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[whatinausername]

please pray for my friend, for her husband who was ordained to priesthood last week, and for her grandmother who passed today

[whatinausername]

"And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything” // "and my two hands but two - not four, or five as they ought to be - and so many wants - and me so very handy - and my time of so little account - and my writing so very needless -" // "чувство, что Бог стоит передо мной и говорит мне: «За все это счастье, за доброту, за все – что ты можешь Мне дать?... Никто из живущих на земле не получил столько, сколько ты. Зарыла ли ты в землю таланты или умножила их?» И я должна буду ответить: «Я начну трудиться, я так благодарна за все»" // "I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service"

[whatinausername]

the quote in Russian reads: "the feeling that God is standing in front of me and telling me: "For all this happiness, for kindness, for everything – what can you give Me? No one living on earth has received as much as you have. Have you buried your talents in the ground or multiplied them?" And I will have to answer: "I will start working, I am so grateful for everything."

[whatinausername]

St. Elizabeth the New Martyr, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and sister of Alexandra, the last Russian empress, founder and abbess of the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary in Moscow

[whatinausername]

her life in a lecture from patristic nectar

a shorter life in text

[whatinausername]

St. Elizabeth the New Martyr, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and sister of Alexandra, the last Russian empress, founder and abbess of the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary in Moscow

[internetcatholicism]

Please pray for Evey Lafountain, a missing indigenous 16-year-old who is pregnant and due at the end of July! She is missing from Fargo, North Dakota.

Saint Anthony, Saint Kateri, pray for us!!

[whatinausername]

Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven | Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood | Psalm 139:7-8 (ESV) | Robert C. Cheeks, Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood | G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday | @chirhos, @luxperpetualuceateis

[oncillaphoenix]

i think what bothers me about a lot of "girl power" narratives is that they function on the implicit idea on the idea that women can become worthy of respect. and i happen to think that really caring about women means believing they already are worthy of respect. that historical seamstresses and soccer moms and forgotten sisters and sweet polite little girls and someone's weird grandma matter just as much as the warriors and politicians, even if they, personally, never accomplish anything "cool."

[allunderthesamesky]

[awesomebutunpractical]

You don't need to want to have babies to be a decent person when you're talking about babies. These aren't a dog breed you can freely and comically despise, they are tiny vulnerable human beings. Even if the next sentence out of your mouth is "well, I hate kids BUT-" no. You need to get that vocabulary out of yourself. I'm not saying you're doing anything worse, but the words are already despicable.

[limboliturgy]

How it's been going

Exodus 4:13, Andrei Tarkovsky Journal 1970-1986, The confessions of Saint Augustine, Jeremiah 1:6, Jonah 1:3, C.S. Lewis Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.

[cypresswarrior]

Noelia Towers, “up to nowhere”, 2025, oil on canvas, 38 x 30 in (96.5 x 76.2 cm)

[fear-not-beloved]

Deeper and deeper must be the dying, for wider and fuller is the lifetide that it is to liberate - no longer limited by the narrow range of our own being, but with endless powers of multiplying in other souls. Death must reach the very springs of our nature to set it free: it is not this thing or that thing that must go now: it is blindly, helplessly, recklessly, our very selves. A dying must come upon all that would hinder God’s working through us - all interests, all impulses, all energies that are “born of the flesh” - all that is merely human and apart from His Spirit. Only thus can the Life of Jesus, in its intensity of love for sinners, have its way in our souls.

Lilias Trotter || Parables of the Cross Part 4

[pink111shit]

[stealingmyplaceinthesun]

I think part of being alive is just continuously praying thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven

[womaninwinter-deactivated202503]

“Wow I am so annoying” ❌❌❌

“wow I am an excellent opportunity for other people to sanctify themselves” ✅✅✅

[whatinausername]

The Guardian of Paris — The Life of Saint Genevieve of Paris by Trisagion Films

Art and animation by Eve Trnavčević, Hrastko Trnavčević

[stuckinapril]

Absolutely no one and nothing needs an IMMEDIATE response unless it’s an emergency or a work related situation (focus modes exist that allow only certain notifications to go through for this purpose)

Getting to a text or notification in 15 minutes versus 2 hours changes absolutely nothing about the outcome of a situation

You forget 80% of what you scrolled through at the end of the day

There’s absolutely no image on Pinterest, no post on Tumblr, no story on Instagram that could be as novel as reading a book you’ve never read and the dopamine release from finishing it and soaking it in

it can literally wait. It’s not the end of the world. Your brain will make it seem that way but it’s not

Phones are built like slot machines (same exact mechanism) so don’t be too hard on yourself

But also consider how much progress you’d make in your goals if you siphoned some of that screen time into whatever goals you’ve had forever

you don’t need to live a no phone lifestyle, it’s about portions

it will feel so fulfilling when it’s under moderation