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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 14m

Wait.... there are only 150 psalms.... so how does a 90 day psalter make sense?

The normalized 30 day psalter makes a lot of sense for non-religious people. Without Vigils a 7 day psalter gets more difficult. Then there is the agpeya.... which I want to pray once to get them all in one day.

Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 3h

- Lack of child labor laws (so they end up working in mining, manufacturing, agriculture, etc).
- Lacking public sanitation and feminine hygiene, forcing young women out of education (was an issue in parts of India for a long time).
- Prohibitions/restrictions on the education for women.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 3h

Jordan and I will be helping Canon Hailey Jacobsen to host the hundreds praying and spending time with us. It's open to all ages 18 to 35 and will be a really wonderful way to ring in the new year. It will be a meaningful, spiritual, and joyous time together.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 3h

Wanted to extend the invite to your youths to the Taizé European Youth Meeting in Paris from December 28 - January 1. The American Cathedral (Episcopal) will be hosting midday prayer and workshops for North Americans (and maybe Ireland/UK folks too). ⚓
Information 🔗 www.taize.fr/en/paris-202...

Paris 2025-26 – Taizé

www.taize.fr

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 5h

Any of the Dakota words that are used for places/cities/landmarks, or not correctly mispronouncing the French names that are everywhere.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 8h

They finally installed fiber in our building yesterday! It'll be a little bit until we can subscribe, but I am so excited to have fiber to the home again. Thankfully there is fiber to the node we can use, which is at least usable compared to the other option of ADSL.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 9h

I laid in bed awake from 10pm until I finally got some sleep well after 6am. It wasn't something I tried to do, but I also do not recommend it.

At least i got to pray a lot, and mostly avoided the existential dread.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 23h

Just another day without a government here in France. How is/was your day wherever you are?

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 2d

They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 2d

It’s all we buy when we’re at home in France. Yet, before we moved I really enjoyed drinking bourbon and bourbon based cocktails. Corn mash whiskey just hits different and I do miss it.

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Matsu Basho 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 @matsubasho.bsky.social · 2d

D’un cartoonist britannique

Un fromager montre à une dame, « ce fromage a maturé pendant environ cinq premiers ministres. »

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 2d

We don’t buy much from the US anymore. Even when I’m back in MN, I try my hardest to avoid buying from red states. Makes buying whisky difficult but I just get foreign stuff.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 2d

This was literally the internet before Facebook. Sites for friends and affinity/passion groups. I think we’re heading back in this direction too, and I wonder what roll saas platforms will play verses bespoke/FOSS hosted by community members.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 2d

Do you ever only grade the first 7 minutes? I had a high school teacher that would stop grading papers at the max pages allowed. Helped teach us to edit ourselves and to prioritize our points.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 2d

Let’s not forget that you look really cute when you’re reading a paperback book on the metro in Paris. Or reading a book at a cafe. Or reading a book in a park. Reading is great.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 3d

Wow, France/Macron just chewed through another Prime Minister whose government was only announced last night. I didn’t expect him to last long but I expected Lecornu’s government to make it at least a day.

This is getting to be even more pathetic.

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Urban Monastic @urbanmonastic.org · 4d

We held our monthly online gathering this evening for October. Join us to pray Vespers, partake the Eucharist and a wonderful conversation from a chapter of our way of life. It’s a great hour together.

Dedicating Part of your Living Space to Nature · a Gathering

YouTube video by Urban Monastic

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 4d

If you want to subscribe - you'll get an email every Saturday that includes invitations into a chapter from our Way of Life, a spiritual practice, calendar for the week to come, and our blessing for the week. urbanmonastic.org/newsletter/

All are welcome to join us!

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 4d

Our weekly @urbanmonastic.org newsletter yesterday included a celebration of Dame Sarah Mullally's appointment to the ABC - and we already have a couple of men who have unsubscribed. Wild take. First of all, women have always been foundational to monasticism. Secondly, 2/3 of our founders are women.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 4d

I really want to make him a little white kitty cowl so he can pray the divine office with us properly. He'd rock it + it would be super cute. Maybe with a rosary belt with an iIchthus on the end? Plus, I'd put a buttonhole on the back so we could still clip into his harness.

Someone talk me down.

Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 4d

Our cat had a great day getting blessed at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity here in Paris (part of the Episcopal Convocation of Europe). Many comments for how fluffy and how big he is. I’m pretty sure he was bigger than half the dogs who were there. ⚓️

Me with our cat waiting in line to have him blessed.

Jordan with our cat with a stained glass window behind them.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 4d

It was so lovely getting to see a window into the lives of some of our pew neighbors who brought their pets. Such a fun and wonderful Sunday at church.

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 4d

Our cat had a great day getting blessed at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity here in Paris (part of the Episcopal Convocation of Europe). Many comments for how fluffy and how big he is. I’m pretty sure he was bigger than half the dogs who were there. ⚓️

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 4d

I went once when I was back this spring for a face moisturizer with spf. Way too many options and even in brands I use at home the options were different. I was overwhelmed too.

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