Posts Examining the Related Iconography of the Manna in the Desert, an Old Testament Prefiguration of the Eucharist, and the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, a New Testament Prefiguration Prefiguring Salvation –Manna in the Desert and…
Posts Examining the Related Iconography of the Manna in the Desert, an Old Testament Prefiguration of the Eucharist, and the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, a New Testament Prefiguration Prefiguring Salvation –Manna in the Desert and…
"" "Be pleased, almighty God, to accept your Church’s offering, so that she, who is aware that her beginnings lie in the Incarnation of your Only Begotten Son, may rejoice to celebrate his mysteries on this Solemnity. Who lives and reigns f…
Most contemporary retellings of the Nativity story and most of the Nativity scenes with which we are familiar, whether in church or at home or in some public place, tend to show us a strange, forced image. We immediately see the Holy Family…
When I was younger there was a more general knowledge of the entirety of the story that is found in the Gospels, not to mention in pious traditions. However, over the more recent decades we have cut off such important elements as the massac…
The Advent/Christmas Season has figured heavily in the history of Western Christian art from the early fourth century onward. There is a tremendous amount of material available and over the years of this blog I have written a great deal abo…
"Let us give thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the
Most mages of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary depict the scene as one in which the astonished Apostles watch from the ground as the Virgin rises through the sky. (Many instances can be found in the first four essays in the "In the…
He occupies a place in the world that is unique. Non-Catholics are probably puzzled about just why this man is so important. They often misunderstand his duties and his position. He is an absolute ruler, but his hands are tied by tradition
Children’s prayer to the Guardian Angel "O God, who in your unfathomable providence are pleased to send your holy Angels to guard us, hear our supplication as we cry to you, that we may always be defended by their protection and rejoice ete…
Of considerable interest is a series of stained-glass church windows, primarily executed in France from the 1870s to the 1930s. . In France during the years after 1918, the windows are located in the areas of northern France that were devas…
Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC. Used with permission. All rights…