Comments | fierceawakening: ah, the suffering... the sweet suffering

fierceawakening

ah, the suffering... the sweet suffering

Feb 10, 2009 00:05

And now for something fun, and completely different.

I found an online copy of The Life of St. Teresa of Avila.

Holy masochism for the win.

Quotes: (so many awesome ones!)
It astonished us greatly to find it said in what we were reading that pain and bliss were everlasting. We happened very often to talk about this; and we had a pleasure in ( Read more... )

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Comments 5

ext_140835 February 10 2009, 06:12:34 UTC

Awesome, thanks for the link. St. Teresa was cited in a workshop I went to recently on "The Emotional Aspects of BDSM Play".

jkatkina February 10 2009, 14:41:33 UTC

I love that statue. It was one of the ones we studied in art history, but they never taught us it had such a luscious background, too! Wow.

fierceawakening February 10 2009, 17:00:42 UTC

The sad thing is, I went to all these Catholic websites on saints, and they all left the ecstatic suffering bit out almost completely. Mmmm... bowdlerizing!

jkatkina February 10 2009, 17:34:53 UTC

Ha! It figures.

Actually, I remember there being something sidenote about the statue having erotic overtones... to which it was like, yeah, look at her expression? But there was not even a side note about the suffering! Man, even at art school.

fierceawakening February 10 2009, 20:25:07 UTC

Oh, hey, did you see the fanfic I posted a while back? I know you tend to read my stuff, so I wasn't sure if you missed it or were avoiding it because it's fic.

http://trinityva.livejournal.com/970906.html