Pilgrim

a 24 year old trudging his way through this messy tangle called life

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of One Significant Landscape", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[ink-the-artist]

Rabbits

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[mindofeloquence]

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

[sisterreisaid]

"If rest becomes a form of recovery from work, as is the case today, it loses its specific ontological value. It no longer represents an independent, higher form of existence and degenerates into a derivative of work. Today's compulsion of production perpetuates work and thus eliminates that sacred silence. Life becomes entirely profane, desecrated."

—Han Byung-Chul, The Disappearance of Rituals

[the-mediaeval-monk]

Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 f.3r

Some nuns and monks playing shoulder wars

[mountlebanon-deactivated2020123]

A Lebanese Muslim woman lights a candle in a Melkite Catholic church in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on March 20, 2016, as she joined a mass and procession for Palm Sunday. 

Photo: Patrick Baz

[mindofserenity]

— Surah al-Ma'un (Small Kindnesses), 107th surah of the Holy Quran

[one-of-many-speartips]

Gaspar de Crayer - Lamentation of Christ

[intrinsicallydisordered]

“The rich do wrong and boast of it, while the poor are wronged and beg forgiveness. As long as the rich can use you they will enslave you, but when you are down and out they will abandon you… they will drain you dry without remorse. When they need you they will deceive you and smile at you and raise your hopes… [they] finally laugh at you. Afterwards, when they see you, they will pass you by, and shake their heads at you.”

— Sirach 13:3-7

[vampirecorleone]

"Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So the way he sees it, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. It's just a matter of how you look at it, that's all. So don't worry, okay? Okay?" Jacob's Ladder (1990) dir. Adrian Lyne

[eesirachs]

verses that have fit-ness on a protest sign—

"you shall not oppress foreigners, for you know their heart. you yourselves were foreigners in egypt once" (exod 23:9 et. par.)

"you shall not hate in your heart" (lev 19:17)

"you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your needy neighbor" (deut 15:7)

"and all their neighbors aided them" (ezra 1:6)

"fear god—and let them live with you" (the jubilee year, lev 25:36)

"i know you see me" (hagar to the god of her enslavers; gen 16:13)

"for the sake of righteousness" (ps 44:26)

"is this not the fast i have chosen? ... to free the oppressed? to unfasten the yoke?" (is 58:6)

"[heaven to his prophet:] solemnly protest to them—show them the kind of king that shall reign over them" "[the prophet to his people:] you shall scream for relief from the king you have asked for. heaven shall not hear you" (the prophet responding to the people asking for a king; 1 sam 8)

[t4tstarvingdog]

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

[tattahitotsunosaetayarikata-dea]

[tuulikki]

#someone had a lot of fun writing this headline

(from @afloweroutofstone)

[cruciform-solidarity]

[thyateira]

Everyone is negotiating with the Biblical text, I choose to do so through the lens of the greatest commandment: to love God and to love your neighbours, who are made in the Image of God

[metalonmetalblog]

“Christ’s Spine,”   Christ skinless after flagellation

painting in monastery of Santa Catalina, Quito, Ecuador

[turkicculture]

A Kazakh artist Dosbol Kasymov, created possibly the first-ever painting of Mary and the Child Jesus as native Kazakhs; it displayed in Kazakhstan’s only Marian shrine.