I am overwhelmed. I have undertaken what is a heart-felt ambition to make manifest a true iconographic copy of Our Lady of Guadeloupe. I have lived interiorly with this desire for a long while now, and my sincere hopes is that through the mercy of God and the intercession of Our Most Pure and Beautiful Lady, that this will be allowed. I cannot do it alone, but need the help of the Church and the Faithful to help grant the means to opening this door.
So I sit here in the middle of my initial foundational step in the process to being heard for this project and hopefully eventually being allowed to iconographically undertake a true copy (to the best of my humble ability) of this miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadeloupe.
So here she is, currently projected on the wall in my dining room. I have been moved in the simple gesture of drawing over the hovering light the contour lines which in and of themselves are most pure and beautiful. It seems as if the lines are singing. Even these lines which perplex seem to have a definite purpose and meaning.
Emma and Soren (my 4-yr. old daughter and 2 yr. old son) were so excited this morning when I cast the light on the wall in the early morning. "It's MARY momma!" And so it is. I don't want to turn the light of the projector off. Even my birds in their cage adjacent were very musical and excited.
I don't know at this point after an initial conversation with Father Paul at St. Bernard's Church in Keene, NH if this will even get green-lighted. The whole notion of church beautification is a complex one, in a mindset that there is always something else that in the active work of the Church is perhaps more deserving. But Beauty speaks. And Our Lady wants us in our brokenness to come to her and to her son.
Even all these small centrifical lines of measurement from the overhead projector illumine Christ in her womb. Most fitting that this cast-wall image is totally centered and in focus when her womb is the centerpoint of it all.
She is so beautiful in her pregnancy, carrying the Savior of The World.
And so I simply wanted to mark this initial step.
My hope drawn on pieced paper.
My Hope.
This whole journey I want to dccument through word and photograph.
If anyone even reads this, please pray for a happy acceptance of this project.
I am going to mount the entire proposal on my website for anyone interested:
http://www.iconeyestudio.com
I would like to see her placed in the niche to the left of the altar where there is currently a statue of her.
I am convinced that Mary wants to shine luminous to the Church in her radiance and beauty--through this particular image.
May I have the humble hands to carry forth the task.
I am simple and poor.
I am a firm believer in miracles.
The Litany of Loreto:
Kyrie eleison, Christie elesion, Mater divinae gratiae, Mater purissima,
mater castissima, ora pro nobis.
Pray for us!
Holy mary, Holy mother of God, Holy Virgin of virgins, Mother of divine grace, Mother most amiable, Mother most admirable, Mother of good counsel, Mother of Golgotha, surrounded by the sun, crowned with stars, Virgin most powerful, Virgin most merciful.
Mirror of justice, Seat of wisdom, Vessel of honor, Mystical Rose, Tower of David, Tower of ivory,
House of Gold, Ark of the covenant, Gate of heaven, