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 [...]
Category: Bible and catechism
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 [...]
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 [...]