Scroll my media page - if you like it, follow!
#RedPill#MemeMaker
(FORMER atheist, leftist, lgbtq, abortive)
Now a devout #Catholic again!
Eat #Organic!
35.82 BEAUTIFUL ACRES FOR SALE $599,990.
Check out this Texas property; it's on @Zillow also. https://t.co/bdhVX8fk3u Move out of the city, and BREATHE! Grow your own. #Homesteading#Land#ForSale 1200 E. Rabbit Cove Rd, Quinlan, TX
https://t.co/IvB2rR7EyN
I absolutely love when the older generation takes full responsibility to teach the younger generation precisely the most considerate, courteous and effective communication practices.
Invest in the future with this love for children & for all of society.
Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?
The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...
Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.
His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"
Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.
The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:
"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."
Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.
But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.
And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...
Happy Mother's Day.
-- -- --
If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here:
https://t.co/hgJUdR0jlx
I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.
@PSandovalShow We must remind people that there is effective TREATMENT for the Woke Mind Virus.
Jesus and the Church and Sacraments He gave us are part of the Healing & Salvation God wants for us, His Children!
Proclaim the Kingdom of God, my sistren & brethren!
Michigan 2020 election worker found that EVERY Military Ballot that was logged into the system had a birthday of 1/1/1900.
When she asked the election supervisor to challenge the military ballots, she replied, "We're not doing that."
The 2020 election was stolen.
35.82 BEAUTIFUL ACRES FOR SALE $599,990.
Check out this Texas property; it's on @Zillow also. https://t.co/bdhVX8fk3u Move out of the city, and BREATHE! Grow your own. #Homesteading#Land#ForSale 1200 E. Rabbit Cove Rd, Quinlan, TX
@LALove29684903@Shadow007US The Church is Her people, Her members.
We are all one body -- the Body of Christ.
When others pile on -- stand WITH us.
Teach, improve, strengthen Christ's Church.
Defend her. She is Christ's Bride. Christ would do no less for His Bride. What must WE do?
❤️🔥📷
2/2
@LALove29684903@Shadow007US Defects of a man in the Chair keep you from receiving Christ's precious gifts to you?
Please come Home. We all need one another in corporal worship... in order to follow Christ more closely.
Jesus gave us a Church, a community, the Sacraments.
Don't abandon whom you love.
1/2