#The Feast of Mary Magdalene

[catholicsapphic]

Crying because of course Rita became a notoriously active saint who listens to petitions and intercedes with all her might. Of course she did, because she was the one praying for something impossible, it's her knees that quite literally marked the rock on the spot she prayed at until she was heard. And it's her life that was changed because she was heard, because her own desperate cause turned into a reality by the intercession of the three saints she venerated, swooping in to take her to the convent, to do something so miraculous it would become a big part of why she's associated with impossible causes.

Of course she does all she can when we pray to her with a desperate situation, because she was desperate first. Of course she listens to each of our petitions with the care of a mother, because no one has ever understood the importance a patron saint more than her. I think that when she intercedes before God for us, she's still thinking about John the baptist, Augustine and Nicholas of Tolentino. I think that she's still thanking them. I think she is thrilled she gets to do the same for us

[myremnantarmy]

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐆𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥

Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene

Jn 20:1-2, 11-18

On the first day of the week,

Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning,

while it was still dark,

and saw the stone removed from the tomb.

So she ran and went to Simon Peter

and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,

"They have taken the Lord from the tomb,

and we don't know where they put him."

Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.

And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb

and saw two angels in white sitting there,

one at the head and one at the feet

where the Body of Jesus had been.

And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?"

She said to them, "They have taken my Lord,

and I don't know where they laid him."

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there,

but did not know it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?

Whom are you looking for?"

She thought it was the gardener and said to him,

"Sir, if you carried him away,

tell me where you laid him,

and I will take him."

Jesus said to her, "Mary!"

She turned and said to him in Hebrew,

"Rabbouni," which means Teacher.

Jesus said to her,

"Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.

But go to my brothers and tell them,

'I am going to my Father and your Father,

to my God and your God.'"

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,

"I have seen the Lord,"

and then reported what he told her.

[ayvaevangelista]

[morgenlich]

extremely italian sentences

[ex-furry]

saint mary magdalene 💖

[snarkleharkle]

St Mary Magdalene

Patronage, contempative life, converts, glove makers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, sexual temptation

[audreyh002]

“Were You There?” starts playing softly on piano as Erin describes death and I am done. just DONE that’s it for me

[juliehowlin]

Mary Magdelene

Today is the Feast Day of St Mary Magdalene, who, according to the Bible, travelled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have been the first to witness Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. That's what everyone knows. Here are some things you might not know:

[fancyemmabovary]

July 22 is the feast day of Mary Magdalene, patron saint of perfumes and perfume makers 🕯

[tomicscomics]

07/19/2024

Happy (almost) Feast of St. Mary Magdalene!

JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. The Feast Day: This comic is based on the Catholic Church's scheduled readings for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene (July 22, 2024). The Old Testament reading will be a portion of a love poem from Song of Songs 3:1-4. The Gospel reading will be the story of Mary Magdalene's encounter with Jesus after His resurrection, from John 20:1-17. 2. Song of Songs: The poem is about a woman searching everywhere for her missing lover. The poem's story is very cute on a literal level, but it also symbolizes the human heart's desperate yearning for the divine. For this cartoon, I rewrote the poem just slightly, keeping the story and pacing intact, but making it flow and rhyme in English. I hope I did alright! 3. Gospel of John: Days after Jesus is crucified and buried, Mary Magdalene visits His tomb but finds it open and empty. She runs to the apostles and tells them that someone stole Jesus's body. They come to investigate the tomb, but leave befuddled. While Mary stays and weeps by the open tomb, two angels appear inside and ask why she's crying. When she explains her sorrow, she's suddenly asked the same thing by Jesus, Who's appeared beside her, though she doesn't recognize Him until He says her name. 4. The Readings Combined: These two stories complement each other perfectly. All human relationships can be seen as reflections, shadows, or branches of the one relationship which every soul was created for: communion with God. By using the context of a human relationship, the poem gives a relatable, human voice to the soul's lofty instinctual longing. Read alongside Mary Magdalene's despair when she thinks she's lost her God, and her joy when she finds Him again, the poem's literal and symbolic meanings become one. It's an excellent pairing of readings by the Church, I must say. They may be on to something. I shall be watching their career with great interest.

