St.Thérèse – The Artist and poet

Carmenlites Birkenhead
http://www.carmelitesbirkenhead.org.uk/wordpress/2012/09/24/st-therese-the-artist/

The TNT Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, translator by Canon Thomas T. Taylor of Carfin, familiarised whole generations in the Story of a Soul.
Not so many have learned much about St. Therese  the POET and the ARTIST.
An early encounter with the poems raises the interest, and raises more questions.
Follows the compulsion to learn about the artist.
There could be no greater revelation than in the Website of the Carmelites of Birkenhead.
Our appreciation and thanks to the Sisters. We look forward to searhing the unfathomed depths of St. Therese, Doctor of the Church.

St.Thérèse – The Artist

Posted on September 24, 2012

Therese at recreation holding her paint palette and brushes.

In 1892 Thérèse, although she still had the responsibility of the Novices, was given the

Saint Therese as St. Joan of Arc. Therese is wearing a black wig over her toque (the white linen cloth Carmelites wear on their heads) and paper fleurs-de-lys sewn on her habit

duty of painting, which was to replace her work in the sacristy.From June of this year right up until her death in 1897, Thérèse’s creativity blossomed,as she began to express herself more and more in her community life, not only through her painting but also through her poetry and the writing of plays, her most famous being the production of ‘Joan of Arc’,

which she performed on January 21, 1895. We thought as a tribute to Saint Thérèse on her Feast day, we would ‘open’ a Gallery to exhibit just a small portion of her work.

A painting Therese finished in 1892 and gave to Celine. It was modelled on a similar painting in her cell.

A pall made by St Therese for Father Roulland’s Ordination

An oil painting done by Therese which she gave to Mother Agnes for her Feast Day 1894

Detail of a picture by Therese a few months after her entrance into Carmel 1888

Drawing by Therese of the farmhouse at Saint-Ouen

drawing from Therese’s sketchbook

In 1893 Therese painted a fresco on the wall of an Oratory.

Oyster shell painted by Saint Therese

Pages of a Missal illuminated by Therese

Painted Chasuble. Made from a dress that belonged to Madame Martin.

Painted stole

Picture and detail of a card painted by St. Therese in Carmel

Picture Therese illumined of St John of the Cross

Taken from Therese’s sketchbook

The Church at Ouilly-le-Vicomte sketched by Therese on April 12, 1887

All the images we have used come from the book ‘Therese and Lisieux’

by Pierre Descouvemont and Helmuth Nils Loose  www. Veritas.ie

St. Aloysius Friday 21 June 13 Scripture: Mt 6,19-23

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Fr. Nivard ....
Sent: Friday, 21 June 2013, 9:58
Subject: Happy name day, Seamus Aloysius

Happy name day, Seamus Aloysius 11 Friday 21 June 13 Scripture: Mt 6,19-23 Where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.      Father Arrupe’s words on the Treasure of our heart.   Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way.   What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.   It will decide, what, will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.   Fall in Love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.                                                                                      FATHER PEDRO ARRUPE, s.j. ‘Magnificat’, adapted   Father, our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Make us more conscious of your presence within our hearts, every moment of the day and night, through Christ our Lord. Love and Blessings Nivard

Longest Day - Summer's day sunrise

Summer's day sunrise

 

Dear William,

Thank you.

After Compline, 19th, I took the photos of the MOON OVER THE CHIMNEY STACK.

The moon seemed to move as fast as the time to click again. 

This evening is all clouded over.

Look for the moon elsewhere in Scotland summer day.

Saint Aloysius one of my baptismal names.

.... yours,

Donald

The moon is there.

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William ...
To: Donald....
Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2013.
Subject: Summer's day sunrise

Dear Father Donald,

 

I will be thinking of you at sunrise 04:24 hrs in the morning on the longest day!

There will be many lost souls seeking sunrays at Stonehenge... but for this lost world, you will be before the Blessed Sacrament, light and Joy.

 

You will be up much before, I have no doubt, and I suspect that you may retire not long before sunset 22:01 hrs!

 

Perhaps there may not be much 'sunshine' (your forecast is for an overcast dayhttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/haddington#?tab=fiveDay&fcTime=1371769200), but that does not alter the wonder of it all... so quite beyond man's intuition. 

 

In the wee small hours, I will greet you in Spirit in the stillness before the Blessed Sacrament.

How earnestly I unite with you 'at the rising of the sun and at its setting'.

 

... in Our Lord,

William

COMMENT:St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE

It was difficult search the original of the Poems of St. Therese. Fortunately, the shelves right beside us in the lower cloister display the St. Therese collection.

