#star of the sea

[appalachianhearthcraft]

Our Lady Star of The Sea. 🐚🌊

#blessed virgin mary #mother mary #catholic witch #marian witch #star of the sea #veneration #Stella Maris

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of witches

Our muse, our fate, our life, our doom

To thee we do cry proud banished children of Eve

Rejoicing in this; thy verdant valley

Turn then, thy eyes of star-fire toward us

And after this, our beheading, may we be made worthy of the fruits of the Serpent

O’ shinning, O’ dreadful, O’ Pale queen

Drown and incinerate us, that we may be made worthy to bear the fire

Hail, bright star of the sea!

Heavens own Queen blest

Ever Shinning

Gate of heavenly healing

Font of magic

Taking that sweet Ave

That the serpent spoke

Peace confirm within us

Hailing Eves name

Break the captives fetters

Starlight upon the waters pour

All our ills expelling

Every bliss implore

Show thyself a Queen!

Sorceress all exceeding

Most beauteous and shinning

Freed from impurity, preserve us

Broken and remade

To our oaths keep us

Make our way secure

As the sea, by thy sky-strung pearls

We navigate

Through the highest heaven

To the darkest depths

We honor thee

You who light the way

#traditional witchcraft #polytheism #heretical hymns #hail holy queen #star of the sea #Regina Caeli #Stella Regina #witch queen #parodies of catholic hymns #Marian hymns specifically

[princeofdragonstone]

to be honest, i truly think rhaenys, rhaenyra and shiera were the it girls of their time. shiera especially. men killed themselves after being rejected by her? brynden proposed a million times but she rejected because she loved seeing him jealous?? bathed in blood to keep her beauty??? count me in

#shiera seastar #star of the sea #asoiaf #fire and boood #house targaryen #pro targaryen restoration #quaithe #targaryen #brynden rivers #bloodraven #lord bloodraven #queen rhaenys #queen rhaenys targaryen #queen rhaenyra #rhaenyra targaryen #book targaryens

[donnerpartyofone]

ACK I almost stepped on Jesus on my way home from church! Good thing I missed! Actually if I were writing a movie about persecuted Christians where someone tries to make them trample the cross and stuff, I'd have them say "Sure man, I'll trample the cross, I'll shit on the Bible. You think my God is trapped in there? That I step on him like a bug and he dies? Let's try it and find out!" as per the great thing they discuss in STIGMATA. STIGMATA is the one where Patricia Arquette stars as a sexy raver chick who gets possessed and then sexy priest Gabriel Byrne has to solve a religious mystery with her that changes the world. It's the best movie and you should definitely watch it.

LOVE the tag line on poster #2. Anyway one of the priests who is a main reason I've been going to this great church for a year gave a homily this morning about a piece of scripture I'd heard before, but not in this way. Jesus encounters a cripple at a healing spring in Bethesda and asks him, "Do you want to be made well?", and instead of saying "OH MY GOD YES OF COURSE MAKE ME WELL IMMEDIATELY," the guy starts complaining evasively about how he can never get into the water because everyone else is faster than him. Jesus heals the guy anyway and says "Pick up your mat and walk," and then the guy instantly gets in trouble with the authorities for carrying his mat around on the sabbath, and by extension Jesus is in trouble for working on the sabbath. The Bible usually sounds pretty antique to put it mildly, and therefore kind of alien and artificial, but when I heard that story today suddenly it was like "Oh shit, people really act like this right now. All the time." Somebody asks you what you want and you don't know how to say "I WANT THIS EXACT THING AND I'M READY TO GET IT," you might not even know precisely what you want, or you're just so used to making excuses and being passive aggressive and protecting yourself from disappointment and trying not to be inappropriate that you have no ability to be direct or speak from a place of self-knowledge. And then on the part of the Pharisees, they're so concerned with the litigation of their religion that they can't even see the miraculous evidence of God appearing right before their eyes, they're too blinded by their obsession with technicalities and the pre-fabricated template for divinity to notice that what they would ultimately want is happening now. It doesn't appear in the way they expect it to, so they don't even see it. Modern people are exactly like this. You encounter all these behaviors on a daily basis if you interact with other people at all.

I love this priest and at least one other guy who is really surprising and inspired, enough that I've been going there for a year of my life. But I sometimes feel like I'm leading them on. I love gay people and abortions too much to formally convert, among other reasons. But I also realize that religion is about emotion. You're supposed to love God more even than you concern yourself with his factuality. For me religion is a bit too much of an intellectual exercise. I'm curious about the mechanics of belief, how it rewards people, what kinds of changes it manifests, what it is as a psychological phenomenon. And more abstractly I'm interested in how people seek encounters with the numinous, how they explore deeper meaning through the lens of symbol and allegory. I'm interested in the collective unconscious. Almost my whole life is more of an intellectual exercise than an emotional one, maybe I'm fundamentally not wired to be a religious person. But I do love this church and I love the people in it, and I think it's a net positive for us to get to know a kind of person/people who you don't normally encounter, and get the chance to be kind and curious toward them. Everyone is always welcoming to me even if it seems like they wouldn't like me personally and I find that moving, I embrace the chance to return the favor. I embrace them even though I know they will never watch STIGMATA with me.

