#Peter St John

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"London Metropolitan University _ The School of Art, Architecture and Design _ Summer Show 2024" _ 19-29.06.2024 _ 16 Goulston Street, London, E1 7TP _ Photos by Spyros Kaprinis [27.06.2024].

"Our students have been working extremely hard on their final projects of the year and we're excited to share with them with you at this exciting event.

From 19-29th June 2024 students from all art, architecture and design courses will exhibit their work. The exhibition areas will be Goulston Street (architecture, interiors, and visual communication courses), the Wash Houses (fashion, fashion textiles, product and furniture design, and textiles), Calcutta House (upholstery), and the Annexe (fine art, fashion photography, and photography)."

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Jesus Praying in the Garden by Gustave Doré

[diioonysus]

love + art

[filmswithoutfaces]

The Menu (2022) dir. Mark Mylod

[tomicscomics]

10/18/2024

Once again, I've peaked.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. In this Bible story, two of Jesus's disciples, James and John, ask for a special place at Jesus's side, and this annoys the other apostles. Jesus gathers them all together and tells them that, while most rulers lord their authority over their subjects, whoever wants to be the greatest among His followers must make himself like a servant to everyone else. He explains that even the prophesied Son of Man (which is what Jesus calls Himself) will be like a servant by dying as a ransom for many. 2. In this cartoon, Jesus concludes this lesson with some wordplay: "The SON of Man came to be the ranSOM of Man." The word "son" sounds similar to the second syllable of the word "ransom," and though they're not perfect rhymes, the nature of their sounding alike is unquestionable and, according to my calculations, very hilarious. As a matter of fact, data projections indicate that this very funny and legitimately funny joke will increase my followers by -34.2%... wait... negative? That can't be right. It also projects I'll die alone because of my "gross attachment to lame puns"? That's what it says: "gross attachment to lame puns." We weren't even testing for that.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Fish fact #750

John dory!

They take part in a spawning habit known as "substrate scattering", where eggs are released into the water and fertilised externally, only to fall to the seafloor. They're relatively poor swimmers, but they can extend their tube-like lips to suck in prey as long as they get close enough!

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Andy Warhol meeting Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City on April 2, 1980.

Photos by Lionello Fabbri

[mayflowerofmary]

St. Peter: *can't find St. John in a crowded room*

St. Peter, cupping hands over his mouth and hollering: "So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together--"

St. John, bursting from the crowd panting: "--But the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first!"

St. Peter: "There he is."

[myvinylplaylist]

KIϟϟ: The Very Best Of Kiss (2002)

Mercury Records

[ahopefulbromantic]

I met the apostles after the Resurrection.

They are sad, lost, and i cannot figure out why. Wasn't it all tetelestai? Shouldn't they be the happiest they can be?... I see John gripping his new Mother's sleeve like a child, watching her back as if he's terrified to lose her even for a moment. I see James awkwardly hanging around them. I see Peter, his cheeks marred with tearmarks.

They all look to him, unsure. He's no less lost than the rest. "I'm going fishing" he finally says. He leaves "whoever wants to join me go ahead" unsaid, he knows they will anyway.

They return to their homes to change and get their tools. Not all of them. There are whispers behind me. "I don't have a home anymore," I hear. "I left everything to follow Him." There are soft, sad murmurs, there are sighs and pats on the back, finally there are several footsteps, fading away together.

I come to Peter. I call him Peter, the Rock, and that's how he knows. He's sitting on the floor in his room, crying, alone. "I betrayed Him..." It's so painful to see him like that. "He loves you." "I know, that's the problem! He loved me! He still loves me and I betrayed Him!" he wails. Then he slowly raises his head and looks to the distance.

"I should've been the one to hang myself."

My heart breaks in half.

"No... No, no Peter, no...!" I hug him tight. He weeps in my arms for a long while, after which he wipes his nose and gets up, shakily. "You're right. I gotta occupy myself with something."

He comes out to see a group of his brothers with nets, rods, and other fishing gear. His nose is red, his eyes swollen, his chin trembling. No one finds it surprising.

