The parish priest was a figure of extraordinary importance, with divine responsibilities and authority but also an uneasy status as a community employee of sorts.
Archives for October 27, 2022
Posey Krakowsky’s ‘Creole’ Quilts
Spirit-Driven Stitchin’ Church of the Heavenly Rest 1085 Fifth Avenue New York City November 6-December 31 Review by Dennis Raverty Posey Krakowsky’s sumptuous quilts not only sew various disparate fabrics, surface designs, and textures to one another. They also stitch together diverse cultural and spiritual traditions, from Pre-Columbian Mayan and Afro-Caribbean Vodun to Christian iconography, […]
Appetites
By Annette Brownlee A Reading from Sirach 31:12-18, 25; 32:2 12 Are you seated at the table of the great? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, “How much food there is here!” 13 Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing. What has been created more greedy than the eye? Therefore […]