The Divine Mercy Shrine: Now That's a Shrine!
During the Mass of canonization of St. Faustina on April 30, 2000, the year of the Great Jubilee, Pope John Paul II proclaimed: “It is important then that we accept the whole message that comes to us from the word of God on this Second Sunday of Easter, which from now on throughout the Church, will be called Divine Mercy Sunday.” More…
“We have been staunch defenders of religious liberty in the past. We have a solemn duty to discharge that duty today,… for religious liberty is under attack, both at home and abroad.” More…
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William Holman Hunt: Light of the World
“At every time and in every place God draws close to man. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church.”
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Wishing each and every one of you many joys and blessings this Easter Season!
Icons do not depict the actual event of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ directly. To quote from the book: The Incarnate God, Vol.2, (translated by Paul Meyendorff:) “Since about the 4th century, the Church has permitted only two icons of the Resurrection for liturgical use. These are the image of the holy women at the tomb, and the descent of Christ into Hell.”
As Western art and civilization moved towards subjective interpretation and self-expression, artists were encouraged to imagine moments not necessarily described in Scripture. These images can also, of course, be quite beautiful (think of the Sistine Chapel, for example), but are regarded as religious paintings and not as icons. Icons are liturgical art–theology in line and color, and not simply the product of imagination, emotions, and a skilled hand. They are steeped in Scripture…
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Fr Joseph Tham, LC, MD, PhD
A few years ago, I remember being at the scene of a traffic accident in the outskirts of Rome. The car apparently lost control and smashed into a tree. More…
Yesterday I embedded the wrong video in the Four Horsemen post. I meant to embed one of an exchange between Neil DeGrass Tyson and Sam Harris. Instead I mistakenly embedded a similar one, from the same conference, which ends with Dawkins using a vulgar explicative. I apologize if anyone was offended by my mistake. (We try to keep our content at or below PG-13).
If you are interested, I changed the video and the one that is there now makes much more sense within the context of the rest of the article.
Thank you!
James Stone
P.S.: As a token of my appreciation to our readers (perhaps an olive branch if needed — JK), I leave you with this little gift to brighten your day… More…
Atheism was once a practical mindset: living as though God did not exist. More…
Must we see in order to believe?
The reason most people believe in God is simple: Faith. More…
Here’s a video of the RC Mission Corps’s Living Stations of the Cross at Old St Patrick’s Cathedral in Soho. More…
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