Our Mural is Coming to Life! Local artist Joseph Macklin is in the process of painting our apse (the curved, semi-circular area where our tabernacle is normally housed). The upper half of the mural will be a version of the Wedding Feast of the Lamb described in the Book of Revelation. The scene will depict … Continued
of the Instrumentum Dei Studio Joseph Macklin of the Instrumentum Dei Studio is a local Jackson artist, alumnus of Lumen Christi and Columbus College of Art & Design, and member of St. Mary’s Parish. He and wife Carly have two daughters who attend St. John School. In working on our apse mural, Joseph says this: … Continued
Sacred Spaces, Sacred Faces In his 1981 book Addicted to Mediocrity – 20th Century Christians and the Arts, then-evangelical Franky Schaeffer satirized the arts and media of the so-called ‘religious right’ movement of the 1980s. The target of Schaeffer’s acerbic wit was predominately fundamentalist and evangelical Protestantism. And although not in his crosshairs, Catholics were … Continued