The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God.” Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
“The Holy of Holies was a forbidden place because it was awaiting the Entry of the Virgin Mary, who became God’s real Temple and gave it greater honor. The Virgin was not honored by that inaccessible place, but the place was honored by the entrance of the Virgin who was to become Christ’s mother.” —St. Nicholas Cabasilas
“Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary.” - #SaintAugustineofHippo
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“We can say that Mary not only carried the Son of God in her body when he was in her womb, but that she likely carried his cells in her body throughout her life in a way that further magnifies her position as the glorious Theotokos.” ~Some Human Beings Carry Remnants of Other Humans in Their Bodies
“You are the living fountain of hope. Hope is the one station where the great train of eternity makes a brief stop. You are the living fountain of hope for, without hope, there is no chance for life. “The person’s life is hope, it is hope that I invite your eyes to seek–your eyes that have been sharpened in these days by the many voices you have heard. “O Lady, among mortals you are the living fountain of hope. “The figure of Our Lady is truly the figure of hope, the certainty that in the pavilions of the universe (as medieval people would say) she is the spring of water that can be heard running day and night, night and day.” ~ Luigi Giussani. August, 2002, Rimini Italy. [At the Mother of God Oak, 1835 - Karl Bryullov]
• Luigi Giovanni Giussani was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, Servant of God and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. For more: https://english.clonline.org/fr-giussani
A/n: Is it me or this blog little by little is becoming a zoro simp blog? Anywaysss I thought about this as I was cleaning my room, idk why do I have the best ideas at random times.
You were on your way back to your office after picking up some important documents that you needed for your research. As you were walking into the elevator you saw a familiar face. It was him. The most arrogant and horrible person in the whole building. Everybody hated him, and some even feared him. But you just thought he was a jerk.
You immediately regretted getting inside the elevator, but it was too late to retreat as the doors were already closing.
My followers on Twitter have managed to convince me that drawing Tony with a corset was a good idea (after drawing Sebastian sporting a vest corset HERE)
Does anyone want to live on a volcano island? A volcano within a volcano, Aogashima Island, a part of the Izu Archipelago, lies two hundred miles south of Tokyo, in the Philippine Sea. With a population of over 200, it’s an oasis from the rest of the world. Oh, and the volcano on the island is still ACTIVE.
La Pieta, by Niccolo dell'Arca, in the Santuario di Santa Maria della Vita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, mid-late fifteenth century. Painted terracotta figures. The figures surrounding the dead Christ are, from left to right, Joseph of Arimathea, Mary Salome (mother of John), the Virgin Mary, John, Mary Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. Image taken from ARTstor and figural description taken from here.
with a note to say whether it will fit on a standard 45″ / 115cm width fabric…or whether you’d be better off using a 60″ / 150cm width fabric…or perhaps even just going with a shorter skirt length.
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![Cosmic Girls ChengXiao[source]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/3c26f1cdce8bb5a75baa29c4b0e5659d/tumblr_oc5bs659TV1s1yt1go1_1280.jpg "Cosmic Girls ChengXiao[source]")
or whether you’d be better off using a 60″ / 150cm width fabric…
or perhaps even just going with a shorter skirt length.
