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approximately 8 years ago a music professor i had in freshman year played us a field recording of a baptism and i felt haunted and chased by the sounds of the people emotionally rejoicing after the baptism. for years. girl

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Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself to You Whom I have offended, because You love in me Your only begotten Son. You see Him in me, You embrace Him in me, because He has willed to identify Himself completely with me by that love which brought Him to death, for me, on the Cross.

I come to You like Jacob in the garments of Esau, that is in the merits and the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. And You, Father, Who have willed to be as though blind in the darkness of this great mystery which is the revelation of Your love, pass Your hands over my head, and bless me as Your only Son. You have willed to see me only in Him, but in willing this You have willed to see me more really as I am. […] Father, I come to You in your own Son's self, for it is His Sacred Heart that has taken possession of me and destroyed my sins and it is He Who presents me to You.

Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

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noooooo im missing lammas day celebrations with my parish to be in england 😔

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Lord Jesus what love shall I render unto Thee, for thy love unto me! Thy eternal love! Oh what fervour, what ardour, what humiliation, what reverence, what joy, what adoration, what zeal, what thanksgiving! Thou that art perfect in Beauty, Thou that art the King of Eternal Glory, Thou that reignest in the Highest Heavens camest down from Heaven to die for me! And shall not I live unto Thee? O my joy! O my Sovereign Friend! O my life and my all! I beseech Thee let those trickling drops of blood that ran down Thy flesh drop upon me. O let Thy love enflame me.

Thomas Traherne, Centuries

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To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us--and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful man knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

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new rosary just dropped 🧎🏻‍♀️‍➡️

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if everyone in my parish got together and agreed to never look at me or say anything i think i would veil during mass. but we live in a society

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she’s so everything to me forever

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it’s Mary Magdalene’s feast day!

St. Mary Magdalene, you who are equal to the apostles, pray for us!

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got an unwanted letter board from work. ts eliot be upon ye

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torchbearing debut everyone said i did a good job yayyyy happy sunday!!!!

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A man drinks a glass of water. The water is God's "I love you". He is two days in the desert without finding anything to drink. The dryness in his throat is God's "I love you". God is like an importunate woman who clings to her lover, whispering in his ear for hours without stopping: "I love you- I love you- I love you- I love you..."

Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks, trans. Richard Rees

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we are divinely obligated to feed each other. may every hungry person be filled

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The Broken Field

by Sara Teasdale

My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

Where grass and bending flowers Were growing, The field lies broken now For another sowing.

Great Sower when you tread My field again, Scatter the furrows there With better grain.

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Western Christians tend to think of "going to heaven" or "going to hell" as the framework for the Gospel, but the Bible story is not about us going somewhere, but the Creator God coming to live with us.

Nicholas Thomas Wright

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Children of Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza make artwork of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God

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im leading the rosary group next month imagine me jumping up and down