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Petition for more art portraying Our Lady to have her with crows feet and smile lines and grey hairs.
I want to gaze into her face as she would have been the death of her son - not a fresh faced teenager saying yes to God, but as someone who has experienced half a century of joy and of suffering, the kind motherly face of a woman who has walked with God - and parented God - for decades. The Mary that walks with us saw her son crucified, suffered and carried on, she aged! and she should also be portrayed as such.
Some seem to think that theology or your understanding of moral teaching gives you a right to be a jerk to those you disagree with and I would gently suggest you go to confession.
Happy feast day of St. Monica, whose prayers helped save my brother.
I have a lot of emotions about St. Monica, please bear with me.
My brother is a drug addict. He’s been sober for two years now, and I am so, so proud of him and grateful to God. But for years before that, I spent every day waiting for the call that he was dead. If you haven’t had a loved one in the depths of addiction like that, I’m not sure there’s words to describe the pain, the sorrow, and the fear. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Through this, I assembled a small group of Saints to pray for my brother and my family.
I figured if St. Monica could pray until her son became a Saint and Doctor of the Church, maybe she could pray for my brother to survive. This is a woman who could understand our unimaginable pain, who wept with us every night over my brother the way she wept every night for her son.
My brother isn’t a Saint. He isn’t even Christian. But my brother is alive, he is sober, he is thriving. This is but by the grace of God, and I am so grateful for the prayers and company of St. Monica as we fought to bring him home.
St. Monica, pray for us.
“Submitting to God’s will” should not be used to avoid proper consideration, communication, and discernment.
The vast majority of the time, you do not come to know the will of God for your life in a vacuum. It is not contrary to the will of God to make plans or consider what you think your ideal life might be, or even where you think God might be leading you.
Pray, think, and feel the hand of God in your life.
I feel like too often we are not sufficiently focused on actually solving problems, because we’re too wrapped up in (1) whether we are right or (2) whether we can enforce our view of morality (or (3) our power fantasies)
This religion is fun because everyone I know in real life is lovely and then I get on the internet and see some absolutely horrifying misogyny from people claiming it’s in the name of Catholicism
Ngl I kinda felt like after I was confirmed and became Catholic the grace of God would mean I would no longer have to fight my most significant sin(s) and I recognize that is not how that works but also… sure would be nice?
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is a top tier sacrament and you should go
My hymnal has the line in Amazing Grace as “that saved a wretch like me” instead of “that saved and strengthened me” and I am deeply confused??
Why did we change the most banger line??? Don’t tell me it was too HARSH are we Catholic or not smh