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So I was hanging out at a gay bar and they had one of these hanging on the wall.....*bing*....inspiration!
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A sleek, slender, and discreet chastity set. Can be worn with or without the bra.
Includes a variety of RLV restriction options
Copy/Mod - Can be coloured using the edit tools
For the Maitreya Body
"Chosen lily of innocence, pure St. Thomas,
who kept chaste the robe of baptism,
and became an angel in the flesh after being girded by two angels,
I implore you to commend me to Jesus, the Spotless Lamb,
and to Mary, the Queen of Virgins.
Gentle protector of my purity, ask them that I,
who wear the holy sign of your victory over the flesh,
may also share your purity,
and after imitating you on earth
may, at last, come to be crowned with you among the angels. Amen."
– Prayer to St Thomas Aquinas for Chastity. St Thomas is the patron of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity because he was given the gift of holy purity by God when two angels appeared and girded him with a cord.
28 January is the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, and this year (2023) is the 7th centenary of his canonization. The Dominican Order has declared a 'double jubilee' celebration of St Thomas to run from 28 Jan 2023 until 28 Jan 2025.
Statues from the Rosary Basilica in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Thanks for textures from Neighya and les brumes
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Mesh dress from Ladies Who Lunch
Old pose I had from Lear
Shot at Forgotten City
Psalm 113:10 reads: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; prudent are all who live by it. Your praise endures forever.”
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August 19, 2008, Feastday
of Saint John Eudes (November 14, 1601 - August 19, 1680) was a French missionary and founder of the Eudists and of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity; author of the liturgical worship of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. At the age of fourteen he took a vow of chastity. For a note of his life work, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Eudes
In Mexico, convents of his nuns run six orphanages for female children without parents or to protect them from sexual abuse and other horrors in their biological homes. I was blessed to assist his Reynosa sisters. They and their girls can be found at www.casaamparo.com
That site is dedicated to serving the children and caretakers of Casa Amparo.
Since 1979, Casa Amparo ala Mujer (House of Mercy for Women) has served as a shelter for abandoned girls in Reynosa, Mexico. The shelter is managed by Catholic nuns who have devoted themselves to providing for the physical, spiritual, emotional and educational needs of these children who have nowhere to turn.
Today, the shelter serves close to 100 girls from age 6 to 17. While the shelter is commonly called an orphanage, most of the children have parents. The reasons for their admission vary and are carefully guarded. Many have suffered sexual abuse. However, most of the girls are at the shelter because their fathers have abandoned the family and their mothers consequently have been forced to fend for themselves, often ending up as prostitutes. The nuns of Casa Amparo become legal guardians of these children who are in desperate need of their help. The shelter becomes a safe haven for these girls to stop the cycle of poverty and prostitution that is so rampant in their community.
The girls at Casa Amparo are happy and well cared for, but their standard of living depends on the generosity of donors. The food and accommodations are modest but sufficient. The girls receive clothing as donations are made. Each day, the girls attend traditional school, have assigned chores and are taught life skills. Additionally, the girls work together to operate a store that helps to support them.
Children are accepted into Casa Amparo regardless of their religious preference nor has any child ever been forced to leave. They receive no funding from the Catholic church
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below is from JuandelaCruz | email: sriddle415 @yahoo.com
A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:
Ezekiel 28:1-10
Deuteronomy 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd-36ab
Matthew 19:23-30
For God, All Things Are Possible . . . .
It is difficult for a rich man to get into heaven because he spends his life distracted from what is important. Money becomes his god and he ceases real communion with God. Not always, for Matthew, we can infer, was a wealthy man who returned to the Lord. Joseph of Arimathea is another example. But it is difficult for the wealthy man because of his distraction.
It is easier to go through a low gate on a laden camel, Jesus tells us. (The Eye of the Needle was a low gate in the Jerusalem wall.) But not impossible. And it is not impossible because it does not depend upon our effort. True, we must each of us align ourselves with God's will. We must each learn to live it and share it with all of the world. But our effort is small compared to the great effort of the Cross and resurrection. Our effort is tiny—if we are saved, if we are to enter Heaven, it is through God's work.
And perhaps it would help us to reflect on that, day by day. Salvation is God's work in which even human cooperation is given a divine assist by the Holy Spirit. Salvation isn't something we earn, nor is it something we can take, rather it is wholly a gift of love that radiates out from God Himself. We make it into Heaven, because it is God's will that all should do so. Are some lost? It is certainly possible, perhaps even probable. But God takes every opportunity, looks for every chance to go out and seek the lost and encourage them to come back to His loving embrace.
So do not despair of salvation. It is not your work. God has already accomplished it for you through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We triumph through Him, not through our own efforts, even though it is our will, our choice, to choose triumph over ashes.
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though below I received from zenitenglish@zenit.org
Pope: Friendship With Christ Is Greatest Treasure
Sends Message for Launch of Continental Mission
VATICAN CITY, AUG. 18, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is encouraging the faithful to be missionaries since "there is no greater richness than to enjoy friendship with Christ."
The Pope affirmed this in a message sent to the 3rd American Missionary Congress, held last Tuesday through Sunday in Quito, Ecuador.
The congress gathers more than 3,000 missionaries from 25 countries in the American continent and close to 100 special guests from all five continents. A. U.S. delegation sent 53 people, including three prelates.
At the closing Mass of the congress, the Great Continental Mission was officially launched. The continental mission was called for by the 5th General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, which Benedict XVI opened near the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil in May 2007. The mission aims to bring Catholic communities throughout the continent to evangelize and strengthen their faith.
