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“Many of the people who look forward to a long life put off doing good works, since they think that they will have plenty of time before they die. As for me, I prefer to be among those who consider that they have no time to lose if they wish to give God all the glory that they can before they die.” ~St. Margaret of Hungary

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Honestly I dont understand why should I want to offer up my sufferings for the souls in purgatory. Those who sinned have to suffer because of their poor life choices. Someone masturbated without knowing it was bad and now I have to feel sorry for them? Why?

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I wonder what Saints-to-be live in your neighborhood. 

- Meg Hunter Kilmer

Faith Fact: Sts Maximillian Kolbe, John Paul and Faustina lived within a 15 mile radius of one another around 1938. 

St. Faustina was a 33 year old nun, dying of tuberculosis. 

St. Maximillian Kolbe was a 44 year old priest who would be martyred in Auschwitz 3 years later. 

St. John Paul was an 18 year old actor who would one day become a priest, a pope and a saint.

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she holds the seven sorrows with a heavy heart

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Important

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“To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.”

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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The Descent of Christ from the Cross (detail) Jean Joseph Weerts

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Verbum caro, panem verum Verbo carnem éfficit 

Word made Flesh, the bread of nature, By His words to Flesh He turns

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“The effort of Jesus proves to us that in annihilation there is salvation, for we must not forget the immense effort put forth by the humanity of Jesus, under the demands of His divine Power, to participate thus in the voluntary abasements that atone for the intellectual and moral pretensions of original sin. We must not imagine that, because He was God, Jesus had no difficulty imposing the demands of Calvary on His Humanity. In fact, He respected just as much the laws of human nature as those of the divine Nature, and He left full play to the trembling, the terror, the cries, the sobs, and the anguish. We are always inclined to believe that, because He was God, He did everything with ease; whereas, on the contrary, precisely because He had the Power of God at His disposal, He made it shine through the most incredible human obstacles, by the intermediary of a poor human nature identical to our own. There should arise in every one of us a kind of spontaneous and irresistible cry of gratitude toward Christ: if He accepted in this way to use our poor human nature to put forth His most magnificent effort possible, it is to prove to us that, in His own consideration, sin, evil and hell are horrific realities which justify a generosity that is equally definitive.”

— Fr. de Chivre, The Mass of Saint Pius V, Chapter 6: In Spiritu Humilitatis

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“Keep me, guide me, protect me, o safe refuge! Mary, Undoer of Knots, pray for me.” — Our Lady Undoer of Knots is among my favourite Marian devotions, and some of my favourite Marian imagery: her head is uncovered, her mantle loose around her, her hands calmly pulling apart the knots that we have formed ourselves. This will probably be my last piece of Mary for the month of May, but I won’t stop drawing her! I have to get used to cotton watercolour paper. It’s very different.

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“They think I’m a saint…When I’m dead, they’ll come and touch holy pictures and rosaries to me, and all the while I’ll be getting broiled on a grill in purgatory. At least promise me you’ll pray a lot for the repose of my soul.” –Saint Bernadette Soubirous  Saint Bernadette has always been one of my favorite childhood saints. I always admired her gentle humility and obedience to Our Lady as the Immaculate Conception, despite the judgement of those around her, which brought forth some of the greatest miracles of the modern world. This was supposed to be a little drawing to fill up my sketchbook, but I liked it enough to put it up here!

(The image looks blurred thanks to Tumblr, but if you click on it you should be able to see the original)

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Corpus Christi procession in València.

Corpus Christi is one of the most important Catholic holidays, celebrated 60 days after Easter (it doesn’t have a fixed date, it changes every year because it follows the moon calendar). In the Catalan Countries, this celebration includes folk dancing, music, flowers, and colourful religious procession. In València, the real emblem of Corpus Christi are the Roques, which are a group of Medieval wooden floats in the shape of ships that explain Biblical stories.

Photo by visit_valencia