Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Help Please Identifying a Rosary Center - She's Our Lady of Sorrows!
Greetings All,
I would like some help please identifying the person depicted on this rosary center. The picture is below. The back of the center shows the Earth and has the words Terra Santa. I looked up the words and I think I know who she is, but I'd like a non-biased opinion so I'm not going to say anything. I'd appreciate any help you could give to me.
Update: Thank you for the help identifying her as Our Lady of Sorrows and the Terra Santa as the soil of the Holy Land from Jerusalem.
Blessings,
I would like some help please identifying the person depicted on this rosary center. The picture is below. The back of the center shows the Earth and has the words Terra Santa. I looked up the words and I think I know who she is, but I'd like a non-biased opinion so I'm not going to say anything. I'd appreciate any help you could give to me.
Update: Thank you for the help identifying her as Our Lady of Sorrows and the Terra Santa as the soil of the Holy Land from Jerusalem.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Mary's Graces: Art Page
Mary's Graces: Art Page: "Hi I will start off this page so you can see what maybe we can do. This is Guadalupe by me, Donna The Woodwife you can read how I was inspir..."
The second painting down on Mary's Graces blog: Art Page is a painting I had commissioned by the Etsy artist Nat Ewert called "Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal", copyright 2011.
The second painting down on Mary's Graces blog: Art Page is a painting I had commissioned by the Etsy artist Nat Ewert called "Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal", copyright 2011.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal by Nat Ewert
Nat did the most magnificent work on Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal painting. I commissioned her to do a 8x10 mixed media painting for me and it's done and it's lovely. I haven't received it yet - I'll get it next week but I have the proof of the finished piece. It was amazing working with her. She let me have a lot of input and I tried to use as much of my research as possible.
Of course, some of it couldn't be included, for example the 3 rings on each hand, and we added a few things, the blue mantle and the Holy Spirit, but it's still true to the third apparition of St. Catherine Laboure. Even the snake, which represents Satan and evil, is green with yellow spots just as St. Catherine saw it. Our Lady is standing on the snake to represent her battle against evil. She also stands upon on the Earth, which is perfect, with the date 1830 among a lot of wonderful clouds. She is absolutely lovely. Nan made her dress a little bluish to represent the "color of dawn" as St. Catherine saw it, as well as rings on each of her fingers and rays from the rings towards the Earth. Although St. Catherine did not see a blue mantle, this was added later by her confessor, the bishop, and has been a part of the image since then. The circle surrounding her which reads "O Mary Conceived Without Sin Pray for Us Who Have Recourse to Thee" from hand to hand as was seen by St. Catherine. Of course, the original was in French but we decided to do the text for this painting in English. Nat also added the Holy Spirit at my request.
Nat takes custom orders year-round, and even offers an Easy-Payment-Plan upon request. You can find her art shop at www.natamon.etsy.com , and contact her at natstoremail@gmail.com . Nat's religious paintings are all lovely. This painting will be available as a print in about one week. She also currently has wonderful paintings and prints of Jesus Christ, St. John the Baptist, St. Theresa, St. Gertrude, St. Padre Pio, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi and others.
The painting is truly amazing. I will be lucky to have such a piece of art. I know you want to see her so here she is:
Of course, some of it couldn't be included, for example the 3 rings on each hand, and we added a few things, the blue mantle and the Holy Spirit, but it's still true to the third apparition of St. Catherine Laboure. Even the snake, which represents Satan and evil, is green with yellow spots just as St. Catherine saw it. Our Lady is standing on the snake to represent her battle against evil. She also stands upon on the Earth, which is perfect, with the date 1830 among a lot of wonderful clouds. She is absolutely lovely. Nan made her dress a little bluish to represent the "color of dawn" as St. Catherine saw it, as well as rings on each of her fingers and rays from the rings towards the Earth. Although St. Catherine did not see a blue mantle, this was added later by her confessor, the bishop, and has been a part of the image since then. The circle surrounding her which reads "O Mary Conceived Without Sin Pray for Us Who Have Recourse to Thee" from hand to hand as was seen by St. Catherine. Of course, the original was in French but we decided to do the text for this painting in English. Nat also added the Holy Spirit at my request.
Nat takes custom orders year-round, and even offers an Easy-Payment-Plan upon request. You can find her art shop at www.natamon.etsy.com , and contact her at natstoremail@gmail.com . Nat's religious paintings are all lovely. This painting will be available as a print in about one week. She also currently has wonderful paintings and prints of Jesus Christ, St. John the Baptist, St. Theresa, St. Gertrude, St. Padre Pio, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi and others.
