Au Regard de Notre-Dame

disgruntled-and-catholic: Life Tip: If someone starts un-ironically quoting Theology of the Body at...

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:32:53 -0500

Life Tip: If someone starts un-ironically quoting Theology of the Body at you, run.

"The best prayer is to rest in the goodness of God, knowing that that goodness can reach down to our..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:30:27 -0500

“The best prayer is to rest in the goodness of God, knowing that that goodness can reach down to our lowest depths of need.”

- Julian of Norwich (via bethmaynard)

Clemence was starting the fire in the fireplace for the first time ever and I (the girl who grew up in Northern America) was helping

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:13:59 -0500

Clemence: Ok it's usually my little brother who does it and he can do it in a minute.
Me: It's no problem; I used to help my dad start the fires when I was a kid all the time.
Her mom: well, your brother stopped doing it for a while and was angry and kept yelling "WHY DO I HAVE TO START A FIRE EVERY DAY? THIS IS NOT THE 17th CENTURY."

"be chivalrous as your Father is chivalrous, and guide his daughters to the kingdom."

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:30:00 -0500

“be chivalrous as your Father is chivalrous, and guide his daughters to the kingdom.”

- ~~Jesus~~ (via lenalot)

"You never listen to any of my advice but for God’s sake, Nunnery, LISTEN TO MY ADVICE THIS..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:41:11 -0500

“You never listen to any of my advice but for God’s sake, Nunnery, LISTEN TO MY ADVICE THIS TIME”

- My best friend, S, is giving me life lessons via skype

Hey everybody, just received a 20/20 on my press dossier on...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:54:15 -0500

Hey everybody, just received a 20/20 on my press dossier on L’etat, le mariage pour tous, et l’Eglise Catholique, otherwise known as “thoughts of a bitter ex-catholic”

this is my only grade in the entire class, and as celebration I bought myself a pain au chocolat and it was freshly made and it was warm

here's a thought

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:41:30 -0500

lenalot:

why not consecrate yourself to idk

JESUS?

Ramblings of an Impatient Mystic: So you know what scares me the most about becoming a nun? Not possibly...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:03:46 -0500

Ramblings of an Impatient Mystic: So you know what scares me the most about becoming a nun? Not possibly...:

faithinseeds:

So you know what scares me the most about becoming a nun? Not possibly being sent to another country to live in the daughter house. Not chastity or poverty, but the vow of obedience. That and having to learn New Testament Greek. I do not do well with languages, and somehow managed to pick…

It’s the vow of obedience that is the hardest, according to all the sisters I’ve talked to. It was the one that scared me the most. Complete obedience is something I ended up not being able to do. Then I got sick so no convent for me and left the RCC so fin bref but the sisters still tell me obedience, not poverty, not chastity, is the hardest. They still struggle with it—and most of them are 40+ years into their vows.

ravingoctopodes: Here’s looking at you, Cardinal Dolan.

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:59:46 -0500

ravingoctopodes:

Here’s looking at you, Cardinal Dolan.

I was reading this article about some crazy disease that has cropped up in France (mers or mars or...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:11:00 -0500

I was reading this article about some crazy disease that has cropped up in France (mers or mars or something, it’s the cousin of sars) and then another one about the flu in China and I was reminded of the H1N1 flu.

So I was in high school and the state was giving us free vaccinations and because my family believes in all the vaccinations I got one. However, I have issues with shots and I was the last one of my entire school to get one, so after an hour of watching everyone get jabbed, I was a fucking mess and then I got the shot and then my blood pressure dropped (like it always does) and I had a panic attack

and that is how I ended up sitting on the bleachers with a crazy gym teacher who held me for quite a while as I just sobbed and shook.

I didn’t get the flu, though.

ETA: the reason I was the last person to get the shot was because the principal called us by homeroom and she forgot that the Tri-M music honors society homeroom existed. We were in the basement and so were often forgotten about.

Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:17:47 -0500

Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage :

shortbreadsh:

vomohiper:

Mr Venner, a presenter on a Catholic-traditionalust radio station and controversial historian and essayist, posted an essay on his website earlier in the day calling for “new, spectacular and symbolic actions to shake us out of our sleep, to jolt anaesthetised minds and to reawaken memory of our origins”. His long essay was a tirade against gay marriage but also a warning that the “population of France and Europe” was going to be “replaced” and brought under “Islamist control” and “sharia law”.

good riddance

how dare he do that in a church, in notre dame. ugh this is revolting, imagine how traumatized those people are?

the church will probably look the other way on the suicide and canonize him as a martyr.

Ew. This is so revolting. I feel sick.

He’s very close to the anti-mariage pour tous folks in France and was part of some really crazy right wing groups here. His essays, if anyone wants to read them, are full of “n’importe quoi.”

