by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog
“If you blur your eyes or view the painting from afar, the emblems disappear; what remains is the figure of a man wearing white robes against a blue-grey background, standing in warm light.” This is how sacred artist Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs sums up her new painting of...
by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog
“I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.”Osee 14:6 In his principal Mass, St. Joseph is compared to three plants: the palm, the cedar of Lebanon, and the lily. The Introit begins, “Justus ut palma...
by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come.—Joel 2:31 The Prophecy of Joel After the descent of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost Sunday, when St. Peter preaches the Gospel for the first time, he...