High Church - High Society

[hirxeth]

Running on Empty (1988) dir. Sidney Lumet

[spinfastdizzy-deactivated202211]

If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[pre-raphaelisme]

studies of the Tree of Life (Tree of Forgiveness) design for the St. Paul’s Within the Walls Episcopal Church by Edward Burne-Jones, circa 1885-1888

[artist-angelico]

Virgin and Child with Sts. Dominic and Thomas Aquinas, 1445, Fra Angelico

Medium: fresco, wall

[allaboutmary]

A statue of Mary outside a Catholic church in Japan.

[taur]

[beachsunshinefun]

Cam McMillan and Daniel Jacobus Retief for Vanity Teen by Michael Oliver Love

[barcarole]

Pier Paolo Pasolini in Trastevere, Rome, 1953. Photos by Herbert List.

[twocrowns]

The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.

St. Faustina Kowalska (via twocrowns)

[crucem-domini]

[theraccolta]

Imposition of Hands for Ordination 

[timediamondeu]

Saint Charles church, Austria, Vienna

[theraccolta]

On the Significance and Symbolism of the Sacred Vestments

[maddoverseas]

The Acropolis, Athens, Greece (The Adventuring Urbanist)

[queenantoinetteoffrance]

Louis XVI was born on this day (23 August 1754)

[beachsunshinefun]

[monsieurcouture]

Raf Simons S/S 2011 Menswear Paris Fashion Week

[coisasdetere]