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"Not, when you get your act together.
Not, when you feel noble.
Not, when you find a specific vocation.
Not, after you've chased all the gloom away.
Just let it shine. Because the light is already there. Inside of you. Now. " - Terry Hershey
HBM! I took a brisk 30 minute walk to get a few photos today in my Bay Shores Area. Most of the wind had died down, but it was cold and bleak.
Stay safe, thanks for visiting. #BeKind
"Raymond of Penyafort (near Barcelona in Catalonia) lived for a century, and he gave half of his life to the Dominicans, joining as what we’d term a ‘late vocation’ at the age of 47. By then he was already a celebrated professor of canon law at Bologna University, and many more vocations followed in his wake. One of Raymond’s first projects was to co-found the Order of Our Lady of Ransom, which set about to redeem Christians enslaved by the Muslims. And this idea of liberation is central to Raymond’s life and mission.
Because he is most noted by the Church for two accomplishments. Firstly, for his redaction and compilation of church law in 1234 called the ‘Decretals’, a monumental work which was used for the next 700 years as a basis for canon law. Thus, he is patron of canon lawyers. But he is also remembered for a work intended as an aid for priests hearing confession, and Raymond was so respected as a confessor that he was both confessor to the pope, and the king of Spain. Confession, we know, of course, to be a work of God’s mercy and liberation; in this sacrament we experience Christ’s redemption of us, freeing us from our slavery to sin and the devil.
Although we may not think it, the exercise of canon law is also a work of liberation. Why? Because canon law has one great aim, which is to foster the salvation of souls, i.e, to facilitate our redemption in Christ. The law of the Church, then, is the structure - the bones - on which we can build the edifice - the flesh - of our Christian lives. The law orders the ways in which we Catholics live and work together in our common mission of making Christ and his redemption known. And if we keep this in mind always, then law is liberating, and enables us, as the Body of Christ, to be a communion of love."
- from my Homily for today's feast of St Raymond of Penyafort (7 Jan).
Detail from an altarpiece in the Dominican priory in Krakow.
See you soon! I'm on vacation! Enjoy my work with the eyes of the soul!
Ate breve! Estou de Ferias! Aprecie meu trabalho com os olhos da alma!
See you soon! I'm on vacation! Enjoy my work with the eyes of the soul!
Ate breve! Estou de Ferias! Aprecie meu trabalho com os olhos da alma!
Hey sweets! As some of u know my account was hacked :( After reporting my account is on hold. So I decided to take vocations. This week i won't be in SL so if u have some questions or u are my sponsor/manager send me notecards in SL or IMs in flickr messages. Have a nice days♥
Sponsorship invites coming as NC to SL<3
I were completely pampered every moment of my stay, bathed in sunshine & warm sea waters. Batteries fully charged!!!
Lil teaser from my #instagram
Oh do you think I'm joking now? Here comes little cherubic Cupid with his cute little nappies and a quiver of heart shaped arrows ready to spread love all around. Well I've upgraded my armoury to handfuls of burning love and something a little more modest. The only quivering on display will be from you people when I get down there.
Don't think I can't see what's happening around here. Some silly bugger has been monetising this whole love thing and putting a little bow on it and painting it read and selling hearts that might really be an upside down arse or could it be an ample bosom either way when I find the individual and rip out their still beating heart they'll finally see that the real heart does not share the same arse shaped contours. It's a lot more red and squishy too.
I'm not having some besuited toilet biscuit stealing my thunder here and making a large number of pennies out of what for me is a vocation. If someone is going to control the love lives of the populace it's not going to be someone sat behind a desk trying to work out which photo of a pug is adorable enough to stick on a pillow so someone is going to buy and go here I love you enough to buy you an ugly dog pillow but at least when you're lying on it it means you can't see it staring at you.
It's going to be a massacre in chocolate and greetings card.
