Christian F. Casper
@cfcasper.bsky.social
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
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. ♥️
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/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Camille Pissarro, d. November 13, 1903, THE SAINT-SEVER BRIDGE, ROUEN, North Carolina Museum of Art
collection.ncartmuseum.org/objects/101/...
collection.ncartmuseum.org/objects/101/...
Robert Ellsberg has a nice little writeup of her life today in Give Us This Day:
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Robert Ellsberg has a nice little writeup of her life today in Give Us This Day:
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 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!
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...
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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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...
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...
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.
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This time with emphasis
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This time with emphasis
USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace, Statement on Nuclear Disarmament, February 14, 2020
www.usccb.org/news/2020/st...
www.usccb.org/news/2020/st...
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace, Statement on Nuclear Disarmament, February 14, 2020
www.usccb.org/news/2020/st...
www.usccb.org/news/2020/st...
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-...
October 29, 1675 — three hundred fifty years: first known use of the long "s" to denote an integral, by Gottfried Leibniz
Image: Detail of notes I took on Monday afternoon in a visit to a colleague's class.
Image: Detail of notes I took on Monday afternoon in a visit to a colleague's class.
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
October 29, 1675 — three hundred fifty years: first known use of the long "s" to denote an integral, by Gottfried Leibniz
Image: Detail of notes I took on Monday afternoon in a visit to a colleague's class.
Image: Detail of notes I took on Monday afternoon in a visit to a colleague's class.
Hendrik Cornelisz. van Vliet, d. October 28, 1675 — three hundred fifty years — THE OLD CHURCH IN DELFT WITH THE TOMB OF ADMIRAL TROMP, Toledo Museum of Art
The Dutch church interior is one of my favorite genres of painting.
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The Dutch church interior is one of my favorite genres of painting.
emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5509...
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hendrik Cornelisz. van Vliet, d. October 28, 1675 — three hundred fifty years — THE OLD CHURCH IN DELFT WITH THE TOMB OF ADMIRAL TROMP, Toledo Museum of Art
The Dutch church interior is one of my favorite genres of painting.
emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5509...
The Dutch church interior is one of my favorite genres of painting.
emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5509...
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Geoffrey Chaucer, d. October 25, 1400 — six hundred twenty-five years
Our family dog during my childhood was a beagle named Chaucer. My parents adopted him when I was in utero. Here we are c. 1980–1981 ♥️
Our family dog during my childhood was a beagle named Chaucer. My parents adopted him when I was in utero. Here we are c. 1980–1981 ♥️
October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Geoffrey Chaucer, d. October 25, 1400 — six hundred twenty-five years
Our family dog during my childhood was a beagle named Chaucer. My parents adopted him when I was in utero. Here we are c. 1980–1981 ♥️
Our family dog during my childhood was a beagle named Chaucer. My parents adopted him when I was in utero. Here we are c. 1980–1981 ♥️
Music for St. Mark's in my "Recently Searched" list on Apple
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Music for St. Mark's in my "Recently Searched" list on Apple
William Merritt Chase (d. October 25, 1916), IN THE BAPTISTRY OF ST. MARK'S, VENICE, North Carolina Museum of Art
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collection.ncartmuseum.org/objects/9913...
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
William Merritt Chase (d. October 25, 1916), IN THE BAPTISTRY OF ST. MARK'S, VENICE, North Carolina Museum of Art
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collection.ncartmuseum.org/objects/9913...
October 24, World Polio Day
Got my COVID booster this afternoon!
Got my COVID booster this afternoon!
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
October 24, World Polio Day
Got my COVID booster this afternoon!
Got my COVID booster this afternoon!
Rosa Parks, d. October 24, 2005 — twenty years — in Detroit
Block print in our living room by American printmaker Kreg Yingst
kregyingst.com
📸 Mine, October 24, 2023
Block print in our living room by American printmaker Kreg Yingst
kregyingst.com
📸 Mine, October 24, 2023
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Rosa Parks, d. October 24, 2005 — twenty years — in Detroit
Block print in our living room by American printmaker Kreg Yingst
kregyingst.com
📸 Mine, October 24, 2023
Block print in our living room by American printmaker Kreg Yingst
kregyingst.com
📸 Mine, October 24, 2023