If you would like to ask for prayers or to find people who are asking for prayers, I made a sideblog where I’m planning to reblog every prayer request I come across, and to say a Hail Mary for them every Friday. When I can, I also plan to also include them in my petitions whenever I go to my local monasteries or any church where I can drop my petitions.
Please join me in prayer at @to-light-a-candle 🕯️
Given that Pope Francis's papacy has so emphasized the sacredness of human dignity and the need to fight against the "throw-away culture" that sidelines people once their "usefulness" has ended, I sure hope that everyone speculating about his death, wondering whether he'll resign, or predicting who the next pope will be remembers that the Chair of Saint Peter is occupied by a living, breathing, suffering human being in need of support and prayers right now
I love being in a big city and seeing animals. The mother cat that lives outside my condo, with her litter of kittens. The chubby tomcats that beg for food in the small eateries on the street where my review center is. The puppy of my neighbor, the birds that keep to roofs and power lines. The weird beetle that was somehow able to make its way into our room. And yes, even the rats that are the size of my arm, that somehow manage to live despite it all.
💌 poems for the month of love 💌
i've been off for tumblr for a few months, and so many things have changed in my personal life. i moved to a new city with two friends, i started my formal review for my licensure exam, i broke up with my boyfriend of two years, i got some of the worse results of my life in my pre-board exams, and yet life is beautiful and i would not have things any other way.
aside from the focus that i had to give to my studies, some of the reasons why i logged off tumblr was because i realized that i didn't want to treat my faith like a fandom-- something that i realized that i, personally, was slowly doing. this in no way means that i've been consistent or persistent in prayer. i am in a period of struggle with my faith currently, but nothing irreparable.
i can't believe that my little blog reached so many people while i was gone. my thoughts are all over the place and i seriously doubt that there is anyone that cares about my little life update more than i do, but i am seriously overwhelmed by all of the notifications. despite the challenges that i'm facing now, i'm better than i have ever been-- and that is through the grace of the Lord more than my own competence.
i hope that the sun is shining, wherever you are. i hope that if today wasn't a good day for you, that tomorrow will be better. please pray for me, as i do my best to pray for all of you.
The book of Jonah is such an inspiration, because it teaches two important things:
A. Even though Nineveh was a vile city full of all kinds of evil and corruption, God still gave them a chance, and not just a chance, a fighting chance. He put one of his prophets THROUGH IT to get them a message urging them to repent. He is not willing that any should perish.
B. Even if you are the worst, most spiteful, most malevolent little crybaby God can still use you.
Bastille was right. How am I gonna be an optimist about this. Also right about eh eho eho.
Please never forget that ēheu, what the background chorus is repeating in Pompeii, just means ‘alas’ or ‘oh no’ or perhaps ‘shucks’ in Latin, which is of course the correct response to realizing you’re right next to where a volcano is exploding.
Another typhoon, another prayer request. The Philippines might be having at least one typhoon per month until March 2025, but as of now, the northern regions in the country haven't had a break. There have been back to back typhoons, with the most recent one being Typhoon Nika which displaced 36,000 families. Please keep them in your prayers, and please pray that even if our national government remains ineffective, that at the very least their local government units guide and protects them as well as they can.
no, girl im fine— I’m just crying over the gospel again
Actually this is a gospel sharing post now
