Explain your avatar

[Lilllabettt]

Mine is professor River Song,  archeologist. From Dr who.  She has just received an invitation to a picnic in 21st century Utah and is deciding how she will break out of a 51st century space prison.   

Edited October 31, 2015 by Lilllabettt

[Winchester]

Mine is a picture of a man. 

[Seven77]

Mine is professor River Song,  archeologist. From Dr who.  She has just received an invitation to a picnic in 21st century Utah and is deciding how she will break out of a 51st century space prison.   

spoilers...

[HisChildForever]

Couture.

[Seven77]

My avatar has two meanings, one is accidental and could be implied that mean that I post “once in a blue moon," but the real reason behind it signifies devotion to Our Lady---she reflects the light of the Son and blue is her color.

[Basilisa Marie]

Pinkie Pie, from the My Little Pony episode where she teaches Twilight Sparkle that sometimes we just have to believe in things we don't fully understand. 

[Spem in alium]

Mine is the image made for the beatification of my congregation's foundress. The particular symbols it contains have a lot of meaning for me.

(I had to laugh, though - I just realised that with the position it's at, St Joseph is actually beheaded in my avatar. Poor guy - can't catch a break! Fixing pronto.)

Edited November 1, 2015 by Spem in alium

[Anastasia13]

Mine is Lena Katina, a red headed Russian singer. I like the image. If I knew how to sing better and had a sense of rhythm, I would want to sing more.

 

i have previously had Jose Mourinho, an entertaining to watch soccer manager whose personal life I later discovered made him someone in need of prayer; Stephen Colbert, hilarious and I afraid to speak his faith as well as entertain; Doctor Who, great show, enjoyed watching the latest serious/incarnations; and otherwise things or people representing my fondness for Russia or Bollywood and faith.

 

[NadaTeTurbe]

Mine is the logo of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul. I like the image, and I think the Daughters of Charity deserve more attentions, so. 

[Sponsa-Christi]

Mine is the Agnus Dei, because consecrated virgins "follow the Lamb wherever He goes." (cf. Revelation 14:4)

The Lamb also has His side open, because there is some symbolism with Christ's wounded side and the creation of the Bride of Christ, the Church. I.e., Christ is the new Adam, and His bride is taken from the redemptive suffering which is shown and symbolized by His open side, just as Eve was created from Adam's rib. 

[Starets]

"ASSIMILATE THIS!!!" is one of my favourite lines from any of the Star Trek movies

[Archaeology cat]

"ASSIMILATE THIS!!!" is one of my favourite lines from any of the Star Trek movies

It's a great line

[truthfinder]

Mines of a Carmelite nun praying in her cell (its from a collection of pictures that were done at the turn of the 20th century in a Paris Carmel iirc).  I used to have a picture of a nun, I think in Australia, with her arm around a very large cross - but it seems to have been 'eaten' by one of the numerous phorum changes.  

[Comingback]

Mine is St. Macrina the younger who is my patron saint.

[little2add]

my avatar is a "hop berry"   just thought it was pretty 

Hops

Humulus lupulus

Common names

• Common Hop
• English Hop
• European Hop
• Hops
• Hops Vine
• Lai-ei-ts'ao
• Le-ts'ao

The hops or the hop plant bears the name Humulus lupulus L. in botanical circles. This perennial plant belongs to the plant family Cannabidaceae. The plant is a climbing vine, which gives out scaly and cone shaped fruits called hops from which the name for the whole plant is drawn. The hops or the fruit of the plant is botanically termed a strobile, the fruit bears numerous glandular hairs on the surface, these hairs possess a resinous bitter principle, the reason for the extensive utilization of the hops in processes such as brewing and in herbal medicine.

 

Primarily a temperate European plant, extensive and large scale cultivation of the hops takes place in places like the Czech Republic, Poland, England and Germany in Europe, as well as in the United States and South America, and in places such as Australia. Harvesting and collection of the hops is normally carried out during the month of September when the fruits ripen and following a drying process, these are marketed and used mainly in the brewing industry. The medicinal and tonic properties of the hops was also apparently known to traditional herbalist even if the primary use of the hops has been in the manufacture of beer, with which it has been associated for close to a 1,000 years now - the hops has been valued for its bitter taste and preservative action. Early on in Europe, tradition holds that people who plucked the hops fruit seemed to tire out easily, this was probably due to the accidental transfer of some of the hop resin in the hands to the mouths of the workers - this sedative action of the herb was the reason for its use in herbal medication, and a sedative action has traditionally been associated with the hops. Traditionally, herbalist treated sleeplessness and other nervous conditions in patients by making them use pillows stuffed with the dried hops. The hops was also associated with an ability to reduce inflammation in the body, thus a small bag of hops soaked in alcohol and placed after heating on an afflicted area, is said to lead to a reduction in the localized inflammation affecting the area. At the same time, herbal tonics made from the aqueous extracts of hops using boiling water have also been traditionally used in Europe.

 

it taste good in beer too

Edited November 1, 2015 by little2add