#I'm not Catholic

[octavianiscougarbait]

I'm honestly always thinking about how Gregory the Great was in so much pain from his chronic issues that he couldn't leave his bed, and he wrote 35 volumes about Job, who is the biblical poster child of suffering while keeping the faith.

Gregory thought the world was ending. The Lombards were attacking, the empire had long since abandoned the city of Rome, there was famine, and several plague outbreaks. The barbarians were heretics or schismatic, and all he could do was write letters across the continent asking for someone to care about order and God. He was trying to prioritize charity, along with hierarchy. He wrote a lot about miracles and saints, the ideal bishop, and so on.

But he also wrote about suffering having meaning while bedridden at the end of the world. He dedicated it to his special friend, Leander of Seville, who also was suffering chronic pain. The letters that Gregory sent to him were extremely sweet.

Anyway, as a person who also has chronic pain, this was a very unique topic to learn about.

#gregory the great #medival #popes #I'm not Catholic #just a historian

[etakeh]

With the 17th day of March approaching, please consider:

St Gertrude of Nivelles

Patron of Cats, the Recently Diseased, Gardeners, Travelers, Those with Mental Illness, and Those with a Morbid Fear of Mice and Rats.

Ok but why is she the patron saint of cats?

No, it's not because she really liked cats.

It's because she was good at doing cat things, like keeping mice and rats away. And spacing out - they say she spent most of her time in contemplation and such, to the point where she died from not doing pretty much anything else. Who among us hasn't had that happen.

Also she was in with god to get people released from purgatory. Mighty decent of her.

Sources: Here here and here also

#st gertrude #saints days #I'm not catholic #I just like the idea of her #my theory as to why she's got mice all over #but is known for keeping them away #is that she likes mice #but knows they cant' be around polite company #so she learned to keep them away from dangerous situations. #was like #hey mice these guys are gonna kill your ass if you are seen here #go hang out over there and I'll bring you a snack later #mice #cats #saints #march #feast days

[dancing-coyote]

Robot /// Saint Christopher [Westminister Psalter] The Patron Saint of Travelers / The Transformed Beast

Walter of Speyer popularly portrayed St. Christopher as a monstrous giant; in time, the legend goes, Christopher meets the Christ child, regrets his former violent behavior, and receives baptism. He is then rewarded with a human appearance, and devotes his life to Christian service, becoming a soldier saint.

Scarecrow /// Saint Peter [The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, Caravaggio] Patron Saint of Bridge Builders and Sailors / The Forgiven Sinner

"Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.”

SAR /// Lucifer [The Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel] The Morning Star / The First Fallen Angel

"How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, "I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit. Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?""

Saints and Sinners

#Lost In Space #Robot #Scarecrow #SAR #I'm not Catholic #but #I saw one parallel and ran with it #It was surprisingly easy to do

[delirious-sobbing]

are you Catholic

#catholic and proud

#asks ♡ #I'm not catholic

[uncannyforest]

I'm sick so I missed church this morning and was on Tumblr instead — I'm not usually on Tumblr Sunday mornings. I was pleasantly surprised to find the Catholics I follow rebloging a Catholic sermon, and it was encouraging

#I'm not Catholic #but I appreciate any Christians sharing edifying things

[talisidekick]

If a transgender person asks you to deadname and misgender them in front of certain people. Misgender them and deadname them in front of those people. It doesn't matter how icky or gross it may feel, it doesn't matter you'd rather be honest. It doesn't matter if there's more of you there. Certain people aren't safe, and honesty IS NOT the best policy when honesty could put them at serious risk. It doesn't matter if there's a crowd, because when there isn't shit goes down.

Be an ally, do what they ask. Understand that the trans person knows more about their situation than you do, and this includes who's safe and who's not. Some one can be "trans friendly" to other people, but not to people they know or specific people. Do as the trans person asks, yes it's uncomfortable, but it's 10 times worse if the person we don't trust finds out. 100 times worse if they have access to us when you're not around.

Respect trans peoples safety. Misgender and deadname when asked.

