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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 6h

Icon of Edwin and Paulinus that The Other Doctor Casper gave me as a gift some years ago

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s mesmerizing. Here’s my own photograph of it. Next best thing? 🤷‍♂️

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Slides inserted into my lecture this morning 1/2

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

October 9, St. John Henry Newman I bought this hand-painted medal in May. After it arrived the craftsman who sold it to me said it was in his possession in St. Peter's Square when he attended the canonization in 2019. ❤️❤️❤️ With other Doctors of the Church on my brown scapular

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Future Nobel laureate, as it turned out (her, not me) "For Christian Respectfully ac"

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

North Campus, University of Michigan

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

October 6, St. Bruno Art Mail sent out a decade ago today by the fondly remembered Tomie dePaola His roots were in Calabria, and thanks to him we all spent so much time imaginatively in Calabria in the Strega Nona stories 🍝 tomiesblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/st-b...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@herreidjohn.bsky.social Look what arrived in the mail today! ❤️‍🔥

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Glory be to God for dappled things" (Hopkins) Our Mary garden this morning

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sunrise rainbow yesterday, 4 October 2026 — the solemnity of St. Francis of Assisi — at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Ann Arbor, Michigan 🕊️ #Francis800 (📸Credit: St. Francis of Assisi Parish)

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To conclude 4 October 2026, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi in the Franciscan Jubilee Year 🕊️ #Francis800, the great Tomie dePaola: tomiesblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/vint...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October 4, St. Francis of Assisi 🕊️ #Francis800 Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI IN ECSTASY, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford I saw it in April 2024 in THE BRILLIANCE OF CARAVAGGIO: FOUR PAINTINGS IN FOCUS, Toledo Museum of Art toledomuseum.org/exhibitions/...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October 4, St. Francis of Assisi 🕊️ #Francis800 Annibale Carracci and workshop, VISION OF SAINT FRANCIS, Detroit Institute of Arts dia.org/collection/v...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October 4, St. Francis of Assisi 🕊️ #Francis800 Jacopo Ligozzi, SAINT FRANCIS ADORING THE CROSS, Toledo Museum of Art emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/7944...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October 4, St. Francis of Assisi 🕊️ #Francis800 El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), SAINT FRANCIS STANDING IN MEDITATION, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha joslyn.org/art/collecti... We saw this at the Joslyn this past June — our first visit since it reopened after an amazing renovation

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Other Doctor Casper was cantor for the 8:30 Mass this morning — the solemnity of St. Francis of Assisi She wore her dress that most recalls the brown Franciscan habit and (behind the music book) a necklace with a peace dove 🕊️ (Shared here with her blessing)

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My own 📸 of a Bede window: St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, 25 May 2024 — feast of St. Bede En route to my car from the farmers market, on a whim I tried the door to sit by the Bede window for a bit. It was locked but a volunteer for the daily breakfast program saw me and let me in. ❤️

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our parish — St. Francis of Assisi, Ann Arbor — held its Transitus service last evening because we were having Sunday vigil Masses for the solemnity of St. Francis this evening. Our pastor sent me this image from the Transitus yesterday. 🕊️

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Big day. Annual convention of our lecturers' union and then homecoming for Ann Arbor Pioneer High School. Our house hosted our ninth-grader's friend group for their pre-celebration preparations and pictures. Now relaxing with this album: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This icon is the latest addition to our home iconostasis — a reproduction of a St. Francis icon at the Benedictine abbey of Solesmes 🕊️🐦‍⬛

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pope Leo's address yesterday to a delegation from the Lutheran World Federation is good. I sent it to my pope-loving Lutheran aunt with a comment that opening with that passage from Second Corinthians was perfect. She reminded me that in fact my grandfather (her father) began his sermons with it. ❤️

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30, St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church and Patron of students Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, SAINT JEROME IN THE DESERT, Detroit Institute of Arts dia.org/collection/s... This image is said to have inspired an entire genre of depictions of Jerome and the lion

