#Orandy

[gummidon]

Sp Lorax au doodles <3

[beardedbarba]

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWkT1j61oQc)

@smashthegiantkiller

[aprillikesthings]

LOL today in "things I literally already knew" XD

Okay so the number one result was not a shock at ALL, but I'm honestly surprised that Roman Catholicism is that far down the list!

And being baptized Lutheran apparently stuck around a little.

That said there were a few questions where I was like "eh, this isn't worth arguing about imho" (like the number of sacraments), but even then my "any of these answers is Fine??" is sort of an Anglican/Episcopalian way of looking at things!

Like, even the opening bit about comparing confessions made me laugh a little because my denomination isn't a "confessional" church

[rainedragon]

Ok, part 2 of my thoughts on the AP show.... now for the solids. Starting with the Hello Kitty re-release. I love this, it's adorable. I wish they did OTK of the knee socks, but c'est la vie. The OTT version is a lot, but it's cute. Neither is something I'd buy, but I do like that they exist.

I love the twin stars, but the twin stars dress looks like a Pullip dress made human size in a bad way. I think it's the organdy ruffles paired with the satin bows. I do like the candy like buttons on the bows, but I'd much rather see them make a milky planet style kiki and lala print than something like this personally. For so expensive a dress, it feels cheap. The Cinnamaroll dress is cute and well done, I like the design better and the hat is cute as well. It's still incredibly expensive though, and I personally would want either a really good print at this price point, or something more elegant.

This dress confuses me a little. The sleeves are huge and look like organdy, but the body of the dress looks more like an old school cotton piece. It also has a bunch of rhinestones. I kind of wish they had either gone full into "elegant" fabrics and tulle lace, or full old school with it. The middle ground is a little strange.

I like the white organdy dress with the twirling hearts. I wouldn't wear it personally, but it's well designed and the fabric is consistant. Even though it's an old school concept, it works well in the organdy.

Likewise the orandy dresses with the heart bodices are well designed, but not my taste. I don't love the heart bodice, much like a certain IW pie piece I reviewed years ago, it's one of those things that is hard to pull off IRL on a real human without it warping. I like how detailed this is, and it works well as an idol-inspired look.

This sax dress is a lot, and I don't love the sleeves, but it's a strong design and a nice looking dress. It's very doll-like, and it reminds me of a very early OTT dress of theirs. The pink dress is also a strong design, but the sleeves are also huge.

This mint dress harkens back to the Pink House influence of the past few years, but the high hem and A-line look makes it more child-like. I don't personally like the short A-line look in general, but I do think it's a strong design and I like the details. It doesn't look cheap, or like they cut corners even though I'm certain they faked the layers, and that is an acomplishment IMHO. The sax.. apron skirt? JSK? Looks like it could have been plucked from the 2007 collection. The school style elements are cute, and the detauls are nice. I think it's a strong design and while it's also not me, I think it's well done.

I like this design of this buttercream colored dress, I like that it looks like a cake, but up close I hate the fabric / lace. I love her hat too. The pink dress looks like a take on princess in love... I didn't like princess in love and I don't like this. The bows stuck on randomly aren't my vibe, the front corset lacing doesn't elevate it and the sleeves / sleeve lace is not great. It's multiple shades of pink in a bad way and just generally feels like a weaker design than princess in love.

This on the left is great. 10/10. no notes. I'd probably not like all of the fabrics / lace up close, but from a distance it's a great big pile of ruffles and bows in a nice arrangement and the sleeves are fun. The dress on the right has a kind of big ruffle on the bodice that I don't love and the blouse? sleeves? are a little weird being lace, but the skirt design is great. I don't adore the all pink OTT line, it feels a little like a cop-out given how much pink AP makes, but it is very on brand.

