As the sacrifice of the Mass is being offered, the priest pours a drop of water into the chalice, praying sotto voce, “By the mystery of this water in wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity.” At the heart of Christ’s oblation is . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve spent the evening — well, what was left of it after dinner and baths and stories and the rosary and people wanting to keep their lights on after lights out and other people wanting to take showers upstairs at the same time that the dishes were being washed downstairs, which is . . . . Continue Reading »
So let’s continue our redecoration of Sally’s House with crosses. The picture I thought I had found of the house yesterday turned out to be her old house; her new one is much lovelier. And lovelier still, will it be, when we’re done?For the living room, we already have a sofa and . . . . Continue Reading »
Some weeks ago, my friend Debbie and I were looking for cross images. She had a specific goal in mind: she and her daughters were making a processional canopy for Father to use at Corpus Christi, and she wanted the image of a Greek Cross to trace onto the fabric, so that the girls could embroider . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s see. In our ongoing effort to redecorate Sally Thomas’ house, we have eschewed any concern with taste, color sense, or price. Cruciform alone matters: Everything must be either cross-shaped or decorated with crosses, to fulfill this decorator’s commission.So, thus far, . . . . Continue Reading »
Now this looks nice, a bookmark from the Met in New York:[Rating: 89 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . to this hand-held Coptic Cross from Ethiopia:[Rating: 65 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
A while back, Sally found a flashdrive cross necklace: Wear your faith and be saved! She rated it 23 out of 100, so I guess this flashplayer cross necklace can’t do much better:In fact, let’s say that it does worse.[Rating: 22 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
Here, via an inventors’ site, is an image of the design to which official United States Patent D367147 has been granted:It’s apparently a design for pieces of Christian art that use Christ himself as the cross on which, um, Christ is crucified.That’s a genuinely inventive . . . . Continue Reading »
The caved linden wood crucifixes offered by this site are not bad, but this saccharine head, I think, just doesn’t work:and this is even worse:Sleeping through the crucifixion. . . . . Continue Reading »
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