#communional

[mulderscully]

— ANNE RICE, "Blood Communion" (2018)

[lesbianlotties]

RIP Laura Lee, you would've loved that there were twelve disciples yellowjackets eating the body of Christ Jackie

[winter2468]

so I've found the greatest elden ring fanfic of all time:

Things Tarnished Are No Longer Allowed To Do In The Lands Between

[mysterious-secret-garden]

St. Brendan the Navigator giving Holy Communion to a mermaid

[moondustinfj]

"It was the love of Louis which had at times crippled Lestat and enslaved Armand" is hilarious because it implies that the vampire community is fully aware of the weird thing going on between the 3 of them

I imagine their conversations like-

'Yeah man they have a toxic throuple thing going on. Don't ask them about it'

'I can't find Louis. Which of them has him at the moment?'

They probably had to witness so much drama such as..

Armand: YOU NEVER LOVED HIM! YOU WERE CRUEL TO HIM! I PROTECTED HIM FROM YOU!

The court:

[killjo-q]

Bunch of Verena drawings from the past few days

[scavengedluxury]

Children celebrating their first communion with cocoa and cake, 1936. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[dandelion-de-deus]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

John Lavery (Irish, 1856-1941) Her First Communion, 1902 National Gallery of Ireland

[kiragecko]

I keep hearing people say that Protestants don’t have Communion (also called the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, Mass, and the Blessed Sacrament¹). As a Protestant that has observed Communion in my church my whole life, this is somewhat confusing.

‘Protestant’ includes a lot of very different branches of Christianity. I want to find out which types of Protestants, if any, actually don’t have Communion.

So I have a set of polls for you! This one is the non-American poll². In a moment I’ll reblog with the American version. If you have ever attended a Protestant church enough to know if they did or did not practice Communion, please vote!

(If you don’t know what denomination you attend/attended, there’s some more info after the poll.)

Denominations include:

Lutheran

Anglican - also call Episcopalian, or the Church of England

Methodist - including Nazarenes and the Salvation Army

Anabaptist – including the Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites, River Brethrens, and Schwarzenau Brethren/German Baptists

English Dissenters – including Plymouth Brethren, Puritans, and Quakers

Reformed - also called Calvinists, and including Presbyterians, and Congregationalists

Baptist

United – including Free Evangelicals

Nondenominational - including E-Free and people who primarily describe themselves as Born-Again

Pentecostal - including people who primarily describe themselves as Charismatic or Evangelical (and, due to lack of space, also including Neo-charismatic and postdenominational groups like Vineyard, Newfrontiers, and New Life Fellowship)

Note - due to space restraints and my biases, major denomications may have been relegated to 'Other'. Especially non-North American ones. I apologize.

¹ Some of these terms have slightly different meanings – the goal here is to get across the general idea

² The United States has been isolated due to the unique evolution of terminology there. Ie. Your Baptists are weird, and I don't know how many other denominations also get weird when they cross the border. Plus there's lots of Americans on Tumblr, and I want to actually see other results.

[ynhart]

Soo in Korea, korean catholics have this tradition of adopting a baptismal name as a second name. And it's normally after a saint so when you meet a korean catholic they would casually introduce themselves as their baptismal name. One time there was one whose name was literally APOSTLE PAUL. Like not just "Paul" but "APOSTLE PAUL"

[fictionadventurer]

Slumber party question! What's your earliest memory of encountering beauty? The first thing you can recall where you looked at something and were struck by how beautiful it was?

[tomicscomics]

08/23/2024

Kneel before God.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: In this cartoon, one of the oldest surviving cast members of Tomics -- the Boy -- returns as a junior reporter to ask some of the most important questions about the Faith, such as when we sit or kneel after Communion. Towards the end of the normal Catholic Sunday Mass, everyone lines up, receives the Eucharist, then returns to their pews to pray and reflect until the priest asks them to stand for the final blessing. While praying before that direction to stand, the faithful are welcome to sit or kneel as they see fit. In his interview, the Boy asks a fancy woman whether she sits or kneels after Communion, and she says she sits. That would normally be a fine answer, but then she clarifies that she doesn't sit in her PEW; she sits in her CAR so she can get out of the parking lot before the rest of the Mass-goers exit the church. This is a little poke at people who rush out of Mass right after Communion, which should really only be done in emergencies, not just to beat traffic by skipping the actual end of Mass. Just a little good-natured poke, you see. Maybe even the best-natured, if I'm being honest. They all tell me, "Tom, your natured really is very good." That's what they tell me. They've never seen a natured quite like it.

[gurumog]

Communion (1989) New Line Cinema Dir. Philippe Mora

Christopher Walken as Whitley Strieber

[thewordfortheday]

Jesus said, "For this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins." 

Matthew 26:28 

The Bible says, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. God restored us back to Himself by making a covenant with us through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, so that we could be His blood bought children. We were literally snatched from the hands of satan and brought into a place of blessing, into God's Kingdom.

Now, as we believe in Jesus, and the finished work of the cross, every curse in our life is broken, the blood of Christ cleanses us from all sins, we are set free from the power of the enemy and inherit all the blessings of Abraham and much more.

Not only that, the Word also says, "By His wounds we were healed" Isaiah 53:5. Jesus took on Himself every sickness and pain so that we could be healed. 

God showed His love for us through the death of His Son Jesus, and made a lasting covenant with us through His blood.

[angeltreasure]