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Cornelius Agrippa, Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and Geomancy, 1559 (first picture), 1655 (second picture), 1783 (third picture), 1801 (fourth picture) & 1910 (fifth picture)

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How can I start to describe You, My God, when I cannot even describe myself?

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“Consumerism is the death of Christian eschatology. There can be no rupture with the status quo, no in-breaking kingdom of God, but only endless superficial novelty… The witness of the martyrs to living the kingdom of God in the present becomes a curiosity: How could someone be so committed to some particular thing as to lose his life for it? We are moved by the suffering of others, but we can hardly imagine a change radical enough to undermine the paradigm of consumption.”

— William T. Cavanaugh, Being Consumed (via invisibleforeigner)

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"Real justice means the attainment of Theosis, the reunification with God who created us in His image."

- Kyriacos Markides, The Mountain of Silence

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 St. Dymphna, patron saint of the nervous, emotionally disturbed, mentally ill, and those who suffer neurological disorders

I turn to you, dear virgin and martyr, confident of your power with God and of your willingness to take my cause into your hands. I praise and bless the Lord for giving you to us as a patron of the nervous and emotionally disturbed. I firmly hope that through your kind intercession He will restore my lost serenity and peace of mind. May He speak to my heart and reassure me: “My peace I give you. Let not your heart be troubled nor let it be afraid.” Pray for me, dear St. Dymphna, that my nervous and emotional turmoil may cease, and that I may again know serenity and personal peace.

Amen. +

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Relic from the Catacombs of San Pancrazio. The current modeling was made by the Discalced Carmelites during the 17th century.

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Tears of frankincense from the Boswellia Sacra tree ~ photography by Cedric Pollet.

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Jesus said multiple times, “go in peace, your faith has saved you”. He never says “I have saved you”. He said, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice”. But when He died on the cross, we saw it as a sacrifice. We saw it as something He was doing to save us. Today, I heard Richard Rohr say, “Christ did not die for us. He died with us. God is not almighty. God is all-suffering”. We made the Cross—a great, incomprehensible act of love— into a transactional act. We made God’s mercy and eternal love something we are beholden to, a debt we have to repay, when that is exactly the opposite of what God wants! We don’t know why God allows suffering. But what we do know is that God suffers with us. God is seeing us, loving us throughout our ordeals whether we acknowledge the divine presence or not. If we do acknowledge it, if we allow God to love us unconditionally, then we will inevitably be lead to our own resurrection—because after the trials of the cross, the enveloping warmth of Easter Sunday always awaits us!

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Religious Inspired Necklaces from SacredBarcelona

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M.D.Ananas and Sf. Mucenita Filofteia Roz, Icoane Series - Alkmy

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St. Francis of Assisi - October 4

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Tomorrow is the feast day for St. Francis! :o) I’ll have to give my cat a treat in honor of him

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“Be patient with yourself; God is.”

— St. Edith Stein (via birds-and-words)

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“My dear friend, I am a poor sinner still; and I have to look to Christ every day as I did at the very first.”

— Charles Spurgeon

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La Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France - 2010

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“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”

— C.S. Lewis (via craigtowens)