As It Was In The Beginning Is Now

Marasa | Catholic mystic | LGBT-affirming | Love instead of Judgment (Following from @marasamoon)

[inhallowedground]

I’m going there to see my savior,

Who shed for me His precious blood

[wolfythewitch]

Sketch

[ranminfan]

You lost your keys again?

A pretty gnarly thing is they got the jaw of St. Anthony of Padua as a relic, and the reliquary goes hard af.

So I had this idea and I drew it as fast as I could

[ranminfan]

This here is what I'm talking about...

[agnus-dei1312-deactivated202510]

On this Blessed Memorial of Saint John Chrysostom, we remember his every true words about charity, mercy, and dire need we have to live in our lives to help those in need.

[psalms-and-spells]

Art with Jesus having the kindest eyes and the scruffiest beard gets me every time. Like he purposefully didn’t look ‘holy’ or ‘regal’ he was your neighbor. He was your carpenter.

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Yay an excuse to share my favorite paintings by Henryk Hector Siemiradzki!

[inhallowedground]

Was kinda tearing up today thinking about how God really is the fount of all goodness and how His love for us really is without end

[litany-of-trust]

That You are continually holding me, sustaining me, loving me…

Jesus, I trust in You.

[litany-of-trust]

From the belief that I have to earn Your love...

Deliver me, Jesus.

[random-brushstrokes]

Asta Nørregaard - Christmas Night Mass celebrated in a French Nunnery (1889)

[eesirachs]

how do i make god more graspable

first, this needs the reverse—he holds you

[watchnpray-deactivated20241030]

Christ and Nikolai Gogol Eating Spaghetti by Andrei Bodko

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

I looked this up because I had to know the context behind painting Christ with a nineteenth century Ukrainian-Russian novelist sharing spaghetti...I did not find any context, but I did learn Andrei Bodko has painted many such images of Christ hanging out with everyday people and I think I'm in love with some of them

Christ visiting a rehabilitation center:

Christ feeding construction workers:

Christ reading bedtime stories:

Christ visiting the artist:

Andrei Bodko's on Instagram @andrei_bodko.

And here's a website article that describes some of his paintings and explains that before Andrei was a professional iconographer,

"he was a street artist. In March 2024, he decided to diversify his iconography and draw a series of non-canonical religious pictures he called ‘Always Near’. He believes that his works are reminiscent of pre-revolutionary ‘lubki’ (Russian naive pics of church themes). 

'These are not icons, but religious paintings on Christian themes,' the artist says. 'How do we believe in Christ in the 21st century? Is he around, helping us? We believe that God is omnipresent, he hears every beat of our heart, sees all our thoughts. God is always near, but we don't see him.'

[many-sparrows]

> go to church on Ash Wednesday

> feel like Christ has pulled apart his chest and nestled me within the warmth and comfort of his own body

[inhallowedground]

Loving how when I’m having a nightmare or something really scary pops up in a dream, my dream self just calmly starts reciting prayers or calling God’s name

[godslaughters]

[hbymyyy]

[yarkut]

St Michael the Archangel and St Joan of Arc

[godhasatenderheart]

My mother passed away today. If you would, please pray for me.