Remember your Creator...

Description of Illustration: scriptures "Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, Or the wheel broken as the well. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it." Ecclesiates 12: 6-7 and "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of you were taken; For dust you are, And dust you shall return." Genesis 3:19, A monk studies his scriptures. He points to a human skull which represents mortality. A city behind him and scroll rests at his finger tips; he rests on a cobbled road.

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His labor of love...

Description of Clip Art: scribe, illuminated manuscript, monk, greyscale, copy the Bible, habit, study, commitment 

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"lux tua nos ducat" banners

Description of Clip Art: black and white cartoon drawing of a monk holding a lit lantern, monk's hood, text, "lux tua nos ducat" is Latin for "Your light guides us"

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Portrait of A Monk

Description of Illustration: etching of Raphael's monk, haircut, monk's habit, portrait, greyscale

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The tassel knot...

"Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful" Colossains 4:2

Description of Illustration: rosary or prayer beads, praying, pray, obligation, remembering the points of prayer, open bible, husband and wife pray together

"From his temple he heard my voice my cry came before him, into his ears." Psalm 18:6

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Nuns illustrated by Fritz Kunz

 

Illustration Described: sisters, nuns, dedication, Bible, habits, garden, by illustrator Fritz Kunz

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Pope Leo XIII Portrait

Description of Illustration: restored lithograph of Pope Leo XIII, oldest pope, Catholic church,

Pope Leo XIII (Italian: Leone XIII; born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903, to an Italian comital family) reigned as Pope from 20 February 1878 to his death. He was the oldest pope (reigning until the age of 93), and had the third longest pontificate, behind that of Pius IX (his immediate predecessor) and John Paul II. He is the most recent pontiff to date to take the pontifical name of "Leo" upon being elected to the pontificate. Read more...

• Read more about Pope Leo XIII at New Advent 
  

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Cardinal Wiseman portrait

Description of Illustration: black and white drawing, Catholic, glasses, collar,

Nicholas Wiseman (2 August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was a Spanish-born Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who became the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850. Read more . . .
 

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Portrait of Cardinal Newman

Description of Illustration: English, Anglican, priest, black and white drawing 

John Henry Newman, (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was a Catholic cardinal and theologian who was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s. Read more. . .

• The National Institute for Newman Studies

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A drawing of St. Peter's in Rome

Illustration Described: black and white line drawing, Saint Peter's in Rome, the Vatican, Catholic, Pope, church exterior, St. Peter's Basilica, which is called in Italian "Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano", is a large church in the Vatican City, in Rome, Italy. It is often called "the greatest church in Christendom". In Catholic tradition, St. Peter's Basilica is believed to be the burial place of Saint Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. It is believed that Saint Peter was the first Bishop of Rome. Read more...

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Carry that candle...

Description of Illustration: black and white illustration of a monk, habit, hood, robe, candle

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Standing on the Word of God...

Description of Illustration: black and white illustration of a priest standing on a Bible, cross, collar, clergy, habit

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Alone inside his cell...

Description of Illustration: black and white illustration of a monk, sipping wine, monastic life, cell, tiny window, stones, heavy wood door, shaved head, habit, cloak, table chair

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Stained Glass Window Design of Pope John XXIII

St. Peter's in the background of this design.

Description of Illustration: Pope Saint John XXIII (Latin: Ioannes XXIII; Italian: Giovanni XXIII) born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo dʒuˈzɛppe roŋˈkalli]; 25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, including papal nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice. Read more...

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• What Every Leader Can Learn from Pope John Paul II 
• God's love is the 'beating heart' of the Church
• Four Things I (A Protestant ) Love About the Catholic Church
• Three Ways Catholic Tradition Bolstered My Protestant Faith

A monk carries a manuscript

This illustration of a monk has a transparent background.

Description of Illustration: illustration of a monk, habit, book, manuscript, geometric trim

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Catholic Clergy Goes Digital:

• Blogging Nuns, Tweeting Monks, and The Catholic Church's Digital Revolution
• Conception Abbey 
• Pink Nuns of St. Louis - Pray without ceasing...

Dedicated to the poor and sick

A dedicated nun cradles the sick and dying.

Description of Illustration: Greyscale illustration of a nun and the sick children under her care., hospital, illness, habit, cross, hospital beds, flowers

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• Little Sisters of the Poor
• "Eager to Serve the Poor and Sick"
• Our Lady's Nurses for The Poor
• Healing Ministry of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Sisters of Mercy, Current News

1 John 4:21

Description of the Illustration: color cartoon, short and tall, two monks, brothers, hoods drawn over their faces, sandals, monastic life, robe belt, Art Nouveau frame, Cartoon scripture series: Old Habits Die Hard, text "And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother." 1 John 4:21, plus cross reference "Leviticus 19:18, transparent background

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Saint Cecilia, Patroness of Musicians

Cecilia is frequently depicted playing a viola, a small organ,
 or other musical instrument, evidently to express what
 was often attributed to her viz., that while the musicians
 played at her nuptials she sang in her heart to God.

Description of Illustration: halo, pipes, white cloak, chaste, musician, portrait in a frame

       Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia) is the patroness of musicians. It is written that as the musicians played at her wedding she "sang in her heart to the Lord." Her feast day is celebrated in the Latin Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox churches on November 22. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.

       While the details of her story appear to be fictional, her existence and martyrdom are considered a historical fact. She is said to have been beheaded with a sword. An early Roman Christian church, Santa Cecilia, was founded in the fourth century in the Trastevere section of Rome, reputedly on the site of the house in which she lived. A number of musical compositions are dedicated to her, and her feast day, November 22, became the occasion of for concerts and musical festivals. Read more...

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• The Life, Miracles and Martyrdom of St. Cecilia of Rome, Virgin and Martyr of the Christian Church
• Here Followeth of St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr in Caxton's translation of the Golden Legend
• Catholic Online - Saints & Angels: St. Cecilia
• Order of Saint Cecilia
• St. Cecilia at the Christian Iconography web site

St. Aidan of Lindisfarene

Description of Illustration:  This illustrated stained glass window motif was designed to celebrate the life of St. Aidan, symbols of the Holy Trinity are at the top, an Irish Celtic Cross at the bottom, St. Aidan was an Irishman, Hand of The Father, Initials of The Son and Dove The Symbol of The Holy Ghost, multiple colors

       Aidan of Lindisfarne (died 31 August 651) was an Irish monk and missionary credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. He founded a monastic cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, served as its first bishop, and traveled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility and to the socially disenfranchised (including children and slaves).
       He is known as the Apostle of Northumbria and is recognized as a saint by the Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion and others.
       Bede's meticulous and detailed account of Aidan's life provides the basis for most biographical sketches (both classical and modern). One notable lacuna, which (somewhat paradoxically) reinforces the notion of Bede's reliability, is that virtually nothing is known of the monk's early life, save that he was a monk at the ancient monastery on the island of Iona from a relatively young age and that he was of Irish descent. Aidan was known for his strict asceticism.

• Read more about St. Aidan of Lindisfarene
• St. Aidan's Anglican, Hurstville Grove, Sydney
• St. Aidan Anglican Church, Moose Jaw, SK
• St. Aidan's Orthodox Church, Manchester UK

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Revelation 3:10

orange and black version

black and white version

 

Description of Illustration: two versions of Revelation 3:10 scripture, illustrated with a monk (scribe) bent over his work in a Medieval library, scripture reads "Because thou has kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that Swell upon the earth. (King James Bible)

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