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[theladyconstellationmain]

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[darlingdearest0]

Today, while adoring Christ at the altar of repose, around the time of day when tradition tells us he gave up the spirit, I felt my prayer interrupted. I saw through the glass doors of the chapel five or so children lined like ducks on the grass, waving at every vehicle passing by, begging them to honk. When a semi-truck would pull the horn, they would explode into joy, rolling across the grass.

Good Friday is good. Jesus felt sorrow and pain. He died humiliated, beaten, and broken, yet there is a joy hidden beneath this sorrow. We retreat for the Sabbath in joyful hope along with Mary, Magdalene, and the disciples. I feel that seeing those children spending their day off school laughing, I understand even a little why we don't call today "sorrowful Friday" or "painful Friday" but Good Friday

[theladyconstellationmain]

thinking of her again

[theladyconstellationmain]

today i'm thinking about how the Lord laid dead in the tomb on the sabbath; that those who loved him could not go to his tomb for a whole day. They were commanded to rest and wait. I wonder how the women planned when they would go to the tomb. Would they go at the first sign of dark or wait for morning? Were they afraid to go, to remember what had happened?

This morning I prayed the morning psalms and thought of Mary and the disciples searching for comfort in the psalter. "Let all that lives and breathes bless the Lord," cry the ones who watched the Lord take his last breath. The ones who tomorrow will see him breathe again.

tonight we rise!

[eesirachs]

my dream is to take a nap with God

if you go to adoration and curl up on the floor it feels like you're in his lap

[mikeyrrevenge]

something i've been thinking about a lot lately

[theladyconstellationmain]

reblogging because i think about this all the time and need it to be more accessible. love you my chem get psyched

[gerardwayspostnutclarity]

🗡️pretty stabby🗡️

[kybercait]

the only hope for me is you 🕷️💥✨

my first ever mixed media animation! 300 ish frames either printed and painted/drawn on, or remixed digitally over about 20 hours. this was a really fun challenge! i love collaging and mixed media in general but i’ve never tried to combine that with video :) and mcr is hella creative inspo for me (especially this album) so it was fitting to use it as my first go at something like this

[theladyconstellationmain]

fake thursday, also known as. tuesday

[theladyconstellationmain]

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recorded me playing please please please let me get what I want but my roomate came back from the store so i had to defend myself

[theladyconstellationmain]

the mcr boston setlist makes me want to end my life

[future-crab]

Every time they say "we're My Chemical Romance from New Jersey" it feels like the world has regained balance in some small way

[theladyconstellationmain]

We see this in today’s Gospel [Jn 21:15–19], which takes us to the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus began the mission he received from the Father: to be a “fisher” of humanity in order to draw it up from the waters of evil and death. Walking along the shore, he had called Peter and the other first disciples to be, like him, “fishers of men”. Now, after the resurrection, it is up to them to carry on this mission, to cast their nets again and again, to bring the hope of the Gospel into the “waters” of the world, to sail the seas of life so that all may experience God’s embrace.

How can Peter carry out this task? The Gospel tells us that it is possible only because his own life was touched by the infinite and unconditional love of God, even in the hour of his failure and denial. For this reason, when Jesus addresses Peter, the Gospel uses the Greek verb agapáo, which refers to the love that God has for us, to the offering of himself without reserve and without calculation. Whereas the verb used in Peter’s response describes the love of friendship that we have for one another.

Consequently, when Jesus asks Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” (Jn 21:16), he is referring to the love of the Father. It is as if Jesus said to him, “Only if you have known and experienced this love of God, which never fails, will you be able to feed my lambs. Only in the love of God the Father will you be able to love your brothers and sisters with that same ‘more’, that is, by offering your life for your brothers and sisters.”

Peter is thus entrusted with the task of “loving more” and giving his life for the flock. The ministry of Peter is distinguished precisely by this self-sacrificing love, because the Church of Rome presides in charity and its true authority is the charity of Christ. It is never a question of capturing others by force, by religious propaganda or by means of power. Instead, it is always and only a question of loving as Jesus did.

[queerprayers]

last chapter of john is soooo good. they've realized it's god because they just caught soo many fish (153). simon peter puts his clothes back on and immediately starts swimming. jesus has been plotting for maximum drama and confronts him sitting at a fire. he asks him if he loves him the exact number of times he was betrayed and it hurts peter's feelings :( then he tells peter he's going to die. so peter turns to another guy (A/N: the one who cuddled and started drama at the last supper) and is like "what about him?? does he get a death prophecy?" and jesus is like "none of your business if i make my boyfriend live forever..." and then the gospel writer is like well lots of things happened. i don't have time for all this. the end

[theladyconstellationmain]

"Adam, where are you?" "Where is your brother?" These are the two questions which God asks at the dawn of human history, and which he also asks each man and woman in our own day, which he also asks us. But I would like us to ask a third question: "Has any one of us wept because of this situation and others like it?" Has any one of us grieved for the death of these brothers and sisters? Has any one of us wept for these persons who were on the boat? For the young mothers carrying their babies? For these men who were looking for a means of supporting their families? We are a society which has forgotten how to weep, how to experience compassion – "suffering with" others: the globalization of indifference has taken from us the ability to weep! In the Gospel we have heard the crying, the wailing, the great lamentation: "Rachel weeps for her children… because they are no more". Herod sowed death to protect his own comfort, his own soap bubble. And so it continues… Let us ask the Lord to remove the part of Herod that lurks in our hearts; let us ask the Lord for the grace to weep over our indifference, to weep over the cruelty of our world, of our own hearts, and of all those who in anonymity make social and economic decisions which open the door to tragic situations like this. "Has any one wept?" Today has anyone wept in our world?"

-Pope Francis' Homily at Lampedusa 8 July 2013 x

Rest in peace, Papa, may your legacy go forth through the church and world.

[elenyaart]

“It is I, do not be afraid.”

[theladyconstellationmain]

survived the war

[theladyconstellationmain]

"Where the thinking of the philosopher halts, there the heart of the believer presses on in love and adoration, in pleading for forgiveness and in willingness to serve in whatever place the Lord allows us to choose, in order to follow in his footsteps. At that point, we realize that in God’s eyes we are a “Thou”, and for that very reason we can be an “I”. Indeed, only the Lord offers to treat each one of us as a “Thou”, always and forever. Accepting his friendship is a matter of the heart; it is what constitutes us as persons in the fullest sense of that word"

Pope Francis, Dilexit Nos para. 5