Honey ❦†

Daughter of God .⋆† Progressive Catholic 𑣲⋆ Baby convert ⊹ ࣪ ˖

[honeyworships]

hi my name is honey and this is my catholic side blog, mostly ramblings with some prayer requests. Looking for Catholic moots!

I am still learning but I believe my love in Jesus will guide me!

proudly a lamb with Jesus as my Shepard. I believe in converting people through my actions, rather than my words. Feminist, bisexual, minor.

autism ✞ ptsd ✞ anxiety

saints ✞ ── Saint Dymphna, Saint Philomena

popes ✞ ── Pope Leo XIV

verses ✞ ── Corinthians 16:14, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John, 4:8

[discalcedmystic]

Biblical Womanhood =/= Trad Wife Bullshit

Young Christian girls, remember that the Proverbs 31 woman is a business owner. She makes and sells clothes. She bought a farm with her own money. She's intelligent enough to do her business WELL. The average working mother is much closer to the Proverbs 31 woman than these wealthy trad wife influencers.

Biblical womanhood is not about being docile or worshipping men. It's not about this creepy obsession with submission. It's about being intelligent, doing whatever needs to be done for yourself and your family. Following God's will. Deborah led an army. Judith murdered a King to save her people. Esther is the one who must intervene to save her people.

And to see Catholic women parroting this bullshit? When even our own Saints weren't these cutesy little trad life girls. God told St. Hidegard Von Bingin to preach. Imagine if St. Joan of Arc responded to God's call with "Bu-But I'm just a cute coqeutte girl 🎀". St. Teresa of Avila reformed and created the Discalced Carmelites. Even St. Maria Goretti, a child, fought to the death to protect her dignity and autonomy. It was women who spread the word of Jesus, who spread the word of His resurrection.

Jesus was born of a woman, Mary and God. No human male was involved in His birth. Never forget the importance of that. Christ protected women who committed mortal sins. He told men to gauge out their eyes if they can't respect a woman's dignity. He showed himself to a woman first. The late Pope Francis himself called St. Mary Magdelene the Apostle to the Apostles.

Never allow anyone to weaponize your faith against you. God does not view you as a helpmate. God has nothing but respect and reverence for women's power. Never ever ever let someone tell you that biblical womanhood is about being weak and dependent or being the most "pure" or the most feminine. Biblical womanhood is about strength, nobility, and love for God at the core of every action.

[queers4christ]

"catholics cant be misogynistic because we love Mary so much!!!!!" no actually you can because you use Mary as a device to teach women that their oppression should be holy by painting the Virgin to be that of a dainty housewife thats quiet easy and submissive instead of the meek and powerful QUEEN she is. you dont love the Blessed Mother and the female Saints you love making excuses to belittle women in a religion thats yelling in your face to do the opposite.

[honeyworships]

I need to go to mass, I need to go to mass, I need to go to mass, I need to go to mass

[honeyworships]

If I am not meant to be loved, can God take away my yearning to be loved?

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I fear I’m in a state of mortal sin since I am on birth control but it’s to regulate periods and not to prevent pregnancy so am I in the clear

[honeyworships]

”and the worship of mother Mary ya know? Like I thank her for birthing Jesus but she ain’t that special” excuse me what?

[honeyworships]

Catholic, living in Ireland, happily married, 3-5 kids, good community, good education, working as a teacher, my schedule filled up with volunteer time. I think that’s all I want in life

[honeyworships]

Thanks for asking me about my conversion! Why did you decide to convert to Catholicism?

this is going to be very vulnerable but most testimonies are:

My parents were very lukewarm Christians, we never really went to church going up. My mom was raised Baptist and my father was raised non-denominational I think (but he wasn't very open about his spirituality). I was abused by my older brother my whole life, which went unnoticed by my parents. and I remember praying for everything to stop or for God to just kill me. But nothing ever happened. My spirituality dimmed and I eventually left the faith all together.

I dabbled in a lot of different pagan religions, I used to be a Hellenic polytheist but I didn't have a lot of faith. I struggled a lot with my mental health, undiagnosed PTSD and autism, along with my self harm and suicidal tendencies. It felt like nothing could give me respite from my suffering. I was sexually assaulted and groomed, and dealt with a lot of domestic violence when I was 14 which worsened my mental health issues. I became deeply suicidal and my self harm worsened, I attempted for the first time.

I began therapy but still didn't feel any better. I was still suffering from flashbacks, nightmares, and passive suicidal feelings. After my second attempt at suicide, in which my parents caught me, they told me to turn to Jesus and find strength to keep living through God.

I struggled to find the will to follow Him, I had felt like He was never there for me when I was suffering. Eventually, I decided to go to the Catholic church after seeing little plastic Jesus' everywhere I went. I began to research online through Youtube and other places and went to my first Catholic Mass. I thought if I was going to become Christian, I might as well join the first Church founded by Jesus and do the actual thing.

I am trying to turn away from the world, which has hurt me so much, and towards God and Jesus. The Saints have certainly helped because they suffered just like me but it didn't mean God hated them or abandoned them, just like He doesn't hate me.

[honeyworships]

My outfit for church ⛪️

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I tried to go to a Catholic Church, why is it closed 💔

[eesirachs]

how to look into the catholic church, if you feel the tug of it—

look for communities near you to visit; morning masses have nice women who love to greet new neighbors. this is a book on how to visit, and this is my guide on it. the task is copying those near you. you need to find ethical relationship—going out is important. if you can't, though, try virtual masses (like those in my city through catholictv). follow the mass with a lectionary, the usccb daily readings, or the ordo

visit adoration, quiet times of reflection in front of the body. in various communities there are hours of this, or, it never ends

learn to pray chaplets or the rosary. visit churches half an hour before mass to recite the rosary with others. you can count on your fingers until you get one yourself

learn the nicene creed, which outlines the catholic faith in its gist

read vatican encyclicals like pope francis' delixit nos (he likens faith to his grandmother's cookies) or pope leo's recent magnifica humanitas (the rhetoric here is of loving the neighbor ethically, lornfully)

reach out to other catholics, like me 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯, pilgrim yourself to shrines, or visit festivals or feast days near you, (like the north end's st anthony's feast)

remain both generous and critical in one breath. name the violence of this church

lastly, look into ocia or rcia, rites of initiation guided by deacons or fathers to come home to the church

[woodenrosary]

Instagram and tiktok Christians knowing the difference between dogma and doctrine challenge level impossible

[honeyworships]

Doctrines are the teachings of the Church; dogmas are those doctrines which have been revealed by God through the Scriptures or Tradition

[woodenrosary]

Friendly reminder that the more American you consider yourself to be the less Catholic you are

One can not claim to have his identity in the Catholic Church and in the national identity that is heavily built on the purely protestant believe of the "land promised by God"

[honeyworships]

i want to go to confession so bad but I don't know how it works

[honeyworships]

I sometimes wish God didn't make me a girl and I have a lot of issues with my gender, I'm not sure how to overcome this since I have felt this way since I was a child. Does anyone have any words of comfort or anything to help?

[clovers-practice]

I’ve learned the best way to get people genuinely interested in Christianity is by being very very kind and very VERY autistic about the unconditional love of Mary mother of God