Details from Garofalo’s Annunciation (1481)

prayers for an important job interview this afternoon please

Not to sound like a boomer here but I feel like I see so many people isolating themselves and spending HOURS and HOURS glued to social media like tiktok and just really rotting away. My friends will send me the most hyper niche TikToks like “how to align your spirit with your intentions” and I just shake them and be like “by getting off your phone and touching grass”. And I’ve done it too! Spent 8+ hours watching short clips of bullshit and ads and it’s draining and depressing. Being outside and disconnected for even short periods has been tremendously helpful for my mental health.

We were not meant to consume meaninglessly like this for hours on end day after day. We are social creatures and we need social interactions. Our brains literally degrade faster in isolation. An isolated person that is glued to their phone is the perfect consumer and it’s almost criminal at this point just how much it’s robbing us. Our social lives, our grasps to reality, our communities, and our physical and mental health.

something true and beautiful. please

i rejoice to see dead worms on the sidewalk because that means there were once live worms there. does anyone understand a single thing i’m saying

getting gas when everything goes right feels like you’re flying through adulthood on the wings of ease and getting gas when one thing goes wrong feels like public humiliation

Ask yourselves, young people, about the love of Christ. Acknowledge His voice resounding in the temple of your heart. Return His bright and penetrating glance which opens the paths of your life to the horizons of the Church’s mission. It is a taxing mission, today more than ever, to teach men the truth about themselves, about their end, their destiny, and to show faithful souls the unspeakable riches of the love of Christ. Do not be afraid of the radicalness of His demands, because Jesus, who loved us first, is prepared to give Himself to you, as well as asking of you. If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

Fight.

how to tell a close friend you wish they'd stop phrasing their silly tumblr posts like they're trying to win an award for prose

Just remember that it is not changing the world that brings souls to Christ, but bringing souls to Christ that changes the world.

"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33)

we have got to start gatekeeping poetry

praying pre-coffee and literally heard myself go "but not Your will but mine be done" HELP

The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.

Hildegard of Bingen

when a mutual reblogs something from me and tags “prev” my heart overflows with joy and peace and love .