Under the Gables

Supper at Emmaus , Titian, 1530, The Louvre The great Venetian Renaissance artist, Tiziano Vecelli , known as Titian, in 1530 painted...

Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene, by Hendrick Jansz Terbrugghen, 1625, Utrecht, The Netherlands Saint Sebastian (256-288) was a Ch...

January 20 is the feast day of Saint Sebastian, who died in 288 at the hands of the anti-Christian Roman emperor, Diocletian. Saint Sebastia...

Madonna del Libro by Sandro Botticelli, 1483 A statue of the Madonna and Child in the Church of Badia in Sansepolcro, Italy, has an ins...

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"We must pray literally without ceasing—without ceasing—in every occurrence and employment of our lives . . . that prayer of the hear...

Saint Genevieve by Hugo van der Goes, 1479 Women saints are exemplars of faith whose charitable work often resulted in the creation of new i...

Saint Columba Altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden, 1455. Luke 1:26 to 38 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a c...

Karin Larsson, by Carl Larsson, 1909 The genesis of this blog was a search on the Internet to investigate the effects on children of a physi...

The Newborn, by Georges de la Tour, 1645 "What we shall be asked to give is our flesh and blood, our daily life -- our thoughts, our se...

Advent begins on Sunday, November 28, and it may seem strange to talk about preparing for a season that is itself all about preparation, but...

In this medieval painting Mary gives the Baby Jesus a flower. Strawberries, signifying Fruitful Virgin, grow in the raised garden behind the...

Still Life in the center of the Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, 1476-1479. Flowers, in two vases next to a wheat chaff and surro...

The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning by Rogier van der Weyden, 1460-65. From the Philadelphia Museum of ...

A few years ago I read a review of a book by Alice McDermott, who was presented as a Catholic writer raised in Long Island. The book was abo...

A sister of Charity at the New York Foundling Hospital, c. 1920. An unusual exhibit, Women and Spirit, is on view at the Smithsonian Institu...

And God bless and keep you and yours throughout the new year.

Mrs. Maude Callen. "In the most special way, she is probably the greatest person I have been privileged to know: combining a marvelous ...

Mrs. Callen helps bring someone into the clinic she had set up in her home. Mrs. Callen in a temporary clinic in the church. From Let Truth ...

Mrs. Callen rushes a fevered baby to the hospital. As related in Let the Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs :...