fine arts and liturgical animation or catechesis

[Mauricelamou]

During centuries, the history of the faith was expressed in the painting of
art. It became a popular means of catechesis. Are there today priests or
pastors using the works of art in the catechesis or liturgical animation? Soon
Pentecost. With this occasion I made an iconographic search for documentation.
I found 34 paintings on Babel and 15 paintings over Pentecost in a good format
JPG full screen 800/600 pixels .
Maurice, Valence, France

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/maurice.lamouroux /

Many other paintings on Abraham, Gethsemane, Emmaus ...my site is in progress .
Useful tables you can keep in your computer .

[Mark Johnson]

mauric...@aol.com (Mauricelamou) wrote:

>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/maurice.lamouroux /

It's no longer so expressed, except by those more traditionalist, and
returning to that, because otherwise these 'catholics', the corner
parish types, have no Catholicism to . . "express". It's just a
lukewarm Protestantism, a 'mainline' Prot indifference to religion,
even.

The best 'expression' will still be found in the masterpieces, the
reliefs and glass of parishes I'm sure you know better than anyone
from the 'states'. It would be local - in a French country so rapidly
deteriorating (and I don't mean Le Pen).

Here we have the smallest sampling at the newly reopened university
gallery at Stanford. There is an ivory panel of the Crucixfixion, for
example. There is a painting of the foot of the Cross, as in the
stations, if I recall. And like that. I still find the works mentioned
in the Gospel in Art, and old book with bw plates, still inspiring -
from Tissot, his Life of Christ series, to Murillo, of course, the
Germans, and others. In fact I have a rather tattered multi-volume
edition of Tissot's Life of Christ - these are not that uncommon on
ebay, I think. They can be very inspiring images.

Peace.

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* When one finds nothing more to say to God,
* but just knows He is there --
* that, in itself, is the best of prayers.

[Fr. John Vianney, priest of Ars township, France, 1859]

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