#Gethsemane Garden

[dalliancekay]

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Luke 22:42 

Did Jesus have any choice?

Did Aziraphale?

In the New Testament, when Jesus is struggling with his fate (his friends asleep), the night before his execution:

"An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him." Luke 22:43

Do you think Aziraphale sat there next to him, consoling him and saying, you still have a choice (but knowing it's not really true). The message and the chalice he had to drink from were sent from God*. Much like, Aziraphale must have assumed, Metatron was.

* The God that apparently (although Az refused to believe it) asked for Job's kids to be whacked, the Flood to happen, the one whose atrocities litter the Old Testament and who didn't do much better after the New one, even though Jesus did as he was asked. Will we be surprised if Jesus (2.0) and Aziraphale decide to have the Second Coming on their own terms?

[wolfythewitch]

Thinking about this constantly I hope you know

[tomicscomics]

06/07/2024

Wishing you all a blessed Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

JOKE-OGRAPHY:

1. The Sacred Heart: In Catholic tradition, the month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion which sees Jesus's heart as a symbol of God's boundless love for humanity. Moreover, the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is being celebrated today (June 7th) this year.

2. Original Imagery: The Sacred Heart is depicted as a human heart wreathed by thorns (like Jesus's crown of thorns) and divine flames/light, with a bleeding wound in the side (a reference to Jesus's postmortem spear-wound), and topped off with a cross (for obvious reasons).

3. My Imagery: In this piece, I depict the Sacred Heart in three stages, separating the symbolism into simple parts and relating them to Jesus's Passion, death, and resurrection.

4. Wordplay: A few years ago, I was struck by the similarity between the words scared, scarred, and sacred, and knew I had to use them together for some kind of wordplay. I just didn't know what kind of wordplay would fit. I usually use my wordsmithing for dumb jokes, but this felt like it needed a different approach, so I waited and wondered until an idea finally hit me just in time for the Month of the Sacred Heart!

5. Fun-Fact: I think this piece marks the first time I've depicted Jesus crucified in Tomics. It's not in my usual style or tone, but that's because those are geared towards comedy, and this is meant to be reverent.

[illustratus]

The Agony in the Garden by Gustave Doré

[soullessjack]

what if we kissed in the Garden of Gethsemane after the last supper and I did not refuse your treacherous kiss which identified me to the police of Sanhedrin but instead I kissed you in return to show that I still love you and forgive you for betraying me and we were both boys

[silvaris]

Garden of Gethsemane by Cliff Hope

[jammunin]

gethsemane

[maz737]

Prayer for deliverance

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Vasili Perov - Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, 1878.

[cheerfullycatholic]

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

web-weaving – the agony in the garden

🩸 Christ in Gethsemane – Heinrich Hofmann // Rose – The Oh Hellos 🩸 Folio 122r of a Book of Hours – Masters of Zweder van Culemborg // Luke 22:42 🩸 Christ in the Garden of Olives – Gaspar de Crayer // Family Line – Conan Gray 🩸 Folio 122r of a Book of Hours – Masters of Zweder van Culemborg // Psalm 22:2 🩸 The Agony in the Garden – Ludovico Carracci // Sun Bleached Flies – Ethel Cain 🩸

[thurifer-at-heart]

Agony in the Garden, Frans Schwartz, 1898

[thedaythatwas]

shuake works really well as a jesus/judas allegory and I will not elaborate

[illustratus]

Jesus Praying in the Garden by Gustave Doré

[micamicster]

Bruce Springsteen's eleventh album THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD as Penguin Classics (series): Rembrandt / Ary Scheffer / Henri Regnault / Jasper Johns / Camille Corot / Antonio Sequi / Jacques Louis David / Frank Webster / Andrew Wyeth / Henry Ossawa Tanner / Andrew Wyeth / Gyula Benczúr

[dreaminglongingly]

Doomed by the narrative as the narrative's favorite

As my bae described to me "FURRY doomed by the narrative bible old man yaoi" I was stunned. Yet not surprised. I knew of the Judas/Jesus ship that had been festering on AO3 for years.

And now that this phenomenon is now exploding on Tumblr, I look at the tags of the posts that made this possible. And I think-

Oh. The people who made this had religious trauma. In facing a religion that scarred them. Did they seek answers in a book the people revered? In justifying their thinking that the church never understood or accepted, did they see people in the Bible in humanize them in desperation? Does it really count as humanization if they were alive? In coping with the trauma, did they seek to understand Jesus and everyone that lived in the bible? That if they were here, would they understand?

(In a wartorn world, what would Jesus have done if he was still here? I look at viral posts that talk about how he would fight for us all- the poor, disabled, sick, hated, scorned, and loved- he loves us all. Isn't that enough?)

Love thy neighbor, onto which extent that does go?