"Why are you all sad? Didn't He resurrect?" I ask one of them when we're finally on a boat. There's only gentle rocking and water splashing. No one else talks. No one smiles. No one enjoys it.

"He did," he says. "He came back from the dead and He's God and we are not worthy of Him. We haven't seen Him for a while."

"But didn't He say you were to meet in Galilee?"

"He did. But we've been here for a couple of days already and He hasn't come to us. What if..." He looks me in the eye. His voice is shaking. "What if He doesn't want to see us anymore? What if because of our betrayal and our sins He turned His back on us? That's what we deserve, isn't it."

I remember my neonatology classes. The nurse told us how 3-day-old children wouldn't stop crying after having been so quiet before. Their mothers wouldn't know what to do, scared something was wrong. But the moment the nurse takes the child in their arms, just like magic the baby calms down instantly. The reason for that was quite simple. Being born is the greatest shock a human ever has to endure. So naturally, for the first few days babies have to recover from it - that's why they are so calm, they're exhausted. After they gain some energy, they get anxious. See, this little human for their whole short life has been surrounded by their mom - they could hear her heartbeat, hear her muffled voice, share her nutrients, and be completely embraced by her body every moment. But after getting born they would suddenly have to spend time apart from her. They didn't know whether she would return so they would start crying, thinking she abandoned them when she was just a few feet away, loving them with all her heart.

It's in that moment that I realize: the apostles are the 3-days-old babies. And though my heart breaks for them, it can't help giggle a little inside simultaneously. For in my mind's eye i can see how in just an hour or so Peter, quiet, sad, mindlessly operating the net, this very Peter will be jumping with joy, crying laughing (no break from the tears for him), running around, screaming:

"He forgave me! People, you hear that?! HE FORGAVE ME!!!!"

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Freddie was writing to his family whenever he’s at boarding school in India:

“Dear Mum & Dad. I hope you are all well and Kashmira’s cold is better. Don’t worry, I’m fine. Me and my friends at the Ashleigh House are like a second family.

The teachers are very strict and discipline is most important here at St. Peter’s. I’m very happy to tell you that I was awarded the big trophy, Best All Rounder Junior. I received a big trophy and they even took a photograph, which will appear in the annual school magazine.

I’m very proud and I hope you are too. Send my love to Kash. I love my little sister as I love you all. Farrokh.”

Photo: Angelina Karpunina colored this photo of Freddie’s originally in black and white

➡️Color_byangelina on Instagram

📸 Pic: 1958 at the College - Farrokh Bulsara won a sports competition and won the Junior All-rounder trophy

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Arcadian Landscape with Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man Jan van Huysum

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Courtney Mares

9 November 2024

For the first time in over a century, the historic Chair of St. Peter, a wooden throne symbolizing the pope’s magisterial authority, has been removed from its gilded bronze reliquary in St. Peter’s Basilica to be displayed for public veneration. 

Pilgrims and visitors can now behold this storied relic directly in front of the basilica’s main altar, just above the tomb of St. Peter, where it will remain on display until December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

According to Pietro Zander, Head of the Necropolis and Artistic Heritage Section of the Vatican:

"The last major public viewing of the chair occurred in 1867, when Pope Pius IX exposed the Chair of Peter for the veneration of the faithful for 12 days on the 1,800th anniversary of the martyrdoms of St. Peter and St. Paul."

It was the first time that the centuries-old wooden throne had been exhibited to the public since 1666 when it was first encased within Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s monumental bronze sculpture under the stained-glass Dove of the Holy Spirit window at the basilica’s apse.

Formally known as the Cathedra Sancti Petri Apostoli, or more simply as Cathedra Petri, the chair has held a revered place in Catholic tradition over the centuries, representing papal authority from St. Peter to the present.

“The chair is meant to be understood as the teacher’s ‘cathedra,’” art historian Elizabeth Lev told CNA.

“It symbolizes the pope’s duty to hand down the teaching of Christ from generation to generation.”

