St. Paul illuminated the sublime dignity of sacramental marriage in calling it a “great mystery” comparable to the love of Christ for His Church (Ephesians V: 32). Natural love pales in ...
Collinson, Patrick 1989. Shepherds, Sheepdogs, and Hirelings: The Pastoral Ministry in Post-Reformation England. Studies in Church History, Vol. 26, Issue. , p. 185.
‘The Marriage of the Virgin’ is shown in a fresco in St. Augustine Church in Covington, Kentucky. (photo: Nheyob / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) This Sunday’s Gospel offers some ...
parishioners at the church of Saint Félix in the small town of Champigny-en-Beauce in France’s Loire Valley attended services in the presence of a painting they thought was a 19th-century copy ...
the Catholic Church (some of which are what we would call priceless). Nevertheless, art can provide an encounter with the mysterious, a territory that borders the mystical. Perhaps that is why I ...