I just don’t say this often enough, but

…go to Confession and take the children (who’ve made first Confession).

If you’ve been within the last couple months, yes, go confess again.

If you’ve been within the last year or so, ’bout time to confess again.

If you’ve been within the last five years or so, get thee to the box. And so on.

It is a gift, this Sacrament, and as this one priest said to me a few years back, it’s cheaper than the therapist and guaranteed by Christ.

The Doctor is in….

Candidated

Some of the students at the seminary were made candidates for Holy Orders this past weekend. Please keep us all firmly in your prayers and ask the Lord to keep sending more of us up. Always yours.

S. Jean-Marie Vianney, the good Curé of Ars-sur-le-Formans

Lace in stone?

I mean, can you represent lace in a statue? They could, yes, in days gone by.  Statuary today is generally banal; the glorious realism of the past is seen in historic arrangements in our great museums. See here: lace in stone…

Bust of a woman, by Cesare Lapini (1846-1908)

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Here’s another one. Heavens, they knew how to carve then. Show me one person who can do this today… Statue mania is going into the link list on the right.

Little girl with a dead bird, by Jens Adolf Jerichau, 1871.

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