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“With my mouth,’ God says, ‘I kiss my own chosen creation. I uniquely, lovingly, embrace every image I have made out of the earth’s clay. With a fiery spirit I transform it into a body to serve all the world.’”

— Saint Hildegard of Bingen

#hildegard of bingen

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From Psalm 16

#bible #psalms

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Queer people of faith are ripped apart in all directions. But it is in the delicate art of re-seaming these wounds that transcendence abounds.

— The Queer Prophet, Amrou Al-Kadhi. The Book of Queer Prophets, edited by Ruth Hunt.

#amrou al kadhi #lgbt theology

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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey. Photograph by Daniel Ibanez, 2024

#obsessed #daniel ibanez #thomas aquinas

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Our Lady Who Brings Down Walls. Separation wall in Bethlehem, Occupied West Bank, Palestine

#palestine #virgin mary

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“Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

#therese of lisieux #the little way

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Frank Topping, An Impossible God

#frank topping

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Church of the Nativity of Christ, Torhanovychi, Ukraine

#sacred spaces

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“To that of God in you I speak, and do beseech you for the Lord’s sake, to return within, and wait to hear the voice of the Lord there; and waiting there, and keeping close to the Lord, a discerning will grow, that ye may distinguish the voice of the stranger, when ye hear it. Oh! be faithful, be faithful to the Lord.”

— George Fox, Epistle to Friends in 1652

#george fox #threshing

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"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (tr. Emma Craufurd and Mario von der Ruhr)

#simone weil

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Honeycomb covered icons in Altai.

#icons

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“I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.”

— Søren Kierkegaard (via gaze-on-jesus)

#soren kierkegaard #silence

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I have come to believe that all life is holy, for there is nowhere that God is not.

Mary Dee

#o #x #mary dee #all the world #omnipresence

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Women remained with Jesus at the cross, and it is to women, directed by the risen Christ to go and tell the others. If this is not direct ordination, Christian women ask, what could it be?

Mary Faulkner

#o #x #mary faulkner #equality #NOT INTERESTED IN TOMFOOLERLY #DO NOT BE A FOOL ON THIS POST

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@cradlecatholicmom on ig

#shrines

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“So you have pain now, but I’ll see you again, and your hearts will be full of joy, and no one will take your joy from you.”

— John 16:22 (trans. Sarah Ruden)

#bible #gospel of john #sarah ruden's translation

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#nuns #chickens