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While we wait for our final four to come down to the last two, here's another fun poll! Choose your favorite sacrament.
If you don't know what they are or need a refresher, click here.
#baptism#eucharist#confirmation#holy communion#penance#reconciliation#sacrament of penance#holy orders#matrimony#anointing of the sick#sacraments of initiation#sacraments of healing#sacraments of service#catholic#catholicism#catholic sacraments#roman catholic#roman catholicism#catholic saint tournament#polls
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Sacramental preparation without leaving home
Sacramental preparation without leaving home
The Melbourne Archdiocese has just released a new online resource for sacraments of initiation.
The aim is for people to use the resource at home.
Archbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli says the home remains the prime location within which faith can be formed and nurtured.
This was the case in the early Church. People assembled and passed on the faith in family homes.
“Might not this also be our…
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Not my coworker trying to convince me to go to church while I'm in the midst of writing fanfic about Bible fanfic. Did he know what I was writing? No. But it was funny fucking timing
#its just. im atheist#ive also commited the sacraments of initiation and read sections of the bible and listen to bible scholars so im not ignorant#nothing wrong with religion but i just dont believe and nothing will change that#anyways#good omens#not podcast related#slut.txt
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u find some rando's spotify playlist dedicated to a middle aged man and slowly realize you're all the same
#if you somehow stumbled across a link to somebody's playlist that is dedicated to a middle aged male celeb...just face it#it's like that whole thing of 'what were you doing at the devil's sacrament?'#yes there's initial shock but then is it weirdly comforting?
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Hi Jewish person here, what the FUCK do you mean the church owns Wayne’s soul
He's been Baptized and gone through First Communion and Confirmation, don't worry about it babes
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I'm fairly certain of Fyodor's skill.
In Crime and Punishment, blood flows "as from an overturned glass" and "spills like champagne," evoking the Holy Eucharist of the Orthodox Church. The sacrament in Orthodoxy is not symbolic; to receive the wine is to partake in the blood of Christ, which initiates a union with Christ. Thus, when he drinks his victims' blood, or when his victims' blood smears on his hand, Raskolnikov is initiated into them and partakes in their nature. Their manners become his, and because he's imbibed them and taken them into his psyche, they can't be killed even though their blood has been shed.
But they're not Christ, and their blood cannot initiate Raskolnikov into the divine; in partaking in them, he's guilty of an evil that he can't escape anymore than they can die within him. The Eucharist is an Orthodox sacrament that can be repreated, so he seeks expiation by stumbling drunkenly into profound suffering by initiating himself over and over into others' natures, ignoring that they taste of wine. Desperate for redemption within his depravity, he conflates each death with the faultlessness of Christ's, rendering his guilt into a parody of righteousness, iteratively supplanting his anguish with absurdism.
Anyway, so, yeah, that's likely how Fyodor's skill works in Bungou Stray Dogs, too. From his touch flows the sacrament, but if he partakes, if the blood touches him or if he tastes it, then he's initiated into the nature of whoever's blood he sheds.
He rarely uses his ability, and when he does, there's a preciousness about how he shies from the blood spray, sometimes appearing disgusted or irate with its proximity. Thin and watery like wine, guilt sprays from his light touch and risks staining his pale skin and white clothes. His perception of himself is an absurd caricature of the lamb-like righteousness to which he clings, necessitating that he partake in his parodied Eucharist without allowing its artifice to stain his delusion. If he stops drinking the wine and sobers enough to recognize that's all it is, should he cease leeching from the natures of others, he'll be forced to confront his own.
(Hence, in Dead Apple, his ability did not turn on him. His ability is his nature, and his nature is his punishment for his criminal rejection of the self and the reality of what he's done. There are no borders between them because rather than partake in Christ's blood, he laps his own in a perversion of the sacrament, initiating himself into a union with his own psychosis that then precludes any escape, even death. His duality is that he exists in union only by separation.)
He may very well be the House of the Dead, and those who spill the sacrament in which he partakes may be merely the rats.
#bungou stray dogs#bsd fyodor#bsd fyodor dostoevsky#bsd meta#i also think he's rasputin but that's a separate essay#most relevantly he's baby girl
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Religious Imagery and Symbolism in Eli Ever:
Note : everything in this analysis was or could have been linked in a more generalized and not necessarily true theology, only as a way to try to associate or make connections with the mentioned character.
