Ash Wednesday Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 [quote name='kateri05' post='1343759' date='Jul 29 2007, 07:11 PM']i sr. wendy! she has great art books with beautiful catholic art, and some are even for kids! [/quote] Haha... Sister Wendy RULES! "LOOK at the BUTTOCKS!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 [quote name='Groo the Wanderer' post='1344481' date='Jul 30 2007, 12:56 PM']no bad weather and no robes...I'm gonna get a suntan! (or would that be a Sontan?) ba-dum-ching![/quote] I was going to say "I'll burn first" then realized that sounded a little weird in the context ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 [quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1343044' date='Jul 28 2007, 10:38 AM']This exact question has been addressed by Sister Wendy Beckett, a hermit nun who lives in the woodlands near a Carmelite monastery in south-eastern England. She is also an art critic and has written several books on art, in addition to featuring in television documentaries. In one of her books she points out that nudity in art is never used to divorce the body from the soul and mind, to turn it into an object for lust. When that happens it ceases to be art and becomes pornography. Instead, nudity is used as a vehicle of expression, to capture fully the subject's beauty - mind, soul, personality, not just flesh. Her commentary on the painting [i]The Rape of Lucretia[/i] is particularly thought-provoking, as she points out that in this painting the would-be rapist is avoiding eye contact with his victim. This, she says, is the hallmark of lust: bloodthirsty desire for power and unwillingness to look at the victim as a person. The same is true of pornography. Artwork will always be distinct from this attitude.[/quote] Great post, for sure. Is there any Youtube videos on some of her lectures? [quote name='Groo the Wanderer' post='1344481' date='Jul 30 2007, 01:56 PM']no bad weather and no robes...I'm gonna get a suntan! (or would that be a Sontan?) ba-dum-ching![/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 (edited) [quote name='Seven77' post='1342388' date='Jul 28 2007, 05:29 AM']3. We will all be [i]wearing[/i] white robes in Heaven, right?[/quote] Somehow, when I read this, I was reminded of C.S. Lewis' [i]The Great Divorce[/i] . [quote]THE REASON why I asked if there were another river was this. All down one long aisle of the forest the under-sides of the leafy branches had begun to tremble with dancing light; and on earth I knew nothing so likely to produce this appearance as the reflected lights cast upward by moving water. A few moments later I realised my mistake. Some kind of procession was approaching us, and the light came from the persons who composed it. First came bright Spirits, not the Spirits of men, who danced and scattered flowers-soundlessly falling, lightly drifting flowers, though by the standards of the ghost-world each petal would have weighed a hundred-weight and their fall would have been like the crashing of boulders. Then, on the left and right, at each side of the forest avenue, came youthful shapes, boys upon one hand, and girls upon the other. If I could remember their singing and write down the notes, no man who read that score would ever grow sick or old. Between them went musicians: and after these a lady in whose honour all this was being done. I cannot now remember whether she was naked or clothed. If she were naked, then it must have been the almost visible penumbra of her courtesy and joy which produces in my memory the illusion of a great and shining train that followed her across the happy grass. If she were clothed, then the illusion of nakedness is doubtless due to the clarity with which her inmost spirit shone through the clothes. For clothes in that country are not a disguise: the spiritual body lives along each thread and turns them into living organs. A robe or a crown is there as much one of the wearer's features as a lip or an eye.[/quote] That's from Chapter 12. Of course, Lewis made it clear it was only his dream about Heaven, but the first time I read it, it somehow seemed to make sense. AMDG, Innocent Edited August 22, 2007 by Innocent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 [quote name='Innocent' post='1367734' date='Aug 22 2007, 09:36 AM']Somehow, when I read this, I was reminded of C.S. Lewis' [i]The Great Divorce[/i] . That's from Chapter 12. Of course, Lewis made it clear it was only his dream about Heaven, but the first time I read it, it somehow seemed to make sense. AMDG, Innocent[/quote] Always seemed to make sense to me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted August 22, 2007 Author Share Posted August 22, 2007 beautiful passage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Yeah, that was wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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