February 2012
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:/ whenever i talk about the things i like that happen to be from Africa someone appears in my inbox telling me i’m appropriating and then yeah self-loathing and confusion for several hours afterward i don’t know what to do or say to fix this?!?! i just like these things? aaaaah no i don’t mean to be at all this is really distressing
one of my main campaigns in life is to maybe...
being the person who has the room that people hang out in:
pros—you are never alone
cons—you are never alone
there have been at fewest three and at most nine other people in here constantly since six o’clock
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Anonymous asked: Your blog. The best. So good makes me write in incomplete sentences out of sheer awe.
“Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For verily it is the most joy...”
– Revelations of Divine Love (I, vii) Julian of Norwich
I’M GOING TO BE A PARENT *godparent
of brian-from-church, who is a former-mormon-future-anglo-catholic
he’s being baptized on easter and is now a catechumen but wait he is actually like at least six years older than me
what
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“To what, in such a manner, do you my Christian bow,
When you, O my Christian,...”
– St. Nikolai Velimirovich, The Prologue of Ohrid (via kenosis-theosis)
oh man whenever i talk to brian-from-church we just get progressively more and more snobby about ~high church~ stuff in contrast with mainstream episcopalianism and we really should stop because we’re awful
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“lover I smashed my glass slipper to build a stained glass window for every wall...”
– Andrea Gibson, from Maybe I Need You (via cartographe)
hey i saw andrea gibson when she came to risd to do spoken word stuff a few months ago
i don’t even like spoken word a lot and i like andrea gibson so
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man someone had better stop me from buying the My Synaxarion orthodox colouring books
upon second thought, no, don’t stop me
when you read patristic texts and every so often they address you as ‘Beloved’?
and you just feel really—i don’t know—warm and immediate and it’s like a little shock because suddenly they’re speaking directly to you and i know the greek word for ‘beloved’ now; i can read it and write it and say it and this makes this all the more tangible
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my fried just texted me this and i was like what and then i was like oh
i am the thurifer and i am in charge of all the fire in church: wielder of the secret flame
lighting the altar candles is really hard they are really high up my hair is always going to smell like incense from now until forever
fr. alexander said today’s service was flawless which is weird because the number of people in the altar party directly corresponds to the number of mistakes which...
~entire day is just uncomfortable interval between morning prayer and evening mass~
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“‘Yet even now,’ says the Lord, ‘return to me with all your heart, with fasting,...”
– Joel 2:12-14 (via kenosis-theosis)
i am so emotionally fragile today that reading this made me cry
just a delicate thin layer of substance holding back a lot of quivery feelings what is the matter with me
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after some serious reflection for lent i’m um:
-not eating meat -or dessert -or pastries -not complaining incessantly about why is greek so hard -not being so mean to kyle and daniel
and going to daily mass at least four times a week and praying the stations of the cross on fridays
and i put it on tumblr so now it is everyone’s obligation to enforce this even though i have no idea...
dear tumblr
really endre
the law
kormosendre:
i hope i don’t have to remind you that if you go to an ash wednesday service you are OBLIGED to post pictures of yourselves with the imposed ashes
it’s the law
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Collect for Ash Wednesday
kormosendre:
Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing that you have made and forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may receive from you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and...
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the moon is her war chariot—death and destruction at her command
hear my decree
true love like price tamino and pamina in mozart’s magic flute
“You keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts...”
– Is 26 (via quaerere-deum)
~bursting into tears over nonsensical stuff like a thirteen year old~
like i’m shedding tears right now over a children’s audiobook about vivaldi and how he used to be a priest and got too sick to conduct mass and was alone and unhappy until he found music
actually crying about it
why can’t i be at carnival in venice not now but maybe in the mid-1600s st. mark’s square—the drawing room of all europe! cavorting and wearing masks and on the canals in a giled gondola throwing eggs filled with perfume at the venetian men i find beautiful
i am dangerously close to commencing my lenten devotions by giving myself a stick’n’poke jerusalem cross tattoo now that i know how easy is to do
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“Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and
The winter sun creeps by...”
– T.S. Eliot, “A Song for Simeon” (via invisibleforeigner)
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