Paul Prins
@paul.urbanmonastic.org
An @UrbanMonastic.org founder and Monastic · Author · Preacher · Liturgist · Linguist · Mystic · Pacifist · Artist · Egg Photographer · In Paris · From MPLS · All are Welcome
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This is the best photo that I can make and it’s not that good. Wish I could see the aurora here.
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is the best photo that I can make and it’s not that good. Wish I could see the aurora here.
I looked for the aurora here in Paris but the city is either too bright, I missed it, or it didn’t hit over here.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I looked for the aurora here in Paris but the city is either too bright, I missed it, or it didn’t hit over here.
I woke up today with a strong conviction that Luchable doesn’t have the letter N.
Nope, I just checked. It’s Lunchable. There is an N in there right where you would expect.
Nope, I just checked. It’s Lunchable. There is an N in there right where you would expect.
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I woke up today with a strong conviction that Luchable doesn’t have the letter N.
Nope, I just checked. It’s Lunchable. There is an N in there right where you would expect.
Nope, I just checked. It’s Lunchable. There is an N in there right where you would expect.
Why do our hearts so infrequently feel what we expect them too? Why does my body feel hurt as my soul feels relief? Why are so many divided and severed from the full honest acceptance of themselves?
My whole self is praying for you and I just don’t know the ways I will break when you pass away.
My whole self is praying for you and I just don’t know the ways I will break when you pass away.
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Why do our hearts so infrequently feel what we expect them too? Why does my body feel hurt as my soul feels relief? Why are so many divided and severed from the full honest acceptance of themselves?
My whole self is praying for you and I just don’t know the ways I will break when you pass away.
My whole self is praying for you and I just don’t know the ways I will break when you pass away.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Let us pray.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-second week of Ordinary time.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-second week of Ordinary time.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Let us pray.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-second week of Ordinary time.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-second week of Ordinary time.
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BREAKING: Minnesota SNAP recipients should get their November benefits as soon as this weekend, state officials say.
The Trump administration has complied with a court order requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use contingency funds to cover SNAP this month.
The Trump administration has complied with a court order requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use contingency funds to cover SNAP this month.
Minnesota SNAP recipients to get full November benefits within days, state officials say • Minnesota Reformer
The federal government fully funded the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, for November, complying with a court order issued by a federal judge in Rhode Island. Minnesota officials s...
minnesotareformer.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
BREAKING: Minnesota SNAP recipients should get their November benefits as soon as this weekend, state officials say.
The Trump administration has complied with a court order requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use contingency funds to cover SNAP this month.
The Trump administration has complied with a court order requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use contingency funds to cover SNAP this month.
I have a message as an honorary Parisian, when there is nothing to be thankful for (no Thanksgiving) you can decorate for Christmas in early November!
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I have a message as an honorary Parisian, when there is nothing to be thankful for (no Thanksgiving) you can decorate for Christmas in early November!
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Rev. Abby Holcombe of the River Forest Methodist Church, another plaintiff shot with pepper balls: "I have one more message for Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, the ICE agents who shot at me and all other ICE agents and president Trump: God is always on the side of the oppressed. So which side are you on?"
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Rev. Abby Holcombe of the River Forest Methodist Church, another plaintiff shot with pepper balls: "I have one more message for Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, the ICE agents who shot at me and all other ICE agents and president Trump: God is always on the side of the oppressed. So which side are you on?"
Does this case law make it legal to toss a sandwich at a cop? I hope so.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Does this case law make it legal to toss a sandwich at a cop? I hope so.
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
“Is this like the Louvre thing?”
“It is! Do you have any jewels?”
“lol, I wish!”
“It is! Do you have any jewels?”
“lol, I wish!”
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“Is this like the Louvre thing?”
“It is! Do you have any jewels?”
“lol, I wish!”
“It is! Do you have any jewels?”
“lol, I wish!”
Heed Samuel's words!
I spent years within the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition of our Church. This is a needed call to reflection, honesty, acceptance, & repentance. Our global church can learn from this young expression of our faith, and much they can learn from our ancient expressions.
I spent years within the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition of our Church. This is a needed call to reflection, honesty, acceptance, & repentance. Our global church can learn from this young expression of our faith, and much they can learn from our ancient expressions.
To all my Pentecostal and Charismatic friends - here is a wise and timely love letter from my dear friend Samuel Lee. Please let me know what you think, and if you agree with Samuel, please spread this message to your networks. www.samlee.org/single-post/...
The Plea of a Brother: Toward Renewal in Independent Pentecostal and Charismatic Communities
A call to repentance, reformation, and rediscovery of true PentecostI write this not as an outsider or critic, but as one who has walked this Pentecostal road for more than three decades — as clergy, ...
www.samlee.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Heed Samuel's words!
I spent years within the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition of our Church. This is a needed call to reflection, honesty, acceptance, & repentance. Our global church can learn from this young expression of our faith, and much they can learn from our ancient expressions.
