Beauty

Beauty

"Something serious happens in a community when the taste for what is beautiful is lost. It is, therefore, a cause for alarm when vulgarity, vanity, rudeness are not seen as such but taken for granted, thus supplanting beauty. This process of trivialization of the human ends up essentially degrading us."

~ Pope Francis

An old view of the Tyne River, Gateshead, UK, at the beginning of the 20th century. My paternal grandfather lived in this area at that time.

The beauty of Niagara - enjoy!

This always amazes me because I live near here and have stood here. An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara is a historic watercolour of Niagara Falls painted on site by Thomas Davies (c. 1737–1812) in 1762. It was the first eyewitness painting and the first accurate view of the falls.

Does anyone else actually read a newspaper anymore, digital or hard copy edition, or am I just that old? I have NEVER gotten my news from social media. It just seemed to biased and/or unreliable. I also don't actually read all of my local newspaper; really only what applies to me or effects me. It's too stressful reading everything else in the whole wide world.

So for all the Catholics out there, who is in "your crew"? Who are the saints you repeatedly turn to? Mine are St. Luke, St. Joseph, the Holy Canadian Martyrs (Jean de Brébeuf and co.), St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Dymphna, St. Josémaria Escriva, and St. Zita of Lucca. There are occasionally others, but those are the main ones. My favourite Marian apparition is Our Lady of Knock.

And you?