Hilary White
@HilarityjaneArt
Caution: Gen-X and retired. Former professional opinion writer. Religion, culture, politics, now deflating everyone's narratives for laughs. Here for the ratio.
Today we're exploring how to get the symbolic mindset back:
"What if we have been immersed all our lives in a visual and intellectual culture that takes materialism so much for granted that we no longer have a mental framework to understand these images from our own culture’s past?" open.substack.com/pub/hilarywhit…
This is pretty much exactly why I am not psychologically capable of accepting the love of God. youtube.com/shorts/jjnqtZa…
It's very simple: the institutional Church destroyed the religious life & nearly destroyed the priesthood. Many many people who had genuine vocations came of age to discover there was nowhere to go. The institution responded with a fiction: the "single vocation". We were lied to.
"A single person is someone who is potentially a priest or religious or a married person. That is to say, they are potentially in a vocation. If they are potentially in a vocation, then they aren’t actually in a vocation." 📽️ Watch below 👇
But we're TOTally not preparing for civil "unrest" over this issue. Nope. Nothing to see here...
Borders for them, but not for us.
Sacred Geometry; they knew this stuff in the 13th century.
Of course, the most impressive (or at least, the most historically significant) example of Cosmatesque is the pavement at Westminster installed by a team from Rome in the 1260s
Yes, this is one of the things Jabba the Pope did. Think about that; He banned. Masses. In. St. Peter's.
The banning of private Masses in St Peter’s was one of the many incomprehensible acts of the last pontificate. Surely Pope Leo will reverse a measure that caused so much pain to priests.
Hi @SteveSkojec
People who aren't from sick, dark-sided, broken families cannot conceive of what it's like to be from such a family. It's beyond their comprehension. The entire psychological architecture is different. The guy from a decent, upstanding, functional family thinks: "It's…
When you were training to be a painter in the 15th c. you spent a lot of time doing studies of drapery. We have a lot of these drawings still, and it's fascinating to see how there were "canons" for drapery, as well as faces and figures.
Gotta love Gothic canonical draperies.
People wonder why I live here, and have no plans to ever go home.
Number of Mosques. Britain 🇬🇧: Over 2000 Italy 🇮🇹: 8 That means there is almost 23000% more mosques in Britain per 1 million people than in Italy. Why the massive difference?
The canons in sacred painting is part of the larger Christian cosmological worldview in which all sacred art forms, chant, architecture, liturgy, were interconnected through a shared grammar of number and proportion. Just as Gregorian chant was not composed to stir emotion...