Awesome post! I was captivated by the image of the dove pyx because just 10 min ago I was reading a book with a photograph of a very similar one. Providence brought me here today. Please do more posts like this!
Thanks for your comment, providence is a marvellous thing! I will go through the whole text, with photos of my own as far as possible which illustrate the text. I've just been working on post 3 which is really interesting, so do keep following!
Fascinating and beautiful as expected, both the verse itself (funny how pre-modern people seemed to write practically everything in verse) and your reflection. It makes you wonder which is best: rarely receiving the Eucharist, or treating it more as an entitlement, even if one regularly misses Sunday Mass and never goes to Confession. A middle ground would perhaps be best, as the saints have always recommended.
Thanks for sharing this; it's so interesting! Thanks, too, for helping me make sense of the *hundreds* of pyxs, reliquaries and monstrances seen at various museums.
Awesome post! I was captivated by the image of the dove pyx because just 10 min ago I was reading a book with a photograph of a very similar one. Providence brought me here today. Please do more posts like this!
Thanks for your comment, providence is a marvellous thing! I will go through the whole text, with photos of my own as far as possible which illustrate the text. I've just been working on post 3 which is really interesting, so do keep following!
Fascinating and beautiful as expected, both the verse itself (funny how pre-modern people seemed to write practically everything in verse) and your reflection. It makes you wonder which is best: rarely receiving the Eucharist, or treating it more as an entitlement, even if one regularly misses Sunday Mass and never goes to Confession. A middle ground would perhaps be best, as the saints have always recommended.
Looking forward to part two!
Thanks for sharing this; it's so interesting! Thanks, too, for helping me make sense of the *hundreds* of pyxs, reliquaries and monstrances seen at various museums.
You're welcome - stay tuned, I have another interesting extract from this book in a couple of weeks which I will illustrate with my photos.