With the cherry blossoms’ ephemeral beauty immortalized in art and literature for centuries, there’s plenty of artworks to gaze upon on rainy days.
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A Harvard astrophysicist, Dr. Willie Soon, claims that a mathematical formula provides evidence for God’s existence. Speaking on the Tucker Carlson Network, Dr. Soon referenced the “fine-tuning argument,” which suggests the universe’s physical laws are precisely calibrated for life, making it unlikely this occurred by chance. He highlighted the asymmetry between matter and antimatter as evidence of intentional design. After the Big Bang, matter and antimatter formed together, but the universe now has far less antimatter. If they were equal, they would annihilate each other, leaving nothing behind. This imbalance, Dr. Soon argues, points to a designed universe. Dr Soon…
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In Japan, seniors are embracing beauty routines through Shiseido’s makeup courses, as the country’s ageing population becomes a key market for fashion and wellness.
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One of the four virgin martyrs celebrated in the Catholic calendar of saints, Saint Agatha was arrested during the persecution of Decius in 251. Tortured for her beauty and tempted to violate her chastity, Agatha was eventually martyred.
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The Anima Christi of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, January 04, 2025 #Pray
Soul of Jesus,
Sanctify me.
Blood of Jesus,
Wash me,
Passion of Jesus,
Comfort me.
Wounds of Jesus,
Hide me.
Heart of Jesus,
Receive me.
Spirit of Jesus,
Enliven me.
Goodness of Jesus,
Pardon me.
Beauty of Jesus,
Draw me.
Humility of Jesus,
Humble me.
Peace of Jesus,
Pacify me.
Love of Jesus,
Inflame me.
Kingdom of Jesus,
Come to me.
Grace of Jesus,
Replenish me.
Mercy of Jesus,
Pity me. …
Each year between mid-November and April, winter sports fans from around the world flock to Japan for the country’s renowned powder snow. Aussie snowboarders, in particular, have made Niseko in Hokkaido and Hakuba in Nagano their winter homes, escaping the hot summers Down Under.
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Look around you…this room could use a little more decoration or maybe some flowers to spruce it up. Nobody can live in a millennial gray apartment with no windows and maintain their happiness; it’s unnatural. We as humans need beauty in our field of vision, and what better way to see beauty constantly than to make your environment to your liking? You can’t always control where you live or how nice your house is on the outside, but you can control what you put in your home and what you throw away. Even a little accent wall or a nice framed poster on the wall can take space to the next level.
If you like the way your room looks already, maybe you’re the thing that needs sprucing up. If you are down in the dumps and need a picker-upper, these memes will give you a makeover powered solely by laughs.
Saint Gregory Nazianzen paid a huge price for his faith. In conflict with the Emperor Valens, who defended the Arians, Saint Gregory worked hard to defend the Catholic faith.
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I came to You late, O Beauty so ancient and new. I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside where I rushed about wildly searching for You like some monster loose in Your beautiful world. You were with me but I was not with You. You called me, You shouted to me, You wrapped me in Your Splendour, You broke past my deafness, You bathed me in Your Light, You sent my blindness reeling. You gave out such a delightful fragrance and I drew it in and came breathing hard after You. I …
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According to the “Legend of St. Catherine,” Catherine of Alexandria was instrumental in the conversion of 50 pagan philosophers as well as over 200 soldiers and royal family members.
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Mary Renault (pseudonym of Eileen Mary Challans) was a British lesbian writer best known for her widely read historical-fiction novels set in ancient Greece.
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In an age of rapid technological progress, with artificial intelligence (AI) integrating deeply into nearly every aspect of daily life, scientists are beginning to explore its profound implications for humanity’s future. A new study by researcher Robert C. Brooks sheds light on how our interactions with AI may be influencing the evolutionary trajectory of our species. Brooks’s research, published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, challenges dramatic, dystopian narratives of humanity being overtaken by machines. Instead, he proposes a subtler but equally profound scenario: the gradual transformation of human nature through the natural mechanisms of evolution. The study draws parallels…
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On a cold winter night in 1941, Nazi soldiers entered the grand halls of the Catherine Palace near Leningrad, Russia, and laid their hands on a treasure that had once been described as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” Within just a few days, they dismantled one of the most extraordinary creations of Baroque art: the Amber Room, a dazzling space lined with panels made entirely of amber, embellished with gold leaf, and inlaid with mirrors and semi-precious stones. As they packed the precious panels into crates and shipped them off to Königsberg, no one could have imagined that the…
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This millennial was a self-taught computer whiz, defender of bullied students, soccer enthusiast, and deeply devoted to the Eucharist—all this in a life cut short by leukemia at the age of 15.
Read MoreMany parents would say that they would do anything to protect their child from the cruelties that the world can inflict. The problem is that what they identify as bad and how they deal with it varies wildly from person to person. Add to this the fact that an increasing number of moms and dads like to share their parenting journey on social media, and it’s basically a guaranteed recipe for controversy.
The latest hot-button topic to get everybody debating was one mom sharing how she had decided to wax her daughter’s unibrow at the age of 3 after feeling traumatized by her parents not doing the same for her when she was a child. While some understood where she was coming from, others felt she was unfairly passing down her insecurities to her daughter. It is not always easy to understand where to draw the line with parenting neuroses.
If the anointing which we bear come not from the Lord of Hosts, we are deceivers, since only in prayer can we obtain it. Let us continue instant, constant, fervent in supplication. Let your fleece lie on the thrashing-floor of supplication till it is wet with the dew of heaven. Charles Spurgeon And let the […]
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Andrew Holleran (pseud.) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer and a significant contributor to post-Stonewall literature. He was a member of the Violet Quill, a group of gay writers who assembled in the early 1980s to critique each other’s work and to develop strategies to overcome corporate publishers’ reluctance to publish gay-themed novels. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division collects the works of the Violet Quill writers, including Andrew Holleran, and holds the first editions of their works in the Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection.
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Learn about Sebastian Gryphius, one of the most celebrated printers of sixteenth century Lyon, and about the books printed by him which are held by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Gryphius printed Latin textbooks and works by humanist authors and was instrumental in divulging the ideas of the renaissance to Lyon and France.
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A member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, Saint Rose of Lima lived a life of penance and devotion to the poor at home under the disapproving eyes of her parents.
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Jane Frances de Chantal was a wife and the mother of six. When her husband was killed, Saint Jane Frances took a vow not to remarry and sought to join a religious community. She was dissuaded by her spiritual director, Saint Francis de Sales.
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A readsing from the Book of Jeremiah JER 13:1-11
The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do…
Saint Catherine of Alexandria – Martyred by being broken on the wheel. – In the Style of all circles using Neon Blue Color
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