#this guy also always stands up for the pharisees #they're just trying to do right by god and by their people #and he uses this rhetoric to remind parishioners not to be antisemitic #star of the sea

[telekinesis-mind-control-comics]

#gamora #gamora zen whoberi ben titan #gaurdians of the galaxy #woman of marvel #star of the sea #warrior assassin #outer space #outta this world #marvel comics #marvel

[ocean-not-found]

The Most Blessed Mother Mary, and the Great Teacher, Her child, Jesus.

The Madonna of Bruges and The Pitea by Michelangelo.

When he was born, She held him. When he died, She held him. It's very beautiful. She prevails over all, death, life, the sky, the sea, the very Heavens above. The Mother-God, Mary.

#madonna of bruges #pitea #Michaelangelo #art #statues #our lady #the blessed mother #mother god #gnostic #Gnosticism #gnostic teachings #paganism #mother goddess #mary #mother mary #star of the sea #mother of all #queen of heaven #catholic imagery #folk catholicism #pagan catholicism #goddess mary #goddess religion #goddess #religious art #catholic aesthetic #queer catholic

[portraitsofsaints]

Happy Feast Day Our Lady, Star of the Sea (Stella Maris) Feast day: September 27 Patroness of the Catholic missions to seafarers

Our Lady, Star of the Sea is an ancient title for the Virgin Mary. The words Star of the Sea are a translation of the Latin title Stella Maris. The title was used to emphasize Mary's role as a sign of hope and as a guiding star for Christians, especially gentiles, whom the Old Testament Israelites metaphorically referred to as the sea, meaning anyone beyond the "coasts", or, that is to say, sociopolitical, and religious (Mosaic law), borders of Israelite territory. Under this title, the Virgin Mary is believed to intercede as a guide and protector of those who travel or seek their livelihoods on the sea. {website}

#our lady star of the sea #Our blessed Mother Mary #Blessed Mother Mary #Star of the Sea #artist on tumblr

[ncblevicartstudic]

New OC incoming!! Introducing Mariona Cross!! Known as The Star of The Sea, Mariona or Marion for short is a wayward soul that has given up everything in their old life in order to find their own happiness.

Shoutout to @rilli-luci for their take on Mariona!! Very pretty indeed!!

Side note: Mariona is Transmasc Nonbinary and goes by They/Them pronouns!

#Marionna Cross #Star of the sea #my art #my ocs #witch oc #cleric oc #druid oc #tempest domain cleric #tempest cleric #circle of stars druid #circle of stars #black artists on tumblr #artists on tumblr

[nibwhipdragon]

No like genuinely this image is so good. The silhouette in the foreground, lighting in the background, the use of colours here is REALLY good. Joseph being all black with the purple lighting of the tail and the star draws more attention to him compared to the warm colours of the sunset and that, makes him pop out in a way that feels nice and natural. This is so good I'm gonna grind it up in a weed grinder and chuff a dart with it

#nibwhip's presents #fuck you this one's actually going in the main tags it's too good not to #jjba #joseph joestar #hm. #yeah. #star of the sea #it fits so I put it there.

[midnighteraser]

mer joseph discovers ice cream while raiding caesar's fridge and binges till he gives himself a stomach ache

First, a brain freeze, then, a tummy ache. Sometimes Caesar doesn't know how to deal with this dumb fish.

Joseph's allowed only one spoonful of icecream!

Only... One spoonful...

#woo that took MUCH longer than expected #i hope the area around the spoon is alright! had to edit out the original guy cause Joseph's too thin #AND had to edit joseph's hands to be in the right position XD #star of the sea #answer box #jjba #au #au meme

[butchorc]

I will be discussing my original fiction work with the tag “SotS” or Star of the Sea so if folks don’t want to see it please feel free to block it !

I’ve been thinking about it for a long time now so I figure it’s time to release some info on it. Are folks interested?

Premise: what happens if you give a 29 year old a dragon lol

High fantasy, tackling themes of colonialism, it’s based in a universe I’ve been nurturing for over a decade. (Those of you familiar with TSOD may be familiar with some of it).

#SotS #star of the sea

[michealsays]

M • A • R • I • L • Y • N means “star of the sea” or, “drops of the sea” can also mean “bitter”

#girls names #name meanings #marilyn #aesthetic #character names #pretty names #star of the sea #drops of the sea #bitter #vintage #dark acedemia #tumblr #writers on tumblr

[lawrenceop]

HOMILY for Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Micah 2:1-5, Ps 9B; Matt 12:14-21

The Carmelite friars have a church located on the slopes of Mount Carmel. From here one overlooks the port of Haifa in Israel, and one can see the ships coming and going from the busy seaport (shown in the photo above). A statue of Our Lady stands on a tall column outside this church, and it can be seen from a distance, providing guidance to those at sea. Our Lady has long been associated with the sea: St Jerome, following Eusebius said that the name Maryam is translated as ‘Drop of the sea’, stilla maris, which later in the Middle Ages became stella maris, star of the sea. Thus St Thomas Aquinas said that just “as sailors are guided by a star to the port, so are Christians guided to heaven by Mary”. Certainly, if one stands outside the Carmelite monastery of Stella Maris on Mount Carmel in Israel, and as one looks out across the port of Haifa and out to the sea, one can understand the effectiveness of this image: Here at Carmel, Mary guides us through the storms of this life to the safe harbour that is heaven, that is, her Son and our Saviour, Jesus Christ. 

The brown scapular of the Carmelites that is worn by millions of Catholics is a sacramental, a sign that one places oneself under Mary’s guidance. To wear the brown scapular is to remind oneself to always look to Mary for direction, to live under her protection and care so that, following her example of obedience to God’s Word, one might safely sail to our heavenly destination. The brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is thus like the rudder that directs the ship homewards as our sails are propelled by the Breath of the Holy Spirit! 

In popular devotion, the brown scapular is often linked to the Holy Rosary, and stories are found in which St Dominic is said to have prophesied that Our Lady would save the world through the instrumentality of the brown scapular and the Rosary. There is truth in this because the scapular leads us to live by the humble obedience of Mary, the immaculate handmaid of the Lord, and the Rosary is but a meditation on the mysteries of our salvation. Indeed, if the scapular is the rudder, then the Rosary, I think, is the anchor. For one sometimes finds in Marian devotions and the prophesies of so-called mystics ideas and notions that, when unguided by the Magisterium of the Church or exaggerated by lay enthusiasm, can lead to superstition or a form of Pelagianism. The Rosary, with its concentrated and succinct meditations on the salvation that Christ has won for humanity, anchors us in the saving work of Jesus Christ and in the Gospels. Hence, it is true that if we use these sacramentals, these gifts from Our Lady, properly, then we shall not be led astray; through the brown scapular and the Rosary, Mary guides us to heaven, to Christ.

The Carmelite church on Mount Carmel is built around a cave in which Elijah had sheltered. In the Scriptures, the significance of Mount Carmel is that it was from this location that Elijah, during a time of terrible drought, saw a small cloud form far out at sea, and this cloud was a promise of rain, and thus a promise of relief from heat, of new life, and of God’s fidelity to his promises. This cloud is thus a symbol of Our Lady. For in the drought of our human existence due to original sin, the Immaculate Virgin is for all humanity a sign of God’s promises being fulfilled. In her, there is the promise of relief from sin and of new life and salvation, for through her we receive the Saviour of the world, the one of whom Isaiah said: “Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth” (Isa 45:8) Therefore the Gospel says today that “in his name the nations will put their hope”. 

Devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, therefore, fills us with hope. In moments when the heat of the day is oppressive, that is to say, when life seems hard and wearisome, we look to the horizon with Elijah; we look to Mary, that little cloud who was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, and we see in her faith, in her unwavering trust in God’s Word, even in the darkest moments, one in whom we can hope, and so we place ourselves under her motherly care and guidance. And, on the darkest of nights, when all other lights have failed, we look up to Mary, the maris stella, and so we follow her, the Lady of Mount Carmel, to the safe haven of Christ Jesus: we pray for that grace to follow her in her simple but most profound Fiat: “Let it be done to me according to your word.” Or as Mary herself put it: “Do whatever he tells you.” For Christ is the One promised by God who will, as Isaiah says in the Gospel today, lead us to victory. 

#Stella Maris #Star of the Sea #Mary #Haifa #Carmel #faith #obedience #brown scapular #Rosary

[donnerpartyofone]

There were one or two funerals in St. Mary Star of the Sea recently, large beautiful wreaths are still up by the tabernacle, but look at this beautiful, simple effect somebody created with just gray taffeta or something. It looks like fog rolling in around the foot of this statue, it's just gorgeous:

#star of the sea

[telekinesis-mind-control-comics]

#gamora #gamora zen whoberi ben titan #star of the sea #warrior assassin #outer space #gaurdians of the galaxy #woman of marvel #marvel comics #marvel

[ocean-not-found]

I'm not Christian, but Mary gives me so much happiness.

#even her statue makes me happy #its weird #mother mary #mama mary #Mary #blessed virgin mary #paganblr #saints #saint #st. mary #goddess #queen of heaven #star of the sea #aphrodite #catholic aesthetic #aesthetics #mary aesthetic #pagan aesthetic #statues #statue #mary statue #weeping statue #crying mary