maryam

24. they/them. wrestling with faith. queer & pro choice.

[magnetothemagnificent]

There's something that really gets me about how the Torah is alive. A Torah scroll is buried when it's destroyed and can't be salvaged. People are as careful holding a Torah scroll as they are holding a baby. We dress our Torah scrolls in adorned cases or decorated robes. We celebrate it every year like it's its birthday. And the words of the Torah themselves are also alive. We constantly reread and recontextualize and reinterpret the Torah. The Torah is as alive as the Jewish people are.

[cruciform-solidarity]

“For many their Christ is the Christ of the tomb, the waiting Christ, the silent Christ. And many of them learn to wait, find an answer in the waiting, and see that the waiting is not an empty thing; it is not an absence of something, it is a more powerful kind of presence. Like Paul whose ‘thorn in the flesh’ was not removed, the waiting is the way they know God, whose strength is made perfect in weakness. After a while they no longer wait impatiently for something to happen, because the waiting is the happening, it is the way they follow Christ, the waiting becomes the way.”

— Richard Holloway, The Way of the Cross

[beguines]

Mohja Kahf, "Most Wanted", Hagar Poems

[broken-academia]

the Blessed Mother & her Son’s Childhood: the way of Divine love: Our Lady’s words to Josefa transcribed by josefa menéndez // madonna and child by unknown 19th cent. artist // ibid // kissing the face of God by morgan weistling // ibid // the flagellation of Our Lord Jesus Christ by william-adolphe bouguereau (1880) // madonna and child by carlo maratta // ibid // the crucifixion by leon bonnat // ibid

[hermitcoat-deactivated20260321]

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[eesirachs]

am i important to god? why? i am not anything grand

the clay of your flesh is still warm from where his fingers met to shape you

[cruciform-solidarity]

The kingdom of heaven will not be made legible by bearing arms.

[mimilicious92]

“My Lord, put my heart at ease for me,

And ease my task for me.”

[20:25]

[cruciform-solidarity]

James Tissot | Jesus Ministered to by Angels

[yidspiration]

“What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.”

- Rabbi Hillel

[wolfythewitch]

son. my son

[metamorphesque]

"Nature Morte.", Joseph Brodsky (tr George L. Kline)

[woundthatswallows]

on devotion to the wounds of christ 

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[buddhazen101]

Zen monks from the lineage of Thich Naht Hanh in Valencia, Spain! :)

[cithaerons]

The noblest angel, Jesus Christ, who soars above the Seraphim, who is undivided with his Father. Him shall I, the least of souls, take in my arms, eat him and drink him, and have my way with him. This can never happen to the angels. No matter how high he dwells above me, his Godhead shall never be so distant that I cannot constantly entwine my limbs with him; and so I shall never cool off. What, then, do I care what the angels experience?

Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead (13th c.) (tr. Frank Tobin)

[giftsoutright]

“Christ’s wounds were in fact not healed. He’s got them now, in Heaven. He had them when He appeared to the disciples; they’re part of the imitation of Christ by the stigmatic saints. God heals some wounds. Others, He glorifies. He transforms them in some way we can’t necessarily imagine beforehand, just as we can’t quite imagine what it will mean for our flesh to be glorified in the Resurrection.”

— Eve Tushnet. This is an astonishing insight to me.

[nativenews]