“The holiest moment of the church service is the moment when God’s people —strengthened by preaching and sacrament— go out of the church door into the world to be the church. We don’t go to church; we are the church.”
— Canon Ernest Southcott, the founder of the “home church” movement in England. (Taken with Instagram)
St. Teresa of Avila
(1515-1582) Writer of Counter Reformation; Doctor of the Church; Honored by Catholics, Protestants, and Anglicans
“Christ has no body now, but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which
Christ looks compassion into the world.
Yours are the feet
with which Christ walks to do good.
Yours are the hands
with which Christ blesses the world.”
~St. Teresa of Avila
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion!
(Source: inuyashagirl521)
If you can’t talk about sex, how can you think about it? The historical censorship of discussion about sex has left us with another disability: the act of talking about sex, of putting words to what we do in bed, has become difficult and embarrassing. This cuts us off from sharing about our sexual experience with our friends, sometimes even with our lovers. […] What you can’t talk about, you can hardly think about. Most of us think in words; without a language with which to speak about sex, we not only cannot communicate with others, we cannot communicate with ourselves.
Why we must find ways of talking about it!
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt. (via kampfemanze)
