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magicaloxford · 8 months

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Inside medieval St. Cross Church, which is now an archive for Balliol College and closed to the public. Several fantasy writers, including members of the famous Inklings, are buried in the St. Cross churchyard.

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ourladyoflightleak · 10 months

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dramoor · 3 months

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Basilica di Sant' Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

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#Christian art #Churches #Basilica of St. Ambrose #travel #Milan Italy #Lord Jesus Christ #cross #angels #photography #photographers on tumblr #Savior

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vox-anglosphere · 2 years

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Altarnun is one of those Cornish villages too timeless to be real

#Altarnun #Cornwall #English villages #Church of St Nonna #UK #parish church #village cross #timeless #rural britain

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portraitsofsaints · 1 year

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Saint John of the Cross Doctor of the Church 1542-1591 Feast day: December 14 (New) November 24 (Trad) Patronage: contemplative life, contemplatives

Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic priest, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation. He suffered many hardships of life in his youth. He boarded at a school for the poor where he felt the call of a religious vocation. In 1563, he joined the Carmelites and in 1567 he befriended St.Teresa of Avila. They both worked to reform the lax Carmelite order to a more strict, prayerful, and simpler order. (the Discalced Carmelites) There were major disagreements and the Carmelites even incarcerated St. John for disobedience. During imprisonment, John wrote some of his deepest spiritual poetry and contemplations, which is why he is a Doctor of the Church. St. John of the Cross died of a skin infection.

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momentsbeforemass · 7 months

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Daily

“Take up your cross daily and follow me.”

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear that? Good Friday. With a bloodied, beaten Jesus carrying His cross to His impending death.

It sounds like a call to be like Jesus in a moment of great crisis – when martyrdom stands clearly before us. Where the choice is to deny Christ or to be killed, like St. Andrew Kim Taegon and his companions (today’s saints).

The first clue that I’ve got it wrong? The word, “daily.” Why?

Good Friday is a one-time thing. The martyrdom of St. Andrew Kim Taegon and his companions? It’s not something that I can do again tomorrow.

But “taking up the cross” is something Jesus wants you and I to do daily, so that we can be free to follow Him. So that we can be free to become who God made us to be.

So, what is Jesus is talking about? What is this “cross?”

It varies from person to person and from day to day. Because the things that try to get between us and God are different. And they change.

What makes this hard is that the things that come between us and God? It’s not just the obvious stuff, like the 10 Commandments or denying Christ to avoid being killed. Because you and I are vulnerable to just about anything getting between us and God.

From things we like, to things we don’t like, to things that don’t really matter, and even the general busyness of life. Our cross, our struggle?

As St. Basil puts it, our struggle is with “the obstacles springing from the habits of life.”

The things that are rushing at us as we start a random Wednesday is September. That’s the level that we’re working on here.

So here’s the plan, and it comes from C.S. Lewis,

It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.

And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.

If we want the freedom that comes from following Jesus. If we want the joy that comes with being who God made us to be. If we want to be ready for the more obvious stuff.

Then this is what we need to do, and it’s why Jesus is telling us to do it daily.

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thepastisalreadywritten · 4 months

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Castle Combe; often named as the ‘Prettiest Village in England.'

Castle Combe, a medieval village and civil parish within Cotswolds area of outstanding natural beauty in Wiltshire, England.

The village has a rich history and the houses are made up of the honey coloured Cotswold stone, typical for a village of this area.

The village takes its name from a castle built on the hill to the north of the village in the 12th century AD, of which little now remains except earthworks.

No new homes have been built in the historic area since 1600s AD.

During the Middle Ages, the village, along with much of the Cotswolds, enjoyed prosperity due to the growth of a thriving wool industry.

Within Castle Combe, you’ll find a Market Cross and St Andrew’s Church, which dates from the 13th century AD.

The church houses a faceless clock, which is reputed to be one of oldest working clocks in the country.

Numerous weavers’ cottages were erected from local stone, and these ancient honey-hued buildings remain one of the village’s standout features today.

The village was known in particular for manufacturing a red and white cloth known as ‘Castlecombe,’ which was renowned in the markets of Bristol, Cirencester, as well as London and abroad.

In 1440 AD, King Henry VI granted Castle Combe the right to hold a weekly market, with unmistakable Market Cross monument still standing proudly today.

Castle Combe strictly banned all modern attachments such as TV dishes and external wires to the exterior of its houses, restrictions that have been instrumental in helping the historic village to maintain its authentic appearance.

As a result, the village has become a popular location for film crews, with productions including the 1967 filmed musical Doctor Dolittle, Stardust, and The Wolf Man were all shot within the village.

Castle Combe was a key filming location for Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse.

To recreate a 1914 setting, the village’s tarmac through-road was closed and covered with a temporary muddy surface.

Its modern street lamps, signage, and post boxes were either covered or removed altogether. Its white window frames were repainted with more muted colours.

