A Carthusian Bishop

A Carthusian Bishop

“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...
The Lily and the Carpenter

The Lily and the Carpenter

“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...
Darkness & Blood: A New Pietà

Darkness & Blood: A New Pietà

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...