#the mystery of faith
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The thing that most people don’t understand about Christianity (including, I think, a great deal of Christians) is that you cannot convince anyone of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - like spreading the Gospel is one thing, but you literally as a human being cannot ‘bring someone to Jesus.’ That is entirely the work of grace and the Holy Spirit.
This has been somehow lost in all the yelling of televangelists and billboards, in all the clamor and ugliness that paints religion, especially Christianity, with broad strokes of arrogance and obnoxiousness. The thing is, though, the actual quiet subtle work of the Spirit is so beautiful, so supple and silent, that it cuts through all that ugliness like a beam of sunlight into a darkened room. Someone can ask, “How can you believe all that religious bullshit??” And it’s like, it’s so easy, I can’t even tell you. I hardly have to do a thing, it’s just there.
But that’s the work of grace and the Spirit.
#long study of a Thomas Aquinas reading on this recently#the work of grace in our hearts#you can’t even turn to God without God first touching you#the mystery of faith
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Call forth things that are unseen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen.
#quotes#words#spirituality#law of attraction#Bible#Bible verse#manifest#manifesting#manifestation#creation#creating#mystery of faith#mystery of life#the mystery of faith#the mystery of life#persona
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all of this vanilla extract shitposting is cutting into my vanilla cookie making time
#something i planned to do BEFORE i find out about this#ah#the mystery of faith#that was a catholic refernce fyi
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put so much thought into this and i'm finally of the opinion that in a LoF au with Gravity Falls, Peter is the Mabel to Tim's Dipper despite them not being twins (like Dami and Peter are joked about). I just couldn't pass this up,,, so yeah here's an early doodle for Halloween in our world where they dressed up as Mabel and Dipper
#this can be canon me thinks#at least one year they do it#but at least ONE year dami and peter will match#peter will probably make dami dress up as ford the next year while he's stan#erinwantstowrite#ao3#ao3 fanfic#leap of faith ao3#peter parker#tim drake#doodle#dipper pines#mable pines#mystery twins
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WHAT WAS HE GOING TO SAY. WHAT WAS HE GOING TO SAY! WHAT WAS HE-
Sun Wukong: "Kid—new armor isn't going to cut it! We have to hit Azure with everything we've got! You can't just, ignore this whole part of your power because it scares you!"
MK: "I-"
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LITERALLY WHAT. WHAT WAS IT. MK HONEY SWEETIE DARLING WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO TELL WUKONG HERE
#look at MK's FACE#HE IS SO DISTRAUGHT#Scenes I lay awake thinking about#Like we all know Wukong encouraging MK to use his monkey form is going to bite them in the ass#But HOW#Like SWK knows whatever the fuck MK is but MK knows something about his Monkey Form that we (including SWK) don't#''Well alright then.'' terrible. terrible. ''Oh—there's nothing mindless about me friend!'' TERRIBLE.#Hm guess I'm just having another breakdown about the special.#the light is no mystery#<- new Wukong an MK tag I wanna be emo#anyways#imp tag#lmk#lego monkie kid#monkie kid#lmk MK#Hello I am re-remembering Wukong's absolute faith in MK and how this is both a virtue and a vice#(aka oops if MK loses control SWK will be completely blindsided by it)#I am also remembering how MK's undying loyalty to SWK is also both a virtue and a vice!#(Aka if MK learns SWK did anything he can't justify that will shatter him)#These two would basically do anything for each other—but in like the fucked up way! So: haha we are in danger
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#faith the unholy trinity#john ward#gary miller#airdorf games#my ftut#the mystery of the druids#my art
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I think before trying to publicise and defend your headcanons about Stanley Pines you should maybe do some research about what being broke and homeless is really like. And also keep in mind that he was poor, not stupid.
#number one:#think about what circumstances lead him to steal and scam and be an extreme cheapskate#these are not innate personality traits.#number two:#the second he would be able to live a studier life he would. he is not beholden to living on bare threads#once the mystery shack was somewhat doing alright he would not keep wearing ratty ass uncomfortable clothes#the fact that you think that he voluntarily subjects himself to squalor tells me something.#number three:#I can feel the snitch oozing off of you when you start treating his criminal activity as inherently morally corrupt#when you treat it like the heart-wrenching pitiful fault of himself and not his circumstances#when you treat it like a FAILING and something that he has to rehabilitate/redeem himself from.#that is when I lose faith in the analysis#gravity falls#stanley pines#annie awkwardly articulates
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John Sketches
Hi you might see me be really focused on Faith: the Unholy Trinity for a while. Been playing through it nonstop for the last few days, getting all the endings and collectibles and achievements. Currently I have all but one (the Good Christian Boy achievement… practicing to get it).
