#catholic doctrines

[dustedcreationsblog]

HAIL MARY "We don't worship Mary the mother of Christ Jesus they say, she's not our idol they say, yet they elevate her, pray to her, believe in her more and follow the traditions of man, dogmas not biblical. No we don't worship Mary, no, as they say Hail Mary, the very act of hailing Mary and not realizing they've already given themselves over to doctrines of demons."

[foone]

Technically, if the pope is invited onto a Mystery Science Theater 3000 show, any riffs he makes will be considered canon to the movie, as he's speaking ex cathedra (latin for "from the seat") - the theater seat.

[violet-viriditas]

Some TradCath on the Internet: “The man is the spiritual head of the household, and his wife must come to him with all spiritual questions and NEVER correct him outright.”

My husband to me: “Hey can I ask you a question? I want to make sure I’m not accidentally believing heresy.”

[saint-ambrosef]

pouring one out for my protestant homies who have to endure church shopping. that shit sounds exhausting bro.

[alpaca-clouds]

Emmanuel's Motivation and Believes

I know, I know, we all agree on that we hate Emmanuel definitely now. But given that I adore any narratives filled with Catholic Guilt, I cannot help but also kinda love his story, and go into his thinking. Because I think that is interesting. Plus: It gives me a chance to talk about Catholic doctrine, and some more details about how the French Revolution related to the church.

First let me get one thing straight: I actually do not think that Emmanuel was with the other monks on Malta. I laid out in my analysis on Mizrak when season 1 came out, I am assuming that Mizrak and a good chunk of the monks being with Emmanuel came from Jerusalem, then went to Malta, where the Order of St. John had a long, long hold until Napoleon came around, before going to France - partly in an attempt to help stabilize the political situation there and be warriors for the church.

However, given that we know that Emmanuel was in Machecoul for at least 17 years (because he has to have been there to father Maria) it obviously does not check out for him to have come to France only recently when the political situation in France started to destabilize. Hence, I am assuming, that he is definitely associated with the Order of St. John, but probably has not been in Jerusalem, and only shortly in Malta.

But yes, there is going to be the big influence of the French Revolution.

A quick refresher: The French Revolution came to be, because France was in dept because first a war with England, and then their support of the American Revolution. French society was divided into three estates: Nobility, Clergy, and Peasants. Nobility and Clergy made up about 3% of the population, Peasants the rest. But while Nobility and Clergy had most of the money, they were not taxed. And when they tried to pay the dept through more taxes for the peasants, the peasants said: "We don't think so." And they started to push for more taxes for the nobility and the clergy. And when the Revolution started to get going, they also started to be like: "Actually, you know what? The entire clergy thing is stupid. If you wanna be clergy here, you will do it by the rules of the Republic of France. You have to swear an oath to the Republic, also we will do away with the rules of celibacy and bishops and cardinals will now be elected democratically." And of course, when some of the clergy did not want to swear that oath, some found out what it was to be on the lower end of the guillotine.

As I also spoke about before: In the area where Machecoul is located was the last holdout where people were generally against the revolution, due to the nobility and clergy being very close with the peasants. And of course this would lead to the War in the Vandée, that would end in a massacer - though that is definitely ahead of where we are in the timeline right now.

It is very likely that at least Emmanuel is one of the younger sons of a lower noble house, as the higher ranking clergy were usually from noble bloodlines back then. But given he is "just" an abbot he probably is not from the best pedigree. It might also be that he is a noble bastard - those were often put into positions like abbot and such. Aka: A position with some influence, but not too much.

Chances are, he has been raised on the believe that he is better, because God had decreed it at some point. Which means that he believed that anything the Revolution was doing went directly against the will of God and was in fact blasphemy and heresy of the highest order.

Of course, he probably from the very beginning saw himself as a sinner - given that he himself had broken his vows of chastity when he had had Maria with Tera.

And I think that very much is the core of his motivation. His logic will go something like this:

The people of France were going against Gods will and were basically pushing everyone else to do the same, which did not only depower the church and nobility, but also would end with them all in hell.

He - Emmanuel that is - already is headed for hell, because he not only has broken his vows, but also has done so with a heathen (because Tera is not Christian).

Erzsebeth wants to stop the revolution, and he is very convinced that she is full of shit in regards of having the soul of a goddess inside her - after all he does not believe in any god other than THE God with a capital G.

A "demon" comes along and offers him what to him appears as a surefire way to get rid of Erzsebeth, who to him is a heretic as well, and a demon to boot herself (given she is a vampire).

So yes, from his perspective this makes sense. He selflessly sacrifices his own soul to the demon, works with Erzsebeth to oppose the revolution, before dispatching of Erzsebeth himself with the help of the demon.

Which brings me to the scene with Emmanuel in episode 1 of season 2. When he is made to bring Drolta back. Because this scene is so freaking delicious. In this scene - as Drolta comes back - he starts crying and finally breaks down completely. And while definitely the fact that Erzsebeth did before control the moon, already did something to his religious believes (if she isn't a god, how did she do it?). But then Drolta comes back.

Why does he break down on that?

Well, because this proofs that Drolta has a soul. And together with Erzsebeth's display of powers, this completely dismantled his world view. And this is the moment where I will once more note: Yes, people react to their worldview being dismantled with the same response as they would to a physical threat. Humans are really not good with adjusting their worldview.

So, yeah, the fact that Drolta comes back from the dead proofs to him, that indeed, his religious believes are wrong in at least some way or form. And he does not know what to do.

Mind you, I also cannot help but feel like there is at least a bit Claude Frollo that influenced the writing of Emmanuel. I mean: A priest, who dabbles in alchemy and dark magic, while falling in love with a woman from a travelling culture? Sounds a lot like Frollo. (And with that I mean: Someone please do an AMV to Hellfire. Thanks!)

