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  • Say Hello to Luce, the official mascot of Vatican City

    After decades of fighting the war against Satan, we Catholics found a new way to gain new converts. And what better ally than the adorable Luce?


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    Here are some more info on her.

    Vatican City, Oct 28, 2024 / 12:55 pm

    Ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, the Vatican has launched a cartoon mascot unveiled Monday as the cheerful face of the Catholic Church’s upcoming holy year.

    The mascot, named Luce — which means “light” in Italian — is intended to engage a younger audience and guide visitors through the holy year.

    Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican’s chief organizer for the jubilee, described the mascot as part of the Vatican’s goal to engage with “the pop culture so beloved by our young people.”

    The mascot will debut this week at the Lucca Comics and Games, Italy’s celebrated convention for all things comics, video games, and fantasy, where the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization will host a space dedicated to “Luce and Friends.”

    It will be the first time that a Vatican dicastery participates in a comics convention. Fisichella, who serves as the the pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization’s section for the new evangelization, said he hopes taking part in the convention “will allow us to speak to younger generations about the theme of hope, which is more central than ever in the evangelical message.”

    Clad in a yellow raincoat, mud-stained boots, and a pilgrim’s cross, Luce’s mission is to guide young pilgrims toward hope and faith with her trusty dog Santino at her side. Shells glimmer in her eyes, recalling the scallop shell of the Camino de Santiago, an emblem of the pilgrimage journey. Trending

    Speaking at a Vatican press conference on Oct. 28 next to a plastic figurine of Luce, Fisichella described Luce’s shining eyes as “a symbol of the hope of the heart.”

    Luce, he said, will also be the face of the Holy See’s pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, where she will represent the Vatican’s pavilion theme, “Beauty Brings Hope,” alongside Caravaggio’s “The Entombment of Christ,” a painting that will be temporarily on loan from the Vatican Museums for the expo.

    Simone Legno, the Italian co-founder of the pop culture brand tokidoki, designed Luce and her “pilgrim friends” — Fe, Xin, and Sky, each outfitted in brightly colored jackets. The Vatican on Oct. 28, 2024, unveiled the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year: “Luce,” which is Italian for “light.” Credit: Simone Legno/tokidoki/Vatican Media
    Luce’s yellow sailor’s raincoat is a nod to both the Vatican flag and to journeying through life’s storms. The mascot’s muddy boots represent a long and difficult journey, while her staff symbolizes the pilgrimage toward eternity.

    Legno, who admitted a lifelong love for Japanese pop culture, said he hopes that “Luce can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations.”

    “I am extremely grateful to the Dicastery for Evangelization for opening its doors to pop culture as well,” he said.

    A jubilee is a special holy year of grace and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church. It typically takes place once every 25 years, though the pope can call for extraordinary jubilee years more often, such as in the case of the 2016 Year of Mercy or the 2013 Year of Faith.

    The Vatican has planned a range of cultural events to accompany the lead-up to the jubilee year, including a concert on Nov. 3 of Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 5” and an art exhibit of Marc Chagall’s “White Crucifixion” painting, which will be on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago to be displayed in Rome’s Museo del Corso from Nov. 27 to Jan. 27.

    The jubilee year itself will begin with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve 2024, welcoming an anticipated 30 million pilgrims into Rome by the time the Holy Year ends on Jan. 6, 2026.
    You, as Protestants will surely feel sad to have no mascot for the Landover Church. But I guess that if Donald Trump loses the election, you can give him that role.

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    Originally posted by Romeo Rovagnati View Post
    After decades of fighting the war against Satan, we Catholics found a new way to gain new converts. And what better ally than the adorable Luce?

    You, as Protestants will surely feel sad to have no mascot for the Landover Church. But I guess that if Donald Trump loses the election, you can give him that role.
    Isn't that just like you Catholics? The world is falling into sin and Catholics think it is something fun. Now, with a potential deep sinner, CanIsinmore Harris, is not the time to make light of sin.
    Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Romeo Rovagnati View Post
      After decades of fighting the war against Satan, we Catholics found a new way to gain new converts.

      [assorted Rome nonsense I didn't read] + [there was a picture]


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      Protestants will surely feel sad to have no mascot ..blah ..blah
      1. Why are they all wearing idols?

      2. What is that thing with an anchor on its hat supposed to be?

      3. The (presumable) humans all an have eye disease. Some sort of worm? Or perhaps an (as yet) undiscovered parasitic mollusc? Get them to an ophthalmologist* ASAP!

      4. Protestants generally do not need "mascots" due to acknowledging the presence of Christ.

      5. Baptists though are more correctly termed non-conformists: Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists and Brethren—with perhaps a side of Presbyterian to go with the haggis—are the protestors. Baptists had nothing to protest against already existing to acknowledge Jesus there and then: if you read God's comments on this you'd already know.

      * not named Assad

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Romeo Rovagnati View Post

        Here are some more info on her.



        You, as Protestants will surely feel sad to have no mascot for the Landover Church. But I guess that if Donald Trump loses the election, you can give him that role.
        Is the dog a Catholic?? It's not wearing a cross. (I make jokes about non-Christians, i.e. Catholics.)
        Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Romeo Rovagnati View Post
          After decades of fighting the war against Satan, we Catholics found a new way to gain new converts. And what better ally than the adorable Luce?
          Adorable to those with a hint of paedophilia, perhaps. The child is not Christian - she is far too young to appreciate the Wonder Of God.

          Paedobaptism is ridiculous concept.

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          “We must reassert that the essence of Christianity is the love of obedience to God’s Laws and that how that complete obedience is used or implemented does not concern us.”

          Author of such illuminating essays as,
          Map of the Known World; Periodic Table of Elements; The History of Linguistics; The Errors of Wicca; Dolphins and Evolution; The History of Landover (The Apology); Landover and the Civil War; 2000 Racial Slurs.

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          • #6
            Oh, I think I know what this is all about. It is some sort of demonic plan to get these child-diddling perverts back on the television airwaves!



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            (Mrs.) Isabella White

            Hebrews 10:19 " Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the of "

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            • #7
              God Bless the late Rev. Jerry Falwell who named Tinky Winky as the gay Teletubby. Jerry saved millions of children from an eternity in hell by exposing the Gay Agenda.

              Jerry Falwell and Tinky Winky, the gay Teletubby.

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              Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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