From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450
‘… when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.’
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
© Copyright 2020 Korrektiv Press. · All Rights Reserved · Admin
Angelico,
I’m writing this the evening of Good Friday, having followed your Fr’Angelic postings this far. Thank you for bringing us transcendent beauty throughout the Triduum. You have brought me back to the glorious, heart-rending moment when I first gazed on a Fr’Angelico in person, at San Marco, the glory of it at first out of place in a humble friar’s cell–and then, not out of place at all.
Buon pasqua!
‘… the glory of it at first out of place in a humble friar’s cell–and then, not out of place at all.
Beautiful, Peacock. Thank you.
FYI:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/28/pope-frances-washes-feet/2028595/
I’ve been writing about and posting Fra Angelicos paintings all week. When I first decided to do it, I was looking for something simple to do during the Triduum. It has rather exploded.
AMDG
I am presently staying in a hotel next to a very interesting but presently closed church whose tablets at the top and the fact that it is on Martin Luther King Drive or road remind me of the first Martin Luther although I don’t know the story well.
It’s cold considering it’s a late Easter and I am travelling on Sunday and don’t want to upset the other passengers with sneezing.