In your charity please pray for my friends mum who is in hospital with a cerebral haemorrhage

Young people attending the Latin Mass, the Mass of All Ages, the Catholic Mass.

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@joanna-the-disciple

rb with your ethnicity and whether or not you wash rice

Art: Mike Moyers

Please pray for the victims of the terrorist knife attack in/at Notre Dame Cathedral.

They were just praying. 

Kyrie Eleison.

the social norm of “its your ethical responsibility to be constantly aware of, and angry about, every bad thing happening in the world at all times, even if you can’t possibly do anything about it” is possibly the best way I can imagine to create burnout and cynicism and depression in a population, so good job guys

It has been 70 years since the start of the Korean War - and when persecution of Christians in North Korea dramatically started to increase.

Yet, despite seven decades of severe oppression, the underground church has not only survived, but grown.

Defense of Sanity

We can also trace all the Popes back to Peter, so it’s not like there were periods we didn’t have a Pope or that there was a guy 284 years after Peter who just decided that Peter was a Pope and that he should be one too.

Speaking of Apostolic Succession, I’m pretty sure my diocese’s bishop once traced his “priest lineage” all the way back to one of the early disciples (bishop was ordained by another bishop, who ordained by another bishop, who was ordained by another bishop, all the way back to an early disciple 2000 years ago). I can’t remember who the disciple was, but it’s pretty cool he could do that.

Rather than calling it “social distancing,” I prefer to channel my inner Jane Austen.

I am entering my confinement and will no longer receive visitors at home. You may leave a calling card with my manservant.

Satan has been recycling the same 3 lies since the beginning of time. Don't fall for it.

1. You have to do something to prove who you are. (Genesis 3:5, Matthew 4:3)

2. You didn’t hear God correctly/you have the wrong information. (Genesis 3:1, Matthew 4:8-9)

3. There are no consequences to your actions. (Genesis 3:4, Matthew 4:6)

Please pray for the souls of the victims of a mass shooting in Nova Scotia today

Look.

Religious or not, if your relationship could not survive abstinence there needs to be a serious emotional overhaul 

You should see the amount of women after giving birth who are pressured by their significant others to have sex even though it’s recommended to not have sex for 6 weeks!!!!!

People talk about how much they hate Catholics but then run around celebrating Catholic holidays. 😒

I really don’t think enough people realize that to be a Christian and also an artist doesn’t mean that you have to label yourself a “Christian artist”. If you write books you don’t have to write solely, Christian labeled books. If ur a painter you don’t just have to paint Jesus on the cross or the tomb He was laid in.

Your art is already inspired by the great creator. Yes, it should have Christian values behind it but it doesn’t have to be put in that category. It doesn’t even need to have crazy themes behind it like C. S. Lewis’ writing does. You can write stories of redemption and adventure without making the main character into a Christian. You can paint inspired pictures of loss and suffering. You can act in a play that isn’t about God.

God is in every aspect of your life already and you can create so many things in His name. But you don’t have to restrict yourself to only making art that’s explicitly “Christian”. Every single piece of art you make can be made with God in mind and can be made for His glory. Be expressive, talk about your struggles, write about the high points and show people your failures.

Create in His name. He takes unimaginable pride in what His artists create. Because He is the great creator, and He is in everything we do.

Create your own art, no matter what form or genre. And, of course, never be afraid to tell people what inspires you. Essentially, just don’t let yourself be put into a bubble that constricts you from your full creative freedom.

Worship through everything that you create and God will take pride in what you do.

My inherently dark and gothic book that deals with kidnapping, self experimentation, sexual trauma and other heavy topics is also super Christian themes and ideas. The two aren’t mutually exclusive