Well I Meant To Reblog The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader Post To My Main But This Works Too Lol. God's Claws

ah, the rosary, the stim toy full of jesus

Dan Hillier (British, b. 1973, Oxford, England) - Ground (based around the figure from an 1880s Steel Engraving by J. Rogers), 2020, Screenprint

I hope and pray that one day we will not feel torn between our queerness and our faith. That the generations after us will scoff in disbelief when we tell them what used to be preached from the pulpit. That young queer kids will grow up knowing they are whole, that they are loved, that they are exactly who they were meant to be.

There were many theories in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages about the connection between the mind and body. Most Christians agreed that the body was a needy creature whose bottomless appetite for food, sex, and comfort held back the mind from what mattered most. That didn't mean that the body must be rejected, only that it needed tough love. For all monks and nuns, since the very start of monasticism in the 4th century, this meant a moderate diet and no sex. Many of them also added regular manual labor to the regimen. They found it easier to concentrate when their bodies were moving, whether they were baking or farming or weaving.

Jamie Kreiner (How to Reduce Digital Distractions: Advice from Medieval Monks)

detail of The Vale of Rest, by John Everett Millais, oil on canvas, 1858.

Father Joseph, pray for us

Jesus is coming, but while we wait for him you know what you can do?

Punch a nazi.

am i important to god? why? i am not anything grand

the clay of your flesh is still warm from where his fingers met to shape you

How do I be cool like Jesus Christ

Be kind

Daily mortification ideas, please add up

- When you get up to get a cup of water, always ask if anyone else in the room wants water too

- When you finish eating, look for people in the table who have also finished and discretly go wash their dishes / put their dish away / trow away their wrappers etc

- Routinely ask people who are happy to be useful to help you in small, effortless tasks. Specially small kids or older folk, even if it would be quicker to do it all by yourself

- When there's plenty of things to carry, pick the heaviest you can carry before other people notice

- When dividing tasks, pick the one the others like the least

- Take notes in class in a way people next to you can steal a glance (I started doing this when I sat near some kid with dyslexia, but it can help anyone if your handwriting is better than the teacher's, or if you're more organized)

- When eating something good, give the last piece to someone who also likes it in a way that's hard to refuse, eg "here, saved it for you" (it's important that it be the last piece, because that's the hardest to let go)

- Purposefully eat bits of food you dislike

- Say good things about other people behind their backs

- Don't refuse compliments, we all know that it'll only make people compliment you more. Smile, say thank you, and carry on to another topic