invicem sunt

stages

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:58 -0400

stages

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:07:13 -0400

"Pleasures can be provided and pain can be avoided, if we use or abuse other beings. But joy cannot..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:20:31 -0400

“Pleasures can be provided and pain can be avoided, if we use or abuse other beings. But joy cannot be attained and sorrow cannot be overcome in this way. Joy is possible only when we are driven towards things and persons because of what they are and not because of what we can get from them.”

- Paul Tillich (via invisibleforeigner)

"Be great in little things. "

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:40:29 -0400

““Be great in little things. ””

- Francis Xavier (via wendesgray)

white peacock of Isola Bella

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:49:13 -0400

white peacock of Isola Bella

"Reshaping life! People who can say that they have never understood a thing about life—they have..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:47:01 -0400

“Reshaping life! People who can say that they have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”

- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (via chasingtailfeathers)

anovaoo: “He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:44 -0400

anovaoo:

“He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in the Churches, and set upon the Altars, which daily supplies Heavenly Food to the faithful.” -St. Peter Chrysologus

little blue

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:50:36 -0400

little blue

"For a moment Jesus seemed vanquished: darkness had invaded the land, the silence of God was..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:14:08 -0400

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For a moment Jesus seemed vanquished: darkness had invaded the land, the silence of God was complete, hope a seemingly empty word.

Dear brothers and sisters! If Jesus is risen, then – and only then – has something truly new happened, something that changes the state of humanity and the world. Then he, Jesus, is someone in whom we can put absolute trust; we can put our trust not only in his message but in Jesus himself, for the Risen One does not belong to the past, but is present today, alive.

”

- Benedict XVI, Urbi et Orbi Message, Easter 2012 (via quaerere-deum)

that’s how the light gets in

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:05:18 -0400

that’s how the light gets in

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:20:09 -0400

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via whisperry)

"We must now pass through the first veil and approach the second, turning our eyes toward the Holy of..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:40:09 -0400

“We must now pass through the first veil and approach the second, turning our eyes toward the Holy of Holies. I will say more: we must sacrifice ourselves to God, each day and in everything we do, accepting all that happens to us for the sake of the Word, imitating his passion by our sufferings, and honouring his blood by shedding our own. We must be ready to be crucified.”

- St. Gregory Nazianzen (via quaerere-deum)

"A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:20:18 -0400

“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”

- E. B. White’s Manhattan (via explore-blog)

"The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:40:17 -0400

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

”

- In a newly discovered letter by Oscar Wilde

(via explore-blog)

"Every day the body works in the fields of the world, Mending a stone wall Or swinging a sickle..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:24:03 -0400

“

Every day the body works in the fields of the world,
Mending a stone wall
Or swinging a sickle through the tall grass —
The grass of civics, the grass of money —
And every night the body curls around itself
And listens for the soft bells of sleep.

But the heart is restless: it rises
From the body in the middle of the night,
Leaves the trapezoidal bedroom
With its thick pictureless walls
To sit by herself at the kitchen table
And heat some milk in a pan.

And the mind gets up too, puts on a robe
And goes downstairs, lights a cigarette
And opens a book on engineering.
Even the conscience awakens
And roams from room to room in the dark,
Darting away from every mirror like a strange fish.

And the soul is up on the roof
In her nightdress, straddling the ridge,
Singing a song about the wildness of the sea
Until the first rip of pink appears in the sky.
Then they all will return to the sleeping body
The way a flock of birds settles back into a tree,

Resuming their daily colloquy,
Talking to each other or themselves
Even through the heat of the long afternoons.
Which is why the body — the house of voices —
Sometimes puts down its metal tongs, its needle, or its pen,
To stare into the distance,

To listen to all its names being called
Before bending again to its labor.

”

- Billy Collins, “The Night House” (via atomiclanterns)

"I speak beauty into people’s lives as I am told that what I do just does not make it to the top of..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:23:05 -0400

“I speak beauty into people’s lives as I am told that what I do just does not make it to the top of their agendas. I ask them about their children, whose lives exhibit a kind of hunger for beauty and justice. Usually, the person did experience the arts, in the days when the arts were taught in the public schools, when we memorized Shakespeare, or practiced classical music. I met Senators who love Jazz, or Alan Greenspan, who is a jazz musician, or Condi Rice who is an accomplished concert level pianist. I try to remind them to keep that beauty alive in their lives; because in a certain winter days, it may just be the only thing that will keep us alive.”

- Makoto Fujimura, Christian Artist speaking on the importance of beauty (via thecatholicgirl)

mission

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:28 -0400

mission

"On one hand, we like to follow Jesus, but on the other we like to scold people and condemn them. But..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:20:19 -0400

“On one hand, we like to follow Jesus, but on the other we like to scold people and condemn them. But the message of Jesus is one of mercy.”

- Pope Francis I in his Sunday homily (via thedoors-thedoors)

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:40:19 -0400

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

- Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

(via grecianurn)

Come through Mary!!

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:50 -0400

Come through Mary!!