I'm coming for all of you.
s006, 7182 HartAlpen, Heiligenkreuz, 1885., Stift Heiligenkreuz, Closter Heiligen Creyz, Santa Crux, Opatija Svetog Križa,
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„Stift Heiligenkreuz“, which means the „Abbey of Heiligenkreuz“, is a beautiful and living Cistercian monastery, close to Vienna, the capital of Austria. Stift Heiligenkreuz is the second-oldest Cistercian monastery in the world and the oldest continuously active and inhabited one, now full of young vocations. In September 2007 it was blessed by an official visit by Pope Benedict XVI.
Stift Heiligenkreuz, peacefully situated in the middle of the „Wienerwald“, the Vienna woods, is one of the most beautiful medieval monasteries in the world. It was founded in 1133 by St. Leopold III of the House of Babenberg. Leopold’s son, Otto, had been sent to Paris for an international education. Otto came in contact with Cistercian monks and soon decided to enter a Cistercian monastery. When Otto visited his father in Austria he asked him to build a similar monastery for Lower Austria. This was the reason St. Leopold built Heiligenkreuz as well as Klosterneuburg to the northwest of Vienna.
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Hartlleben's Illustrirter Führer No. 22 Alpen Handbuch für Touristen and Alpinisten Dieses Werk is für sämtliche Eisenbahnrouten im osterreichichischen Alpen-gebiet der neueste Reise - und Gebirgsführer Illustrirter Führer im osterreichichischen Alpen-gebiet mit Besonderer Beruckichtingung der Eisenbahnlinien und der von ihnenaus durchzuführenden Hochtouren mit 130 Illustrationenund 13 kartenWien. Pest. Leipzig. A. Hartlleben's verlag 1885. 5012 HartAlpen Alle rechte vorbehalten.
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Opatija Heiligenkreuz (njem. Stift Heiligenkreuz, Closter Heiligen Creyz ili Santa Crux; što znači „Opatija Svetog Križa”) je cistercitski samostan u mjestu Heiligenkreuz u južnom dijelu Bečke šume (Wienerwald), oko 13 km sjeverno-zapadno od Badena u Donjoj Austriji. Iako su ju opljačkali Osmanlije u 17. stoljeću, a cisterciti doživjeli progon nacista (1938.-1945.), nikad nije bila uništena ili raspuštena. Osnovana 1131. god., opatija Heiligenkreuz je najstariji kontinuirano okupirani cistercitski samostan na svijetu.
Opatiju Heiligenkreuz je 1133. godine osnovao Sveti Leopold, markgrof Austrije, na savjet svog sina Otta. Naime, sveti Leopold je poslao svoga sina na studij u Pariz gdje je mladi princ čuo o novom reformskom pokretu benediktinaca, cistercitskom redu. Na povratku u Austriju Otta su posjetili cisterciti iz opatije u Morimondu, koje je toliko zavolio da je tamo otišao biti redovnikom. Kasnije je uvjerio svog oca da osnuje cistercitski samostan u Austriji: Heiligenkreuz. Danas u njemu radi oko 80 monaha, od kojih polovica živi u samostanu, 14 u bratskom samostanu osnovanom 1988. god. u Bochum-Stiepelu (Njemačka), a ostali u obližnjim župama.
Samo nekoliko samostana u Europi mogu pratiti svoju redovničku tradiciju od 12. stoljeća do naših dana, te posjeduju odgovarajuće objekte koji su ujedno i funkcionalni i reprezentativni. Heiligenkreuz je izvanredan primjer kontinuiteta kroz stilove romanike, gotike i baroka. Samostanski prostori tipičnih odlika srednjovjekovnog cistercitskog samostana impresivno predstavljaju povijest arhitekture i razvoja konstrukcija od srednjeg vijeka do primjera svih kasnijih stilova. Također, izvorna samostanska funkcija se u potpunosti zadržala, odnosno srednjovjekovne zgrade samostana se još uvijek koriste u prvotne namjene, a time su i na odgovarajući način sačuvane. One ilustriraju punu duhovnu dimenziju, ali i povijesni, umjetnički i kulturni značaj takvog mjesta. Srednjovjekovni dijelovi samostanskog kompleksa (crkva, samostan, stambene zgrade) koji su od izuzetnog značaja za povijest arhitekture su između ostalog i vrhunski primjeri srednjovjekovnih dekoracija od stakla, raskošnog baroknog uređenja interijera i namještaja, a također imaju i veliku knjižnicu s prikupljenim blagom. Heiligenkreuz je sinonim monaške tradicije i odgovornog očuvanja povijesne baštine.
