bxr 1,693 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Bible CAMP: MAYHEM Requiem (A Pop Salon Sunday Session) … a kind of Sunday-Salon-meets-Recess-Roundtable, in the realm of zeitgeist theology pop iconography … a thread inspired by @Ladle Ghoulash invitation Admittedly, treading new exegetical pop salon terrain here, so, making up the format as we go along … thus said, let‘s see where said session unfurls … as always, neither here nor there, just musing salt grains into the airwaves … Pop Goes the Gospel : · · · And on the LG7th play … Gaga completed the work she had been doing; she rested on the LG7th sleigh from all the work she had undertaken. Gaga blessed the LG7th slay and made it holy, because on it she rested from all the work she had done in creation … Spoiler But/and/then on the eighth day … Spoiler The animals associated with the Christian tetramorph originate in the Babylonian symbols of the four fixed signs of the zodiac: the ox representing Taurus; the lion representing Leo; the eagle representing Scorpio; the man or angel representing Aquarius. In Western astrology, the four symbols are associated with the elements of, respectively Earth, Fire, Water, and Air. … The creatures of the tetramorph, as they appear in their animal forms, are predominantly shown as winged figures. The wings, an ancient symbol of divinity, represent the divinity of the Evangelists, the divine nature of Christ, and the virtues required for Christian salvation. In regards to the depiction of St Mark in particular, the use of wings distinguish him from images of St Jerome, who is also associated with the image of a lion. The Ascension is the public vindication of the One many rejected. It tells the world that the cross was not failure and the Resurrection was not a private spiritual feeling. Christ is King, and heaven received him because earth could not hold him. So if you are asking when Ascension Day is in 2026, the short answer is May 14, or May 17 where the feast is transferred to Sunday. But the better question is why Christians still celebrate it so carefully. The answer is simple: because the Ascension completes the saving work openly revealed in Scripture and points every believer toward the hope of heaven May 15 Gospel Reading (Catholic Liturgy) Spoiler From the Gospel according to John 16:20-23 Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you." … Reminds me of Gaga saying that she “needed to find the religion in the show” during the BTS commentary. In spite of the conversation about Gaga and religion often centering around her provocative use of religious iconography, I think her most interesting contribution to the discussion is actually decentering the ecstasy and liturgy of religious experience from the nexus of tradition/established faith practices (“my religion is you”). Taking religion, at first, as obsession and devotion during TFM, then gradually building it into a personal practice, belief system, shared ceremony, but also, probably most radically in the idea that religion is the machination of personal meaning using the world (both figurative and abstract) as raw material. Spoiler … [Y]our vantage is lucid as ever and draws on much of the contemporary tensions within the Catholic Church in particular … popular piety, the rise of the “Nones” (those who identify as having no religious affiliation … which is also an seamless allusion toward cradle Catholic women who find spiritual community elsewhere or practice a more integrated approach (the “None” Nuns)), the historic dialectic between contemplation and action or the mystical versus activistic endeavor toward the divine or transmundane experience (traditionally, women mystics, namely Sts. Teresa of Avila and Therese “The Little Flower,” who dove deeply into the mystical experience of literal espousal to Christ) … how does one bring Heaven or The Kingdom to Earth, and cultivate / express said consciousness manifest reality … live the sacrifice of unconditional love supreme: here, music is that immortal elixir and the live experience is cultural liturgy and the reality of that one girl’s “bubble world” within this capacity, for instance, is said religion (adapted)—that started to ramble after the None Nuns, but there might have been elements of relevance subsequent to said drift … but/and, yes, your reflection is revelation Spoiler [I]n immediate retrospect … that March 28 is the day De Pascha Computus aligns with the birth of the sun, moon, and stars (and controversially considered to be the actual Nativity) also surfaces in relation to this sort of intercultural spirituality / zeitgeist theology significance … Spoiler and, if we parallel the days in a liturgical season with years in one‘s life … this, 2026 AD, SG’s fortieth year on Earth … would be the fortieth day in said lifetime … or, forty days (solar cycles) after the Lenten Passion of her human experience thus far into an emerging Eastertide, or forty days from the Easter of a rebirth in this form into the Ascension of said era‘s Requiem, Mayhem laid to rest … this electric world pop life … the endless cycle of love, art, death, rebirth … or something to said eclectic chaplain effect Spoiler TL;DR: “On the seventh day, Gaga had finished this work of creation, so she put to rest this Famous curse…” (The Prototype Reprise Intermission) · · · So … maybe the LG7 segue echoes a bit of the theological / sacred geometric / cosmic chronological (kairological?) sequential significance from 7‘s association with perfection and completion, to (LG)8‘s association with new beginnings, resurrection, and a new order of creation … Thus illustrated … as always, just musing salt grains into the airwaves … 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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