The dress on the left is my least favorite of the solids. It's bad. The bow? fantastic. The dress... reminds me of an off brand barbie princess dress, it's just, it's not good. I hate the all over lace fabric they use and it's got a lot of that. The bows in the middle blob all together (at least I think it's bows?). The corset lacing gets lost in the lace, and the cape... thing? is not working. It's visually mushy in a bad way. The dress on the right looks like another attempt to remake princess in love or fantasy princess. I don't like the mixed warm and cool pink. I hate the sleeve with the front corset lacing. Either that sleeve or the corset lacing, but not both. The bodice doesn't fit the model which is hurting the dress as well. The skirt is too small for the bodice. That said, I like the tiered skirt design with the bows, I just want the pinks to either be closer or be intentional in their lack of matching. The hat is cute, and the bag I love. I like the socks too honestly.

The scale feels off for the one on the left. I want the skirt to go under her knee with the bodice style. the bows at the hem and on the bodice being satin also feels cheap. I feel like this could be a really good design but it feels just a little cheap / costume-y The dress on the right works so much better with the longer length. I kind of wish it had different sleeves, the top of these sleeves is boring? but overall it's a stonger piece just because the length and the fabric choices flow better. I feel like these two pieces could have been combined into one good dress. They each have half of the good ideas.

Lastly, these two very OTT pieces. Is the white one a re-release? It looks vauegly familiar but it's 3am. I like this. it's very AP does lolita wedding with the tiers and the pearls and the rhinestones, and while I'm not a bows-on-bows girl, I think if someone was this would be a very cute wedding gown.

I hate the lace gloves the pink one has with it, I'm sorry. I just really don't like AP's lace fabric choices at all. This is a me problem XD Hidding those though, this is a great OTT pink dot tulle princess dress. I really like this. I don't think I'd ever wear it, but it's so barbie princess in the best way and it's well balanced. Not into the floppy bonnet, but if one liked floppy bonnets, I suppose it's an OK floppy bonnet. Weird choice for this dress though.

[pharmaciacatholica]

Creation Theology Resources

Here are some resources that I think are good reads for those interested in the topic; I will likely add stuff as I come across more in the future. Like everyone else, I am always learning more.

Fathers:

Saint Theophilus of Antioch, Letter to Autolycus (A.D. 183)

Book II chapters 10-33

Book III chapter 24

Saint Ephraim the Syrian, Commentary on Genesis (A.D 306-373)

Saint Basil the Great, Hexaemeron (A.D 330-379)

Saint Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man (A.D. 335-395)

Saint Ambrose of Milan, Commentary on Genesis (A.D. 339-397)

Specifically, Book I chapter 2 and 3

Saint John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis (A.D. 347-407)

Saint Augustine (A.D. 354-430)

The Confessions; Book XI, Book XII, and Book XIII

On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis

City of God; Books XI-XVI

Doctors:

Venerable Bede, The Reckoning of Time (A.D. 708)

Specifically, chapter 66

Saint John Damascene, On the Orthodox Faith (A.D. 673-735)

Specifically, Book II chapter 1 and 2

Saint Bonaventure, Breviloquium (A.D. 1221-1274)

Specifically, Parts II and III

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (A.D. 1225-1274)

Prima Pars; Questions 44-46, 65-74, 90-92, 102

Councils:

Council of Trent (A.D. 1545-1563)

Session IV, Decree Concerning the Edition and the Use of the Sacred Books

Session V, Decree Concerning Original Sin

Catechism of Trent, Production of Man (page 42)

Second Vatican Council (A.D 1965)

Dei Verbum

Roman Pontiffs

Pope Leo XIII

Arcanum Divinae; specifically, paragraph 5

Providentissimus Deus

Pope Pius XII

Divino Afflante Spiritu

Humani Generis *the crown jewel, in my opinion*

Pope Saint John Paul II

Evangelium Vitae; specifically, chapter 2 parts 39-43

Pope Francis

Laudato Si; specifically, chapter 2

Pontifical Biblical Commission

Miscellaneous Articles

The Four Senses of Scripture

Creation and Divine Freedom

The Theological Importance of Creation

Is Genesis 1-11 Intended to be Historical

The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution

The Metaphysical Impossibility of Human Evolution

Against Polygenism

Should Catholics Believe in Evolution

Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Crisis of Faith

Books

Haydock Bible Commentary

Genesis 1-3

Studies in the Theology of Creation Volume 1 by Gideon Lazar (no pdf available currently)