Zbog toga je Austrija nominirala opatiju Heiligenkreuz za upis na UNESCO-v popis mjesta svjetske baštine u Europi još 1994. godine.
Heiligenkreuz je također dom za Priesterseminar Leopoldinum (bivši Collegium Rudolphinum), teološki fakultet za muškarce koji se pripremaju za svećeništvo.
Mass said for men travelling to the Vocations Weekend from 5-7 February 2016. The Mass was said in the Lourdes chapel of the National Shrine by Fr Benedict Croell OP, Vocations Director of the St Joseph Province.
See you soon! I'm on vacation! Enjoy my work with the eyes of the soul!
Ate breve! Estou de Ferias! Aprecie meu trabalho com os olhos da alma!
"Aerial Vocation"
Badge of the air force school on the drift of a Morane Saulnier MS 733 ALCYON. This great military school trains the young officers of the Air Force, some of them pilots who have passed the entrance examination at Salon de Provence.
Insigne de l'école de l'air sur la dérive d'un Morane Saulnier MS 733 ALCYON. Cette grande école militaire forme les jeunes officiers de l'armée de l'air dont une partie d'élèves pilotes ayant réussis au concours d'entrée à Salon de Provence.
Journées Portes Ouvertes à l'aérodrome de Vesoul-Frotey (Bourgogne/Franche-Comté 2017)
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"St Ephrem the Syrian, who was born into a Christian family in Nisibis in about 306 A.D. He was Christianity's most important Syriac-speaking representative and uniquely succeeded in reconciling the vocations of theologian and poet. He was educated and grew up beside James, Bishop of Nisibis (303-338), and with him founded the theological school in his city. He was ordained a deacon and was intensely active in local Christian community life until 363, the year when Nisibis fell into Persian hands. Ephrem then emigrated to Edessa, where he continued his activity as a preacher. He died in this city in 373, a victim of the disease he contracted while caring for those infected with the plague. It is not known for certain whether he was a monk, but we can be sure in any case that he remained a deacon throughout his life and embraced virginity and poverty. Thus, the common and fundamental Christian identity appears in the specificity of his own cultural expression: faith, hope - the hope which makes it possible to live poor and chaste in this world, placing every expectation in the Lord - and lastly, charity, to the point of giving his life through nursing those sick with the plague.
St Ephrem has left us an important theological inheritance. His substantial opus can be divided into four categories: works written in ordinary prose (his polemic works or biblical commentaries); works written in poetic prose; homilies in verse; and lastly, hymns, undoubtedly Ephrem's most abundant production. He is a rich and interesting author in many ways, but especially from the theological point of view. It is the fact that theology and poetry converge in his work which makes it so special. If we desire to approach his doctrine, we must insist on this from the outset: namely, on the fact that he produces theology in poetical form. Poetry enabled him to deepen his theological reflection through paradoxes and images. At the same time, his theology became liturgy, became music; indeed, he was a great composer, a musician. Theology, reflection on the faith, poetry, song and praise of God go together; and it is precisely in this liturgical character that the divine truth emerges clearly in Ephrem's theology. In his search for God, in his theological activity, he employed the way of paradoxes and symbols. He made ample use of contrasting images because they served to emphasize the mystery of God."
– Pope Benedict XVI.
Today, 9 June, is the feast of St Ephrem the Syrian, who is also called the "Harp of the Holy Spirit."
Stone relief of St Ephrem from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC.