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Blogs

GREAT, ANOTHER TWIT

by David March 23, 2013

Because what the world needs now is one more person on Twitter, I’ve decided to sign up and bore people with random movie quotes, instantaneous rants about whatever I’m watching, and other unnecessary things. Feel free to add me to…

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Two Relief Carvings of the Entry into Jerusalem

by David Clayton March 22, 2013

Here are some images selected, at least initially, with Palm Sunday in mind. They have three things in common: they are of the same subject – the Entry into Jerusalem; they are both relief carvings; and they are both by…

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NEWS FLASH: MAGICIAN PRODUCES ANCIENT IDIOCY OUT OF THIN AIR

by David March 22, 2013

Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Catholic, and all you other Christians at sea. We interupt this blog with this news flash. As fate would have it, right on the heels of our review of Oz The Great And Powerful, the…

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Summer courses: Diploma on the Theology of Sacred Art Offered in US and UK; Icon painting course in Kansas

by David Clayton March 19, 2013

Once again, Dr Caroline Farey and myself will be teaching the summer residential weekends for the diploma offered by the Maryvale Institute. There will be a five-day icon painting class afterwards taught by myself.
It is offered in the US…

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Video of Sculptor Andrew Wilson Smith at Clear Creek, Oklahoma

by David Clayton March 19, 2013

Here is small video of sculptor Andrew Wilson Smith who is currently working at Clear Creek monastery. I enjoyed seeing him work and the hints we got of the process by which he actually works. I also enjoyed the views…

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Update on Vespers at the Veterans’ Hospital in Manchester, NH

by David Clayton March 15, 2013

Readers may remember my writing about a small group of us making the commitment to sing Vespers and Compline at the Veterans hospital in Manchester, NH. We have been singing there fortnightly now since September last year. One of the…

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AND SO THE WAITING BEGINS

by David March 11, 2013

In less than 24 (or 48 or 72 or more) hours we could know who will chosen as the next pope! Who’s it going to be? Scola? Turkson? Scherer? Dolan? No, he’s American and everybody hates us. What about Ouellet,…

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A Question for Way of Beauty Readers

by David Clayton March 11, 2013

Recently a reader contacted me with a question about Fra Angelico’s fresco of the Last Supper. Is there a particular reason why some of the figures are kneeling and others not? And who is the female figure present? In answer…

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