Christus Surrexit

Tradition, obediance, peace.

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@DenisRomain_79 @Pontifex_fr Vous ? Oui, sûrement

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@SibertMatthieu @Pontifex_fr C'est extrêmement commun en anglais (langue originale de ce texte), et ce depuis bien avant l'AI

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@WordHandedDown @poperespecter1 Trad discovers liturgical development.

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@poperespecter1 Sign of peace (1st century) Justin martyr

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@TheStaad Why not suits and dresses? Goodwill is as cheap as a store bought jeans and t-shirt

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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.

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@Rhetordead Council of Trent (Session XXV, 1563): “If any one shall teach or entertain sentiments contrary to these decrees; let him be anathema.

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@jacques_rethore @ErsiliaSoudais Laïc c'est que pour les Catholiques. Les juifs et musulmans ne sont pas concernés.

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Pope Leo XIV was presented with a pizza bearing his name during his visit to Naples in Italy

Video: Gino Sorbillo

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@Rhetordead Ditch the ortho bros. Come home to your ancestral Catholic Church, brother

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@WalmartThomist Douai and Reims would like a word with you
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@TaylorRMarshall It's much higher then the polls say

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@stelzner_n1150 Yes. 100%

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@ComeHometoRome Beauty and reverence attracts lost sheep, protestants baffled

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@cassagnemmanuel @Pontifex_fr L'Évangile a fait ça ?

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@Rhetordead Correct, but don't omit the Catholic Church. You don't have a single drop of Slavic or Greek blood. Your DNA has been finely tuned by centuries of Catholicism. The Church built the West.

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@Rhetordead

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@IciAilleursLa Dévolue*

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@WalmartThomist Trad larpers want a fossilized Church like the EO have