Baptism
His first death can be likened to a Baptism.
Baptism is a Christian sacrament of initiation and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water. It may be performed by sprinkling or pouring water on the head, or by immersing in water either partially or completely, traditionally three times, once for each person of the Trinity.
" The baptized person emerges from a watery grave into a new life."
Baptism is a symbol of Christ’s burial and resurrection. The entrance into the water during baptism identifies Christians with Christ’s death on the cross, His burial in the tomb and His resurrection from the dead.
The parallel between Eli's first death and baptism is evident. Just as a baptized person emerges from a "water tomb" into a new life, Eli undergoes a transformation after his first death.
"signifies that "you" have died to your old self and sin, emerging as a new creation."
This means that, in the same way, Eli's death represents a passage into a new phase, where he leaves behind his previous "self", emerging as a new creation, almost like a rebirth.
“Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising from the dead as he did Christ." Colossians 2:12-14
Furthermore, there is an evident connection between sin, death, and God's gift of eternal life. As mentioned next.
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
Three
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
The Christian Church has celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ on a Sunday—three days after remembering his death on Good Friday. This timeline of three days is based on numerous references in the New Testament. Jesus predicted it many times, the three-day timeline matters to the biblical narrative because it is the special day on which God creates new life and activates his covenant with humanity.
three times he shot victor.
three years since they met.
three times he died ( manifesting he coming back and dying again)
" He met his gaze in the mirror and began to unbutton his shirt, exposing the scars from the bullets of Eli’s gun one by one. He ran his fingers over them, touching the three spots where he’d been shot the way a man might cross himself." Part One; Chapter XXVI , Vicious.
In the Bible, we can find more examples of the use of the number three as sacred or a persistent and symbolic repeating pattern, but I only mentioned these few situations that I found relevant or that fit the narrative of 'Vicious'.
Cross
The Cross, is the principal symbol of the Christian religion, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the redeeming benefits of his Passion and death. The cross is thus a sign both of Christ himself and of the faith of Christians. In ceremonial usage, making a sign of the cross may be, according to the context, an act of profession of faith, a prayer, a dedication, or a benediction.
"to outline the form of a cross as a Christian religious act by moving the hand from the forehead to the breast and then from one shoulder to the other, seen as representing the trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit."
The use of blood as part of a ritual is laden with symbolism.
"Wouldn’t You?” He cut deeper, through to bone, over and over, until the floor was red. Until he’d given his life to God a hundred times, and a hundred times had it given back. Until the fear and the doubt had all been bled out of him. And then he set the knife aside with shaking hands. Eli dipped his fingertips in the slick of red, crossed himself, and got back to his feet. "Part Two; Chapter IV, Vicious.
In the context of this specific text, Eli blessing himself with his own blood appears to represent a desperate quest for answers and validation from God regarding his identity and the powers he possesses.
This action can be seen as an extreme act of devotion and sacrifice. It may represent the intensity of Eli's search for a divine answer or for God's forgiveness. Making the sign of the cross with his own blood suggests that he is willing to sacrifice or suffer in search of a deeper spiritual connection or proof of divine will.
Blood, Red & White
"And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness." Hebrews 9:22
In the Old Testament, animal sacrifices were a means of seeking forgiveness and reconciliation with God. The shedding of blood in these rituals symbolized the payment for sins.
The New Testament sees the shedding of Jesus' blood on the cross as the ultimate act of redemption. Christians believe that through His blood, believers are forgiven of their sins and reconciled with God.
And also associated with purification and cleansing.
As we know, Eli associates his murders with a distorted view of divine justice. He believes he is eliminating those people he considers unnatural or threats to society, as a purification, justifying his murders as a way of protecting the world from “villains” with extraordinary powers, this vision can be easily associated, by the way he thinks and acts throughout most of the narrative as a clear link to the Christian view of sacrifice and blood itself.
Red, associated with sacrifices, sin, power, sinfulness. can be conected with redemption and atonement. It represents the idea that through Christ's sacrifice, believers can be cleansed of their sins and find redemption, also linked to martyrdom. Martyrs who died for their faith are often depicted wearing red, symbolizing their willingness to shed their blood for their beliefs.
