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Images from the Saint John’s Bible. 

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Madonna and Child, c.1660 -Carlo Maratta-

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by  Vasiliy Poryagin

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“Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

— Philippians 2:5-11 (via eternal-echoes)

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Hellmouth (The Sign of Jonah)

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God is infinitely able to sustain the weak and feeble, And to meet the demands of the needy and poor. Though they wade in deep water, yet by fasting, prayer and watching He will safely, safely lead them to an unbroken shore.

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St Michael by Rebecca Merry

#art #angels

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Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (trans. Barry Windeatt)

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The Church […] sustains a deep conviction that we cannot separate faith from the defense of human dignity, evangelization from the promotion of a dignified life, and spirituality from a commitment to the dignity of every human being.

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, Introduction to Dignitas infinita

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An elderly Palestinian Christian touches the cross during a procession during mass in the Greek Orthodox Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in the West Bank village of Aboud, November 7, 2010. UPI/Debbie Hill

#photos #people

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Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens

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Praying for the dead is an essential expression of the Church as love. We ask God to remember those whom we remember and we remember them because we love them. Praying for them we meet them in Christ who is Love and who, because He is Love, overcomes death which is the ultimate victory of separation and lovelessness. In Christ there is no difference between living and dead because all are alive in Him. He is the Life and that Life is the light of man. Loving Christ, we love all those who are in Him; loving those who are in Hi, we love Christ: this is the law of the Church and the obvious rationale for her of prayer for the dead. It is truly our love in Christ that keeps them alive because it keeps them "in Christ."

--Rev Dr. Alexander Schmemann: Great Lent - Journey to Pascha

#text #jesus #prayer

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Jesus, Vladimir Borovikovsky

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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.

Hildegard of Bingen

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