#crucifix
Saggin’ Sat’
It’s been a long time – several months – since my last tribute to an extinct and short-lived tumblr. Here’s a new one, this time to pixie-boys (October 2019 – July 2021). I selected a fine collection of 18/25 year-old cuties… The texts – if any – are mine.
Enjoy!
Easter Sunday mood (III)
Siri Fischer-Schneevoigt :: Das Kruzifix, ca. 1905. Photogravure. Atelier Georg Büxenstein & Co. (editor). From: Photographische Mitteilungen 1905. | src Photogravure.com
Siri Fischer-Schneevoigt :: Trost [Alternate title: Das Kruzifix (printed in index)], ca. 1905. Photogravure. From: Photographische Mitteilungen 1905. | src Photoseed
Easter Sunday mood (II)
Otto Scharf :: Taufgang, ca. 1905. Photogravure. The photograph depicts the faithful standing in line outside a church to be baptized. In: Photografische Mitteilungen 1905. | src Photoseed
Otto Scharf :: Taufgang, ca. 1905. Photogravure. Editor: Atelier Georg Büxenstein & Co. In: Photografische Mitteilungen 1905. | src photogravure.com
Easter Sunday mood (I)
Sabine Weiss :: Unspecified title. France, 1956. | src 4 x 14 Four Vintage Photographs by Fourteen Women Photographers at Keith de Lellis Gallery
Install ‘The Masonic Book of Crosses’, the Android app! Learn more about the Fylfot Cross, Tau Cross, Brazen Serpent Cross, Triple Tau Cross, Passion Cross, Saint Andrew’s Cross, Cross of Constantine, Maltese Cross, Templar Cross, etc.! #android #masonic #app
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Jag vs Blake just dropped
@blakestarxoxo @blakestarwrestling #blakestarr #jag #prowrestling #Wrestling #undergroundwrestling #indywrestler #indywrestling #gaywrestling #musclewrestling #rippedmuscle #shredded #malefitnessmodel #crucifix #submissionhold #submissionwrestling #Tapout #stretching #abdominalstretch #abs #6pack #8pack #trunksandboots #heel #jobber #hunks #punishment #dominantmale #alpha #wideopen #vulnerable (at Orlando, Florida)
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Carte de visite portrait of Louisa Edwardes by French photographer Camille Silvy, c. 1861.
Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, 2020)
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Source: https://www.facebook.com/opwestvocations/photos/pb.165759763134.-2207520000.1397235327./10152764271648135/?type=3&theater
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The Legend of the Dogwood Tree
When Christ was on earth, the dogwood grew
To a towering size with a lovely hue.Its branches were strong and interwoven
And for Christ’s cross its timbers were chosen.Being distressed at the use of the wood
Christ made a promise which still holds good:“Not ever again shall the dogwood grow
To be large enough for a tree, and soSlender and twisted it shall always be
With cross-shaped blossoms for all to see.The petals shall have bloodstains marked brown
And in the blossom’s center a thorny crown.All who see it will think of Me,
Nailed to a cross from a dogwood tree.Protected and cherished this tree shall be
A reflection to all of My agony.”
I wish you all a meaningful Good Friday!
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Prayer, 1887
Stanislaw Debicki, 1866-1924
“We are very calm and cheerful. Of course, so far there has been no Mass and Communion; maybe that will come later. Now we have a chance to experience a little how to live purely from within.”
~ Edith Stein, Letter Written from Westerbork transit camp, August 1942
[Auschwitz savior II, 1951 - Mathias Goeritz]
• Edith Stein (1891–1942) was a realist phenomenologist associated with the Göttingen school and later a Christian metaphysician. She was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and was ordained a Carmelite nun in 1933. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stein/
• Mathias Goeritz was a German-born Mexican sculptor. He is best known for his interest in what he called “emotional architecture,” which was a belief in objects that elicited an emotional response rather than objects purely for functionality. Goeritz’s public sculptures were often large-scale and inspired by prehistoric cave paintings and monoliths. More: http://www.artnet.com/artists/mathias-goeritz/
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The Memento Mori & Irom Otnemem miniature crosses are now ava♱lable in polished (as seen here) or oxydised for a better display of the minuscule details.
One can ge♱ them as a pair or a single (regular or inverted) both in necklace or earrings form (dangle or studs)!
Which one is your favourite version?
