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Hello, could you please help to spread awarness about the persecution its suffering Catholic Church in Nicaragua for helping the people that has been protesting since last year against the narco-communist regime of Daniel Ortega? They are about to kill priest Roman in Masaya city (they are under siege since last thursday with no water/electricity or any aid) and now the cathedral and 3 more parishes. The communist goons has profaned the cathedral and hit a priest just today. Pray for us urgently

Health of Mothers under Police Siege Deteriorates in a Masaya, Nicaragua Church

HAVANA TIMES – A group of citizens trapped within the San Miguel Archangel Church in Masaya, Nicaragua, currently find themselves dehydrated and with no food. Father Edwin Roman, who suffers from diabetes, has been suffering from fierce headaches due to the lack of food and insulin he needs to control his blood sugar levels.

The Ortega regime’s police have maintained a siege of the church for three straight days, with a police cordon that has closed off a perimeter of 300 meters around the Catholic church.  Electricity and running water were cut off, by government order.  Within the church, the priest is accompanying ten mothers of political prisoners and one female protestor who are on a hunger strike. They’re also accompanied by two released political prisoners, a human rights advocate and one employee of the church.

This is urgent everyone please pray!!

“Patristic literature associates the timing of the Circumcision on the eighth day with the Resurrection. Here the argument rests on the kind of mystical numerology which we no longer take seriously, but it did formerly engage so great minds. The reasoning runs somewhat as follows. Seven is the number of completion and fullness, for the world was created in seven days, and is due to pass through seven ages. But if seven is perfect, then seven-plus-one is pluperfect. Eight, therefore, stands for renewal, regeneration - whence the architectural tradition of eight-sided baptistries. And Christ rose from the dead on the day superseding the Sabbath, on the eight day; just as the world’s seven ages will be followed in the eighth age by the General Resurrection. These notions attach themselves almost from the beginning to all theological meditation on Christ’s circumcision. From St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is the sense of the mystery that the Circumcision on the eighth day prefigures Christ’s Resurrection, and thereby, implicitly, the resurrection of all.”

— Leo Steinberg (The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, page 52). On the next page he quotes Bede, “[It is] our true and complete circumcision, when, on the day of judgment, all souls having put off the corruption of the flesh … we will enter the forecourt of the heavenly kingdom to behold forever the face of the Creator. This is prefigured by the circumcision of the little ones in the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.”

Catholic Aesthetics

Irish Catholic: Green vestments, Celtic crosses, St Patrick, Old stone monastery's, Friars

Mexican Catholic: Our Lady of Guadeloupe, rosaries, Spanish bibles, baptisms

Roman Catholic: Gold chalices, Nuns, Sistine Chapel, Swiss Gaurds, Latin Masses

Polish Catholic: Priests in black, St Faustina, Divine Mercy Paintings, Confessionals

Eastern Catholic: Icons, stained windows, cool hats

The upper half of a skeleton without the skull. Pen and ink drawing.

Even the Wikipedia page on the Catholic relationship with abortion notes that most pro-choice Catholics are those who barely/never attend Mass, while most pro-life Catholics are the ones who regularly show up.

As Christians it is actually our duty to be joyful. We have been commanded unto joy. This is not an impossible ask, for no cross can crush the joy of Christ, not even depression, grief, or sorrow. The joy of the Lord flourishes mysteriously, simultaneously, in the midst of such joy-blackholes; for when our own joy has disippated, God's Joy finally has full room to settle. God does not command the impossible, and so it is only fair that we ask not for Joy like timid slaves, but command it as a right as sons, as daughters of God. Yes, in Christ we possess this right, but only by faith can we claim it, and by the cross can we live it. Let the world have its joy, and we will have ours. Maybe out of envy they will seek out this Christ, this Joy of ours.

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Andromeda over Nashville, if it were bright enough to see with the naked eye [OC]

What were astronauts like when they first returned from outer space? Nurse Dee O'Hara: ‘They have something, a sort of wild look, I would say, as if they had fallen in love with a mystery up there, sort of as if they haven’t got their feet back on the ground, as if they regret having come back to us… a rage at having come back to earth. As if up there they’re not only freed from weight, from the force of gravity, but from desires, affections, passions, ambitions, from the body. Did you know that for months John [Glenn] and Wally [Schirra] and Scott [Carpenter] went around looking at the sky? You could speak to them and they didn’t answer, you could touch them on the shoulder and they didn’t notice; their only contact with the world was a dazed, absent, happy smile. They smiled at everything and everybody, and they were always tripping over things. They kept tripping over things because they never had their eyes on the ground.’

Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (via m-l-rio)