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“Sit on my right”

Psalm 110 The Lord’s revelation to my Master: “Sit on my right: your foes I will put beneath your feet.” The Lord will wield from Zion your scepter of power: rule in the midst of all your foes. A...

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Another “Which one?” Post

                                     OR (click on the photos to see a larger image) If you had no other choice, which one would you choose to worship at each week for the next year: A or B? Can you...

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The “Righteousness of the Plain”

1. Monastery of Kloster Eberbach, 1145-1160 and 1170-1186, Frankfurt The phrase –“the righteousness of the plain”– is used by Robin M. Jensen in her 2004 book The Substance of Things Seen [1] to...

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Saint Matthew the Apostle Cathedral, Washington D.C.

I visited the cathedral church of Washington D.C. this past weekend –the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle. Most my age probably remember this church from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy....

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Savannah Georgia’s Cathedral Church

Can you stand a peek at another cathedral? (See a video that I made of the Cathedral, here.) I was fortunate to visit the cathedral church of Savannah, Georgia (St. John the Baptist) a couple of weeks...

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Nina Somerset, Liturgical Artist

From the New Liturgical Movement website. by David Clayton   …The website of …  St Silas the Martyr, talks about a devout Christian who was a daily communicant (I can’t see any direct reference on the...

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A Gem in Geneva – Part I

Many of you are probably already familiar with St. Stephen’s Church in Geneva, NY and know of its beautiful sacred art. But, yesterday was my first visit there and I can encourage anyone who hasn’t...

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The Church Building As The Heavenly Jerusalem

The earliest –and longest running- thematic program in church construction and decoration is the vision of the “Heavenly Jerusalem” as described in the Book of Revelation.1 Church buildings have most...

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The Church Building as Garden

This is the second in a series on the traditional meaning of Catholic Church architecture. The first is HERE. Conjurer, if you will, the biblical image presented to us in Genesis 3:8: “…they heard the...

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Thy Kingdom (is) Come

This altar is in a Lima, Peru church. I don’t recall which one. It may have been a side altar in the cathedral. (Click on the picture to see a clearer image) I’ve been reading N. T. Wright’s How God...

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