St. Valentine's Day

Heart to Heart
18" x 18"
Acrylic, fabric, gold leaf on board
to purchase inquire at:
athomewsoul@gmail.com

New Year same longing....

January 01, Dedicated to the Mother of God
5 x 6 acrylic on board
metal frame
for sale
contact Mariann at:
athomewsoul@gmail.com

I was reading  my last January's journal entries, notes from Fr. Ron Rolheiser's book "The Holy Longing".  Fr. Ron writes that we find ourselves in a culture of  unbridled restlessness, greed  for experience. and an excessive focus on work = staying very, very busy.
Pause, gaze on this Icon of the Mother. She is holding a napkin because she is a working Mother, she understands business.
The Child is holding a book, the Word, that answers the question 'which way to go?'
 Fr. Ron writes that our dark night of spirituality is very much shaped by the tension between distracted mind and silent mind.
How to remember God with us?   I am offering the Art of the Beautiful Mother, an image to gaze upon, light a candle before and sooth your Holy longing.

December

ADVENT

I think the radical act is to take time to walk through the story of Jesus: 

from the Annunciation through his birth.

I have illustrated six cards to help with recalling this history.

The cards are packaged in a plastic container and on the back of each card is the Gospel reference and a number to guide the child or adult through the sequence of events.

These cards make a wonderful addition to the manger, creche, or nativity set that you set up each CHRISTMAS

Set of six cards in plastic envelope
$10.00
contact me to order: athomewsoul@gmail.com

October thru November, the company of Saints and All Souls

October 4th, Feastday of Saint Francis: he has been my companion as I have to look for another place to live. I have lost my new, since last July, apartment. I write this on the feast of All Souls, Nov. 2nd. As another great Saint in our tradition reminds us, 

"Let nothing disturb you, all things are passing , God  is"

 St. Teresa of  Avila, October 15

September the Beautiful

Here in Ontario our nights are colder and the trees are beginning to slow down for the winter, giving up their green color and as if to mark the changing they send out bursts of orange, yellow and a rich red. We can't get enough of the landscapes during this season, it is all so beautiful. September is marked in our Catholic calendar with the celebration of the three Archangels and another day to honor the Guardian angels that each one of us has. In these paintings I have gone to the Iconography of the Religious Art of New Mexico, putting my own interpretation using acrylic colors,and colored Japanese papers. I invite you to hang these Images in your home for blessing and to remind yourself that these Angels are a sure thing.

Archangel Raphael
The Angel of Healing
Painted on a solid wood door
9 inches x 24inches

Three Archangels
Hand painted, framed  in Japanese Paper and mounted on wood door
SOLD

Three Archangels
Photos of Original art work in metal frame
SOLD

August 15: The Feast of the Assumption

Today is a great Feast Day in the Catholic tradition: the Assumption of the Mother of God. I was thinking about Our Lady, that she was so full of God, no weight of earth's heaviness left in her that she 'floated' off, to where we are all destined for.

I mentioned that I moved in July and these photos are of the entrance to my new apartment. This is a two story building converted into two apartments, so I have this 'stairway to no where, or to Heaven?' I have laid out  books and art work that are for sale and the whole entrance to my apartment has become a shrine. I am so blessed and everyday when I visit this corner  I light a candle for all your intentions.

JULY=

Staying with my monthly theme, the history of the word July is all about Julius Caesar who reformed the Roman Calendar in 46 B.C. giving us the Julian calendar.

Then God got so small and entered our time, God who has no limit, no beginning, no end took on our time.  

                           

                      

A collection of small Icons for sale.