For many, the ambiguity of shadow is perhaps an important symbol, a pointing to our partial vision of the economy of God and a faithful participation of life between realities.
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Category: Art and Architecture
Six Days of Creation Icon Painting Workshop
This past week I worked with iconographer Anna Gouriev at a Hexaemeron icon painting workshop hosted at Diakonia Retreat Center in Salem, South Carolina. Another
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Glimpses of Liturgical Renewal in Russia
Similar to the voices of the Liturgical Movement in the West, the Bishops of the Russian Church in the early 20th century were concerned with the participation of the faithful in liturgy. As one bishop wrote, “…the faithful must participate in it directly, consciously, and actively.”
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A response to Dr. Peter Kwasniewski’s comments on Christ Cathedral
The Church is a big tent, Personal taste and sensibility understandably vary. But…
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Is God a “Tourist Attraction”?
I imagine that many readers are already familiar with the photographs of some of England’s ancient cathedrals that have recently been retrofitted with more “relevant”
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Monastery Spotlight: Abbey of St. Walburga, Virginia Dale, Colorado
I recently had the opportunity to spend a week of retreat with the Benedictine nuns at the Abbey of St. Walburga in the beautiful rocky
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The Oratory of the Sacred Heart Dominican Convent in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
The high point was a visit to the Oratory with art its work by Sr. Concepta Lynch, OP.
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Worship — and What Threatens It
Do we – and how do we — struggle to contain evil as we enter into God’s presence?
Read moreNew Center for Liturgy and Culture at Benedictine in Atchison
In an email sent Thursday to faculty, staff, and students of the Liturgical Institute in Mundelein, IL, Fr. Thomas Baima, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs,
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New: Certificate in Liturgical Art and Architecture
At St. John’s in Collegeville, starting June 2020.
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