DAILY PHOTO: Chapel of St. Roch, Budapest

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DAILY PHOTO: Narikala Fortress from Tabor Monastery

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DAILY PHOTO: Haghartsin Monastery

“To Tirzah” by William Blake [w/ Audio]

Whate'er is Born of Mortal Birth
Must be consumed with the Earth
To rise from Generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?

The Sexes sprung from Shame & Pride,
Blow'd in the morn; in evening died;
But Mercy chang'd Death to Sleep;
The Sexes rose to work & weep.

Thou, Mother of my Mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my Heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst bind my Nostrils, Eyes, & Ears:

Didst close my Tongue in senseless clay,
And me to Mortal Life betray.
The Death of Jesus set me free:
Then what have I to do with thee?

DAILY PHOTO: Three Views of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Tbilisi

DAILY PHOTO: Immaculate Conception Church of Panjim

DAILY PHOTO: St. Luke’s Church, Bangalore

DAILY PHOTO: St. Philomena’s Cathedral, Mysuru

“The Magi” by William Butler Yeats

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's 
eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale
unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depths of
the sky
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten
stones,
And all their helms of silver hovering side
by side,
And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find
once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial
floor.

DAILY PHOTO: Church of St. Paul, Malacca

Said to be the oldest European building east of India, these hollowed out ruins represent one of the oldest Christian Churches in Southeast Asia.
This statue of St. Francis Xavier stands in front of St. Paul’s Church. Francis Xavier did have his right hand amputated posthumously, and many like to tell the story that the statue’s hand was sheared off by lightning in an act of divine reckoning (though more likely the movers dropped the statue and the hand broke off. At any rate, that’s why they never got around to having it fixed.)