“Golden Lantern” - Ink & Photoshop
This is a beautiful sketch that Joel has been working on as part of the limited edition hardback of NOCTURN. It is beautiful and the pre-order for the hardback begins in one week!
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something more is not simple. Very often, however, this silly procedure is adopted by people who are not silly, but who, consciously or unconsciously, want to destroy Christianity. Such people put up a version of Christianity suitable for a child of six and make that the object of their attack. When you try to explain the Christian doctrine as it is really held by an instructed adult, they then complain that you are making their heads turn round and that it is all too complicated and that if there really were a God they are sure He would have made ‘religion’ simple, because simplicity is so beautiful, etc. You must be on your guard against these people for they will change their ground every minute and only waste your time. Notice, too, their idea of God ‘making religion simple’; as if ‘religion’ were something God invented, and not His statement to us of certain quite unalterable facts about His own nature.
(Source: seasickwithoutwater)
It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of Creation said, “Let us make humanity.”
It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save humanity.”
- J.C. Ryle
Having a hard time with this after studying the Biblical World for my Jewish Studies minor and learning about henotheism in ancient Judaism.
Almighty and everliving God, whose servant Thomas Cranmer, with others, restored the language of the people in the prayers of your Church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit and with the understanding, that we may worthily magnify your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
No matter how rational we are, we can never dispense with faith.
I BELIEVE in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father before all worlds; God, of God; Light, of Light; Very God, of very God; Begotten, not made; Being of one…
A jewel in the valley of Salvation, Baltinglass abbey founded in 1148AD by the King of Leinster Diarmuid Mac Murchada.
St. Cuthbert’s, Philbeach Gardens, or is it St. Philbert’s, Cuthbeach Gardens?
Every once in a while you come a across a building which has an atmosphere that takes your breath away, one such building is St. Cuthbert’s Church, Philbeach Gardens (The title is an old Anglo-Catholic joke mocking the unusual name).What is so special about St. Cuthbert’s is that it has been untouched since the early 20th century, with the removable nave altar being the only noticeable addition. It still has the soot from a hundred years of incense, and it has that pleasant feeling that only Anglo-Catholic churches have from numerous artworks and quirky features that litter the place. The pride of these objects is the lectern which incorperates two great horns into the design and was described by John Betjeman as ‘Neo-Viking’.
It is therefore so nice to see a church surviving in its original state, most such churches have either closed, been cleaned up for ‘modern’ catholic worship, or worst of all: adapted for the use of evangelical with the ubiquitous platform for the worship band, usually right in front of the altar. Luckily they have just got a new incumbent from the Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell (Which is a very Roman place, hopefully he’ll stop using the hideous nave altar) and thus things may turn around and St. Cuthbert’s might once again be brought back to life.
Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists.Pope Francis has revealed himself to be a Universalist! As a very Liberal Anglican Catholic, I am really starting to love the radical views coming from this Bishop of Rome.
Yes, good.
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one…
