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a marian centric blog for a mary devoted spirituality🌹

about

they/them • 20s • a very long time recovering from religious trauma but we made it boys! my interests include theology and comparative religion, ecology (plants and animals) and archeology. my favorite marian titles/apparitions are our lady of lourdes, nuestra señora de guadalupe, the gate of dawn and the mother of mercy 🌹

a few years ago i made this blog to compile things relating to theology and world religions and now that ive began to really find my way spiritually im going to rearrange it a little. because my spirituality revolves around the Holy Mother it will be primarily focused on her now but still be a home for my theological interests. keep in mind that despite loving Mary i am not christian myself although im welcoming to progressive christians and other religious folks. this place will remain a welcoming and accepting environment! i am accepting of all religions but i am not tolerant when they cause harm or when people use them as an excuse to cause harm. zionism, white christian nationalism and hindutva will never be welcome here. neither will religious or cult abuse or high control religions. however, i am welcoming to those with beliefs considered unorthodox or heretical by mainstream religions like folk religions within (not harmful) reason.

i am anticolonialist, antizionist, anticapitalist, anti imperialist, antifascist and anti white supremacy. i believe in a free palestine, congo and sudan and the world free from neocolonialism in my lifetime and if not then we must build the foundation for that world in the present. water food and shelter are human rights. the lives of oppressed people around the world matter, none of us are free until all of us are free. i support all queer rights, all women's rights all children's rights and the rights of all racialized people especially black and indigenous people worldwide.

religious conservatives and extremists, zionists, islamophobes, racists, transphobes and transmisogynists/queerphobes need not apply. antitheists won't have a great time either. assholes get blocked. fuck every single fascist and cop. luke 1:52-53 <3

sparklies under the cut 🌹

miriam-farish

#our lady of guadalupe

for some reason im just realizing how similar some of my main beliefs are to christian gnostic theology about sophia and it honestly makes me feel less alone comforted and quite validated. its also very fun for me to compare and contrast beliefs and the best part about that is no one needs to be right or wrong, things can just be and people can share ideas an build community with each other. and i get to learn new things (bonus for me)

#eclerarosa

biblicalle

Art of Mother Mary and baby Jesus from:

India, Iran, Indonesia

Ethiopia, Peru, Korea,

Russia, Turkey, Greece

#mary #art

calleido

proval lake, pyatigorsk, russia

#shrines

eclerarosa

sometimes i just love being marian so much

eclerarosa

when you ask her to pull you deeper into her mystery she pulls you inward like the tides of the ocean and pulls you upward like the moon raising the waves up. its so awesome

luxangelae

in case you’re wondering….

#same #art

luxangelae

It is said that Our Lady gently arranged roses inside Juan Diego’s cloak. It was December, and fresh roses had all died out. When Juan Diego met again with the bishop, the roses fell out onto the floor, leaving the image of the Blessed Mother imprinted on the cloak. In this art piece, a little kitty happens by the most fragrant shrine full of roses trees, and sees that nestled in between is Our Lady of Guadelupe. Struck by her radiance, she lights a candle for her. // shop. inprnt.

#art #our lady of guadalupe

04k96

#nature

after a lot of back and forthing on something particular for the past few weeks ive decided to be merciful and live by faith because being kind to each other is all we have in the end <3

#thank you my lady for crushing yet another serpent under your heel #sorry theres like a whole snake nest under here umm. yeah we're dealing with that #no offense to actual snakes theyre cool and beneficial to the environment

clovers-practice

Forever thinking about how Mary conceived via the holy spirit, which is a historically feminine entity. Lots of untapped potential for Something here. Not sure what yet

ohholydyke

Lesbianism strikes again

and-her-saints

update on my altarcito ‧⁺⋆♱

#so gorgeous !!!#altars

bobdylanyaoi

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.