Give me a heartwarming Christmas movie about Satan traveling around the world every Christmas to deliver presents to all the young kids and kids with learning disorders and disabilities who misspell “Santa” on their Christmas letters every year
And Santa’s all like, “You know, I can handle a few spelling mistakes, I got this,” and Lucifer is like “They’re addressed to me, fuck off, I’m doing it.”
Lucifer being protective of his fanmail is ceaselessly entertaining.
Gob: And now you love the Ten Commandments. And yet
you’re the one who so conveniently forgot “Thou shalt protect thy father
and honor no one above him unless it be-ith me, thy sweet Lord.”
Michael: I’m not sure that one made it down the
mountain, Gob.
what if a catholic priest were to just bless the entire ocean would it turn the entire thing into holy water or do priests have an effective blessing range? does that range increase based on your level? can the pope bless the entire ocean?
so technically any priest could, but shouldn’t for pooping reasons.
source: my brother is in his 4th year of study at a catholic seminary, and referred to one of his professors.
I’m trying to relearn to draw from references. I’m so bad at following a reference closely and this was somewhat of a failure on that front – it doesn’t look like the reference as closely as I wanted ;A;
Hello and thank you to my new watchers from EatSleepDraw! 😀 You guys are awesome.
But can we please talk about Armand’s
(actually Andrei’s) Monastery of the Caves because it’s a real place!
Kiev Pechersk Lavra also
known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev. It was created in the early 11th century by an Orthodoxmonk named Anthony. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that
overlooked the Dnieper River. The Kiev Pechersk Lavra caverns are a very
complex system of narrow underground corridors (about 1-1½ metres wide and 2-2½ metres high), along with
numerous living quarters and underground chapels.
Even
found a small interview with one of the actual modern monks, who said “The monk is actually a person who,
ideally, should not face the world for he is constantly talking to God. Therefore, he goes underground, he buries himself
alive by digging his own grave – that is, his cell. And when the real death comes, the
cave takes his body for perpetual storage. Therefore,
every cave monastery is a kind of underground necropolis”.
I honestly have no idea how I’ve never researched this, but I finally have a visual and detailed reference and I’m SO happy.
Я в шоке – “подземный некрополь”, пещеры – могилы, хоронить себя заживо (пусть даже и в переносном смысле) – ШО ЗА БРЕХНЯ???!!!И где это откопали, простите за сарказм, такого монаха? Ну да ладно, сохраню чисто для истории. Покажу знатокам, пусть оценят.
But can we please talk about Armand’s
(actually Andrei’s) Monastery of the Caves because it’s a real place!
Kiev Pechersk Lavra also
known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev. It was created in the early 11th century by an Orthodoxmonk named Anthony. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that
overlooked the Dnieper River. The Kiev Pechersk Lavra caverns are a very
complex system of narrow underground corridors (about 1-1½ metres wide and 2-2½ metres high), along with
numerous living quarters and underground chapels.
Even
found a small interview with one of the actual modern monks, who said “The monk is actually a person who,
ideally, should not face the world for he is constantly talking to God. Therefore, he goes underground, he buries himself
alive by digging his own grave – that is, his cell. And when the real death comes, the
cave takes his body for perpetual storage. Therefore,
every cave monastery is a kind of an underground necropolis”.
I honestly have no idea how I’ve never researched this, but I finally have a visual and detailed reference and I’m SO happy.
My hat is off to you. This post is a brilliant, evocative piece of fandom research. The funny thing is that when I came to my dash and saw the photos I was thinking, OMG, SOMEONE FOUND SEVRAINE’S CAVES OF GOLD! and then… well, I’m floored!
It shows something that I hadn’t understood when I read Armand’s story: how the caves could seem safe, reassuring, even. How they could echo the womb in some way to one’s lizard brain, particularly for a kid who’s torn between two different ways of life and is told that this place will mean peace of a kind, rightness with God. Somehow I doubt there would’ve been so many candles back then, but any candlelight at all on walls of stone… I’d forgotten how it looks and feels, and somehow I’d always visualised the caves as having earthen walls, which of course makes no sense because they wouldn’t have stayed up!
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