It is not enough to say you love God. You must obey Him as well.
“You can’t question science” is the literal opposite of what science is, and does.
some of y’all aren’t genuflecting??
You’re telling me God has come down to see you and you refuse to greet Him? You think it’s acceptable to ignore the Uncaused Cause, the Good and the Truth, because it’s not ‘modern’ enough? Because others might stare at you? That’s God. Genuflect.
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Idk how you can go like "wow humans can only see 1% of the light spectrum and only hear 1% of audio tones were missing out on so much!" And then go "God doesnt exist because we cant test for it in a lab"
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It's even better when you point out that all of human knowledge is based upon human perception which is both narrow and fundamentally incorrect. By our own logic the universe should not exist, but it does in spite of that and rather then taking that knowledge and expanding their horizons they attempt to view the universe through the eye of a needle.
Sad!
“may this great plague pass by me and my friends, and restore us once more to joy and gladness”
Feeling a powerful kinship with this scribe from 1350 today.
OTD (Christmas Eve), 670 years ago
[Image transcript: … manuscript. For example, page 36 gives the text a definite fourteenth-century date and a Mac Aodhagáin provenance to this manuscript:
It is one thousand three hundred and fifty years tonight since Jesus Christ was born, and in the second year after the coming of the plague to Ireland was this written and I myself am full twenty one years old… and let every reader and let every reader in pity recite a ‘pater’ for my soul. It is Christmas Eve tonight. and under the protection of the King of Heaven and earth I am on this Eve tonight. May the end of my life be holy and may this great plague pass by me and my friends, and restore us once more to joy and gladness. Amen. Pater Noster. Aed, Mac Concubair mac Gilla na Naem, Mic Duinnslebe Mic Aodhagáin wrote this on his father’s book, the year of the great plague.
The following year he wrote on the top of the same page:
It is just a year tonight since I wrote the lines on the margin below; and, if it be God’s will, may I reach the anniversary of this night many times. Amen. Pater Noster
Translation by R.I. Best.]
Advent Hymns
Because “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” IS beautiful but also there are other seasonal hymns, guys, and they’re so good! So I’m throwing together a list of the ones I know.
(the links below go to audio recordings with text & translations alongside–and sheet music, in most cases.)
Alma Redemptoris Mater The Marian antiphon for the Advent & Christmas season (making it a rare case of Christmas music we are not only allowed but encouraged to be already singing). Like all the Marian antiphons, it’s lovely. The way the “A-a-a-a-alma” gently climbs at the beginning? It soars, but softly.
Solemn tone Alma Redemptoris Mater The same thing, but fancier. When you want to go all-out with the Marian hymn of the season.
Conditor alme A short, sweet, and simple hymn to Christ, centered around his coming in the Nativity. Six verses but only a couple minutes. It flows.
Rorate caeli I’ve recommended this one before and I will again. It’s long by chant hymn standards–4 or 5 minutes–but beautiful. Four long verses of pleading for Christ’s coming, followed by reassurance, and with “drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One” as the refrain. The highs and the lows and the desolation and the consolation… (I do recommend reading the translation as you listen, though, because one of my favorite things about it is how well the music matches the meaning.)
“Do this in remembrance of me.”
1933 First Communion Keepsake.
For those that can go to mass, adoration, holy communion and confession – be thankful! and pray for those that are being denied such privileges …
Im not religious but my mom wanted me to do a painting of la Virgen de Guadalupe, to put it up in the living room to replace an old one that we had, sooooo yeah. I won’t say I’m completely proud if it, but i don’t think it looks that bad :) .
We have a narrative in the US of one side trying to save us from Big Government and the other side trying to save us from Big Business but in fact we have both Big Government and Big Business working together to systematically dismantle the family.
