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Hey, I wasn't really sure were else to ask this, but are there any online spaces you would recommend for other queer christians?
Also I love your blog, it's so nice to have a bit of wholesome and inspiring catholic stuff in between all the terrible things happening <33 Much love
hi my sibling ❤️! tumblr ate my first answer to this, so let me try and remember everything i said.
i don’t really know of specific queer & religious online spaces, so i’m not sure how much i can give you—I’ll be recommending specific blogs, rather than forums, etc.
i do know of r/transchristianity on reddit, but it’s kind of depressing, so i don’t often look at it. on instagram, i follow marymagdalenestan, godlivesinmycellphone, transsexual_god_enjoyer1998, and ineedgodineverymomentofmylife.
@sapphosremains posted a response to a similar ask listing blogs they follow, so i’d recommend checking it out here.
anyone else, feel free to chime in with recommendations. thank you for the kind words! i love you, my sibling ❤️
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I haven’t been sure what to do with myself lately. I was raised Catholic and I’m trans and my family is really accepting to an absurd degree. I felt God a few years ago and returned to the faith but my faith has faltered because I’m so unsure of everything and I struggle to feel like I belong anywhere. I don’t know for sure if God loves me even though I’m trans and bi. But I also am afraid of what happens next if God does love me anyway. I go to an accepting UCC church, but it’s not the same as a Catholic Church. I feel out of place there and I feel out of place at a Catholic Church. I want to be embrace both my transness and my Catholic heritage, but I always worry they are incomparable. That if I go to confessional I’d have to lie to a priest and say I’m not trans just so I don’t have to deal with them being unaccepting.
Im just scared and unable to act. Feeling God is one thing, figuring out what to do with that is insanely difficult and I don’t know if what im doing is right because God is rarely direct and only speaks to me in riddles and it makes me all confused and lost.
I don’t know what the point of this was, I just really need to get it out and say something. I feel like I can’t embrace my faith as much as I can’t rid myself of it. Knowing God has made life more complicated.
hi my sibling ❤️ i feel many of the same things.
i’m very happy to hear that your family accepts you. that is such a huge gift!
i can promise that god loves you, just as he loves each and every one of us. and that continues through each and every denomination—no matter what, we can all agree that god loves us (sometimes, we can feel, too much).
i know the feeling of not going to quite the right church. i’ve mentioned that i attend an Episcopalian church, and i also wish that there was a local Catholic church that i felt comfortable in.
it is really difficult being in such a tradition that prides itself on integrity and age, but uses this to justify maltreatment of those like ourselves. it is sincerely painful. sometimes you can lose yourself in mourning this.
to be honest, i don’t have much advice here. all i can tell you is that i know how you feel. so does god. this is one of the most important things to remember, for me: he suffers with us. as jesus, he struggled with god’s own vagueness, his own proximity.
faith doesn’t often make life easier—you walk a thorny and troubled road. but so do i. i’m here, walking this road, alongside you.
thank you for trusting me with this, my sibling. i will pray for you. i love you ❤️
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to the lovely anons who sent me asks: i will respond when i can! i am traveling this weekend for a funeral, but sending love to you ❤️❤️❤️
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Gotta occasionally post about antisemitism like rent-lowering gunshots so here's a periodic reminder that:
1. No one is saying you shouldn't advocate for Palestine. I'm also upset about the treatment of Palestinians and I really hate war. But harassing random Jews is not going to help.
2. If you could accept the fact that random civilizations do not represent their nation's government for every other country except Israel, you're being antisemitic.
3. Even if every single Israeli was completely, 100% on board with Netanyahu's bullshit (which they're not), that does not justify antisemitism. That does not justify October 7th. That does not justify pogroms. That does not justify the intentional destruction of synagogues. That does not justify the mistreatment of Jews anywhere.
4. Too many leftists are preoccupied with finding someone acceptable to hate instead of standing up for marginalized communities. Work on this, please.
I'm tired. I want peace. And I want antisemites to not fucking follow me.
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When you hear it said, “Sell your possessions, and give to the poor,” so that you might have provisions for heavenly enjoyment, you go away grieving; but if you should hear, “Give money for pampering your wife, give to stonemasons, carpenters, mosaic pebble-layers, portrait-painters,” you rejoice as though you had acquired some high-rated annuities.
You, however, refuse to give, declaring that it’s impossible to satisfy those who ask. With your tongue you excuse yourself, but by your own hand you’re convicted; for even in silence your hand proclaims your falsehood, sparkling round from the ring on your finger.
