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Who's the painter,user?
This always makes me really sad
Anyone here Third Order or practicing a particular charism?
It's titled "Follow Me, Satan" and it is by Ilya Repin, one of my favorite artists.
AVE Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
HAIL Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of our death. Amen.
Reminder to honor Mary as the Mother of God, a position accepted by Catholic and Orthodox churches, as well as by Protestants such as Martin Luther, who stated:
"[S]he became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man's understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child.... Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God.... None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God."
>posting such a lame grandma-tier mary
reminder prayers to mary are traced to an Egyptian 3rd century anonymous document and not to the apostles or church fathers
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Damn it, anons. Had a restless night of sleep yesterday, interrupted by periodic intervals of waking up. I kept dreaming of reading the Divine Comedy. Woke up with Blake's "The Tyger" chanting through my mind.
I can't for the life of me decide about Christianity. I want to believe, but I can't – it seems fairly evident that the New Testament is a poetic creation within a Cynic framework, drawing on the blueprints of Graeco-Roman mythology, enriched throughout it's growth with Stoic ethics, Aristotelian dialectic and Platonic metaphysics.
But I do find the simplicity of the Trinity profound, I greatly admire the long tradition of pious artists and poets and I have a tremendous amount of respect for it's mystical tradition, both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. Fug.
you sound pretentious as heck, first of all
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>it seems fairly evident that the New Testament is a poetic creation within a Cynic framework, drawing on the blueprints of Graeco-Roman mythology, enriched throughout it's growth with Stoic ethics, Aristotelian dialectic and Platonic metaphysics.
then why would the early Christians, including Paul and the other apostles, face persecution for it?
oh and; catholicism and eastern orthodoxy are heretical