📷 : Credit to the Owner

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stjohncapistrano67 · 4 months

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#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #traditional catholic saints #traditional catholic saints qoutes #traditional catholic saints images #traditional catholic saints writers #st. john of the cross #carmelite order #carmelite friar #carmelite saints #traditional catholic father's and doctors of the church

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catholicsaintquotes33ad · 1 year

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Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life.

St. Leo The Great

Ora Pro Nobis

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vulpinesaint · 1 year

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so glad i was raised catholic. i don't know what i would do with myself if i was raised protestant. try and appropriate catholic iconography and feel really bad about it probably.

#i think ab that post making fun of american christians for talking ab stained glass etc. when they went to church in an office blng 24/7 #like. damn. can you imagine getting fucked up over a religion you learned while sitting in a folding chair #protestants i will make fun of you but you are/were so brave for getting through that 😭#well. actually. did y'all still have to kneel. cause Fuck having to kneel in a pew #those mfers ask you to kneel and leave you there for Months until they let you back up again #the real sacrifice in christ's name was my fucking knees #thank god my church's kneelers were fairly well padded.#for the record though i went to a church with stained glass nd a baptismal font nd everything it was really pretty actually #and a water feature running across the whole church's grounds alongside the stations of the cross...#not to doxx myself. but st. gregory the great was a good church (aesthetically) for being in socal dkjghf #valentine notes #catholic tag

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muirneach · 2 years

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neil called isabella street “proud isabella” cause it’s in church-wellesley. hashtag gay pride

#church-wellesley ofc being thee gaybourhood #not jackie shane coming on as i type this 😭 toronto gays stay winning ig #anyways. guy that talks about ambulance blues a normal amount (lie)#i also will not stop taking neil out of yorkville and putting him in church-wellesley instead #music #csny #okay time for another on the beach listen i think (guy that is always listening to on the beach)#also i just crossed by isabella st and saw an ambulance

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ourladyoflightleak · 10 months

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dramoor · 5 months

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Three relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Relic of St. Therese of Lisieux, Relic of St. John of the Cross.

St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, Winter Park, Florida

#Relics #churches #saints #St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church #Winter Park FL #travel #photography #photographers on tumblr #veneration #St. Therese of Lisieux #St. John of the Cross #St. Margaret Mary Alacoque #crucifix #Lord Jesus Christ #Christian #architecture

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nolemaestro · 2 months

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(via "Hospitaller Knights" Active T-Shirt for Sale by crusaderknight1)

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jontycrane · 4 months

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Split

The second largest city in Croatia, Split offers a wonderful mix of the old and the new, and is a good base for exploring the region. The heart of the tourist part of the city is the old town, which has grown from Diocletian’s Palace, built for the Roman emperor of the same name, in the 4th century. He was well known for his persecution of Christians, who got their revenge in the fifth century…

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#Bacvice Beach #Church and Convent of St. Francis #Church of the Holy Cross #Croatia #Croatian Maritime Museum #Diocletian’s Palace #Klis Fortress #Perlica #photography #Saint Domnius Cathedral #Salona #Split #Split Archaeological Museum in Split #Split Ethnographic Museum #St. Nicholas Church #the Riva #travel

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momentsbeforemass · 1 year

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The path

“Every one of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”

That’s how Jesus winds up today’s Gospel. And it generates a lot of questions.

Does that mean that I can’t own anything? Do I have to give everything away? Are only monks and nuns and friars going to be saved?

St. John of the Cross (a Carmelite friar and today’s saint) would say no. For a couple of reasons.

First, there is no single, cookie-cutter approach to living the Faith. Compare John’s quiet contemplation to the boundless energy of Teresa of Avila to the all-consuming love of Therese of Lisieux. A quick glance at just those three Carmelite saints reveals radically different people answering God’s call to holiness.

Why is that? As St. John of the Cross tells us, “God leads every soul by a separate path.”

God is not calling you to be John of the Cross or Teresa of Avila or Therese of Lisieux. God is calling you to be who He created you to be. That is your path.

Second, renouncing your possessions isn’t about your wealth. It’s about your path.

That is, all of us need to renounce our possessions. You and I need to take them off the throne. Along anything else that wants to be on throne – whether it’s money or power or reputation or ego.

Or anything that’s desperate to scramble onto the throne so that it can get between us and God. That is what you and I need to renounce.

To do that, you and I may need to literally get rid of our possessions. If that’s what it takes to keep our possessions from getting between us and God, then that’s what we need to do.

Because that’s the point of renouncing possessions, or anything else. To take it off the throne in our hearts. So that we can make room for the One who that throne was made for.

Because it’s only when we keep that throne in our hearts for the One that it was made for. It’s only when we keep God at the center (and everything else off the throne) that we will ever know peace, that we will ever become who God made us to be.

The simple but hard recipe for doing that? St. John of the Cross tells us,

“Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.”

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#Renounce #Path #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Living the Faith #Relationship with God #Getting between you and God #St. John of the Cross #Moments Before Mass

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