Sunday, April 14, 2013, 10:00 AM, Mission House, 2nd Floor

Faith & Work

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), "The Angelus" (1859)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
 

We conclude our series on the intersection between faith and work,
discipleship and vocation. Two members of the
parish will make brief presentations and discussion will follow.

Sunday, April 21, 2013, 10:00 AM, Mission House, 2nd Floor
 

The Sacralization of Nature in German Romantic Landscape
Led by Dr. Dennis Raverty

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), "Woman Before the Rising Sun,"
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

In the early nineteenth century, Philipp Otto Runge and Casper David Friedrich transformed and elevated landscape painting from the minor genre it had been up to that point, to the bearer of the kind of serious and sublime content that had formerly been reserved for biblical or mythological subjects alone. Explore how these artists redefined the sacred in terms of implied narrative within their landscapes and their evocation of light as a metaphor for the divine presence in nature.

Sunday, April 28; May 5 & 12, 2013, 10:00 AM,
Mission House, 2nd Floor
 

Angles of Anglican Poetry:
Clerics, Converts, Contrarians and Crossovers
Led by the Reverend Deacon Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
 

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (1844-1899)

A survey appreciating the assortment of the thematically relevant poetic touchstones of the last five centuries, both the obvious and overt ones such as Donne, Herbert, Hopkins, Rossetti, and Eliot, and then others who might surprise us with their aptness for the theme, often covert, or even subverted or subconscious.