#catholic tag

[othellho]

— "The Boss of Me", Patricia Smith

#Patricia Smith #catholic tag #bm63 #pb37 #poetry

[vulpinesaint]

i wonder if the noncatholic girlbloggers know that saint sebastian survived all of that. there's some post about the paintings of him shot full of arrows being of his "sensual dying form" but like. he very much did not die <3 a woman nursed him back to health #feminism. unfortunately he did get beaten to death and thrown into a sewer later but. it is what it is. the arrows are much sexier

#valentine notes #saint sebastian #beloved #catholic tag

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

I just sent in an ask but I forgot I had another question! (the nature one)

When I said I was Catholic I meant Roman Catholic, but in my research for affirming churches and denominations I came across other groups/churches (I’m in America) that were technically Catholic but had slightly different names, and were very affirming. I was wondering if you had more information on these types of groups? I know at this point in my life I probably will not stay Roman Catholic but I know staying Catholic to an extent is important to my family.

Ok thanks again!

Whoops, forgot to post this one!

Yes, there are other Catholic groups beyond the Roman Catholic Church :D

There's the Liberal Catholic Church, the American Apostolic Old Catholic Church...I wish I had more information about them — followers?

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Within Roman Catholicism, there are also many LGBTQ+ affirming groups, including:

DignityUSA works for respect and justice for people of all sexual orientations, genders, and gender identities—especially gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons—in the Catholic Church and the world through education, advocacy, and support. You can see if there’s a local chapter near you on the site! .

New Ways Ministry has been advocating for justice, equality, and reconciliation within the larger church and civil communities since the late 1970s. .

The Progressive Catholic Voice is an “independent and grassroots forum for reflection, dialogue, and the exchange of ideas within the Catholic community of Minnesota and beyond.” It’s not LGBT specific, but here’s a link to all the posts that have been categorized as LGBT. .

The Wild Reed is a blog by Michael J. Bayly, an Australian who resides in the US and who served as the executive coordinator of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities (CPCSM) from 2003-2015. This blog has been churning out posts since 2006(!), with the most recent post being about Lil Nas X coming out. Lots of older posts review books, talk about queer Saints, and more.

As well as supportive clergy and religious, including:

Father James Martin, a Catholic priest who advocates for LGBTQA+ folk

Brother Robert Lentz, a monk and iconographer who frequently features queer Saints in his icons

#queer and catholic #catholic tag

[irrealisms]

i was born for this || a web weave about belonging to God

wikipedia // psalm 63:1 // wikipedia // matthew 25:23 // clerical collars: symbolism and meaning // isaiah 44:5 // the line i called the horizon by consumptive_sphinx // 1 corinthians 6:19-20 // les misérables // romans 14:7-8 // clear night by charles wright // psalm 119:20 // batter my heart, three person'd God by john donne // isaiah 43:1

[IDs under cut]

Image 1: Serviam is Latin for "I will serve."

Image 2: 1 You, God, are my God,     earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you,     my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land     where there is no water.

Image 3: "Servant of God" is a title used in the Catholic Church to indicate that an individual is on the first step toward possible canonization as a saint. Wikipedia

Image 4: 23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant!

Image 5: The collar remains a distinctive sign of the priest’s availability and the permanent nature of Holy Orders. The priest “is not his own” and is a visible sign of Jesus Christ,

Image 6: Some will say, ‘I belong to the Lord’;     others will call themselves by the name of Jacob; still others will write on their hand, ‘The Lord’s,’     and will take the name Israel.

Image 7: "I am for God, you know I am for God,"

Image 8: You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price.

Image 9: My soul belongs to God, I know I made that bargain long ago

Image 10: 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

Image 11: I want to be bruised by God. I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out. I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.    I want to be entered and picked clean.

Image 12: 20 My soul is consumed with longing     for your laws at all times.

Image 13: Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Image 14: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;     I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

#used the NIV for all the Bible quotes #catholic tag #grace don't look #i want to be strung up in a strong light #web weaving #web weave #my edit

[hearts-hunger]

the shadow of the cross being an image of the sword, a symbol of victory on the skin of a warrior who wields love as the greatest weapon. hello.

