Emmanuel, a short film I am completing

I have been working on a short film titled EMMANUEL for the last three months. It is about the Annunciation of the angel to The Blessed Virgin Mary.

To see this movie, CLICK HERE or click on the title to this post.

Solemnity of Mary

I had to post something in honor of the Great Mother of God on this, her feast day so I re-posted this painting I did of her: THE MORNING STAR

Our Lady of America

A devotion known as Our Lady of America.

Feast of the Assumption of the Blesed Virgin Mary

One can get an idea of the grandeur or this great feast day of the Church when looking at such a great work of art as this sculpture by the the baroque architect/sculptor Equid Quirin Asam. This work is in the 17th centruy church of  the Benedictine Abbey of Braunau in Rohr, Germany. This, of course, could still be accomplished in our Sacred spaces if man would allow it. It's not about cost - look at the relatively new Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in Los Angeles which cost how many millions of dollars? My opinion is that this structure is dull and meaningless on all accounts-inside and out. It is the LACK of a  spiritual aesthetic for the sacred that renders it so. It's all about design.

Jan. 1st Feast of the Theotokos (Mary Mother of God)

Happy New year to all.

Our Lady of Kibeho

This is a book all men and women of all faiths must read. We all know of the horrific Rwandan Genocide that took place in 1994. The author of this book, Immaculee IIibagiza, has written of those terrible days from one who lived through them, hiding in a tiny bathroom with several other women for 90 days as outside the window she could hear her brothers and villagers being slaughtered one after another. That book, Left to Tell, is well know and loved by all.

This book, Our Lady of Kibeho, is about a time 10 years earlier when Our Lady Appeared to several children  in Rwanda with messages to give to the government, and all mankind - to let go of the hatred in ones heart. She foretold the Genocide that would come if men would not change and one of the visionaries was show it10 years before it happened!

It can be purchased many places. Available at Imaculee's web store HERE.To find it on Amazon, click HERE.

For further information online about this amazing story and the  children involved, You can start HERE