Love, Love, and once again, Love

Welcome, beloveds! Nyx | she/her | 22 Queer love is holy & Love is the purpose, the meaning and the source & all manner of thing shall be well 🤍 St. Rita of Cascia is my bestie

[catholicsapphic]

“Devotee” sounds like a far too tame label to describe the kind of thing I’m onto. I need a word to explain I’m in a parasocial relationship with a medieval nun

[catholicsapphic]

REMINDER ☝️ that today’s the day to begin a novena to St. Rita if you’d like to finish one until her feast day. Peace be with you 💕

[hilda-familly]

Important message‼️🆘

🔴🆘Why are you ignoring my campaign⁉️ We do not want to lose my ( grandmother ) because of hunger and lack of medicine.💔🙏💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😢😢 My grandmother is very sick. She suffers from platelet problems and needs expensive medication. She also needs surgery… please help us.😢😢😢💔💔💔💔

My child’s growth is weak due to malnutrition and my inability to buy him formula and food.😭🙏

We are 10 people living in the street.😢💔 Please support (my grandmother and my child).

They need only €90 per day.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ( If 9 people each donate €10, that would provide them with medicine and food .)

We give up our own food to provide food and medicine for them because they are the most vulnerable

🟢 vetted

✅ @/gazavetter list number #14

✅ @/90-ghost here

✅ @/gaza-evacuation-funds here

✅@/Bilal-sala7 hereVetted Gaza Fundraiser List Number #20

[steamfiredelevatorsongs402]

Immediate help needed for child and grandma suffering on street with grandma in need of surgery

Please don’t skip but donate and spread awareness

[ahmad-ziyad]

When my mother dies, remember that your silence was part of the reason for her death.

You could have helped… but you didn’t, while a mother was fading, inching closer to the end. The doctors said it clearly, without sugarcoating: without the surgery, death is inevitable.

I will not forgive anyone who sees this and does nothing. My mother is human, and she deserves the treatment that can save her life. 20 dollars from 50 people… a small amount for you, but it could have meant a full chance at life for my mother.

Donate Here - Vetted#658

[barbiehelmet]

i've seen many of you on my dash reblog fundraisers and campaigns from palestinians, especially those that have been vetted and verified. it's a massive help for those families. but today i want to talk about the person behind the verification: mohammed ayesh @moxayesh who has done the legwork to make sure these campaigns are legit.

unfortunately his own campaign is struggling. as many of you may know, mohammed has recently gotten married! he and his wife farah are trying their best to start a new life with a fresh start. their campaign goal is $10k, of which they currently have $3211. you can donate to them on chuffed here.

i also want to mention mohammed's little brother, yaser @yaseergaza. yaser is hard of hearing and has a cochlear implant. however due to the situation in gaza, he often struggles to keep his cochlear implant charged, and he has also had to discontinue his speech therapy sessions. he is trying to raise funds so that he can continue looking after his health, and currently has $695 out of a total goal of $10k. you can donate to him on chuffed here.

mohammed has done so much for so many families in gaza. i do not want his own needs to be sidelined. if you can donate anything, please do. and even if you cannot, please do share this post so that it reaches someone who can help. thank you.

[barbiehelmet]

with everyone's help, we've managed to raise around £400 for mohammed and £170 for yaser!! let's keep the momentum going and try to get them to their goals!

as it currently stands:

mohammed and farah: £3654 / £10,000

yaser: £866 / £10,000

keep sharing and donating please!

[gaza-evacuation-funds]

Hand in hand it becomes easier

[autisticandcatholic]

the Lord watched me bear my teeth at Him like a real feral dog over and over again and He doesn't back away, He actually gets closer

[many-sparrows]

Having a religious experience on my bedroom floor

[fear-not-beloved]

That’s what happens in the early stages of contemplation. We wait in silence. In silence all our usual patterns assault us. Our patterns of control, addiction, negativity, tension, anger, and fear assert themselves. That’s why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness, the first things that show up are wild beasts (Mark 1:13). Contemplation is not first of all consoling. It’s only real.

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

[sowecoulddance]

its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

[sharper-and-bigger]

Jesus also spent Christmas in a barn full of animals

[beloved-child]

i just wanted to tell you guys that as a trans christian, trying to find an affirming church has been an incredibly eye opening experience. the amount of baby boomers and gen x people i've seen in these churches proudly supporting LGBTQ+ people and not just loving them "despite their sin" but acknowledging that queer love ISN'T a sin has been such a breath of fresh air. there's older people out there that are affirming, guys. there is a certain point where it comes down to a generational thing and general cultural ignorance (still not an excuse!) but there are so many older people who are actively affirming or at the very least genuinely trying in their church communities. makes me very happy to see.

[ancestral-reflections]

just a reminder: science, philosophy, and religion can, and always will, go hand in hand

[vimeddiart]

Last month's patreon art! Jesus fanarts 🍷

[sacredheart-stigmata]

Kateri Tekakwitha is the patron of ecology, but I also think she should be a patron of those with long-covid as well. A little understood disease with potentially permeant effects that comes as a reminder of a pandemic that effected minorities far more than others in usamerica. it reminds me of the disabilities that came with smallpox, which weren't well understood and served as a reminder of an epidemic that effected primarily Indigenous peoples of turtle island. i feel like she'd be very happy to pray for those with long-covid, have lost friends and family to it, or lost their own lives to long-covid

[eesirachs]

How do I get back to God? The pain,the hatred of my religious community made me leave

And I am not sure I can ever come back

I was in pain for so long

And I dont know anymore

There was peace

But I am also just tired

say ‘thank you’ at meals. spend your saturday mornings at pantries, or, every time you shop pick up some pasta for the pantry offerings at the front of most markets. publish your poetry. keep narcan on you. find an hour of adoration near you. sit-in on a new service. visit a mother, yours or someone that has the feel of one. find a shelter that needs hands and help. find a shrine that sells rosaries and pendants and prayercards and let something holy pick the ones you need. regularly feed the birds in your yard, so no one is hungry. find your ethical relationships—support groups especially. reach out, his hand is there

[ikkyu-no-tamatama]

"And do not think that to enter the mystery of Christ is to escape from the world. Again I say that the mystery of Christ is centered on His cross. This means that it is the mystery of the poor, the sick, the afflicted, the deranged, the imprisoned, the dying, and all those suffering people with whom Jesus identifies. It is the mystery of the exploited, the manipulated, the terrorized, the oppressed. It is the mystery of nuclear war, of hunger, of injustice, of human anguish. It is the mystery of you and me when we suffer and when we sin. Christian mystical experience, far from flying from the suffering and sinful world, is an entrance into its very heart."

—William Johnston, Christian Mysticism Today

[apilgrimsprogress]

God may be reached and held close by means of love, but by means of thought, never.

Anonymous, Cloud of Unknowing

[charl0ttan]

wait is jesus gonna be at the party i totally sinned hard as hell last week and if he sees me its gonna be awkward as fuckkkkkkk

[teaboot]

Girl he’s there for uuuuuuuu 😭😭😭