I defo want to draw more with it, but for now have some first-attempt John Ward doodles <33
#john ward#father john ward#faith the unholy trinity#ftut#my art#this game is genuinely so good#I’ll be real I was iffy about it on my first playthrough but the mystery kept me going#the second playthrough I was completely in love#I was using a guide to find all the notes and secrets at that point and was invested in the story#the vibes and atmosphere were always amazing though#genuinely have been looking for a game to scratch that hard to reach itch involving Christianity and demons for so long#finally found it#ily faith <3
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updated designs for my eos team + new name for partner!! if you saw me accidentally post this on my main no you didnt <3
#theyre. ALMOST toxic yuri. almost#i cant call them that in good faith#eevee#absol#pmd#pokemon mystery dungeon#explorers of sky#eos#pmd eos#pmd2#pmd hero#pmd partner#oc: kat#oc: meryl#my ocs#my art#pokemon
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Moon Phases - Laura Graves
#moon#moon magic#moon phases#mysteries#not dead#esoteric#occult#dark art#alive#magnetism#allow it#beyond faith
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The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.
#basically lately anytime i read a christian fiction book that isn't romance-based i find myself surprised by the quality#i do think that some christian publishers are getting better#and trying to tell stories that dig deeper into real faith and messy issues#instead of making only vapid squeaky clean prayer-filled tropefests#but i'm not sure *how much* better#because anything above the low bar feels like great literature#the most recent is 'in a far-off land' by stephanie landsem#and let me tell you setting the prodigal son in 1930s hollywood is a genius concept#i have some issues with the history and the mystery#but the characters!#it has been a long time since i cried this hard over a book#several chapters of solid waterworks#(and i also have the issue of figuring out if it's actually that moving or if i'm just hormonal/sleep-deprived)#i keep thinking about this book but also i worry about recommending because what if it's actually terrible by normal book standards?#(also the author DOES NOT understand the seal of confession and i was SHOCKED to find that she's actually catholic)#but also looking at the reviews makes it clear that if most of christian fiction is vapid garbage it's these reviewers' fault#here you have something that's digging into sin and darkness and justice and mercy and these people are just#'how can it call itself christian fiction if it only mentions god at the end?'#are we reading the same book this WHOLE THING is about god! and humanity and our fallen nature and how this breaks relationships!#your pearl-clutching anytime someone tries to get even a tiny bit realistic is destroying this genre#i'm gonna run out of tags so i'll stop now
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Different anon here to ask more rosary questions!! So, you said that you're supposed to pray while contemplating the holy mysteries: does that mean there are like specific prayers you're meant to say? Sorry if this is kind of a dumb question, I'm still a baby Christian and I'm definitely not very familiar with Catholic traditions and practices.
There are no dumb questions, only questions you've never been taught the answer to, and I'm happy to help if I can! I think a visual demonstration would be easier than me describing it so...
These ↓ are my rosary beads, and where my fingers are spanning is a decade.
You can identify a decade because they're separated by isolated beads. It's called a decade because it consists of 10 beads. In the traditional rosary, a Hail Mary is prayed on each of the beads in a decade. The Hail Mary prayer is as follows:
Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.
So now the mysteries. A different mystery is contemplated on each decade, while praying the Hail Marys. For example, today (at time of writing) is Tuesday, so you would contemplate the sorrowful mysteries. The first sorrowful mystery is The Agony in the Garden, so I would contemplate Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane while praying the 10 Hail Marys and keeping track of them on the beads. As you can see there are 5 decades in a rosary, and there are 5 mysteries in each 'set' of mysteries. A mystery for every decade.
And that's how you contemplate the mysteries! For a list of all the mysteries and what days to pray them, check my previous ask (just search the #asks tag on my blog) and for what to do with the rest of the beads, I'll attach a helpful guide below.
#christianity#catholicism#anglo catholicism#roman catholicism#rosary#rosary beads#holy rosary#holy mysteries#mysteries of the rosary#prayer#christian faith#asks
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Thinking thoughts about Abuela being back and with this backstory about her being taken in by charlatans and Eddies whole catholic guilt thing and how the two things kind of play into one another as an exploration of faith and being taken in by something.
Abuela giving all her money to the tarot card readers etc because she was searching for something - for connection (with Abuelo) - trying to recapture what she had lost, and How Eddie has spoken about trying to re-find the magic he had with Shannon - how Eddie hasn't actually fully reconciled the Shannon of it all when it comes to relationships and how his Catholic guilt connects into that.
How Marisol as a physical representation of Catholicism is part of that narrative - how Eddie is entering a place where he has to chose his path - in order to move on from Shannon he needs to fully square the hole - catholic or non catholic. And how that needs to happen first - before he can begin his queer journey!
