#catholic moment

[the-lonelyshepherd]

ok serious now. laura lee & jackie

✅ the first two to die post crash

✅ homoerotic friendship

✅ extreme temperatures

✅ blonde

✅ manhaters

✅ haunters of the narrative

✅ lesbians

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[stampgwifeyera]

when disablility/mental illness is really common in your family but theyre also Portuguese and catholic so most of them dont believe in mental health or medicine

[puppppppppy]

renaissance dogys

characters belong to @canisalbus

[sweetestgirlblogger]

🪽do you think about heaven? ♱ ⋆˚.♡

[fictionadventurer]

Stories referenced:

Pentecost: Acts 2:15

Peter and John escape prison: Acts 5: 21-26

Peter escapes prison: Acts 12: 1-16

Paul and Barnabas worshipped: Acts 14: 11-18

Paul's fatal preaching: Acts 20: 7-12

Paul's rules-lawyering: Acts 26: 30-32

Paul's snakebite: Acts 28: 1-6

Paul turning his enemies against each other: Acts 23: 6-10

Philip's teleportation: Acts 8:39

[nameification]

St Sebastian - patron saint of sports

St Frances of Rome - patron saint of automobile drivers

St Cajetan - patron saint of good luck

St Michael the Archangel - safety and protection

St Patrick - patron saint of engineers (could also help with the luck)

St Eligius - patron saint of horses and those who work with them

St Devota - patron saint of monaco

St Francis of Assisi, St Catherine of Sienna - patron saints of italy

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception - dec 8 race day = feast day of the immaculate conception

oh this prayer circle is gonna be Big tonight

[miitropica]

the epiphany is near.. what is evil orel up to now??

[quiddling]

i need to gnaw on her like a no. 2 pencil

[bastardsinthebayou]

i shant lie i fuck with blink from wonderlust hard. bro is babysitting a small child and a grown ass man and the grown ass man stresses him out more by a long shot.

[memeshost]

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

.....

[momentsbeforemass]

Good Friday

The more you think about it, the worse it gets.

No part of the Passion Gospel, the Gospel for Good Friday, has any hope.

Even the tender moments – Jesus asking John to take care of his mother, Joseph and Nicodemus making sure that Jesus has a proper burial – they’re just people dealing with the fallout from death.

You know what Joseph and Nicodemus are thinking about while they’re wrapping Jesus’ body up for burial? How much this sucks.

And whether the Romans will stop at killing Jesus. Or will they, and other followers of Jesus, be next?

The more you think about it, the worse it gets.

You know what Joseph and Nicodemus aren’t thinking about? How anything good can come from this.

Much less how God is already using all of it to do more good than either of them, or anyone on Good Friday, could ever imagine.

And yet, you and I know, that’s exactly what’s happening. Because you and I know something that Joseph and Nicodemus don’t know. Not on that worst of Friday’s.

They don’t know that Sunday is coming.

But that’s how it is, when you’re where they are. When you are right in the middle of the very worst.

When you and I are right in the middle of the very worst, there is nothing that human eyes can see to tell us that it’s ever going to get any better.

When that’s where you are, the only open question is whether it’s going to get worse.

In the middle of everything that you are dealing with right now – whether it’s death or illness, divorce or the end of a friendship, job loss or financial problems – while you’re waiting to see whether you’ve hit bottom or if it’s going to get worse. You get Joseph and Nicodemus. You are right there with them.

The more you think about what you’re dealing with, the worse it gets.

There’s nothing that our human eyes can see to tell us that anything good can come from what you’re going through.

And yet, you and I know, that’s not true.

Because you and I know something. Something that’s easy to lose sight of when you’re in the middle. Something that’s hard to hold onto when you’re scared.

But it doesn’t matter. It’s okay if we lose sight of it. Because it’s still true. Even if we’re scared. 

Today is Good Friday. And Good Friday shows us that none of it, not even the very worst, can hold down our God.

Because Sunday is coming.

Today’s Readings

[idk-how-to-name-it]

Idk this photo has got their vibes + some paper sketches taken with awful camera yaaaaay

[potato-lord-but-not]

hi i just wanted to say, as a gay Catholic, this:

means so so so much to me.

happy queer catholic rep is so rare so thank you.

Always here to provide the happy queer rep for anything and everything <333

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

writing a paper on second wave feminism and the catholic church and going into it i was not prepared for the level at which people think the church is oppressing and suppressing women.

like girl where

is it. is it one of the countless churches named after. the mother of God. or. or the hundreds of female saints. or. the art on the walls. or the nuns who are the life of a parish. or. what. are we looking at the same thing here. it's our seventh Marian feast day of the year. later we have a whole day in honor of Edith Stein. sometimes men take the names of women. by choice. in their teen years. is that. is that where women are getting oppressed by the church