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I washed the homemade linen cloth and re-organized my home altar. 🥰

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Today is sponsored by the love I have for you

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[Jesus] seems utterly unconcerned for his own reputation. When he is accused of being religiously and ethnically illegitimate because he is a Galilean or a Samaritan, he doesn’t even bother to reply (8:48). Nor does he reply when he is repeatedly called a sinner. None of this seems to matter to him. All that matters is that he acts as God acts: that he befriends those people rejected by conventional piety and those who are in distress. This activity of compassion rather than living up to conventional expectations is the mark of his relationship with God.

— The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament by Theodore W. Jennings

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16th August

The Book of Common prayer

From Great Aunt Olive to Great Aunt Mabel.

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Passover silver Seder cups

Silversmith: Hieronymos Mittnacht (1708–1769) (?), 1761-63. Inscribed in Hebrew: “I will free you from the labours of the Egyptians” [Exod 6:6)]

Late 17th Century

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my first group went so well today!! my call is already being affirmed so fast 🥹

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The Annunciation by Eustache Le Sueur, 1652.

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It’s taken me a long time to get it but the reason why Christianity works for me after decades of exploring other spiritualities is that Christianity, in its best places, says “Trust this Creation and the Creator behind it as the single priority in your life.” It can take a while to dig past all the Platonic popular reinterpretations but at the bottom of it you don’t have to transcend, you don’t have to separate yourself from this world and take on a “spiritual life” - you don’t have to escape the body or the earth or the trees because you are part of this Creation and all of Creation is being made new again. So you eat your hamburger and hug your friend and laugh while fishing and trust in this visitation by this God who became humanly embodied and did all those same things and promised everything is taken care of and that’s it, that’s literally it. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

I’m so grateful I’ve found that.

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“The Garden of Earthly Delights” (c. 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch

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some recent additions to my bible bag pins ft 2 new ones from the philly art museum 🤍

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turns out there is nothing stopping you from making a pngtuber so you can rp working in a scriptorium

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“I’ve been thanking God for fear.”

“You have?”

‘This winter. One afternoon the bus was late with the children. My imagination was like a storm. I stood at the road, and I couldn’t get rid of all the terrible pictures. So I started thanking God for this fear, because it meant I love them so much. The sun was shining on the snow and pines, and I stood down there, thinking of what it would be like not to have that fear; not to love anyone so much you couldn’t imagine living on the earth without them […] I looked at all that beauty around me and I was grateful. I was still afraid, but the worst of it went out of me.”

—  Andre Dubus, “Out of the Snow”, Dancing After Hours

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may Christ hold your hand as you start discernment!

i’m happy for you man!

oh thank you so much!! 🤍 that means so much to me!

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please pray for me as I begin my discernment group for priesthood tomorrow 🤍

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yesterday during announcements, my priest made it public that i’m officially in the discernment process for priesthood and i had so many people come up to me after and say such nice encouraging things…. just ahhhh 😭 thank you God for not giving up on me

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my discernment group is in less than a week!!! and he’s going to train me in eucharistic ministry AND worship leading so i can lead one sunday in august when he is away 🤍 the excitement is unreal