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You're in her DMs

I have her blocked

You will understand in time

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“If Christ had not come to earth, art would be tragedy or comedy, but there wouldn’t be drama.

Truly, what Christ leaves us is a drama: the possibility of redemption but also of ruin, saving or damning yourself; being able to conquer your weakness, your inclination to evil, through grace and the sacraments. This demands drama, and Catholic art is drama […]

[Leonardo] Castellani mocked those who . . . expect that in a Catholic book everyone should be very good, everyone should be converted, everyone should be a martyr, everyone should confess Christ until the end… And he said that Christ is not an Attila, converting everyone wherever he goes. Redemption is something else. Redemption takes the human person, it doesn’t make man into a robot. The person is a range of infinite possibilities, and a truly Catholic art has to show that, it cannot show only martyrs . . .”

— Juan Manuel de Prada [transl. mine]

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#yeah probably

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«Léon Bloy decía que la única manera de vencer la tristeza es dejar de amarla. Pero el hombre parece hoy seguir aferrado a sus ubres podridas.

Tal vez porque lo sabía, quiso Cristo dedicar cuarenta días, casi una segunda vida, a explicar a los suyos ese camino del gozo por el que tanto les costaba penetrar. Un duro y exultante aprendizaje. No podía Jesús resignarse a la idea de que los hombres, tras su muerte—misión cumplida—lo jubilasen y lo encerrasen en su cielo, tal vez con una pensión por los servicios prestados. No bastaba, pues, con resucitar.

Había que meter la resurrección por los ojos y las manos de los suyos. Y habría que hacerlo con la obstinación de un maestro que repite y repite la lección a un grupo de alumnos cazurros. ¡Ah, cuánto le cuesta al hombre aprender que es feliz! ¡Qué tercamente se aferra a sus tristezas! ¡Qué difícil le resulta aprender que su Dios es infinitamente mejor de lo que se imagina!

Eso—la terquedad de Dios luchando con la torpeza de los hombres—fueron aquellos gozosos cuarenta días que regaló a los suyos.

Cuarenta días que resultaron bastante más que una propina para los amigos, ya que en ellos Dios mostró su verdadero rostro y actuó como el poeta que era. Tenía que empezar por sacarles de su aturdimiento, de su desesperanza. Debía sumergirles, primero, en la inquietud y la interrogación. Para ayudarles, al fin, a entender los trasfondos de todo lo que en los tres años anteriores habían vivido a su lado.»

— José Luis Martin Descalzo: Vida y misterio de Jesús de Nazaret, III. La cruz y la gloria

#José Luis Martín descalzo #the romance of orthodoxy #pascua #Easter

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Just because I'm catholic and don't post gore and porn doesn't mean I'm normal.

#text

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I’m actually really fun once you get to know me (takes 3-4 years).

#text

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So sick of having a darkened intellect, weakened will, and disordered passions.

#big oof

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“Another fall, and what a fall! Must you give up hope? No. Humble yourself and, through Mary, your Mother, have recourse to the merciful Love of Jesus. A miserere, and lift up your heart! And now begin again.”

— St. Josemaría Escrivá: The Way, n. 711

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Anyway, at least the new dance moves came out a little bit better tonight than last night.

#not enough to my satisfaction. but. idk

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It’s a combination of our current digital “moment” and the fact that we get most trends some time after the “rest of the world” (meaning mostly the US). I don’t think some years ago there were this many (Spanish speaking) accounts and people online promoting some version of the Theology of the Body (from what I see, it seems this has been more of a thing for longer in other countries). But then you get the cross section of that type of account with instagram “content creators”.

I don’t know if I want relationship advice from a Catholic “influencer”.

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I don’t know if I want relationship advice from a Catholic “influencer”.

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“The more truly we can see life as a fairy-tale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the Dragon who is wasting fairyland.”

— G.K. Chesterton: The New Jerusalem

#happy feast of St. George! #and happy book day! #g.k. chesterton #the romance of orthodoxy #life

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via Catholic Memes

#catholic memes #😭 #es broma pero si quieres no es broma

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“He’s a slut, your honor” - Foggy Nelson about Matt Murdock in a courtroom probably

Marvel’s Daredevil | S01xE01, Into the Ring

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«Mientras tanto, mis años van transcurriendo entre gemidos; y Tú, mi Padre y mi consuelo, eres Eterno. Yo me he desbaratado en tiempos cuyo orden desconozco, y en tumultuosas vicisitudes se desgarran mis pensamientos en la médula de mi alma; y así será hasta que fluya yo en Ti, purificado y fundido por el Fuego de tu Amor».

— San Agustín: Confesiones

#san agustín #st. augustine #the romance of orthodoxy