#St Thomas church

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unholy activities <3

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"This book is a clarion call to the Western Church to point back to Jesus as the centre of the gathering of His people." - Steve M. Download, "An Ancient Worship Movement" free ebook here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXYQ5241/

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One of our Imperial Viscount Landaulette wedding cars outside St Thomas church in Upholland

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st thomas church

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about the church St. Thomas Church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, is a beautiful and historic place of worship that has been serving the community for over 150 years. The church’s architecture is a blend of Gothic and Victorian styles, featuring tall spires, pointed arches, and intricate stone carvings. One of the most striking features of the church is its beautiful stained glass windows, which were…

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St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor Angelicus

Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian. To think he was set to become a Benedictine abbot, instead he joined the unlikely poor friars of the Dominicans to become part of the radical mission in preaching the word of Christ.

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I was not as familiar with this St. Thomas back then, but now knowing a lot more, I'm becoming so fond of him and his life.

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Photo by Sandy Miller, Saint Thomas Apostle Catholic Church, Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, IL

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St. Thomas the Apostle Church is a historic site at 5472 S. Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park, Chicago. A Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago, it was built in 1922 and opened in 1925. The church was designed by Barry Byrne, who was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and incorporated elements from Wright's Prairie School of design and from the modernist movement. Byrne had previously built the convent at St. Thomas Apostle in 1919.

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you know what if I were a peasant during the middle ages hearing this I wouldn’t even think twice about repenting. say what you will about the medieval catholic church but they did have some bangin acoustics

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Not fit to hate

People ask where I get the stuff that I write about.

I pray with the daily Mass readings. Then I read commentaries. Mostly InterVarsity’s “Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture.”

The series gives you a few sentences to a paragraph on each verse. That someone wrote during the first 500+ years of the Church.

Maybe from someone famous, or someone not so famous. Sometimes nobody knows who wrote it. But always the good stuff, stuff that’s stood the test of time.

Like this one, on today’s Gospel (where Jesus says to “love your enemies”). It’s an anonymous work* from the 5th century, that reads like it was written this morning.

“I think that Christ ordered these things [to love our enemies] not so much for our enemies as for us: not because our enemies are fit to be loved by others, but because we are not fit to hate anyone.

For hatred is the prodigy of dark places. Wherever it resides, it sullies the beauty of sound sense.

Therefore, not only does Christ order us to love our enemies for the sake of cherishing them, but also for the sake of driving away from ourselves what is bad for us.

If you hate [your enemy], you have hurt yourself more in spirit than you have hurt him in the flesh.

Perhaps you don’t harm him at all by hating him. But you surely tear yourself apart. If then you are benevolent to an enemy, you have spared yourself rather than him.”

(* Known as the Incomplete Work on Matthew, St. Thomas Aquinas was so fond of it that he once said that he would rather have the complete work than be mayor of Paris.)

Today’s Readings

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St. Thomas a Becket Church, Fairfield, Romney Marsh, England, 1980 - by Fay Godwin (1931 - 2005), English

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(via One Minute Reflection – 5 November – “They shall see God.” – Matthew 5:8 – AnaStpaul)

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The Gilded Age Season 2 First Look

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#OTD in 1916 – Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford are married in the chapel of Kilmainham Gaol the night before he was to be executed for his part in the Easter Rising.

Grace was the second youngest of twelve children. Her sisters, Nellie and Muriel, were also avid nationalists as well as converts to Catholicism. Muriel married Thomas MacDonagh, who was executed in Kilmainham earlier on the day Grace married Joe Plunkett. It was said of the Gifford girls: “whenever those vivacious girls entered a gloomy Sinn Féin room, they turned it into a flower garden”. Fr…

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aug 16, '23: st. thomas cathedral, bombay//

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it's a bit hard to identify name trends as such in the past, but the first half of the 1500s definitely had a thomas surge, right? there were so many fucking thomases