Over the past few weeks, we have looked at the setting for the church to gather in a number of posts. Anthony has commented on
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Category: Art and Architecture
Dippy the Dinosaur in Norwich Cathedral
Sometimes people say that the Christian Faith is in trouble. Numbers of people attending church are down. Many ecclesial institutions have trouble staying open. A
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Shed of the Year
I am not the most optimistic person in the world. So looking at the situation of the Church, I often despair that it will all
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Marian Icon Lecture
Marek Czarnecki returns to Saint Meinrad for another week of work on icons for a portable iconostasis. He will be offering the following lecture Monday night, April 19, at 6:30 CT, available by live-stream: “Mary, the Mother of God in Icons: From the Catacombs to Today.”
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For the priest who has everything
I like to think of myself as a fairly avid follower of things liturgical, so I was surprised when, a few weeks ago, I came
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The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography
The first lecture will be Monday, March 22, 2021, on “The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography,” beginning at 7:00 pm CT. The live stream/recording link is here.
Read moreRIP Fr. John Giuliani
Fr. James Martin has announced that Fr. John Giuliani, well-known iconographer and founder of the Amalia & Nicola Giuliani Foundation for Religion and the Arts,
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Proximity to the Holy in Time and Space
We like to remember that God is everywhere. In a time of pandemic, when so many have been cut off from the fullness of access to holy ritual space, we want to offer the comfort of remembering God’s transcendence.
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Ethiopia’s Church Forests
Emergence Magazine is an online publication featuring innovative stories that explore the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. They recently published an essay and a
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Return Gallery Devotional Art to Churches?
These works proclaim to all the dignity of the human person, the majesty of the Christian spiritual journey, and the hope of heaven in the midst of the complications of now.
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