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
Henry Taube, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1983, d. November 16, 2005 — twenty years
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1983
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1983 was awarded to Henry Taube "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"
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November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Henry Taube, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1983, d. November 16, 2005 — twenty years
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www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
November 16, St. Gertrude of Helfta
This is my favorite passage in Pope Francis's encyclical on the Sacred Heart, DILEXIT NOS. I used it as the basis of a reflection for our diocesan pastoral council last December. ♥️
This is my favorite passage in Pope Francis's encyclical on the Sacred Heart, DILEXIT NOS. I used it as the basis of a reflection for our diocesan pastoral council last December. ♥️
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
November 16, St. Gertrude of Helfta
This is my favorite passage in Pope Francis's encyclical on the Sacred Heart, DILEXIT NOS. I used it as the basis of a reflection for our diocesan pastoral council last December. ♥️
This is my favorite passage in Pope Francis's encyclical on the Sacred Heart, DILEXIT NOS. I used it as the basis of a reflection for our diocesan pastoral council last December. ♥️
"The president has less than four years left at the center of the international stage. The pope will present a global moral witness for years to come, and it's a moral witness that is fundamentally incompatible with the cruelty and corruption of Trumpism."
To quote Pope Leo, “justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life” ought to be the touchstones of our public engagement. There is another spiritual victory to be won — this time over the forces of hatred, division and cruelty in these United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"The president has less than four years left at the center of the international stage. The pope will present a global moral witness for years to come, and it's a moral witness that is fundamentally incompatible with the cruelty and corruption of Trumpism."
This is reminiscent of the mural at the heart of J. L. Carr's beautiful little novel A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, which I read earlier this fall:
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Today's the last Sunday in Ordinary Time of this liturgical year, so the Mass readings are all about Last Things. The 14C parishioners of North Cove, Suffolk, were left in no doubt about what the Final Day would look like, thanks to the spectacular Doom painting on the south wall of the chancel.
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is reminiscent of the mural at the heart of J. L. Carr's beautiful little novel A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, which I read earlier this fall:
www.nyrb.com/products/a-m...
www.nyrb.com/products/a-m...
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Patron of scientists
The Other Doctor Casper is a biologist. She even has a pair of St. Albert earrings!
The Other Doctor Casper is a biologist. She even has a pair of St. Albert earrings!
Today's the feast of St Albert the Great, more often known as Albertus Magnus, a 13th Century Dominican friar, philosopher and scientist. He stands on the right with St Peter on the left with a Dominican kneeling before them, in continental glass in Provand's Lordship, Glasgow.
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Patron of scientists
The Other Doctor Casper is a biologist. She even has a pair of St. Albert earrings!
The Other Doctor Casper is a biologist. She even has a pair of St. Albert earrings!
Enjoying our traditional football lunch — an array of snacks — including The Other Doctor Casper's signature bean dip — and giving thanks for Michigan's noon EST kickoff today: the correct Big Ten kickoff time.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Enjoying our traditional football lunch — an array of snacks — including The Other Doctor Casper's signature bean dip — and giving thanks for Michigan's noon EST kickoff today: the correct Big Ten kickoff time.
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@bpdflores.bsky.social suggested at the end of his Q and A that everyone say this prayer after your usual prayers each night and promised it would change you for the better
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@bpdflores.bsky.social suggested at the end of his Q and A that everyone say this prayer after your usual prayers each night and promised it would change you for the better
Aaron Copland, b. November 14, 1900 — one hundred twenty-five years (d. 1990)
"Appalachian Spring" at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, July 12, 2025
cond. Earl Lee, music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
"Appalachian Spring" at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, July 12, 2025
cond. Earl Lee, music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Copland's Appalachian Spring performance in the Rockport Chamber Music Festival
YouTube video by Rockport Music
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November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Aaron Copland, b. November 14, 1900 — one hundred twenty-five years (d. 1990)
"Appalachian Spring" at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, July 12, 2025
cond. Earl Lee, music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
"Appalachian Spring" at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, July 12, 2025
cond. Earl Lee, music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Allow me to put in a plug for The Martin Sheen Podcast. It's earnest and guileless and I adore it.
themartinsheenpodcast.com
themartinsheenpodcast.com
The Martin Sheen Podcast - Come listen to what’s next for Martin Sheen.
Martin Sheen hosts a weekly special podcast sharing never-before-heard stories of his life, exploring hope, love and what it is to be human.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Allow me to put in a plug for The Martin Sheen Podcast. It's earnest and guileless and I adore it.
themartinsheenpodcast.com
themartinsheenpodcast.com
Camille Pissarro, d. November 13, 1903, THE SAINT-SEVER BRIDGE, ROUEN, North Carolina Museum of Art
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Camille Pissarro, d. November 13, 1903, THE SAINT-SEVER BRIDGE, ROUEN, North Carolina Museum of Art
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collection.ncartmuseum.org/objects/101/...
My patron saint. His feast day is now May 25.
Bede was the only native English or English-speaking Doctor of the Church until twelve days ago when John Henry Newman was made a Doctor of the Church by the current Pope Leo.
Bede was the only native English or English-speaking Doctor of the Church until twelve days ago when John Henry Newman was made a Doctor of the Church by the current Pope Leo.
Pope Leo XIII declared Bede a Doctor of the Church, and made official and universal the title of Saint #OTD in 1899. May 27 was set as his feast day. #medievalsky
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
My patron saint. His feast day is now May 25.
Bede was the only native English or English-speaking Doctor of the Church until twelve days ago when John Henry Newman was made a Doctor of the Church by the current Pope Leo.
Bede was the only native English or English-speaking Doctor of the Church until twelve days ago when John Henry Newman was made a Doctor of the Church by the current Pope Leo.
Had the same starting word for — I checked — three years before getting a 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 with it on Saturday. My new starting word is great but playing Wordle now feels like writing with my left hand.
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Had the same starting word for — I checked — three years before getting a 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 with it on Saturday. My new starting word is great but playing Wordle now feels like writing with my left hand.
Sr. Maria Boulding, O.S.B., hermit and abbess, my favorite translator of St. Augustine's Confessions, d. November 11, 2009
I read the Confessions every year in a different English translation. Boulding is the one I always recommend first to others.
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I read the Confessions every year in a different English translation. Boulding is the one I always recommend first to others.
www.focolaremedia.com/author/maria...
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sr. Maria Boulding, O.S.B., hermit and abbess, my favorite translator of St. Augustine's Confessions, d. November 11, 2009
I read the Confessions every year in a different English translation. Boulding is the one I always recommend first to others.
www.focolaremedia.com/author/maria...
I read the Confessions every year in a different English translation. Boulding is the one I always recommend first to others.
www.focolaremedia.com/author/maria...
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.
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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!