Svet

Light a candle on the edge of darkness, he/him Anglo-Orthodox

[banishedchildofeve]

‘Jesus Christ in Sorrow in Gethsemane’ - Carl Heinrich Bloch

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[xmbulance]

local cemetery said angel rights!

[stigmatam4rtyr]

Maternity (1917, oil on canvas) | Edmund Leighton

[furordinaricvs]

Cat resting on a cross of Orthodox church in Perast, Montenegro.

[forthesakeofthespirit]

I go crazy for the Incarnation.

can you imagine seeing Jesus smile? can you imagine the puff of air that would escape His nose when someone said something a little bit funny?? can you imagine watching Him tie His sandals??? Him brushing your shoulder by accident as you walk by???? falling to your knees cause you just touched God????? Him crouching down to face you and giving you the most loving look you've ever seen in your life?????? the way His voice would have sounded calling you by name???????! hearing God use His vocal cords and the air from His lungs and knowledge of the language He learned growing up to produce a sentence calling you by name?????!?!??!?!

His clothes feel just like anyone else's as they're made wet and cold with tears. He smells of skin and body odour and dust. His arms have hair. He's warm. you feel the calluses on His hands as they rub your back. your hands slowing come up and place themselves on His spine-

God has bones..

[wheatfish-in-a-basket]

Lost Sheep

Leaving sin

Finding Jesus

[yisraelthebarregesh]

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

[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

[sedesapostolica]

[nn-ee-zz]

The first depiction of Mary and Jesus

[sacredlitany]

Give Christ all your bitterness, anger, pity, disgust, contempt, hypocritical nature. Give Him all things. The good and the ugly.

He will not, can not, does not look away. He embraces you and looks at you, fully, wholly. All pretences and façades undone.

He sees you. His Child. His Beloved Child.

[flamingartofheart]

Agony in the Garden, 1898 - oil on canvas

— Frans Schwartz

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When I weep at His pain, I find strength in His infinite love.

[devoutdeer-deactivated20251231]

Can we stop saying "God loves you, but" or "God is merciful/loving/kind, but". When people do that, it invalidates everything they said before the but. Why are we so afraid to say "God is merciful. FULL STOP." Why do we have to put conditions on God's love or make God's love more palatable? It's supposed to be controversial. It's supposed to be unconditional. God's love isn't supposed to be watered down and brought to our level. The reason we want to worship God in the first place is because we know God's love is steadfast, consistent, and completely unconditional. It's greater than our feeble human sensibilities.

[dailyclassicart]

Adolf Mosengel - "Village in the Bernese Alps"

[dollieheartt]

[flamingartofheart]

The Youth of Our Lord, 1847 - oil on canvas

— John Rogers Herbert (England, 1810–1890)