And, invaluable is the French version of our copy of,  Soeur Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face  

In the 1960's Book bindery, Fr. Andrew succeeded binding the French style uncut pages volume. Beautifully bound in leather quarter mitred covers.

St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE, After St. John of the Cross”

*** below, page facsimile scan...........

Soeur Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face Histoire d'une âme écrite par elle-même (French Edition) by de Lisieux Thérèse (12 Jul 2011) - Kindle eBook

St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE, After St. John of the Cross”

Poems of St. Therese Of The Child Jesus: Known As The Little Flower Of Jesus. Translated By The Carmelites Of Santa Clara, Publisher: Burns Oates and Washbourne (1925)  

St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE After St. John of the Cross” posed some puzzlement. The English of ‘Poem of Little Flower Jesus’ brings little known vocabulary. – Glose of the Divine.

The Victorian style translation does not make the poem easy. This text is from London 1925 printing.

Further hurdle is the fact that available Online versions omit some of the poems, in particular the missing ‘Glose on the Divine, after St. John of the Cross’.
[Similarly missing the Glose on the Divine, in a French first edition 1907].

Here, St. Therese is in deeper experience with St. John of the Cross. A Link below helps the explanation.

 http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/glose.htm 

Hopefully there will be an updated translation, 2001. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-Therese-Lisieux-Alan-Bancroft/dp/0006279503/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1  

POEMS OF LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS

GLOSE ON THE DIVINE

After St. John of the Cross

Leaning without support, without light and in darkness,
I go to consume myself of love. " - St. John of the Cross.

To the world, with delight all-surpassing,
An eternal farewell I have said;

O'er itself wings my heart life-amassing,
From support save in God it hath fled!

And now in His light I am seeing
What is dearest where joys overbrim,

'Tis when heart, soul, and all of my heing
Lean, and know no support save in Him.

While I suffer in darkness unbroken,
Through this mortal delay of an hour,

I possess here at least one fair token,
The star of love's infinite power.

In the way, all of peril surroundeth,
But I follow, no fear can debar,

For by love, well I know life aboundeth
’Mid the shadows of exile afar.

His love as I learn every hour,
Can profit by good and by ill

That He findeth in me: O what power!
Transforming my soul at His Will.

This flame feedeth deep, nor returneth,
It pierceth my heart from above;

As with ardours of fire it burneth,
I go hence, consumed in my love.

1896.

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  http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/glose.htm 

Glose (or Glosa)

The glose originated in Spain, where it is known as the glosa. It has two parts, which are normally written by different authors. 

The first part - the texte or cabeza - consists of a few lines which set the theme for the entire poem. Typically this will be a stanza from a well-known poem or poet - although it is perfectly permissible to write your own texte.

The second part - the glose or glosa proper - is a gloss on, or explanation of, the texte. It takes the form of an ode, with one stanza per line of the texte. Each stanza in turn expands upon its corresponding line of texte, and ends with a repetition of it. 

An example will make this clearer.

 

Another blow for press freedom

The painful warrior famoused for fight 

After a thousand victories once foiled 

Is from the book of honour razèd quite 

And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. 

A thug, about him something of the night, 

But our thug, who took up arms and stood firm, 

Brave, strong and tall for what he thought was right.  

A hero, though he’d blush to hear the term, 

The painful warrior famoused for fight.

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Related forms

The rondeau redoublé will give you a distinct sense of déjà vu.

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Eucharistic tabernacle, workshop of Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525).

• Magnificat.com, June 2013-06-2013 

The Eucharistic Trinity

 https://www.magnificat.net/english/popup_couv.asp.

 The works of Andrea della Robbia (Florence, 1435-1525) are consistently composed around three key elements: a setting, often adorned with flowers, that highlights the liturgical dimension of the subject; a uniform background of deep blue, created with pigments of precious lapis lazuli, representing heaven; and figures in resplendent white, that is, chosen ones who are the blessed actors in a sacred story. Here, however, the celestial blue background is draped by a curtain that stretches open to reveal the gray, cloud-swept sky of earth. And within this sky, as if in response to an epiclesis, the Holy Spirit appears in the form of a dove. The point of view in this scene, therefore, is completely reversed vis-à-vis all of della Robbia’s other works, where the visible universe (the standpoint of the faithful) contemplates the invisible universe (where the divine promises to the faithful are fulfilled). This work is unique, for it invites us to gaze upon the Eucharistic species through the eyes of the Father.

What does the Father see? For the first time since the creation of the world, he sees a man who has accomplished his will on earth as it is in heaven—a man who has thus become, by the power of the Holy Spirit, a living sacrifice of praise to his glory. On the threshold of heaven, the Father sees the Son, true man in Flesh and Blood, delivered into the hands of death for us. Through him the Father sees humanity ransomed and saved. With him he sees Adam cross through death, his eternal destiny restored. In him he sees the New Adam create the new man, the man-for-others: Eucharistic man. In this bread and wine that angels adore, and that we are invited to share—to eat and to drink—the Father sees the extent of the gift he made of his beloved Son, so that we might enter into communion with God forever.

