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remi; 20s 📿 praying the rosary ♡ sideblog.

[marianaltar]

about me 🕯

❞ my main blog is @cityexits.

praying the rosary for Mother Mary 🌹. meditating on the teachings of Christ 🐑. pursuing His Sacred Heart 🔥. studying the bible. exploring folk christianity, mysticism, and monasticism.

this blog is an expression of my religious and philosophical studies. i see God as a loving, expansive, and inclusive energy. i approach Christ from a more spiritual lens.

— disclaimers

please do not follow me if you are under 18y.o.

hatred and bigotry are not tolerated here. let's work towards a world where no human is oppressed and our beautiful Earth is cherished and protected.

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

But Paul merely took incarnationalism to its universal and logical conclusions. We see that in his bold exclamation “There is only Christ. He is everything and he is in everything” (Colossians 3:11). If I were to write that today, people would call me a pantheist (the universe is God), whereas I am really a panentheist (God lies within all things, but also transcends them), exactly like both Jesus and Paul.

Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ

[sacredheart-stigmata]

a prayer to Saint Juan Diego for a greater trust in prayer

This prayer is a rewrite of sorts from an old novena I wrote, and has a partner prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe for greater love of Christ, which can be found here

Saint Juan Diego, holy and devoted proof of God's love for every human, pray for me as I recall the comforting words the Mother of Guadalupe spoke to you:

Hear me and understand well, my littlest son, that nothing should frighten or grieve you. Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my mantle? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything.

Good Juan Diego, Our Lady of Guadalupe chose you as God's faithful messenger to show the power of prayerful submission, with the miracle upon your tilma showing the world that dedication and faith bring about unknowable change. Intercede for me, I might have your childlike trust in prayer, and that at all times, my heart shall pray without ceasing. Through the same simple confidence and obedience that you lived daily, may I one day join you in sharing everlasting joy, where our heavenly Lord reigns in all glory.

Through your intercession and Christ's advocacy, I pray. Amen.

[miraclecomplex]

[janepaulina]

my new bedroom altar (that’s next to my copy of the DSM-5-TR lawl) and some of my religious items ♡ my polka dot plant looks red in this photo but she’s actually a bright pink!

[missalsfromiram-deactivated2020]

Transgender pastors Alexya Salvador, Cindy Bourgeois, and Allyson Robinson lead mass in a church in Matanzas, Cuba, on May 5, 2017, during a three-day conference on transgender theology, ahead of the tenth anniversary of Cuba celebrating the global day against homophobia. The mass, held by the Matanzas branch of the Metropolitan Community Church, was the first time a trans pastor had ever celebrated holy communion in Cuba. [link]

[sacredheart-stigmata]

Happy June! reminder that queer people exist snuggly within Christ’s Sacred Heart as His unconditionally accepted beloveds. His Heart burns for us, just as our hearts burn for Him ❤️‍🔥

[ohholydyke]

In honor of St Joan of Arc’s feast day we should all dress a little queerer, get weirder about God and the saints, and fight to overthrow the government

[mermaidenmystic]

Panagia Gorgona ~ mixed media ~ PortlandMary

"On the Greek Island of Syros is a fountain by the water, featuring a mermaid and a fisherman.  The mermaid is the Syros mermaid Panagia Gorgona, which translates to “Saint Mermaid” or “Virgin Mary the Mermaid”." ~ The Syros Mermaid: Panagia Gorgona

[mermaidenmystic]

"New Panagia Gorgona figure added to the shop. From a church on the Greek island of Lesvos the name “Gorgona” or “Mermaid” in English, stems from the local folklore that tells of a miraculous encounter with a mermaid who guided sailors to safety during a violent storm. There is, of course, a wall painting in the church that presents Virgin Mary with a mermaid’s tail." ~ maryhenlin

[softberrydoll]

me

[caffeinatedrosary]

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me to persevere in all that is holy.

--St. Rita.

[banishedchildofeve]

[understoodpeace]

[speakthewordonly]

#mypamphlet

[comeolord]

Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sacred Heart of Jesus, to Thee I consecrate and offer up my person and my life, my actions, trials, and sufferings, that my entire being may henceforth only be employed in loving, honoring and glorifying Thee.

This is my irrevocable will, to belong entirely to Thee, and to do all for Thy love, renouncing with my whole heart all that can displease Thee.

I take Thee, O Sacred Heart, for the sole object of my love, the protection of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, the reparation for all the defects of my life, and my secure refuge at the hour of my death.

Be Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God Thy Father, and screen me from His anger which I have so justly merited.

I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in Thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from Thine infinite Goodness.

Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist Thee.

Imprint Thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget Thee or be separated from Thee.

I beseech Thee, through Thine infinite Goodness, grant that my name be engraved upon Thy Heart, for in this I place all my happiness and all my glory, to live and to die as one of Thy devoted Servants.

Amen.

- St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[ohholydyke]

Conservative Calvinists like to argue against the notion of choosing God—they say that grace is irresistible, and that the conclusion of this is that we do not choose or accept God, he breaks into us and forcibly transforms us. I think of this and the sex abuse scandals of the SBC, the patriarchal domination, the marital rape, the lack of care for consent—their God reflects a worldview that does not value consent. God rushes in as he pleases and cares not for our response. They argue this is the pious belief—that anything else suggests we are capable of stopping God, and this diminishes his power, but they’re missing something.

What if God wants our permission?

What if God, the lover, wants us to choose him?

Choice and free will aren’t about power, though of course conservative Reformed Baptists and the like would reduce them to that because to them, everything is about power. But really, choice and free will are about love freely given. About saying yes to God. Our Lady consented before the Incarnation. The prophets consent to delivering God’s message. Jesus consents to the Cross. The Holy Spirit is invited in. It doesn’t diminish God’s power for him to want us to consent. It adds to his grace and his love. And he is a patient lover—one who waits for us when we reject him. Who does not move until we say be it done to me according to thy word. The bridegroom who waits for the bride to come to him.

We choose God—we seek out and choose his embrace, which is always available for us but does not force itself upon us.

It’s not about our ability to stop God—it’s about a God who waits for us to choose and consent to him. To ask for him. God is a good lover, who values these things, who treasures them.

I am my beloved’s and he is mine. And I have chosen this life, just as he has chosen me.