Krysia
@krysiab.bsky.social
Expat in Europe. Returned Catholic. History, art, archeology. Mozart, Puccini.
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God is light: if we live and move in light, there is love between us.
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
May we who are called Christians,
be known by our love.
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #Prayer #Advent #ComeLordJesus
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
May we who are called Christians,
be known by our love.
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #Prayer #Advent #ComeLordJesus
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
God is light: if we live and move in light, there is love between us.
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
May we who are called Christians,
be known by our love.
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #Prayer #Advent #ComeLordJesus
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
May we who are called Christians,
be known by our love.
~ Lord Jesus, help us to love one another.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #Prayer #Advent #ComeLordJesus
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60yrs since Vatican II, 7mos into the Leo papacy the game is over and the dividers lost.
www.ncronline.org/opinion/60-g...
www.ncronline.org/opinion/60-g...
At 60, 'Gaudium et Spes' continues to impact the Catholic Church and its new pope
The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV.
www.ncronline.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
60yrs since Vatican II, 7mos into the Leo papacy the game is over and the dividers lost.
www.ncronline.org/opinion/60-g...
www.ncronline.org/opinion/60-g...
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Blij dat Historici.nl geïnteresseerd was in mijn (oorspronkelijk in het Engels) reflecties over AI en het onderwijs in geschiedenis. Er is nu een Nederlandse versie beschikbaar.
(Met een dringende oproep om morgen mee te doen aan de staking op de Dam!🟥)
www.historici.nl/de-tijd-van-...
(Met een dringende oproep om morgen mee te doen aan de staking op de Dam!🟥)
www.historici.nl/de-tijd-van-...
www.historici.nl
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Blij dat Historici.nl geïnteresseerd was in mijn (oorspronkelijk in het Engels) reflecties over AI en het onderwijs in geschiedenis. Er is nu een Nederlandse versie beschikbaar.
(Met een dringende oproep om morgen mee te doen aan de staking op de Dam!🟥)
www.historici.nl/de-tijd-van-...
(Met een dringende oproep om morgen mee te doen aan de staking op de Dam!🟥)
www.historici.nl/de-tijd-van-...
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❄️🕊❄️Peaceful Sunday❄️🕊❄️
"Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice."
Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1598-1680 ) Drawings
#NatiOggi
"Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice."
Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1598-1680 ) Drawings
#NatiOggi
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
❄️🕊❄️Peaceful Sunday❄️🕊❄️
"Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice."
Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1598-1680 ) Drawings
#NatiOggi
"Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice."
Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1598-1680 ) Drawings
#NatiOggi
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A wonderful medieval hymn for St Nicholas
youtu.be/0_NKgb_4KvQ?...
youtu.be/0_NKgb_4KvQ?...
ANÚNA : St Nicholas (12th Century, St Godric), arranged Michael McGlynn
YouTube video by The Anúna Collective
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December 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A wonderful medieval hymn for St Nicholas
youtu.be/0_NKgb_4KvQ?...
youtu.be/0_NKgb_4KvQ?...
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The Land of Giants, a conceptual proposal to build power line towers so that they look like people. [choishine.com]
The Land of Giants Transmission Towers
Choi+Shine Architects - The Land of Giants™
choishine.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Land of Giants, a conceptual proposal to build power line towers so that they look like people. [choishine.com]
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St. Francis Xavier a Missionary Priest whose Body is #Incorrupt! Patron Saint of #Missionaries - Saint of December 3
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/12/st-f...
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/12/st-f...
St. Francis Xavier a Missionary Priest whose Body is Incorrupt! Patron Saint of Missionaries - Saint of December 3
Catholic Church, Catholic News World, Vatican News, Pope Leo XIV, Breaking News, Pope News, Catholic Headlines, News, News today,
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December 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
St. Francis Xavier a Missionary Priest whose Body is #Incorrupt! Patron Saint of #Missionaries - Saint of December 3
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/12/st-f...
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/12/st-f...
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'Strong Catholic identity' is widely interpreted as meaning 'reactionary' or 'conservative'.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
'Strong Catholic identity' is widely interpreted as meaning 'reactionary' or 'conservative'.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
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Advent, Advent ein Lichtlein brennt...
