Blähh:3

Once my friend told me that he felt Christian imposter syndrome sometimes because he had never had a big, life altering encounter with God. But we encounter God everywhere. It's in the way you let me sit on your couch and ramble about a breakup when we barely knew each other. It's in sunshine. Laughter. The faces of my friends who have never set foot in a church. It's in all the people who have shown me grace and mercy when I wholly didn't deserve it. It's the ache you've been trying to explain. It's the way that birds just know when to push their babies out of the nest. The way that I have found myself back in church even though no one would blame me if I hadn't. The way that we, creatures from a miniscule part of the universe, not only wanted to, but taught ourselves how to look into deep space. The sound of water flowing along a creek. It's the rhythm of the ocean, beating since before our species existed. You can go your whole life without having a big, come-to-jesus, altar call moment when you were "saved," and that's ok. Your faith doesn't have to run on adrenaline highs and intensity. God's in the still small voice. All the little miracles around you.

it’s really funny that “tradcath” means the exact opposite of what you’d expect etymologically speaking

A “traditional Catholic” is any randomly generated Mexican that has attended Sunday mass and thoughtlessly agreed with papal writ their entire life. A “tradcath” is a United States Protestant

it’s really funny that “tradcath” means the exact opposite of what you’d expect etymologically speaking

A “traditional Catholic” is any randomly generated Mexican that has attended Sunday mass and thoughtlessly agreed with papal writ their entire life. A “tradcath” is a United States Protestant

the trick to being a good Christian is to see everybody/everything asa little piece of god. hugging my boyfriends cat right now and all I can think when I bury my head in his purring tummy is "there's a little bit of god in there. this is what being close to god feels like is being close to love and this cat is full of it"

Blessed Good Friday everyone <3 btw no pretty pastel sanitized crucifixions and cute gentle weeping Mary's please!! Christ was horrifically tortured on every inch of His body to the point where His bones where likely visible and yet He didn't die until His arms where nailed wide open to take on the sins of the world!!! Mary was spiritually crucified since she felt everything Jesus went through in her heart and as a mother she was likely in extremely profound grievance and anguish!!!! Please bring the gravity of Christs Passion back into art!!!!!!

[ ID: Digital painting, in black and white, of a crucified Jesus Christ, blurry and pixilated. /End ID ]

"The average Passion portrayal in art seems arguably palatable in comparison to a culture desensitised to violence. He is a hairless, white, well-toned and tragically beautiful man. The blood is kept at a minimum, and what it says about institutionalised brutality and violence against marginalised Brown bodies (people!!!) must never, under any circumstance, be addressed..." - from the substack essay linked above

sometimes praying the rosary is just about mother mary keeping you company