Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review DIVINE HOSPITALITY Artwork by Scott Erickson scottericksonart.com @scottthepainter John Christman, SSS Anyone with a love of Christian art would be fascinated by the catacombs of Callixtus. Named after Pope Callixtus I, these ancient Roman catacombs were the burial place of early Christians for centuries. […]
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Eucharist & Culture · March / April 2021
Eucharist & Culture (March/April 2021)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Film Review DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD Kirsten Johnson USA, 2020 Netflix By John Christman, SSS Death comes to us all. Just how it will come is a mystery. Will I die in a car accident? Will I die from cancer or some other illness? Will I […]
Eucharist & Culture · January / February 2021
Eucharist & Culture (January/February 2021)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review EUCHARISTIC DOVE (tabernacle) Stamped, champlevé, engraved, chiseled, enameled copper in sky blue and lavender blue and gilded with 23.5-carat gold leaf. Collection, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Michael DeSanctis There’s a hammered-metal facsimile of a dove I know of, a so-called peristerium to […]
Eucharist & Culture · November / December 2020
Eucharist & Culture (November/December 2020)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review THE BURLINGTON HOUSE CARTOON – THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH SAINT ANNE AND SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST Leonardo Da Vinci c. 1500 charcoal on paper John Christman, SSS Grandmothers, mothers and children, we are all somehow connected within that web of relationships. Christian art […]
Eucharist & Culture · September / October 2020
Eucharist & Culture (September/October 2020)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review WILD FUCHSIA Patrick Negri, SSS Oil on Canvas 2012 Book Review SALT AND LIGHT: WORDS OF THE DAY Patrick Negri, SSS Adelaide, Australia ATF Theology 2020 John Christman, SSS I admire Patrick Negri in the same way I admire the Italian […]
Eucharist & Culture · July / August 2020
Eucharist & Culture (July/August 2020)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review NUEVOS TESTAMENTOS Tom Kiefer Photograph John Christman, SSS Meaningful objects can help get us through difficult times. A photograph of a loved one, a keepsake from a meaningful relationship, a prized possession that speaks to one’s identity, all of these can provide strength during […]
Eucharist & Culture · May / June 2020
Eucharist & Culture (May/June 2020)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Book Reviews THE TEN GREEN COMMANDMENTS OF LAUDATO SI’ Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam The Liturgical Press Collegeville, MN 2019 Fr. Kureethadam’s text offers a clear, enlightening study of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ (LS). The Preface informs the reader that the text will be expository in nature rather […]
Eucharist & Culture · March / April 2020
Eucharist & Culture (March/April 2020)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review Fra Angelico CHRIST CROWNED WITH THORNS Tempera and Gold on Panel circa 1430 John Christman, SSS I don’t like this painting. I don’t care for works of art that stridently emphasize Jesus’ suffering. Whether it’s Matthias Grünewald’s famous crucifixion scene from the Isenheim altarpiece […]
Eucharist & Culture · January / February 2020
Eucharist & Culture (January/February 2020)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review THE TIME IS SOON Nicora Gangi Pastel 2016 John Christman, SSS People who have a sacramental worldview often place greater meaning upon everyday objects. They are perhaps less likely to embrace the type of “throwaway culture” that Pope Francis has criticized in his […]
Eucharist & Culture · November / December 2019
Eucharist & Culture (November/December 2019)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST Sculpture marble Collection, Église Saint Jean Baptiste New York, New York Bernard Camiré, SSS This statue of Saint John the Baptist, very appropriately, greets worshipers and visitors as they enter the Blessed Sacrament Congregation’s Church of Saint Jean Baptiste […]