Tag: Liturgical Art
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Preaching as Liturgical Art: Part I
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — The point of the image is encounter. This sacred art is meant not merely to instruct the faithful (pace Gregory the Great), but it facilitates communion. This is true of all the liturgical arts—they are all forming an encompassing, diachronic and synchronic image of heavenly worship.
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Undamaged Windows of Notre Dame to be Replaced
EDITOR — “This project, announced by President Emmanuel Macron in December with the support of the Archdiocese of Paris, has since been strongly criticized by various experts, not least because the stained-glass windows in question were completely spared by the fire.”
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Liturgical Face Masks
Fabric artists, the Church needs you!
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Six Days of Creation Icon Painting Workshop
This past week I worked with iconographer Anna Gouriev at a Hexaemeron icon painting workshop hosted at Diakonia Retreat Center in Salem, South Carolina. Another track, on icon carving, was led by Jonathan Pageau. For those not familiar with the traditional Russian process of icon painting (or “writing”), it is a prayerful time of transforming…
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The Best Modern Churches of the UK
“It’s not 60s flares, really, which soon die and you’re embarrassed by. There’s something very ancient about this building, which gives it a rootedness.”
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Inculturation viewed from the other side
Worries about inculturation are often couched in terms of compromising the integrity of the Gospel. A recent case in India raises a correlative issue about compromising the integrity of other religions.
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A Newly Refurbished Interior for St. Mary Cathedral in St. Cloud, MN
While the blogosphere abounds with drastic “before” and “after” photos of church renovations, the St. Mary’s project is worth noting because of its sheer reasonableness.
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Renovation of Famous Cathedral of St. Gall, Switzerland, Encounters Opposition – UPDATED 2-24
Moving the altar nearly in the middle under the cupola and placing a golden ring above it was the plan of the London architectural firm “Caruso St. John Architects.”