Marginalia

“Every Saint Has A Past Every Sinner Has A Future...”
— oscar wilde

Mar 29th

“Easter not one day but fifty days”

Mar 26th

Alexander Ivanov — The Appearance of Christ to Mary...

Mar 26th

Watch

Easter Vigil: Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church (via )

Mar 23rd

Walter Stevens — Easter Sunday

Mar 23rd

EASTER DAY

2008 Saint John’s Memphis, Tennessee John W. Sewell The English author and Christian, G K...

Mar 23rd

Mar 21st

Triduum

Today (Thursday) is the first day of the Tridium, the holy triad of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and...

Mar 21st

Mar 21st

Mar 21st

Mar 21st

Mar 21st

Mar 21st

Maundy Thursday — Saint John’s 2008 

Mar 21st

Icon of Footwashing

Mar 21st

Tenebrae 2005 

Mar 19th

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tenebrae Hearse

Mar 19th

Tenebrae Hearse Saint John’s Episcopal Chruch,...

Mar 19th

“The name Tenebrae (the Latin word for “darkness”...”
— Episcopal Book of Occasional...

Mar 19th

Tenebrae Hearse

Mar 19th

Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday Procession in Jerusalem

Mar 16th

Palm Sunday Icon

Mar 16th

KiKi Smith — Processional Cross

Mar 16th

“The Cross is in Christian imagery a mandala* - a fourfold,...”
— John Sanford — From...

Mar 16th

SUNDAY OF THE PASSION: PALM SUNDAY

16 March 2008 John W. Sewell Why do we come here today? What is there to say after such a...

Mar 16th

Professor wins prize for maths link to God...

Mar 13th

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision...”
— Japanese Proverb

Mar 13th

Hoven Weep

Mar 13th

“One is sued for malpractice by promising too much.”
— Edwin Friedman

Mar 12th

Malpractice

Palm Sunday approaches and Christians prepare for the yearly remembrance of the passion of Jesus....

Mar 12th

Carl Sandburg

Mar 12th

““Limited” I am riding on a limited express, one of...”
—  Carl Sandburg

Mar 12th

Mar 12th

The Unforseen Consequences of Wit

The writer of the “Purple Cow” verse, Gelett Burgess, came bitterly to regret his...

Mar 12th

“I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one; But I...”
— Gelett Burgess U.S. humorist...

Mar 12th

Alex Hillman — Purple Cow

Mar 12th

“Ah, yes! I wrote the “Purple Cow” —...”
— Gelett Burgess Confessional l....

Mar 12th

The Raising of Lazarus — Sebbastino del Piombo

Mar 9th

“It is perfectly plain in the Gospels: Jesus never meets a...”
— Robert Farrar Capon

Mar 9th

Raising of Lazarus

Mar 9th

THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

Year A March 9, 2008 John Sewell Woody Allen once said, “It’s not that I am afraid to die. I...

Mar 9th

The Publican

Mar 8th

Robert Farrar Capon

Mar 8th

““The Pharisee and the Tax Collector” Let me lay...”
— Robert Farrar Capon

Mar 8th

Icon of The Publican and the Pharisee

Mar 8th

Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

I find myself, like the words of the children’s song, trying to decide at what point of the...

Mar 8th

A Chill in the Lost Leg — Victor Safonkin

Mar 8th

“We are like dwarfs on the shoulder of giants, so that we can...”
—  Bernard of Chartres —...

Mar 8th

Mar 7th

“A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.”
—  Hungarian proverb

Mar 7th

Moonmoth

Mar 6th

“Wear dark clothes after 6 p.m. Eat fresh fish for breakfast...”
— John Cheever U.S. writer,...

Mar 6th

Francesco Salviati — Kairos

Mar 6th

“I don’t know why it is we are in such a hurry to get...”
— Max Eastman U.S, editor and...

Mar 6th

Raising Lazarus as metaphor 

Mar 6th

“Loose him and let him go.”
— Jesus

Mar 6th

The Tomb of Lazarus

Mar 5th

Late 3rd Century Catacomb - Raising Lazarus

Mar 5th

The Seventh Sign

The Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year A) has for a Gospel reading the story of the Raising of Lazarus, a...

Mar 4th

Raising Lazarus —Rembrandt 1630

Mar 4th

“The friend who can be silent in a moment of despair or...”
—  Henri Nouwen.

Mar 4th

Pool of Siloam

Mar 2nd

Mar 2nd

Jesus Heals the Blind Man

Mar 2nd

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT

2 March 2008 John W. Sewell John 9: 1-38   It is easy to assume that the truth we can see and...

Mar 2nd