clara

main: ddoevly ๑ br ๑ 23yo ๑ she/they/he ๑ bi ๑ raised baptist, but finding my faith again in the catholic church

[orthodoxadventure]

Icon of The Woman Clothed In The Sun, Russian, 17th century

[ariaelysian]

[ssummersolstice-deactivated2025]

[allegraforchrist]

Please pray for the young men who have lost their sons, their brothers, their friends, and their fathers to suicide;

Pray for those men who are in addiction, in poverty, in hospice, who go through bullying and isolation and domestic abuse, who have been raped and are sexually abused, who are self-harming and contemplating suicide. Who are struggling in their homes, marriages, families; with their health, and their safety. Please pray for all the young men who have lost their lives due to PTSD and insufficient support and trauma and accidents. Please pray for the surviving families, and their male members, whose sons, fathers, and brothers were targeted and taken away from them too soon because of crime and violence and injustice.

Please pray for our young boys and men, for we need them as much as they need us.

[conceptloto-deactivated20251101]

To mock and belittle the poor, homeless and imprisoned is to mock and belittle Christ. When we care for the disabled and the poor, we are caring for Christ.

[traumacatholic]

Prayer for the imprisoned

Merciful God, to whom the secrets of the heart lie open, who recognize the just and make righteous the guilty, hear our prayers for our brothers and sisters held in prison; grant that through patience and hope they may find relief in their affliction and soon return unhindered to their families. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

[catholicpriestmedia]

"Love overcomes, love delights; those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice." - #SaintBernadetteSoubirous 

📷 Statue of the Sacred Heart / © Hanis via #GettyImages. #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia #PrayingforPeace 

[beguines]

I wouldn't even be a religious person were it not for poetry, which has not only repeatedly brought me into contact with an other, but has seemed to demand something of me in its wake—very like Teresa's visions. But poetry remains perpetually open. God moves through art but doesn't get stuck there. I sometimes think he gets stuck in theology—fixed, frozen, and therefore inevitably falsified.

Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman, Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

[speakthewordonly]

Pusey House, Oxford

[a-cold-glass-of-betelgeuse]

rip jesus you would’ve loved fig newtons and zohran mamdani

[thebelfry]

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

[peniswizard69]

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Oh I love this news!!!!

[pulmonary-poultry]

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[postilionstruckbylightning]

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

[magical-bear-dubin]

That is such an interesting etymology!!!!

And entomology too i guess

[asparklethatisblue]

in German they’re Marienkäfer which also pretty much means “Mary’s Beetle”

[istadris]

In French it’s “Good Lord’s Beast”

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

[dent-de-l1on]

In Dutch it’s “Lieveheersbeestje”, the Good Lord’s Little Beast

A liddol creeture

[wovi]

[orthodoxadventure]

[stkateri-deactivated20260526]

Our Savior Church, NYC

[darlingdevout]

happy Divine Mercy Sunday 🤍

feat. the rosary i got for my husband 🥹 isn’t it beautiful? i’m so happy it arrived in time for him to use today, the divine mercy service is special to him and it was beautiful to experience it by his side!

hope you all have a blessed rest of your weekend!

[sedesapostolica]

“The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ."

- St. John Marie Vianney

[sacredlitany]

The Virgin with St Rose of Lima, St Catherine of Siena and St Agnes of Montepulciano — Giambattista Tiepolo, 1748