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My Favorite Chapels
Today was the kind of day that lets you open all the windows and enjoy the breezy feel of being outdoors without actually going outdoors. It reminded me of how much I loved going camping as a Girl Scout, living outdoors … Continue reading
Held: Blessings for the Depths (…including one from me!)
An amazing book is coming out soon, and I’m honored and thrilled to be a contributor! When I first read the call for submissions from enfleshed for a new book called “Held: Blessings for the Depths”, I knew immediately that … Continue reading
The Statue at the Synod and the Catholic Imagination
Symbols and artwork are multivalent. How can any Catholic with a properly formed imagination look at a statue of a heavily pregnant woman in the context of a church, and not see Mary pregnant with Jesus? Is it because she … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Church history, Sacred art & architecture
Tagged Amazon Synod, mary, pregnancy, statues
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What is a church, that we should be mindful of it?
I found myself crying, as I watched Notre Dame burn. I’d only been there once; why was I crying? I cried as I watched the people gathered to sing the Hail Mary as they watched the Cathedral of Our Lady … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Sacred art & architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged church
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Art, Co-Redemption, and Kenosis: Reading the Vierge Ouvrante
An intricate piece of devotional art at the Walters Art Museum captured my imagination this last weekend. This particular piece is carved from ivory, and is an example of a type of medieval art known as a Vierge Ouvrante, or … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Sacred art & architecture, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged mariology, mary
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Stations of the Cross
So I finally got to Stations of the Cross last night – I’ve been wanting to get to them since I was writing my thesis last year and realized that is was a devotional practice that could foster empathy. As … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Liturgy, Roundup, Sacred art & architecture
Tagged devotions, lent, liturgy report
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Remembering The Ones Who “Fit the Description”
The description wasn’t very specific: sex, race, age range. But the wealthy elite were sufficiently disturbed that they sent law enforcement out in force, with a tacit understanding that a blind eye would be turned towards any “overly aggressive tactics” … Continue reading
The Feast of the Lateran Basilica: Lectionary Reflection
This Sunday was the Feast of the Lateran Basilica, the “mother church” and very first basilica (Roman-style large public worship space) of the Church in Rome after the persecutions were ended. So it was a good day for ecclesiological reflection … Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiology, Lectionary reflection, Sacred art & architecture
Tagged 1 cor 3, ez 47, john 2, lateran
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Painted Screens and Painted Stations: a Secular and Sacred Art Report
Last Sunday afternoon, I spent a couple hours at the Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, one of the two interfaith centers in which my parish has a presence. The building has a central area resembling a courtyard, with plenty of natural … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Sacred art & architecture
Tagged art, baltimore, guadalupe, sacred art, stations of the cross, tabernacle, worship spaces
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Gaudete Theology 