The Doctrines of Genesis 1-11 by Fr. Victor Warkulwiz

A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament by John Bergsma and Brant Pitre

[apilgrimpassingby]

Why Orthodox Disagree With Purgatory

It creates a "third place" between Heaven and Hell - if not in theology, certainly in the minds of some laity, as demonstrated by the division of the Church Militant, Penitent and Triumphant. Since Orthodox have a strong belief in lex orandi, lex credendi, many of us hear that kind of language and assume that Roman Catholics literally believe that Purgatory is something as distinct from Heaven as Hell is from Heaven.

It redirects people's focus from the Final Judgement to the Particular Judgement. Both of the scriptural instances of prayer for the repose of the soul (2 Maccabees 12:39-45, 2 Timothy 1:16-18) are concerned with the Resurrection and the Day of Judgement respectively, as is 1 Corinthians 3:15, a common prooftext for Purgatory (see :13). But Purgatory casts them as being about the Particular Judgement.

While we don't oppose the idea of post-mortem purification of the soul from sin (indeed, it was one of the pronouncements of the 1672 Council of Jerusalem, our equivalent of the Council of Trent), we do oppose the concept historically popular among Roman Catholics, of a realm where people are punished for their sins before graduating to Heaven, because we believe that there is no punishment in that sense with God - with God, there is only difficult purification (penances), rearranging the world (divine judgement) or being with Him in an impure and hence painful state (Hell).

These aren't the only reasons, but these are ones that I find compelling and that are popular with Orthodox Christians.

Any Roman Catholics reading this, I'd like to hear your thoughts. Tagging @paula-of-christ, @apenitentialprayer and @cactusflowerfemme for that purpose.

[fierysword]

The fullness of the earth is yours O Lady; You O Mother will reign forever. You are clothed with glory and beauty: Every precious stone is your adornment & your clothing. The brightness of the sun is upon your head: the beauty of the moon is beneath your feet. Shining orbs adorn your throne: the morning stars glorify you. Be mindful of us, O Lady, in thy good pleasure: and make us worthy to glorify your name.

Lex orandi, lex credendi: on importance of developing a feminist liturgical language (sourced from Psalms to Thea)

[aprilsjesusblogging]

@baronmagikcarp I didn't want to annoy the OP of that post so I'm replying by screenshotting/tagging lol

(Edit: ....this became an Info Dump)

Y'know, I still think of myself as something of a Noob at this whole "Christian" thing, but I think the problem is that my online religious discussion spaces have a lot of clergy/seminarians/Church Nerds in them.

Like I knew the names of those heresies off the top of my head--I opened the wikipedia pages just to double-check I was spelling them right. What the actual fuck.

That said, I'm incapable of thinking about Trinitarian heresies without hearing a leprechaun in my head yelling, "That's modalism, Patrick!"

(Modalism is also called Sabellianism)

In any case, as the joke goes, if you think you understand the Trinity, you're probably doing a heresy, and the heresy was defined and named before, like, 1000 CE; the point of the Trinity is that it's a mystery and we can't really understand it.

(This is the Trinity. Obviously. /half joking)

Wikipedia's list of Trinitarian heresies is based on the definitions put forth by the Roman Catholic church, but since most of them were decided before the Great Schism (much less the Reformation), plenty of non-RC churches define them as heresies as well, including all the Anglican churches.

To the degree that the Episcopal church has a set of normative beliefs* (none of which are required of anyone except, theoretically, ordained clergy**), the list is here, but if you dig into the site's glossary you can find a lot of the major heresies listed by their names and defined as heresies.

