... A nice distinction found in the Father Lasance missal I inherited from my mother. Today, November 1, is the Feast of All Saints and I hope everyone has something festive. One of the priests around here always says, be sure to have some ice cream on a feast day. And tomorrow is the Commemoration [...]
Category: church pictures
Odds and ends for September
So first, I loved the blog post below. The Art Deco buildings from Riga, Latvia, are enticing. Take a long look at the details. The author visited the Baltic area and takes lovely pictures. https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/human-scale-buildings-and-jungendstil/?page_id=33831 Next, I messed up a password on my phone five or six years ago and thought it didn't matter. All [...]
thinking about the church
... so you get eye candy ... Top row, left and right, pulpit in a church in New Trier, Minnesota. Middle picture, possibly from the chapel at the Dominicans of Mary Mother of the Eucharist, mother house in Ann Arbor Middle row. Our Lady of Hope, statue of Saint Joseph, a church I cannot recall [...]
The cry is all for Giotto now…
Diane Tucker wrote the loveliest blog post on the frescoes done by Giotto, in a chapel called the Scrovegni. The pictures are glorious. I would only add that, when I read the story I didn’t pay enough attention to the picture showing the entire chapel interior. Look closely and realize that all the frescoes are [...]
O happy fault …
... that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!
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