Fr. Christian Mathis | July 22, 2009
Today I made a long planned trip to the post office to mail letters to some of our St. Thomas parishioners whom I have been praying for during this month of holy rest. The notes were meant to be mailed earlier this month, but better late than never I suppose. It was good to spend [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 21, 2009
When I first began reading the series of books while assigned to Sacred Heart Cathedral in Knoxville and I was happy that these books were so popular with children and adults alike. It soon became clear to me that not everyone shared this opinion. Many Christians were concerned the books were promoting witchcraft and acted [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 20, 2009
One early morning last week I was awakened at 5 am by a loud knocking followed by a voice shouting, “Austin Police!” Once I realized that it was indeed our door the police were knocking on, I awoke my brother to answer the door, all the while wondering what was going on. Once we opened [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 18, 2009
Today I finished writing the icon of Gabriel, well almost. There is still some gold to be burnished and the sealing of the icon in a few months, but the basic shape is there. One thing many people don’t realize is that writing an icon is primarily about prayer and only secondarily about painting. Each [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 17, 2009
Today was a late day at the icon studio. I ended up staying an additional three hours to continue working with the shell gold we made earlier this week. Instead of using the process of floating to create all the highlights, we are creating some also from paint made from gold leaf. These highlights will [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 16, 2009
Close to a year ago I began this blog with the quote, The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Today’s lesson in iconography helped deepen that belief. We began the process today of adding highlights to the icon as well as layers of paint which are called floats. The highlights are meant to bring [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 15, 2009
Today I began adding the first set of highlights to the icon of Gabriel. This is one of the more stressful steps of the process for me as one must create layers of light that will continue to shine out from the image. It takes a good eye, and skill in blending the paints well. [...]
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