#catholicsm

[portraitsofsaints]

Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Church

 “Him whom the heavens cannot contain, the womb of one woman bore. She ruled our Ruler; she carried Him in whom we are; she gave milk to our Bread.” -St. Augustine

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[hygenia]

The feminine urge to just>>>

Lord please grant me:

A Heart to Forgive

Knowledge to seek you

Energy to help others

A Voice to speak words of Praise

A sense of Justice

And A soul who always yearns for you

Amen ♡

[cemeteryreviews]

Cemetery Reviews #2 - Campo Santo

Campo Santo is the old cemetery of Zapatoca. It's quite small, and people are no longer buried there. Even so, what you see there is very special. There's a mausoleum, and although there are few tomb inscriptions, the ones that remain are quite old. I saw one from 1819, a death one year before independence. There is also a tomb of a German fugitive who lived a semi-feudal and lavish lifestyle in the 19th century.

Although his colonization and trade projects failed and his life ended in ruin, he has a tomb enclosed in its own fence. The guy also has a street named after him. Even if the foreigners who come here don't end up doing much, it's still cool to remember them because it's curious that they pass through here. The chapel is very small and only has a few benches, but the tombs, already piled up among themselves, are covered with grass, moss, and the trees surround the site. To get there, you can also climb a street with long stairs, and from the end, you can see the town from above. In a way, it's like you have to climb a little closer to heaven to see the site.

For these reasons, the bits of history, the curious characters, and the location, I found it to be a very beautiful place with a very fulfilling atmosphere.

8/10

[wordsaladsenpai]

There are only three men in my life: the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen 🙏

[nyiibat]

Abrahamic religions are controlling. At their very core they’re schizophrenic controlling hateful mythologies.

All your holy texts were written by a man in the early centuries, they took their hate for women, children, animals and pagan religions out in these manifestos essentially.

They demonized earth spirits calling them evil or demons or angels. The demonized pagan gods and goddess as well as stole the practices, holy water, temples, prayers, veiling, etc.

They fear mongered and still fear monger and brain wash people into believing their lies of Hell or eternal damnation.

News flash hell doesn’t exist, the depiction of hell you see is one of Hades many gardens for the dead in Greek mythology. In Norse paganism Hell is one of the five realms of Asgard not accessible to humans dead or alive.

There’s alpha male Christian Jewish and Muslim podcasts with hateful and harmful ideologies of controlling women, children, and fear mongering people who aren’t swayed by the bullshit they’re spewing.

This idea that the god or Allah and the church is causing harm and putting you through torment out of love is bullshit. A god that is said to be all loving wouldn’t torture his followers or leave their prayers unanswered.

It wasn’t gods plan for people to be murdered, hated on, abused, tortured, colonized for who they are and what they believe but these holy books that are re written time and time again say the opposite.

Every major religion has colonized an indigenous group of people that did not want their religion.

A lot of us have been so colonized by it that it became ingrained in our cultures even after it has erased and killed so many of our ancestors and traditional beliefs.

You dare call out the bullshit and people are calling you hateful, anti semitic, or Islamophobic. It’s not any of those things to call out the bullshit and share your experiences with them.

“But the Quran is scientific” it has multiple scientific inaccuracies that can be proven.

Not to mention these religions support and allow child marriage, forced and arranged marriages, can deny divorces, and find it perfectly okay to deem your wife and children as property.

You don’t get to tell me my religious trauma at the hands of the big three or my ancestors religious trauma or my friends religious traumas at the same hands are “just bad experiences” and that “I’m sorry that happened but” No! You’re brainwashed, go spew your nonsense to someone who gives a shit.

[thunderandroses]

Vibes I get with my Deities 💒🌈🌞

Jesus

Loving yet super protective of me,I feel like a Princess whenever I feel his Presence. He reminds me of a Empty field on a Sunny day 🌞♥️

Aphrodite

She's like a Mother,Sister and Friend all in one. It's hard to form words to express how much I love her. I feel like a Goddess myself and am truly in my Divine Feminine when I spend time with her 💕🫧

Mama Marie

The softest pink and the most loving motherly presence ever. She inspires me to be Humble and to stay strong in all situations 🌙🌹⭐

St.Therese of Liseux

Omg she literally stalks me!! 🥹 I can always feel whenever she something for her Shrine and I just love her so much,And she always protects me from Demons Cold Cathedral on a Super 🌞 day vibes 🌷🌷🌷

*me blowing kisses to my Deities*

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[hotnunswithguns]

Prints depiting St Sebastian by Daniel Hopfer (early 16th century), Giovanni Antonio Armano (second half 18th century), Pietro Rotari (18th century).

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[amor-madonna]

Happy International Women's day!! May God protect us Women and Girls from harm ♥︎

[dclanisms]

bleh blah bleh

I’m fine- kimya dawson / zdarsky daredevil (2019-) / greywaren- maggie stiefvater / foreigner’s god- hozier / oranges are not the only fruit- jeanette winterson / zdarsky daredevil (2019-) / charlie cox interview on being a revert catholic / sun bleached flies- ethel cain

[konstigthebonewitch]

I fucking hate Christianity. Christ is cool as homeslice would've ripped these crispy-créme pieces of dogshit a brand-fucking new asshole. I've been lied to my whole fucking life and by perverted incel men who think that just because they have a dick that they're somehow fucking special. Spoiler Alert: The Abrahamic "god" is the actual fucking devil. The real God had to fucking clean up after that piece of shit all the damn time! Sin doesn't fucking exist! If people were smart and read of Mary Magdalene they'd see but NOOO!!! A WOMAN IN CHARGE?! OH THE OUTRAGE!!! While the archbishop and head deacon play circlejerk in the basement with an empty wine bottle.