The Holy Father sent a special envoy to the Quito congress, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
"The most important service we can offer our brothers is the clear and humble proclamation of Jesus Christ," the Pope said in his message.
He stressed the importance of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ as the basis of the witness a missionary must offer "so that the Lord will be better known, loved, followed and praised every day in those blessed lands."
"The present time is a providential occasion, as with simplicity, purity of heart and fidelity, we again hear how Christ reminds us that we are not servants but friends," the Holy Father added. "He has conquered sin and death, grants us his forgiveness daily, teaches us to forgive and calls us to live a life free from egoism that enslaves us, and brimming with love that stretches and dignifies us."
Remaining in love
Benedict XVI affirmed that Christians must offer the personal testimony of their relationship with Jesus Christ and their identification with him.
"He instructs us so that we will remain in his love without being conformed to the dictates of this world," he said. "Thus, with our whole life, with the joy of knowing that we are loved by Jesus, whom we can call brother, we will be valid instruments for him to continue to attract all with the mercy that flows from his cross."
The Pope encouraged: "Drink the vivifying water that flows from the side of the Savior and satiates with its crystalline freshness all those who thirst for justice, peace and truth; those who are submerged in the thick fog of sin or the darkness of violence. Feel the consolation of Christ and offer the balm of his love to the afflicted, those who are weighed down by sorrow or who have remained wounded by the coldness of indifference or the scourge of corruption."
Faithful
Benedict XVI clarified, however, that this witness must be coupled with fidelity to the magisterium and ecclesial communion.
"These challenges call for overcoming individualism and isolation and for a strengthening of the sense of ecclesial belonging and loyal collaboration with pastors, in order to form prayerful, harmonious, fraternal and missionary Christian communities," he said.
The mission of evangelization must be joined to "persevering prayer, fervent meditation on the word of God, obedience to the magisterium of the Church, the dignified celebration of the sacraments and the testimony of fraternal charity," the Pontiff added.
Benedict XVI compared the congress to a "continental cenacle" on which the "powerful force of the Holy Spirit has come, who with his gifts and charisms continues to stimulate the Church in proclaiming the Good News of salvation to every person -- especially those who do not know Christ or, perhaps, have forgotten him -- to the ends of the earth."
Best energies
He encouraged them "to share this treasure with others, as there is no greater richness than to enjoy friendship with Christ and to walk beside him. It is worthwhile to consecrate our best energies to this beautiful endeavor, knowing that divine grace precedes, sustains and accompanies us in its fulfillment."
Christ "goes before us on the path of life and helps us to aspire to holiness, so that the missionary that each one bears within himself will awaken and overcome the hesitation and mediocrity that often assails us," the Holy Father said.
"In face of the difficulties of an often hostile environment, of the lack of immediate and spectacular results […] or of the insufficiency of human means, I urge you not to be overcome by fear, defeated by discouragement or pulled down by inertia," Benedict XVI said. "Remember the words of Jesus, the Good Shepherd: 'In the world you will meet with persecution. But, be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.'"
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Below I found at
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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist Quotes
Born April 26, 1564; Died April 23, 1616
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
What is past is prologue.
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
What's done can't be undone.
I am Proud to be a sissy husband because I know that I am an Inferior male and I am happy to live my life as an Inferior Beta male and Cuckold husband.
Charles is a Pussy-free sissy CharIes and his wife Theresa have not had sex with each other since 2011. Theresa has become a Black cock only whore and Charles is now a gay sissy boi
Whitby, Ontario's emo-rock heroes Chastity are the driving force behind a growing trend in indie rock: a major knack for pop sensibilities. Home Made Satan sounds reminiscent of popular rock bands from the early 2000s, and it seems that this trend has been growing to become the zeitgeist for a lot of indie rock and post-punk this year
Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora. 1444-1497. The Combat of Love and Chastity. Le combat de l'Amour et de la Chasteté. vers 1490.. Londres National Gallery.
RENAISSANCE OU HUMANISME
La "Renaissance" n'est en aucun cas une époque de progrès politique, économique, scientifique ou technique par rapport à la période antérieure, dite du "Moyen Age". C'est un phénomène essentiellement culturel qui ne concerne qu'une toute petite minorité, parmi les élites européennes. L'Europe intellectuelle porte un plus vif intérêt à la culture de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine que dans les siècle précédents. La culture gréco-romaine n'est plus filtrée aussi rigoureusement par la religion catholique. Les valeurs de l'antiquité retrouvent une grande importance. Mais il n'y a pas de lutte, d'affrontement, entre les valeurs de la religion catholique et celles de l'antiquité. Malgré leur incontestable différence, la coexistence est pacifique. C'est ce que démontre l'alternance des tableaux inspirés par la religion catholique et par l'Antiquité. Le terme de Renaissance est idéologiquement orienté. Le seul terme correct historiquement pour désigner cette période est celui d'Humanisme.
The "Renaissance" is not a time of political, economic, scientific or technical progress, from the earlier period, known as the "Middle Ages". Renaissance is essentially a cultural event, which concerns only a small minority among the European elite. The intellectual Europe has a more lively interest in the culture of ancient Greece and Rome as in the previous century. Greco-Roman culture is not as rigorously filtered by the Catholic religion. The values of antiquity found great importance. But there is no struggle, no confrontation, between the values of the Catholic religion and those of antiquity. Despite their undeniable differences, the coexistence is peaceful. This is demonstrated by the alternation of the paintings inspired by the Catholic religion and antiquity. The term "Renaissance" is ideologically oriented. The only historically correct term to describe this period is that of "Humanism".