Then I looked

And heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they were saying “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[god-is-in-shambles]

Okay maybe this is a hot take, but as a Folk Catholic, there absolutely needs to be more accountability for Christianity in general for all of the terrible things that have been done in its name, especially the Catholic Church. I need you guys to read this carefully, I am not saying that all modern Christians are bad, or that they should be personally held responsible for the Crusades. What I am saying is Liberal/Leftist/Progressive Christians and Conservative/Traditional Christians have one thing in common and that is their Christianity. As leftist Christians, we need to seriously think about why Christianity has been co-opted by terrible people throughout history, and what we can do to stop it. One of the things we can do to stop our religion being run by bigots is by learning about the history of colonization, forced conversion, the crusades, the persecution of Jewish and Muslim people, Christian Nationalism, and many more topics that show the bad side of our faith. We must not only learn about these things, but face them head on. We cannot continue to sweep it under the rug. Because if we do, then it gives more power to Conservative Christians, since there is no one fighting against them. (Im thinking of starting a substack so I can get all my thoughts and ideas out in a more organized manner, but I just needed to get this out of my system.)

[magdaleneanthony]

[phosphorusab]

You’d think a Black Madonna saving the lives of two gay men who had been hate crimed, and then them celebrating her intervening for them by having gay sex would be something the Woke Left invented, but it’s Real and her name is Our Lady of Montevergine

[korunak]

christ in the wilderness, ivan kramskoy

[thatbitchsimone]

he looks like he needs a cigarette

[refuzz]

[hunter-rodrigez]

[k-wame]

the vatican coming out with an infographic version oh they're serious

[demigirl-in-christ]

yesterday Pope Leo XIV released his encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas. im still not done with yet but i wanna bring focus to a minor part of it that has some fascinating implications.

at about 192, the Pope declares Just War Theory outdated

it’s a brief moment but it carries some fascinating implications, especially since Leo XIV is a member of the Order of St. Augustine. he’s intimately familiar with Augustinian thought, so him declaring Just War Theory outdated is very very interesting. i hope to see him expand on this in the near future.

sidenote: get fucked JD Vance

[hail-holy-queen]

Christ wears a simple tunic and eats mere bread. He did not walk on roads of carpets nor rode with a horse so magnificent. He was simple. He didn't merely deny pomposity, but he found it repulsive. He would not allow an ounce of gold or comfort touch him, don't you know he's allergic?

[saintmelangell]

think the cutesy vaguely flippant libshit way a lot of people on this website treat christianity like it’s just a fun little fandom bothers me a lot because it’s like you realize this isn’t a story this is a violent ideology that has and continues to harm and kill people right. in a way it bothers me more than conservatism because conservative christianities are a warning in themselves, they take pride in but still acknowledge the harm of christian ideology. to cherry pick the cheerier parts of christianity at the expense of living alongside the horror it has exerted on the world is ignorant in a similar fashion as conservatism clinging to domination to the exclusion of love, its wishful thinking. if you can’t handle and sit with and embrace and talk about and work to expiate the guilt of christianity’s history in the world then you are in complete defiance of who christ is.

[stone-cold-groove]

Holy card depicting Our Lady of Sorrows - artist and date unknown.

[toallmysaints]

St Rita of Casia 🌸

[whiterabbitwake]

one thing about me as a folk Catholic is that I'm going to choose to give sainthood the benefit of the doubt. Oh this person is only a saint in Orthodoxy? Only a saint in Anglicanism? Well we're all children of God so the more the merrier, I don't particularly care what church that person is from, I love them. Let me talk to my siblings in peace.

[hail-holy-queen]

Pray for us, our Lady of Fatima!

[queerorthodoxy]

i'm really feeling the need to find some prayers for those struggling with mental illness if anyone has them

[traumacatholic]

Prayer to St. Raphael to Intercede for Those Contemplating Suicide

A prayer for when you’re experiencing despair

A prayer for the intercession of Saint Jude

A prayer for the intercession of Saint Dymphna

Saint Ignatius of Loyola's prayer against depression

The Memorare (not explicitly about struggling with mental illness, but I've always found it comforting)

Anchor of hope prayer

Saint Brigid's prayer

The Saint Louis Martin Novena

Prayer to the Mother of God in a Time of Distress

Prayer of Someone in Trouble

Prayer for Mental Health

Healing Prayer of Saint Ambrose of Milan

Prayers in Time of Sickness & Trouble

Prayers for Anxiety and Fear

[shenzi-hemlock]

Touching grass is not enough, some of y’all need to touch the hem of His garment.

[sacredheart-stigmata]

I just had to play ‘one of these things is not like the other’ with an old acquaintance of mine from my childhood church today. I say ‘acquaintance’, but technically she was a huge presence of my childhood that I have deliberately chosen to leave behind.

Right now it’s May (14th) and as of right now, a local Mosque, Synagogue, and church have all been vandalized at some time this month. The woman I’m discussing has been insisting over and over that the vandalism of the church was proof that Christians were just as actively persecuted as Muslims and Jews in my area, and that her church also needed gates and guards at our entrances.

Except, as I mentioned earlier, one of these crimes is not like the other. Our largest local Mosque was spray painted with threats on all doors. The Synagogue had its windows smashed and slurs sprayed on the front entrance.

Th church was targeted for being explicitly pro-lgbt. Slurs were sprayed on their building, as well as references to living in sin.

The Muslim and Jewish communities here were targeted out of hatred towards their religion. The church here was targeted by another Christian for not meeting their standards of ‘correct’ practice.

One of these things is not like the other. One of these crimes is not tied to religious persecution, but to anger at acceptance being practiced against the norm. Only one of these cases of vandalism made every headline— can you guess which one?

hint, it was the church. They almost all ignored the other two bigoted acts, but the headlines that did talk of the church wrote about homo and transphobia, not ‘Christian persecution’. Because that’s what it was. Homo and transphobia performed by another Christian— not in anyway hate for the Church itself.

[sophs-seraphims]

Just remembered that one time I told my dad about how I was reading St. Theresa of Avila’s autobiography and felt bad about how hard she was on herself. I said that I wished I could’ve been there to encourage her and let her know she had done a lot of good and difficult things, and that it was ok for her to be proud of herself. Then he said, “Well you can, you can pray for her.”

And it just… I love that. I love how as someone raised Catholic I believe that saints are our brothers and sisters whose souls are alive in Christ. And that we can talk to them, pray for them, and ask them to pray for us. I think that’s such an interesting and spiritual connection people can have.