“You long to glitter like a star, to shine like a light from high in the heavens? 

Better to burn like a torch, hidden, setting fire to all you touch. That’s your apostolate; that’s why you are on earth.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Tactics” from The Way, #835

Source: Vinland Saga ヴィンランド･サガ

by Makoto Yukimura

San Francisco de Asís

ruega por nosotros

São Francisco de Assis

rogai por nós

Happy feast day of St. Catherine of Bologna! She is the patron saint of artists, and my patroness. Every year, I go "I have to post an art for this day", but this year I decided I was going to draw her this time.

I wanted to try and merge her living and incorrupt forms in one figure, squaring up to capture a scene to paint. She lived for 49 years as regular flesh and blood, but to the world has been a different form for 561 years. And it's so fascinating to look at images of her, because she looks rather gentle in death. I Just Think Incorruptibility Is Neat.

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Nicolao da Seregno (zugeschrieben) - Das Martyrium der hl. Apollonia

ATTENTION WRITERS!!!

Theory: The reason Mirabel didn’t get a gift is because she is Julieta’s child.

Abuela places more responsibility on Julieta’s side of the family. Julieta is the responsible triplet whose gift helps give the Madrigals a good standing in the town. Julieta’s children are given much more responsibility than Pepa’s. Luisa’s gift is easily adaptable to helping the town with physical work, and Isabela upholds the Madrigals’ good reputation. Compared to Pepa’s side of the family, Julieta and her children fit much better into Abuela’s view of what the Madrigals should be like. Mirabel not receiving a gift is an extra harsh blow to Abuela because she shatters that image expectation.

I don’t know if this was intentional or not but parallel?

saw a grown woman on tiktok snidely calling gen z the christopher columbus generation bc someone’s fifteen year old son ‘thought he’d discovered weezer’. newsflash every generation finds out about the music of the previous generation at some point it comes free with being fifteen. being annoying about music also comes free with being fifteen. a kid saying yeah i’ve just found this band nirvana have you ever heard of them should be a thing of joy

Because people seemed to like the original post so much, here are some more examples of chumak iconography.

Iconography on dried fish began to be painted in the 19th century by Ukrainian fish and salt merchants, called “chumaks”. They brought their goods from the Black and Azov Seas using carts pulled by oxen, and then sold them at street markets. Chumaks spent a lot of time on the road. They attached such images to their carts, probably as travel icons, in the same way as some modern Christians place icons in their cars It is possible that chumaks chose fish as the material for their icons not by chance, since the fish is one of the oldest Christian symbols. In Greek, ichthys is an acronym meaning “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour”. It is also possible that the traditional wooden base was much more expensive than dried fish and quickly deteriorated under the influence of sun and precipitation

A hexagonal storm with a diameter of 25,000 km raging at the north pole of Saturn.

When a hug and a sniff make the perfect blend of cuteness! 🌼🐿️ By @dickvanduijn