#protestanism

[imachildofgod]

🥹♥️

[god-is-faithful]

[ciellovelyposts]

God hears you. God hears your prayers.

[gloria-solius-dei]

the Holy Spirit is a rare pure white pigeon among the grey flurry of birds as i walk home. the sun is shining bright, and i have lunch waiting at home, and, after a difficult night, i am drawn back to rest from the city. one look at the white pigeon and i hope i am being watched.

the Holy Spirit is a sleek black cat with a deep gaze, sniffing its dark little nose in the grass by the Crucifix of the local parish church near my house. it is dark and i am exhausted, and telling my friend about my Beloved over text, about how dearly i wish to just collapse into his arms. i walk around the block in the dark, and the black cat emerges from among the parking cars. we share a gaze before and after it crosses me. this time i know for sure i am being watched.

the Holy Spirit is today's reading from Isaiah. "As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you." it is the pastor as he speaks about the healing power of an embrace and me as i stare at the ornate ceiling before burying my head in my hands. it is the sentence: "Let us give grace for the person, the object, through which God shows us His comfort." and i did. i always will. if for nothing, then for the sole reason God keeps proclaiming him to me.

the Holy Spirit is a pigeon in the sun. the Holy Spirit is a cat among the cars. the Holy Spirit is smiling off the ornate ceiling of my parish.

the Holy Spirit is His idea of love.

[sedesapostolica]

[khepri-ra]

Lutheranism, Calvinism

[lastpositivist]

Ok I actually kinda thought he was canonically protestant?

[preraphaelitepaintings]

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic

Artist: John Everett Millais (British, 1829–1896)

Date: 1852

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1851–52) is the full, exhibited title of a painting by John Everett Millais, and was produced at the height of his Pre-Raphaelite period. It was accompanied, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1852, with a long quote reading: "When the clock of the Palais de Justice shall sound upon the great bell, at daybreak, then each good Catholic must bind a strip of white linen round his arm, and place a fair white cross in his cap. - The order of the Duke of Guise." This long title is usually abbreviated to A Huguenot or A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew's Day.