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Domenico Tintoretto, Penitent Magdalene, ca.1598-1602

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Ash Wednesday service in Bogota, Colombia. (Photographer: ? Martinez - Associated Press)

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Christ Appears to Mary, 1973 - Jesus Mafa.  From Vanderbilt Divinity Library.

In the 1970s, the French Catholic priest François Vidil collaborated with the Mafa community to create a series of artwork known as Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa, or simply Jesus Mafa), which depicts various events in the life of Jesus using Black depictions rather than White. These images were actually depictions of real-world recreations of biblical scenes by Mafa people, and have since become popular worldwide, and perhaps especially among African Americans, as an inculturated form of Catholic iconography.

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Miguel Carbonell Selva (1854-1896) - Death of Sappho, 1881

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“Eye of Omniscience“ Aleksey Kudlay

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Viktor Vasnetsov, Maria Magdalene (mural for St. Vladimir’s Cathedral, Kiev)

The red egg comes from an old Christian legend. Mary Magdalene was invited to a banquet held by the emperor Tiberius and, holding a plain egg in her hand, proclaimed “Christ is risen!” The emperor burst out laughing, saying that a man rising from the dead was as likely as the egg turning red in her hand. Before the words were out of his mouth, the egg was a brilliant blood red, and Mary continued preaching before the imperial court.

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Palestinian lady collects gas bombs fired by Israeli army. She grows flowers in these bombs.

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Grief, 1902 by Anna Ancher (Danish, 1859–1935)

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Joé Descomps-Cormier Brooch depicting St. Joan of Arc

Enamel and gold, ca. 1900

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hi! I grew up Protestant and I’ve been practicing witchcraft for 5 yrs and have been recently getting into folk Catholicism! I was wondering if you have any Blessed Mother/Catholic-centered tarot or oracle deck recommendations? Thank you!

no sorry. i basically only use playing cards.

if it’s any consolation, playing cards are more typical in ‘folk’ practices than themed decks.

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(1) Natali Sevriukova stands outside her apartment block in Kyiv following a rocket attack on Friday. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

(2) A detained demonstrator displays a sign 'No War!' from a police bus in St Petersburg, Russia.Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP

(3) Demonstration at the Russian embassy in Warsaw, Poland, against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2022. Photograph: Piotr Łapiński/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

(3) An anti-war protest in St Petersburg. Many of those who contacted the Guardian expressed their concern over the escalation. Photograph: Peter Kovalev/Tass

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“Intense, intimate vulgarity. Those moments when desire overrides all sense of propriety. Giving in to primality, regardless of how exposive, messy or obscene it might, otherwise, appear. That expression of passionate liberation”

— Body Subversive

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Without words: describe your core spiritual beliefs. A prompt by @graveyarddirt that I wanted to partake in!

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Today we celebrate the First and Second Findings of the Venerable Head of John the Baptist. After the Beheading of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John, his body was buried by disciples in the Samarian city of Sebaste, and his venerable head was hidden by Herodias in an unclean place. Saint Joanna, the wife of King Herod’s steward Chuza, secretly took the holy head and placed it into a vessel and buried it on the Mount of Olives in one of Herod’s properties.

After many years, this property passed into the possession of a government official who became a monk with the name of Innocent. He built a church and a cell there. When they started to dig the foundation, the vessel with the venerable head of John the Baptist was uncovered. Innocent recognized its great holiness from the signs of grace emanating from it. Thus occurred the First Finding of the Head. Innocent preserved it with great piety, but fearful that the holy relic might be abused by unbelievers, before his own death he again hid it in that same place, where it was found. Upon his death the church fell into ruin and was destroyed.

During the fourth century, the holy Forerunner appeared twice to two monks journeying to Jerusalem on pilgrimage to the holy places, and he revealed the location of his venerable head.

The monks uncovered the holy relic and, placing it into a sack of camel-hair, they proceeded homewards. Along the way they encountered an unnamed potter and gave him the precious burden to carry. Not knowing what he was carrying, the potter continued on his way. But the holy Forerunner appeared to him and ordered him to flee from the careless and lazy monks, with what he held in his hands. The potter concealed himself from the monks and at home he preserved the venerable head with reverence. Before his death he placed it in a water jug and gave it to his sister.

(Continued) (at Jerusalem Palestine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaVfbC6Pd4-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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“If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.”

Everglades National Park, Florida

Taken June 2021