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
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 […]
Eucharist & Culture · September / October 2019
Eucharist & Culture (September/October 2019)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review UNTITLED (AFRICAN LAST SUPPER) Unsigned Painting on Cloth Africa (likely Uganda), circa 2011 Collection Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Province of Saint Ann Gift of Dennis Ruane, SSS John Christman, SSS The Last Supper has been depicted in so many ways through […]
Eucharist & Culture · July / August 2019
Eucharist & Culture (July/August 2019)
Art • Music • Film • Poetry • Books Art Review John Christman, SSS MARK’S SENSES #2 2010, Oil on Canvas (Collection Paul Bechtold Library, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago Illinois) John Christman, SSS At the parish where I currently serve, we have between 80 and 90 funerals a year. So, celebrating a funeral is a […]