The noise I just made…
(Source: leanunachriost, via mariaishismiddlename)
View of the Catedral from the torre. (Taken with Instagram at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca)
You see this church? This is la Iglesia de San Nicolás in Madrid, Spain. This is the oldest standing church in Madrid. It is mentioned in a historical document from 1202 AD.
Mass has been happening here for at least 800 years. EIGHT. HUNDRED. YEARS.
Translation: Being Catholic is awesome.
| Stephen: | Did you finish your assignment? |
| Kayla: | yeah mang |
| I basically talked about the Mass | |
| sorry I'm not sorry | |
| Stephen Schumacher: | This is what we call a pattern. |
| Kayla: | P.S. One of the churches I visited is around 900 years old. |
| There has been Mass there for NINE HUNDRED YEARS. | |
| Stephen: | *no big deal face* |
| Or | |
| *whatcha gon do bout it secularists face* |
"So a certain Mr. Olser wrote a wonderful piece for CNN entitled “My Take: The Christian case for gay marriage.” I take mild issue with it. Just to warn ye secular-fantastics, I know the Bible’s all ridiculous and sexist and fake and even if it’s not it’s old and has stuff like violence in it so why bother a discussion about it plus there’s no God. However, this is a conversation that makes the [idiotic] assumption that Sacred Scripture is sacred. So do bear with me."
First paragraph of Bad Catholic’s “The Christian case for gay marriage: The Smackdown.” This is the greatest thing…
I’m on a “Things Catholics Say” roll.
Also, you should join the facebook group if you haven’t already. :)
text convo between Stephen and Jeff
Jeff:
Regina caeli laetare, alleluia!
Quia I woke up at 5 this morning, alleluia!
Resurrexi for some reason, alleluia!
Ora pro somno Deum, Alleluia!
Stephen (several hours later):
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I didn’t read this properly until just now!
Jeff:
And after 4 hours, I think the appropriate response is: “Gaude et laetare for me too because I’m still half asleep, alleluia!”
"I woke up at 5 AM this morning because the dewfall descended upon me like the dewfall."
My friend Jeff, after sleeping outside in a hammock
Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes
La Catedral de Santa María de Toledo
La Catedral de Santa María de Toledo
La Catedral de Santa María de Toledo
A man named Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in a concentration camp.
A man named Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in a concentration camp.
Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar. Born January 8, 1894 as Rajmund Kolbe, he was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1982 for taking a stranger’s place in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
To the Catholic readers, this may not be a surprise, as he is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. The late Pope John Paul II even declared him “The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century.”
During World War II, Kolbe provided shelter to refugees from Greater Poland, including more than 2,000 Jews that he hid from Nazi persecution in his friary. He was also an anti-Nazi radio host during this time. On February 17, 1941, however, he was caught and arrested by the Gestapo.
On May 25, he was moved to Auschwitz. In July of that year, a man from Kolbe’s barracks vanished, in what was believed to be an escape attempt. In order to discourage further attempts, the deputy camp commander picked ten men from the same barracks to be starved to death in Block 13, which was notorious for torture.
One of the chosen men, named Franciszek Gajowniczek, was hysterical over the idea of never seeing his family again. Kolbe took his place. During the starvation time, Kolbe led the men in song and prayer. After an incredible three weeks, Kolbe and three others were still alive.
They were all killed by an injection of carbolic acid. The worst part was that the man who was thought to have escaped was found drowned in the latrine. Gajowniczek survived to be liberated from Auschwitz, though, which means Kolbe’s sacrifice was still worthwhile.
Though his sons had died, Gajowniczek’s wife had survived. He lived with her until her death in 1977. Gajowniczek himself died in 1995.
http://bit.ly/JGMZXb
Yeah, he’s also a FREAKING SAINT. FORGOT TO MENTION THAT DIDN’T YOU, EH?
SAINT.
BIG DEAL.
