One Dark Night Framed Print

One Dark Night (Steve and Kathy’s Norfolk Island Pine)
“John had a fascination for night-time which seems to have run in the family. His brother Francisco would sometimes be found outside in the fields late at night, lying beneath the starlit Castilian sky, arms stretched out in the form of a Cross. So, long after dark, the friars would come across John outside near the trees praying, or he would be leaning at his window looking into the dark.”
From “The Impact of God : Soundings From St John of the Cross”
by Carmelite, Fr Iain Matthew

My Father died 25 November 1997. In late December of that year I accompanied Daniel Berrigan, SJ to Northern Ireland. We arrived first in Dublin and stayed a night at a Jesuit residence. I remember sitting having drinks in a large room which had shelves of books. From my chair, across the room, I spotted the spine of a paperback book, which had a very small face on it that, to me, looked like St Bruno. Now, books on St Bruno are...

Artist Statement on Iconography �There is only Christ: He is everything and He is in everything." St. Paul, Colossians 3:11 I honor and revere the Byzantine icons and the profound spirituality of the Othodox churches. I try to bring true devotion and prayer into the process of writing an icon, dependent upon the inspiration of the Blessed Trinity, the saints, holy ones, and the Mother of God. As a Roman Catholic iconographer, I have no intention of assuming to be Orthodox, but continue to pray with many others, for unity brought about by the Spirit, amongst the churches. 2014 is my 24th year as an Iconographer and I am very grateful for the tremendous support from around the World. The great bulk of Icons are commissions from...