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Advent, Advent ein Lichtlein brennt...
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“God toils in all things.”
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Ignatius of Loyola
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“God toils in all things.”
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Ignatius of Loyola
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Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jésus 1e moitié du XVIe siècle
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jésus 1e moitié du XVIe siècle
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
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Pope Leo meets online with over 16,000 teenagers gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and invites young Catholics to grow in friendship with Jesus Christ, use technology healthily to deepen their faith, and avoid using political categories to speak about the Church. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo to young people: Technology can help us live our Christian faith - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV meets online with over 15,000 teenagers gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and invites young Catholics to grow in friendship with Jesus ...
www.vaticannews.va
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Pope Leo meets online with over 16,000 teenagers gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and invites young Catholics to grow in friendship with Jesus Christ, use technology healthily to deepen their faith, and avoid using political categories to speak about the Church. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
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In de buurt van de Sint-Jan van Lateranen. Een stadsbus zit klem door een foutparkeerder. Een non op kekke sneakers lost het op. De verkeerspolitie is ver te zoeken #Rome
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In de buurt van de Sint-Jan van Lateranen. Een stadsbus zit klem door een foutparkeerder. Een non op kekke sneakers lost het op. De verkeerspolitie is ver te zoeken #Rome
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🧵 As I read lots of social media responses to the US bishops' recent statements on immigration, I think lots of Catholics forget: not all rights are equally weighted or implemented.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
🧵 As I read lots of social media responses to the US bishops' recent statements on immigration, I think lots of Catholics forget: not all rights are equally weighted or implemented.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
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Take for example private property.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Take for example private property.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
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"The first job of the Christian…is to grow in faith in God, in his power, in the conviction that we are all held in the hollow of his hand." #DorothyDay #ShareGodsLove
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"The first job of the Christian…is to grow in faith in God, in his power, in the conviction that we are all held in the hollow of his hand." #DorothyDay #ShareGodsLove
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November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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"In each, goodness appears fragile, naïve, almost out of place—and yet precisely for that reason, revolutionary."
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
Ordinary Goodness
The protagonists of Pope Leo's favorite movies are ordinary people who, against all evidence, still believe in the possibility of goodness.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"In each, goodness appears fragile, naïve, almost out of place—and yet precisely for that reason, revolutionary."
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
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This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵
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November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
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Flight into Egypt with extra-cute baby J. By Francisco de Zurbaran, whose day is today.
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Flight into Egypt with extra-cute baby J. By Francisco de Zurbaran, whose day is today.
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East & West ends of Catharinakathedraal in #Utrecht. Built in the late 15thC returned to Catholic ownership in 1815 & gradually reconstructed in a 'High Victorian Gothic Revival' style. Under the altar are relics of St Willibrord, Yorkshire monk evangelist of the low countries.
November 22, 2024 at 12:22 PM
East & West ends of Catharinakathedraal in #Utrecht. Built in the late 15thC returned to Catholic ownership in 1815 & gradually reconstructed in a 'High Victorian Gothic Revival' style. Under the altar are relics of St Willibrord, Yorkshire monk evangelist of the low countries.
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St. Willibrord a Bishop who Begged the Pope to Preach in Non-Christian Nations! Patron Saint of Convulsions; Epilepsy; Netherlands - #FeastDay Saint of November 7
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/11/st-w...
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/11/st-w...
St. Willibrord a Bishop who Begged the Pope to Preach in Non-Christian Nations! Patron Saint of Convulsions; Epilepsy; Netherlands - Saint of November 7
Catholic Church, Catholic News World, Vatican, Pope Francis, Breaking, Pope News, c na, Catholic Headlines,
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
St. Willibrord a Bishop who Begged the Pope to Preach in Non-Christian Nations! Patron Saint of Convulsions; Epilepsy; Netherlands - #FeastDay Saint of November 7
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/11/st-w...
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/11/st-w...
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Tonight, in a massive rebuke of Trump, Democrats have so far won:
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Tonight, in a massive rebuke of Trump, Democrats have so far won:
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor