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I NEED More dioramas like this!!!

Pride and Prejudice Diorama // Befana Novella

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Jesus before Herod is a mixed media by Andrea Schiavone which was uploaded on December 27th, 2018. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/jesus-before-herod-andrea-schiavone.html

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Giotto, The Mocking of Christ and Flagellation, 1305

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Death Comes For Us All, Without Merci

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Marc Fishman

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"I am not afraid, I was born to do this"

-St Joan of Arc

Today is the feast day of the Maid of Orleans, St Joan of Arc pray for us so we may know what we are born to do for Our Lord.

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Winter Castle by Friedrich August de Leuw

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What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence. Claude Monet

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OH MY GOODNESS!!! SHE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES!! LOOK AT THESE ICONS!!!!

Lady On Red recolors with Theophilia’s icons

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Moonlight on the lake Roundhay Park Leeds, John Atkinson Grimshaw

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The Bells, Edmund Dulac

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Thoroughman’s Home on the Range, 1897, Charles M. Russell

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Drifting Clouds, 1820, Caspar David Friedrich

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I used to lead the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (that’s what RCIA stands for) classes in our parish. In the seven years I did so, I saw a lot of people convert from atheism to Catholicism.

If you'd like to reconnect, but you're having troubles, maybe you want to start with a study of the Church Fathers, like Origen, Augustine, and Aquinas, who taught about the Faith from logic and reason? The Word on Fire Institute has some lovely studies that could help. Bishop Barron put out a video series years ago that I highly recommend, called “Catholicism”. I have a friend who converted because she doing graduate work in art history, and the beauty just...drew her in. I hope this is helpful to Anon. I’d be happy to chat more or explain anything I can.

i grew up in the catholic church, but stepped away from organized religion and spirituality quite some time ago bc it hurt me in a lot of ways and also didn’t make sense. but i’m just now realizing that i don’t find atheism comforting at all. i’m trying to reconnect with my spirituality, but the logical part of me just shoots down every attempt. idk what i believe in at this point, but i want to believe in something. any advice? where to start?

I think it’s ok to explore things from a logical perspective. Maybe this is because I personally wasn’t drawn to religion from an emotional perspective, it made “sense” to me. I do have problems emotionally connecting to it sometimes, I believe it is true, as in factual, but I have a difficult time feeling a lot of the emotions over it others seem so deeply blessed with, like love, I really wish I could feel love alllllllll the time for the faith, and I believe that’s very admirable and lovely!

It’s also ok to simply learn, you can approach with caution, God gave you a brain for a reason, it’s important to ask questions, it’s important to measure truths against evidence and facts. Even the Church which is built in faith requires miracles and apparitions and even the canonization of Saints to be investigated for in most cases hundreds of years.

I know lots of people recommended me in the beginning to start with prayer and that may or may not help you. It can be uncomfortable for me personally, I feel awkward speaking, so I used written prayers, and it took me many months of “investigating” before I really got to that point.

It’s ok to be curious, to ask questions, to explore, feel things out. You don’t have to jump in the ice cold water. In fact, the reason why RCIA (which is required for adult conversion) exists, to educate the teachings of the Church and the faith to be sure one is fully aware of the teachings before making life time commitments like baptism or receiving of the other sacraments.

For me personally, it was reading works of the Saints. While they aren’t ALL dogmatic, they are incredibly brilliant people, love, faith, suffering...these are ideas that sometimes exceed logical explanation, and can feel divinely mysterious although also simple in that people feel them almost daily. Reading the writings of Saints on these topics was really interesting. Also artwork. I could stare at beautiful images all day. Any mind can understand and contemplate art, simple minds like mine who just simply admire, and more brilliant and logical minds who explore the work entirely. It’s a meditation of sorts I feel, admiring artwork, it takes the mind somewhere else. If I would start anywhere id look for an image that appeals to you and just simply think about it, or think nothing at all (that’s what I do lol!)

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