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White, purity, innocence, righteousness. Associated with the idea of resurrection and new life in Christ. It signifies the hope of eternal life after death, it can also represents the state of being free from sin.
And for red and white, which are colors normally associated with the character as they continue to be described with him in the narrative or mainly associated with the vision that people have of him, with white clothes, gun and glasses being one of the easiest ways to identify him, we can see that both colors connect with sacrifice, martyrdom, purification and eternal life, which are elements present in the character and his narrative.
Name.
In the Villains series, the name theme remains, whether in a satirical way, a reference to comic books or just a way of demonstrating what a character represents.
Eliot means “The Lord is my God", “Jehovah is my God.”
With the meaning of his name I would like to close this brief summary that I tried to make about the symbolism that I could notice predominantly in the narrative of his character, from his name to the meaning of eternal life and the usual theme, we can see that Eli is a character strongly linked to religiosity and can be easily associated with various concepts of Christianity.
Final Note: Thank you if you read this far and I hope you enjoyed it.
#Eli Ever#Eli Cardale#vicious ve schwab#villains series#eli ever#little analysis#finally did it#vengeful#vicious#v.e schwab
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Rachel's Initiation
Rachel had been a student of the dark arts for some time. And though she knew that there were mysterious societies that practiced erotic and sexual mysteries, she had never been introduced to one.
A friend had come back from Europe. She too trod the path of occult forces. She told her that she had been initiated into just such an occult Order but she was sworn to secrecy. But she assured her "Rachel, my gods, it did not disappoint. I can write you a letter of introduction if you'd like" Rachel nodded enthusiastically. "Yes, immediately"
It took a little more than a month to get a response. A mysterious package arrived with a lengthy application requiring full nude photos, a waver and an acknowledgement that the initiation would require her full involvement and consent. She filled everything out dutifully returning it and waited impatiently for further directions.
Finally a letter arrived. It directed her to arrive at a particular hotel in Prague. She would be contacted there on the date specified.. Rachel made the arrangements with haste and the anticipation built over the following weeks.
She arrived as directed and waited with anticipation in her room. Finally a knock. A tall handsome man in dark glasses greeted her. "Rachel, please follow me" she nodded her big blue eyes glistening.
They went to the street. Be directed her to the back seat. "Here place this over your eyes" she did as directed and the car sped off.
The ride was dizzying and her anticipation had turned to full on nervousness.
"Jesus Christ this is how girls get murdered" she thought to herself with a nervous chuckle.
After a time she could tell the car had moved underground. A garage perhaps. The car door opened. "Please give me your hand and follow me" she was guided through a large echoing space till they stopped suddenly..the driver knocked six, by six, by six " a heavy door creaked open.
"Rachel, is it your desire to be initiated into the True Order, to give and receive the sacrament"
"it is" she timidly responded.
"then follow me" though still blindfolded she was guided by the hands behind her. Footsteps softly leading the way in front of her.
They stopped suddenly. Her blind folds taken off. She could see a man in front of her in a hooded robe. Buttoned down its length..her big blue eyes stared up at his hooded form. Anxiety and desire spread through her body.
Her caressed her short blonde hair. Then slowly started to undress her. He handed her clothes one item at a time to an assistant standing nearby. It was then she noticed a number of other hooded and robed individuals standing about the room.
He brought her, naked and bare to an altar. There was a cup, made from the skull cap of a human and other items too terrible to share. The cup was filled with a dark red fluid. He brought it to his lips and then to hers. It was the most delicious red wine she had ever had.
A gong was struck once. The cup shared another time and finally a third. Then the leader started a solemn mantra. Too scared to record here. The others in attendance added their own voices. All began to chant it deeply. He stopped took the skull cup and again partook of it. Again he shared it with Rachel.
Rachel's head started to swim and she found her body responding by becoming fully aroused. More wine, more chanting..
She felt a heat build inside her..the heatness gave way to her wetness. Now glistening on her thighs in the candle light. Mantra..wine. mantra wine. Finally the cup was finished. She had an acute euphoric feeling and was now completely aroused and aching.
