The Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Crucified Jesus painted during Holy Week, 2022

 

Our Lady of Medjugorje

1/25/91.    “ . . .  Satan is strong and desires to destroy not only human life, but also nature and the planet on which you live. . . . pray that through prayer you can protect yourselves with God's blessing of peace. . . . grasp for the rosary. . . .the rosary alone can work miracles in the world and in your lives. . . “

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

When Our Lady appeared to Sister Catherine in Paris, rays were shining forth from some of the rings on her fingers, but not from all of them.      When asked why some of the rings did not have rays, she said that the rays represented graces and the rings without the rays represented graces that people did not ask for.

This is the Madonna and Child I painted for Noel, 2017

I like to paint Jesus as a happy baby and here he is smiling and playing with his toe, something babies love to do.      He is such a joy to all of us.

Our Lady of Sorrows

In April, 2017, I entered an art show with three paintings, a child holding a cat, a bird and this painting of Our Lady of Sorrows, thinking that Mary would never win anything because sacred art is not very popular in the shows.     But it was Lent, and Easter was approaching, and I wanted to have the Sorrowful Mother in the show, hoping that at least one person would look at it and be touched spiritually.      I remember looking at the painting, while I was preparing the paperwork for the entry and saying to her, “If you win anything, it will be a miracle.”     Well . . .the miracle happened . . .  SHE WON THE BLUE RIBBON!    I was flabbergasted!!    What a wonderful gift from the Lord to his mother and me.

Our Lady of Fatima

October 13, 2017 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun, which was seen by 70,000+ people. When Mary appeared to the three children in Fatima, she gave them a very serious message and she never smiled. She was sad, but loving and concerned. At each of her six apparitions she asked for prayer and penance and we should have listened.  She asked for the Rosary and Penance and it is not too late for us to comply.

As inspiration for this painting, I used a photo of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima and a picture of Our Lady of Medjugorje, who said that her messages were a continuation of those from Fatima.    I wanted to paint her as described in Revelations “clothed with the sun” and that is why I used so much yellow.    My goal was to finish the painting by the Anniversary, which is tomorrow, and I finished it just in time.   How lucky we are to have had the beautiful messages from Fatima.        Thank you God for sending us your mother.

Jacinta and Francisco Marto

Our Lady of the Pieta

Saint Anthony

As many of you know, Saint Anthony of Padua is the saint we pray to when we have lost something and I was going to mention the hundreds of times he has helped me to fine keys, rings, money, etc., over the years, but the times are serious now and I think we have lost our sanity in our world.    We need miraculous help and he is known as the miracle worker.    St. Anthony, please help us to find our sanity.    Please.

This is the Madonna & Child I painted for 2015

I painted this in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, one of my favorite artists.  

The Divine Mercy Image

Our Suffering Savior

During Holy Week I generally do a painting of the Crucifixion, or the face of Jesus, and this year I decided to do an abstract, inspired by the Shroud of Turin.    I just completed this and I hope you like it.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus

I feel very honored to tell you that this painting of the Sacred Heart is now on the cover of a book by Carol Eubank entitled A glimpse into my Heart, Letters to My Daughter.    It is a beautiful, deeply spiritual book of letters written about the faith and the love of The Lord.   We didn't know each other prior to this project, but we both had devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and I know that He brought us together. 

Crucifixion

I painted this Crucifixion during Holy Week but was concerned that it might be too modern for my sacred art blog and was unsure about posting it.   I emailed a copy out to family and friends, some of whom are artists to get their opinion and the response was overwhelmingly positive.   My friend and fellow artist, Awilda Harrington, who just this past week had one of her paintings accepted by the Museum of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, FL, had this to say.   "Wow . . . the reason I like it is because it is disturbing to me.   His face demonstrates sadness as well as a pensive thoughtfulness as if in a prayer mode.   This painting has affected me more than any of your others."   After reading this and other comments, I decided to post it because I wanted to share this with you, my internet friends.

This is the Madonna and Child I painted for 2013 in colored pencil

Wishing you the peace, joy and love
of the Christ Child.

The Divine Mercy Image

The tomb is empty.

This is the Crucifixion I painted for Holy Week, 2013

The Passion of Our Lord inspired by the Shroud