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About Me
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
Watchmen
And suddenly the truth came to me, as we stood there, trembling, searching, at our point of fulcrum. There were no watching eyes. The windows were as blank as they looked. The theatre was empty. It was not a theatre. They had told her it was a theatre, and she had believed them, and I had believed her. To bring us to this - not for themselves, but for us. I turned and looked at the windows, the facade, the pompous white pedimental figures. - John Fowles, The Magus
St. Sebastian
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... My idea of what I am is falsified by my preoccupation about what I do. And my illusions about myself are bred by contagion from the illusions of other men. We all seek to emulate one anothers imagined greatness....If I do not know who I am, it is because I think I am the sort of person everyone around me wants me to be. I have asked myself whether I wanted to become what everybody else seems to want to become... only to realize that I do not admire what everyone else seems to admire. I have only thus begun to live after all... But it is very late. - Adapted from a quote by Thomas Merton
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5 comments:
I didn't realize you have done a piece on our habit.... but can you explain a wee bit why this painting is entitled with PPVI's quote? Are you saying the wearing of habit is burnt with the Council or mal-interpretation of the council, in the same way the liturgy is 'abused'??
Hi Brother - No - the habits have several meanings but not that, I intended nothing to do with the wearing of them at all. First of all they are meant to represent the decline in vocations after the Council.
In addition, the empty habits serve to image the infiltration of bad theology and spirituality which infected many of the schools of spirituality through novelty and experimentation: thus three major schools are represented by the habits: Franciscan, Dominican, Benedictine.
The angel/demon, looks on with amusement - while the disintegrating fresco of the Madonna weeps.
Terry - I am not sure if I were one of the culprits who are responsible for "the infiltration of bad theology and spirituality which infected many of the schools of spirituality through novelty and experimentation". If so, actually I may be a victim to start with! (e.g. I favour doing meditation, inter-religious dialogue, ecumenical gathering, doing art work during retreat, singing psalms with guitar...)
In anyway - your comment is rather serious because it reminds me of the expectation of the secular laity from us religious.
>Ouch<
Oh my - I manage to offend everyone, don't I. My apologies - although I doubt you ascribe to 'bad' theology - and the 'other stuff' is all permissable, isn't it. I painted the panel - "in a moment".
Mind you, the painting is simply my point of view; albeit well and good it might give one pause to consider the high expectations seculars have of religious. Please don't be offended however. God bless you!
Oh... don't say that! You weren't being offensive at all and it is I who must have sounded unnecessarily defensive when you good self really have a point.
It is I who have a problem - I do try to please everyone. When I was a student in the US, I was living with some rather orthodox (I don't say conservative) religious. They probably thought of me as a raving liberal because I studied at an an ecumenical divinity school, where I was regarded as an icon for ultra-Conservativism! Yet I have been and am the same person!!
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