He approached her and unbuttoned his robe. He was fully erect and quite large. "Kneel before me" he commanded and she obediently did. Without another word he.brought her head to his cock and she eagerly opened her mouth to receive it. He gently forced his way in and out of her mouth holding her head. She glanced up at him. Her blue eyes in full longing. Her head swam, the mantra repeated endlessly. She couldn't believe the ease she could take him entirely down her throat. She hoped to have it as deep inside her aching pussy.
He stopped. The mantra continued her big eyes looking upwards he positioned her on a floor cushion and spread her legs apart. He looked at her with solemn longing then kissed the inside of both her thighs. Finally he brought his mouth to her sacred flower.. he missed it deeply..Rachel could not supress moaning deeply. She was besides herself with bliss, head swimming from wine and mantra.
He stopped abruptly and pulled himself onto her. She felt how rock hard he was resting on her mons. She bit her lip and he guided himself into her. He filled her completely, stretching her to her limits.
She was so blessed out that she couldn't even hear the relentless mantra still echoing in the chamber. He thrust into her slowly at first then building speed and enthusiasm. But never grunting. There was something very much not animal about the way he took her.
As he thrust faster and harder into her she could feel tingle at the base of her spine it radiated throughout her pussy and built up till it exploded in the most intense orgasm of her life. At the same moment she felt him shudder and unleash.a huge torrent of cum inside her. She grabbed him tightly as spasm after spasm from his pulsing cock sent pleasure throughout her body.
The gong sounded again..he slipped down her body to her open cunt dripping with their fluids. He greedily took them into his mouth and bringing his mouth to hers shared of it. It tasted like ambrosia. She fell backwards. She felt moved and stared. Not even in her body any more. He moved off of her and a drum started a steady beat. Rachel barely remembered the rest of the night..but there were shadowy recollections of each attendant approaching her. Eating from her still wet pussy, licking her lips, labia and inner thighs. It was orgasm after orgasm wrecking her body. Drums, tongues, cumming . Finally all had had their turn. She was reclothed, blindfolded and driven back to her hotel. She needed help to get back to her room. When she finally did she collapsed on the bed. Looking to her side she saw an envelope. It was marked "further instructions"
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tell us about your timeloop lesbians? :3
When I played Elden Ring and started the Melania fight I started to feel sad for her because no matter how many times she kills me, no matter how much better she is that I’ll ever be, I’ve already won the fight. It was a weird kind of feeling seeing this beautiful woman who outclassed me in skill in every possible way, seeing her cut me to ribbons countless times, and knowing that it would never be enough. If she slips up a single time it wouldn’t matter how much better she was, she could kill me thousands of times and I only had to kill her once. Something about that activated the part of my brain that loves lesbians in tragic circumstances and I created my own.
Okay before you read any of this I want to say I’m a bit conflicted writing thing because I think the ambiguity of the short story I’m writing about them is part of what I think makes it interesting. That said, I love rambling about my characters soooo….
That Her Will May Come To Pass was born in the temple of the goddess of the harvest, divination, inevitably, and time. As all born into the faith, the scryers and weavers saw her fate and wove for her a threaded talisman that depicted the destiny the goddess had in store for her. She was predestined to become one of the elite few who serve as the goddess’s Threads of Fate, the holy warriors trained to carry out the Will of the goddess, thus the name That Her Will May Come To Pass. From the day she learned to stand she was trained in arts of combat. While her peers learned to be diviners, preachers, weavers, and healers, she learned to fight for a purpose she did not yet understand. When she came of age she was brought before the other Threads of Fate and the high priestess, and her sacrament of initiation began. A golden thread woven into her talisman was cut and pulled free, where it was then burned. The ashes were dispersed into the hourglass relic that served as the crowning jewel of the temple, and her tongue was cut out in ritual silencing.
That Her Will May Come To Pass then learned the truth of her destiny, the reason that goddess she devoted her life to serving was never wrong with her predictions, was partially because of the Threads of Fate. She found herself assigned missions facing off against enemies with seemingly impossible odds. When she was struck down, initially from an arrow finding purchase in her heart, she felt the world shatter. It remade itself and she found herself just outside of where the fight began. The difficulty didn’t matter, with unlimited tries anyone can overcome any obstacle. Thankfully, due to her training as a warrior, it rarely took more than three.
