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Tue, Aug 19th - 5:15PM
Murder in the Cathedral
St Thomas a Becket was murdered by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
Archbishop Becket's story was re-told by T.S. Eliot in a verse drama, Murder in the Cathedral, commissioned for the 1935 Cathedral Festival and performed within yards of the spot where Becket was murdered.
Eliot, who had converted from the Unitarian Church to the Church of England in 1927, treated the story as a latter-day morality play, introducing Four Tempters who challenge Becket's motives, as well as the Four Knights who kill him. It was so well received it went straight on to London and helped Eliot towards winning the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Tue, Jul 22nd - 4:07PM
Murals of St Jude's Church
In the 1930s the Browne family of artists created murals depicting key events in Christ’s life story in St Jude's, Brantford, Ontario. The church is now designated a National Historic Site of Canada.
Shown is The Resurrection with the caption: "The third day He rose again." The painting is based on Matthew 28:2-4
 ...an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.  The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
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Murals of St Jude's Anglican, Brantford, Ontario
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Sat, May 31st - 7:48AM
Glengarry School Days
Glengarry School Days: A Story of the Early Days in Glengarry by Ralph Connor was wildly popular when first published in Toronto, London and New York in 1902.
The 15 episodes that make up the book look back affectionately on childhood in Ontario at the time of Confederation. The stories show the schoolboys self-reliance, their deep respect for what they understand as God's law, and the ordered vigour of the lives they make in the light of their faith.
Ralph Connor was the pen name of Rev. Charles William Gordon. Rev. Gordon was a Presbyterian minister who in 1921 became the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He began publishing his short stories in 1897 as a fund-raiser and became the most successful Canadian novelist of the early 20th century.
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Thu, May 22nd - 10:21AM
Illuminated Bibles
Manuscript illumination is the use of embellishment and illustration to enhance the pages of a medieval manuscript. By the Romanesque period (12th century) illuminators had become adept at integrating illustration, decoration, and text. Large Bibles were made in England with historiated initials, enlarged letters incorporating biblical scenes at the beginning of chapters or books.
The early-12th-century illuminated manuscript illustration shown depicts Moses expounding the law. The piece is divided into two scenes, the upper showing Moses and Aaron delivering the law to the Israelites, and the lower showing Moses distinguishing between the clean and unclean beasts. The illustration serves as the frontispiece for a Bible from the Abbey of Bury Saint Edmunds in England.
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Fri, May 16th - 7:08AM
Meister Eckhart
 In 1329 Pope John XXII condemned some of Meister Eckhart's writings as heretical. . . One of his offences was his theology of God in humanity. His theology was very incarnational. The church never understood the encouragement he gave to the people that the Divine can be found within them and that they should nurture that sense of the Holy and allow it to grow. He wrote:
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
I find myself on the outside of the church’s position and embracing the ‘heresy’ of Eckhart. The Dominicans to which he belongs lobbied at the end of the last century to have Eckhart fully embraced by Rome. While there were rumours that John Paul II was sympathetic to their cause, Rome has not issued any official response. It’s a pity really.
Blog of Rev'd Kevin George, Rector of St Mark's-by-the-Lake, Tecumseh, Ontario
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