✞20 Days since my Last Confession✞

[13th_crusader]

[✝]Mark 1:1-3

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.[✝]

[☨]Setting the device aside in the dim light, the Archbishop is knelt at the fallen alter, the debris cleared somewhat, but the large cross itself was far too heavy for him to lift back into place. Removing a graying white glove with his teeth, he reaches out to the cold cinders dusting around the burnt edges of the cross and utters solemnly to himself, and to a merciful God he begged to hear him on the beginning of this preparation before the Holy Week.[☨]

Remember... O' man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

[☨]Reciting with a cherubic Roman lilt he coats his fingertips with the dark ash and lifts the delicate digits to his forehead to gingerly smear a ashen Cross upon his forehead.[☨]

I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear... but now mine eye seeth Thee. The other eye wandereth of its own accord. Wherefore I... abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

[☨]Staring down at his Lord's fallen Burden he had thought of what it was he should give up. Usually it was something frivolous in the years prior, like his favorite dish, or bath oils. . . here in this wasteland he realized he had already given up something that was actually cherishable and coveted to him. . . and gripping his arms again, staining the whites of his sleeves with the ash, he shuddered slightly.[☨]

Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel. Repent, and hear the good news.

[☨]The last of his benediction, he motioned a fluid Sign of the Cross and sat down on his heels, just to meditate bitterly on how this place was seeking to change him.[☨]


Amen.

Comments

Voice; Italian

[sancta-sedes.livejournal.com]

W-will you be f-fasting?

[hellsingmaster.livejournal.com]

So, I see you're still alive, Maxwell.

[Video] [1/2]

[heinesangel.livejournal.com]

[ The church... A glimpse of Nill's face can be seen as she takes in the scenery first. It's a little heartbreaking.

The sight of the fallen cross... It brings back an unpleasant memory, which the Archbishop reminds her of too clearly.

The winged girl gives a shake of her head, as if to rid herself of the memory-- ]

[Audio]

[tigress-of-kiev.livejournal.com]

[There is silence as the Methuselah just listens.]

[fuck-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

And Jeanne wondered why I always fell asleep during sermons. Jeez but you go on.

[VIDEO because he's too sick to care which button he's hit]

[revolver-christ.livejournal.com]

Is this some sort of religious holiday?

[Too exhausted to get up and go anywhere and too delirious from fever to end it himself, he's just taken to watching the rest of the city go about their lives.]