#Catholic memes

[tomicscomics]

12/20/2024

More like Joan of Way-Too-Many-Story-Arcs!

The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Continuing from the last few cartoons, an angel is running a fantasy RPG for some saints in heaven, namely Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, and Nicholas of Myra. They're each introducing their characters now. I'm sure they'll all be normal. 2. As Joan introduces her character, we're met with a few common pitfalls that catch many new (and even old) players. FIRST, the character is an obvious "self-insert." Joan made a character that's just an idealized version of herself, but with superpowers. I think all characters are self-inserts in a way, but using yourself as inspiration rather than a blueprint leads to more interesting characters. SECOND, the character is overpowered, vanquishing armies and demons in her backstory with ease. As a character beginning at level one, the lowest level in the game, it's considered uncouth to add impossible victories to their backstory (their past before the game begins). THIRD, the character's backstory is lengthy and filled with conflict, but every conflict is resolved in full. A good backstory tends to be concise, with some unresolved conflicts or vulnerable elements that the Game-Master can use to build up and personalize the actual game's stakes. If your character already handled all their baggage before the story starts, that can work, but it's usually boring. 3. All of Joan's character's backstory moments are based on either events or legends from her own life. The orc refers to a soldier on a bridge who mocked Joan and took the Lord's Name in vain; not long after, he fell off the bridge to his death. The witch refers to Catherine de La Rochelle, a woman who claimed to have visions, and who tried and failed to replace Joan as the coolest mystic in France. The arch-cleric refers to Bishop Cauchon, the vicious, conniving, monstrous prelate who threatened judges and orchestrated Joan's criminally biased heresy trial, leading to her secular execution.

[catholike]

[disgruntledexplainer]

It's me. I'm the demographic Luce was made for.

[psalmlover]

endless cycle

[eternal-echoes]

This is why you shouldn’t trust the secular media to report on Pope Francis 😂

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

her name is LUCE and she LOVES you <3

[mayor-of-losertown]

“Forgive them Father, they know not what they- WHAT’S THIS? IT’S KING CLOVIS AND HIS BRAVE FRANKS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!”

[apesoformythoughts]

via Catechesis Memes

[virtie333]

[domine-speravi]

Street View capture of this abomination of a church sign that I drove past yesterday

[dsmsix]

[tomicscomics]

10/10/2024

The Feast of St. Teresa of Ávila is on October 15th!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: St. Teresa of Ávila (or Sister Teresa of Jesus, as she was known) was a Carmelite nun, a mystic, a reformer, and a musician! She'd play drums and tambourines to keep time for her sisters as they played other instruments or danced in their recreational time. In this cartoon, St. Teresa receives a new drum kit, but it's too big for her to play alone. Drum kits aren't normally meant for two people, but as the other nun points out, this a "co-nun-drum." A conundrum is a dilemma (like having a drum made for two people when you only have one drummer). A co-nun-drum is a drum made for two nuns to co-play (play cooperatively).

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

i woke up this morning and saw it was July and this is all i could think about so i'm sorry but you all have to deal with this.

[holyhyphae]

[psalmlover]

from iwishyoucouldtakemeupstate on instagram

[thesongthesoulsings]

Didn´t like the "I tread where I please", that constantly makes its round, so I changed it up.

She says "Fiat" and so she sets an example for us.