What happens when the waiting ends and the journey is over? There has been so much preparation,…
Advent
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In a world scarred by suffering, sin, and death, where can we find hope today? Across continents,…
We say these weeks of Advent, in which we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, are a time…
In this Advent reflection, Fr. Marc Rastoin, SJ, invites readers to a discerning contemplation of hope in…
In South Lebanon, on the heights above the City of Sidon, there is a famous pilgrimage site…
Adviento celebra el advenimiento, la llegada de Jesús. Es un tiempo precioso en que la Liturgia –a…
Advent is a beautiful time. It is filled with many themes of waiting and expectation, of promises…
This Christmas, how many grandparents are longing to hug their grandchildren and to feel their hugs in response. In the most natural way, so much is communicated in a touch that words cannot express. The French Christian philosopher, Jean-Louis Chrétien reminds us that the first evidence of the soul is the sense of touch.
The Annunciation is remarkably uncluttered. There is just the Angel and Mary: the Angel in the subtlest of movements towards her and she, wrapped but inclined towards the Angel. These subtle physical gestures carry a quiet intensity of attentiveness. Neither the Angel or Mary speak, yet we are in no doubt that they are communicating.
Even when he paints people in some sort of relationship – at a table, in a lounge or on a bed – there is always a sense of aloneness, space both defining and placing them while emphasising their singularity. His paintings all have the quality of a still-life. In their urban or domestic space, caught in a moment when they are not conscious of us, his people, which could easily be static objects, manage to engage us.