How many people could one of your fingers release from debt? How many broken-down homes could be rebuilt? One box of your clothing would be able to dress the whole shivering populace; but you, unfeeling, dismiss the needy, not fearing the just repayment of the Judge.
You have not shown mercy, you shall not receive mercy; you’ve not opened your home, you shall be evicted from the kingdom. You haven’t given of your bread; neither shall you receive eternal life.
-St. Basil the Great’s sermon, To the Rich
#christianity#greek orthodox#hi i just read this and I’m losing my mind#based takes from greek orthodox saints yet again
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Top 10 Monks That Did Crazy Ass Shit for Their God
#number ten is me making a tumblr blog#actually tbh it’s probably the best place to be for a trans catholic#reddit is mostly like anti religious people#tho there is r/transchristianity which i like#instagram couldn’t care less about hate speech and the trolls & bullying there can be pretty awful#twitter is…twitter#on tumblr people mind their own business more
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“Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.”
— Harold S. Kushner (via gayjewish)
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— Forfeiting My Mystique, Kaveh Akbar, in '100 Queer Poems, an anthology' (2022)
[text ID: Some saints spent their whole childhoods biting their teachers' hands and / sprinkling salt into spider-webs, only to be redeemed by a fluke shock of grace just before death. May I feather into such a swan soon.]
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"cant believe youd make this about your current interest" i will make the birds in the sky and the grass in the fields about my thing. for free. i will look at gods ineffable creation with a mind filled with images and thoughts of my guys.
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i think if you’re feeling a certain kind of way and you know why you’re feeling it & you’ve done everything you can about the problem causing the feeling for the time being you should be able to go to your guardian angel and smile beatifically and say “i’ve done my feelings homework” and they smile beatifically back at you and say “alright my child” and they tap you on the head and you feel an immense sense of peace that washes through you and escapes as light from your fingertips and then you feel normal again
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do you want to explore museums, old churches and hidden antique shops with me, yes or no
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Fascinating watching this website contort around the idea of reaching out to and converting far right leaning individuals as if the same 3-4 stances aren't having a do-si-do while all being able to coexist
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Praying is not a way to get what you want. Prayer is the extension of your soul into the world and beyond. To pray is to surrender yourself to the mystery of the divine, and to open yourself to a response you may never have anticipated or wanted. Prayer is an act of humility and acknowledgement that we are part of an infinite cycle centred not on us, but on God. We join with the prayers of those who came before us and those who are yet to come. Our prayers live on even when we have ceased to be. In a way, to pray is to become eternal.
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i’m sure this has been posted about before, but the concept of religious folklore creatures is so so interesting to me. and since i’m catholic, of course, i can’t help but wonder what you can invent with this…
dwarves who build miles of complex catacombs underground. dragons who guard churches. ghosts of clergy long since departed, offering religious advice to visitors.
vampires who pray until their skin burns, who refuse to accept damnation. werewolves who reread the story of st. francis and the wolf of gubbio over and over again.
zombies who stumble back into church with the last memories they have. aliens who risk social ostracism to adopt a foreign religion. fauns and fairies who incorporate their own woodland culture into mass… the list goes on!
#christianity#catholicism#christian fantasy#i love fantasy and i would love to see more of this!#i don’t know too much about other religions in order to make the same kind of post for them#but i would love to see folklore creatures in other religions as well#so much of the time they’re just assigned Vague Nature God or bastardized greek mythology#sometimes both
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Honestly I feel like it's a bit insulting to God to insist that They create a person in dignity only once, at their birth, and not continually over the course of their whole life, through the love and intelligence that both have their ultimate source in the Almighty.
My top surgery wasn't a mark against the dignity my Creator gave me, it was an act of creation born out of the love I have known from family, friends, strangers, and God, as well as a testament to human ingenuity and craft that are gifts from God. I carry around all of that on my trans body every single day and every single day I thank the Lord for it.
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im gay, trans and christian and i feel like impostor to both of my communities - queer community that is wary of religion, and my religious community that would probably hate me for who I am and tbh i dont know what to do
hello, my sibling ❤️ you’ve found yourself in the center of the same strange venn diagram that we’ve all inhabited.
there are obvious bones of contention with each side, but i would gently encourage you to try finding community in real life. of course, this isn’t possible for everyone, but i think you may find that people are more willing to give you the benefit of the doubt in person, rather than online.
i won’t lie. it is very, very difficult to be ourselves. but we exist in no small number, and with allies. here’s a link to the discord server i’m in—you might like to join.
god bless you, my sibling ❤️
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Notre-Dame de Paris, FR.
Avril 2019 - Novembre 2024
À tous nos artisans 🇫🇷
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