Mark 1:7

A blog for Catholicism including memes, music, art and anything else beautiful the Church provides. I'm Joan (alias for safety) and I am a 28-year-old revert to (Traditional) Catholicism. My patron Saint is St. Francis of Assisi. I strive to be like him, and to be like St. Catherine of Siena, only because they strove to be like Christ. This blog is property of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

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Please pray for my friend Pat, who is being ordained as a priest this weekend!

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There is a very, very serious scandal happening at my Catholic university. Please pray for everyone involved.

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Followers of Jesus please pray for me. I am depressed.

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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.

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

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I don’t quite go here (not a Christian in the traditional sense) so pardon me for intruding, but I do also love this theme in art. Here are a few of my favorites:

Rembrandt’s Faces of Christ series (circa 1640s-1650s)

Woman, Why Weepest Thou? (circa 1890), by Fritz von Uhde

Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (1605) by Lavinia Fontana

Christ on the Mount of Olives (1919) by Gyula Benczúr

And then of course everything the Eastern European and Russian artists were doing with Christ depictions in the late 19th century was insane:

Christ in the Desert (1872) by Ivan Kramskoi

What is Truth? Christ and Pilate (1890) by Nikolai Ge

Christ in the Garden aka Christ on the Mount of Olives (1878), by Vasily Perov

Head of Christ (circa 1880), by Leon Wyczółkowski

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When you see this, say a prayer for the end of pornography

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Please pray for me, I messed up. (really not that big of a mess up but it feels like it because/and I am stressed)

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My dad is starting chemo on Wednesday! Please pray for health and healing and anything else God puts on your heart ❤️

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They may have found the remains of my cousin who disappeared nine years ago. She was 24.

Please pray for her 4 children and her Dad. We are hoping to get a DNA match and finally bring her home.

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A 19 year old (K) on a motorcycle crashed into the back of another 19 year old's (B) truck and passed away. Please pray for everyone involved. </3

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Please pray for my uncle C. he has liver cancer and will soon start chemotherapy.

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To the reader who happens to be passing this post: please pray for the health of a beloved friend and her unborn child. Please pray that her and child will be happy, healthy and at rest, left in peace to flourish. She has had a difficult time in life thus far and is deserving of stability, fervor for life and peace. Thank you to all who acknowledge my plea. ♥️

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Please pray for me. I was really feeling the loss of our child today.

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Just came back home to a message from a friend that a girl I knew back at my old school had recently committed suicide. Today, May 10th not further than a few hours ago. (Initials P.T.) Please please please pray for her soul. I’m genuinely concerned.

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Please pray for the repose of my grandpa’s soul

And for my mom and grandma especially, as well as the rest of my family

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prayer request for a woman at my church. her lungs are failing and she's been suffering in the hospital for months now, and they're thinking of putting her on comfort care. she's not strong enough for a transplant. please pray for her and her family, she has 3 small children

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she passed, please pray for her family

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"christianity—" stop. what you just said only applies to american evangelical protestantism.

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“Christianity is evil because *insert thing that applies to 5 other religions at least*”

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“I grew Christian and-“ *goes on to describe a cult found deep in the Appalachian Mountains that only has 15 members*

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“The ridiculous Christian belief that—” *describes something that is literally the opposite of what Christians believe*

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"In Christianity-" *describes something that has affected every single human civilization ever*

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05/01/2026

Education?!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: This cartoon references a lot of verses, so here's an explanation for them all:

Matthew 1:18-24 is about the Annunciation (Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear the Son of God). This takes place "when Mary and Joseph were betrothed but before they came together." In this context, the word "betrothed" is being used for the stage of ancient Jewish marriage where the bride and groom had entered into the marriage contract but did not yet live together. So Mary and Joseph are legally a couple, but Joseph doesn't take her into his home until the end of this section after the angel reassures him in a dream. The taking of the bride into the groom's newly built home was the final stage of the marriage.

Matthew 22:1-2 is the beginning of one of Jesus's parables where He likens the Kingdom of Heaven to a king preparing a wedding feast for his son. The Bible is just lousy with wedding imagery when it comes to God's relationship with mankind; or rather, marriage is lousy with imagery pointing to the ultimate destiny of humanity to unite entirely with God in life-giving, self-giving love.

Matthew 26:26-28 is where Jesus lifts the bread and wine at the last supper and declares them His Body and Blood of the covenant. Jesus's cup is the cup that all other cups and covenants reflect all throughout the Bible. THIS is the big one, where God pledges Himself once again to mankind, IN THE FLESH!

John 13:33 and 14:1-3 are where Jesus talks about leaving the disciples for a time, then assures them that He's going to prepare a dwelling for them in His Father's house. He adds that, once He's done, He'll come back for them, to take them to Himself. In light of the other verses compressed into this fun little amateur Bible study, we can see Jesus is once again using very wedding-coded imagery to speak about heaven and the anticipated union with the Divine.

Thanks for reading! As a reward -- and because I can't post something without a joke (per MY covenant with my patron, St. Lawrence) -- here's a classic: "What do you get when you eat all the potatoes?"