#Charles de Foucauld

[theinwardlight]

Artwork: Appearance of Christ by Ivanka Demchuk

[justana0kguy]

2023 MARCH 07 Tuesday

"The love that [God, our Father] the best of fathers wishes to see reigning between His children, this is the love we owe to all people, to each person without exception. And our model [is] Jesus [who] gives us an example of it."

~ Saint Charles de Foucauld, § 79, psalm 40[41] (Meditations on the psalms)

[apenitentialprayer]

Father, I abandon myself into Your hands; do with me what You will. Whatever You may do, I thank you; I am ready for all, I accept all.

Let only Your will be done in me, and in all Your creatures — I wish no more than this, O Lord.

Into Your hands I commend my soul. I offer it to You with all the love of my heart, for I love You, Lord, and so need to give myself, to surrender myself into Your hands without reserve, and with boundless confidence, for You are my Father.

a prayer of abandonment to God, by Saint Charles de Foucauld

O God, my whole occupation and all my desire in this world of worldly desires is to remember You. And in the Hereafter, it is to meet You. This is my side, as I have stated; now You do whatever You will.

a prayer of surrender, attributed to Rābi'a al-Basri

A Soul Which is Devoted, by Elizabeth Wang

[cristianesimocattolico]

San Giuseppe e un suo devoto un po’ speciale: san Charles de Foucauld

Solitudine, silenzio, umiltà sono le virtù caratteristiche del santo Patriarca san Giuseppe e sono state le compagne predilette di un santo che ha voluto affidarsi particolarmente a lui nel suo cammino di santificazione. Di chi stiamo parlando? Di san Charles de Foucauld. Continue reading San Giuseppe e un suo devoto un po’ speciale: san Charles de Foucauld

[portraitsofsaints]

Happy Feast Day

Saint Charles de Foucauld

1858-1916

Feast Day: December 1

Beatified in 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI

Saint Charles de Foucauld was born into an aristocratic French Catholic family but rejected the faith as a teenager and led a desolate life in the army. He was inspired to resume his faith while in Algeria, by witnessing the devotion of Jews and Muslims. He joined the Trappists, then was a sacristan for the Poor Clares, and in 1901 became a priest. Charles returned to Algeria and lived among the Tuareg people wanting to start a religious order that offered hospitality to all people regardless of their faith. Charles was shot to death at the beginning of World War I.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here. (website)

[eternal-echoes]

“Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect, and selfless generosity.”

- Blessed Charles de Foucauld

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Modern Saint Bracket Announcement

Instead of waiting until Sunday, the modern bracket will open immediately after the post-schism bracket is over. This is the modern bracket, which will be followed by a final four, and then there will be even MORE polls (losers' brackets, Marian apparitions, we're going all summer baby.)

Catholic Saint Tournament Modern Bracket Round 1 Pairings:

St Therese of Lisieux vs St Elizabeth Ann Seton

St Padre Pio (of Pietrelcina) vs St Charles de Foucauld

St Maximilian Kolbe vs St Benilde Romancon

St John Bosco vs St John Neumann

St Mother Teresa (of Calcutta) vs St Arnold Janssen

St Jacinta Marto vs St Edith Stein

St Maria Goretti vs St Marianne Cope

St Charles Lwanga (& co) vs St John Vianney

St Oscar Romero vs St Josemaria Escriva

St Bernadette vs St Damian of Molokai

St Faustina vs St Catherine Laboure

St Mary MacKillop vs St Katharine Drexel

St Gemma Galgani vs St Frances Xavier Cabrini

St John Henry Cardinal Newman vs Pope St John Paul II

Pope St John XXIII vs St Mark Ji Tianxiang

St Francisco Marto vs Sts Louis & Zelie Martin (package deal)

You can still submit nominations for beatified folks, propaganda for your favorite saints, or other thoughts in the ask box! Or suggestions for future polls, questions, etc.

May the best saint win!