#trans #transgender #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #2slgbtqia+ #lgbt #transfem #transmasc #transneutral #there is a post about this on my blog but it reminded me of my own situation #my whole family knows I'm out and I didn't want them to #my entire extremely christian catholic and mormon extended family knows because I let my sister tell my parents because we weren't talking #now I live in constant damn fear I'm going to get a message forwarded from family to the point I blocked my own parents #these are dangerous people who will stop at nothing to ruin my life if they find me so I'm going to ask I get deadnamed and misgendered #in front of them #i'm going to lie that it's a joke so I can live my life in relative peace.

[ineed-to-sleep]

Spent my saturday at home and I couldn't stop thinking touchstarved thoughts 😔

#touchstarved game #kuras #touchstarved mc #oc.emma #sketch tag #I'm obsessed with the idea of kuras being a little meow meow #just a kitty cat. a little guy. a babygirl if you will #honestly I think he just needs someone to scritch scratch his hair and give him little kisses #then maybe all that catholic guilt will go away #sleepyscribble

[hekateinhell]

armand, lestat, louis, and daniel (respectively)

#tag yourself i'm the catholic poet except i'm not catholic but i do bring the religious guilt 24/7 #vc #the vampire chronicles #armand #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #daniel molloy

[c-is-for-circinate]

Holy shit, y'all

The Munsons are Catholic.

#Stranger Things #Eddie Munson #Wayne Munson #this is more religious iconography than we've seen in anybody else's home! #in the entire show! #holy shit Wayne Munson is ACTIVELY RELIGIOUS #wow I need more of THIS in fic right this goddamn second #that is an actual cloth calendar that is not a free thing you pick up at church #that is not a thing you hang up in your home by accident #(also I'm not saying guardian angels and praying hands CAN'T be some denomination of protestant) #(but that is some Catholic-ass iconography right there)

[canisalbus]

Machete and Vasco are so pomegranate-and-the-hand-that-slices coded. To me.

Pomegranates are seen as messy, bloody, inconvenient fruits. You slice or tear or bite and in return for your effort you come away underwhelmed, disgusted, and stained too deep to wash. The consumption of a pomegranate is a violent act of defilement, for both the fruit and the eater.

But that is because most do not understand how to open a pomegranate. They have little patience for the precise carving. They see no point in coreing the fruit gently, no reason to be reverent as they pull the quarters apart. When done correctly, opening a pomegranate leaves little mess. Your fingers will still stain, your knife will still slick, but there will be no pool of crimson drowning both you and the fruit.

The seeds are only sweet to those who understand the merit of a light hand and intricate slicing. Why put in so much effort for a food so bitter and clearly armored against consumption? Surely it must not yearn to be eaten.

(^insane about silly catholic dogs)

.

#absolutely losing my mind over this #how dare you come to my house and deliver a poignant character analysis cloaked in metaphors and symbolism #I went all day thinking about pomegranates #doing late christmas shopping? pomegranates #glazing ham? pomegranates #watching futurama with siblings? pomegranates #they're still kind of an exotic fruit where I'm from and I only got around to trying one a handful of years ago #some fruits offer themselves readily but pomegranates are hard and resistant and require a bit more specific handling #I looked up a guide and even then the kitchen counter ended up a murder scene #I've gotten better but I know some people can open them very neatly and I still haven't figured out the right technique #I love you anon I love the fact that you've clearly been rotating my silly catholic dogs in your head #and are able to put your thoughts into words with such marvelous grace and eloquence #surely it must not yearn to be eaten UNFATHOMABLE #answered #anonymous #gift art #Vasco #Machete #pomegranates are canonically one of Machete's motifs/symbols but I never thought of them from this angle #at least not this extensively

[konigsblog]

sOAP IN A KILT

soap in a kilt...... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

usually, scottish men will wear kilts to weddings.

now i enjoy the idea of soap wearing a blue and green kilt, but since he's catholic, he'd probably wear a red kilt. but then again, i'm not sure what clan he is in.. (i'm pretty sure there is a mactavish clan, if i'm correct?)

it's your wedding night, the sky fades from bright orange to deep red, creating an ombre of bright and bold colours in the sky. you're alone together, or at least away from others, after having a couple drunks together and enjoying each other's presence and comfort. although while you're gazing off into the sunset, a romantic moment shared on your wedding night, you notice the sound of johnny's breathing becoming laborious and fast, his eyes fixated on you in the corner of your eye.

