Christian F. Casper
@cfcasper.bsky.social
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
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St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
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Christian F. Casper
@cfcasper.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Dec 12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe
Beneath her mantle and her banner
All those vast lands are warmed,
But what we seek in them must be
First by her love transformed.
And so, Diego's cloak poured forth
Not conquest but sweet flowers
And Mary chose a tattered cloth
To first unveil her powers.
Beneath her mantle and her banner
All those vast lands are warmed,
But what we seek in them must be
First by her love transformed.
And so, Diego's cloak poured forth
Not conquest but sweet flowers
And Mary chose a tattered cloth
To first unveil her powers.
This is good.
I'm an avid reader of bibliographies, endnotes, and "Further Reading" sections. Acknowledgments too.
I'm an avid reader of bibliographies, endnotes, and "Further Reading" sections. Acknowledgments too.
In Praise of Bibliographies - Front Porch Republic
Accessible and hospitable.
www.frontporchrepublic.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This is good.
I'm an avid reader of bibliographies, endnotes, and "Further Reading" sections. Acknowledgments too.
I'm an avid reader of bibliographies, endnotes, and "Further Reading" sections. Acknowledgments too.
Indeed his name at Weston was Brother Placid. I had forgotten that detail.
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tomiesblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/vint...
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Indeed his name at Weston was Brother Placid. I had forgotten that detail.
tomiesblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/vint...
tomiesblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/vint...
January 15, Sts. Maurus and Placidus — a great Benedictine feast day
One of the many beautiful Art Mails by the fondly remembered Tomie dePaola, who was once a novice at Weston Priory in Vermont and carried a deep Benedictine spirituality through the rest of his life
One of the many beautiful Art Mails by the fondly remembered Tomie dePaola, who was once a novice at Weston Priory in Vermont and carried a deep Benedictine spirituality through the rest of his life
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
January 15, Sts. Maurus and Placidus — a great Benedictine feast day
One of the many beautiful Art Mails by the fondly remembered Tomie dePaola, who was once a novice at Weston Priory in Vermont and carried a deep Benedictine spirituality through the rest of his life
One of the many beautiful Art Mails by the fondly remembered Tomie dePaola, who was once a novice at Weston Priory in Vermont and carried a deep Benedictine spirituality through the rest of his life
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At the heart of ‘traditio’ is its essential meaning: to hand over. this implies: to hold nothing as one’s own, to not possess, to give it completely to an other. We struggle with the “handing over” because we do not sufficiently believe that I gain everything only in handing over
January 15, 2026 at 1:25 AM
At the heart of ‘traditio’ is its essential meaning: to hand over. this implies: to hold nothing as one’s own, to not possess, to give it completely to an other. We struggle with the “handing over” because we do not sufficiently believe that I gain everything only in handing over
Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
"The lamp of God was not yet extinguished, and Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was. The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, 'Here I am.'"
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"The lamp of God was not yet extinguished, and Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was. The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, 'Here I am.'"
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Samuel is woken by the voice of God in the temple at Shiloh, glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, 1874 at Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk. He thinks it's Eli calling him, but Eli knows what's really going on. 1/3
Rickinghall Superior: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rickingsuper...
Rickinghall Superior: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rickingsuper...
January 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
"The lamp of God was not yet extinguished, and Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was. The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, 'Here I am.'"
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
"The lamp of God was not yet extinguished, and Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was. The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, 'Here I am.'"
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
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After fatal ICE shooting, Catholic Minnesotans continue to support immigrant neighbors www.ncronline.org/news/after-f...
After fatal ICE shooting, Catholic Minnesotans continue to support immigrant neighbors
The families are not being inconvenienced by ICE, said Fr. Dale Korogi, pastor of Ascension Church, they're being harassed, terrorized and traumatized by ICE.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:02 PM
After fatal ICE shooting, Catholic Minnesotans continue to support immigrant neighbors www.ncronline.org/news/after-f...
January 14, Eivind Berggrav, the Lutheran primate of Norway who was a leader in the Norwegian resistance to the Nazis
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January 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
January 14, Eivind Berggrav, the Lutheran primate of Norway who was a leader in the Norwegian resistance to the Nazis
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God chooses us from varied places and backgrounds to become a company of friends, spending our whole life abiding in him and giving ourselves up to the attraction of his glory.
