There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” — Martha Graham

“God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.” — Pablo Picasso

“Behind all creation is silence. Silence is the essential condition, the vital ingredient for all creation and all that is created. It is a power in its own right. The artist starts with a blank canvas – silence. The composer places it between and behind the notes. The very ground of your being, out of which comes all your thoughts, is silence. The way to silence is through meditation. When you arrive in your own silence you will know true freedom and real power. Stop, take a minute, and listen to the silence within you today. Then be aware of what disturbs your inner silence. It could be negative thoughts, memories, sensations. And when you are aware, you will know what is draining your creative power, and you will know what needs to change…on the inside!” — Relax7.com

A machine-church, whose functionalism takes priority over form, may fascinate the eye and stimulate discussion about the designer's imagination, but this is a different issue from the religious one. Verticality, harmony, symmetry and balance, and proportion of the human form are de-emphasized or entirely absent. Emptiness and architectural nihilism evoke not serenity but madness because the interior is stripped of sensory religious symbolism. Even banks and doctor's offices, decorated with art forms, are not absolute in their functional role. Ultra-abstract church architecture combines secularized Christian art and rationalized religion. Inseparably connected as they are, here the sensory aspect of the Incarnation is denied. ~ Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J.

While cheap pietistic visuals are not the answer to incarnational theology, neither are antiseptically-stripped churches. ~ Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J.

Art created a few days ago! I love pink flowers, especially roses.

I Will Remember You

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ~James Matthew Barrie




We were enclosed O eternal Father within the garden of your bosom. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petalled with our soul's three powers,...You gave us memory so that we might be able to hold your blessings and so bring forth the flower of glory to your name. You gave us understanding to understand your truth and your will - your will that wants only that we be made holy - so that we might bear first the flower of glory and then the fruit of virtue. And you gave us your will so that we might be able to love what our understanding has seen and what our memory has held. For this, we praise and thank You.


Jesus, remember me when you come into Your Kingdom.