Sunday, February 11, 2018

Day Nine of Art Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes

Photograph taken by myself during procession at Lourdes


Visionary or apparitional culture is no static force, a cultural 'given' that people can join as members.
It is dynamic, responding to contemporary political, social and religious realities
and shaping those realities, and is also shaped
by the individuals who identify themselves as Marian devotees
and visionaries.
Visionary culture is a confluence of Catholic devotions, symbols,
and traditions of innovative responses to modern
contexts of negotiations among social, religious and interpersonal
forces of the interactions of apparitions believers
and apparition doubters and of the loving
and guiding influence of Our Lady, who for believers is imminently present.
Visionary culture is a worldview, a palette of practices, an understanding
of the cosmos, a palette on which individuals paint
the stories of their lives.
              Extract from Out Lady of Emmitsburg by Jill Krebs



Photographs taken by myself during procession at Lourdes



'I realized that all the powers of the Mothers, of Tara, Durga, Kali are in Mary.
She has Tara's sublime tenderness;
Durga's inaccessible silent calm force;
the grandeur and terribilta of Kali.
But Mary is also a woman,
a poor woman
and a human mother.


In her the full path of the sacred feminine is lived.
In her we have a complete image of the Divine Mother,
an image at once transcendent and immanent,
other-worldly and this-wordly,
at once mystical and political and practical.

In Mary the Divine Mother comes to earth and lives on earth
and lives, the passionate, strong, serious,
simple and transforming life that shows us all how to live.
 Mary is the bridge between heaven and earth,
between the human and the divine worlds,
between human and divine justice."
Andrew Harvey in The Return of the Mother





Mary statue in my garden in Durbanville South Africa


A blessed feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes to you


4 comments:

  1. I was enjoying your sidebar images of Mary and was immediately struck by the vision crowned with yellow roses. From your garden, perhaps?

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    1. Dear Annie
      Indeed from my garden. This statue is outside my bedroom in a small enclosed garden and the first sight as I wake up. I love to honour the Blessed Mother with flower crowns on feast days and any other day too xx

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  3. Nice blog, it brings back memory of Lourdes....seeing the pilgrims coming to be cleansed of their sins and to be cured of their illnesses.
    I tried to write a blog about this place , hope you like it:https://stenote.blogspot.com/2019/07/ave-maria-day-at-lourdes.html

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