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resistance to fascists is obedience to God. [x]

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"God our Father sees us through the eyes of his own goodness: he sees his own goodness in us. And so he sees our worth as something truly good, truly worth the trouble of saving."

-Fr. Sebastian Walshe, O. Praem., Secrets from Heaven: Hidden Treasures of Faith in the Parables and Conversations of Jesus

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Just a message to my fellow queer Catholics/Christians on here:

God loves you. God supports you. Jesus would lovingly break bread with you. Jesus would defend you against those who persecute you.

Especially to my trans siblings, he loves you.

Happy Pride, God bless you all.

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'And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters'

by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Genuinely have started to fall in love with the symbolism of me being a lamb and God being our shepherd. We are all part of the same flock. We are booping our noses together softly. When one of us gets lost we go to our shepherd and ask him to look for them. Actually sobbing over this

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our lady came in SWINGING today at goodwill omg

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Title: The Ghent Altarpiece (detail) Artist: Hubert and Jan van Eyck Date: ca. 1432 Medium: Oil on wood Size: 375 cm × 260 cm

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A little thing I made for a zine a month or two ago.

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It has always been a dream of mine to have a big, lush, beautiful Marian garden. But my living situation doesn’t allow gardens or most planting, but it does allow pots! So I’ve started a mini Marian herb garden:

rosemary is an herb associated with fidelity and faith, traits of Our Lady. There are two legends surrounding it— one that Our Lady lost her cloak on a bush of it running from Herod into Egypt, dying the flowers blue, and another that a rosemary bush grow upwards for only 33 years, stopping at the height Christ was on his final day on earth.

thyme is for Our Lady’s humility. also called ‘Mary’s bedstraw’; legend has it that the manger in Bethlehem and Mary’s birthing bed was lined with thyme

parsley is called Our Lady’s Little Vine, as well as being one of the herbs used in the Passover Seder. It is dipped in salt water as a reminder of the tears of the Israelites under bondage, which greatly reminds me of Our Lady of Sorrows

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We Christians, we are the worst, we have a serious problem. We say everyone is welcome to come to church but when they do come, we are unprepared to receive them. We stand closed off in our little circles but we must welcome everyone. Everyone. The person might be your future killer, so what? That is God's business, not yours. We must open the circle. A man comes to me and says "Father, I am a homosexual and I have AIDS" (AIDS was a very frightening thing at this time. Very serious. Many priests would not visit people who were sick with it because of fear). And I said "So what? I am a doctor and Christ says His mercy is for the sick." Because this is the thing, mercy. We must always think "how would the Panagia [Virgin Mary] meet this person?" She would remove her veil and place it over them and cover them in mercy. So must we show mercy to all. Mercy. Mercy. We Christians are useless without mercy.

-Father Evangelos Papanikolaou

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Sketch

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“One can ignore an indifferent and distant God, but one cannot so easily resist a God who is so close and has even been wounded for love. Goodness, beauty, truth, and love: this is what we have to offer this beggar world, albeit in half-broken bowls.”

— Pope Francis

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"We say, therefore, that consent to cohabitation or carnal intercourse does not make marriage, but consent to conjugal friendship... as when a man says, "I take you as mine," not as my master, not as my slave, but as my wife.

"Why was woman formed from the side of man?

"Because, indeed, she is not given as slave or master, and so she was not formed in the beginning from the highest or the lowest part, but from the side of man, on account of conjugal friendship. If she had come from the highest part (the head), it would have seemed that she was created to dominate; but if from the lowest (the feet), it would have seemed that she was to be subjected to servitude. But because she is taken neither as master nor as slave, she came to be from the middle, that is, from the side, because she is taken for conjugal friendship."

Peter Lombard, Sentences, IV dist. 28 c. 3.2-4.1

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People of the World: Christian Edition II

Jerusalem, Israel

Thailand

Nairobi, Kenya

China

The Horn of Africa

Seoul, South Korea

Colorado, United States

New York City, United States

Vatican City, Italy

Phillipines

Lalibela, Ethiopia

Armenia

United States

Amman, Jordan

Mexico

Rome, Italy

Gonder, Ethiopia

None of the above images are mine.

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been thinking a lot recently about how Christianity took crucifixion, a symbol of complete humiliation and defeat at the hands of the Roman Empire, and turned it into a symbol of God’s infinite and incomprehensible love for all of creation

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