(Acrylic on gessoed and canvas-wrapped oval panel, Russian gold leaf and an antique, wooden back rest gilded and re-purposed as a framing device.)
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Upcoming: Stabat Mater
Currently writing an Icon of the Sorrowful Theotokos in contemplation at the foot of the Cross...
(Acrylic on gessoed and canvas-wrapped oval panel, Russian gold leaf and an antique, wooden back rest gilded and re-purposed as a framing device.)
(Acrylic on gessoed and canvas-wrapped oval panel, Russian gold leaf and an antique, wooden back rest gilded and re-purposed as a framing device.)
Quiet Projects for Christian Unity IV: "I Choose to Choose"
Someone must begin.
Something must be done.
Things must get started.
Words are insufficient.
Thoughts are fleeting.
I am just one person.
But I could decide where I would like to go.
I could decide what I would like to do.
I CAN MAKE A CHOICE!
And I choose UNITY.
I choose RECONCILIATION.
I choose FORGIVENESS.
I choose to forgive and to ask for forgiveness.
I choose UNDERSTANDING.
I choose RESPECT.
I choose ACCEPTANCE.
I choose CHARITY.
I choose HUMILITY.
I choose SIMPLICITY.
I choose TOLERANCE.
I choose FREEDOM.
I choose PEACE.
I choose to enter life experiences.
I choose to discover the many good things I share with others, and enrich them and be enriched by them.
I choose not to magnify and exaggerate that which makes us different from one another.
I choose to enter their faith expressions as I invite them to share mine.
I choose to build rather than destroy.
I choose to bridge rather than rip apart.
I choose what Jesus chose for me and you.
I choose to pray what Jesus prayed for us.
I CHOOSE TO CHOOSE,
and I choose UNITY.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Ut Unum Sint: Quiet Projects for Christian Unity III
AN ARMENIAN JONAH
(copied from a 16th century Armenian illuminated hymnal)
Reluctant Jonah (redux)
Because I’m pregnant
With fire my guts ablaze;
Molten metals red and glowing
Billowing outburst
Exploding deep within;
Awakening,
Emerging,
The flight of dawn awaiting.
Of street signs
And girth and heights and lengths,
Of varying hues and portals
I was fed;
Until my mug of morning woes
Was filled to overflowing
Much more than what I ever need
As fuel for a day’s travail.
Some do know me, another few
Who love I guess;
And less than a handful, hardcore loonies
Would dare with me transgress,
The stiff and mortared walls of niceties,
To swim, and fly, rappel;
To laugh out loud and faint,
To cry before I’m dead.
And thus not with a small amount
Of excruciating pangs I wait;
My stupor state
A bait
For some monster fish to open up
and swallow me anew,
To germinate deep
Within its fishy bowels
As it transports me
Back to the Nineveh I once despised.
And when the whole enterprise
of regurgitation's done
I would,
I must,
On its sandy beach
Give birth.
(copied from a 16th century Armenian illuminated hymnal)
Reluctant Jonah (redux)
Because I’m pregnant
With fire my guts ablaze;
Molten metals red and glowing
Billowing outburst
Exploding deep within;
Awakening,
Emerging,
The flight of dawn awaiting.
Of street signs
And girth and heights and lengths,
Of varying hues and portals
I was fed;
Until my mug of morning woes
Was filled to overflowing
Much more than what I ever need
As fuel for a day’s travail.
Some do know me, another few
Who love I guess;
And less than a handful, hardcore loonies
Would dare with me transgress,
The stiff and mortared walls of niceties,
To swim, and fly, rappel;
To laugh out loud and faint,
To cry before I’m dead.
And thus not with a small amount
Of excruciating pangs I wait;
My stupor state
A bait
For some monster fish to open up
and swallow me anew,
To germinate deep
Within its fishy bowels
As it transports me
Back to the Nineveh I once despised.
And when the whole enterprise
of regurgitation's done
I would,
I must,
On its sandy beach
Give birth.
Private Sanctuary
Wisdom!
Let us attend!
More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, Thee who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the Holy Theotokos, Thee do we magnify!
Kyrie Eleison +
Kyrie Eleison +
Kyrie Eleison +
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever unto the ages of ages!
(My Icon Wall)
Let us attend!
More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, Thee who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the Holy Theotokos, Thee do we magnify!
Kyrie Eleison +
Kyrie Eleison +
Kyrie Eleison +
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever unto the ages of ages!
(My Icon Wall)
Ut Unum Sint: Quiet Projects for Christian Unity II
THE GATES OF PARADISE
(portable, cabinet-type, triptych; acrylic on canvass and gessoed board)
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our gaze on JESUS, the AUTHOR and PERFECTER of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
(Hebrews 12, 1-2)
(closed)
The Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel stand in perpetual vigilance at the Doors...
(open)
upper left - Annunciation
lower left - Nativity
upper right - Resurrection
lower right - Crucifixion
central panel - Pantokrator- Christ in Majesty surrounded by the four winged creatures (Evangelists)
four corners of central panel - Holy relics of Saint Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney, Saint Therese of Lisieux, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and Saint Anthony of Padua.
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us!
Ut Unum Sint: Quiet Projects for Christian Unity I
Best said in colors and contemplation...
Kyrie Eleison...
Ethiopian-Coptic Meditations:
Kyrie Eleison...
Ethiopian-Coptic Meditations:
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