Jesus makes winter a little less red.

Keep reading

[purr-in-ink]

[joannadisciple-deactivated20210]

I was reading stories on Reddit about young couples getting married within the Catholic Church because their parents/in-laws wanted it or because they thought a particular church was pretty, and a lot of these people went on to talk about the ways they lied in order to get the wedding: they told the priest they would raise their kids in the faith when they had no intention of doing so, they said they would have kids when they actually weren’t planning on having kids at all, they were otherwise deceptive in that they weren’t planning on attending Mass or even practicing the faith at all.

If you’re planning on getting married and are considering a Catholic parish, please please PLEASE understand that a Catholic wedding is more than just one of many options for tying the knot. It’s a Sacrament, it’s a vow made not only to your spouse, but also to God and the Church as a whole. It’s a vow to help each other grow in the faith (or for one spouse to support the other’s faith life, if one party in the couple isn’t Catholic). It’s a vow to produce children and raise them up as Catholics. It’s one of the biggest commitments you can take on in our faith and not something to be taken lightly, so if you don’t want to follow the Catholic requirements for marriage, then please consider a wedding somewhere else.

[smokeyloki]

T h i s 

Catholicism is not your aesthetic. 

Catholicism is a way of life. 

Catholicism isn’t a pretty Church or making family members happy.  It’s based in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ (like all our Christian brothers and sisters) and requires a lifetime commitment to living out that relationship.  It requires a lifestyle ordered towards the Will of God.

Catholicism is not your aesthetic.