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@thyateira
Hi, I'm Cait, and this is my religious side blog!
I'm a lesbian, raised Catholic, attend Catholic Mass and Quaker meetings but always in discernment :P
Despite mainly posting about Christianity, I do rb posts from all religions, and I do not always agree with everything in the posts I reblog -- if you're uncomfortable with me rb'ing you, please say <3
Nicene, Side A, Universalist
God b w ye!
Thou, O Lord, hast freed us from the fear of death. Thou hast made the end of this life the beginning to us of true life. Thou for a season rest our bodies in sleep and awakes them again at the last trumpet. Thou givest our earth, which Thou hast fashioned with Thy hands, to the earth to keep in safety. One day Thou wilt take again what Thou hast given, transfiguring with immortality and grace our mortal and unsightly remains. Thou hast saved us from the curse and from sin, having become both for our sakes. Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon who had seized us with his jaws, in the yawning gulf of disobedience. Thou hast shown us the way of resurrection, having broken the gates of hell, and brought to nought him who had the power of death—-the devil. Thou hast given a sign to those that fear Thee in the symbol of the Holy Cross, to destroy the adversary and save our life.
O God eternal, to Whom I have been attached from my mother’s womb, Whom my soul has loved with all its strength, to Whom I have dedicated both my flesh and my soul from my youth up until now—- do Thou give me an angel of light to conduct me to the place of refreshment, where is the water of rest, in the bosom of the holy Fathers. Thou that didst break the flaming sword and didst restore to Paradise the man that was crucified with Thee and implored Thy mercies, remember me, too, in Thy kingdom; because I, too, was crucified with Thee, having nailed my flesh to the cross for fear of Thee, and of Thy judgments have I been afraid. Let not the terrible chasm separate me from Thy elect. Nor let the Slanderer stand against me in the way; nor let my sin be found before Thy eyes, if in anything I have sinned in word or deed or thought, led astray by the weakness of our nature.
O Thou Who hast power on earth to forgive sins, forgive me, that I may be refreshed and may be found before Thee when I put off my body, without defilement on my soul. But may my soul be received into Thy hands spotless and undefiled, as an offering before Thee.
Deathbed Prayer of St. Macrina the Younger ca. 327-379 (St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of St. Macrina)
Fragment of art depicting Saint Anne, 8th-9th century C.E., discovered in Faras, Sudan
Inscription reads: "Anna, mother of the mother of God." x
The City Beyond
Julian of Norwich: The First Showing oil on carved wood, 2023 9" x 13"
2026: Young nuns prepare to serve breakfast to elderly sisters at the Little Sisters of St. Francis premises in Uganda.
Stuary Tubaweswa for NPR
Painted a thing for Julian of Norwich
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and the manner of all thing shall be well
"our Lord Jesus said to me repeatedly, ‘It is I who am highest; it is I you love; it is I who delight you; it is I you serve; it is I you long for; it is I you desire; it is I who am your purpose; it is I who am everything; it is I that Holy Church preaches and teaches you; it is I who showed myself to you before.’"
— Surah al-Ma'un (Small Kindnesses), 107th surah of the Holy Quran
the inherent horror of being evil vs the inherent horror of being holy
See you get it.
Eating is a scandal at the heart of human life. On the one hand because eating implies dismemberment and destruction of that which is consumed: we live by making other beings die. On the other hand because eating reveals a contradiction in the basic structure of human desire. We long to be united with objects and beings outside ourselves, and eating—actual incorporation of an object into our own substance — constitutes the ultimate form of union.
Alec Irwin, "Devoured by God: Cannibalism, mysticism, and ethics in Simone Weil." CrossCurrents (2001): 257-272.
I am the food of strong men; grow, and you shall feed upon me; nor shall you convert me, like the food of your flesh, into you, but you shall be converted into me.
God in St Augustine of Hippo's Confessions (Book VII, 10)
In a notebook, along with passages from the Gita, Weil had copied a fragment from Heraclitus: "'Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, living each other's death and dying each other's life."' Weil's exegesis: "To live the death of a being is to eat it. The reverse is to be eaten. Man eats God and is eaten by God" (OC VI.2.,454). A year and a half after writing these lines, Weil herself was dead, consumed by mycobacterium tuberculosis, by self-starvation, perhaps by the God she yearned to encounter in the depths of affliction.
Alec Irwin, "Devoured by God: Cannibalism, mysticism, and ethics in Simone Weil." CrossCurrents (2001): 257-272.
What good is it to abstain from food if you devour your brother.
St John Chrysostom
Christian Cannibalism is sooooo fascinating because it resists the desire to corrupt eros into the consumption of the Other, but through asceticism trains us to learn to love without consuming and instead to offer up our lives to be consumed. It is right to say that cannibalism is a love language, to say it is erotic. Of course it is: to love someone is to love God by loving them, to worship God by offering yourself to them, to gift yourself as a "thing-bringing-near" (qorban; this is the word "offering" in hebrew) and place your being upon the alter to be consumed. To love someone is to drink their blood and eat their flesh; to love someone is to offer our blood and offer our flesh. To love someone is to engage in mutual eating. God unmakes himself because he loves us and wants to be part of us, to nourish us: in being consumed by him, we too are unmade. Humanity eats God and is eaten by God. Theophagy is only possible and cannibalism is only made-holy because of God's self-emptying, because God becomes the qorban, the thing which brings near, first by becoming human, and then by becoming bread and wine.
“Liquid-Life: Eroticism and the Ancient Israelite Roots of Christian Cannibalism”
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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Could you please keep Mary M in your prayers? She is currently in hospital and close to death, please pray for her peace and her soul
Sainte Chapelle- Paris, France.
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I like surprises. My favorite part about trips are rarely the thing most people look forward to seeing. (Don’t get me wrong, dame de fer is a beaut, as is the Arc de Triomphe) However, I prefer those blind explorations where I happen upon something I did not know about.
Sainte Chapelle was that for me. Look at all that glass.
I got chills up my spine (no, and not from the flu) when I rounded the staircase and this came into view.
Happy Feast of St. Peter & St. Paul! I'm sure they'd love sharing a day
Christ and Mary Magdalene, a Finnish Legend, 1890 - oil on canvas
— Albert Edelfelt (Finland-Sweden, 1854–1905)
Gardening Nun - Ladywell Convent, Surrey, England. 1968 (Image: TMS)
