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You guys I got to pick up my Letter of Recommendation to the Monastery from my spiritual director. I got to read it and what it says 😭🥹!!!!!!!!!!!
Once I approved of it, Father signed it for me and handed it to me! I have it with me. Right after he went around telling everybody there. Literally shaking after Divine Liturgy. And of all days I receive it, on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary!
Place your trust in God! I have done it, I have done it! Jesus, I trust in You! Guide me, Lord!!!
#brb#crying#discernment#vocations#spiritual director#Letter of Recommendation#Catholic#Catholicism#fave
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#spiritualdirection#spiritual development#spiritual direction#spiritual director#spiritual advisor#spiritualguidance#spiritualgrowth#spiritual guidance#spiritual growth#spirituality#burnout#burnout recovery#burnout prevention#poetry#hope#spiritual poetry#spiritual practices#spiritual practitioner#spiritual poem#poem
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Word Of God: Knowing And Spreading
#word of God#spreading#planting#spiritual director#spiritual growth#pope francis#Sunday of the Word of God#chicago#catholicism#practicing catholic#male spirituality#frank j casella#manhood nuggets
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If we’d just go back to saying “Holy Ghost” we’d have like a 75% rise in goth attendance.
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"A Solitary Saint" (0003)
(More of The Communion of Saints Series)
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#ai artwork#ai men#ai generated#ai art community#ai image#ai fashion#gay ai art#fashion illustration#art direction#art director#men's fashion#men's clothing#queer boys#halo#abdominals#gay redhead#red hair#watercolor#watercolor art#black male beauty#black male body#thin man#fashion jewelry#religious imagery#spiritual#homoerotic#homo art#male art#male physique#slender man
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I go into a video call expecting to just get information about a ‘come and see’ retreat and I end up having to speedrun coming out to a strange religious person for the third time in like two weeks.
#tower of babble#catholic#christianity#lgbt#side b#previous coming out this month has been the new spiritual director and the EI coorespondent I meet with also next week#I legit didn’t think it was gonna be a ‘Why are you attracted to religious life and are you looking at other orders?’ kinda meeting#I just wanted to know the days and times because they weren’t on the webbedsite 😭#it’s fine. leading with the ‘finding where I fit in any religious community is complicated because I’m gay’ I think is better than wasting#both our time if I’m not meant to be there. but also. ough.#it’s very clear sometimes I’m the only/first queer side b Catholic these people have ever met#so I have to do side b 101 + here’s My Story + it’s fine if you don’t wanna call me back! god bless! spiel.#this sister is the youngest of all the vocation directors I’ve spoken to so ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯ maybe that’s better maybe that’s worse.#I’ll find out next week if I can come to the retreat I guess ??? that was a little odd I thought it was a sign up and come kinda thing#not a ‘I’ll pray on this and decide for you’ kinda invitation.#edit: ALSJEBDKSEBSKEJA. I TYPW TOO DAMN FAST FOR MY BRAIN. TY ANON FOR POINTING THAT KHT
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The Aftermath (1982)
"What happens when you die?"
"I don't know, son. No one does."
"It's sad to die."
"No. Death isn't sad. We all have to die. What's sad is having to go on without someone you love. Just as we have to go on now."
#the aftermath#1982#video nasty#horror imagery#steve barkett#stanley livingston#post apocalyptic film#horror film#american cinema#lynne margulies#sid haig#christopher barkett#alfie martin#forrest j. ackerman#jim danforth#linda stiegler#laura anne barkett#larry latham#carole scott#nelson ackerman#john w. morgan#incredibly dumb passion project from writer‚ director and star Barkett; he spent years getting this made‚ burning through investors and#deals whilst trying to maintain the integrity of his vision (his silly‚ silly vision). to be clear‚ this is a lot of fun to watch but not#all of that fun is intentional; the back third of this movie contains a shootout so absurdly long‚ so gratuitously violent (and with a#preposterous location change from the desert to some ruined city skyscraper tops) that it beggars belief. likewise Barkett's self insertion#as the Ultimate Action Man Hero who by the end of the film comes to resemble more of a post apocalyptic christlike figure of spiritual#salvation. it's a dumb film is what I'm saying‚ but Sid Haig is there and it all looks unreasonably good and the matte paintings are weirdl#excellent (and the fx are solid too‚ model spaceships aside). ridiculous stuff but made with clear love and self belief#in such a way that it can only end up being endearing. a pleasant surprise in my deep dive into the more obscure nasties#it's been a rough ride recently but a few more brain numbing entries like this and I'll be back on board
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Male Lyran 🦁 starseeds --> cuddly but fierce 💙
Pictured: Jordan Peele, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Health Ledger, Ben Affleck, Mel Gibson, Javier Bardem, Kenya Barris, Cheyenne Jackson.