(*"What do you mean you don't have a set of beliefs" We're not a confessional denomination, we're united by liturgy more than anything else hence the Book of Common Prayer, I talked about it a bit here; something something lex orandi, lex credendi; something something orthopraxy; something something via media; ask a handful of Episcopalians whether the bread and wine at the Eucharist are Jesus' body and blood and most of them will answer something about the Real Presence, but ask us to define that and most of us will smile and say it's a Mystery, and a few people will smile and then say something like "Well I believe in consubstantiation as opposed to transubstantiation but it's not like our salvation depends on those details." Like, we have a catechism in the back of the BCP but I wasn't required to read it or agree with it to be confirmed; I read the book Walk in Love instead which is often used in Episcopal confirmation classes, because it includes things like church polity; but I did say to my bishop, in front of my church and family, that I believed a few things during my confirmation, mostly based on the Apostle's creed.)

(**This is what I get for hanging out online with Church Nerds; a lot of the younger ones who self-define as "inclusively orthodox" have extremely strong negative opinions on priests and bishops who openly doubt, for instance, the physical resurrection or the virgin birth. I have mixed feelings on this--doubt is considered normal and fine in the Episcopal church. But I do feel odd about clergy preaching that "eh maybe those things didn't happen," because I do feel like faith should sort of be the goal?? But then it also seems arbitrary to believe the Gospel stories are literal when we don't insist on literalism/inerrancy in any of the rest of the Bible. Can you tell I've thought about this a lot. Anyway don't get me started on the "inclusive orthodoxy" movement or I'll be here all fucking day--the tl;dr is that I mostly agree with them but they can be smug dicks about it and it puts me off.)

[orthodoxadventure]

This inner Tradition 'handed down to us in a mystery' is preserved above all in the Church's worship. Lex orandi lex credendi: men's faith is expressed in their prayer.

Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church

[templevirgin]

lex orandi, lex credenda

the law of praying establishes the law of believing.

[b51]

art fight pieces im proud of this year so far!

ocs belong to Orandi, AcidKeyLime, Frillypetals, and siriusgibson (in order)

[thestars-aremycanvas]

I do recommend every feminist read this and ponder on it, especially if you worship a male entity!

[heroesofprovidenceeternal]

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[darkmaga-returns]

By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Lifesite News

November 2, 2024

The poll conducted by the Real Presence Coalition confirms what was already evident when Paul VI authorized the modification of the discipline in this matter. First of all, it was clear that the so-called “reforms” imposed by a group of subversives Modernists did not respond to any request “from the grass roots.” Neither the Novus Ordo nor the new ways of administering Communion were the fruit of a real need of the ecclesial body. The opposite is true, however, that the so-called liturgical reform was intended to help spread the doctrine it contained among the clergy and the faithful, causing the πρᾶξις (praxis) to influence the δόξα (belief). The concept summarized by the adage Lex orandi, lex credendi has been widely adopted by the proponents of the conciliar reform, but in reverse and maliciously: in this case it is not in fact the oρθοδοξία (orthodoxy) that determines the ὀρθοπραξία (orthopraxy), but the ἑτεροπραξία (heteropraxy) that shapes the ἑτεροδοξία (heterodoxy).

[pharmaciacatholica]

I will say, as a follow up to the anon about private revelation, that Fatima is a unique case. It takes on a sort of middle ground between a private revelation and an object proposed for belief. This is because it has been incorporated into the liturgy. The liturgy forms a part of the universal and ordinary magisterium on the principle of: lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi est.

[my-alejandra-fernandez-blr]

En la audiencia general, el Papa prosiguió su reflexión sobre el papel del Espíritu Santo en la historia de la salvación y en la vida de la Iglesia.

21 de agosto de 2024 – XX Miércoles durante el año (TO) San Pío X 21 de Agosto | FELIZ DÍA DEL CATEQUISTA!!! 21 – 8 – 2024 Audiencia general VN Boletín [it] Aica Lex orandi, lex credendi; pero también, lex intelligendi et lex vivendi. “Régimen de Incentivos para Grandes Inversiones” (RIGI)