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Life updates for anyone still following me lol

• Stood up to my mum and she no longer forces me to go the Lutheran church with my family.

• My boyfriend and I are set on marriage, we just need to save up for it. We aren’t in the best financial situations yet but it should definitely be possible next year.

• My mum isn’t happy with my boyfriend. She think he is controlling me (he isn’t), that he is the reason I am converting to Catholicism (he isn’t), and she likes to act like we’re not going to end up married (we are, God willing).

• I’m trying to live a holier life, often failing.

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I have no idea which Saint I will choose for my confirmation, there’s just so many I find equally intriguing. Maybe I will have to keep reading and one day I’ll know the one :))

I’m too weak for these polls asking me to vote between two saints. Are you trying to make me choose between two besties? Are you trying to make me go insane?

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I’m trying to convert to Catholicism (I haven’t started the RCIA program yet, I’m still waiting for a priest to get back to me), but I was brought up Lutheran and my mum is somewhat against my conversion, so here I am every Sunday going to a Lutheran church at 10 AM and also going to a Catholic Church at 6 PM Saturday or yesterday the 5 PM Sunday because she forbade me from attending the vigil for whatever reason.

I’ve been going to this Lutheran church my whole life, I’m distantly related to a large portion of the congregation, and my family has been Lutheran for many generations and moved to Australia 170~ years ago partly because of it, so my mum feels a bit betrayed by my decision. Those reasons are also partly why it took me so long to make the decision to convert even though Catholicism seemed so sure to me.

The Lutheran church is dying, most of the congregation are elderly, and I have been helping out somewhat with the livestreams, so my mum tells me that the church needs me and I do feel quite bad for it. Although granted, the church is dying because many of the current congregation had very few if any children and did not impart the faith into them since they do not incorporate it enough into their own lives. The Lutheran church of Australia also just voted in to allow female ordination so uh…

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BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of eight people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out! 💛💛💛

I haven’t even talked to 8 people on this app lol, but thank you so much :))

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Mistranslation by the KJV, Luke 11:28

27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman called out from the crowd and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

King James Version

28 But Jesus said, “Yes, rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

Eastern Orthodox Version

28 But Jesus said, “Yes, and more than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

The Greek word menounge (μενοῦνγε), translated above in the text of verse 28 as “yea, more than that,” but rendered inaccurately in the KJV as "yea, rather," is the same word which occurs in Phil. 3:8, where the KJV gives Yea, doubtless, and in Rom. 10:18, where the KJV gives Yes, verily.

The force of menounge is that it corrects the previous statement, not by negating it, but by amplifying it.

Philippians 3:8 “Yes, without a doubt, I consider all things as loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things. I consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ.”

Romans 10:18 “But I say, did they not hear? Yes, most certainly: Their sound went out into all the earth, Their words to the ends of the world.”

Evangelicals and opponents of traditional Christianity often frame this statement of Christ as proof that His Mother was not holy or deserving recognition, that she was merely a vessel with little importance, and this perspective directly results from a mistranslation of Christ’s words.

Indeed, blessed is she who contained the Uncontainable: Christ our God.

Understand that Luke’s Gospel was originally written in Greek, so perhaps we ought to study the original language that the scriptures were written in to have a better understanding of Christ’s life-giving message.

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Luise Freiin von Neubeck, who lived 1816-1872.

She was the daughter of royal chamberlain and officer Baron Karl von Neubeck and wife Leopoldina. For the last two years of her life she was the abbess of the Heilig-Geist-Spitals (Holy Spirit Hospital) in Munich. Her painting was done by Joseph Karl Stieler in 1839 as part of the Gallery of Beauties but it has been missing since 1936.

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Melbourne, VIC

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Albury, NSW

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Being a woman feels so embarrassing sometimes

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I must be the most sensitive person ever honestly, I cry over such vague and broad things. Crying over ideas I don’t even know how to put into words.

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reblog to permanently delete and to ban all porn everywhere, and to ban and delete it forever. 

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One of my last days spent with my boyfriend before he goes far away :’((

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Me: *reads any scholarship by Tolkien or Lewis, any mythology, any fairytale, any defense of fairytales, anything hinting at the One True Myth*

Me: I want to make something beautiful So Bad that I will keel over and die if I don't.

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May a pretty rose or two bloom this Spring 🙏

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Playing with filters