Throughout scripture there is a question that is constantly asked of us. It is asked in different ways, using different words but it is always the same question.
Do we live for God or do we live for ourselves? What are our priorities?
Contemporary Icons from Poland
Bouguereau Bad, Baroque Good
The Last Starfighter and Feelings of Unworthiness
The Baroque is Tridentine Art for the Latin Mass
if we want to inspire a powerful Counter-Modern or Counter-Postmodern Catholic culture today, then we need to reconnect today's worship with art so that people are engaged with it in the course of their worship. This means modifying our worship — even in the Latin Mass - and painting art that connects with people today.
The Artist and Truth
Scented Candles Specially Created for Your Domestic Church
The Myth of the Solitary Artist
Book Review: The Anti-Mary Exposed, Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity by Dr Carrie Gress
The antidote to the anti-Mary is, of course, Mary, the Mother of God, known widely as the most powerful woman in the world and the source of the belief that women ought to be treated with dignity. She is a beacon of all the virtues and qualities—purity, humility, kindness, beauty—that oppose this sinister force that has cast its spell upon so many women.
God Uses Our Gifts In Unexpected Ways
A Meditation after Epiphany. The Transfiguration Icon and What It Tells Us About Christian Culture
The mandorla surrounding Christ usually shows concentric bands of shading which get darker toward the center, rather than lighter. It is painted in this way so as to communicate to us, pictorially, the fact that we must pass through stages of increasing mystery in order to encounter the person of Jesus Christ.
Les Misérables, Baptism, and Renewal
Christians Created Abstract Art 2000 Years Before Kandinsky - And Were Better At It!
Sacred number in art: St Matthew’s tells us there are 14 generations from Abraham to David, 14 from David until the Babylonian exile and 14 from the Babylonian exile to Christ. Matthew wrote in Aramaic. In this language, the characters of the alphabet are also used for numbers. This allows for every name to characterized both in letters and numbers. When the letters that comprise the name David are treated as numbers and added together it creates the number 14. This numerical symbolism emphasizes the fact that Christ in a king in the line of David, as prophesied.
Color Blind and Hard Hearted
Christianity's Neglected Cultural Weapons - Signs and Symbols
Obedience and the Creative Community
How Western Medicine Lost Its Soul, by Dr Michel Accad
Our Time To Choose
Boston Manor, London: Harmonious Proportion Exemplified
Surely there must be some architects out there, who can see that you could use the principle of harmonious proportion in contemporary designs and so unite them to the traditions of the past by applying them in a new way. Once we get an architect who works this out, they will be in demand before any other in the country!