- Rule of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist
- Rule of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist
January 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Henry Ossawa Tanner is my favorite American painter.
Some of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s portraits of his wife, Jessie. In the second painting he has Jessie and his son (Jesse, named after Jessie) posed as Mary and Jesus.
Henry and Jessie moved to France largely because of intolerant attitudes about their interracial marriage.
Henry and Jessie moved to France largely because of intolerant attitudes about their interracial marriage.
January 14, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Henry Ossawa Tanner is my favorite American painter.
Reposted by Christian F. Casper
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Ink drawing by Allan Rohan Crite
Ink drawing by Allan Rohan Crite
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Ink drawing by Allan Rohan Crite
Ink drawing by Allan Rohan Crite
Office of Readings for January 13, St. Hilary of Poitiers, Doctor of the Church
Off to a good start to Hilary term 2026 here at Michigan Engineering!
Off to a good start to Hilary term 2026 here at Michigan Engineering!
St. Hilary on theological learning:
Proficit mens ultra naturalis sensus intelligentiam et plus de Deo quam opinabatur docetur.
The mind goes beyond the understanding of its natural knowledge, and is taught more about God that it had imagined it could be. (De Trinitate I:10)
Proficit mens ultra naturalis sensus intelligentiam et plus de Deo quam opinabatur docetur.
The mind goes beyond the understanding of its natural knowledge, and is taught more about God that it had imagined it could be. (De Trinitate I:10)
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Office of Readings for January 13, St. Hilary of Poitiers, Doctor of the Church
Off to a good start to Hilary term 2026 here at Michigan Engineering!
Off to a good start to Hilary term 2026 here at Michigan Engineering!
January 13, St. Mungo — also known as St. Kentigern — patron of Glasgow
3/3 St Mungo with the robin he has just restored to life, in one of Glasgow's many gable end murals by Smug, this one in the High Street just down from the Cathedral. Today's the feast of St Mungo.
January 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
January 13, St. Mungo — also known as St. Kentigern — patron of Glasgow
Office of Readings for Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
Ps 10,17
Desidérium páuperum exaudísti, Dómine;
confirmábis cor eórum, inténdes aurem tuam
Señor, tú escuchas los deseos de los humildes,
les prestas oído y los animas;
O LORD, you have heard the desire of the poor.
You strengthen their hearts; you turn your ear
Desidérium páuperum exaudísti, Dómine;
confirmábis cor eórum, inténdes aurem tuam
Señor, tú escuchas los deseos de los humildes,
les prestas oído y los animas;
O LORD, you have heard the desire of the poor.
You strengthen their hearts; you turn your ear
January 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Office of Readings for Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
Today, January 12, is the feast day of St. Benedict Biscop, who first brought stonemasons and glaziers from the Continent to construct stone churches with glass windows in England.
“I’ve heard even the most casual onlookers exclaim at the astounding mix of beauty and precise engineering as they step into the nave and look up at what was one of the high-water marks of the Gothic style.” —Andrew Ziminski
Patina, Plaster, and Paint
A stonemason who repairs old English churches interprets the stories written in the craftsmanship of those who build and decorated these places.
www.plough.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Today, January 12, is the feast day of St. Benedict Biscop, who first brought stonemasons and glaziers from the Continent to construct stone churches with glass windows in England.
"With old buildings and churches, three characteristics in particular allow us to appreciate them: solidity, usefulness, and beauty. . . ."
“I’ve heard even the most casual onlookers exclaim at the astounding mix of beauty and precise engineering as they step into the nave and look up at what was one of the high-water marks of the Gothic style.” —Andrew Ziminski
Patina, Plaster, and Paint
A stonemason who repairs old English churches interprets the stories written in the craftsmanship of those who build and decorated these places.
www.plough.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"With old buildings and churches, three characteristics in particular allow us to appreciate them: solidity, usefulness, and beauty. . . ."
Mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede. Benedict Biscop's library made Bede's scholarship possible.
Jan 12: Feast of Benedict Biscop (628-89), abbot. He founded St Peter's, Wearmouth, in 674 and sister monastery St Paul's, Jarrow, in 682. Both foundations benefited enormously from his trips to the continent and the masons and other craftsmen, books and ideas he returned with. #medievalsky
January 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede. Benedict Biscop's library made Bede's scholarship possible.
