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to anybody who may need to hear this right now.

you are worthy of being delighted in. god delights in you. the people around you delight in you. your presence brings others delight, even if you don’t think so, i promise you do.

you deserve to delight in every joy life gives you, and even through every hardship and every bad thing that happens to you and happens in the world, we may not fully understand why these things happen, but god is with us to delight in us and how we get through every trial and difficulty life gives us.

god delights in everyone. in you, even when you dont feel worthy of being delighted in, in the people (specifically marginalized people) who arent treated as if they deserve to be delighted in. god delights in them, and we should act the same.

(this was a little message from my neighbor who was recently ordained as a priest who gave this as his homily message today)

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cats in churches compilation

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Pope Leo XIV with a little plushie he caught

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Jonathan Roumie (who plays Jesus in the series The Chosen and is Catholic) met Pope Leo! The cast of The Chosen recently finished filming the crucifixion scene in Italy for season 6, and I cannot imagine how emotional that must have been for him and the cast and crew. It must have been so meaningful to meet the Pope and be at the Vatican after that.

Sometimes, social media makes me aggravated, but most of the time, I am thankful to live in a time when these moments can be captured and shared, and I am given the opportunity to make a blog like this.

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my queerness is not a sin <3 neither is yours <3

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Jesus still loves you when you don't understand what He's doing, when you're tired of waiting, if you struggle with your mental health, if you haven't spent time with Him today, if you struggle to love yourself even if you have nothing left to give. He still loves you.

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Please pray for those who have been impacted by the suicide bombing at Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus. At least twenty have been killed, with a number of casualties.

Lord, have mercy.

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Almond trees bloom at Saint Catherine's Monastery, a Greek Orthodox Church in South Sinai, Egypt. It was built between 548 and 565, and is the world's oldest continuously-inhabited Christian monastery.

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𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑘, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡,𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑑.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ��𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑑.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛.

𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒.  𝑅𝑒𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑑, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢.

—The Beatitudes, 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑤 𝟻:𝟹–𝟷𝟸 (𝑁𝐼𝑉)

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The mosaic of the National Cathedral requires about 16 kilograms of tesserae per square meter. Photo credit: Instagram / Codrescudaniel

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About Me ✝️ 🏳️‍🌈

Hello everyone!

My name is Michela

She/Her

I am Italian (Sicilian) and Arbëreshë

I am a masc lesbian

And a devout Catholic! (Latin Rite)

I know most may not be familiar with the Arbëreshë, so here is some information:

Arbëreshë are descendants of Orthodox Christian Albanian refugees who fled from Albania and Greece to Italy during the Ottoman Empire's conquest of the Balkans. The Arbëreshë speak a medieval dialect of Albanian. The communities eventually had to become Catholic, but were allowed to maintain the Byzantine rite and formed the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, one of 23 Eastern Catholic Churches!

Regarding a DNI list:

I’m open to speaking to anyone with an open heart to ask, listen, or learn. However, if you are coming to my blog to be homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, etc, you will be blocked. My purpose is to help my fellow queer Christians who struggle and/or feel rejected by providing them encouragement, support, and a safe space. Therefore, if you are coming to my blog or posts to condemn my followers and me with hatred and misrepresentations of the Bible, you will be blocked.

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happy pride month to queer people of faith! God loves you for who you are, not for what other people think you should be.

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Rays of Sunlight - The Cross in the Ancient Sinai Basilica

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Jesus inspired by those little tiny Jesus figures

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My rosary

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Just a message to my fellow queer Catholics/Christians on here:

God loves you. God supports you. Jesus would lovingly break bread with you. Jesus would defend you against those who persecute you.

Especially to my trans siblings, he loves you.

Happy Pride, God bless you all.

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Redraw for mother's day 👉👈