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A sketch of St. JP II. I had Covid two weeks ago. I pray rosaries in Latin, but I was having trouble praying when I was ...
12/21/2022

A sketch of St. JP II. I had Covid two weeks ago. I pray rosaries in Latin, but I was having trouble praying when I was sick. I found audio help of a Latin run rosary by St. JP II. What a manly man that dude is. Very powerful. He helped me get through my rosaries. Thank you Papa. I miss you but it was great spending time with you.

A copy of a Jesus face from an icon using Prismacolor pencils. I was trying to wrap my head around a painting process I ...
12/21/2022

A copy of a Jesus face from an icon using Prismacolor pencils. I was trying to wrap my head around a painting process I might use.

Image of “Hymns on Paradise VII v. 17,” by St Ephrem the Syrian. There’s a lot say about this image. Far too much to wri...
11/06/2022

Image of “Hymns on Paradise VII v. 17,” by St Ephrem the Syrian. There’s a lot say about this image. Far too much to write here. So I recorded a very long video explaining it: https://youtu.be/fM2nVM2hXRU

Fountain pen sketch from the mid-6th century Pantocrator icon, from theMonastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, Egypt. F...
11/04/2022

Fountain pen sketch from the mid-6th century Pantocrator icon, from the
Monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, Egypt. Felt like doing something relaxing and challenging. No under drawing. I started with the left eye and just eyeballed it as I went. It isn’t perfect, but I didn’t expect it to be.

“Catholics are hypocrites! Christians are hypocrites! Look at the scandals from the Church. I know a Christian or many C...
07/04/2022

“Catholics are hypocrites! Christians are hypocrites! Look at the scandals from the Church. I know a Christian or many Christians who’s are awful people who don’t live out their faith. Or are self righteous jerks. Therefore Christianity is evil and false.”

I hear this a lot. A LOT.

But Jesus was very realistic about how this would happen. That scandals from the community was inevitable. And what did he say? That’s okay? No. Woe to the Christians who cause the scandal. Yikes!

But he doesn’t say you shouldn’t believe anyway. Jesus doesn’t let scandals be an excuse for unbelief. He doesn’t leave that option open.

An image inspired by the Panagia Platytera Virgin Mary Icon. Basically, she’s like a TARDIS, bigger on the inside, only ...
06/12/2022

An image inspired by the Panagia Platytera Virgin Mary Icon. Basically, she’s like a TARDIS, bigger on the inside, only infinitely so, in order to hold the Logos.

06/02/2022

https://youtu.be/8OH8wtTdJT4
So this is where my head's been at for a while now. I agree with Jonathan. Been reading a lot about this. Not really sure I know what to do with this info...

A little gag a friend of mine came up with and asked me to draw, years ago. I thought it was funny so I did. Thought I’d...
12/25/2021

A little gag a friend of mine came up with and asked me to draw, years ago. I thought it was funny so I did. Thought I’d share it.

Looking back on it now most people miss the mark about Christmas so badly, that if they were a bit more like Bill, they’d be doing better than most.

Merry Christmas.

Too often in media, and even in our churches, Jesus is portrayed as a peace and love hippie. Someone who seems to say, “...
12/05/2021

Too often in media, and even in our churches, Jesus is portrayed as a peace and love hippie. Someone who seems to say, “it’s all good. Do what you want. Nothing is bad.” But that’s not what He said or did. He often said challenging things. Here for example, He challenges all Christians to pay attention to what they preach, and how they act. Saying you’re a Christian and living out your Christianity are two different things. You either live out what Jesus taught, or you pretend you do without really making sure and pay the consequences.

St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the most brilliant minds that ever lived. The pinnacle of thought of the high middle ages....
10/03/2021

St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the most brilliant minds that ever lived. The pinnacle of thought of the high middle ages. His writings are still relevant to this day and influential to this day. Most modern people would have a difficult time with Aquinas because of our lack of liberal arts education. His writings where very logical, based on the foundations of reason set by Socrates, Plato and especially Aristotle.

The dove speaking into his ear represents the divine guidance he received while writing. The book is to represent all his works. The star or sun is to show the light of his intellect, as well as the divine light which inspired his writing. It also represents the Eucharist, which he had a very special devotion to. The ox is in reference to the nickname he received from his classmates, because of his quiet disposition – “the dumb ox.” 

His most well known work is the Summa Theologiae. A work that breaks down all the greatest arguments against and for Christianity, in the tradition of the Universities of the time.  He never finished it because it is said:

'On the feast of St. Nicholas [in 1273, Aquinas] was celebrating Mass when he received a revelation that so affected him that he wrote and dictated no more, leaving his great work the Summa Theologiae unfinished. To Brother Reginald’s (his secretary and friend) expostulations he replied, “The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.” When later asked by Reginald to return to writing, Aquinas said, “I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw.”'

It is also said that he was overheard speaking with God, who asked his what he wanted God to reward him for all that good things he'd written about Him. Aquinas was said to have replied, "Domine, non nisi te!"  "Lord, nothing except you!"

St. Thomas Aquinas, ora pro nobis.

Due to some of the feedback I’ve gotten over my original St Augustine drawing, I’ve adjusted it a little. It was pointed...
09/30/2021

Due to some of the feedback I’ve gotten over my original St Augustine drawing, I’ve adjusted it a little. It was pointed out that he didn’t look Algerian enough. His features were too sub-Saharan African. So I altered him slightly.

St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo, is one of my favorite Saints. SUPER influential in western thought, even to this day. He ...
09/05/2021

St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo, is one of my favorite Saints. SUPER influential in western thought, even to this day. He was a Roman, born in Africa in 354  in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras, Algeria)  He's often depicted holding his heart because in one of his commentaries of Proverbs 23:26 which reads, "My son, give me thy heart and let thy eyes keep my ways." Augustine wrote, "He says, give me. Give me what? Son, your heart. When it stays with you, it will go ill. You will be drawn to toys and to lascivious and harmful loves. Give me, he says, your heart. Let it be mine, and it will not perish." And the arrow is there because in his autobiography, "The Confessions" he wrote: "Thou hadst pierced [sagittaveras] our heart with thy love, and we carried thy words, as it were, thrust through our vitals." The word translated "pierced" is sagittaveras, literally "shot arrows into." 

I drew him writing "The Confessions" and his desk has a tapestry of a city, which is meant to be an allusion to his other book, "The City of God." I highly recommend reading the Confessions to see how he traveled all over ancient Rome, often with his mistress, talking to the wisest people of his time, looking for truth, only to find it when he came across St. Ambrose.  It's a fantastic challenging story that showed me that, besides the tech of the time, things don't change much when it comes to every day human interactions and perceptions.

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