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From “The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise” by Robert Cardinal Sarah, Nicolas Diat: Mankind must join a sort of resistance movement. What will become of our…
The exterior of the Church of St Theresa in Sion Mills is most notable for a frieze of the Last Supper by Oisin Kelly: Detail: Inside there are some interesting stained…
Via Le Dauphiné, a report with two photos of the funeral of Arcabas, the recently deceased French painter of the Sacred.: Mardi matin, l’église de Saint-Hugues-de-Chartreuse a accueilli les obsèques de Jean-Marie…
On the Irish Franciscan’s Praying Nature page, there is a section of “eco prayers”: A Franciscan presence and spirit requires living a way of life that cherishes Gospel values as St. Francis…
On the website Thinking Faith, Emma Holland has an interesting piece on the resurgence of popularlity of pilgrimage. I’ve blogged a lot here about Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” a book which is…
More work by the late French sacred artist Arcabas – this online gallery of paintings related to the Passion and Resurrection:
The French sacred painter Arcabas (real name Jean-Marie Pirot has died : Jean-Marie Pirot-Arcabas was born in 1926 in Lorraine (France). Graduated from the Fine Arts School (Ecole Nationale Supérieure…
It is St Helen’s day, commemorating the mother of the Emperor Constantine whose mission to recover the cross on which Christ was killed inspired Evelyn Waugh’s Helena. Recent I visited…
Séamus Sweeney 