#catholic!lucy

[justjudethoughts]

"In my deepest wound, I saw Your glory and it dazzled me."

Thinking about how Lucy wouldn't have met Lockwood and George if she hadn't lost her old team. How she wouldn't have been an agent if her parents had loved her well. How she found love and family and friendship precisely because of all the pain she had been through.

Thinking about how George and Lucy got closer after the Bone Glass. How it took him feeling alone, him feeling abandoned, Lucy almost losing him for it to finally click that he was loved. For Lucy to finally realize how much she loved him.

Thinking about how it takes falling beneath Aickmere's for Lucy to realize she needs to apologize. How it takes Lockwood almost losing Lucy to realize he messed up, too.

Thinking about how it takes an adventure to the other side for Lockwood to be vulnerable with Lucy.

Thinking about how Jessica's death glow saves Lockwood, Lucy, George, Flo, Holly and Kipps. Thinking about how it was there for years, so, so strong, but Jessica never came back. She stayed there for Lockwood. Not to come back and see him. Not to tempt him to touch her. But to let her death bring him life. To let her suffering mean something.

Anyway, Happy Feast of St. Augustine.

[farosdaughter]

There's no rule that says Coriolanus Snow can't be a romantic and a gentleman to his girlfriend while at the same time as being an evil dictator villian with the blood of millions of teens and children on his hands. He can be both. It makes him more intriguing that he can be both. That he has empathy for a certain number of people, but can't spare more than that(I headcanon that he was a good grandfather to his grandchildren)

PREACH!

If things had gone slightly different in canon, I’m convinced Snow would’ve had a loving marriage while still becoming the villain we know in THG. After all, his decision to forsake romantic love after the events of TBOSAS is in itself a testament to the depth of his feelings for Lucy Gray.

Love doesn’t equal redemption or goodness, and the fact that he’s a fundamentally selfish person in a position of power doesn’t mean Snow isn’t also capable of human emotions and attachment. Especially when the prequel makes the opposite argument. I agree with you that in canon he seemed like a loving grandfather even as he reached unheard of levels of cruelty as President.

His innate possessiveness would on the contrary make him a very doting and protective husband (to the right woman, sorry Livia). Whether the relationship would have stood the test of time (and of his thirst for power) is another matter entirely. Most AUs where Coryo and Lucy Gray go back to the Capitol and he goes into government have her betraying him in the end, and I also think that would the most likely outcome. Theirs is a monstrous love, etc etc

[wis-art]

Being a weird faggot is so much more fun than being a miserable repressed teenager who loathes themselves and tries to act like a """normal""" member of society because they're too afraid to be cringe

[ladyartichokie]

Seeing Luce hate from Catholics is so funny to me. Do you also have an issue with Hagia Sophia? What about Tiny Saints? No? So what's wrong with Luce?

[lilaccatholic]

Finally actually posting chapter one of my Kipps Appreciation Weekend fic!!!

If you're seeing this in the daylight (EST) hours, hound me for chapter two. If you're seeing this in the nighttime, yell at me to go to sleep.

[trans-ylvania]

my dad has started listening to boygenius

[dorrance30]

Saint Lucy. Pray for us.

[floralcavern]

I hate having to pray for someone’s death. I fucking hate it. My uncle is.. he’s currently trapped in a very, very bad situation, and the only way for him to be saved is if my grandma dies. That’s the only way. And I don’t like my grandma, I don’t. She is an awful, damn near evil human being. But I don’t want to pray for her death. I just.. don’t. I’m also praying for her to see the light, but in the end, I don’t know if that will happen.

So I’m just looking to Saint Rita for help and strength. I’m also praying to Saint Monica, Saint Robert Bellarmine, Saint Lucy, and Saint Josemaria Escriva for my uncle. Please, send prayers for him. Please.

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

I Have a Secret Self

Hot & Heavy - Lucy Dacus / Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen / Runaway - Aurora / The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater

[crazycatsiren]

Sometimes I think about the paintings of St. Lucy of Syracuse, in which she's just standing there holding her gouged out eyes on a golden plate, vibing, like, total main character energy.

