#Religious tours

[vincentblackbearmediallc]

Are you a believer looking for a spiritual journey? Do you want to explore the spiritual sites of France? If so, this religious tours in France blog post is for you! We’ll take you on an unforgettable tour of France’s religious landmarks. From cathedrals to shrines, pilgrimage sites, and beyond.France is a country of diverse landscapes and cultures. But one thing that unites the French people is their Catholic faith. Almost 85% of French people identify as Roman Catholics. With more than 5,000 churches and cathedrals in the country—not to mention countless religious shrines—France has no shortage of places for devout pilgrims to visit.

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The Agony in the Garden by Gustave Doré

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Ok but I’m still gagged by the choice of the white dress covered in her spilled ink for the TTPD set.

The way it’s almost certainly meant to reference a wedding gown just like the music video and how that ties into the narrative of TTPD in general.

The way so many of these songs are about how she’s been wronged and how she’s angry.

The striking image of her floating around on stage unleashing her anger in Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me, or her collapsed on the platform in Down Bad begging to be beamed back up to the space ship. Very much giving dying on the altar waiting for the proof (in both meanings). She’s the jilted lover and the runaway bride. She’s the old widow who goes to the stone everyday and she’s the girl heading towards a shotgun wedding if she keeps this up. She's the unhappily married woman whose life is turned upside down by a man beyond her reach, with the chasm between them widening the longer the set goes on. And then!!! she's taken away (held back?) by the nurses at the asylum -- the crazy wife being committed for hysteria!!! (Actually I don't know what order that comes in in the set -- I'm going to have to find better videos.)

She said that the TTPD set is Female Rage: The Musical, and a lot of that is "I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free." She sacrificed her youth to her demons and to people who never had her best interest at heart. She sacrificed her youth to bad actors who wanted to ruin her. She sacrificed her youth to men who traded promises of commitment for their own safety.

So to see that all symbolized in the white gown, saying "I love you, it's ruining my life," is so powerful. By the time we get to "The Smallest Man," she's covered up in the band (or army dress?) uniform, those dreams finally dead and buried, marching to her own memorial service. They all finally kill her, and her dreams of her future.

IT'S A LOT. A LOT A LOT A LOT.

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

She’s so real for this.

[stars278]

This man!!! He is lurking 👀 (Also spot the friendship bracelet on the left which I think says “The Drunk One” and it’s in R’s green colour scheme !!) 💚

[cruell-summers]

need y'all to calm down a minute and stop accusing ppl of being Taylor haters back in 2016 just bc they said they weren't in the fandom during rep era. some of us were like, 9, or had no access to social media and had no fucking idea what was going on

[heaveniowa]

I LOVE this silly logo they put on for Saturday so I made it into a gif :]

original vid 👇

from lindseylantz 🫶

[tired-and-swaggy]

people complaining on Twitter about how hozier played mostly old songs last night instead of all the new ones… crazy to me. like you saw hozier. in front of you. he sang for you. crazy to be upset about anything after that

[solistus]

just saw the terrible influence tour tonight! i’m going to get rabies! /pos

[rivsisnotonfire]

SHESSSS BACKKKKK

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Show Up, Take Photos

The Meghans are global frauds. Every "good" deed, Every word & Every dollar is a GRIFT. "Nigerian girls & women" my arse.💔

Do they really expect us to believe that a global games event could ever be hosted by a country that repeatedly loses track of women & children? Harry and Meghan have the lowest of low in IQs but the rest of the world can see that THIS poverty tourism trip is yet another SUSSEX SCAM.

No country will send disabled athletes or veterans to compete in a country that cannot keep track of school kids. Shame on Nigeria's Defense Minister and all at Invictus who are involved in this fraudulent visit.

"Bring Back our Girls 2.0

"The abduction of the 287 children in Kaduna state on March 7, 2024 near the West African nation’s capital, is one of the largest school kidnappings in the decade since the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Borno state’s Chibok village in 2014 stunned the world. Analysts and activists say the security lapses that allowed that mass abduction remain..."

"One man was shot dead as he tried to save the students, school authorities said"

"The parallels between the two kidnappings have created more worry for parents, as even to this day nearly 100 of the Chibok girls remain missing."

BY CHINEDU ASADU

March 8, 2024

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — "Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children abducted from their school by motorcycle-riding gunmen in the latest mass kidnapping, which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and a slow security response.

The abduction of the 287 children in Kaduna state, near the West African nation’s capital, is one of the largest school kidnappings in the decade since the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Borno state’s Chibok village in 2014 stunned the world. Analysts and activists say the security lapses that allowed that mass abduction remain.

The victims of the latest attack — among them at least 100 children aged 12 or under — were surrounded and marched into a forest just as they were starting the school day, said locals in Kuriga town, located 55 miles (89 kilometers) from the city of Kaduna. One man was shot dead as he tried to save the students, school authorities said."

J-P Mauro - published on 03/14/24

"With no word from the abductors, the bishops are calling on the state to identify the kidnappers and save the hostages.

The remote town of Kuriga, in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, is still reeling after dozens of armed extremists kidnapped hundreds of students out of their classes in broad daylight on the morning of March 7. Worried parents are now calling for government intervention, after days without any word from the abductors. As of March 13, the children have yet to be found. 

The AP reports that at least 287 students were abducted – with about 100 of them aged 12 or under – making it one of the largest kidnappings since the 2014 abduction of the Chibok girls, when 275 girls were taken from their school by Boko Haram.

The parallels between the two kidnappings have created more worry for parents, as even to this day nearly 100 of the Chibok girls remain missing. 

The March 7 kidnapping saw children taken from the school just as the day was starting, at around 8 a.m.. They were herded into the forest. It took authorities several hours to respond to the scene and begin a search operation, but it is unclear how deep into the forest the kidnappers went.

Locals have suggested that the abductors belong to a group of bandits who have been terrorizing remote villages in Nigeria’s northwest and central regions.

14-year-old Nigerian girl could declared a martyr. Nigeria is one of the places of most intense suffering for Christians in our day.

Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Makurdi has called on the government to intercede on behalf of the Christian population, which he said is being targeted by these attacks. Bishop Anagbe told OSV: 

“The kidnappings, killings and destroying churches we are experiencing every day are aimed at finishing Christians. We are worried that despite such killings and kidnappings, the government has never arrested anyone. As a church, we now demand that the government act quickly to stop these vices that continue to dishearten people.”

I try hard not to hate anyone, but The Meghans sure know how to push the right buttons. 🤐🤬

Safety 1st: The UK is unsafe but African countries where Nigerian schoolgirls are kidnapped & Zika Zones for childbearing royals are no problem.

Team Sussex: Global Court Jesters

[userparamore]

also if you’ve been to a paramore concert pls say in the tags when you went to your first show <3

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Jesus Praying in the Garden by Gustave Doré

[lionofchaeronea]

Saint Thomas, Georges de La Tour, ca. 1620

[cowboylikedean]

I wanna talk about The Birth of Venus, Aphrodite, Taylor, and Lover but I have so much to say

First of all, the symbolism in Aphrodite’s birth story... she was born of the severed genitals of Ouranos. thus, she wasn’t born of anyone really. Ouranos didn’t birth her, she was birthed by the sea. she birthed herself. No one made Taylor who she is, she did that herself. I also think this is quite apt with “I’m free and I love to be free.”

Aphrodite is the embodiment of love and joy. Her epithets are about loving laughter and smiles and being the one of love. She is also of Ares and warlike. she is a protector of soldiers in war and she is Ares’ other half. She and Ares are the passion that drives life and thus there is no war without love and no love without war. Aphrodite will kill a man and love a man one in the same.

In Lover and reputation, Taylor identifies herself as exactly this. The outro of Daylight says “I wanna be defined by the things I love, not the things I’m afraid of, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. I just think that... You are what you love.” What drives her is love!!! Furthermore, in Lover, she takes a stand “If I was a man, I’d be The Man.” reputation’s duality of harsh “idgaf” and the softness of falling in love perfectly captures this duality of Aphrodite and Ares. Obviously, Lover leans more into the more loving parts of Aphrodite, while not forgetting the lessons taught from her warlike associations.

To paraphrase Jaime, “She’s a god and a woman fully formed.” She’s also the embodiment of love, a free spirit not owned by anyone who takes no shit.

[yoyogishoes]

i would chop off my left tit to see dan’s tasteful puppet rendition of the Book of Revelations