#DO YOU EVEN GET IT #does he know i'm catholic and i am going to be thinking about this forever #catholic tag

[hexxxcapades]

midnight mass fanart for easter! (shhh it's not late)

based on this scene:

#so yeah this show basically restructured my brain and healed my religious trauma #midnight mass #bev keane #beverly keane #time for all of pruitt's names: #father paul hill #father john pruitt #monsignor pruitt #john pruitt #paul hill #monsignor john pruitt #please for the love of mike flanagan do not treat this as ship art #mine #art tag #christianity #catholic tag

[ihavebeenallthingsunholy]

she/heretic

#catholic tag #original

[uniteds]

pope francis gets presented a lisandro martinez shirt

#I promise I will be normal about this #tp #lisandro martinez #catholic tag

[a-queer-seminarian]

From iconographer Ian Knowles' notes:

"I first came across icons while visiting Athens as a young 18 yr old... I particularly remember a very small and ancient church, dark as a cavern, where sunlight cast shafts of intense light, catching the fragments of the candle smoke as they drifted upwards like fireflies. The icons had not been anywhere near a restorer, and the layers of the oil varnish had greedily devoured the smoke of the incense and the passage of time until the images beneath were more like ethereal shadows, devoid of colour apart from the jewel-like glimmer of gold which even the soot and grime couldn't entirely diminish. At that moment, in that place, before those icons, I encountered God. I prayed. You can write a lot about icons, many people have. But really, you don't need commentaries. You need, silence, stillness, attentiveness not around you but within you. Every icon, every single one has one common feature. No matter who it is, what angle or poise they are in, whether in joy or sadness...their mouths are small, and closed. The icon is stillness, that Divine, warm stillness that listens, waits, just is and invites us to do the same. They are vessels into which we pour our prayer, our devotion to God, our sadness, our penitence, our sufferings, our desires, our hopes for ourselves and for the world. ...God embraces us through them, just as we are. Quite simply, whatever our interior or exterior state, the icons are still there. It is, I suppose, the inverse of the phrase, 'out of sight, out of mind'. It's God with us, whether we feel like it or not. ..."

#iconography #icons #catholic tag #art #ian knowles

[realmikedirnt]

breaking fast after Mass on Good Friday like

#catholic tag

[revoltinglesbians]

creating a project for my writing class that may possibly result in me outing myself as a tumblr catholic. how can i explain how i first encountered jesus's side wound vagina or st catherine of siena's foreskin wedding ring???!???! how can i be mean about martin luther without sounding 16th century!?!?

#I went to public k-12 school people! i have no reasonable explanation #post.me #college #catholic tag

[othellho]

― “To: Judas Iscariot”, Thérèse Naccarato

#poetry #Therese Naccarato #Judas tag #biblical mythology #catholic tag #judas iscariot #I just need somewhere to store my fave lill poems #for keeps

[vulpinesaint]

first saint quiz finished in the wake of gerard way joan of arc costume. i am now assigning you a catholic saint. nine results and a lot of kdsjfghsd about saints. as you would expect

#saint sebastian and joan of arc are options. obviously. #this is a rough draft rn! might fix it up a lil later #for now i think the answers are balanced enough and stuff so i'm releasing it into the wild #catholic tag #gerard way joan of arc... #what a moment. god. driving me to madness rn #my uquizzes #my quizzes #uquiz #uquiz link #lot of text to read! sorry bout that. it's how it is though

[alicentsgf]

think its really funny the catholic church kept compromising with polytheistic populations in order to convert them and created the saints and stuff and now they're like "But TheY'Re NoT goDS! Okay!! they just have very specific spheres they have control over and you should pray to them before trying to confer with the big boss man upstairs this is still monotheism because i said so and make sure to pray to the earth moth- i mean Mary!! pray to mary the mother of creation God! ........anyone want some blood to drink?"

#catholicism #catholic tag #virgin mary #religion #theism

[irrealisms]

Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? - a web weave

Sanity - Caroline Bird // Xenocide - Orson Scott Card // The new sun greets me - Léopold Sédar Senghor (trans. Melvin Dixon) // The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis // The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman // Monet Refuses the Operation - Liesel Mueller

#catholic tag #grace don't look #web weaving #i tell you it has taken me all my life

[scatteredprayerbeads]

“Catholics do Death as it was intended – with style.

We eat flesh off the marble altar. We drink blood from golden cups. We keep bones and scraps of muscle and gore in boxes of pure silver encrusted with jewels. The air is full of sage and ghosts. We are a haunted people by choice.”

- Frances Molina, “O’Death”

#death #Catholicism #Catholic tag #ritual #Eucharist #Frances Molina #quote tag #haunting