…while Anna remains wordless in the Gospel according to Luke, in Christian visual art, she actually begins to speak, either via hand-gestures or via a scroll with words written on it.
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Category: Art and Architecture
The Myth of Noble Simplicity
Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
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Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
“Participation and sacramental realism seem to be the most significant, fruitful, and basic concepts of church planning (art and architecture) in the 20th century.” – Fr. Cloud Meinberg OSB, 1959
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Founding a Benedictine monastery near Nairobi
As mentioned in my last post, early October found me in Nairobi for a second time in three years, teaching monastic art as part of
Read morePope Francis at Cologne Cathedral
A work in stone draws admirers of the present pope.
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All bodies are holy: heavenly bodies, juxtaposition, and weary women
Art ‘makes sense’ because it triggers the imagination flowering from something partially remembered and something partially known.
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A Church of Color
The goal is not to decorate, but to invest sacred places once again with the significance of color.
Read more8 US Catholic Churches You Have to See to Believe
“Sure, our friends across the pond [i.e., in Europe] may have time, history, and Michelangelo on their side — but it doesn’t mean that we
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Ritually Responding to Disaster: Reporting from the Canadian National Worship Conference
What have churches learned from the expanding ritual repertoire of disaster response?
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Liturgical Music and Design: Jesuit Ministry in Slovenia
The music, led by a small volunteer ensemble of voices, electric piano, and guitar, was almost entirely in the genre of “praise music,” taken from the repertoire of Hillsong and similar groups.
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