we saw a representative sample of the many thousands whose labor, skill and love have brought the cathedral back to life: architects, engineers, artisans, restoration experts, carpenters, stone-workers, stained glass artists, roofers
Stained glass window light paints the south chancel aisle near the steps to St. Cuthbert’s tomb. The Sorrowful Mother, part of Fenwick Lawson’sPieta(1974-1981), in the east end of Durham Cathedral. When the beech wood sculpture was on loan to York Minster in the 1980s, a fire in th...
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Isn’t it strange that people’s gods always agree with them? The result is always creating a god in their own image – Romans 1:22,23; Psalm 50:21 “Well, my god wouldn’t….” that is someone who has a god in his own image What is Spirituality that doesn’t include Religion?
She was tempted to give up the search. “How good to be safe in tombs, / Where nature’s temper cannot reach / Nor vengeance ever comes.”[vii]But late in her life (she died at 55), she came to terms with the unknowability of the larger pattern, allowing herself a degree of trus...
For he is our childhood’s pattern; Day by day, like us He grew; He was little, weak and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness. — Cecil Frances Alexander, “Once in Royal David’s City” ...
[iii]The “Jesus Prayer” (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me) is often synchronized in its repetitions with a pattern of slow, deep breathing. [iv]John Newton, “The Name of Jesus.” [v]John Mason Neale, “The Name of Jesus.” ...
Stained glass - Biblical, Religious, Art: In the Middle Ages ecclesiastical art was primarily didactic. The subjects painted in the windows played an important part in the expounding of the Scriptures and the glorification of the church and its saints.