The story, which I hope to some day post here once I finish editing and rewriting it, is about her facing off against a foe far greater than herself, being trapped in the unending loop. But the longer she spends being killed by a warrior her skill cannot compare to, the more she finds herself admiring her. That Her Will May Come To Pass is conflicted by her realization that none of it matters, her foe is the greatest warrior she ever met, and yet the goddess’s rigged loop has made her victory’s inevitable.
As is true of all media, a summary of it won’t really do it justice. I hope to eventually let you all experience it for yourselves. Also sorry for answering this like over two months late lmao
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LDS LGBTQ+ anniversaries for 2024
50 years ago
March 27, 1974 - BYU President Dallin H. Oaks delivered a speech on campus in which he spoke in favor of keeping criminal punishment for "deviate sexual behavior" such as private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity.
July 1974 - the Ensign magazine prints an answer from Dr. Lindsay Curits, a medical doctor, to the question "Why does the Church oppose homosexuality? Why is it wrong?" Dr. Curtis states that homosexuals have "chosen this way of life" but "can be helped" and that "homosexuals and lesbians seldom are happy people" and their relationships are "unnatural", full of "emotional problems" and "promiscuity", and lacking in "fidelity, trust, or loyalty". Additionally, they try to recruit "others into their practice…in their tender, impressionable years".
July 10, 1974 - President Spencer W. Kimball addressed the BYU student body and said that sex reassignment surgeries were a travesty
October 4, 1974 - President Spencer W. Kimball spoke at General Conference and stated that masturbation leads to homosexuality.
25 Years ago
May 11, 1999 - A letter was sent which was to be read in all LDS sacrament meetings in California which directed members to "do all you can by donating your means and time" to ensure that Proposition 22 (known as the Knight Initiative) passed, which would limit marriage in California to only being a man and a woman, denying same-sex couples legal recognition.
September 1999 - The Ensign magazine publishes an article which says that homosexuality is caused by things such as "temperament, personality traits, sexual abuse, familial factors, and treatment by one’s peers". It goes on to say that individuals can learn to diminish those feelings and become heterosexuals.
October 2, 1999 - In General Conference, President Hinckley says that "so-called same-sex marriage … is not a matter of civil rights; it is a matter of morality. … There is no justification to redefine what marriage is."
October 3, 1999 - 150 members of Affirmation protest outside of Temple Square in opposition to the church's involvement in the California ballot initiative that would reinforce marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman
November 14-17, 1999 - The World Congress of Families (WCF was formed in 1997 to promote Christian values internationally by opposing divorce, birth control, same-sex marriage, pornography, and abortion, while supporting marriage between a man & a woman) met in Geneva, Switzerland where the Director of BYU's World Family Policy Center, Kathryn Balmforth, delivered an address where she said gay rights activists are part of an anti-family movement which is hijacking the idea of human rights in order to gain new rights for homosexuals, and would use legal force to curtail freedoms for most of humanity
15 Years ago
November 10, 2009 - Church PR director Michael Otterson gave a statement at a Salt Lake City Council hearing in support of a proposed city anti-discrimination ordinance which would protect LGBT individuals.
10 Years ago
January 10, 2014 - A letter from the First Presidency was read in all LDS congregations in the United States. The letter urged members to review the Family Proclamation and called for "kindness and civility" towards supporters of same-sex marriage. It also stated that everyone is welcome in LDS chapels as long as they "respect our standards of conduct while there".
March 25, 2014 - Tyler Glenn, lead singer of the band Neon Trees, comes out as a gay Mormon in Rolling Stone magazine.
5 Years ago
February 26, 2014 - Former BYU mascot Charlie Bird comes out as gay in the Deseret News.
April 4, 2019 - Elder Oaks announces that the November 2015 Policy of Exclusion is rescinded and “immoral conduct in heterosexual or homosexual relationships will be treated in the same way.” Children of parents who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender may now be blessed as infants and baptized in the LDS Church without First Presidency approval.
April 29, 2019 - BYU valedictorian Matt Easton speaks at a BYU commencement ceremony. He states “I stand before my family, friends and graduating class today to say that I am proud to be a gay son of God.“ He receives rousing applause.
