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  • Holy Eucharist Painting
    The beauty of our God in the Holy Eucharist 
    by A Catholic man
    I wish to love you Lord, help me to love you more. I believe Lord, help my unbelief. Forgive me Lord, for I am a sinner. Who are you, my God, and who am I? You are Everything, and I am nothing…
  • The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859.
    Only love can repay love 
    by A Catholic man
    Prayer, the language and act of love, always acknowledges the other. If we pray just for ourselves, are we really in prayer?
  • The Billowing Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky (1889)
    The world is passing away 
    by A Catholic man
    St John Paul II has a diary entry that just says: “The form of the world is passing away”…
  • (Dawn, by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840))
    “Before the foundation of the world” 
    by A Catholic man
    The title comes from John 17:24. It is part of the priestly prayer of Jesus for the Church. Our Lord is asking His Father that those who believe in Him may be with Him where He is, to behold His glory which God the Father has given Him in His love “before the foundation of the world”….
  • Among the Sierra Nevada, California
    “Infinite Solitude” 
    by A Catholic man
    Love requires the other: I-and-thou; for love is the gifting of one’s person (body-and-soul), without reservations and conditions, to another person…
  • The Agony in the Garden (Christ on the Mount of Olives) Giuseppe Cesari
    “Love has been found” 
    by A Catholic man
    God is love! Who would have thought? Certainly, nobody…
  • The Annunciation
    A short meditation on our Lady’s “fiat” 
    by A Catholic man
    Before the great mystery of the Incarnation, God has given us the great mystery of the Annunciation. Each of these two mysteries illuminate one another…
  • The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise Giovanni di Paolo
    “Out of nothing” 
    by A Catholic man
    […] faith and reason are not opposed to one another, they are not even separated by an invisible wall that permits them to run alongside one another but never to intermingle. Faith and reason overlap, the former elevating the latter, the latter guiding the former.
  • “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” by Luc Olivier Merson
    “Light from light” 
    by A Catholic man
    There are certain images in holy Scriptures, the teachings of the Church, and in the writings of the Saints, in essence there are images consisting of words found in the Catholic Faith, of a beauty that is breathtaking…
  • For the love of God 
    by A Catholic man
    To know is to remember (Plato, Meno). Remember what? Who we are, and why we are: “I will call to mind the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old” (Ps 77:11). Remember those wonders of old, so old that they reach far back to the “beginning” (Gen 1:1)….