I spent years within the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition of our Church. This is a needed call to reflection, honesty, acceptance, & repentance. Our global church can learn from this young expression of our faith, and much they can learn from our ancient expressions.
I woke up to a world where someone (former VP) chose to die instead of living in a world where Zohran Mamdani is elected the mayor of NYC.
The same NYC whose attack they used to justify the murder of hundreds of thousands of Muslims will now be governed by a Muslim with a beautiful soul and spirit.
The same NYC whose attack they used to justify the murder of hundreds of thousands of Muslims will now be governed by a Muslim with a beautiful soul and spirit.
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I woke up to a world where someone (former VP) chose to die instead of living in a world where Zohran Mamdani is elected the mayor of NYC.
The same NYC whose attack they used to justify the murder of hundreds of thousands of Muslims will now be governed by a Muslim with a beautiful soul and spirit.
The same NYC whose attack they used to justify the murder of hundreds of thousands of Muslims will now be governed by a Muslim with a beautiful soul and spirit.
This is what it’s like to work with French bureaucracy: complex and stupid at the exact same time.
I’ve lived in France for 11 years of my life. I said what I said.
I’ve lived in France for 11 years of my life. I said what I said.
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is what it’s like to work with French bureaucracy: complex and stupid at the exact same time.
I’ve lived in France for 11 years of my life. I said what I said.
I’ve lived in France for 11 years of my life. I said what I said.
The more Catholic and Christian videos I watch on YouTube here in France the more video ads they give me for adult diapers.
The Church here in France continues to rapidly age. lol. I’m doing my part for the Church, but it’s still funny to me.
The Church here in France continues to rapidly age. lol. I’m doing my part for the Church, but it’s still funny to me.
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The more Catholic and Christian videos I watch on YouTube here in France the more video ads they give me for adult diapers.
The Church here in France continues to rapidly age. lol. I’m doing my part for the Church, but it’s still funny to me.
The Church here in France continues to rapidly age. lol. I’m doing my part for the Church, but it’s still funny to me.
Is anyone else keeping a mental list of the people they know who are hawking AI right now? Ooof.
My ability to trust their business/organization leadership is pretty much destroyed. I may feel different in a few years, but right now it feels like they are celebrating the antithesis of humanity.
My ability to trust their business/organization leadership is pretty much destroyed. I may feel different in a few years, but right now it feels like they are celebrating the antithesis of humanity.
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Is anyone else keeping a mental list of the people they know who are hawking AI right now? Ooof.
My ability to trust their business/organization leadership is pretty much destroyed. I may feel different in a few years, but right now it feels like they are celebrating the antithesis of humanity.
My ability to trust their business/organization leadership is pretty much destroyed. I may feel different in a few years, but right now it feels like they are celebrating the antithesis of humanity.
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We had a wonderful gathering last evening! It is available for reply over on YouTube. It includes vespers, eucharist, and a conversation around money, power, and those who hold them. A very important conversation for us Christians and monastics to meditate upon.
Being Skeptical of Money, Power, and the People who Hold them · a Gathering
YouTube video by Urban Monastic
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We had a wonderful gathering last evening! It is available for reply over on YouTube. It includes vespers, eucharist, and a conversation around money, power, and those who hold them. A very important conversation for us Christians and monastics to meditate upon.
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One of my clergy colleagues here in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, who is employed by the State of Texas, has been detained by ICE. ⚓️
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas Calls for Justice After Detention of Clergy Member Employed by the State of Texas - EDOT
Houston, Texas -The Episcopal Diocese of Texas expresses deep concern and calls for action following the detention of one of its priests, a legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texa...
www.epicenter.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
One of my clergy colleagues here in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, who is employed by the State of Texas, has been detained by ICE. ⚓️
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Jesus: Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
November 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Jesus: Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
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Lord,
Elevate our eyes above money and power.
For You alone are Eternal and worthy
of our praise, worship, and devotion.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-first week of Ordinary Time.
Elevate our eyes above money and power.
For You alone are Eternal and worthy
of our praise, worship, and devotion.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-first week of Ordinary Time.
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Lord,
Elevate our eyes above money and power.
For You alone are Eternal and worthy
of our praise, worship, and devotion.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-first week of Ordinary Time.
Elevate our eyes above money and power.
For You alone are Eternal and worthy
of our praise, worship, and devotion.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-first week of Ordinary Time.
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Let us pray.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-first week of Ordinary time.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-first week of Ordinary time.
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Let us pray.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-first week of Ordinary time.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-first week of Ordinary time.
We had two groups of trick or treaters tonight! It’s a Parisian miracle! The most since we moved here - 7 kiddos!
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We had two groups of trick or treaters tonight! It’s a Parisian miracle! The most since we moved here - 7 kiddos!
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Artist: @kibbyer.bsky.social (www.libbykercher.com/)
#sacredart #protestart #immigrationjustice #nokings #hailmary #virginmary #abolishice #defundice
#sacredart #protestart #immigrationjustice #nokings #hailmary #virginmary #abolishice #defundice
October 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM