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. [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 14, 2009
This morning I finished up Gabriel’s halo and began adding the first layer of paint to the new icon. This first layer of paint is very dark, especially on the face, hair and skin and is meant to represent chaos. One might think of it as representing the first day of creation when there was [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 20, 2009
Please keep in your prayers the Feist family who last night suffered the loss of two of its members, Nancy and Peter. Nancy was due to give birth to her sixth child, Peter, in September. Last night she collapsed and doctors were unable to save her or Peter. Dave and Nancy and their family have [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 9, 2009
Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | October 17, 2008
Dorothy Day often quoted St. Catherine of Sienna who said, “All the way to heaven is heaven, because He said, I am the Way.” Today we focused on the layer of painting that represents heaven, the realm where the angels live. It is still part of the created world, but not of the material world [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | October 16, 2008
Icons are all about layers and layers of light, the final destination being the uncreated light of God. Yesterday we focused on the light of the natural world. Today we added a layer of highlights and color that represent the inner light of humanity. This is a light that comes from within and radiates outward. [...]
Godspace
100th Lamb
Tiber Judy
memoria dei
City Father
Felice mi fa
a minor friar
Torn Notebook
Just A Minute
Byzantine, TX
On Pilgrimage
Teacher Oblate
Theo-Dramatics
USCCB Media Blog
Salt of the Earth
Idle Speculations
Whosoever Desires
Pithless Thoughts
The Body Theologic
A Practicing Human
Window Into Heaven
Echoes of Eternity
The Alternate Path
Καθολικός διάκονος
Secret Vatican Spy
St. James' Kids
Happy Entanglements
Enlarging The Heart
The Ascetic Struggle
Catholic Sensibility
The Organic Undergrad
A Vow of Conversation
Joe Versus the Volcano
Whispers In The Loggia
If Necessary, Use Words
Interrupting the Silence
The Well Thought Out Life
Casting Words To The Wind
Catholic and Enjoying It!
Glory To God For All Things
A Journey with the Holy Father
Beneath The Same Sheltering Sky
