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Mother’s Day, May 18th, 2014 Fr. Anthony Brankin In the history of art, the most beautiful images, the most beautiful portraits that exist, are entitled: Mother and Child. Look at the beautiful mysterious Virgin of Guadalupe. She too has a child—though not in her arms—but within her womb. Oh, sure, I like landscapes and still […] Whenever I would go into a motel or hotel room I would always look for the Gideon Bible. I bet they aren’t there anymore. It might offend the Muslims or atheists. And I wouldn’t be surprised that there might have been many that were stolen or vandalized or desecrated. How could you miss—we have become a truly ugly society. But I mention the Gideon Bible because in some senses it is the quintessential Protestant Bible. And by “Protestant Bible” I do not mean that in the sense that its translation is Protestant. Yes they took the Greek and the Hebrew words and found more Reformation friendly English. They did—but that’s not what I mean. […] Image a wake— An old fashioned wake in an old-fashioned neighborhood, a small parlor so everyone was crowding in and pretty close to each other. The deceased person may be a middle aged woman who leaves behind her mother and her son. And, of course, there is a line of mourners filing by and saying their prayers and expressing their sympathies. Hardly ten feet from the casket, sits a woman’s son. He is about 12 years old. And he seems oblivious to all that is going on around him because he is sitting with a buddy playing a video game. […] |
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