#Holy Week 2024

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for Catholics. 🩶

#Ash Wednesday #Lent #Easter #Holy Week #Holy Week 2024

[sgiandubh]

Sunday sounds: Palm Sunday. Revolution

As it did during Advent, this page is going to walk with its readers this last stride towards Easter, for the entire Holy Week. If this is not your jam, please ignore these posts. Even if this blogger is Catholic, the focus here is on personal thoughts, not doctrine. And everyone is welcome.

Many things are celebrated in remembrance, this Sunday, and since this is a 'B' liturgical year, we do have Mark's reporter-like version to meditate upon. All the events and all the critically important people for what is bound to happen next week are presented to us, along with the apparent denouement.

But first, there's the Jerusalem Crowd and its spontaneous, instinctive Joy: 'and many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way' (Mark, 11:8). The poorest of the poor are now placed, by the course of events, upfront and centerstage. And never forget: this is what we piously call 'the Classical World', where these people do not have a voice, nor a message. History was never written by them: it simply served to keep track of and eternally praise the military campaigns of despots. This Joy is nothing short of revolutionary.

Some of this energy is melancholically translated in this old Transylvanian Palm Sunday Carol. It reminds us of the Dawn of a New World, we often seem to totally forget about.

#sunday sounds #Holy Week 2024 #Youtube

[constance-mcentee]

Holy Week 2024

Good Friday, 29 March 2024

I haven't been to church since Christmas morning at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. I can't prove I got covid there, but by the end of that week I had covid. It's also possible my son got it when he was visiting with my co-parent and then gave it to me. We were both sick at the same time.

It's strange, staying away from church for all of Lent. But, I just felt it would be best if I did so. If I'd gone to Ash Wednesday, would they have worn gloves for the administering of ashes? I don't recall seeing the Eucharistic ministers wearing gloves during Communion back at Christmas.

I guess I could have tried to do a Lenten practice on my own at home, but I find being in a community to be a more complete experience. Maybe I need to work on that. The idea of being a solitary witch is no big deal to me. Why is the idea of being a solitary Christian so strange?

I am not planning on going to Resurrection Sunday worship. The experience of covid is still too new in my memory. And in a way, that's encouraging considering the memory loss I've been experiencing. But there was a lot of "emotional weight" (I don't know how else to describe it) to that experience, so that helps me remember.

I just feel that maybe church really can't go back to normal until we're actually in a post-pandemic world. The pandemic isn't done yet. So, we still need to keep precautions in place.

#christian on main #holy week 2024 #covid

[eremosjournal]

Good Friday

As a good Catholic boy, I remember waking up on Good Friday morning and wanting to be sad all day. Which isn’t very healthy when my default already bends sad. A funny moment would come, and I’d feel guilty for laughing. A smile would slither to my face and I'd feel like I did something wrong.

Then came Easter Sunday. And suddenly the sadness I was used to feeling - and felt with pride on Good Friday - was incorrect, just 48 hours later. Immense joy today! And nothing else. But what changed? Jesus hadn’t died on Good Friday 2018. And Christ was no more resurrected on Easter 2018 than Christ was resurrected two days before on Good Friday. But we Catholics love a show. Like a good Confirmation retreat. If I may paint a familiar picture:

Sleep deprived on Saturday with a twinge of altitude sickness. Away from screens and surrounded by nature. Physically drained from outdoor games & only eating half of each meal (retreat food). A vulnerable testimony followed by a healthy portion of small group oversharing. A Tony Award -worthy Lifehouse skit and intimate love letters from parents. Tissue boxes conspicuously placed throughout the room so everyone is within arm’s reach. All leading to an hour-plus of adoration with repetitive, meditative, and even trance-like worship music. Did the ‘body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus’ make this room of hormonal and over-stimulated teenagers cry, or were their emotions manipulated by a well-orchestrated and scripted production from a core team of adults, and a teen leadership team that definitely has a weird name?

Looking at it now, Holy Week has the same flavor. I’m tired of being emotionally manipulated by the church. And I’m tired of emotionally manipulating teenagers in the same way that I was.

I still work at the church. But Lent and Holy Week have been different this year. I baked cookies for middle schoolers on Lenten Fridays. I laughed with teens on Palm Sunday. I didn’t go to mass on Holy Thursday. I didn’t try to feel sad on Good Friday. The joy I’ve gained from letting myself feel however I want to feel is more of an offering to God than my forced emotions ever were. “Holy” does not mean “has permission to tell me how to feel”. If God gave us free will, wouldn’t it be an insult to that gift to go against my real feelings? To substitute my emotions for ones manufactured by people just as flawed and confused as myself? Emotional extremes are not what make Holy Week “Holy”. The sanctity of my week, my faith, my life comes from its authenticity. And the church can cry about it.