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Although Dr. Raïna Manuel-Paris Gracia's birthday is on January 9th, today I want to show you the biography I've been collecting these days.
I hope you like the reading because it's very interesting, and who knows if in the future we find more interesting facts about her!!
Enjoy her and also her family members here.
Eleni xxx
#Raina Paris#Gracia Family#Montez Family#honouring the Gracia Family#psychologist#guide#spiritual guide#Dr.#tarot reader#actress#director#filmmaker#producer#speecher
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Tonight, I officially found my spiritual director!
Father J said yes and he said I can call up the church anytime to set up an appointment and talk anytime! I will definitely make an appointment before my first retreat next month.
🥹🙏🏻🩵
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Nonreligious Thoughts on Hope
Content Warning: mental illness, religious upbringing, hopelessness
When I was in the thick of my religious upbringing, I remember feeling very apathetic about hope. It felt like a "pie in the sky" carrot dangled in front of me; a cheap response to the problem of suffering. I felt like the god of my Evangelical Protestant education was saying, "I know I hold all of the cards, and I could either fix everything now or show you the grand plan that will make all of the universe's hardships make complete sense, but I will do neither of those things. I will, however, give you a brain developed enough that you will want both of those things. But here's...um, hope! Go ahead and hope your little heart out that I've got everything under control. Those systemic forms of oppression that could be fixed by both human action and divine intervention? Sprinkle some hope on it! Confronting the entirely excruciating and life-altering reality of death and grief? Fingers crossed it'll feel better after you're dead! Good luck, love you, mean it girlfriend *kiss kiss*!" As someone who neither had the strength of faith to find comfort in this attitude nor the ability to make peace with the problem of evil (more on this in the 1st link in the comments), I was never particularly moved by hope.
1 Corinthians 13, while an unmitigated banger, did not do much to sway me. In verse 13 it is written, "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." Steeped in Evangelical Protestant doctrine, I understood the importance of faith and love. Faith was the magic word you had to utter in order to gain access to the exclusive heaven club, and love felt like an inherently worthwhile enterprise. Hope though? Hope seemed like a less certain version of faith, but perhaps a more honest one. Faith seemed like the surer face one would wear to address the public. If your factory was on fire, and you said to your employees, "We have faith that this will never happen again," that hits differently than, "We hope this doesn't happen again." Faith felt like a more transcendent, spiritual knowing, and hope felt like a gentle consolation. And in Evangelical Protestant Land, calling your spiritual practice a mere consolation and not Truth™ is an unforgivable sin.
As was true about many aspects of Christianity, I was only able to appreciate the value of hope once I had some distance from Christianity. So, for your enjoyment, I have compiled my nonreligious thoughts on hope. I welcome your disagreement.
What is Hope?
Biological Survival. Hope is the drive that keeps a species alive. It is our sustained push to continue being, despite our undulating moods. Cheetahs have hope that they will catch prey (and the prey has hope that it can escape or hide). Parents have hope that they can successfully have and raise a child. Sunflowers have hope that if they face the sun they will receive nourishment. I have hope that if I eat lunch it will give me energy. When I experience symptoms of mental illness, I have hope that I will eventually feel better. Without the pressure of an overarching ontological narrative, it can be easier to see and receive hope as a morally-neutral tool that serves a function. This understanding of hope is comparable to that of desire found in the book of Genesis and as understood by Jesuit theology (more on this in the 2nd link in the comments).
Sometimes Rooted in Capital "B" Belief, but Not Necessarily. Another freedom of a nonreligious approach to hope is that you get to choose what is helpful and discard what is not. In certain belief systems, wherein believing the correct things is more important than virtuous outcomes, hope is nonnegotiable. Moving into a more religiously-nebulous space, however, allows for the freedom to choose between what I will call Absolute Beliefs and functional beliefs. With an Absolute Belief, whatever interaction you have with that belief must be based in the conviction that it is definitely true, and any thought to the contrary dismantles the whole thing. With functional beliefs, there is more room to look at a belief and openly say to it, "Believing in you is helpful and serves a purpose, and if you end up not being true, the benefits will still be there, and that is enough."
Hope Can Hurt. Hope can fuel our survival, and survival can pave the way for our flourishing. However, when the object of our hope is proven false or futile, it can be disastrous. While hope can serve a function whether or not the specific hope is realized, this is not always the case. This frequently occurs in the form of a faith crisis, broken trust, disillusionment with a government, organization, community, cultural norm, or even yourself. When our hope eggs are placed all in one basket (often through no fault of our own), and these things fail us, the results can be devastating.
