The Amateur Monastic

Middle-aged Anglican queer limping back to the Church after taking the long way round. Follows from @rembrandtswife. It would be a corporal work of mercy if you tipped me for original content you like. My Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/G2G1WO24

[rembrandtswife]

A LESSON OF LOVE — Earth and Altar

This is a revelation, a lesson, a showing These are revelations of love that will be taught to you in sixteen showings You will be shown

I have a poem published in an online magazine!!!

[oldinterneticons]

[amateurmonastic]

[thememedaddy]

[omnybus]

I think what I love most about mythology is that the “Trickster God/Spirit” is an archetypical character found in almost every body of folklore. It’s like “Oh, here’s our God of the Sun, our God of the Sea, our God of Fertility, and our God of Being A Wretched Little Gremlin Who Causes Problems On Purpose”

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Return of the Prodigal Son Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682) Date: between 1667 and 1670 Genre: religious art (Roman Catholic Christianity) Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 236 cm (92.9 in) high x 262 cm (103.1 in) wide Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

[willgrahamscock]

I think it's a misuse of your big platform to allow the spreading of transgenderism! We do not need those freaks on this earth

I need those freaks actually, and I'm going to use my platform to spread transgenderism like Judas spread his legs for Jesus.

[willgrahamscock]

bro yes he did lol says it in my bible 649 times

[itsevanffsbutspam]

transman christian/catholic here, firstly, thanks for sticking up for our rights even if you're not trans yourself, i appreciate you doing that and it means a lot to me, if not a lot of others.

i'd like to raise a counterpoint however, and obviously feel free to dispute me on this, but considering jesus asked his disciples to partake in consuming his flesh, would that not imply jesus bottoms?

[willgrahamscock]

incredibly important question, lets ask the internet

Who bottoms?

Jesus

Judas

Switch

Voting ended onApr 11, 2024

[itsevanffsbutspam]

my favourite contributions so far to this discussion

[mugentakeda]

[goodvibesdog]

I’m gonna ask my very catholic but very open minded cousin

[goodvibesdog]

[inquietstrength]

so I get to go see my coworker be baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church in two weeks! Any tips for visiting an Orthodox church for the first time? Any ideas on Baptism gifts?

[amateurmonastic]

I've been to an Orthodox infant baptism! Two notes: It is a long service and, if there is a reception afterward, all the tunes for dancing are in odd meters, e.g., 7/8

[theconcealedweapon]

[rostekhorn]

Always found it revealing of something that in Christian mythology, the devil is basically portrayed as a banker. (A loan shark if you prefer). He offers unreasonably good deals to people in need of them, demands something obscenely personal and life-defining as collateral, and then when the deal inevitably falls through, repossesses it and now owns you.

Which, in this analogy, would make Jesus' sacrifice the much bloodier equivalent of all those people who buy up medical debt on the Internet and then forgive it. (South Park, of all things, got this basically right in their Great Recession episode).

[depsidase]

[epoxyconfetti]

Let us not forget the SPAM lamb (Private Charles Lamb) from M*A*S*H.

[cuties-in-codices]

the martyrdom of st. sebastian

miniature from a german prayer book, 15th c.

source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 121, fol. 286r

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate (outer wings from the organ of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice; the inner wings, depicting Sts. Peter and Paul, are lost) Artist: Giovanni Bellini (Italian [Venetian], ca. 1430-1516) and workshop Date: ca. 1500 Genre: religious art (Roman Catholic Christianity) Period: Renaissance (Cinquecento) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 225 cm (88.5 in) high x 105 cm (41.3 in) wide (each) Location: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy

[fruitblush]

Tattoo Commission

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[apenitentialprayer]

The Death of Saint Joseph, watercolor and charcoal on wove paper, by William Blake (1803)

A Vespers Prayer to Saint Joseph

Jesus and Mary hung above thee on that sad, but happy day when, with their fond arms around thee, passed thy gentle soul away. Oh! when death shall come to take me, all its terrors I’ll defy if, with Jesus and Mary, thou, dear Joseph, wilt be nigh. Antiphon: I will sleep in peace, and I will rest, for Thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.

[amateurmonastic]

POEM: His father (for Saint Joseph)

You were his heaven, and his mother the earth;

your name his safety, your will his law.

What Abba and Imma agreed on was right and true.

Your hands did the labor that earned the coin

that bought the grain your wife made into bread,

the rough wine you drank together, day by day.

Your anger, no, your disappointment, was the thing

he dreaded most, your forgiveness a pearl of great price

worth all the kingdoms of the earth. You taught him

how to forgive, how to be forgiven. In all dangers

you were his protection, and his mother's, his rock

of refuge, a fountain of living water that was both

wisdom and love. In every way, you were his father,

in every way he knew. When the voice from heaven

claimed him, it sounded to him like you.

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis