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It’s forbidden to die in Longyearbyen, Norway. The town’s only cemetery closed over 70 years ago because it’s so cold that bodies previously buried there have never decomposed, and some still carry traces of an influenza virus that caused an epidemic in 1917. Source Source 2 Source 3

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Ravenclaw Statistics

Ravenclaws who get to bed early: 25%

Ravenclaws who go to bed late: 75%

Ravenclaws who wake up tired: 100%

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I'm back

Ok people, we gotta talk. I have been off of my tumblr for about 6 months and now that I'm back all I see is hatred and unkindness. We as a people need to learn to forgive, walk with, and learn to love. Love is the only thing that makes a "evil" person good!

Let's work on it together shall we!

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Prayer does not consist merely in standing and bowing your body or in reading written prayers….it is possible to pray at all times, in all places, with mind and spirit. You can lift up your mind and heart to God while walking, sitting, working, in a crowd and in solitude. His door is always open, unlike man’s. We can always say to Him in our hearts Lord, Lord have mercy.

-St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

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St. John the Evangelist (1st c.) was one of the Twelve Apostles, and one of the three in Jesus’ inner circle, along with his brother, James, and Simon Peter. St. John was the disciple who reclined on the breast of Jesus at the Last Supper, and the only one of the twelve to not forsake Christ during His crucifixion and death. John stood faithfully at the foot of the Cross alongside the other holy women, and therefore he was the disciple to whom Jesus entrusted the care of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In addition to being called “The Evangelist” he is also known as the “Beloved Disciple.” After the death and resurrection of Jesus, St. John was an important leader of the Church in Jerusalem. He lived to a very old age and composed the fourth Gospel that bears his name, three epistles, and the book of Revelation. He is the only one of the Twelve Apostles who was not martyred, instead being exiled to the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea under the persecution of Roman Emperor Domitian. St. John the Evangelist’s feast day is December 27th.

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RAVENCLAW: “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” –Herman Melville (Hawthorne and His Mosses)

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RAVENCLAW:

“But I won’t rot, I won’t rot Not this mind and not this heart I won’t rot”

– Mumford & Sons (After The Storm)

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RAVENCLAW: “Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” –Dorothy Parker

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Re: Letters from Carmel by St. Elizabeth of the Trinity.

“It was one of those books I couldn’t put down and when I finished it I felt like I’d had a personal, one-on-one tutorial on the subject of love: How to give it unstintingly, how to get more of it (see giving, unstintingly), because the more love you give, the more you get. Like an oil jar that never empties.

The tutorial included a lesson in prayer that I took deeply to heart as well, for as I read it became apparent that whenever Elizabeth was asked for prayers, she would immediately reach into scripture, and place herself with Martha and Mary, the beloved sisters of Lazarus who lived in Bethany. With them, she would petition Christ, beginning, “Lord, the one you love is sick…”

How often had I read those words in scripture, or heard them of a Sunday’s Gospel reading, and passed them by, assuming that they were simply a reporter’s narrative — the words meant only for Lazarus, and provided to just move the story along.

But Elizabeth of the Trinity knew what I’ve too frequently forgotten: That every line of scripture is there for a purpose; none of it is accidental; none of it is meant to be passed over, sloughed off, or be left unconsidered, because together all of the lines give us the theology through which we come to better understanding, growth, increased nearness to Christ.

And so Elizabeth doesn’t pass over the lines; instead she sees their instruction and example — their promise of powerful effect.

The instruction comes from the insight: the person for whom we intercede is very much, every day and unquestionably, “the one Christ loves,” the indispensable individual unlike any other, whom Christ loves.

The power comes from acknowledging that unconditional love, and claiming it with calm assurance and an expectation that Christ Jesus will neither deny nor ignore it. He cannot because he is Truth, and his love is true, too.

…As I have written elsewhere, we can bring these words to all of our petitions:

My petitions sometimes seem endless, as though I am haranguing God: “Lord, the one you love is sick,” I will pray, or “Lord, the one you love is lonely,” or “Lord, the ones you love are enslaved by rage and hate.”

“Lord, the one you love is anxious…”

“Lord, the one you love is in danger…”

“Lord, the one you love is unemployed and feels rejected…”

“Lord, the one you love needs you…”

I cannot tell you how many times I have uttered some variation of these words at the start of a petition for a friend, and have later heard that at precisely that moment, there was an easement of suffering and anxiety. Perhaps healing did not come, but something of Christ did. “I felt it,” friends would say. “Suddenly, my wife said she felt upheld and comforted…”

And then I think, “Yes. That Elizabeth of the Trinity — that little Carmelite — she knew what she was doing…”

- Elizabeth Scalia

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“Dear Jesus, I love you so much! I shall endeavour always to love you, I shall live to love you, I shall die to love you! Give me wings oh Jesus, so I can fly to your throne!” - St Gemma

Pictures from stgemmagalgani.com

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Papa Roach - “Last Resort”