Altar of the Seven Dolors of Our Lady, taken in October 2006, at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, in Saint Louis.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Altar of the Seven Dolors of Our Lady, taken in October 2006, at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, in Saint Louis.
"Caring for Victor"
Marianna Riley and Robert Ellis answer questions about their book Caring for Victor: a U.S. Army Nurse and Saddam Hussein. This standing-room-only crowd was at the Headquarters branch of the Saint Louis County Library.
Writer Bobbi Linkemer describes this event and book: click here to read.
(I took the portrait of Sgt. Ellis found on the cover of the book.)
(I took the portrait of Sgt. Ellis found on the cover of the book.)
Two Photos from Saint Peter's in Saint Charles
LAST SUNDAY, I was at Saint Peter's Church, in Saint Charles, Missouri.
The parish has recently polychromed their large, elaborate Stations of the Cross.
Two of the stained glass windows in the church's annex.
Much thanks to Fr. Bauer and the parishioners of Saint Peter's!
The parish has recently polychromed their large, elaborate Stations of the Cross.
Two of the stained glass windows in the church's annex.
Much thanks to Fr. Bauer and the parishioners of Saint Peter's!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Downtown at Dawn
Downtown Saint Louis, Missouri; photo taken just before sunrise this morning, from the Hampton Avenue overpass near the entrance to Forest Park.
Exaltation of the Cross
ON THIS FEAST day, Catholics can most properly display the Cross of Christ empty, without a corpus.
In A.D. 326, Saint Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, re-discovered the Cross of Christ and the Holy Sepulcher, which had remained hidden for centuries under a pile of rubble — but the location was remembered by local Christians and was venerated. This feast day marks the dedication of a basilica church built by Helena on that spot as well as the first public veneration of the Cross there.
Legend says that basil was growing on the spot over the hidden Cross, and so figures into ancient customs of this feast day.
In A.D. 326, Saint Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, re-discovered the Cross of Christ and the Holy Sepulcher, which had remained hidden for centuries under a pile of rubble — but the location was remembered by local Christians and was venerated. This feast day marks the dedication of a basilica church built by Helena on that spot as well as the first public veneration of the Cross there.
Legend says that basil was growing on the spot over the hidden Cross, and so figures into ancient customs of this feast day.
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