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I used to have a lot of respect for Austen Invereigh. Now I know his taste in liturgical art.

Rupink’s art has always struck me as profoundly shallow and beige mimicry of Byzantine iconographic languag. The way he does eyes says everything; they are hollow and lifeless. Nothing like they way byzantines treat the eyes of their subjects. I say this as the daughter of an iconographer trained by a highly regarded Byzantine writer of icons in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox world.

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I will ask Bl..Michael McGivney to pray for all who are affected by the ongoing situation.

St John of the Cross says something somewhere about attachment to art. We ought to be able to pray even in a church that is not to our tastes, but conversely, we ought not to refuse our Lord when he desires to take from us something that we perceive as good (e.g., a favorite rosary that is a third class relic) and from which we have received past consolations. It is a creature, and infinitely less than God, and we can get along without it. To regard it as something to *cling* to, out of fear that we are *rejecting grace* if we surrender it, is an anxious sort of perspective and we ought to remember that Jesus has told us not to worry. Simply tell him "look, Lord, you will have to give me your grace some other way, because of reasons - and I know you can do that because You are God". Fans of Watership Down might take to prayer the rabbit-"creation myth" in which their trickster-hero says (while digging a hole to hide in, front half already hidden in it, refusing to come out, after the Fall when predators no longer eat grass), to his deity who has come to finish creating him, "you will have to bless my *bottom*".

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