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Apr 26 - “Christ Enthroned” © icon by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM.

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This icon depicts the Christ in eschatological glory. The blue spheres around him, without beginning or end, represent eternity, and the red squares represent time. The Greek letters in his halo signify “I am who I am,” God and human. Christ bridges time and eternity.

The Old Testament prophets had fantastic visions of God in glory, and their imagery was repeated in the New Testament. Six-winged seraphim surround Christ’s throne, and Ezechial’s winged beasts emerge from the four directions, now representing the four evangelists. All except for Christ are painted as though transparent, to emphasize that they are spirits. Christ is painted with bold colors, because he is human. Material creation is enthroned in the highest heavens. This is the core of our faith as Christians.

Misguided emphasis has sometimes led Christians to spurn the material world. This world of ours is called to inconceivable glory, however -- both because it was created by God, but also because it was assumed into God’s very person. Because of Christ, there is no thing nor any person in this world that does not command our respect. As St. Gregory of Nyssa said many centuries ago, if only we would take off our shoes -- referring to the story of Moses and the burning bush -- we would discover that all ground was sacred.

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Apr 26 - “Martyrdom of St. Peter Armengol” by Museum Religious Art Classics. Happy Feast Day St. Peter!

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Artist: Vicente Carducho – c. 16th century

In this painting of Peter Armengol shows the saint being saved from death by hanging through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

St. Peter was a brother in the Order of Mercy in the thirteenth century. As portrayed in this artwork, the holy religious was once hung while offering himself as a hostage in exchange for a group of captured youths in Algeria. A fellow religious arrived at the scene of St. Peter's execution with redemption money and found his saintly brother still alive through the aid of Our Lady.

He received canonization as a saint on 8 April 1687 after Pope Innocent XI approved his sainthood and his long-standing devotion.

His feast day is April 26.

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Apr 25 - “Our Lady of Good Death Clermont” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Our Lady of the Good Death with her shining golden robes and her smile invites us not to fear death with her as our guide, but to pray for a good death. A good death is one that leads to eternal joy and glory in Heaven.

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Apr 25 - “St. Brigid of 100,000 Welcomes” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Brigid loved to make beer for the poor every Easter. It was her gift to them in celebration of the greatest of all Christian feasts. Brigid felt we could see the face of Jesus most clearly in the faces of the poor. CEAD MILE FAILTE!

Her feast day is February 01.

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Apr 25 - “St. Pedro Betancur” © icon by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM. Happy Feast Day St. Pedro!

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This Spanish shepherd traveled to Guatemala when he was 23 years old, hoping to improve his lot. When he arrived, however, he was so destitute that he had to join the breadline the local Franciscan friars had established. He enrolled in the Jesuit College with the hope of becoming a priest, but could not master the academic material. Instead he joined the Franciscan Third Order.

As a Tertiary, he worked among the poor in Antigua. He founded a hospital for the convalescent poor, and then a shelter for the homeless, schools for the poor, an oratory, and an inn for priests. In time he also founded a religious congregation called the Bethlehemites.

In this icon he holds his walking stick and is ringing the bell he used when he wandered the streets of Antigua at night. He rang the bell to remind people to pray.

His feast day is April 25.

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Apr 25 - “Heart Speaks To Heart” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Thank You From The Bottom Of My Heart.

A heart speaks to a heart, lips speak only to ears.
—Saint Francis de Sales

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Apr 25 - “Golfer: Think Only of Living Today Well” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Think only of living today well.
—Saint Francis de Sales

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Apr 25 - “Garden Madonna” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Mary, most pure Virgin and Mother of God, I remind thee of the blessed moment when thou didst see for the first time thy newly born Child and folded Him in thy arms.

Through this joy of thy maternal heart, obtain for me the grace that I and my child may be protected from all danger.

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Apr 23 - “St. George of Lydda” by Museum Religious Art Classics. Happy Feast Day St. Lydda!

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Artist: Bernat Martorell – c. 1434 – 1435

Bernat Martorell was the greatest painter of the first half of the fifteenth century in Catalonia in northeastern Spain. Depicted here is the most frequently represented episode from the popular legend of Saint George, in which the model Christian knight saves a town and rescues a beautiful princess. Conceived in the elegant, decorative International Gothic style, the painting was originally the center of an altarpiece dedicated to Saint George that was apparently made for the chapel of the palace of the Catalan government in Barcelona.

Here Saint George, on his white steed, triumphs over the evil dragon. A wealth of precisely observed details intensifies the drama. Dressed in an ermine-lined robe, the princess wears a sumptuous gilt crown atop her wavy red-gold hair. Her parents and their subjects watch the spectacle from the distant town walls. George’s halo and armor and the scaly body of the dragon are richly modeled with raised stucco decoration. Martorell also treated the ground, littered with bones and crawling with lizards, in a lively manner, giving it a gritty texture.

His feast day is April 23.

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Apr 23 - “Sts. Adalbert and Procopius” by Museum Religious Art Classics. Happy Feast Day St. Adalbert!

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Artist: Master of Eggenburg – c. 1490 – 1500

Adalbert of Prague, known in Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia by his birth name Vojtěch, was a Bohemian missionary and Christian saint. He was the Bishop of Prague and a missionary to the Hungarians, Poles, and Prussians, who was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity.

Adalbert’s feast day is April 23.

Procopius of Sázava (died March 25, 1053) was a Bohemian canon and hermit, canonized as a saint of the Catholic church in 1204. After his canonization, he became greatly venerated throughout Bohemia, to the point of his being considered the national saint of the kingdom of Bohemia.

Procopius’ feast day is July 14.

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