Libera nos, Salva nos, Justifica nos

Sant’Anastasia al Palatino, Rome.

Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. ~ Collect for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost

I like this description. 

Cyril of Alexandria, On Psalms 113 (115) (ante A.D. 444).

A diagram worth memorizing. For purposes of security, please swallow your phone when you’ve mastered the above.

Frank Sheed, Society and Sanity (via jackiestarsister)

Or in stained glass.

When I look at the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars that you have made; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, children of the earth that you care for them? You have created us a little lower than the angels, and crowned us with glory and honor. ~ Psalm 8:3-5

can’t believe they changed the hollywood sign again

Here are four facts that may surprise you about the Protestant Reformer John Calvin’s view of the Deuterocanon, and might cause you to reconsider your views…

“The Church accepts these latter books also a useful and instructive and in antiquity assigned them for instructive reading not only in homes but also in churches, which is why they have been called “ecclesiastical”. The Church includes these books in a single volume of the Bible together with the canonical books. As a source of the teaching of the faith, the Church puts them in a secondary place and looks on them as an appendix to the canonical books. Certain of them are so close in merit to the Divinely inspired books that, for example, in the 85th Apostolic Canon the three books of Maccabees and the book of Joshua the son of Sirach are numbered together with the canonical books, and concerning all of them together it is said that they are “venerable and holy”. However this means only that they were respected in the ancient Church; but a distinction between the canonical and non-canonical books of the Old Testament has always been maintained in the Church.” - Michael Pomazansky : Orthodox Dogmatic Theology

Here are four facts that may surprise you about the Protestant Reformer John Calvin’s view of the Deuterocanon, and might cause you to reconsider your views…

(this also applies to ex-catholics)

Saint Teresa of Calcutta (via catherine-of-alexandria)

Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, 1445, Rogier Van Der Weyden