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@SkyVirginSon Christian hope is steadier than mood, deeper than optimism, stronger than the expectation that things work out because we prefer them to.

It looks toward glory.

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When God built the tabernacle He named Bezalel… then Oholiab… and every artisan (Ex 31:1-6).

The craft was never a solo commission.

New essay on sacred art & clothing:
https://t.co/B52rv1pw9U

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

We all know the front-page names and faces in the Bible. People like Abraham, Moses, David, Peter, and Paul. But do not let the big names blind you to the smaller, back-page names.

As in our lives today, so also in Scripture, it is often the minor characters who accomplish actions and engage in work that contribute to the larger story of salvation history.

For instance, in Bible in One Year we have been reading through Exodus, where we repeatedly encounter two men named Bezalel and Oholiab (Exod. 31:1–11; 35:30–35; 36:1–2; 37–39).

These were the highly skilled artisans responsible for designing, cutting stones, carving wood, and working with precious metals to construct the tabernacle of God. Not only that, but God himself called them by name and filled them with his Spirit to accomplish this sacred task.

They possessed God-given skills suited to their vocation, and they were empowered by the Spirit for their work.

Perhaps they were not front and center like Moses and Aaron. Perhaps the fact that they worked with their hands did not seem as “spiritual” as what others were doing. Yet the God whose tabernacle they built delights in weaving the spiritual and the material together.

The craftsmanship of Bezalel and Oholiab was no less sacred because it involved tools, materials, and labor.

These two men belong to the long list of people whose vocations, though often overlooked by many Bible readers, were central to God’s saving work at that moment in history. And their counterparts continue today: architects who design churches, groundskeepers who care for sacred spaces, volunteers and helpers, Sunday school teachers, and countless other unsung servants who, filled with the Spirit, are used by God to carry forward his kingdom.

Let us give thanks not only for the front-page names but also for the back-page names, for all of them belong to the great company of servants through whom the Lord accomplishes his purposes.
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@RS613506 I guess Turkey will be taking that first step by ending their occupation of Cyprus any day now ...

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@ChristopherF198 "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" (Luke 12:49). The word was never meant to be safe.... I guess that's the problem.

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This is exactly what the “extinction of death” crowd keeps missing.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described the extinction of death.

Not in a white paper. Not in a press release. Dropped mid-summit like it was a footnote.

Musk: “You’ll have kind of a whole brain interface that is perhaps a form of immortality. Your brain state is essentially stored. You’re backed up on a hard drive.”

The timeline still thinks Neuralink is a medical device. A clever trick to help paralyzed patients move a cursor with their thoughts.

They are grading a civilization-ending technology on its first feature.

Musk: “You can always restore that brain state into a biological body or maybe a robot or something.”

Your memories. Your personality. Your conscious identity. Stored. Backed up. Transferred to a new vessel when the first one fails.

That is not medicine. That is the termination of the oldest contract in human history.

Every civilization ever built was organized around one immovable certainty.

You are born. You get a handful of decades. You disappear.

Religion was built on that certainty. Inheritance law was built on it. Every economy, every legal framework, every philosophy ever built was downstream of one non-negotiable fact.

People expire.

Remove that fact and you do not reform society. You pull the pin on every structure it stands on.

Then Musk connected it to the intelligence race.

Musk: “The rate at which we’re building digital superintelligence, it may just be that we’ll have digital superintelligence and it’ll just solve the problem for us. But in the meantime, we’ll keep progressing with our meat computers.”

Meat computers.

That is not dark humor. That is the engineering spec.

The real reason billions are flooding into superintelligence is not productivity. Not chatbots. Not enterprise software.

It is the oldest and most desperate problem in the history of the species.

How to not die.

Every founder pouring capital into the intelligence race is not just building a company. They are building a clock that might outrun their own biology.

The old world accepted an ending. Planned around it. Saved for retirement. Built structures designed to outlast the person who made them.

The builders are not planning to be outlasted. They are engineering around the ending itself.

And here is the part nobody is confronting.

Every urgent thing you have ever done. Every risk you ever took. Every moment that felt like it mattered.

All of it was powered by the quiet knowledge that your time was running out.

Mortality was never just the thing that killed you.

It was the thing that made you move.

The builders are trying to remove it.

And nobody has asked what replaces the only deadline the species ever respected.

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@latinedisce Funny, you know this masterpiece is owned by the Art Gallery of Hamilton however I've never seen it on display there even once in the many times I've gone there. Hmm @TheAGH.
https://t.co/S3iexBslMz

[Mike Pantile @mikepantile]

Greatest answer I have ever heard. Wow.

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@Cath0licP0dcast That's who it's for. All of them.

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I mostly agree, but I'm also reminded of the Glossa ordinaria, the medieval Bible glosses. They have Scripture in the center with commentary and wisdom all around it. I have a translated copy for the Book of Ruth. It was hard to find, but worth the trouble. Those are interpreters I can live with. It's the invisible ones permeating our culture that scare me.

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@Be_Believing A model's career is built on her own image. She left it for a life built on Christ.

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@Sachinettiyil The particularity is the whole thing. Not Mary in general but Madrid's own, Our Lady of Almudena. The universal Church in contemplation before one city's Lady. It's beautiful and poetic.

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Yesterday in downtown Toronto, the Blessed Sacrament was carried past the doors of the emergency room. St. Ignatius of Antioch called the Eucharist the medicine of immortality. Here it is, out in the open, where the city brings its sick and its dying. @archtoronto #CatholicX

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This is what revival looks like: every 7 years in June, Catholics in Maastricht walk a 700-year pilgrimage route with the relics of St. Servatius. A tradition that had been banned is once again bringing people together in faith. https://t.co/VrMcSK3GIg

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NEXUS FIDEI is open. Three years in development. Hand-rendered sacred art and attire, inspired by our Apostolic visual inheritance. https://t.co/5hA4pfTbWi #SacredArt #CatholicArt

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The Catholic visual tradition is the deepest design archive in human history.
Manuscripts. Mosaics. Engravings. Twenty centuries of work, most of it still legible, most of it still teaching.
#CatholicArt #SacredArt #TraditionalCatholicArt #BeautyInTradition

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@PapistDirectory Yes. And the Catholic vision goes even deeper: marriage is a covenant of three. Husband, wife, and the God who joins them. The spouses give consent; God seals the bond and gives the grace to live it. Lasting love is rooted in a Love greater than itself.

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@thewaronbeauty @Tawadros15 Same here. It looks like it's been pretty neglected too - and the reverberations from that drum kit won't be doing much to ensure it lasts much longer.

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@dardanidae1 @creation247 There are plenty that can "create such objects." Here is but one: @AtelierMissor_