Saint Sebastian (1650) - Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
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NaPoWriMo #15: A poem of at least ten lines where all lines start with the same word
Because
Because man doubted God, he ate the apple.
Because man sinned, the garden gates were barred.
Because Abram showed faith, God promised glory
Because his sons would outnumber the stars.
Because they cried, God led them out of Egypt.
Because He swept the sea, they passed dry-shod.
Because they sinned, He gave them the commandments
Because the Law helps man relate to God.
Because they feared the giant, God sent David.
Because the shepherd trusted, he was king.
Because the kingdom fell, God vowed salvation
Because a savior from this stump would spring.
Because the virgin loved, she gave her fiat.
Because she did, the Word became a man.
Because she asked, her son made wine from water
Because it was a sign of God's great plan.
Because the crowds were lost, He came and taught them.
Because they starved, He gave them holy bread.
Because the sick believed in Him, He healed them.
Because they died, He raised them from the dead.
Because He was betrayed, He was arrested.
Because He claimed God's name, they struck Him down.
Because He claimed to be a king, they scourged Him.
Because they mocked, He wore a thorn-filled crown.
Because the crowds demanded it, they hung Him.
Because He loved, He offered no complaint.
Because it was the will of God, He suffered
Because it would atone for Adam's taint.
Because He died, the world did shake and darken.
Because He died, they laid Him in a grave.
Because all hope seemed lost, his friends all sorrowed
Because it seemed He'd lost his chance to save.
Because He was God's Son, He rose victorious
Because He had defeated death's domain.
Because the women came, they found Him risen.
Because He rose, He will forever reign.
Because of all Your faithfulness I praise You
Because You showed Your Love through years of strife.
Because You rose, I sing with great rejoicing
Because You give your people lasting life.
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ichigo remembering even the tiniest details like orihime's pins or her new shirt, ichigo stopping mid-fight to check in on orihime, ichigo always remembering her trauma and always treating it with the utmost sensitivity even when it hurts him, ichigo stopping grimmjow's attack without even looking at him because he's so happy orihime called out to him, ichigo feeling pride whenever orihime expresses her sincere feelings for him, ichigo growing out of that coddling/sidelining mentality so they can fight as partners and equals, ichigo waiting till he's financially stable to ask orihime out–
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don't understand why some think the pre-emptive salvation and sanctification of Mary by Christ's sacrifice is so unreasonable when the Old Testament assumptions into Heaven exist like could people be pre-emptively saved by Christ's sacrifice or not
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A Knight, Death, and the Devil
Remake by Cornelis van Dalem, after the engraving by Albrecht Dürer
The famous engraving by Albrecht Dürer represents the epiphany of the man Heideggerianly thrown into the world, whose destiny is, humanistically, to be "faber fortunae suae", regardless of any obstacle, including the apparently impassable one of evil, that is, the devil, and of time, or of decay and death.
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