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… presentation of Mary into the temple. Read more

… for malta monday. Read more

… at the ravenous efficiency in which young boys can clean out a pantry. Murillo, Boys Eating a Melon. Read more

… The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate itself from the secular corpus of northeastern Greece. For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ. [read full National Geographic article] Read more

… after continual defeats in Papist Scrabble I might finally have a chance to crush the Digital Hairshirt in a rousing game of MassWePray. tip to Mr. Flavius. Read more

… by Serbian artist Uroš Predić. for a fellow slavophile. Read more

… by Mikail Abakumov Read more

… hell, why not just fill the fonts with Purell and bless that? I draw the line at automatic communion chalice dispensers. Read more

Saints Romanus and Barulas, by Francisco de Zurbarán. Saint Romanus, who was from Antioch, lived during the reign of Maximian. He presented himself before Asclepiades the Eparch, and rebuked him, saying, “The idols are not gods; even a little child could tell you that.” Then the Saint asked that a child be brought in from the market, that he might be the judge of the matter at hand. Therefore, when the child was asked, “Which God must we worship?” he... Read more