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The classic painting on our homepage is  Caspar David Friedrich’s Monastery Graveyard In The Snow (1819)***.    In many ways this symbolizes the current state of the Catholic Church since the 1960’s.  The modern Church is just a shell of itself with loss of correct faith teachings and  practices along with  priests and religious.

The ruins of the church offer a glimmer of the grandeur of the past with small groups of faithful still entering showing that life still is found therein, and, hope.

The desolation of the surroundings reflects the barrenness of modern society which prizes only the physical while ignoring the spiritual, the limbs without leaves and fruit.

Graves surrounding the structure are reminder of the Church Triumphant in heaven whose prayers are endless for the Church Militant on earth.  The light of the breaking sky above remind us that just as the sun will eventually come out again so to will Christ’s Church be be restored in the future.

 

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Two of the weapons the Blessed Virgin uses to help of find salvation and to restore the Church,  the Rosary and the Miraculous Medal, are pictured.

“May the Miraculous Medal be the bullet in the hand of the Knights of the Immaculata and the Holy Rosary the sword.”
“Scapular, Rosary, Miraculous Medal: here are three things that the Immaculata herself has deigned to offer for the salvation of mankind.”
St.  Maximilian Kolbe

 

 

 

 

*** Historical note:  this painting appears in blue, black and white, brown and other assorted versions.  This is because the original was destroying during the bombing of Dresden in WWII.