#this is so incoherant#I'm also thinking about how Marisol fits into this narrative and how this idea of being taken in or fooled by a person plays into what we#know of her - how she wasn't upfront with Eddie (not saying she had to be right from the off but before moving in!!!) - how she is kind of#representative of secrets - especially around faith and ones connection with faith because she is essentially a stand in for catholicism#which (sorry to all the catholics out there) peddles in magic and secrets in order to keep the mystery of faith alive and therefore keep#people believing. How Eddie's reckoning with himself and the ghost of Shannon ultimately means choosing either to follow the path of#catholicism or non catholicism#How Marisol is a tie to religion and therefore his reasons for not having successful relationships after her (or even with her) and how#Eddie letting go will ultimately mean letting go of Marisol - how he can never fully move forward while catholicism still lingers#how I don't' think we'll be seeing the queer aspect of this narrative this season - that dealing with this first part is key and only once#he has figured it out can he then be free to know himself - is true self better - and accept and move into his full self as a queer man#so yeah - catholic guilt arc 7b and 8a - as its really a two parter - finally dealing with the remnants of Shannon - and its connection wit#his faith and then when truly free of that exploring his queerness!#So yeah - Marisol will possibly be here until towards the end of the season because she is meant to be the trigger point for Eddie in#relation to Shannon - its why they made the difference (and similarities) between S and M very obvious in 7x01#they have the time to build this story arc more fully now with the s8 renewal - to do it justice and unfortunately as part of that it means#she'll probably be around longer than any of us would like!#I don't know if I even make sense at this point#but I do want to reitterate that the show is goig out of its way to contrast her with Buck as well#to really show how close and right for each other Buck and Eddie are so no one needs to panic - she's here for the narrative not forever!#911 abc#911 spoilers#eddie diaz
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...I know people in this day and age think any collaborative effort can fix things, often despite reality (ex. the MULTIPLE tumblr blackout protests over the last like 10 years across different owners of tumblr that didn’t change shit),
but I think going out of your way to buy things from tumblr en masse as a “well then they’ll be profitable and won’t have to change things to resemble profitable sites!” as if the CEO/higher ups are personally going to see this and not AT MOST just go “oh we made money, sick, Anyway.” is just. the most naive and frankly 5-year-old level of problem solving unrealistic idea if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. People are just so blinded by naive optimism it’s painful.
Staff isn’t going to see your purchases and go on a full redemption arc and restore porn in spite of payment systems’ massive stigma against it or Apple’s restrictions and never ever try to mimic Twitter or TikTok again, or whatever the fuck you’re expecting, they’ll keep focusing on shit tweaks that resemble other sites because those are what keep investors who think they know tech and user wants hooked and they think new people from other sites will come over for that instead of the fact these people are typically escaping those kinds of features.
Staff isn’t your friend, their vying for support like they’re your buddy who is hitting hard times and has been here holding your hand all these years is deliberate corporate marketing, they’re an arm of a corporation that spits in the face of LGBTQ+ people and especially black people for daring to post about themselves while touting themselves as The Queer Site! A diverse site! Look at this AMA we’re doing with someone about Black History Month! and you’re doing nobody a service when you’re unintentionally rewarding a service for getting worse because they will not know nor care about your motives, they just care that they got money and will continue making it worse regardless of you. They’re a corporation, not a small business ran by 10 people who are trying their best. People throwing money at Staff already encourages them, let alone when you buy into the weird parasocial shit they try with us which will continue as they see success with that method.
Like the mere idea of everyone buying the crabs to gift to make the site profitable is just unrealistic (especially in this economy with such terrible inflation and in NA there are issues with the weather and fires, on a site that mostly consists of groups of people who are typically low income or unable to work???), it feels very much like the gofundme pages people set up to raise money for celebrities who have debts who will be fine regardless and definitely don’t need your help. Corporations and CEOs are not your friends, they never will be. They do not care about you and they’re not some poor uwu victim of circumstance.
TL;DR half-assed blackouts aimed at companies that don’t care (that I have seen over and over) and “cr*b day” type efforts are incredibly dumb and will change nothing, and they will not change anything, just encourage them since they see they’re making money during their current marketing schemes, if they notice at all. You pitying them like they’re a poor innocent person is exactly what the corporation wants.
If you want to make a difference give that money to an artist or lgbtq+ people who basically get flagged as mature for Existing, or people who get their posts flagged for criticizing the site, or something, someone who gets screwed over by this site on the regular. It will do far more good than that whackadoo type pipe dream and sit down and think for a second, please.
#I normally would not care but this is like. absurd levels of Not Thinking At All#grown adults saw that post about this and went Yeah!!!!!!#how the fuck did someone go ''we should ALL buy crabs to give tumblr money!'' as a solution to shit corporate decisions and it get as big#as it did. Do you guys THINK#or does staff really have it wrapped around your parasocialized finger with humanizing them like a suffering entity who is so so poor#vena vents#not art#And that's a good faith interpretation that the person who suggested the crab thing aren't friends with a staff member or are one or some#shit#we've seen people on or know staff doing some shit to subdue criticisms (especially by trans and black people). I don't trust that#That as a thing that mysteriously gets slapped everywhere on here makes me narrow my eyes#Apparently judging by others comments about it the OP suggesting it is also a pr*lifer and a lot of the people boosting it are bigots so.#enjoy supporting a cause ran by people who want you dead ig
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grayson being the boy wonder in his universe and peter being the webbed wonder back home :(
they're so intertwined it's insane
#they're so alike it drives me crazy#that's honestly why i liked the idea of everyone calling him 'Boy (Insert Name)“ as a nickname#Boy Trickster#Boy Mystery#he's just like his dad fr#erinwantstowrite#ao3#ao3 fanfic#leap of faith ao3#peter parker#leap of faith#leap of faith catch me if you can#thank you for the ask!#dick grayson
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