Christian F. Casper
@cfcasper.bsky.social
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
St. Martin's Eve. First fire of the season!
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
St. Martin's Eve. First fire of the season!
True fact: Back in fifth grade, in my public elementary school here in Michigan, we learned and performed Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" from memory. #Midwest
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
True fact: Back in fifth grade, in my public elementary school here in Michigan, we learned and performed Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" from memory. #Midwest
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BREAKING: Vatican announces new liturgical text for the United States of America
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
BREAKING: Vatican announces new liturgical text for the United States of America
On the eighth-grade Confirmation retreat. Glad I played today!
Wordle 1,603 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
They took away the kids’ cell phones but not the chaperones’ 😅
Wordle 1,603 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
They took away the kids’ cell phones but not the chaperones’ 😅
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
On the eighth-grade Confirmation retreat. Glad I played today!
Wordle 1,603 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
They took away the kids’ cell phones but not the chaperones’ 😅
Wordle 1,603 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
They took away the kids’ cell phones but not the chaperones’ 😅
Willibrord was the first successful missionary from Anglo-Saxon England to the Germanic peoples on the Continent — our family's ancestors
Nov 7: Feast of Willibrord (658-739). Northumbrian who studied at Hrypis (Ripon) and Ráith Melsigi (Clonmesh, Ireland). He evangelised in Frisia and became archbishop of the Frisians in 695 with a see at Traiectum (Utrecht). He founded a monastery at Echternach, Luxembourg. 📸Rp #medievalsky
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Willibrord was the first successful missionary from Anglo-Saxon England to the Germanic peoples on the Continent — our family's ancestors
My favorite work by Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672 — is this darkly handsome setting of the Magnificat, the evening canticle of the Church, from his last published volume.
Opus ultimum: Deutsches Magnificat. "Meine Seele erhebt den Herren" SWV 494
YouTube video by Collegium Vocale Gent - Topic
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My favorite work by Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672 — is this darkly handsome setting of the Magnificat, the evening canticle of the Church, from his last published volume.
Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
"The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life's refuge; of whom should I be afraid?"
Psalm 27:1 — my Confirmation verse in the Lutheran church as a thirteen-year-old
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"The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life's refuge; of whom should I be afraid?"
Psalm 27:1 — my Confirmation verse in the Lutheran church as a thirteen-year-old
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
"The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life's refuge; of whom should I be afraid?"
Psalm 27:1 — my Confirmation verse in the Lutheran church as a thirteen-year-old
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
"The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life's refuge; of whom should I be afraid?"
Psalm 27:1 — my Confirmation verse in the Lutheran church as a thirteen-year-old
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
This right here.
"'The Lord,' the psalmist proclaims, 'hears the cry of the poor.' We, by contrast, have lost our hearing."
Terence J. Sweeney on MAGA, Pope Leo, and recovering our vision of the poor:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-poor-l...
Terence J. Sweeney on MAGA, Pope Leo, and recovering our vision of the poor:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-poor-l...
Recovering Our Vision of the Poor
The Trump administration defends a radical inversion of Christian teaching on poverty.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This right here.
J.S. Bach is obviously the greatest Lutheran composer but Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672 — has to be second. I adore his music.
This new album is outstanding — the best I've come across in a long time. I love that they just pull out all the stops.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This new album is outstanding — the best I've come across in a long time. I love that they just pull out all the stops.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
J.S. Bach is obviously the greatest Lutheran composer but Heinrich Schütz — d. November 6, 1672 — has to be second. I adore his music.
This new album is outstanding — the best I've come across in a long time. I love that they just pull out all the stops.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This new album is outstanding — the best I've come across in a long time. I love that they just pull out all the stops.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I've missed my monastery retreat this year so far but this weekend I'm chaperoning the eighth-grade Confirmation retreat at a formerly Franciscan — now diocesan — retreat center.
I expect it will be similar in some ways but quite, quite different in others!
I expect it will be similar in some ways but quite, quite different in others!
“I wanted to find the peace that passes understanding. And so I went, following trails blazed by artists, writers, Sufi mystics, and vast numbers of sport kayakers, deep into the canyons of the New Mexico high desert.” —Margaret Wardlaw
The Blessings of the Desert
A medical doctor returns to the quiet of a desert monastery to make sense of the suffering she faces daily.
www.plough.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I've missed my monastery retreat this year so far but this weekend I'm chaperoning the eighth-grade Confirmation retreat at a formerly Franciscan — now diocesan — retreat center.
I expect it will be similar in some ways but quite, quite different in others!
I expect it will be similar in some ways but quite, quite different in others!
Shirley Verrett, d. November 5, 2010, in Ann Arbor
She was James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice at U-M from 1996 until her retirement in 2009
In my first semester here I received a piece of campus mail in an envelope that had passed through her hands nine recipients prior ❤️
She was James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice at U-M from 1996 until her retirement in 2009
In my first semester here I received a piece of campus mail in an envelope that had passed through her hands nine recipients prior ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Shirley Verrett, d. November 5, 2010, in Ann Arbor
She was James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice at U-M from 1996 until her retirement in 2009
In my first semester here I received a piece of campus mail in an envelope that had passed through her hands nine recipients prior ❤️
She was James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice at U-M from 1996 until her retirement in 2009
In my first semester here I received a piece of campus mail in an envelope that had passed through her hands nine recipients prior ❤️
Guido Reni, b. November 4, 1575 — four hundred fifty years — (d. 1642), THE ANGEL APPEARING TO ST. JEROME, Detroit Institute of Arts
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dia.org/collection/a...