The painting is truly amazing. I will be lucky to have such a piece of art. I know you want to see her so here she is:
Monday, July 25, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Three new Teamcatholic Treasuries
Here are three teamcatholic treasuries I did since Saturday morning. Please take a moment to go look at the wonderful treasury items by clicking on the Treaury link. Thank you.
"To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens." Ecc 3:1
Autumn is my favorite season, the cold breezes blowing around the leaves, the colors of the Autumn trees and foilage. A beautiful season of much joy and delight waiting in anticipation.
Treasury 2: From the Gospel today, "Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls..." Matthew 13:45. There are several verses in the Bible referring to pearls, including the 12 pearl gates of Revelations. Pearl is June's birthstone.
"To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens." Ecc 3:1
Autumn is my favorite season, the cold breezes blowing around the leaves, the colors of the Autumn trees and foilage. A beautiful season of much joy and delight waiting in anticipation.
I chose items made by the teamcatholic with autumn colors to makes this treasury based on the Bible verse above .
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| Geometric Gem by Simply Lovely Jewelry |
I chose items made with pearls by teamcatholic to make this treasury based on today's Gospel reading.
"If anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or straw, the work of each will come to light, for the Day will disclose it." 1 Corinthians 3:12-13
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| Yellow Pearl Rosary Bracelet by Raes Spirit |
"If anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or straw, the work of each will come to light, for the Day will disclose it." 1 Corinthians 3:12-13
I chose wood and brown items to make this teamcatholc treasury based on this verse .
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Handmade woodburning of Blessed Pope John Paul II |
Friday, July 22, 2011
Two New Projects Today
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| Russian Orthodox Rosary |
I worked on two small craft projects today and finished them. The first was a Russsian Orthodox rosary and the second was a kit to make a "Miraculous Medal" ring.
The Russian Rosary
(A slightly different version of the Byzantine Rosary) The Eastern rite rosary dates back to the 7th century, when according to tradition, a saint had an apparition recommending this form of prayer. In Russia, the rosary is called "Chotki." It is usually made of wool in which there are 100 knots with an extra know between each ten. At the end is a cross also make of knots.
The Russian Rosary I made has a tiny (11mm) sterling Russian Orthodox cross at the beginning, followed by one sterling bead, a tiny (9mm) sterling center for the Miraculous Medal and 100 vintage crystal beads of a multitude of colors separated each ten by a round sterling silver bead. This is a tiny rosary despite all the beads. It only measures 8" in full length. There's a little space in the wire so that it's easier to keep count. The sterling cross and center are lovely. They both have a front and a back with alot of detail. Unfortunately, the back, which is in Russian, is too small for my DH to read too.
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| Back of the Cross and Center |
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| Front of the Cross and Center |
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| 100 vintage crystal Rosary beads and sterling silver spacers |
The Immaculate Ring - Vintage Jewelry Kit
This is a theoretically simple "connection" project using a wonderful ring shank with pierced loops on it. The ring is texturized to give in an antique look and then it is oxidized to bring out the highlights. The kit includes mother of pearl components, including a faceted rondelle with tiny filigree bead caps. There are also two tiny brass cross crosses and two Miraculous Medals (hence my interest), These were aged as well. Antique brass headpins and tiny jump rings are included for the connections. The kit was supplied by Vintage Design Resource, a really fun place to shop on-line.
I had no problems with the kit except that it was difficult to use such tiny jump rings when one has tremors in one's hands. Other than that, it was alot of fun to make and very pretty.
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| Ring from Vintage Design Resource |
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| My Immaculate Ring |
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| Kit from Vintage Design Resource |
CARRY YOUR ROSARY EVERYDAY
When you carry a Rosary, Satan has a headache.
When you use it, he collapses.
When he sees you praying it, he faints.
Let us pray the rosary every day, so that he'll keep fainting.
Did you also know that when you are about to forward this message, Satan will try to discourage you?
Forward it anyway and help hasten the triumph of Mother Mary!
Send this to your prayerful friends and see how the Holy Spirit works!
There is a great deal to gain and absolutely nothing to lose!
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Hi Everyone,
Imagine what might happen if every Catholic in the world would pray a Rosary on the same day! We have an example in October of 1573, when Europe was saved from the invasion of the mighty Turkish fleet, by the praying of the Rosary by all Christians!
So, on July 30 2011 , let us all pray a Rosary for peace in the world and the return of moral values into our communities. If possible, please pray your Rosary between and .
Also, please e-mail this message to every Catholic on your address list, and ask them to pass it along to every Catholic on their lists. Let's unite in praying one of the most powerful prayers in existence, for these intentions, on one of the holiest days in our Church year.
God bless us all!
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