July 3, 2019 - BYU track athlete Emma Gee comes out as bisexual, becoming the first openly-queer athlete at BYU
September 13, 2019 - Jessyca Fullmer posts a video explaining that she’s dating a woman and has never been happier. She apologizes to people who may feel disappointed and explains that she asked the Church to remove her video from the mormonandgay website
September 10, 2019 - Becky Mackintosh, the mom who is featured in the mormonandgay video as supporting her gay son, releases a book titled “Love Boldly: Embracing Your LGBTQ Loved Ones and Your Faith”
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The change inside the LDS Church has been gradual, but these few snippets from the past decades show change is happening and accelerating
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The Yandere Space Marine Masterlist
Dark Angels
Azazel Erros x Mortal/Pet
Secret Sin
Azazel rework: Sick Thoughts
Emperor's Children
Palion Hiss x Muse
Beauty in the Eye
Iron Warriors
Harram the Wallbreaker x Orichalcum/Ori
Heartless Madness
White Scars
Nogai Sengik x Хонгор
I wanna be your slave
Space Wolves
Captain Arkyn Joriki x Elskling
War Wife
Volak x husband
Algir x gn partner
Baldun x wife
Olgus x husband
Svat x wife
Rune Priest Odus x wife
Hvold x wife
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Imperial Fists
Astel Redlane x Mouse
The Spider Suite
Night Lords
Ghosk Sevyrarek x Rabbit
Run Rabbit Run
Anrir Nor x Caretaker
Pastel Bats
Sleeping Fields
Blood Angels
Sirus Amah x Moonlight
Your Blood is like Heaven to me
The right shade of red
Iron Hands
Vauth Marlos Marlos Vauth x Byte
Automat
Ozone
Logic Bomb (Bispecsual)
World Eaters
Zul Gospod x Spaseniye
Peace of Mind
Ultramarines
Tulio Sydo x Psychi/Psychoula
Courage and Honor
A Nymph by the river
Just under the skin
Gift from thevoidscreams
Thundering call
Clothes stealing pregnancy edition
Jealous Tulio
Loyalty Swap: Superbeast
Death Guard
Solos Phorgur the Reaper x Lovie
Toxic Love
Thousand Sons
Nakht Rhan x Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie
Black Legion/Luna Wolves
Zhur Painbane x Dolli Quest
Glaubenskraft (DD:DNE Rape)
Early morning sex
Garviel Loken x ???
???
Word Bearers
Jihias Kinreaver x Lamb
Sacrament of Sin
Salamanders
Nubin Orenn x Bev To'ken
Aishite Aishite Aishite (DD:DNE Incestous Language)
Aishite Aishite Aishite (alternative)
???
Tears of a Dragonheart
Raven Guard
Sor Delyn/Kazi Delax/Moremo Klaek x Dove
Just Let us Adore You
Love You Like a Love Song
What if Dove was nervous
Alpha Legion
Keeper Alpharius? x Vixen
Skyfall
You know my Name
Black Templars
Brother Roland Lichtner x Bäckerin
Venom of Venus
Rein Raus
Bun in the Oven
Du riechst so gut
Roland Penance
Carcaradons
Tyberos the Red Wake x Ophelia
The Red Tithe
Crimson Fist
Pedro Kantor x ???
Astral Claws/Red Corsairs
Huron Blackheart x ???
Mechanicus
91-Yrac x H3X/sweetspark
The Savant
Adeptus Custodes
Initial thoughts
Golden Palace of the Dead
Constantin Valdor x Shard of the Emperor (Female)
Sickeningly Sweet
Adonis x Smoothie
To Fry an Egg
#Yandere#Yandere Space Marines#masterlist#Yandere Space Marine masterlist#Space Marines#warhammer 40k
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In the Orthodox Church today, as in the Church of the early centuries, the three sacraments of Christian initiation -- Baptism, Confirmation, First Communion -- are linked closely together. An Orthodox who becomes a member of Christ is admitted at once to the full privileges of such membership.
Orthodox children are not only baptized in infancy, but confirmed in infancy, and given communion in infancy. 'Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them not; for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven' (Matthew xix, 14).
-- Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church
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Holy Week: The Sacrament
Where is the exact moment Jesus Christ stopped being a Jew and became the founder of a new and separate religion?
Was it when the Sanhedrin rejected him? When enough other Jews decided he was a heretic, rather than a teacher? Was it the first time he claimed to be the Son of God? When he called his Twelve Apostles, and called Peter the rock upon which he would build his church?