An Idea for Functional Hope. So if you take a functional approach to hope, how do you cultivate hope in a way that feels genuine? In the face of the heat death of the universe, what good does hope do? Is hopefulness a neutral trait or a virtue? Does maintaining hope cultivate individual and communal morality, or does it just make coping with oblivion easier? Perhaps the key to finding a sustainable object of hope is to find an amendable object of hope. Finding an amendable object of hope could mean finding an object of hope that you respect enough to let it be what it is without forcing it to become something that it is not. This can be tricky for those of us that are used to Absolute objects of Hope, because if we cannot trust our hope object to remain unchanging, how do we have hope in it? And if all our objects of hope are constructed, does this not quickly plunge us into nihilism? Maybe. But even nihilism makes space for joy and life-affirming, lovingly-created meaning. Even hope. So selecting in what to have hope could be just as--if not more--important as having hope at all. But also maybe not.
When Hope is Not Necessary. If there is value in having a living, breathing hope that is open to change and recalibration, perhaps there is value in having more things in which to have hope besides, well, hope. Humanist author Julian Baggini writes, "...when there’s nothing to hope for, there is often nonetheless something to celebrate. And when there’s little or nothing to celebrate, there is something to respect. Sometimes hope just isn’t the thing we should be looking for, but that does not mean in its place has to come despair."
So I think hope is always available to us. And if not, there's still hope.
Thank you for chewing on this with me. I'd love to hear your thoughts on hope in the comments. If you're interested in exploring these questions in a spiritual direction context, schedule a free session through the link in bio. What's spiritual direction? Find out at the 3rd link in the comments.
#spirituality#spiritual direction#spiritual director#spiritual journey#spiritual growth#spiritualgrowth#spiritualguidance#spiritual advice#spiritual advisor#hope#spiritual life#spiritual guidance
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hey guys, please pray for the soul of a very very dear priest friend, he passed away last night(got last rights from his brother, also a priest), his name was Fr. Terrence Gordon if anyone wants to know.
Thanks for the prayers, whoever sees this ♥️
#My heart is kinda broken#we were in correspondence via letter#Neither of us were very good at it but it was really nice#I’d been meaning to send him another letter telling him about what’s been going on now that I’m older#and ask him to be my spiritual director#and I wanted him to be the officiant of my wedding whenever that happens#And I was really hoping to see him again sometime soonish#because I miss him#but now I won’t be able to do any of that ;-;#I guess my one consolation is that if he’s in heaven which I pray he is#I can still tell him all of this#prayer request
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I think in between having medium level body dysmorphic background noise since elementary school and the annoying mouse critic voice in my head doing comparison studies 80% of the time, it's really a step forward that I'm now able to look myself in the mirror and say: okay. Let's start with this: I'm glad I have this body. I'm going to treat it well. I may not like the way it looks at times, but it's mine.
#i realised how deeply this has been needling away at me very recently#because in situations where this has happened i genuinely have no idea what to do with compliments re: my appearance#because some part of me doesn't believe that it's True. on account of mouse critic voice being annoying.#my spiritual director/life coach called me pretty once in passing and i was like ???? alright moving on#and a girl i met recently said the same thing looked at me more closely and said: the more i look at you the prettier i think you are#and i was like ??????? don't know how to deal with that. my brain says you're lying but my eyes see that you're being sincere#anyway it is a step forward that i can be like. okay yeah you know what things are going to be fine. eventually i will like the way i look#but for now i'm going to ACT like i like the way i look.#or at least start with treating my body well instead of regressing into old destructive habits#we are going to eat properly! sleep properly! go out on walks (and not run like a maniac until we're tired all the time!) and enjoy the sun#like! you know what! a win is a win
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As Soon As I Heard This Idea... I Knew It Could Be A Movie - Adam Davis
Watch the video interview on YouTube here
#filmmaking#film#filmmakers on tumblr#cinema#movies#repentance#repent#wealth#screenwriters on tumblr#writers on tumblr#story#witchblr#witch trials#spirituality#afterlife#screenwriting#poor#income inequality#filmblr#directors#independent film#love this movie#movie#paganism#paganblr#mediumship#life after death#free on tubi#tubi#tubi movies
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It's been a year since I first watched BrBa...a year...and I'm feeling it again...
The urge to write 12 paragraph meta on esoteric topics that will get 3 notes....
#brba#breaking bad#i tried to get my spiritual director to do a brba podcast with me#lol#i mean not seriously but IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD#the chuck and jimmy law and morality essay gang#you're not ready for it
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