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30, St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church and patron of students Guido Reni, THE ANGEL APPEARING TO ST. JEROME, Detroit Institute of Arts dia.org/collection/a...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

September 30, St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church and patron of students Jan van Eyck, SAINT JEROME IN HIS STUDY, Detroit Institute of Arts dia.org/collection/s... I have a print of this work in my office on campus

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

September 29, Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels — Michaelmas We added this Ethiopian icon of St. Michael the Archangel to our iconostasis around our fireplace back in February 🐉

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Little Gidding was the site of a famous early experiment in Anglican monastic life so here's a recent photograph by me at our lovely Anglican Benedictine community here in Michigan: St. Gregory's Abbey, Three Rivers, before First Vespers of St. Mary the Virgin, 14 August 2026

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time "There is an appointed time for everything, / and a time for every thing under the heavens" www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-t... Last issue of the journal WORSHIP (1926–1951: ORATE FRATRES) was in the mailbox this evening. Back cover:

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ink-and-watercolor painting of St. Paul's Church Jarrow in my living room:

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The American poet Sally Thomas has a remarkable sequence of poems called "Richeldis of Walsingham" — after the noblewoman who had the vision of the Holy House — originally published as a chapbook, now in her collection MOTHERLAND: www.ablemusepress.com/books/sally-...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lovely picture by The Other Doctor Casper of our Michaelmas daisies this morning. Autumn is here!

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

attr. Alessandro Allori — d. September 22, 1607 — LUCREZIA DE MEDICI, North Carolina Museum of Art collection.ncartmuseum.org/objects/3257...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

September 21, St. Matthew Pope Francis's episcopal motto is from the Venerable Bede's homily on the calling of St. Matthew. I always liked that. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time "A sower went out to sow his seed" Looking forward to the baptism of a colleague's baby daughter at Saturday-morning Mass today Vincent van Gogh, THE SOWER, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-so...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had a great discussion of this with my regular reading partner. I thought the Daodejing (as it's referred to everywhere in this edition except the cover) read like Jesus Christ — especially in the Parables — St. Paul, and St. Benedict all wrapped up into one. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Honorable mention to his Brucker 9: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bruno Walter was born one hundred fifty years ago today — September 15, 1876 His Beethoven Pastoral Symphony is marvelous: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September 15, Our Lady of Sorrows "This child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted and you yourself a sword will pierce" Marcantonio Raimondi, Albrecht Dürer, PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE, University of Michigan Museum of Art

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September 15, St. Dominic in Soriano Francisco de Zurbarán, APPARITION OF THE VIRGIN TO THE MONKS OF SORIANO, 1626, Santa María Magdalena, Seville en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_D...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

September 14, Exaltation of the Holy Cross Franciscan Jubilee Year 2026 Jacopo Ligozzi, SAINT FRANCIS ADORING THE CROSS, Toledo Museum of Art emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/7944...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time "For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's" www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-t... This passage recurs throughout this amazing book: www.nyrb.com/products/las...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pope Paul VI presenting his episcopal ring to Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey on March 23, 1966 (after carefully ascertaining how the gesture would be received) www.anglicannews.org/news/2016/10... To this day Archbishops of Canterbury still wear this ring when meeting with the Pope

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

September 12, Holy Name of Mary (Also Saturday commemoration of the BVM) The asters aren’t quite out yet but the leggy late-summer Mary garden is looking good

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jan van der Heyden — d. September 12, 1712 — THE GARDEN OF THE OLD PALACE, BRUSSELS, Toledo Museum of Art emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5521... The Other Doctor Casper and I visited Brussels a quarter-century ago last week, on our honeymoon

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ink-and-watercolor painting of St. Peter's Monkwearmouth in our living room:

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just finished my annual reading of Augustine's CONFESSIONS ❤️‍🔥 — my first complete reading since the election of the Augustinian pope. (I had it in progress when the conclave happened last year.) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/266404...

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