[dustedcreationsblog]

Okay that's good to know that you do serve God, but who is God to you? Okay so you quoted Ephesians 6, which is where I got that bit about the Word of God being the Sword of the spirit. I do not see in that very scripture, the rosary being mentioned as part of said armor of God. Where does the rosary's power come from? God didn't talk about a rosary as a weapon of His and I say His, because in the post of yours, it's mentioned the "rosary is like a great sword that Mary puts into the hands of her children to defend themselves against the evil one". How can there be two swords in God's armor? God was very clear about what's considered His Sword and who is Mary to give another sword? Her children? No, if you and the rest of the Catholics believe in God as you've said, then you and all of us whom believe in Christ Jesus are children of God, we're HIS children. This is fallacy of Scripture and possibly twisting of it. Yes I'm aware not everything will be in the Bible, but knowledge of everything belongs to God and He reveals the truth of what He wants us to know, about what He wants us to know, if He wants us to know but please don't use Scripture to justify how it's in the Bible when it clear is not & no, there's no metaphor in that chapter of Ephesians for the rosary being the Sword of the Spirit. Yes that saint might of said it's "like a sword" but you quoting that part of Scripture to back up the rosary, is appalling amongst other things.

Saint Padre Pio said that “the Rosary is like a great sword that Mary puts into the hands of her children to defend themselves against the evil one.”

[widowshill]

— And do you or do you not have difficulty remembering such simple instructions? — Only during thunderstorms, sir.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) / DARK SHADOWS (1966)

[miraofhearts2point0]

smth people dont talk about often is the fact Niragi literally LOST HIS EYE. and i could just mention it and never talk about the symbolism but yall know me at this point.

Now, Niragi lost his RIGHT eye. Why is this significant? Well:

Matthew 5:29: "If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna."

This is super interesting to me for multiple reasons: one, I'm Roman Catholic and tend to find Catholic symbolism within everything, but also because I don't think I'm reaching this time.

During the K♧, Niragi is shown to have some kind of drive for redemption; he wanted to be liked by his teammates, even when he denied it. He wouldn't have brought it up in the first place if he hadn't thought about it to begin with.

This is also significant because, in Matthew 5:29, Jesus is speaking of sexual sin specifically. One of the main sins of Sodom was the rape and sexual assaults being committed there; the city was burned due to men attempting to rape angels of God.

Sound familiar?

Niragi also burned down the Beach with his own hand, similar to the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah. Once again, there's more symbolism to be heard here, as Niragi uses his RIGHT HAND to burn the place down; Jesus is at the Right Hand of the Father, and He judges both the living and the dead. Niragi literally takes on the role of God here, the role of the Son specifically, and uses the FIRE OF JUDGEMENT to make a final decision. Also, The Holy Spirit is often represented as a flame, especially above one's head, as The Spirit decsended onto The Virgin Mary, and the Twelve Apostles on Pentecost, granting them the ability to speak in tongues; the godhood symbolism runs incredibly deep here.

It's even more symbolic when you realize that, during the 10♡, Niragi was at the highest point he could possibly be, both physically and emotionally; he was #2 at The Beach, he got a taste of that power, that kingship Aguni held, and, at the time of the confrontation with Chishiya, he was the only militant off the ground.

Again, sound familiar?

Luke 10:18: "Jesus said, 'I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.'"

Keep in mind that Chishiya is not exempt from criticism either. He was literally taking on the role of God here, which in itself, is prideful; it's a sin. Chishiya is not merciful, he is not kind, slow to anger, or patient.

Another thing to note is Borderland is, basically, purgatory. This is the offical Catholic stance on Purgatory:

1031: The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. the tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:

Zachariah 13:9: "I will bring the one third through fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested."

So basically, Purgatory involves a purifying fire; again, sound familar?

Niragi being lit on fire, from a spiritual view, is on-par with being purified of his sins; losing his eye was apart of being purified.

That sexual sin, attempting to rape a woman, who Arisu sees as his own guiding light (similar to a guardian angel), is exactly why Sodom was burned.

He had a short redemption arc, he did, and it's not something that should go unnoticed when it's such an important reason why Arisu's team won the K♧. But, despite all that, he chose his sin above all things.

In the end, he did the exact thing Jesus spoke against of in Matt. 5:29; Niragi would rather go to Hell, his full body and mind, than sacrifice any part of himself for anyone else's sake.

Isn't it just so neat??

[meltorights]

re: that post about calling things "catholic" or "puritan," some catholics on here do something else where they'll call something "protestant" but sometimes... it's not. like "why are you saying suffering is good? what are you, protestant?"

My friend, it is Catholics who think suffering is good. as the ancient text says:

[dustedcreationsblog]

It's amusing to me how some Catholics seem to have some sort of superiority complex over non Catholics, all because they've got the Apocrypha in their Bible canon. Hm, okay? Weird flex. It might be an enlightening read but it's called the Apocrypha for a reason lol.

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[happyk44]

Nico giving a "what are you, Catholic?" response to something and the other person is just "Nico, you're Catholic" and he's just "yeah, but not a good one"

[bookshelfdreams]

americans learn what the middle ages are challenge

[tildeathiwillwrite]

Was watching Avatar: the Last Airbender with my roommate and this quote killed us.

Fisherman: Fish ain't meat.

Me: Catholics on Friday be like.

(1, 2)

[hopetorun]

everyone on this website is like old man yaoi this old man yaoi that but none of you are willing to put your money where your mouth is because there is NO fic about conclave (2024) and that could be some quality old man yaoi with a special side of blasphemy