#side wound

[thyateira]

Medievalists speculate that the wound, pictured as a slit in Jesus’s side emitting blood and clear liquid, led some mystics to imagine other bodily slits that emanate blood and clear fluids. [...] Additionally, the blood of Jesus’s wounds is said to bring forth life; likewise, life is brought forth through the blood-discharging female sexual organ.

The idea of Jesus’s side wound being like a womb then led to artists showing a female — either baby or adult — being birthed from that wound. The birthed human is the Church, born through the life-giving blood of the Son of God … delivered through Jesus’s vagina. Jesus, then, becomes gender non-binary, bearing both male and female sexual organs.

Jesus’s Vagina: A Medieval Meditation // Emily Swan

[many-sparrows]

Begging Christians to either stop being weird about sex or get way weirded. Like either sexualize Christ and drink from the side wound or chill tf out.

[franzis-kunst-und-krempel]

Studio of Bernardo Strozzi in Genoa.

Incredulity of St. Thomas (Detail)

ca 1605-1610. Oil

[cuties-in-codices]

st. catherine of siena drinking from christ's side wound

in a hagiography of st. catherine of siena, alsace, early 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, ms. allem. 34, fol. 43v

[queer-reader-07]

thou fount of every blessing

Jack Abbot/Dennis Whitaker | Rated E | 2.9k words

Jack wasn’t religious, not anymore at least, but that’s not to say he wasn’t of faith. His faith just happened to be placed in a farm boy from Nebraska, rather than a carpenter from Nazareth.

or

Lapsed Catholic!Jack, trans!Dennis, oral period sex, and Eucharistic devotion

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(set in the same universe as from crown to sole)

a little while ago i floated the idea of writing a Jack blood kink fic where the yonic imagery of Christ's side wound is superimposed onto Dennis thereby making his body a site of holy devotion and adoration for Jack. this is that fic!

thank you @entropicquilibriumofchaos for beta reading, and thank you to every mutual who supported my insane catholic freakiness<3

[pigeoncherrypie]

Bringing up the intentionally yonic depiction of Jesus’ side wound by medieval artists is the surest way to simultaneously piss off both rad trads and terfs

[texasheretic]

The bleeding, parted lips that birthed our forgiveness.

[hauntingfizz]

jesus, too, groped his side wound and thought it lowkey felt like a pussy