For a well-considered visual environment
3 January 2013 Leave a comment
One of the more poetic Christmas carols, In the Bleak Midwinter.
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
2 January 2013 Leave a comment
TITLE: 天使向牧人傳佈嘉訊 (The Angels Spreads the Good News to the Shepherds)
ARTIST: 華效先 (Hua Xiaoxian, Luke Hua Hsiao-hsien)
INSCRIPTION(S): 路加華效先敬繪於一九四八年初夏 (Luke Hua Xiaoxian painted [this] in early Summer 1948)
MEDIUM: Chinese watercolor on silk; mounted as hanging scroll
DESCRIPTION: Two shepherds wait in the snow with their sheep while the angel Gabriel announces the birth of Jesus.
DIMENSIONS: (Painting [Mounting]) 53×47.5 cm [65.5x123 cm]
Via.
31 December 2012 Leave a comment
The Candle Song
Like a candle flame
Flick’ring small
in our darkness,
uncreated light
shines through infant eyes.
30 December 2012 Leave a comment
Good King Wenceslas
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor,
Shall yourselves find blessing.
29 December 2012 Leave a comment
TITLE: 耶穌誕生 1 (The Birth of Jesus 1, The Nativity)
ARTIST: 華效先 (Hua Xiaoxian, Luke Hua Hsiao-hsien)
INSCRIPTION(S): 天主慶賀吾主耶穌聖誕圖; 路加華效先; 北平廣安門聖心堂美術部出品 (God Celebrates the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus; Luke Hua Xiaoxian; A product of the Beiping Guang’anmen Sacred Heart Church Fine Arts Department)
MEDIUM: Chinese watercolor on silk; mounted as hanging scroll
DESCRIPTION: Mary and Joseph surround the newborn Jesus lying in the manger, attended by angels playing traditional Chinese instruments; viewed from outside the cave.
DIMENSIONS: (Painting [Mounting]) 58×122 cm [70x175 cm]
Via.
28 December 2012 Leave a comment
Of the Father’s Heart Begotten
Let the storm and summer sunshine,
Gliding stream and sounding shore,
Sea and forest, frost and zephyr,
Day and night their Lord adore;
Let creation join to laud thee
Through the ages evermore,
Evermore and evermore.
27 December 2012 Leave a comment
Earth was waiting, spent and restless (William Chalmers Smith)
Earth was waiting, spent and restless
with a mingled hope and fear
faithful men and women praying,
“Surely, Lord, the day is near:
the desire of all nations —
it is time he should appear!”
26 December 2012 Leave a comment
Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Charles Wesley and John Cennick)
Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluya!
God appears on Earth to reign.
25 December 2012 Leave a comment
Excerpt from Christus vincit (Laudes Regiae: Words and chant eleventh century or earlier)
May they have happiness
Who are redeemed by
the blood of Christ! And joy!
May Christ’s peace come!
May Christ’s kingdom come!
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