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| Resting in Pisa. (Sorry! Couldn't resist.) |
Here in England (as in Italy), you don't have to look too hard to find the way death and the supernatural realm were looked at (and at times tweaked) in centuries past. Perhaps if we had more depictions like these in our churches, the twisted depictions would just fall flat.
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| From the Campo Santo (cemetery) beside the cathedral in Pisa. |
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| St Alban, martyr. |
The early and medieval Christians seemed to really get it that God is in charge, and not the forces of chaos or violence or whatever else seems at the moment to spell doom and disaster, failure and loss. It is already all worked out for the good, "for the spread of the Gospel," Paul wrote when he was in a particularly uncomfortable spot.
Whatever it is, it is all already ordered to the complete establishment of God's reign. There is nothing to be afraid about. Not even on Halloween.
1 comment:
I thought Fr. Grunow's post was the best I've ever read on the subject. My husband and I learned a lot from it and made our observance of these hallowed days more meaningful. I have a rosary with little carved skulls for Paters, something I use especially for prayer during the month of November and whenever I pray for the dead. We need to rediscover the many riches of our faith, what a wealth there is to draw upon! - Jean
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