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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 7h

It goes without saying but the question is formulated exactly backward.

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 9h

María, Madre de gracia, Madre de misericordia, defíéndenos del enemigo. En la Vida y en la muerte ampáranos gran señora.

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 8h

Mu children were a little weirded out by my walking around with it in one hand and pointing my phone at it with the other looking for the best light.

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 8h

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

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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops @usccbofficial.bsky.social · 10h

At New Orleans in Louisiana in the United States of America, Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, priest, of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer: Bavarian by birth, he was unsparing in his care for the needs of children, youth, and migrants. Blessed Xavier Seelos, pray for us!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13h

Saint Catherine prays, an angel w/ a sword appears, the wheel bursts into flames, and the landscape is beautiful. Because it was painted in 1515 by Joachim Patinir, master of landscape, who died OTD in 1524.

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 16h

Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Six minutes ago I received a notification from Etsy that a medal of St. Ambrose that I ordered will arrive today. (This is not to say that such notification was useful at all. It will arrive whether I expect it or not.)

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 18h

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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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 18h

Congratulations to our first Nobel Prize laureate of 2026 🎉 Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He seems very happy with the news!

Karl Deisseroth on the phone looking happy

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 19h

"To an eminent scientist, a slumber-interrupting phone call is a most welcome surprise in the predawn hours in early October." The opening line in my M.A. thesis, IN PRAISE OF CARBON: GENRE AND THE 1996 NOBEL LECTURES IN CHEMISTY commons.emich.edu/theses/125/

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In praise of carbon: Genre and the 1996 Nobel lectures in chemistry by Christian Fredrick Casper

Using genre theory along with the hierarchy of scientific statement types of Latour and Woolgar (1979) and the scientific stases and scientific topoi of Prelli (1989), this thesis analyzes the three N...

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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 19h

Neat. We used to work with a local optogenetics company as a client in our senior-design course in biomedical engineering. I also did an editing job on an optogenetics proposal two summers ago.

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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

October 4, St. Francis of Assisi 🕊️ #Francis800 Dana Gioia reading his remarkable new English rendering of the Canticle: youtu.be/rtSkt53xmkE I used this back in April to preface a discussion at our parish on nature and creation-care in writings by and inspired by St. Francis of Assisi

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St. Francis' poem: "The Canticle of All Creatures"

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You may think you're cool, but you'll never be as cool as Lithuanian folk art St Francis doing stigmata kung fu (via limis.lt)

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

Jusepe de Ribera, SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Palatine Gallery, Pitti Palace, Florence www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/...

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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

Oh this wasn’t meant to be snide or critical. After all, it is indeed the memorial of St. Francis even if that isn’t the Mass today in most places! (And it is for us! Just arrived home from it, in fact.)

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Poverello, pray for us.

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

In most of the Church today is the memorial of St. Francis but liturgically superseded by the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. In parishes dedicated to Francis — like my family's — and in Franciscan communities it's the solemnity of St. Francis — in the Franciscan Jubilee Year! 🕊️ #Francis800

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

Saint Bede Abbey, Peru, Illinois — where I did a lovely retreat two months ago — uses images of the Ann Arbor window on their social media: www.facebook.com/saintbedeabb...

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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

Lots of great glass in Durham Cathedral shared today by @simonknott.bsky.social. I'm highlighting this one for obvious reasons. Venerable Bede, ora pro nobis!

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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

Also watched some bits and pieces of Transitus of St. Francis services as they streamed live on YouTube. 🕊️

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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 · 04/10/2026

I love this. 🕊️🦅🦆🦜🦢🦉

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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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Ray Glennon OFS @rayglennon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Livestream the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi at the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City, MD tonight at 7:00 p.m. with remarks by Archbishop Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore. www.youtube.com/@AnthonyComp... cc: @jonmsweeney.bsky.social

Courtyard at Shrine of St. Anthony at Ellicott City, MD

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Transitus is tonight, when St. Francis of Assisi passed from one life to the next. Giotto, Fresco 20, Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here are some livestreaming Transitus services tonight -- 3 options in different time zones. A great opportunity to join other Franciscans in marking the 800th anniversary of the passing of Saint Francis. friars.us/article/2026...

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Commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Transitus with the friars

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This Zurburan is in the collection of the art museum in Milwaukee. Startles me every time, so mysterious. Mysterious also was St. Francis’s embrace of “Sister Death,” which we remember tonight, October 3: The Transitus, when he passed through death to life.

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

Burial place of my patron saint — let's mix it up a bit — St. Bede the Venerable, Priest and Doctor of the Church

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

I have a colleague here at the U. of Michigan (a friend) who is tenured in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance with a similar academic profile. I think he has an associate's degree. (This is, to be sure, unusual. But true in this case.)

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

Lovely choral Vespers service at our parish this evening for the Transitus of St. Francis. It included Felice Anerio's motet "Christus factus est" Here it is in Mass on Palm Sunday 2016 presided over by his namesake Pope Francis: youtu.be/dr9n4VoSrvM

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Graduale - Christus factus est (F. Anerio)

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

Our parish — which is dedicated to St. Francis — is having a Transitus service this evening because we'll already be observing the solemnity tomorrow evening. ❤️🕊️

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

It's also commonly used as the greeting at the beginning of a Sunday service in Lutheran churches.

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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 · 02/10/2026

Today concludes a four-day stretch that I like to call Angeltide — between the feast days of the archangels (September 29) and the guardian angels (October 2) By my reckoning this period is the beginning of the autumn spooky season — concluding at the treble solo at King's College on Christmas Eve

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