Sacramento de Amor

- Corinthians 1:5

Help Thy servants who Thou hast redeemed by Thy Precious Blood!

Jean Jouvenet, Adorazione dell’Agnello mistico, 1680 circa, Musée eucharistique du Hiéron, Paray-le-Monial

La Sangre Redentora, Cristóbal de Villalpando, Museo del Ex Convento Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Delg. Alvaro Obregón, Cdad. de México, D.F. Photo by Tach Jrez. Hra. on Flickr

After his prayer, Sr. Thérèse appears to him. She seems to intercede for him and this vision encourages him. Returning home, he takes up the path of the church that he had abandoned.

Sr. Thérèse appears to a soldier and saves him and his companions from a terrible bombing. “Fear not, ”she said, “I come to protect you.” 

Ely, Cambridgeshire by Gary J Brothwell Via Flickr: Ely Cathedral, The Octagon The city of Ely sits north of Cambridge in the east anglian fens, it is dominated by its medieval cathedral, sometimes called ‘The ship of the fens’. Ely Cathedral is located in the centre of the historic city and is surrounded by medieval monastic buildings, parkland and meadows. The nave is the third longest in the UK, and the same length as Ely High Street. It’s spectacular roof of painted panels depict The Jesse Tree, and move from Creation to Revelation as you walk from the West End up to the Crossing. The famous Octagon Tower, sometimes referred to as The Lantern, is a wonder of the medieval world and globally recognized as a masterpiece of engineering. A guided tower tour takes you inside the Master Carpenter’s oak Lantern Tower of huge, wooden beams. The masterful coloured panels, designed by George Gilbert Scott, open out allowing a spectacular view onto the Nave floor almost 40 meters below.

Adoremus in æternum Sanctissimum Sacramentum. http://on.fb.me/1OQeGd4

Late 14th-early 15th century icon illustrating the “Triumph of Orthodoxy” under the Byzantine Empress Theodora (she and her son Michael can be seen on the up left corner) over iconoclasm. Patriarch Methodios I of Constantinople is on the top right. [x]

The Crossing - Dominicans make their way across the street to attend the Papal Mass which involved going through a security cordon thrown around the CUA Campus

> Photo by Johnny Wasted.

 Virgin of the Seven sorrows by Master of the Female Half-Lengths. c-1520-1540