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Category: Saints / Mary
Thinking Through Tradition with the Myrrhbearers and St John
Tradition is not just information about God, or correct words and ritual forms. It is rather a living encounter with God.
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Of Tombs that are Empty, and Tombs that are Filling
So, on this Easter 2022, I will simply have to hold together the beautiful images from Queen Melisende’s Psalter, with the photo of a Ukrainian mother, Nadiya Trubchaninova, wailing at the coffin of her son Vadym.
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February 2: “There was also a Prophet…” (Luke 2:36)
Candlemas also marks the death of a 20th-century prophet.
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Between Epiphany and Lent: A Soft Point in the Liturgical Year
What if we envisioned the “empty” period of time between Epiphany and Lent as an opportunity for making meaning?
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December 26 is Saint Stephen, isn’t it?
A proposal for a reconfiguration of the liturgical calendar in the Roman rite.
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A Pilgrimage to the Earth
The earth itself, the Alaskan earth—St Herman’s earth—was my relic, my pilgrimage souvenir. A sign of hope amidst corruption.
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A Woman Named Martha
She is a saint for us all, worriers and workers, and those of us who love to unite our prayer and work.
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Popular Piety: Holy Cards
Popular piety can’t really be programmed. You never know where something like this is going to land.
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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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Anna, the Prophet, and Her “Censored Pulpit”
Depictions of Anna in Christian visual art have made up for some of this censoring over the centuries, by letting Anna speak through hand gestures, or by giving her a message to proclaim via words written on a scroll she is holding.
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