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Westminster, & London Bridge, Frederick Edward Joseph Goff (British, 1855-1931)
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Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg,
Nymphenburg Palace Grounds, Munich, Germany,
Courtesy: arthistory390
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"men need to know that it's okay to cry too!" first of all men need to stop killing and raping women so let's start there 😕
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Sad how every “anti consumerism” video or article criticizing the beauty/fast fashion/ social media industries is made by a woman with a full face of makeup on. Every piece of media criticizing capitalism and our culture of superficiality, if made by a woman, she has a full face of makeup on.
Do they not see the irony? How can you criticize our modern culture of superficiality and consumerism, while lining the pockets of the billion dollar beauty industry? The beauty industry’s SOLE purpose is to make women hate our natural faces, in order to sell us useless and harmful products that warp our perception of ourselves.
And even when they (very lightly, and with no feminist analysis at all) criticize makeup or the beauty industry, they tack on a million disclaimers insisting that makeup is self expression and art and feminist, and most importantly they STILL buy the products. Maybe anti-consumerism and feminism are fun to talk about, but not so fun anymore when you have to actually make real changes in your life and be uncomfortable.
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me seeing purple flowers on a lawn: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen
me seeing sunlight hit the waves of the sea: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen
me seeing raindrops sparkle colorfully on a bus stop bench at night: that’s the
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Joé Descomps-Cormier
Brooch depicting St. Joan of Arc
Enamel and gold, ca. 1900
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God so loved the world.
Many of you may see crucifixion pieces that look like this. Beautiful as they may be, I believe they fail to truly convey reality.
Before Jesus was crucified, he was scourged. The flagrum that would have been used included pieces of bone and metal woven into a leather whip. It would have torn chunks of Jesus' flesh from his body, and left deep and bloody gashes.
After this, Jesus was taken and the scarlet robe and crown of thorns were placed on him. He was subsequently spat on and struck on the head with a reed, which would have pressed the crown further into him. The pain at this point would already have been excruciating. Many people died by the scourge.
He was then forced to carry his own cross to the place where he would be crucified. Of course this was nearly impossible, and that is why Jesus fell multiple times and why Simon the Cyrene was conscripted to help carry it.
When Jesus finally made it to Golgotha, he would first have been laid down on the cross, his hands and feet nailed to it, and then the cross would be raised. This painting illustrates the scars and blood which would be on Jesus' body by this point.
When Jesus was on the cross, each breath would have been excruciating. The nails would be ripping at his hands, gravity taking its toll. One thing you need to keep in mind is that crucifixion was considered one of the lowest forms of death. It was shameful and dishonorable, so much so that the idea of the Son of God being crucified was itself a mockery, an insult. Romans who heard that the Christian Messiah was crucified would likely have seen this as impossible, how could God's Son be put through such a despicable thing?
In a more spiritual sense, tradition holds that while Jesus was on the cross, he witnessed and felt every single sin that would be committed in all of time, and that because he took all of them upon himself, he was entirely cut off from God the Father. The weight of not just the world's sin, but the entirety of humanity in all times past, present, and future, would have accompanied Jesus alongside his physical pain. This cannot be understated. Jesus did not merely experience a horrific physical death, but also the pain and suffering of all sin and of the experience of being cut off from God. Being cut off from God is one of the aspects of being in hell, so on the cross he would have experienced a sort of literal hell.
Jesus died after three hours of suffering on the cross. "My God my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Now, I want you to imagine things from the perspective of Mary. We know God does not experience emotions as we do, but I think Mary gives us a glimpse, a sort of shadow, of what God would have "felt" seeing His exalted Son cut off from him and put to death.
Mary watched her only Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit, be put through all this. Today we know how awful it is for mothers to lose their children, whether it be in a miscarriage or an accident in adult life. So, then, we know that Mary would have experienced something truly awful. I cannot fathom what it must have been like to see your son, the messiah, bloodied and crucified.
Today, let us remember what Christ did for us, and what he earned for us. He did not have to go through all this. We do not deserve salvation. But he won it for us. It is a gift freely given. So we must accept it and live our lives as he did. We must take up our own cross.
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