#ex catholic #exchristian #post christian #excatholic #exvangelical #catholic #ex christian #deconstruction #post catholic #deconvert #good friday #Good Friday 2024 #holy week #Holy Week 2024

[izzythehutt]

I'm going to dip out for the rest of Holy Week.

See you at Easter!

#personal #easter 2024 #holy week 2024

[shoofoolatte]

Ruth Burrows poem:

On Palm Sunday we reach the quayside.

A great ship is fretting at the moorings, sail unfurling in the bright sunshine; a beautiful ship with the line and grace of a bird.

A cry goes out from it: 'All on board!' and eager hands reach out to help us onto the deck; the hands of those who have made the journey before us and whose home is in the land to which we are invited.

This great ship of Holy Week will carry us surely, strongly, into the Passion of Christ. On the prow is blazoned the name 'Love's Victory’.

All we have to do now is board the ship and allow it to take us all the way. We have nothing else to do but let it take us.

We have not to do the navigating ourselves, we have not to labour with the oars, we have not to see where we are going or what distance we are covering: all that is being done for us.

We have only to say, 'Let it be done. Give me all you want to give. Be my Saviour, be my God.' Let us then board the ship full of humble gratitude and trust.

'But I have not got to the quayside even. It seems to me I have wasted Lent wrapped up in myself.’ Never mind.

Here you are, brought by the community of the Church. Get on board. Don't waste further time in useless lamentations which give no joy to God.

Get on board.

The moorings are cast, the sails billow in the breeze, and we are carried off deep into the mystery of Jesus.

Image: "The Mystical Boat", by Odilon Redon

#PalmSunday #HolyWeek2024 #HolyWeek

#palm sunday #Holy Week 2024 #holy week

[thejohnthatgotaway]

🌿🍃🌸✨

#nature #greenery #holy week 2024

[seraphim-eternal]

A little while, and you will see me no longer. Again in a little while, and you will see me.

John 16:16

#easter #easter sunday #holy week #lent 2024 #Christ is risen #resurrection #jesus #quotes #bible quote #bible verse #catholic #Christian #orthodox #religious imagery #religious art #light moodboard #moodboard #oil painting #acrylic #poetry #books #philosophy #hopecore #aesthetic

[c2-eh]

no comment, the video speaks for itself

#look at that... look how fast he moves those fingers #when he did it with two at first i ascended #lucky are the people he pleases #aka charles #unholy thoughts during the holy week. poetic #carlos sainz jr #carlos sainz #australian gp 2024

[thepastisalreadywritten]

King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia, Princess Leonor, and Infanta Sofía attend the procession of El Encuentro at Las Calatravas Church in Madrid on 30 March 2024.

The image of the royal family actively participating in the religious celebration did not go unnoticed by those present or the media, highlighting the gesture of closeness and commitment of the monarchy to the traditions and culture of the country.

🎥: EUROPA PRESS

#King Felipe VI #Queen Letizia #Princess Leonor #Infanta Sofía #Spanish Royal Family #El Encuentro #Las Calatravas Church #Easter Sunday #Holy Week #Holy Week 2024 #Easter 2024 #Lenten Season #House of Bourbon #Princess of Asturias

[ladypepperofdavenshire]

"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace" - Ephesians 1:7 NKJV

Happy Easter, He is Risen Indeed 🕊️

#ladypepperofdavenshire #Easter 2024 #holy week #christian art #christian artist #Bible #bible verse #soli deo gloria #cw blood #tw blood #Easter #Easter Sunday #He is Risen Indeed

[linda-with-an-i]

Brace yourselves, it's that time of the year again!

#as always #i'm sorry for the person I'm about to become #sanremo 2024 #sanremo #italian things #the italian side of tumblr #holy week #holy fuck #shitposting #memes

[eremosjournal]

The Crucifixion Isn't Over for People on Death Row

On Good Friday, Christians are encouraged to mourn. Anyone raised Catholic dreads 3:00 on Good Friday, and the subsequent household ban on music and TV often imposed by devout parents. We are cornered into a strange symbolic sadness for the tragedy that had to occur for life after death to be realized. We go to service and kiss a cross as a symbol of our sorrow. We reenact the Passion as a symbol of our remembrance. We do so much to underscore the injustice of Jesus’ situation, but we are seldom encouraged to look around in the real world and let our hearts bleed for those who are facing the same injustices. 

