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 [...]
Category: Bible and catechism
O Happy Fault
Pictures from the National Gallery of Art...
Harps at the National Gallery of Art in DC
I mention DC because sometimes when I do a search for National Gallery I get London. I'm offering a little eye candy today. All the pictures are from National Art Gallery and all are in the public domain. Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely artist: Thomas Sully, 1818. What's very entertaining to me about this [...]
A puzzle and a metaphor
A friend sent me this photo of a painting on the wall of a church he had visited. The picture came in as a fuzzy image at first which sometimes happens when iPhones send pictures to my Not an iPhone. Because I knew the church's name was Saint Helen I carelessly though that it was [...]
Merry Christmas Eve
The Presentation O-Sek Bang, 1974 from an exhibit at the Marian Library at University of Dayton, in 2006. Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea was an exhibit at the University of Dayton's Marian Center in 2006. It featured a Korean artist, O-Sek Bang. The promotional material says that "Ms. Bang, whose grandparents [...]