Personally, I think it was the last time he celebrated Passover with his disciples. I'm switching over to Luke 22 for this one.
The celebration of Passover included the eating of unleavened bread and drinking wine. But what Jesus does with them here is where I think the break between Judaism and Christianity begins:
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
To have a new testament signifies the formation of a new covenant. This is the moment where Jesus uses the authority he has from God to form a new community with a religious identity separate and distinct from Judaism. While Jesus was a Jew, followed Jewish law, observed Jewish customs and holidays, and worshiped the same God as the Jews, he intended to create a church and a community that would break from Jewish traditions. The institution of the Sacrament (our terminology for Holy Communion or the Eucharist in other traditions) was the initiation of this break.
Because Latter-day Saints haven’t celebrated Holy Week historically, and this is something our currently leadership is inviting us to change, it’s been really special to see what other Christians do to make this time special. It has been a great reminder that Easter is the opportunity for all Christians, including us, to celebrate the relationships we've personally developed with Jesus Christ. We have more in common with other Christians than we might think we do, and it’s because we all have this common belief in how much Jesus Christ and his ministry changed the world.
I’m still contemplating what it means for me to celebrate Holy Week. I’ve thought about the choice I made at Easter time many years ago to be baptized. I went to the temple yesterday. I’ve been studying scriptures for these daily meditations, which I’ve enjoyed very much. And tomorrow, my husband and I are going to an orchestral performance of Rob Gardner's Lamb of God. There isn’t really an established program for any of this for our people now, and we’re each contemplating how to do this and make it personally meaningful.
My favorite part of sharing these has been the ways you all have shared how my thoughts are helping you to develop your own Holy Week messages and traditions with your own families. I’ve deeply enjoyed those messages, and I think this was the wisdom in having us begin participating in these traditions: the way we would help each other and celebrate our faith in Christ together. It truly doesn’t get better than that. And I hope that becomes a key feature of what Latter-day Saints celebrating Holy Week looks like going forward.
#mormon#lds#mormonism#tumblrstake#the church of jesus christ of latter day saints#religion#faith#queerstake#christianity#scripture study#easter#holy week#the book of mormon#new testament#bible study
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This is in response to the recent drama that arose in the fandom recently. For context, here's the post and the response (had to borrow it from another blog because the poster has me blocked). Please read through all of it for context.
I don't usually do this, but I want to state my case on the matter. Note that I will be addressing both callout posts in this, and my contact with both ProjectAnomaly and the unnamed person who sent the DMs was limited. Putting this under a cut because I have some things to say.
Do I support the things mentioned in this post? No. Never. Not in a million years. But this is something that happened two years ago, and I never wanted to be involved in it to begin with.
For starters, let's cover the people I am in contact with.
River (now going as Lizzy) is a friend of mine and someone I've talked to ever since MD's first episode aired, and I can say for a fact that this conversation of adoption and letting them move in with them has played out. At the time, I felt hopeless and wanted to help as well, but Lizzy doesn't owe me anything. A then-13 year old doesn't owe me anything, especially if it's for something like basic empathy. That mindset is a pretty fucked-up thing to have, especially when someone comes to you for comfort. I don't think Juno's intentions were bad, but their reaction to Lizzy cutting ties was.
"I was never that close with them anyway" is a very flippant thing to say about someone you seemingly cared for enough to try and offer help.
Waayix and Belle, I didn't get into proper contact with until after this had passed, but I was aware of what was going on through what Juno and the unnamed person told me. Waayix, I had been contacted by a few times due to similar interests. Do I agree with what they did in the past? No, I don't, but I'll get to that later. I also don't think a minor should go poking around in 18+ spaces, either.
And saying that Waayix was "covering their tracks" when they deleted their own account once all of this started happening recently feels kind of hypocritical. This is a very "what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament" kind of situation"
Waayix doesn't even say she likes it. She says she stays away from it at the point of those messages being sent. I am not defending past actions, but if someone's trying to fix a mistake, you don't just say "Yeah, they're just doing it to cover their tracks" you don't come out and admit stuff if you're trying to cover your tracks. The account was taken down, it doesn't exist anymore, Waayix expressed that they regretted it and it doesn't need to be a whole thing. There was no need to make this a thing.