Jesus was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit. But despite the attachment Christians have to this narrative, many fail to see that the same thing is happening to people in our own country, present day. For those people, Jesus’ passion is not simply a story. It’s a parallel experience. People like Marcellus Williams (at risk of being murdered by Christian politicians in the state of Missouri this year) must know the anguish and demoralization of wrongful accusation better than any believer. Unfortunately it’s too late for so many others who have fallen victim to a vengeful and violent legal system. No, we don’t still flog people the way the guards did to Jesus. But the shame, the humiliation, the injustice is all there. 

How can Christians mourn the same man’s wrongful death every year, but look the other way when one of their brothers or sisters faces the same fate? When we say “pro-life”, whose lives are we referring to?

Jesus was humiliated, hated, and underestimated by what were probably decent people. By people who probably considered themselves people of faith, family people. Christians hyperfixate so much on being like Jesus that they forget to not be like those who had him killed. On Good Friday, we mourn Jesus. But it feels fitting to also mourn for the failure of humanity, on the day of Jesus’ crucifixion to the present day. We mourn for the hypocrisy and ignorance of those who let a good man die. Like Jesus said, “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.” 

Today, Erēmos Journal invites you to click the link to sign a petition that could help save a life on death row. Though not every story is one of innocence, we hope you consider them with the mercy, compassion, and dignity they deserve.

#excatholic #deconvert #post christian #exchristian #ex catholic #post catholic #catholic #exvangelical #ex christian #deconstruction #good friday #holy week #holy week 2024 #good friday 2024

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

whiteboard dragons <3 it's dragon appreciation day!

#DRAGON APPRECIATION DAY. GO KISS A DRAGON RN. TAKE THEM ON A DATE. #barn in the corner. ignore him. he'll be in a different post #mannnn jade (green dragon) really just. has a bad time from start to finish #w a few shining moments in between #well. no. tbf she actually gets a decent chunk of Peace in her life #but when shit hits the fan again it just does not stop hitting... Yayyyy!!!!! #man. same for daelyn really. #once the bad times start it just gets Worse and Worse <3 #scribble salad #not-fish <3 #dragon #dragons #dragon oc #oc #original character #original characters #ocs #ITS THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON BABEY LETS GOOOOOOOO #its been like. 2 weeks of 2024 and ive already gotten so much done w my dragons #like! some of them finally have actual names!!!! holy shit!!!

[kingcrow01]

Marvel/DC Crossover Week | 2024

Day 1 | Sidekicks | Family | “I won the fight before you even turned up.” - Batman

@marvel-dc-crossover-event

Boom! The two sidekicks of DC and Marvel, a wild Robin and a Bucky bonding over Alpine!

Initially I was going to have Bucky standing with his arms crossed, and Robin Dick doing the same with a puffed up chest next to him, mocking him like he might Batman, but I found I didn’t really care about that idea if there wasn’t dialogue, or any sort of relationship between the characters.

The second dialogue I wrote:

D: “We should arrange play dates for Alpine with Alfred.”

B: “Your grandpa? Why would we—“

D: “Tt. Not Pennyworth. My cat, Alfred, doesn’t have a companion. I think he may be… lonely.”

B: “You sure you’re not the one who wants to play with Alpine?”

D: “Ridiculous. Alfred wants to, not me. Though, I’d have to be here too. To supervise.”

Additionally, Damian was supposed to look more… victorious, that he was getting to pet Alpine, but I guess I put the eyebrow too high. Oh well. And instead of the Black Widow logo, I wanted Bucky to wear a Black Canary shirt, because I think he’d like her, but she didn’t really have a logo I liked.

#holy shit i swear this wasn't so overexposed when I posted this #marvel/dc crossover week 2024 #marvel/dc crossover week #dc #marvel #dc x marvel #damian wayne #bucky barnes #kings art

[slushiebrain]

hey remember how i said the cartoony style was supposed to be faster, literally only yesterday? *insert so yeah that was a fucking lie meme here lmao* ANYWAY here's day 3 of @pale-gamkar-week: flirting! In which Gamzee unwittingly embodies every. single. one. of Karkat's pale fantasies and Karkat is in hell.

#my stuff #pale gamkar week #pale gamkar week 2024 #gamkar #gamzee makara #karkat vantas #homestuck #tavros nitram #nepeta leijon #sollux captor #i've been looking forward to this one ever since the list first came out which is why i went WAY TOO FUCKING DETAILED #like holy shit i started working on this at 7 pm-ish #it's now 1 am #hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...... #the shit i put myself through for these little alien bastards in love