Thanks Adrienne - I just came on this site - sorry to miss your comment before this - for some reason I no longer get email alerts for comments. Many thanks though.
Terry, I recently began attending mass and meetings in a certain Matt Talbot chapel in Philadelphia, for the discernment of becoming a third order Franciscan. While there, I recognized your other Matt Talbot work and in speaking to my friend and holy priest, Father Doug McKay, (who, incidentally presided at my wedding), he informed me you had donated the original work! I was stunned, and we are very blessed to have it there.
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
More 'about me'.
... 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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They're all wonderful, Terry. You are very talented.
Thanks Adrienne - I just came on this site - sorry to miss your comment before this - for some reason I no longer get email alerts for comments. Many thanks though.
Terry, I recently began attending mass and meetings in a certain Matt Talbot chapel in Philadelphia, for the discernment of becoming a third order Franciscan. While there, I recognized your other Matt Talbot work and in speaking to my friend and holy priest, Father Doug McKay, (who, incidentally presided at my wedding), he informed me you had donated the original work! I was stunned, and we are very blessed to have it there.
Kelly - thanks for letting me know that. Praise God.
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