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#underthepyramids #underthepyramidstreasures #portablemagick #portablemagic #crucifix #occult #esoteric #witchythings #darkcottagecore #sombre_moods #sombresociety #invertedcross #crossjewelry #victoriangothic (at Paris, France)
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The Memento Mori & Irom Otnemem miniature crosses are now ava♱lable in polished (as seen here) or oxydised for a better display of the details.
I just love the details on this wee piece so much!
A cross with three circles on each end in a Christian context represents the Holy Trinity.
However, it would appear that it might have been inspired by Celtic Druidry, where the circles represent the three dominions of Earth, Sky and Sea.
One can ge♱ them by pair or as a single (regular or inverted) both in necklace or earrings form (dangle or studs)!
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#underthepyramids #underthepyramidstreasures #portablemagick #portablemagic #crucifix #occult #esoteric #thegreatgodpan #witchythings #darkcottagecore #sombre_moods #sombresociety #thedarkpr0ject #darkaesthetic #darkcapture #gallery_of_dark_arts (at Paris, France)
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Fight like a good soldier, and if you sometimes fall through weakness, rise again with greater strength than before, trusting in God’s most abundant grace.
– Thomas á Kempis
Why God permits crosses: He permits mental crosses, like worries, fear, anxieties, to make us feel His absence. If our love of goodness does not draw us to Him, at least our weariness will throw us back to Him. He permits physical crosses like sufferings to make us feel His Presence. Sickness forcibly draws us away from the world and its pleasures, and makes us realize that His scarred Hands cannot touch us without leaving wounds.
– Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Calvary – Michael Godard(2008)
Perhaps you are filled with shame for causing My bitter passion. Do not be afraid. This cross inflicts a mortal injury, not on Me, but on death. These nails no longer pain Me, but only deepen your love for me. I do not cry out because of these wounds, but through them I draw you into My heart.
My body was stretched on the cross as a symbol, not of how much I suffered, but of My all-embracing love. I count it no less to shed My blood: it is the price I have paid for your ransom. Come, then, return to Me and learn to know Me as your Father, Who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.
~ from a sermon by Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop
“My pain was the key that opened for me the door of my prison – my solitude, and admitted me into the immensity of a new world – the sympathy of Christ, Who in His Passion chose to suffer the pain of every human soul, because on the Cross He took that soul and all its sin and suffering into His heart.”
– Fr George Congreve, SSJE, Treasures of Hope for the Evening of Life (quoted in The Portal, May 2022)
“Does Christ reign in your heart? Ask the things you have stored up there. See what they tell you. Does self-reliance seem like the most reliable way home? Everyone has a list of failures to demolish that claim. Only knowing the Lord as your yokemate and redeemer enables a passage through the strictest crevice. The approach is all different: no longer trying like a fly to buzz through a sunlit window pane, but as one carried not along the way, but by Him who is the Way.”
– Father John Henry Hanson, O. Praem.
All of us are acquainted with suffering, be it a physical, mental, or emotional one. For those of us free from the trial of constant suffering, Lent presents us with an opportunity to embrace penances – we are invited to undertake little sufferings for our sanctification.
But what about those of us who are facing chronic suffering? For us, .
“It would be easy to become very bitter about having to suffer each day – but God is inviting me to something more. He is inviting me to embrace my cross, and to offer it always back to him – uniting it to his own suffering on the cross.”
– Michele Chronister, “When God Chooses Your Lent”
St Bernard of Clairvaux, after receiving the message from Christ regarding the pain he experienced in his shoulder, sought to foster devotion to the Shoulder Wound of Christ, and penned this prayer:
Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Jesus
O Loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy Flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other Wound of Thy Most Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen.
The ancient statue of Christ Crucified being taken out of the Armenian Catholic Cathedral of Lviv, the historic capital of Galicia, now in western Ukraine, to be stored in a bunker for protection. The last time it was taken out was during WW2.
(Photo by Tim Le Berre, 5 March 2022)
A man praying near the cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine.
(Photo by Dennis Melnichuk, 24 February 2022)
Passing of Saint John of God – Juan Zapaca Inga (1684-1685)
Saint John of God,
heavenly Patron of the Sick,
I come to you in prayer to seek your help in my present sickness.
Through the love which Jesus had for you
in choosing you for the sublime vocation of serving the sick,
and through the tender affection
with which the Blessed Virgin Mary placed upon your head
a crown of thorns as a symbol of the sufferings
you would undergo in the service of the sick
to attain to your crown of glory,
I beg you to intercede for me to Jesus and Mary
that They may grant me a cure,
if this should be according to the Will of God.