She explained:

“It’s antiquity [ninth century] speaks to a papacy that has endured through the ages — from St. Peter who governed a church on the run trying to evangelize with the might of the Roman Empire trying to shut him down, to the establishment of the Catholic Church and its setting down of roots in the Eternal City, to our 266th successor of St. Peter, Pope Francis.”

A Storied History

The wooden chair itself is steeped in history.

According to the Vatican, the wooden seat was likely given by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald to Pope John VIII in A.D. 875 for the emperor’s Christmas coronation in the old St. Peter’s Basilica.

A depiction of the emperor appears on the crossbeam of the chair, and its ivory panels illustrate the labors of Hercules along with other scenes from Greek mythology.

The informational sign near the chair in St. Peter’s Basilica informs visitors that “shortly after the year 1000, the Cathedra Petri began to be venerated as a relic of the seat used by the apostle Peter when he preached the Gospel first in Antioch and then in Rome.”

The Fabric of St. Peter, the organization responsible for the basilica’s upkeep, maintains:

“It cannot be ruled out that this ninth-century imperial seat may have later incorporated the panel depicting the labors of Hercules, which perhaps originally belonged to an earlier and more ancient papal seat.”

Before returning the chair to its place within Bernini’s monumental reliquary, Vatican experts will conduct a series of diagnostic tests with the Vatican Museums’ Cabinet of Scientific Research.

The ancient seat was last removed and studied from 1969 to 1974 under Pope Paul VI but was not shown to the public.

The recent restoration of Bernini’s works in the basilica, funded by the Knights of Columbus in preparation for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, made it possible for the chair to be moved from the bronze sculpture in August.

Pope Francis got a sneak peak of the relic in early October and a photo of the moment — showing him sitting in a wheelchair before the Chair of St. Peter — quickly went viral.

Afterward, the pope requested that the relic be displayed for public veneration.

Francis ultimately decided that the Chair of St. Peter — a symbol of the Church’s unity under the instruction of Christ — would be unveiled for the public at the closing Mass for the Synod on Synodality.

“Pope Francis has been exceptionally generous to the faithful about displaying relics,” Lev said.

“He brought out the bones of St. Peter shortly after his election, he had the Shroud of Turin on view in 2015, and now he has taken the Chair of Peter out for veneration in the basilica.” 

“In our virtual age, where much confusion reigns between what is real and what is not, Pope Francis has encouraged us to come face to face with these ancient witnesses of our faith and our traditions.”

Feast of the Chair of St. Peter

The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, celebrated each year on February 22, dates back to the fourth century.

St. Jerome (A.D. 347–420) spoke of his respect for the “Chair of Peter,” writing in a letter:

“I follow no leader save Christ, so I enter into communion with … the Chair of Peter, for this I know is the rock upon which the Church is built.”

As Pope Benedict XVI explained in a 2006 catechesis:

“‘Cathedra’ literally means the established seat of the bishop, placed in the mother church of a diocese, which for this reason is known as a ‘cathedral.”

“It is the symbol of the bishop’s authority and in particular, of his ‘magisterium,’ that is, the evangelical teaching which, as a successor of the apostles, he is called to safeguard and to transmit to the Christian community,” he said.

When a bishop takes possession of the particular Church that has been entrusted to him, he sits on the cathedra, Benedict explained:

“From this seat, as teacher and pastor, he will guide the journey of the faithful in faith, hope, and charity.”

“The Church’s first ‘seat’ was the upper room, and it is likely that a special place was reserved for Simon Peter in that room where Mary, mother of Jesus, also prayed with the disciples,” he added.

Benedict XVI described Peter’s ministry as a journey from Jerusalem to Antioch, where he served as bishop, and ultimately to Rome.

He noted that the See of Rome, where Peter ultimately “ended his race at the service of the Gospel with martyrdom,” became recognized as the seat of his successors, with the cathedra representing the mission entrusted to Peter by Christ.

“So it is that the See of Rome, which had received the greatest of honors, also has the honor that Christ entrusted to Peter of being at the service of all the particular Churches for the edification and unity of the entire people of God,” he said.

