Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. I mean she is literally on every flat surface in Mexico. While my family was in Merida on vacation last year I said I wanted to document all the Virgin of Guadalupes we saw and I was quickly humbled at that [...]
Category: Religion
Catholic Culture: 2018 December Schedule
PDF version of my December 2018 calendar to print December 2018 catholic calendar! Sunday, December 2nd - First Sunday of Advent (Holy Day of Obligation) Time to bust out those advent weathers & calendars! Purple is the color of advent and it is time to light that first candle to begin this pre-Christmas season of [...]
#56. Great Mosque. Córdoba, Spain
Art Historical Background After the Umayyad Dynasty was ousted from Syria by the conquering Abbasid Dynasty they made their way across North Africa to a new home in Andalusia, Spain. The Umayyad prince, Abd al-Rahman I, recreated aspects of his previous capital in his new home, Córdoba. In 786, after Abd al-Rahman conquered the Visigoths, he transformed [...]
Stop Skipping Thanksgiving
Ok so I am going to apologize in advance for this little counter cultural rant but hear me out: stop skipping Thanksgiving in anticipation of Christmas! I get it, Christmas brings out all the warm and fuzzies especially in a shitty political year (yes, I'm a Democrat lol), but Thanksgiving can also serve to ground [...]
Your Guide to Catholic Holidays on Death
So Halloween is coming up as I'm sure every little kid in America is fully aware, but there are many people who hesitate to celebrate this holiday believing it to be a Satanic Devil-worshiping day (which in fact Satantists don't actually worship the Devil but that's a whole 'nother blog post!) or they feel it [...]
