Vita Dulce

Joseph Kautzman Ht. 19.5", Wt. 6.4 lbs. Named after St. Joseph but already sporting minature sideburns like his other role model Joseph Mauer of the TWINS!!!

Easter Season When 40 days in the desert through the Light of the Resurrection lead to a NEW DAY in the Son

Dali's "Christ of St. John of the Cross"is one of the most phenomenal depictions surrounding Good Friday that I've seen.  The figure of Christ dominating the other-wordly upper portion of the portrait presents this as the 'cosmic event' that it truly was; yet the tranquil and serene image of the fisherman and the sea beneath connotes the 'here and now' dimension as the figure by the boat soaks up to his ankles in the sea. The question is whether the figure below is one about to become a 'fisher of men' following in the footsteps of the Lord or is he simply unaware and going about his daily business separated entirely and failing to allow this event to transform him by means of the cosmic drama that transpires above.  Good Friday is a day to ask myself:  which of these two men am I? [For effect scroll up or down to observe only the top or bottom half of the work.  They could be seen as two entirely separate pieces.  I guess that is the cen...

As As the deer longs for running streams, so my soul longs for you, my God.            (Psalm 42)

HOLY THURSDAY I have always known this day as 'Holy Thursday' and wondered why some called the day 'Maundy Thursday'.   I found out that the root of this tradition comes because it was on this day that Christ gave his 'mandatum' (mandate) to follow his example by going out to wash the feet of others. It was also the day he gave the mandate: 'Do this in remembrance of me.'  A command to celebrate the agape meal, the meal of love that he established and wanted the community to continue so that they could continue to recieve and become for the world the 'Body of Christ.' It is suitable today, then, to consider how each of these'mandatums' cannot be understood without the other: 1. We must continue to celebrate and to recieved the Eucharist as Christ requested (and which we know the earliest Church immediately began to do each day of the Resurrection) [1 Cor. 11:23-26] 2.  We must go out to 'wash the feet' of our brothers and sis...