[alilyhn]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]", Lord of the Butterflies

[sangrientojoe]

"What the Jedi Code Teaches Us About Losing Everything" - Kieran Kelly

[antisisyphus]

On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart by Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie

[queerlittlelamb]

Thinking about how aside from coming to save us all from sin, Jesus was also God coming to experience His own creation. Jesus was a little boy once, with parents who loved and raised him. He had hobbies. A favorite color and food. He dreamed, he imagined. He felt the grass beneath his feet and the wind on his skin and saw the stars in the sky. He felt joy, grief, anguish, fear, excitement, love. He was a person.

[forthesakeofthespirit]

doves and pigeons being basically identical scientifically speaking is so important to me.

the dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, of God's immeasurable love and mercy come to intercede for us. is the same bird as the common "flying rat" of the cities, the slums, the poor, dilapidated areas that most folk would never willingly go.

even there. there is God. and He comes scruffy and dirty

[many-sparrows]

about your judas post - something i've always found interesting is how jesus says that judas and peter will betray him, yet at the same time he sees it as his father's will, and something necessary for reasons he does and simultaneously does not understand, and as judas enters with the soldiers, jesus is in a state complete acceptance. he tells everyone not to fight back. on the cross he asks his father "why have you forsaken me?" but never judas, because he knows why... but still, judas hangs himself. he felt unable to be forgiven, now that jesus was to be killed, and i still don't know what lesson this is supposed to teach us. maybe that things can go as planned and still be unredeemable, that jesus and judas both had to experience the most brutal facets of humanity as acts of faith. i dont know.

I think Judas could have been forgiven (and, like, was forgiven). I think the lesson is to keep going, wait for the resurrection, when you fuck up. Don’t let the despair destroy you , even when you can’t picture a way to reconciliation. Peter doubted on the lake and Jesus reached out to catch him. Thomas doubted and Jesus presented his wounds. Judas would have seen the resurrection.

As for the rest, I find your reflection quite beautiful. As someone said “Judas was the only apostle to die with Jesus.”

[many-sparrows]

Do you think Judas’s betrayal was an act of faith? Judas, who was pragmatic, who was trusted to handle their money, who made sure their resources could be spent wisely. Judas, whose sin had always been being too pragmatic and forgetting to leave room for the miraculous? Do you think Judas entered the city behind the donkey and thought “Something miraculous is going to happen.” Do you think he heard about the bounty and thought “Jesus has humiliated and outsmarted the Pharisees every other time they’ve tried to trap him. I’ll turn him in for the money and he will escape and think of how many things we can do with that silver.” ? Do you think his horror was just remorse, or recognizing a miscalculation?

[forthesakeofthespirit]

doves and pigeons being basically identical scientifically speaking is so important to me.

the dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, of God's immeasurable love and mercy come to intercede for us. is the same bird as the common "flying rat" of the cities, the slums, the poor, dilapidated areas that most folk would never willingly go.

even there. there is God. and He comes scruffy and dirty

[interstellarstorms]

I don’t know maybe this sounds really weird but I definitely feel weird but the way I feel about Catholicism is very similar to the way some might feel about a family member they have fundamental or otherwise significant differences from. Like I do talk bad about her but she’s my family and if you berate her the way I do but lack a similarly complicated relationship with her, I’m not gonna be happy.

[mandalorian-loving-mandalorian]

i see your “do you think jesus son of a carpenter smelt the wood of the cross and thought of you” and raise you this question: did jesus prepare for his death with the hope that, like isaac, God would interrupt his sacrifice?

[mandalorian-loving-mandalorian]

thinking abt this again. how must it feel for your father to save another from a sacrifice but not you. you are not isaac, you are the ram slaughtered in his stead. you were born amongst the livestock and you will die like them. a sacrifice for something greater than you; something that doesn’t care for your life but rather the devotion your death represents.

[pissbataille]

rainer maria rilke, from the book of hours: love poems to god; “the book of a monastic life” trans. anita barrows & joanna macy

[1-jar-of-stars]

Cain and Abel

joseph telushkin // Cain and Abel, Orazio Riminaldi // Silvina Ocampo tr. by Jason Weiss, Inscriptions Cain Read in Abel’s Eyes // unknown // Famous Blue Raincoat, Leonard Cohen

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Cain and Abel Artist: Josep Vergara (Spanish, 1726-1799) Date: 2nd half of 18th century Genre: religious art (Christianity) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 42 cm (16.5 in) high x 34 cm (13.3 in) wide Location: Museu de Belles Arts de València, Spain

[thismustbeso]

Everything Sad is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri / Cain Slaying Abel (~1640-1650), Gioacchino Assereto / The Sacrifice of Isaac (1616), Pedro Orrente / Crucified Christ (1896), Viktor Vasnetsov

[colakills]

on being a "good brother"

@butchdykekondraki || you are the beginning - the family crest || a house in nebraska- ethel cain || cop car- mitski || goodbyes by anonymous on ao3

[depsidase]