Towards a Visual Repository of Traditional Catholicism

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There are often meaningful images one comes across that don't belong on the Catholic Memes thread, which was started for the purpose, "Because sometimes you need a good laugh." Instead, these other images tell us something that might be heartening, cautionary, inspiring, or instructive. Let's make this a thread of images honoring all of the Christian virtues. (Wherever possible, please also credit sources, even if these are not primary ones.)

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https://twitter.com/Ninarubyred1990/status/1591113283028881414

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https://twitter.com/RorateCaeli/status/1591114627425136640/photo/1

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https://twitter.com/ProtecttheFaith/status/1581970431984091136

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There are often meaningful images one comes across that don't belong on the Catholic Memes thread, which was started for the purpose, "Because sometimes you need a good laugh." Instead, these other images tell us something that might be heartening, cautionary, inspiring, or instructive. Let's make this a thread of images honoring all of the Christian virtues. (Wherever possible, please also credit sources, even if these are not primary ones.)

Wonderful idea! Thank you, Instaurare Omnia.

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Der breite und der schmale Weg 2008 - Matthew 7:13 - Wikipedia
(With credit to clau clau for posting this on another thread.)

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https://twitter.com/BigModernism/status/1591393101075070979

[Goldfinch]

Der breite und der schmale Weg 2008 - Matthew 7:13 - Wikipedia
(With credit to clau clau for posting this on another thread.)

Fantastic drawing that reflects authentic Catholic spirituality.

Doesn't quite match the idea about the majority of humankind being saved, though.

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"Death blowing bubbles," 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery's dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital.

https://twitter.com/DrLindseyFitz/status/1592512550616596487

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image from: https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4/status/1577481766889467904
[TBD: original source of St. John Chrysostom's quote?]

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https://twitter.com/EichelUlfrich/status/1593335390773067778

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source:https://shop.voyagecomics.com/collections/the-world-is-thy-ship-collection

[Lynne]

source:https://shop.voyagecomics.com/collections/the-world-is-thy-ship-collection

oh.my.goodness

[Greg]

I guess the above picture explains why the Church was against theatre in the past. It was the media of its day and probably where bad ideas and bad influences spread from influencers to the masses influenced.  Today people are brainwashed by newspapers and TV and social media but back then it was theatre I guess.

We think of theatre as old Shakespeare plays and The Mousetrap but of course those are the higher quality plays from the past.  The degenerate stuff mostly did not survive.

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I guess the above picture explains why the Church was against theatre in the past. It was the media of its day and probably where bad ideas and bad influences spread from influencers to the masses influenced.  Today people are brainwashed by newspapers and TV and social media but back then it was theatre I guess.
We think of theatre as old Shakespeare plays and The Mousetrap but of course those are the higher quality plays from the past.  The degenerate stuff mostly did not survive.

Meaning that the impact of visual imagery functions by stealth and thus (if one allows it to) easily overrides the message of the Church? (Fr. Ripperger says so in Dominion.) Much of opera too -- despite its more gilded reputation -- is pretty tawdry once the plot lines get taken apart and examined more critically.