[ynhart]

In today's homily it was said to "love first and then you will understand God" and it reminded me so much of TBK's "love life despite logic and then you'll understand the meaning"

Love God, your neighbours, forgive, do good, accept the mysteries you can't comprehend yet, trust despite suffering and doubt, and THEN you'll understand the purpose of all and ultimately God 🩷

Hope does not disappoint, love always wins.

[windmilltothestars]

I am having a TIME thinking of my disaster beloved Dmitri Karamazov tonight - like i LOVE that he dreams of "the babe" and wanting to help the poor and calls it a good dream - i LOVE that he so earnestly begs Andrey the troika-driver to forgive him "for everything" - i LOVE "god and devil are at war, and their battlefield is the heart of a man" - i LOVE how often and how emphatically he tells Alyosha he loves him - i LOVE "the hymn of the underground" and his heartfelt desire of spreading hope and joy and the love of God to his fellow-prisoners and i love that he's thinking about that while his own fate is in the balance - i LOVE that the narration notes (as if we didn't know him well enough by then) that he really really was not capable of being as "calculating" as the prosecutor was insinuating - i LOVE that he remembered the random German doctor who bought him a pound of nuts as a kid with so much gratitude - i LOVE that he wanted to make sure all the singers and dancers and servants got their share of snacks and drinks at his last wild revel - i LOVE that he was so fussed about apologizing to everyone he was slightly rude or impatient or threatening to (which, given his temper, was a lot of people) - i LOVE "in a thousand agonies, I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there - and there is a whole world in that, in knowing that the sun is there" - i LOVE that he thinks the world of Ivan despite Ivan's disdain - i LOVE that he was determined to "give way" and let Grushenka be happy with her officer and befriend him if that would actually make her happy - i LOVE how his love for Grushenka (always passionate and admiring) grows to something really noble and kind and self-abnegating - i LOVE that he was so moved by someone's simple gesture of putting a pillow under his head - i LOVE how much of his plot is simply trying to redeem his honor - i LOVE how he takes the police's interrogation in friendly good-faith and isn't like, concerned about incriminating himself because he's just speaking the truth and these guys are just doing their jobs - i LOVE him randomly quoting poetry while making his confessions to Alyosha - i LOVE his goodwill and sincerity in his introduction with Zossima - i LOVE him talking to Alyosha about the fierce passion and lust for life of the Karamazovs, and the 'ladder' they climb to new heights (or depths) - i even love seeing his struggles with himself, as he thinks with disgust and regret of the damage he's caused and what he can do to put a stop to it . . . I just don't know if I've ever encountered a character who more dramatically compassed the Struggle of like - having our impulses and our temptations and our sins, having our pride, wanting our way, yet having our thirst for righteousness and honor, our subsequent self-loathing, our love for life and love for people and passion and humor and warmth and gratitude and generosity - all our human contradictions! Who is doing it like him?? T-T We Stan a Human Disaster

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

alyosha karamazov is a great example of a character who does not make a lot of mistakes and is committed to being good and is very good but is still an endlessly fascinating and complex character. because contrary to popular belief goodness isn’t boring!!! it is actually incredibly difficult to choose what is good over and over again when it seems nothing good comes out of it! especially when everything around you is telling you you’re wrong and that your choices are worth nothing. and alyosha is told this repeatedly, that he is foolish and that his goodness is foolish because his father’s sins are in his blood, he is a karamazov just like him, and doesn’t he know it will catch up to him? doesn’t he bear the evil of his father and the brokenness of his brothers? and despite trying his best to mend his family, to bring his brothers together, he is repeatedly hurt by everyone he tries to help (remember the kid who almost bites off his finger?), his father is murdered by his own son, ivan is losing his sanity, mitya is framed and sent to prison. and the question alyosha has to confront over and over again is why even choose to be good when nothing comes of it? why continue doing something that has no profit? and it’s not like he doesn’t question this! it’s not like he doesn’t doubt what he’s doing! it’s not like alyosha doesn’t doubt his own faith when he expects a miracle from the man he considered a living saint and then his body rots away just like every other man! it shatters everything he thought he knew! but despite everything alyosha kisses the earth and says there is still something good here. there is still something worth doing even if it cannot save my father or my brothers. if i can even give one person some small, good, sacred memory that will sustain them, even if that is all i can give them, it is still good. it’s the story of the grand inquisitor. the argument answered with a kiss. the kiss is in the only way that argument can be answered, despite logic choosing to love

[ynhart]

"Love life more than the meaning of it?"

"Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it."

[ynhart]

Haven't drawn Hange in a a while... ♡

[mysticmagdalene-deactivated2023]

Oh? You're unlovable and God will never forgive you? Wrong. DIVINE MERCY ATTACK ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙

[that-classic-book-junkie]

I love the Catholic Church.

I love the Saints and their patronages.

I love the sacraments.

I love the history.

I love our liturgical year, with its various seasons.

I love the Holy Mass.

I love Eucharistic Adoration.

I love the thousands of prayer books out there.

I love novenas.

I love the different types and colors of vestments.

I love how every day of the year there is at least one saint’s feast day.

I love the priesthood.

I love that we get four weeks to prepare for Christ’s birth.

I love how we have Doctors of the Church.

I love the Bible.

I love the traditions we have for days like the Easter Vigil & Good Friday.

I love the community.

I love holy cards.

I love chapel veils.

I love churches decked out with beautiful paintings & artwork.

I love stain-glass windows.

I love our statues.

I love tabernacles.

I love religious brothers and sisters.

I love Latin.

I love vessels made out of pure gold.

I love Gregorian chant.

I love the rosary.

I love the Marian apparitions.

I love all the different spiritualities.

I love monasteries.

I love retreats.

I love the beautiful routines of the sacraments, yet they’re always new.

I love how each season get its own liturgical color.

I love the Stations of the Cross.

I love our hymns.

I love the Creed.

I love the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

I love Apostolic Succession.

I love the Popes.

I love the hierarchy and structure of the church.

I love incense.

I love the organ.

I love the “priest uniform”.

I love habits.

I love its firm stance on Truth.

I love daily Mass.

I love the Divine Mercy Chaplet.

I love that we get six weeks to celebrate Easter.

I love the coolness & silence of a church.

I love that we have encyclicals and papal documents.

I love councils and synods.

I love the white and black smoke for papal elections.

I love small, dimly lit chapels.

I love huge conferences like SEEK.

I love the Liturgy of the Hours.

I love our memorized prayers like the Salve.

I love the variety of the saints.

I love that we are universal.

I love the Catholic Church.

[ynhart]

He is Risen!

[ynhart]

The Last Supper

[the-mercy-workers]

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.

St. Francis of Assisi

[ynhart]

Now that I think about it in retrospective... Saint Joseph's intercession is SO POWERFUL. He may take time but he's so faithful...

I just love that he is our Lord's adoptive dad and also ours.

Happy Saint Joseph's day ❤️

[ynhart]

So I went to a dinner party tonight and the discussions became very philosophical... it was quite interesting. There were many different points of view: some were pragmatists that doubt God's existence and reduce human beings to mere animals. But then there were also the millenials (I specify millenial because it's a pattern I noticed) who go to church for tradition/culture purposes but have no real foundation or knowledge of fundamental things like human life, dignity, morality, etc.

Maybe this is a somewhat simplistic observation on my part, but it left me wondering which one is actually worse....the way some people have such views about life and the world and it's so normalized... it does feel unsettling.

[distance-does-not-matter]

reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time is so funny bc Anne is primarily a sweet, eager, earnest, dramatic, imaginative child who’s taking the world with open arms and loving life, and also she’s trying to explode Gilbert Blythe with her mind

[sapphosremains-deactivated20251]

me when my heart is breaking and i remember His broke first in eden and we haven’t stopped breaking it since

[kingcheddarxvii]

do you think God ever gets sad like “what do you mean you don’t love yourself i worked so hard on you….”

[jlaudio]

girl im going insane over characters you didnt even know existed

[ynhart]

Watched the movies about St. Philip Neri (I prefer Paradise) with my family yesterday, and we bawled our eyes out!!! Such a beautiful story to reflect on this Lent. He truly is the patron saint of joy.