December 2011
56 posts
“Note to self: don’t wear a cross around your neck if all you’re...”
– Mark Hart (The Bible Geek)
“Once I focused on my faith wonderful things started happening for me. And I...”
– Mark Wahlberg on his Catholic faith
“Did you ever wonder why the stone was rolled away? Surely Jesus didn’t...”
– Jim Beckman
“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical...”
– Pope Paul VI (via askthecatholic)
“Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the...”
– Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Nun Famous For Kissing Elvis Prays For Miracle →
“There should be in us a kind of spiritual paradise where God may walk and be our...”
– Origen: On Prayer (via estovir)
Great New Catholic Tumblr →
So, one of the holiest and all-around best men I know (and whose job I just took over), gots himself a tumblr. Follow away.
“God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.”
– Rabbi Abraham Heschel
“Between man’s purposes in time and God’s purposes in eternity there...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
Stop and let that one sink in for a minute.
Greatest Tumblr Ever? →
Kim Jong Il Looking At Things
“It does not take much time to make a saint. It takes only much love.”
– Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the...”
– Rabbi Abraham Heschel
It’s kind of astonishing how true this is.
A Christmas Break Rule of Life →
Jesus, in all the areas I am so broken, I place them before the foot of you Cross. There, before the icon of brokenness made whole, may they become a path to sanctification - to reliance on you, and healing in you, and love for you.
Sevenly: This Week, Help Restore a War Abducted... →
Pretty sure I’m gonna need to get this week’s tee from Sevenly!
svnly:
This week Sevenly has partnered with The Voice Project. Here is their story: The LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) is one of the most brutal groups on the planet, responsible for abducting over 30,000 children and turning them into child soldiers, raping, maiming and murdering many more in…
Jennifer Fulwiler Explains Her Conversion From... →
An Excerpt: If everything that we call heroism and glory, and all the significance of all great human achievements, can be reduced to some neurons firing in the human brain, then it’s all destined to be extinguished at death. And considering that the entire span of homo sapiens’ existence on earth wouldn’t even amount to a blip on the radar screen of a 5-billion-year-old...
WatchSome amazing facts about the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe!
“Leona Medina, a [17th-century] rabbi, once said very beautifully, if you were...”
– Rabbi David Wolpe
makahanaloa asked: This is necessarily a question. I just wanted to tell you I really enjoy your blog! Thank you for sharing your faith here on Tumblr.
make of it what you will
I just took a crowded metro bus ride from bright and shiny downtown Kansas City, Missouri back to the (truly) ghetto streets of Kansas City, Kansas where I am staying. It was already dark and cold outside, and I took the last available seat next to an African-American man probably pushing 60 years old. Across to us sat a man just the same.
Our conversation started when the man next to me...
“Without any sin, Mary gave birth to Christ the head for the sake of his body. By...”
– Blessed Isaac of Stella
That Awkward Moment When You Say "And also with... →
“If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy...”
– St. Maximilian Kolbe
“In her sinless perfection, Mary is a great sign of hope for the Church and for...”
– Pope Benedict XVI
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, 2011
“I don’t think there is anyone who needs God’s help and grace as much...”
– Blessed Mother Teresa
“Sometimes the most grateful pilgrim is the one whose road has been the rockiest.”
– Fr. James Martin, SJ
From Today's First Reading From Isaiah
They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar as with eagles’ wings; They will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint.
