This is the 8th Day

What did Jesus actually bring, if not world peace, universal prosperity, and a better world? What has he brought? The answer is very simple: God.... He has brought God, and now we know his face, now we can call upon him. Now we know the path that we human beings have to take in this world. Jesus has brought God and with God the truth about our origin and destiny: faith, hope and love. It is only because of our hardness of heart that we think this is too little. Yes indeed, God's power works quietly in this world, but it is the true and the lasting power. Again and again, God's cause seems to be in its death throes. Yet over and over again it proves to be the thing that truly endures and saves.

Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration

The Baptism of our Lord

 “The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.”  St.Ambrose 

Art by Brick House in the City. Quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

haters will try to convince you that theres only two months left of 2022 but really we are still in 2019 in every way that matters.  2023 means nothing to me

Literally no one in the pro life movement actually believes miscarriage care, ectopic pregnancies, and pregnancy complications are equivalent to abortions. That’s a pro choice fantasy. Here’s proof from the laws themselves:

Credit to Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life

I was born in the late nineteen hundreds

(JRR Tolkien, Letters, 255)

Need a third arm for Anti Death Penalty 

“if your relationship with God isn’t right, no human relationship will fill your emptiness.”

I’m a simple woman, I hear the Pirates of the Caribbean music, I become gripped with the urge to don pirate garb and fight cursed skeletons upon the open sea

In this house, we love and support all Rites of the Catholic Church and not just Roman Rite.

Sexualizing same-sex friendships is just one more way to trick people into thinking that intimate relationships only exist in a romantic/sexual context. And that is a recipe for isolation and hurt and confusion if I’ve ever heard one.

You HAVE to read the whole quote by Lewis. This does sum it up fairly well but he goes on further and its just…gawd its good.