Best part? I don't just live anywhere! It's the fucking bible belt (ironically getting it's ass kicked by storms, but no, it's just a conspiracy theory 🤮.) I'm glad there is only one town with this name, it is one too many! Negative one is too many!

Fuck the South, fuck Christians, fuck churches, and most of all, fuck anyone stupid enough to believe that fucking bullshit.

They can't thump their almighty Trump-signed bibizzles without being a fucking snake and shitting on it. I am so glad reality is in reverse. I'd rather scrape bones out of a pit in the forest and dance in skins around a fire under a full moon than look at these "friendly, well-bred" Southern inbreds any fucking longer. The kitschy fake shit got old when Dolly Parton got her fifth boob job in '82.

I can't wait until the Vatican burns. Maybe Nuclear Assault will actually hang the goddamned pope.

I don't fucking belong here on Earth anyway, I never did and never want to. It makes me want to bash my head against solid concrete.

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Isidore the Farmer

1070-1130

Feast day: May 15 (New), March 22 (Trad)

Patronage: Farmers, laborers, national rural conference in the U.S. and rural communities

Saint Isidore the Farmer, also known as St. Isidore the Laborer, was born in Madrid, Spain to a farming family. He married Maria de la Cabeza who was also declared a saint. Deeply religious, St. Isidore attended Mass daily, though never neglecting his labor. Many times his guardian angel would take up the plow while he lingered in prayer. He loved the poor and animals, miraculously multiplying food for both.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[hygenia]

Offerings & acts of devotion to Guan Yin!!♡

Roses

Water

White and Pink candles

Being kind to others

Burning incense

Properly hydrating yourself

Helping the needy

Checking up on your friends

Reading Spiritual books under a tree

Reciting the Heart Sutra

♡♡♡

[alezee]

Not Catholic nor Christian but the song “God help the outcasts” always hold a special place in my heart.

Esmeralda isn’t Catholic. She dare I say hates the church for everything they’ve done to her people. The oppression it put on France, and during the film, Paris. It was wreaking havoc, using ‘God’s word’ to abuse people.

A trend through history.

She screams at the arch deacon “I DEMAND JUSTICE! YOU ABUSE THIS POOR BOY THE SAME WAY YOU ABUSE MY PEOPLE!” As she motions to the bound and bruised Quasimodo.

The arch deacon yells SILENCE

Esmeralda raises her fist and screams JUSTICE!

She claims sanctuary and hides in the Catholic Church. Notre Dame.

She walks through the line of people who are praying for selfish things.

And she looks at a statue of mother Mary holding baby Jesus and sings the song “God help the outcasts”

Her line “God help the outcasts or nobody will” provides comfort to a lot of people I know.

Part of her doesn’t even believe it’s real, but IF it is real, she begs for God to listen to her prayer. And help her people. Help THEE people. Because the people in charge of GOD’S word. Fucking suck.

They were power hungry abusers.

After God help the outcasts is sung.

Quasimodo sings “heavens light”

The most heartbreaking verses to me

“No face as hideous as my face was ever meant for heavens light…… but suddenly an angel has smiled at me. And touched my face without a trace of fright. I dare to dream that she might even care for me. And as I ring the bells tonight. My cold dark tower seems so bright. I swear it must be heavens light.”

Esmeralda doesn’t judge the thieves and beggars, the deformed, the shunned and the forgotten and the sinners. And she even forgives people for their wrongdoings to her. She doesn’t hold a grudge.

Which is everything a Christian preaches but never shows themself.

When she sings “I thought we all were children of God”

And “God help the outcasts or nobody will”

It speaks volumes about what was happening. The people who are said the be the holiest, devoting their lives to Christ, believe that Christ tells them what to do, aren’t doing anything at all to help the people that need them the most.

[nyiibat]

I hate how much religion but in this case Catholicism is ingrained in Indigenous cultures my own included.

How many terrible things the church has done to our ancestors and lands and tribes for generations with residential schools, ethnic cleansing, forcing religion on us and on our lands that already had religion and tradition for thousands of years prior.

It’s so deeply ingrained in our cultures now that a lot of us wear crosses or go to church while feeling that generational trauma, even if we don’t believe in the religion crosses, Catholicism, the ideas of it became a part of the cultures unfortunately.

[webepreachin]

So in the tradition of the Church St. John the Evangelist is considered to be the youngest apostle og Jesus and I ABSOLUTELY AGREE!!! Why you may ask? It's this verse right here.

John 20:4 "Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first."

Tell me that this is not youngest sibling behavior! Look me in the eye and tell me that telling everyone that you hve outdone your older sibling in something is not youngest sibling behavior!

[hotnunswithguns]

The skull of Mary Magdalene in St Maximin Basilica in France.