The Meaning and Significance of Iconography When first used in the 18th cent. the term was confined to the study of engravings, which were then the standard mode of illustrating books on art and on antiquities in general. But it came shortly to be applied more specifically to the history and...
perceive is a more formal word meaning to detect by means of the senses; with reference to the mind, it implies realization, understanding, and insight: to perceive the sound of hoofbeats; to perceive the significance of an event. discern means to detect something that is obscure or concealed...
Each sheds its own light on the meaning of the Easter festival. Jesus of Nazareth lived in the first century in a land known today as Israel. He was born into a humble, Jewish family and apparently had a number of brothers, and perhaps sisters as well. At the time of Jesus' birth ...
At the entrance of the annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Nazareth, we find a Greek phrase written under the cross: “’ΗΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΤΟΥΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΣΜΟΥ,” meaning “The church of the Annunciation.” The similarities in the Greek wording between “Gospel” and “Annunc...
Body and Soul United to Divine Person (650)The Meaning and Saving SignificanceConfirming His Own Teaching and Promise (651-653) Our Freeing and Our Receiving (654-655) The Ascension - His Irreversible Entry into Glory (659-661) His Descending and Ascending (662-663) Seated in Glory (664)Co...
1.a day or period set aside for celebration or feasting, esp one of religious significance 2.any occasion for celebration, esp one which commemorates an anniversary or other significant event 3.an organized series of special events and performances, usually in one place:a festival of drama. ...
There is strategic significance in praying during the early morning hours. In the Gospel reading this past Sunday St. Matthew tells us that Jesus came to them walking on the water in the Fourth Watch of the night. (Matthew 14:22-33) The fourth watch is defined by the Roman watch as a...
Dalí’s identification with things small was to influence almost every aspect of the painter’s art and writing. It shaped his conception of modernism, of theavant-garde, and above all, ofSigmund Freudand his significance. Of course, all of the surrealists were influenced by Freud; in this...
“the commodity form”—BUT all poetry, even the most banal, possesses an aesthetic reserve, infinite in principle, i.e., every textual artefactde jureandde factopossesses an infinity of significance or meaning (not that all of that in every instance is necessarily “interesting,” but even ...
Say Yes: A Homily for Advent 4 (Year C)— When Mary said “Yes” to the angel of the Annunciation, it was neither the first nor the last time she would do so. Her whole life up to that point had been a series of consents that would prepare her to receive the Holy One into hers...