I was 19 when this happened, and not active on the server where this took place, so my contact with Juno was pretty limited. I had no idea what was going on, and what I said in the post was based solely on what I knew from what I was told by the people I was messaging. I said what I thought based on what I knew and wanted nothing of it. I won't take it back, but I wish I handled it more maturely. When I learned about what happened, I was shocked and blocked Waayix and Belle for a while. I took everything Juno and the other person mentioned here said as fact, and solely based my reactions around that.
What happened was wrong and I won't take back my initial feelings. I was upset and confused because while I didn't know Belle, Waayix was someone who I had admired for their art a while, having only talked to them on sparse occasions. I blocked them because I wanted nothing to do with something I genuinely had nothing to do with. I blocked the unnamed person to tried to contact me because I didn't respond well to sudden mentions of conflict, something I regret in the present. I wish I had made myself more clear, and I wish I had told them. The reason I cut contact was because I wanted nothing to do with this, and I don't want to be connected to someone who reacts in this manner to conflict.
Time passed. The people owned up to it and I decided to give these people a second chance because I wanted to trust that this was a mistake instead of malice. If they did it again, I would've cut ties and left it behind without a second thought, accident or not. But they didn't. The incidents mentioned here never happened again. The choice I made was a conscious one, and one I made long after the incident itself died down.
You can form your own opinions on what this makes me in your eyes, but I want to put how I feel out here before everyone takes what I said in the post as the only way I feel.
I was upset at the time. I'm not anymore, and I don't like that I was used as evidence. The thoughts I had then do not line up with the thoughts I have now. I am not a good source of proof, and I don't want to be proof. I let my own opinions on them form, and I consider them friends that I can trust as of now.
I believe that people should be held accountable for their actions and that all mistakes have consequences. That's how we learn and grow as people. I believe that people are capable of remorse and changing their minds. A bad person feels no pain of their actions and an apology is just words, a good person makes active attempts to be better and push towards amends. If someone says sorry and does good on it with active attempts to be better and rectify what went wrong, then I will forgive them with time. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. But the words I said two years ago do not reflect the words I would've said now, nor should they have been used in this manner. These people have admitted to what happened, owned up to it, and have changed from who they were back then, and for that, I am willing to move on as well.
TL;DR (and I say this to both parties involved): I was upset, and said those things, but I'm not anymore and have forgiven these people and gave them a second chance. No one's obligated to do what I'm doing, but don't put these people on blast, either. Accept that people change and grow, mistakes are admitted but will not always be forgiven, and go on living.
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Hello, i have always had a relationship with God but my family is against it, i was never baptized, i only just became a legal adult, so i just started going to church. i have been going to my local protestant church but i havent felt comfortable or happy there. i have been doing research for myself and i believe that i want to convert to catholicism
Hi there my brother or sister in Christ!,
I have good news for you. In the Catholic Church, we have a program called Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults—— everyone calls it RCIA for short. That link goes into great detail of the process. RCIA is the program to help adults come into Catholic Church where you learn about the Catholic faith. Through this program on completion, you will become Catholic and receive the sacraments of the Catholic Church (Baptism, Reconciliation [confession], Holy Eucharist, and Confirmation).
The best way to join is google Catholic Churches near you (or perhaps you found one already you like). Most churches have a website and some are good enough to have a whole section for their RCIA information. Another way to find out is to call the church and ask to speak to the priest or deacon. If they are not available by phone, you can always ask about RCIA with the desk worker who answers. Another way is to visit the church in person. The best way to speak to a priest or deacon right away is before or after Mass (I always personally wait after Mass because they hang out at the front doors of the church in my country). You can also email the church but I find it’s always faster to go in person or call them up.
I never personally went through RCIA because I was born and baptized Catholic, so I wouldn’t be able to give my own story. I would say don’t be afraid to ask questions and I’m sure they will be delighted to hear your story and welcome you in. It seems like God is speaking to your heart. 😊🩵
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*Catgirl vtuber avatar in the centre of the screen*
*In a high-pitched voice*
"Hello again, brothers and sisters! Today, we'll be going over Part II, Section II, of the Catechism of the Catholic Church! Specifically Chapter I, on the Sacraments of Christian Initiation!"
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