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Guido Reni, b. November 4, 1575 — four hundred fifty years — (d. 1642), THE ANGEL APPEARING TO ST. JEROME, Detroit Institute of Arts
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dia.org/collection/a...
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, PORTRAIT OF SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
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Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop, pray for us!
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, PORTRAIT OF SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
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ambrosiana.it/en/opere/por...
Raïssa Maritain, d. November 4, 1960
I have a copy of her journal on my reading table. It's a spiritual masterpiece.
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I have a copy of her journal on my reading table. It's a spiritual masterpiece.
clunymedia.com/products/the...
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Raïssa Maritain, d. November 4, 1960
I have a copy of her journal on my reading table. It's a spiritual masterpiece.
clunymedia.com/products/the...
I have a copy of her journal on my reading table. It's a spiritual masterpiece.
clunymedia.com/products/the...
Sr. Thea Bowman's address to the U.S. bishops in 1989 is one of the great speeches in American history, in my opinion. It deserves to be *much* more widely known than it is. I watch it probably twice a year and get chills every single time. A masterpiece in both composition and delivery.
The True Truth: Sr. Thea Bowman, the Testifying Evangelist
King and Daniles on a Servant of God.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sr. Thea Bowman's address to the U.S. bishops in 1989 is one of the great speeches in American history, in my opinion. It deserves to be *much* more widely known than it is. I watch it probably twice a year and get chills every single time. A masterpiece in both composition and delivery.
Patron of social justice, racial justice, public education, and public health
Saint Martin de Porres, Religious, pray for us!
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Patron of social justice, racial justice, public education, and public health
Pier Paolo Pasolini died fifty years ago today — November 2, 1975
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW is easily my favorite telling of the life of Jesus on film.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW is easily my favorite telling of the life of Jesus on film.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini died fifty years ago today — November 2, 1975
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW is easily my favorite telling of the life of Jesus on film.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW is easily my favorite telling of the life of Jesus on film.
William Bouguereau, ALL SOULS' DAY, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
www.musba-bordeaux.fr/en/oeuvres_c...
www.musba-bordeaux.fr/en/oeuvres_c...
May the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
https://ow.ly/Z3Kz50Xlm2L
https://ow.ly/Z3Kz50Xlm2L
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
William Bouguereau, ALL SOULS' DAY, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
www.musba-bordeaux.fr/en/oeuvres_c...
www.musba-bordeaux.fr/en/oeuvres_c...
November 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
St. John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church — as of this morning
"John Henry Newman held the view—radical at the time—that the spread of truth in our world depends on 'personal influence.'"
Brett Beasly on how the newest Doctor of the Church would see our post-truth age:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/newman-churc...
Brett Beasly on how the newest Doctor of the Church would see our post-truth age:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/newman-churc...
John Henry Newman, Influencer
The example of John Henry Newman—the newest Doctor of the Church—can be a balm for our beleaguered and battle-worn digital age.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
St. John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church — as of this morning
Pope Francis, Address at the Peace Memorial, Hiroshima, November 24, 2019
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Pope Francis, Address at the Peace Memorial, Hiroshima, November 24, 2019
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
I'm currently reading THE TWO TOWERS. This is a racist, ethnonationalist dogwhistle — if it can even be called that. And it's only one of many examples from DHS lately.
Tolkien would condemn it in the strongest possible terms and so should anyone else of good will. It's evil.
Tolkien would condemn it in the strongest possible terms and so should anyone else of good will. It's evil.
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm currently reading THE TWO TOWERS. This is a racist, ethnonationalist dogwhistle — if it can even be called that. And it's only one of many examples from DHS lately.
Tolkien would condemn it in the strongest possible terms and so should anyone else of good will. It's evil.
Tolkien would condemn it in the strongest possible terms and so should anyone else of good will. It's evil.
The Frauenkirche Dresden was reconsecrated on October 30, 2005 — twenty years
We visited it in June 2011 ♥️
Bernardo Bellotto, VIEW OF DRESDEN WITH THE FRAUENKIRCHE AT LEFT, North Carolina Museum of Art
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We visited it in June 2011 ♥️
Bernardo Bellotto, VIEW OF DRESDEN WITH THE FRAUENKIRCHE AT LEFT, North Carolina Museum of Art
ncartmuseum.org/object/view-...
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Frauenkirche Dresden was reconsecrated on October 30, 2005 — twenty years
We visited it in June 2011 ♥️
Bernardo Bellotto, VIEW OF DRESDEN WITH THE FRAUENKIRCHE AT LEFT, North Carolina Museum of Art
ncartmuseum.org/object/view-...
We visited it in June 2011 ♥️
Bernardo Bellotto, VIEW OF DRESDEN WITH THE FRAUENKIRCHE AT LEFT, North Carolina Museum of Art
ncartmuseum.org/object/view-...