#Virgin Mary

[from-a-spiders-web]

Guido Reni - St. Catherine of Alexandria, ca. 1625-8 Bartolomeo Cavarozzi - Virgin and Child with Angels, ca. 1620

[fairylando]

don't ask me why, but me and my friend were talking about how carlos is going to be free from fraudrrari in less than 20 days and we ended up comparing him to the virgin mary (i swear it will make sense and we both grew up in christian italian families as atheists) and... how her given festivities actually add up with some of his important dates ??? buckle up!

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⭒ "Festa dell'Assunzione di Maria" — august 15 she was raised to eternal life without bodily death, and very close to it carlos announced he signed with williams.

⭒ "La Natività della Beata Vergine Maria" — she was born on september 8th, he was born on september 1st (BOTH VIRGOS)!

⭒ "L'Immacolata Concezione" — december 8th, "from the first moment of her conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary was, by the singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, and in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of Mankind, kept free from all stain of original sin."... and what happens on december 8th? his last race in fraudrrari, exactly.

she was the lightly brushed by melancholy blue print after all!

[aycek]

I LOVE ANYA RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anywho made this drawing of her based of a rendition of Mary(Jesus’ super cool mom)

I wanted to play around with more realistic stuff and like having fun with different kinds of lighting, so I did this

Love love love Mouthwashing guys

[ohholydyke]

I’ve received enough asks and messages about my process of balancing Christian bigotry and its harms with my queerness and love for god, so I’m going to make a blanket post, though ofc I still always welcome asks and questions and all:

I was raised Protestant fundamentalist. I’ve known I was queer since I was a child. Trust me, I’ve been through every process you can think of coming out of that. I prayed the gay away, I spent nights soaking my pillows in tears begging God to change me or my family, I wrestled with God and faith and Christianity over and over again, I was angry and bitter and broken and depressed and traumatized and wounded and spiteful and all the emotions that arise out of the grief those circles will put on you. I walked away from God and religion entirely for several years. I spent that time deconstructing, letting myself feel my rage and my grief, tearing out the jagged shards of fundamentalism chaining me down and embedded into my soul piece by bloody, painful fucking piece over and over again. There are still some pieces lodged deep inside me. Things I either can’t quite reach yet or don’t know are there because when fundamentalist Christianity is all you know and all you are raised in it touches every single thought and concept and aspect of who you are and how you exist. Sometimes I still find myself back in that place—screaming and sobbing at the weight of it all, at the childhood and family and life that was ripped away from me and replaced with a CPTSD diagnosis and broken relationships.

The difference is that now, I have found my way back to Christ. Through Catholicism, I was able to pray to Mary and the Saints when I thought God had shut his ears to me. I was able to sit in mass and it was the first time in my life I could go through a Christian service without being dissociated and immediately triggering my CPTSD. I was able to find Catholics who showed love and support and respect for my queerness and my politics and my pain. I am eternally grateful to them. When I was buckling from the weight of it all, I found myself (an agnostic with Protestant roots at the time) sobbing alone in a chapel in the middle of the night, feverish and delirious with grief. And there, in the depths of my despair, like Job I felt God’s presence and heard his voice. I felt Christ sitting by me, holding me, not denying my pain but embracing it and taking it unto himself.

So when I find myself back in the valley of the shadow of death, I breathe and remember I’ve been there before, and I know God is with me. I may not understand why we endure suffering, or why hatred is allowed to exist in the world, or why evil and sin and the fall occur at all, or why God allows bigots to cause such violence in his name. But I can no longer deny that he exists, and that he loves me, and suffers with me, and I love him.

[mass-monumentalist]

St Mary's Cemetery Westfield, MA

[banishedchildofeve]

Virgin Mary Barbie doll from Argentina

[thefoilguy]

Pieta by Michelangelo - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[hiraspit]

[v1rginsu1cidal]

if you hold me without hurting me

You'll be the first who ever did‧₊˚ ⋅* ‧₊‧₊˚ ⋅* ‧₊

[bluebell-lace]

🦢 our lady of sorrows 🕯

[texaschainsawmascara]

Carrie (1976) / The Virgin Suicides (1999)

[shrinetothegoddess]

Madonna & Child at the Chalice Well Gardens in Glastonbury

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[hystericwaif]

if it's wrong, i don't wanna be right♡

[psalmlover]

mary in a flower crown, st gabriel of the sorrowful mother, pennsylvania, usa

[heartshapelocket]