[franzkafkagf]

we came into this world together. we belong together.

vampire empire – big thief / princes in the tower– john everett / a feast for crows – george rr martin / game of thrones / a storm of swords – george rr martin / the penitent mary magdalene – eduard kasparides / unknown

[weavingdragonsofthread]

The Dreamers of House Targaryen

Daenys The Dreamer, Aegon The Conqueror, King Viserys, Queen Helaena Targaryen, Daeron The Drunken, Deamon Blackfyre ii, Maester Aemon, Daenerys Targaryen.

Angels in America by Tony Kushner//illustration from ‘Game of thrones Histories’//Quote from HOTD 1X10// Cassandra by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys//Fire and Blood by George R.R Martin// The Last Days of Pompeii by Karl Bryullov// Quote from HOTD 1X02//Illustration from The Histories of Westeros depicting Aegons Conquest// HOTD 1X02//Cassandra By Frederick Sandys//HOTD 2X01//HOTD 1X09// HOTD 1X03// Quote from HOTD 1X03// Anne Carson, “Cassandra Float Can”//The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet//Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea//Tales of Dunk and Egg by George R.R Martin//Lament for the Dead by Eyeteapot//Tales of Dunk and Egg by George R.R Martin//A Feast for Crows by George R.R Martin// A Game of Thrones the illustrated edition// GOT 1X10// Mary Magdalene in the Cave by Hugues Merle//Whiskytown Jacksonville Skyline//A Storm of Swords by George R.R Martin// GOT 7X06//Quote from GOT 2X06//HOTD 1X02//Arthur Rimbaud

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Mary Magdalene

1st century

Feast day: July 22

Patronage: contemplative life, converts, glove makers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, sexual temptation

Mary Magdalen has been called the second-most important woman in the New Testament after Mary the mother of Jesus. Mary Magdalen traveled with Jesus as one of His followers. She was present at Jesus' two most important moments: the crucifixion and the resurrection. Within the four Gospels, the oldest historical record mentioning her name, she is named at least 12 times, more than most of the apostles. The Gospel references describe her as courageous, brave enough to stand by Jesus in his hours of suffering, death and beyond.

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[catholicsapphic]

Just. Rita of Cascia and Mary of Magdala. You want to join a convent named after the disciple of disciples, no other will do. You get refused two times, but when your neighbors ask you why you’re forlorn, you still say it was your home they locked you out of. You make it in, aided by your patron saints. She wasn’t among them, but maybe that’s only because she was already waiting for you inside. You celebrate her feast day every year for forty years, until your death. Maybe you even celebrate her feast day whenever the 22nd rolls around each month, unaware that every May you’re celebrating your feast day as well. You would feel envious of her, for never having been tied down to a man she didn’t want, a man other than your Lord, but only if you were a little less saintly, a little less marked for Heaven, but you are what you are (and you are just like her) so you can only feel bone deep admiration. It’s good that you don’t mind, because in the end, the centuries will write you both to be just wives — folklore cares very little about the truth; people adore a love story, and the one she had with Him was too visceral to comprehend, so they reduced it to romance. They held your story as a romance, too, when it was a trial, a fight for change, a proof of patience (You're not sure what 'romance' is supposed to mean anymore). Her face in your casket, the original one, the one that was painted when only the people who knew you were aware that you were a saint; the only other person in it is the One that binds you two together. Her convent will become yours. The entire city will be known for you, and few will remember it was the convent of Mary Magdalene to begin with. I think you still feel guilty for it. I think she’s thrilled for you. I think God remembers, always, that it was the women by the Cross.

[transgenderer]

Alawites and their beliefs have been described as "secretive" (Yaron Friedman, for example, in his scholarly work on the sect, has written that the Alawi religious material quoted in his book came only from "public libraries and printed books" since the "sacred writings" of the Alawi "are kept secret"); some tenets of the faith are kept secret from most Alawi and known only to a select few, they have therefore been described as a mystical sect.

Alawite Trinity envisions God as being composed of three distinct manifestations, Ma'na (meaning), Ism (Name) and Bab (Door); which together constitute an "indivisible Trinity". Ma'na symbolises the "source and meaning of all things" in Alawite mythology. According to Alawite doctrines, Ma'na generated the Ism, which in turn built the Bab. These beliefs are closely tied to the Nusayri doctrine of re-incarnations of the Trinity.

Alawites hold that they were originally stars or divine lights that were cast out of heaven through disobedience and must undergo repeated reincarnation (or metempsychosis) before returning to heaven. According to Nusayrite beliefs, females are excluded from re-incarnation.

Alawite theologians divided history into seven eras, associating each era with one of the seven re-incarnations of the Nusayrite Trinity (Ma'na, Ism, Bab). The seven re-incarnations of the Trinity in the Alawite faith consists of:

Abel, Adam, Gabriel

Seth, Noah, Yail ibn Fatin

Joseph, Jacob, Ham ibn Kush

Joshua, Moses, Dan ibn Usbaut

Asaf, Solomon, Abd Allah ibn Siman

Simon Peter, Jesus, Rawzaba ibn al-Marzuban

Ali, Muhammad, Salman al-Farisi

The last triad of re-incarnations in the Nusayri Trinity consists of Ali (Ma'na), Muhammad (Ism) and Salman al-Farsi (Bab). Alawites depict them as the sky, the sun and the moon respectively. They deify Ali as the "last and supreme manifestation of God" who built the universe, attributing him with divine superiority and believe that Ali created Muhammad, bestowing upon him the mission to spread Qur'anic teachings on earth.

Other beliefs and practices include: the consecration of wine in a secret form of Mass performed only by males; frequently being given Christian names; entombing the dead in sarcophagi above ground; observing Epiphany, Christmas and the feast days of John Chrysostom and Mary Magdalene; the only religious structures they have are the shrines of tombs;

Away from my computer rn but when I get back I have to read about these guys. Assad is one which is crazy given they were a small persecuted minority in Syria since like forever

[loneberry]

St. John of the Cross on the recklessness of love

But when once the flame has enkindled the soul, it is wont to conceive, together with the estimation that it already has for God, such power and energy, and such yearning for Him, when He communicates to it the heat of love, that, with great boldness, it disregards every-thing and ceases to pay respect to anything, such are the power and the inebriation of love and desire. It regards not what it does, for it would do strange and unusual things in whatever way and manner may present themselves, if thereby its soul might find Him Whom it loves.

6. It was for this reason that Mary Magdalene, though as greatly concerned for her own appearance as she was aforetime, took no heed of the multitude of men who were at the feast, whether they were of little or of great importance; neither did she consider that it was not seemly, and that it looked ill, to go and weep and shed tears among the guests, provided that, without delaying an hour or waiting for another time and season, she could reach Him for love of Whom her soul was already wounded and enkindled. And such is the inebriating power and the boldness of love, that, though she knew her Beloved to be enclosed in the sepulchre by the great sealed stone, and surrounded by soldiers who were guarding Him lest His disciples should steal Him away, she allowed none of these things to impede her, but went before daybreak with the ointments to anoint Him.

7. And finally, this inebriating power and yearning of love caused her to ask one whom she believed to be a gardener and to have stolen Him away from the sepulchre, to tell her, if he had taken Him, where he had laid Him, that she might take Him away; considering not that such a question, according to independent judgment and reason, was foolish; for it was evident that, if the other had stolen Him, he would not say so, still less would he allow Him to be taken away. It is a characteristic of the power and vehemence of love that all things seem possible to it, and it believes all men to be of the same mind as itself. For it thinks that there is naught wherein one may be employed, or which one may seek, save that which it seeks itself and that which it loves; and it believes that there is naught else to be desired, and naught wherein it may be employed, save that one thing, which is pursued by all. For this reason, when the Bride went out to seek her Beloved, through streets and squares, thinking that all others were doing the same, she begged them that, if they found Him, they would speak to Him and say that she was pining for love of Him. Such was the power of the love of this Mary that she thought that, if the gardener would tell her where he had hidden Him, she would go and take Him away, however difficult it might be made for her.

8. Of this manner, then, are the yearnings of love whereof this soul becomes conscious when it has made some progress in this spiritual purgation. For it rises up by night (that is, in this purgative darkness) according to the affections of the will. And with the yearnings and vehemence of the lioness or the she-bear going to seek her cubs when they have been taken away from her and she finds them not, does this wounded soul go forth to seek its God. For, being in darkness, it feels itself to be without Him and to be dying of love for Him. And this is that impatient love wherein the soul cannot long subsist without gaining its desire or dying.

—St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul