A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

What we do is assert the wholeness of time.

Anyone who doesn't sing Auld Lang Syne in scots is a coward btw

A resolution for 2026 from “Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart” ❤📚🙏 #MeisterEckhart #Resolutions

Okay so the good news is that I did find two rosaries in an old backpack. But two that I completely forgot about. So apparently I have more rosaries than I thought I did? But am still missing the two that I am very sentimental about? But thank you St Tony!!!

I can’t say that I understand the “keeping it casual” approach. I’ve described my crush as “a very intense, not entirely platonic, friendship” pretty much upon meeting this person.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

There's literally an Anglican (Church of England) bishop in this film. Y'all. God is absolutely ridiculous.

On Christmas Eve 2011, I came home from my first (and only) candlelit service at my childhood Baptist church. I turned on PBS, and the 2005 documentary "Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" happened to be on air. I decided to change my major that night, as a freshman.

I’m using 佢 on the Chinese side of my ember cards (ordination prayer cards), because that just is my third-person pronoun in Chinese. 他 also is gender-neutral, bye.

The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

Got my tickets for New Years Eve. It’s going to be a fun night!

All or nothing, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee;

the mystery of God transcends all categories of knowing

our unity in God gives us room to disagree safely

He protects us as tenderly and as sweetly when we are in greatest need

Grant that we, burning with your Spirit’s power, may be a people of hope, justice and love

Happy Feast, especially to the sad queer Christians

The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮

Whenever people want to justify the de facto single state reality of the occupied Palestinian territory I just show them maps like this and ask them what it means

There are many FEMINISMS. That's the first thing. All feminists claim different lineages. There is no such thing as "FEMINISM."

Particular SIDE EYE to people WHO DO NOT LIVE IN NYC and yet are experts on NYC mayoral elections.

Every day, every hour, every minute, every second:

When I was growing up in the South, we assumed that people who used phrases like "Heritage American" in public were definitely in the Klan.

If you work at a church, you have to go to work tomorrow.

You're only really able to partition if the people you're partitioning with agree that you should exist in the first place.

Remember to pace yourself, there’s still 11 more days of Christmas.

Do you, then, forgive those who have sinned against you?

God chose to be our mother in all things

'Ye who now will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing.' Happy Feast of Stephen, everyone.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

God is more truly worshipped and glorified in acts of love, humility and compassion to the poor and oppressed than in the perfectly executed liturgy in the most magnificent cathedral with the best choir, if done with more care and focus on the liturgy than on the Lord! 🕯

Chains shall he break

Christianity is not ambiguous in any way about the poor. Those who want it to be are shilling for American capitalism at the expense of the Gospel truth.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.

Thinking and praying for anyone going to church alone tonight. Distance from my family during the (any) holidays is so much my normal that it’s become my job, and is part of my vocation. And I know how lonely it still is, even when God meets and transforms it.

Of the Father’s heart begotten, ere the world from chaos rose, he is Alpha: from that fountain all that is and has been flows; he is Omega, of all things yet to come the mystic close, evermore and evermore. ⚓️✝️

I finally finished my coursework for the semester, so I’m deliberately doing NOTHING today for the first time in what feels like forever.

see in each other the image of God

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Look folks - I get that talking about the history of racism and colonialism can be deeply uncomfortable. But do you know what’s way more uncomfortable than talking about the history of racism and colonialism? Enduring racism and colonialism. And it’s not even close.

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Sad news: someone stole baby Jesus from our anti-ICE nativity. But vandalism cannot stop us. We just adapt and keep on critiquing this administration’s cruelty on immigration. Where’s baby Jesus? We don’t know. He is being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where his loved ones cannot find him.

Is there a saint to whom I should pray and ask for their intercession if I’m missing two rosaries??

in joyful obedience to Christ