Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
A guest post written by my husband, Roy We had a peaceful afternoon exploring Monreale Cathedral and the adjacent 12th century Benedictine Cloister with its 200 twin columns each with intriguing individually carved capitols. Monreale Duomo is a … [Continue reading]
Translation: Christmas in the Cauldron (German term for Fortress Stalingrad).Light, Life, Love. Writer Mark Stibbe blogged about the worst moment of the battle of Stalingrad, when 300,000 troops of the German Sixth Army were trapped in the … [Continue reading]
Grace and Forgiveness I heard Carol Arnott say that her book Grace and Forgiveness is worth a trillion dollars. Hyperbole, of course, but (Jesus, forgive this crassness!!) if I were to monetize it, learning and practising forgiveness would … [Continue reading]
His birth could not have been more humble, more anonymous--in a manger, for there was no room at the inn. Of their social network, only Elizabeth, Mary’s elderly cousin, confined by pregnancy, and married to the priest Zechariah who was temporarily … [Continue reading]
I like wandering around the deserted gardens which sometimes surround palaces and stately homes. I wandered through the Baroque Villa Palagonia in Bagheria Sicily yesterday, whose grounds host massive grotesque gnomes, giants, gargoyles, mutants, … [Continue reading]
Words which take the hard shell of the present When it feels devoid of nourishment, just hard, just hard Take it and crack it, And reveal the sweet meat within it: Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Though my day is … [Continue reading]
Do you know anybody who lives off the grid? Well, now you do. I do. I live in a yurt, which is a kind of a wonderful round tent, on three acres of wooded Idaho mountainside, with no power and no running water. Mine is a rich life, full of wild and … [Continue reading]
In Chekhov’s haunting play The Seagull, the beautiful country girl, Nina, who dreams of being an actress, writes to the narcissistic playwright, Trigorian, “If you should ever want my life, come and take it.” He does; oh he does! He comes; he takes … [Continue reading]