This is a follow-up post to my previous entry, “Biblical Evidence for Candles, Incense, and Related Sacramental Symbolism for Prayer and Sacrifice.” Nick, a Protestant, has been very active in the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greek Orthodox priests carry a lantern with the "Holy Flame" brought from Jerusalem, at a church in Athens, on Saturday, April 27, ...
Most people don’t think of cast iron skillets, calendars, reins, or shoes as holy objects. Laurie Brock, however, definitely does. “Items of sacredness carry the story of how we are as humans, the ...
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing works from the Kingdom of Spain, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem Photo: ...
An essential medieval tradition and practice from which we draw in cultivating the Flowers of Our Lady and Mary Gardens is that of the sacramental blessing of homes, workplaces, seeds, plants, trees, ...
Heads and limbs carved of wood bound for a room of miracles in a Brazilian church. Two 19th-century figures: one from the Kongo kingdom, each leather strip of its dress a vow to the power spirit it ...
Sacramentals--all the stuff and thing-ness of Catholicism--are at once an obstacle and an opportunity for evangelizing. They're an obstacle, because people see superstition in our statues, gestures, ...
From the yellowed bones of saints to the Shroud of Turin and the tears of the Virgin Mary, the supposed relics and reliquaries of medieval art have long been surrounded by great commotion. The ...