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[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Happy feast day Jeanne d’Arc!!! St Jeanne d’Arc, Virgin Martyr of God, Soldier Bride of Christ, pray with and for us!

[minaim-blog]

Happy Feast Day Jeanne d'Arc!

[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!

[hamletthedane]

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

[avemoon444]

Mother Mary, please pray that I may answer God’s call to serve like you did. Please ask Him to send me courage in the face of uncertainty. Please teach me to let go of my fears and trust Him fully. Amen

[sedesapostolica]

[thewomanwhowasthursday]

My most recent poetic endeavor, which I wrote for my mother this Sunday:

Her company is familiar

And never lightly missed:

A laughing, loving presence,

A healer in our midst.

She cannot be a mortal -

I muse on her design:

Humility as shocking

As the imminent devine,

Constancy as ageless,

Knowledge met with grace,

Like the feeling of admittance

To a safe and sacred space.

What shall I then give her?

I watch her as she gives;

The more I see, I am convinced

In her, an angel lives.

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Not sure if anyone will see this who cares, but one of my favorite tumblr blogs got deactivated.

@apollopleasant-deactivated20260 I hope you're doing well where ever you are 🙏

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

[babsbabbles]

Tie me down oh Lord, Pierce my ear to the door

Our blood mingles as you press an awl through the flesh, from the spring in your wrist and down my neck and down the frame

A fragment of a fragment of a passover.

Subdue me to be a living sacrifice on the alter of this earth

A lamb or a dove or a flower or a snake or a wolf or a woman standing bare on the clay, or the clay standing bare upon itself, shaking, unmoored, waiting.

Tie me down oh Lord, I long for you to hold me.

[contagiousgrace]

We've got to put the song "Imagine" down. Like either retire it or shoot it out back, but we as a society have GOT to learn that it is literally never the song to pull out, especially during times of great global distress.

[ohifonlyx33]

I hate the "imagine we got rid of Jesus and independent countries to live as one homogeneous hivemind entity" song.

[the-pirate-captain]

When I was in high school chorus my music teacher wanted us to sing Imagine. I thought it was a terrible song, but it's music class, so you take the good with the bad, right? Anyway, that semester we actually had so many songs we started learning that my teacher decided we needed to cut a few and focus on the rest. But she wanted to do this democratically so we all voted on which songs to keep or not. I was the only person in our (~16 person) chorus who did not vote to keep Imagine. And my teacher, instead of, I don't know, counting it as a majority rule and MOVING ON, stopped the voting process to ask me why I didn't want to sing Imagine. I said, "Its message is against my religion." And instead of MOVING ON, my teacher was determined to explain to me that Imagine wasn't anti-Catholic and it's such a great song and why did I have a problem with it? And I said, "I didn't say I wouldn't sing the song, I said it was against my religion, so I didn't vote for it. Everyone else wants to keep it, so I'll sing it. But I won't vote for it." And she still lectured me some more. Eventually she realized whenever she gave me the chance to speak the only thing I would say was "if everyone wants to sing it I'll sing it" but I wasn't budging on agreeing with its message. But now I hate that song twice as much.

[ohifonlyx33]

The way I would actually REFUSE to sing it if that happened to me.

I would just sit there and scowl. I would have been soooo mad.

Like, "congratulations. I was going to sing it before, but now there is no EARTHLY POWER that can make me sing it."

I AM SO MAD ON YOUR BEHALF RIGHT NOW.

[greater-than-the-sword]

That is sooooooo US public school teacher core. All my commie teachers loved Imagine. Okay maybe I am hallucinating some memories but I think it came up a few times.

[purpleisnotacolor]

I didn't say it out loud, but when I was introduced to it in school my first thoughts on the song as a kid were "he is describing a world without anything that gives people a sense of identity". it's so creepy and hearing people go on and on about how beautiful it is only makes me think they're creepy.

the really annoying part is the only reason for objection the song acknowledges a person could have is just not being as hopeful and idealist as the writer. No, buddy, I take hope in the things you describes getting rid of.

[minaim-blog]

So since this is supposed to be my poetry and writing blog (apparently) I thought I’d add my two sense to the discussion. Below is the lyrics of the song as before I never even heard of it:

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today, ah

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace, you

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world, you

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

I could see why some people would like this just based off the lyrics, as it talks about a human wide brotherhood. But like everyone else in the tags I find it too wild that this song is essentially celebrating the idea of an end of all other cultures for a single plurality of essentially nothing.

That, and that this is an atheism song. Another person in the tags stated only roughly 15% of the global population identify as irreligious, and most of that population is in the West. I find that odd, and to a degree a sense of imperialism on part of those who celebrate this song. As they would be saying their beliefs are better than the majority of us on Earth, who according to them are suffering a mass delusion.

Anyway yeah, this song is slop.

[minaim-blog]

Happy International Women's Day to our Favorite Girlie! ♥

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Happy March Forth everyone!

My own little made up holiday celebrating the indomitable human spirit, our own will to overcome hardships, and to live.

I wrote this poem five years ago today. Some things could use rework, but I hope you enjoy it! ♥️

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The Life of Aidan McAnespie

Today is the anniversary of the wrongful murder of 23yr old Aidan McAnespie who was shot in County Tyrone in 1988 by a British Soldier, David Jonathan Holden on his way to a ball game.

Holden was only convicted 30 years after the killing, and even then only of manslaughter.

Today, please pray and remember the life of Aidan McAnespie and all those who are wrongfully persecuted by tyranny and wrongful occupation.

Website dedicated to Aiden for more information: https://aidanmcanespie.com/

[jspark3000]

Here are paintings by the late deaf Korean artist Kim Ki-Chang, depicting Jesus in Korea in the Joseon era. Painted in 1953 while Kim was in anguish during the Korean War.

Shown: saving Peter, falsely accused woman, inviting Peter and Andrew, feeding the multitude, refugee flight, baptism of Jesus, the Nativity, the adoration of the Magi.

[broken-academia]

the Blessed Mother & keaton henson’s You: painting of Madonna and Child by 20th c. unknown (bernolakovo, slovakia) // You by kenton henson // Our Lady of Sorrows by w. a. bouguereau // ibid // gethsemane by adam abram // ibid // unknown // ibid // Jesus wept by james tassot (1886-1896) // ibid // Mary meeting Jesus on the way of the cross by unknown // ibid // the child Jesus teaching in the Temple by julius s. von carolsfeld nobel (1852-60) // ibid // cleansing the temple by unknown // ibid // the crucifixion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by unknown // ibid // crying over the dead Christ by giovanni bellini (1510) // ibid // the annunciation by auguste pichon // ibid // the maries at the sepulchre by andrea mantegna // ibid // the Resurrection by nicholas bertin // ibid

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[minaim-blog]

Farewell Mars rover.

[danosaurs-and-philions]

im a bad person who thinks bad thoughts like ‘ew what is that girl wearing’ and then remember that im supposed to be positive about all things and then think ‘no she can wear what she wants, fuck what other people say damn girl u look fabulous’ and im just a teeny bit hypocritical tbh

[offaeandroadslesstravled-deacti]

I was always taught by my mother, That the first thought that goes through your mind is what you have been conditioned to think. What you think next defines who you are.

[amelia-bassett-deactivated20151]

READ THIS THEN READ IT AGAIN

[dr-gloom]

i havent seen this post in like 3 years but i was telling the bolded bit to a coworker the other night

this is fate

[chronophobica]

this is the one post that’s stuck with me through my entire time on this site

[spytap]

I remind myself of this a lot.