Acts of Hope

Today, behind the mourners in public places, the rescuers, the demonstrators, the loud speakers, there are --always, still-- those who cle...

Happy Feast of Ignatius of Loyola! This is a link to a [2007] blog post about Ignatius, his feast, his rooms in Rome (which I had the jo...

Thirty years ago today, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of AIDS in the Unite...

"Annunciation," lithograph by Salvador Dali. For more art (and links to yet more art) on the theme of the Annunciation from differ...

Sadao Watanabe, The Magi's Dream Bear in mind that I wrote this Epiphany sermon a little over a year after 9/11. It's from eight...

A.k.a. Childermas to you high-church C of E types. In addition to the best-known paintings of the Massacre of the Innocents by Giotto di Bon...

This year's icon: St. John by William Hart McNichols, S.J. Part of a triptych of Mary, Jesus, and John (remember the scene of Mary and...

Nativity Hiroshi Tabata

My friend Luiz Coelho has made his Stations of the Cross of Globalization available as a free download. You can find the download link here ...

Best to let this one speak for itself. "Epiphany," by Janet McKenzie (c) 2003. For more on this work and on the artist, see here ...

Forgive us. We've been having what some would vaguely but appropriately refer to as "writing issues" here at Acts of Hope, or ...

European artists of the late Middle Ages painted the Massacre of the Holy Innocents in the landscape and clothing of their location and era....

El Greco, Saint John the Evangelist (ca. 1600)

Same sermon as the last two years, different art. Happy feast!

The intrepid Parents of Acts of Hope have (if all has gone according to schedule) wrapped up their five day stay with the great-grandchildre...

Interesting and worthy winner of this year's Pritzker Prize: Peter Zumthor . (Link is to the NY Times story.) Pritzker Prize website her...

With an exclamation mark, because the angel came to Mary with big news. Acts of Hope invites you to a little trip down memory lane: From two...

A couple of days ago, I posted the 10th in the series of Ten Healing Psalms according to Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (Breslov). I did not ha...

Someone who must have been a friend of my cousin Gerald 's wrote a sweet obit in the Joplin, MO newspaper. You can read it here . Below ...