January 12, St. Benedict Biscop, abbot
Founder of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow and mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede. Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Founder of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow and mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede. Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Monkwearmouth Priory church founded by St Benedict Biscop in 675. The lower two storeys of the tower survive, and were here in St Bede's time. He'd have walked through that portico.
The setting's a little sanitised compared with Jarrow, but as you'd expect in Sunderland a friendly welcome awaits.
The setting's a little sanitised compared with Jarrow, but as you'd expect in Sunderland a friendly welcome awaits.
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
January 12, St. Benedict Biscop, abbot
Founder of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow and mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede. Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Founder of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow and mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede. Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Reposted by Christian F. Casper
2/3 'St Benedict Biscop instructs the young Bede'
Glass by Goddard & Gibbs, c1980 at St John, Felixstowe, Suffolk. St Bede, probably born in Monkwearmouth, spent much of his life in the twin priory as monk, author and scholar. He wrote the first life of St Benedict Biscop.
Glass by Goddard & Gibbs, c1980 at St John, Felixstowe, Suffolk. St Bede, probably born in Monkwearmouth, spent much of his life in the twin priory as monk, author and scholar. He wrote the first life of St Benedict Biscop.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 AM
2/3 'St Benedict Biscop instructs the young Bede'
Glass by Goddard & Gibbs, c1980 at St John, Felixstowe, Suffolk. St Bede, probably born in Monkwearmouth, spent much of his life in the twin priory as monk, author and scholar. He wrote the first life of St Benedict Biscop.
Glass by Goddard & Gibbs, c1980 at St John, Felixstowe, Suffolk. St Bede, probably born in Monkwearmouth, spent much of his life in the twin priory as monk, author and scholar. He wrote the first life of St Benedict Biscop.
Mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede
Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Today's the feast of St Benedict Biscop, 7th Century founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory on its dual sites in Northumbria. Here he is in Moira Forsyth's 1964 Benedictines window in Norwich Cathedral. 1/3
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Mentor to my patron saint, the Venerable Bede
Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Benedict Biscop assembled, meticulously, the library that made Bede's scholarship possible.
Reposted by Christian F. Casper
Six 20th Century images of the Baptism of Christ to finish with. A detail of Leonard Evett's east window at Orwell, Cambridgeshire, 1958, one of his largest works. 1/6
January 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Six 20th Century images of the Baptism of Christ to finish with. A detail of Leonard Evett's east window at Orwell, Cambridgeshire, 1958, one of his largest works. 1/6
"But rather than viewing Leo's statements as one half of a mano-a-mano between pope and president, they may be better seen as the articulation of a post-Trump global order, one informed by universal values and institutional norms rather than tribal and individual self-interest."
(David Gibson)
(David Gibson)
Opinion | Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"But rather than viewing Leo's statements as one half of a mano-a-mano between pope and president, they may be better seen as the articulation of a post-Trump global order, one informed by universal values and institutional norms rather than tribal and individual self-interest."
(David Gibson)
(David Gibson)
Sunday after Epiphany, the Baptism of the Lord
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST, North Carolina Museum of Art
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Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST, North Carolina Museum of Art
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January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Sunday after Epiphany, the Baptism of the Lord
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST, North Carolina Museum of Art
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Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST, North Carolina Museum of Art
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Saturday after Epiphany: "He must increase; I must decrease."
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Auguste Rodin, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHING (reduction), North Carolina Museum of Art
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Auguste Rodin, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHING (reduction), North Carolina Museum of Art
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January 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Saturday after Epiphany: "He must increase; I must decrease."
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Auguste Rodin, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHING (reduction), North Carolina Museum of Art
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Auguste Rodin, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHING (reduction), North Carolina Museum of Art
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Christmas weekday: Saturday after Epiphany
Master of Saint Ildefonso, ADORATION OF THE CHRIST CHILD, Detroit Institute of Arts
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Master of Saint Ildefonso, ADORATION OF THE CHRIST CHILD, Detroit Institute of Arts
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January 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Christmas weekday: Saturday after Epiphany
Master of Saint Ildefonso, ADORATION OF THE CHRIST CHILD, Detroit Institute of Arts
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Master of Saint Ildefonso, ADORATION OF THE CHRIST CHILD, Detroit Institute of Arts
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"Waratah" by Lucien Henry, 1887. Waratah, a blossoming shrub, is a plant native to Australia.
January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM