Charlie Westerman

Worshipping Jesus in a world that worships the Roman Empire

[Charlie Westerman @chuckwest20]

What if I told you the next Crusade won’t be fought with swords and arrows

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Meanwhile in Oak Park

[Gay Not Queer @Gaynotqueer1]

Kindergarten Pride parade in Oak Park.
15 June 2026.

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"It is better to be silent and be real, than to talk and not be real."

- St. Ignatius

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"The things that we love tell us what we are."
- St. Thomas Aquinas

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We need to be fleeing Herod at all costs in all areas of our lives

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"He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor."

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

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"No one heals himself by wounding another."

- St. Ambrose

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"It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians."
— St. Ignatius of Antioch

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"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.'"

- St. Anthony of the Desert

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Viva Cristo Rey

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"Prayer is nothing else but a yearning of the soul... You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work."

- St. Gianna Beretta Molla

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"A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly."

— St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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"The times are never so bad but that a good man can live in them."

- St. Thomas More

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"The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the shoes unhappy in your closet belong to the barefoot."

- St. Basil the Great

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Some men die with no scars

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"If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice."

— St. John Chrysostom

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"I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ."

- St. Ignatius of Antioch

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"If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark."

- St. John of the Cross

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Based

[manic nixon dream girl @kennixonette]

if the polar express was done in any other animation style it would be the most beloved christmas film ever . the thing people don't realise tho is that the ugly weird animation actually adds to the whole thing. I find it thematically relevant

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"If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all."

- St. Peter Canisius

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"We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."

- St. Oscar Romero