Louvre, Virgin of the Rocks 1483-1486 Leonardo da Vinci Louvre, Paris Wikipedia/public domain London Virgin of the Rocks 1495-1508 Leonardo da Vinci National Gallery London Wikipedia/public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks A friend of mine and I were discussing the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, possibly because the Catholic Church just celebrated the [...]
Category: Bible and catechism
Stained glass tells a story
Years ago I saw these windows above the altar in a church which had been stripped of its decoration in the 1970's, as part of a renovation. The church at that time was all one color and the altar space was a soaring emptiness, with beautiful windows. When I realized what the windows portrayed I [...]
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Suburban Banshee wrote a lovely column here https://suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com/?wref=bif about the reading for Sunday, June 29th, celebrating the Solemnity of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Her discussion is both hilarious and informative. The reading from Acts 12:5-17 is about the rescue of Saint Peter from the dungeons of Herod, after Herod had executed Saint James the [...]
Mass at home
I sat down to think about writing and realized that I am not ready to express my deep thoughts about the ordination I attended last week. I can say it was a joyful and lengthy event. I can say that I attended with an eight-year old, a six-year old, a three-year old and a one-year [...]
The Beautiful Gate
Today's Epistle Reading Acts 3:1-10 Now Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour of prayer. And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb, was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them [...]
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