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this is just too funny lol

I sometimes see the notion in Catholic circles that one's child must be named after a canonized saint (and the Catholic hipster book I read suggested early Church saints' names).

I disagree with that notion.

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I'd appreciate some prayers -- feeling very anxious and sad over a person I know at the moment. Prayers for this person too are really appreciated!

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Let us not try to pamper ourselves, daughters. We are quite well off here: there is only a single night for us to spend in this bad inn. Let us praise God and strive to do penance in this life. How sweet will be the death of those who have done penance for all their sins and have not to go to purgatory! It may be that they will begin to enjoy glory even in this world, and will know no fear, but only peace.

-St Teresa of Avila

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John 15:12

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

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One of the supreme ironies of being Catholic is when there's that one saint that all your life you've been like "...mehh" about, like, they're fine, you just don't really like them, and then one day you realize, oh no, this is my emotional support saint now.

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Be kind today <3

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Perfectly Expresses My Thoughts Today:

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So important! Please research all your candidates!

Pray that the candidates elected this year in the United States legally recognize the dignity and sanctity of all human life! Let's vote as pro-life as we can!

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"It is precisely in this fight [for holiness] that we become holy. As Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati said, "to live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth - that is not living, but existing." Are you and I merely existing? Or are we living our Christian faith as men fully alive? Recall the famous words of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: "You were not made for comfort; you were made for greatness." Any greatness that we might merit as Catholic men depends upon this fight for holiness. It is the same fight Jesus Christ fought in the desert and the same fight our Christian forefathers fought in order to hand down the faith. Woe to us if we do not pick up the weapons of the Spirit - offered to us freely - and accept them bravely and gratefully! Courage, confidence, and humble reliance on God's infinite resources are called for as we engage. Forward! Into the breach!"

-Bishop Thomas J Olmsted, Manual For Men

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Have I ever told you that my sins, they are many?

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Marian Catholic Tie - Teal

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A lot of people in my life (mainly Protestants and nonpracticing Catholics) confuse the love I have for the dead with just an edgy, strange fascination with the macabre and I wanna scream at them. I go to cemeteries and I visit the graves of the people who've passed a very long time ago. They're left there at the back of the property, resting places unkept and forgotten, headstones covered in moss, broken, barely legible. But they're safe, they have markers that indicate they existed. How many more don't? How many people do we not know about? In all of human history... I can't even fathom the numbers. Did they have anyone to pray for them by name after they died? I know I don't need their names to pray for them, but wouldn't it be nice, after centuries in purgatory, to have someone praying for you specifically? Whispering, knowing your name? Wanting not just salvation for all the holy souls, but yours specifically?

Why does that make me strange? Why can't me and my feelings just be left alone? Or instead, why can't they knock it off with the judgemental "oh she's just spooky" comments and help me pray for them

Death isn't weird. It's not scary or spooky. It's a human fact and something we will all face someday. Can't people just stop treating the dead as scary, disgusting things who shouldn't be talked about and start, I don't know, taking care of them and their resting places????

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A misty, spooky kind of day in the Cotswolds. (@adamjason1 IG)

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Husband = בעל/Ba'al, with a ע

Onion = בצל/Batzal, with a צ