Bernini’s Baroque Masterpiece

Bernini’s monumental reliquary for the chair, commissioned by Pope Alexander VII and completed in 1666, is one of the most iconic artworks in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Bernini encased the wooden relic within a bronze-gilded throne, dramatically raised and crowned by a stained-glass depiction of the Holy Spirit, symbolized as a dove, surrounded by sculpted angels.

The bronze throne is supported by massive statues of four doctors of the Church — two from the West, St. Augustine and St. Ambrose, and two from the East, St. John Chrysostom and St. Athanasius.

It is symbolizing the unity of the Church through the ages, bringing together the teachings of both the Latin and Greek Church Fathers.

And at the top of the throne, cherubs hold up a papal tiara and keys symbolizing papal authority.

On the chair itself, there are three gold bas-reliefs representing the Gospel episodes: "consignment of the keys" (Matthew 16:19), “feed my sheep” (John 21:17), and the "washing of the feet" (John 13:1-17).

The ongoing restoration of Bernini’s monument at the Altar of the Chair, along with the recently finished restoration of the baldacchino, is significant not only in light of the 2025 Jubilee Year but also the upcoming 400th anniversary of the Consecration of the Current St. Peter’s Basilica in 2026.

Benedict XVI said:

“Celebrating the ‘Chair’ of Peter means attributing a strong spiritual significance to it and recognizing it as a privileged sign of the love of God, the eternal Good Shepherd, who wanted to gather his whole Church and lead her on the path of salvation.”

[tomicscomics]

04/19/2024

John's lucky they hadn't invented buses yet.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY:

In this Bible story, the Sadducees question Peter and John for their recent acts of healing. Peter tells them all their good deeds are done in the Name of Jesus. In this cartoon, he also hedges his testimony by blaming any perceived wrongdoings on John.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Don't tell the Sadducees, but this is another "Tomics Resurrection", where I've taken an old comic from the dead and brought it to life anew. I read the Sadducees were the sect of Jewish leadership more closely related to wealth and status, while the Pharisees were more focused on the religiousiness of religion. For this reason, I made the Sadducees in this new version dress in purple and gold, while the Pharisees might be redesigned to appear in more muted colors. We'll see! In the meantime, how do you think this compares to the original?

[raedroid]

Thank You Kiss

I’ve found the band in 2011 when my parents saw them at an outdoor festival. I was 6 at the time so I couldn’t go. From 2013-2016 I started downloading their music for some reason I don’t know why to this day but I never regretted it. I’ve played their music, I watched concerts, and researched everything I could about the band. Once I watched Kiss Meets The Phantom for the first time in 2016, that was where I became a huge fan

I wanted to see them so badly but I couldn’t because I was already travelling for other things. But once they announced their final tour, I knew I needed to go. There were no dates in my town so I gave up on getting tickets. But Christmas 2018 rolled around and my last presents were tickets to see them in Toronto and makeup. To this day, that was the best Christmas gift ever.

For a long time, I was hurt pretty bad by toxic fans online to the point where I was terrified of meeting them in public at the concert, only to be met by so many loving and respectful fans and I couldn’t be happier. And with Kiss ending tonight, I want to say all of the things on my mind about this amazing group

I was bullied, was sent inappropriate messages online, dealt with toxic friends, struggled with my identity and loneliness but Kiss kept me going no matter how difficult the world was for me. They made me believe I could be the best person I can be without any fear. They made me become the performer I want to be. They made me who I am today and I know many people feel the same way.

If anyone from kiss finds this somehow, I want to say thank you for inspiring me, for helping me, for freeing me from the difficulties of my life and making me feel happy when I was feeling down. I can’t wait to watch your concert and experience my last concert with you tomorrow and I will miss you forever and love you forever

Once again from me, a member of the kiss army

Thank you. Rock on

[s-h-a-s-e]

love when they have to give her lifts and stilts and wedges and things to keep her steady. unbalanced girlie my beloved + (TARDIS cake 2.0)

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