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Jacob wrestling with the Angel, byzantine bronze door, Monte Sant'Angelo, ca. 1070

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I was raised Catholic and images of Mary still hold a measure of comfort for me. Qilin are said to appear to portend the appearance of a great individual, and are symbols of prosperity and protection.

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Joan of Arc (1873), Henri Pierre Hippolyte Dubois

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“We owe a debt to third world women theologians who have noticed the similarities between Mary’s life and the lives of so many poor women even today. Giving birth in a homeless situation; fleeing as a refugee with your baby to a strange land to escape being killed by military action; losing a child to unjust execution by the state; our newspapers yield up these icons of suffering even today. Mary is sister to the marginalized women who live unchronicled lives in oppressive situations. It does her no honor to rip her out of her conflictual, dangerous historical circumstances and transmute her into an icon of a peaceful, middle-class life robed in royal blue.”

— Sister Elizabeth Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”

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Chapel dedicated to the Thunderer Saint St. Pantelija that is built inside of a hollow ancient oak near the village of Jovac, Vladičin Han region, SE Serbia.

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La Chapelle du Saint-Sacrement - Notre-Dame de Paris

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A windy day with a moderate temperature will make you feel like you got reborn into a world that really loves you this time

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The Eucharist must invade my life.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, quoted in Daniel Izuzquiza, Rooted in Jesus Christ: Toward a Radical Ecclesiology

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Mary Magdalene, Girolamo Savoldo, 1535-40

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Kathleen Graber, from "The Weight", The River Twice

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Kathleen Graber, from "Un Chien Andalou", The Eternal City

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Archangel Gabriel and a sleepy kitty near the gates of Kazanskiy cathedral in Feodosia, Crimea. August 2023

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Lonely shepherdess

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“Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”

— Eugene Peterson

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‘A spotted flycatcher pair nesting in the palm of a statue’ (by Zsolt Semperger, original post here)

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Azerbaijani artist Tunzala Mamedzadeh's Hand-Painted Quran in Gold on 164 Feet of Black Silk