It’s absolutely insane and sick and disgusting

lord-kitschener: “Father, forgive me, for I have been problematic.”

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:09:36 -0500

lord-kitschener:

“Father, forgive me, for I have been problematic.”

One School's Catholic Teaching

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:00 -0500

One School's Catholic Teaching:

With just the briefest acknowledgement of her life partner, Carla Hale lost the job she’d loved for more than 18 years.

And at a kitchen table here in central Ohio, a typically cheerful woman dabbed her eyes and wondered aloud what she’d done wrong.

The answer is in one sense simple: she made a life with another woman. While the Catholic Church doesn’t condemn homosexuality per se, it considers any physical expression of it sinful. And Carla’s “public declaration of an extramarital relationship,” meaning the obituary, indicated that she was flouting Catholic tenets and thus breaching her contract, according to a statement the diocese e-mailed me.

But things get complicated when you consider the selectiveness of the church’s outrage, the capriciousness of its mercy.

Until public exposure shamed them, many church leaders protected priests whose sexual transgressions involved minors and were criminal.

Church leaders tolerate teachers at Catholic schools who are married with no kids or with few. Some are surely using artificial birth control, which the church officially opposes.

“A lot of people want me to be bitter and go after the Catholic Church,” she said, adding that others want to cast her as a lesbian heroine. She just wants her job back, a recognition, she said, “that I’m a moral individual who happens to be gay.”

Just spent an hour and a half with this american girl who has a name (Sabrina) trying to help her...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:15:03 -0500

Just spent an hour and a half with this american girl who has a name (Sabrina) trying to help her get a taxi for tomorrow morning at 5am and jesus lord was it complicated because again she speaks no French etc.

We ended up using Clemence’s phone and the three of us were sitting in a circle on the floor and Sabrina asked how much we thought a taxi would cost and I had no idea and so I asked Clemence and she told me in French and I thought I totally translated but instead I just repeated it in French

This is what happens when you only write in English and speak in English only about 3-4 times a week and are constantly surrounded by French

not that I mind but good Lord

Luke 12: 1-3

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:59:11 -0500

shortbreadsh:

Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered in thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.

The american girl walked in here for the fourth time in an hour and asked if I could translate a...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:59:01 -0500

The american girl walked in here for the fourth time in an hour and asked if I could translate a conversation at some point today between her and Mother Superior (who is not Sr Annie and who i’ve never met before great) and Clemence didn’t even realize she’d walked in because she had her headphones in so she turned around and saw me talking and saw this girl and was a bit shocked

This kid also didn’t know how to put a box together, asked us if we had a scale (why would we have a scale this is basically like a dorm but a convent + dorm so noooo) and then tried to give us Irish Spring soap.

it’s all very strange

It’s been raining for four days and Clemence and I have been sewing and studying for the past...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:02:51 -0500

It’s been raining for four days and Clemence and I have been sewing and studying for the past four days.

It’s supposed to keep raining for the next four days

Catholic Church Whistle-Blowers Join Forces on Abuse

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:38:00 -0500

Catholic Church Whistle-Blowers Join Forces on Abuse:

A group of priests and nuns calling themselves the Catholic Whistleblowers has organized in an effort to stop sexual predators in the church and to push for enforcement of zero-tolerance policies.

“I’m in this for justice and mercy and truth and compassion.”

I bought two heirloom tomatoes today for the equivalent of $10 and was wondering why the hell they...

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:11:57 -0500

I bought two heirloom tomatoes today for the equivalent of $10 and was wondering why the hell they were so expensive and it was because they are GIANT and weigh more than a kg and can last me 4 lunches.

Since I can’t drink alcohol because it would slow the nerves in my brain down so much that it would cause me to stop breathing or something, I think buying these monster tomatoes and feta cheese was a good way to celebrate the end of exams

"The archdiocese is committed to take every effort to safeguard children."

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:08:16 -0500

“The archdiocese is committed to take every effort to safeguard children.”

- Jim Goodness, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark, here

What a fucking liar.

You mean Archbishop Myers, who allowed this child abuser to actively minister, was taking every effort to safeguard children? You mean Monsignor John Doran, who agreed to not allow Rev. Fugee to minister to minors, was taking every effort to safeguard children? You mean the Newark Review Board, who had at their disposal Rev. Fugee’s confession, courtroom proceedings, and victim testimony yet still allowed him to be an active minister, were taking every effort to safeguard children? You mean you, Jim Goodness, who defended Rev. Fugee’s actions and said he did nothing wrong, were just taking every effort to safeguard children?

This is offensive to Catholics everywhere. More and more the laity are gaining education on how the hierarchy works, and blatantly lying and pretending you’re innocent isn’t calming the masses anymore. We know better. We’re smarter than this.

O God, come to our assistance. O Lord, make haste to help us.

(via disgruntled-and-catholic)