Mohja Kahf, "Most Wanted", Hagar Poems

Mohja Kahf, "Most Wanted", Hagar Poems

art of the dormition/assumption never shows mary of nazareth as an older woman. the catholic imagination is so terrified of losing her to abjection and rupture that she is not only not afforded a corpse (with all its wonderful sacraments of sick), but her body is indeed not allowed to bare age at all. what would our faith look like if it left space for the aging, alteric body of the m/Mother?

A beautiful Mesolithic amber figure of a bear. It washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. 12,500-3,900 BCE, now on display at the National Museum of Denmark.

Pages from my yearlong journal following the Liturgy of the Hours, all different occasions.

They should make an alternate version of boba tea called kiki tea and its filled with spikes

To look to Christ is to look to the poor. To reach out to the poor is to reach out and touch the flesh of Christ.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster (in his Foreword to The Church of Mercy: A Vision for the Church)

Avènement, by Paul Guiragossian, oil on canvas, 1970.