ByFons
As the liturgical calendar was turning over into a new year this week, my husband Eric and I were at the tail end of a visit to India, staying with new friends Jyoti and Jane Sahi. Jyoti’s an artist, and Jane is a children’s educator, and together they live in the Christian village of Silvepura,…
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The Eight Beatitudes with the art of Peter Clare The eight pictures which depict Matthew 5: 3-10, the gospel for the Feast of All Saints, have the same background colour: a mixture of yellow, brown and green which approaches the colour of gold. In all the pictures the figures are surrounded by a thick line….
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“My wife doesn’t do anything, she is just at home” a father of a student from Kerala always used to introduce his wife to others like this. But this boy always saw his mother busy with so much housework, so he painted her while doing so much work and titled it ‘My Mother and Mothers…
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A new national landmark which aims to profile a million answered prayers has been given the go ahead to be built on a site near Coleshill on the outskirts of Birmingham. The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, which will eclipse the size of the Angel of the North, will stand at 169 feet and is expected…
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One of Velasco’s captivating artworks is his modern painting of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” called “Hapag ng Pag-asa” (A Table of Hope). The painting shows Jesus eating not with his apostles but with a group of street children in a nasty and dilapidated setting. They are not even eating at a table but on…
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Traditional Christian art seems something of the past that does not offer any new insights. More recently inculturated art forms from Asia and Africa have been appreciated because they are thought to bring a fresh perspective on Biblical themes. As an artist, I have not represented Jesus in the conventional way that is typical of…
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The Gospels do not describe the physical appearance of Jesus. However, each culture has presented Jesus in their own cultural forms. Since ancient times, Christianity wore different clothes, spoke varied languages, and followed diverse customs. Indians of different cultural backgrounds responded to the Gospel narratives after learning them in their local languages, beginning with Tamil,…
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When the days of Covid-19 are the days you have to move on but can’t move out Yesterday, August, 6, 2020, on the Feast of the Transfiguration here at the Formation House, Iloilo, was a remarkable day as we launched officially the new academic year as well as bade farewell to Fr. Domingo Arnaiz after…
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We began by asking: Does a black Jesus matter? Paraphrasing this, we ask again: Does a Dalit Jesus matter? Or a poor Jesus? Does a Jesus matter who asserts the place of women in his life? Yes, it does. This is what incarnation means — Jesus is a wholly Jewish man, with a brown face…
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The Catholic music collective Damascus Worship releases a CD of Catholic worship music. Four songs by 20-year-old singer-composer Seph Schlueter are the eye-catchers on Awake My Soul, a new, beautifully published CD with music inspired by the Catholic faith. The compilation album has been available since June 12. It has been listened to over 10,000…
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Street artists all over the world have ventured out into quiet streets and left behind vibrant, thought-provoking, amusing commentary on the crisis. Many echo the same message as Banksy, that it’s the nurses and front-line healthcare workers that are the real heroes in this crisis. This can be seen in the new work of Amsterdam-based…
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There is a hidden meaning in this painting which needs explanation. The meaning gradually developed when I was painting myself, born between the two rivers (Dinkel and Regge, top and bottom blue lines), becoming a member of Mill Hill (the red lines left and right, sign of the sash or girdle of a Mill Hill…
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