On writing fiction too would be lovely.
Feels like I just don't know how to phrase it to the google algorithm correctly to get any meaningful results.
Hi! I'm a Christian who plans to make a game with a lot of Christian/Catholic themes, and I was hoping to find sources for Christian/Catholic art and symbolism to base things off of.
For example, the main protagonist Daniel is an angel with a lot of lion motifs as the lion is a symbol of the cardinal virtue of Fortitude as well as one of the Four Gospels (Mark).
Meanwhile, a human woman represents Prudence, and I may include Archangel Michael and the angel of death -- going by his Jewish/Muslim name of Azrael, as Justice and Temperance respectively.
I'd be thankful for any sources, especially ones with animal-based symbolism in the Bible and Christianity. God bless you all and have a good day!
Hello! I am seeking an artist or two, for two commissions:
- The first commission is for Cover Art for an upcoming Anime Light Novel about the Pope and the Catholic Church.
- The second commission is for Cover Art for an upcoming Anime Light Novel about a group of friends surviving a Post-Apocalyptic Alien Invasion.
Each commission has a budget of $120, so $240 in total.
There is a chance to work on the illustrations for each Novel as well (40 Illustrations per Light Novel), but we aren't quite there yet. If I love your work, you'll have your spot for the 40.
Thanks for reading!
Nun-Jitsu
A nunja.
Father Michael was a unique man of faith. One that believed in phrases like love thy neighbor, but also a man that knew when his neighbor needed to be acquainted with the right hand of God. Unfortunately, Father Michael delivered that hand as a swift uppercut that could put the fear of God into any non-believer.
It was strange. I couldn’t even count the number of times we had bishops and other prominent members of the monastery try to get him removed from the faith. They considered him a diverter of faith, someone that would scare people away from what was in theory meant to be a peaceful place. Yet, whenever a whisper of such an attempt was heard, the monastery believers would get up in arms, nearly ready to riot for the man. He just had an energy about him, something that made you want to follow him. He was the closest thing to a God that most of us street kids would ever get to meet.
I would never forget the day I met him. I was a desperate child searching for somewhere to live, a way to avoid sleeping in cold alleyways. He came out of the monastery with a cigarette hanging from his lips. The rough, bald man only giving me a half glance before he took a seat next to me, staring off at the misty horizon peeking through the clouds.
“Why are you crying? Gods smiling down on us today.” He said, able to keep the cigarette firmly placed between his lips as he spoke, his voice like gravel, hard and unfriendly, which contrasted the words he used.
“They won’t let me stay. They keep telling me a kid that wants to learn how to fight can’t be a child of God. I don’t know where else to go.” It was hard to reflect on such a lowlight of my life, everything about the encounter making me cringe.
“Who says a believer can’t defend themselves? So many of the people in that monastery don’t know the first thing about spirituality. You want to learn how to fight?”
“Like the kids in those kung fu movies. You know where they do the jump kicks and stuff.” I can still picture his amused look. His left canine tooth missing, giving him a strange grin. The grin soon turning into a laugh, causing the cigarette to fall out.
“Heh, well, I can’t teach you kung fu, but I can teach you something almost as flashy. Come on kid, I’ll talk to them about you. No man of God leaves a child crying outside.” It was in that moment I had found my God. It wasn’t the man hanging from the wall of the monastery, it was the man that led me inside, that spent ten minutes verbally talking down the o
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Hey Father(s),
I know that there are a lot of Eastern Catholic priests on this sub, but my post mainly pertains to the Roman Catholic Tradition.
In Eastern/Oriental Orthodoxy, most depictions of Christ and the Saints are in the form of icons. However, when I visit a Roman Catholic parish, their depictions are typically in the form of statues. Even the paintings that I've seen in Latin Churches are very "realistic" compared to the (for lack of a better word) simple yet grand icons that are used in the East.
Is there a reason why this happened? What do you think are the benefits of statues/realistic-paintings over icons?
~ A non Iconoclastic Protestant
EDIT: I'm speaking more about the Roman Catholic Church, since I'm not too sure about the depictive practices of the Eastern Rites (that is, if they use Eastern Icons, or if they use the aforementioned Statues/Paintings).
Can you give suggestions on catholic pictures or artwork to print as posters? It should be Catholic.