Pierre-Marie Dumont 

 Eucharistic tabernacle, workshop of Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525), glazed terracotta, Cité de la céramique de Sèvres, France. © RMN-Grand Palais (Sèvres, Cité de la céramique) / Martine Beck-Coppola.

 

Our prayer is communal St. Cyprian

Night Office Reading by St. Cyprian opens the door for THE OUR FATHER in the teaching of Christ. The heading of "Our prayer is communal" makes interesting Links from Google.- breathing to vast vistas............


Google browse: "prayer is communal".
About 5,400,000 results (0.26 seconds) - see Link at end.

iBreviary 
Day: Monday, 17 June 2013
SECOND READING

From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr
(Nn. 8-9: CSEL 3, 271-272)

Our prayer is communal

Above all, he who preaches peace and unity did not want us to pray by ourselves in private or for ourselves alone. We do not say “My Father, who art in heaven,” nor “Give me this day my daily bread.” It is not for himself alone that each person asks to be forgiven, not to be led into temptation or to be delivered from evil. Rather, we pray in public as a community, and not for one individual but for all. For the people of God are all one.

God is then the teacher of harmony, peace and unity, and desires each of us to pray for all men, even as he bore all men in himself alone. The three young men shut up in the furnace of fire observed this rule of prayer. United in the bond of the Spirit they uttered together the same prayer. The witness of holy Scripture describes this incident for us, so that we might imitate them in our prayer. Then all three began to sing in unison, blessing God. Even though Christ had not yet taught them to pray, nevertheless, they spoke as with one voice.

It is for this reason that their prayer was persuasive and efficacious. For their simple and spiritual prayer of peace merited the presence of the Lord. So too, after the ascension we find the apostles and the disciples praying together in this way. Scripture relates: They all joined together in continuous prayer, with the women including Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. They all joined together in continuous prayer. The urgency and the unity of their prayer declares that God, who fashions a bond of unity among those who live in his home, will admit into his divine home for all eternity only those who pray in unity.

My dear friends, the Lord’s Prayer contains many great mysteries of our faith. In these few words there is great spiritual strength, for this summary of divine teaching contains all of our prayers and petitions. And so, the Lord commands us: Pray then like this: Our Father, who art in heaven.

We are new men; we have been reborn and restored to God by his grace. We have already begun to be his sons and we can say “Father.” John reminds us of this: He came to his own home, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who received him, who believe in his name, he gave the power to become children of God. Profess your belief that you are sons of God by giving thanks. Call upon God who is your Father in heaven.

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On Scotland's sacred Isle of Iona “Cnoc a' Chalmain”, the “Hill of the Dove ”, has been established as a House of Prayer under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. It was officially opened by the Archbishop  in the spring of 1997, the 1400th anniversary year of St Columba's death on Iona.

Cnoc a' Chalmainprovides a peaceful place of prayer for all pilgrims in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Cnoc a' Chalmain also offers a unique opportunity for a single room stay on Iona, with the possibility of sharing in the ecumenical services of the island.

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Céud míle faílte  (a hundred thousand welcomes)

Sister Jean Lawson rscj (Warden)

How To Find Us

The House of Prayer is five minutes' walk from the ferry. Follow the road from the pier past the Nunnery ruins. Do not turn right to the Abbey but continue straight on to the road end, then turn left through a farm gate andCnoc a' Chalmain is the second house on the right.

  

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COMMENT: Iona pictures

Cnoc a' Chalmain - The 'Hill of the Dove'

1. Cnoc a' Chalmain House of Prayer - Isle of Iona - Stay Here

   www.catholic-iona.com/stayhere.html‎

   Roman Catholic House of Prayer retreat accommodation, Isle of Iona, Scotland.

Dear Robert,

Thank you for your TEXT, appreciating the 'pictorial'.

No, I was not behind the lense, not able to travel.

The Novice took pictures, and this is a Blogspot experiment - amazing! |

domdonald.org.uk 

P.S. You might interest the Link of House of Prayer, Iona. 

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: bob sweeney ....
To: donald....
Sent: Monday, 17 June 2013, 8:14
Subject: Iona pilgrimage

Dear Father Donald,

 

Had to send quick e mail, on way to work, to say well done on the above photographs.

 (I take it it was you behind the lenses ). 

What a lovely day I have been many times to Iona. 

I call it the supermarket of tranquility so many special things to experience.

God Bless 

Robert