Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia! Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia!Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia! Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia!

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Holding Hands Persepolis ( #Iran), c. 500 BC #art

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

My favourite guy it’s your big weekend let’s go Walkthrough ✅ Baptism candles ✅ Liturgical Commentaries ✅ Last minute Thurifer ✅ Emergency Tramadol behind Our Lady of Częstochowa ✅

Anyone else just watch the launch of Artemis II? Wow that was emotional, as a species we’re so fucking good when we’re good.

‼️ ANNUAL PSA ‼️

May all our Aprils boldly blossom. 🖼️ Grasset, 1896.

Mysticising my brain fog by calling it the Cloud of Unknowing

🖼️ Johansen-Elli

the nicest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a small but dedicated cult following of kind hearted and politically shrewd weirdos & sickos that keep the fire going. the meanest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a large online fandom

✨Orpheus✨ This #MosaicMonday we celebrate Orpheus, whose musical gifts were such that he was capable of attracting all manner of animals to his side. In this mosaic panel, found near Edessa and dated to 194 CE, Orpheus plays his lyre and predator and prey alike are soothed by his song.

"A Church that does not provoke, a Gospel that does not disturb, a word from God that does not irritate, a word from God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is proclaimed: What kind of Gospel is that?” #SaintOscarRomero

This. The dream of the 90s is dead. Cheap rent enables every kind of creative work and nothing else can substitute for it.

LONDON POETRY PEOPLE. Um. do you, maybe want to come to my book launch? www.outsavvy.com/event/34936/...

Jangle-headed with sleep deprivation at work today. In the bathroom trying to slap on some vitality and it took way too long to realise I was applying lipstick to my eyes.

Good morning to the dispersed poets

"Jesus does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war." #PopeLeoXIV #MakePeace #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Sunday plans: 🖼️ The Eight Lives of Mr. Tybalt (after Nicolaes Eliaszoon’s Portrait of Nicolaes Tulp, 1633, DD McInnes.

Non-autoimmune people don’t get it. 25 BILLION white blood cells are trying to kill us at all times, they have to treat me with cytotoxic pills. I am dodging numberless assassins in my house whilst being turned into human Chernobyl. The fatigue comes from being Genghis Khan.

A moon poem from Bosnia poet Antun Branko Šimić The Sleepwalker The god of night the moon descends from heaven and softly walks toward the house

RIP English writer Virginia Woolf, died this day 1941. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

Serbian poet Vasko Popa writes about her smile In a Smile At the corners of the lips Has appeared a golden ray Waves are dreaming In bushes of flames

Hunting down cheap paints as the urge is on me to Create Against The Horrors and seem to have come across a shade called Warlock Purple which is rather marvellous.

"Peace is not merely a balance of power; it is the work of purified hearts, of those who see others as brothers and sisters to be protected, not enemies to be defeated (3-28-26)." #PopeLeoXIV #Peace #MakePeace #PrayForPeace

Meanwhile - drawing charcoal cave horses for kicks

So, in fact, a 12.

Was your day bad? At least you didn’t say ‘Is that silk? Put it through on a hand job’. To a priest.

Duane Keiser (American Artist, born 1966) "Untitled", A Paintbrush submerged in a Glass of Water", 2022. Oil on Board, 9 × 8 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

‘All men feel more confident with a ladder’ men please confirm/deny

titled "Fly just fly" by the Slovak artist Katarína Vavrová.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

My favourite painting of a hyena is Leonora Carrington's Self Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse, 1937-38) #AnimalMarch 🤍🐾🌿

Everyone taking gorgeous pictures of the moon and as usual I only manage to recreate the camera roll from the Dyatlov Pass Incident

A poem that never fails to make my soul ache. • James Wright •

When an engraving has been pressed against the page facing it for 200 years, sometimes a ghost image appears. This is called 'offsetting'

Regardless of the madness in human affairs, the celestial ballet continues. Venus and the moon following the sun towards the horizon.

Julian of Norwich depicted in Norwich Cathedral. 📸2024

Morning mist on #FoggyFriday 📍Pennsylvania

St Winefride's Well, #Flintshire, escaped Henry VIII's purge of Roman Catholic shrines because his grandmother Margaret of Beaufort insisted the waters had worked a genuine miracle in making her pregnant, after much trying, with a son - Henry VII. The #medieval shrine survives intact. #WyrdWednesday

Once upon a time someone carved a princess or queen into a brick. 13th century, Sweden. The Swedish History Museum: samlingar.shm.se/object/BD200...

We have to stop using the word ‘elites’ for people demonstrably deficient in every possible way.

#StreetArt : Cheyenne Randall, Santa Monica 2026 @indiangiver

How could I have forgotten that the last few episodes of HBO’s Rome have James Purefoy sporting the skankiest smoky eye known to man. 3am text your ex crash out floor coke eyes.

Hey does anyone in women’s fashion know what’s going on with arm holes? I admit I don’t keep up with trends but is the new unrealistic standard to be a backwoods stick cryptid?

Celestial Bodies #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

Rewatching Cleopatra (1963) and it’s somehow escaped me before now just HOW MUCH production had riding on Richard Burton in a series of miniskirts. Like ‘Put that man in another cheek-skimmer or I’m off the project, Walter’

'South Bank Spring' by Jo Quigley quigleyarts.co.uk

One of the highlights of natural history publishing "Sunbirds" by Shelley with 121 hand coloured plates by Keuelemans. Each plate highlighted om gum arabic to make the feathers shimmer when moved. Originally published in 12 parts between 1876-1880, just 250 copies.