[justjudethoughts]

Drawn to You by Audrey Assad + Catholic Anthony Lockwood

I have been wanting to make this edit for weeks, but originally I wanted to do a video edit. Very quickly ran out of stamina trying to do that, for obvious reasons. You'd think Catholic scene packs should be easier to come by, but no. ANYWAY, I really like this song for Anthony because I think it embodies his faith (at least how I imagine it) very well— an irresistible draw, a "twitch upon the thread", that keeps pulling him back to the faith of his family, no matter how many times he drops it. No matter how many times he walks away or wants to walk away, there is a longing in his heart he can not satisfy elsewhere. He has tasted the bread of angels. And it's sweet aroma draws him Home.

[lockwood-fic-recs]

An Unbroken Chain

by SciroccoOrion on ao3

Rating: G | Category: F/M | Relationship: Lockwood/Lucy

Lockwood carries reminders of what he has lost with him. When one of those things is found again, he begins to realise that things do not always stay lost, perhaps not even him.

[tinyshe]

[immediatebreakfast]

"Therefore may I ask that you promise me in the dark, so that afterwards, though you may be angry with me for a time—I must not disguise from myself the possibility that such may be—you shall not blame yourselves for anything."

This paragraph weights so much within the narrative as religion weights down on the suitor squad' hearts. It's not a promise of bravery, or endurance. Nothing about making you control your own emotions as you chase down the love of your life to kill her a second time. To free her from being a tool of the revenge orchestrated by a more ancient monster.

It's forgiveness at the eyes of god.

Even if their hands are stained with the blood of the undead innocent Lucy, their souls will remain pure and inside the light of that eye who watches everything good and evil.

Van Helsing may not (or maybe did) have done anything as drastic as this before, but he knows that the act of killing Lucy in such brutal way will remain in their brains forever.

Arthur's memories of Lucy will flash between their dates in the sunset ,and Lucy's horrified expressions silenced by her own blood as he staked her in her tomb. Quincey's ears will remember Lucy's laughter, and her screams of terror and pain. Jack's eyes (now filled with hate) will have both the face of Lucy smiling with a wreath of garlic, and Lucy scowling in rage as she is trapped.

All of them participating in this unmerciful ritual of giving Lucy her actual final rest, and all of them will walk away with their actions forgiven; Van Helsing said so.

Even Van Helsing implies that he might bear the godly punishment of this action for them. He might lose all of them as the consequence of such barbaric yet necessary ritual to let Lucy rest, and he is at peace with that. Van Helsing is older, and he believes that these young men should not carry such sin on their backs.

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

Religion headcanon moment: Lucy's family is christian but she was so annoyed by Christianity that she became atheist. Then she interacted with the Catholic people in fairy tail and she was ABSOLUTELY MARVELED by the idea of saints and is convinced that they are, indeed, Jesus' secretaries

*pointing wildly* Guys guys look its the person who helped kick off the whole catholic jellal madness!!!!!!

But i suppose real talk, Jude strikes me as the kinda guy who'd see religion as foolish. Stern business man type of guy who sees belief as weakness then converts to some type of faith (specifics dont rlly matter) after he regains his business status but lost Lucy when she disappeared on tenrou.

Layla given her whole *waves hands at spirits* would be like one of those people who'd believe more in the power of nature and the universe as a whole rather than ascribing to one thing. Shes very spiritual lmao, which i think she'd influence Lucy with.

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Lucia (St. Lucy) 283-304 Feast Day: December 13 Patronage: blind, martyrs, Perugia, Italy, epidemics, salesmen, throat infections, writers

Saint Lucia or Lucy was a 3rd C. Italian martyr who brought the light of faith, hope, and charity to the poor and Christians in the darkness of the catacombs. Tradition has it that during a terrible famine in Sweden a beautiful girl with a glow about her head, came to shore bringing food, saving the Swedes from starvation. On December 13th, St. Lucy's Day, the eldest daughter wakes the household, bringing St. Lucia buns and coffee, wearing a lighted wreath on her head, a white gown, with a red sash, representing baptism and martyrdom.

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