fuck, you look absolutely beautiful like this. he feels himself getting hotter and his cock throbbing, becoming harder and more desperate. you're immediately concerned before you notice how flushed and flustered he is and how adamant he is that you have to follow him to a discreet, quiet area, far from the public's eye.

you sink to your knees as soon as you're hidden together, pushing his kilt out of the way, his weeping dick perking out at you, ready to be sucked. you giggle as you begin to fist his lengthy dick, each stroke causing a groan to emit from johnny. he huffs and grunts as you finally wrap your soft lips around his shaft, your lipstick leaving stains along his dick, gazing up at him as he pushes your hair from your beautiful face.

he feels himself relaxing at the soothing sensation—the wetness of your mouth and throat—as you take him all the way down, massaging his balls gently in soothing circles. his eyes roll backwards through delectation and gratification, his chest rising and falling at the tightness of your lips around his girth, his tip already beginning to ooze thick loads of his milky cum. he can't help himself; he can't hold back. the sight leaves him heavy-lidded, exhausted, and delirious. his attempts at concealing his loud moans fruitless as they flow from his lips like a harmony, bucking against your face, his white load running down your throat.

god, you ruin him. you really do, bonnie...

#orla speaks #AGHHH #but now i'm wondering what soap's kilt would look like :P #i would imagine it to be red as catholics usually wear that colour (or so i've heard) #but then again -- i'm not too sure on the whole clan part... #soap mactavish #john soap mactavish #soap call of duty #soap cod #soap mw2 #john mactavish x reader #soap mactavish x reader

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Weirdly specific genre of submission I've been getting a lot of lately: thinly veiled request for absolution of the sin of still enjoying Harry Potter, completely absent any conflict with another living person over it

#i'm not catholic and my askbox is not a confessional

[hollytanaka]

BLASPHEMOUS (2019) • dev. The Game Kitchen

#blasphemousedit #blasphemous #the penitent one #indiegameedit #indiegamesource #videogamemen #gamingedit #videogameedit #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #userkarlo #userliliana #usertravelllar #userkayluh #the fact that i'm over-intellectualizing the lore in this game because of all the theology classes i've taken... #catholics—we love blood #** #blood cw #scheduled

[cry-ptidd]

"And she had brown eyes like a lamb, innocent and golden"

#when the Yuri so unhealthy one of them eats the other #symbolism galore #hellsing oc #my oc #laura chastel #my art #OOOH boy let's go with the content warnings #cw gore #cw guro #cw nudity #artistic nudity #cw blood #cw death #cw cannibalism #cw decapitated head #cw decapitation #cw dismemberment #this is the woman that Laura loved (was it love? she had no idea) before Integra #I'll try to give more info on her. the idea came recently and I thought it could be cool #yes another nun. in my defense this one became one AFTER they met #it's just how catholic French villagers are ig. idk I don't really hang out with them #this piece beat my ass black and blue #i have no idea how to render #please be patient i have autism #and I'm a bit unsure about this piece. presenting it to you with an awkward hand

[prokopetz]

With my schedule being The Way That It Is lately, I don't know when I'll be able to pull together a complete and playable version of Eat God, so I'm hoping this will sustain interest until that time comes. This document contains the complete character creation rules, more or less, incorporating reader feedback from the previous thread.

For those who've expressed interest in giving the character creation rules a spin, well, here you go!

For those just joining us (and anyone who's been following this blog all along but has somehow managed to miss every single previous post), Eat God is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play as a bunch of small muppety critters who are – as the title suggests – on a mission to kill and eat God. Its inspirations include... well, I'm going to let y'all work that out for yourselves.

As always, comments, criticisms, and bizarre rants welcome, though I can't promise I'll be able to respond in any timely fashion.

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #eat god #game design #violence mention #death mention #religion mention #food mention #(yes i'm tagging this 'food mention') #(if it's good enough for the catholic church it's good enough for me)

[elderwisp]

𝔏𝔦𝔣𝔱 𝔲𝔭 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔯, ℑ'𝔩𝔩 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯

#i'm gonna get demonetized by the catholic church #anyway this is sexi they're sexi end of story #oc: kai #c: alexander #ts4 #simblr #sims 4 #show us your sims