[postcard-from-the-past]

Charles Eugène de Foucauld de Pontbriand, French Catholic priest and explorer who lived among the Tuaregs in the Sahara desert for 15 years before his assassination

French vintage postcard

[hvloveyou]

“ Tôi mơ ước một cái gì thật đơn sơ, không đông người…. “ - Dẫn lời của anh Charles de Foucauld để mở đầu những dòng chia sẻ này

Thật biết ơn một ngày cuối mùa đông, tôi được đến thăm ngôi nhà gỗ mộc mạc của dòng Tiểu Muội Chúa Giêsu. Ánh nắng cuối ngày vẫn rực rỡ tràn khắp mảnh vườn, chúng nhảy múa hiền từ trên vô số bông hoa tím, cam vàng, trên từng luống rau xanh…. Ngồi nơi phòng ăn nho nhỏ ngắm buổi chiều tàn, tôi nghe vị sơ hiền kể về những ngày cuối đời của dì Sáu, những ngày bên các gia đình ở vùng Phil gian khổ, những người đã rời đi, những người còn ở lại, câu chuyện dài đằng đẵng mang tình bạn đến nâng đỡ linh hồn cô độc nghèo nàn, mà họ vẫn truyền nhau rằng đó là những tiểu muội âm thầm cho họ lòng âu yếm của Thiên Chúa

Chúng tôi ngồi bên nhau rất lâu như thế, mọi mất mát đều hoá thành kí ức nhỏ bé đơn sơ. Trên bàn là ly trà, quả chuối, không quà bánh, không nghi thức màu mè, ra về vẫn hẹn nhau gặp lại vào một ngày nào đó dài hơn….

18/12/24

Viết những dòng này, không gì hơn ngoài ghi nhớ về một hôm duyên đến đáng quý trong đời, và cũng muốn chia sẻ với mọi người về dòng tu mang tinh thần đơn sơ nghèo khó

[many-sparrows]

I love you social justice oriented Christians. I love you Gary (my pastor) who presided over gay weddings before they were legally binding and before the church had come to a decision on it. I love you Conrad (old pastor I work with) for getting arrested for protesting the Iraq war and performing a lesbian wedding the minute it became legal for a couple who'd been together for decades. I love you Dr Donald Hertz for your sermons on Acts 20:27 and your life spent living out that verse and for causing trouble when you were still a student assigned to a segregated church in Birmingham and for spontaneously joining a grape boycott picket line outside of a Safeway in Berkeley because that verse says we cannot shrink away from our duty to each other. I love you Martin Luther's common chest. I love you Charles de Foucauld. I love you Oscar Romero. I love you Dorothy Day. I love you for giving me a legacy to carry on.

[flipflopflying]

SOME PIXELLY DRAWINGS OF SAINTS

Francis Solanus, Bibiana, Bernadette, Athanasius of Alexandria, Rita of Cascia, Charles de Foucauld, Rafqa, Pio of Pietrelcina, Moses the Black, Eulalia of Barcelona.

Valentine, Maximilian Kolbe, Clare of Assisi, Devasahayam Pillai, Thomas Aquinas, Dymphna, Faustina Kowalska, Maria Goretti, Quiteria, John the Baptist.

Judas Thaddeus, Teresa of Ávila, Joan of Arc, Óscar Romero, Francis of Assisi, Martín de Porres, Rosa of Lima, Juan Diego Cuāuhtlatoātzin, Kateri Tekakwitha, Catherine of Siena.

[theinwardlight]

I should rejoice not in what I have but in what I lack, in lack of success and in need, for then I have the cross and poverty of Jesus, the most precious possession the earth can give.

Charles de Foucauld, Reflection of December 1902

[justana0kguy]

2024 MAY 09 Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Thursday

"When we love, if the beloved is happy, nothing is missing… our everything is happy, that’s all we need."

~ Saint Charles de Foucauld, Para. 46, psalm 23, Meditations on the Psalms

[angeltreasure]

Prayer of Abandonment

By: Charles de Foucauld

Father,

I abandon myself into your hands;

do with me what you will.

Whatever you may do, I thank you:

I am ready for all, I accept all.

Let only your will be done in me,

and in all your creatures -

I wish no more than this, O Lord.

Into your hands I commend my soul:

I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,

for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,

to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,

and with boundless confidence,

for you are my Father.

[la-inmaculada]

Father,

I abandon myself into your hands;

do with me what you will.

Whatever you may do, I thank you:

I am ready for all, I accept all.

Let only your will be done in me,

and in all your creatures -

I wish no more than this, O Lord.

Into your hands I commend my soul:

I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,

for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,

to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,

and with boundless confidence,

for you are my Father.

Charles de Foucauld

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Charles de Foucauld

1858-1916

Feast Day: December 1

Beatified in 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI

Saint Charles de Foucauld was born into an aristocratic French Catholic family but rejected the faith as a teenager and led a desolate life in the army. He was inspired to resume his faith while in Algeria, by witnessing the devotion of Jews and Muslims. He joined the Trappists, then was a sacristan for the Poor Clares, and in 1901 became a priest. Charles returned to Algeria and lived among the Tuareg people wanting to start a religious order that offered hospitality to all people regardless of their faith.  Charles was shot to death at the beginning of World War I.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)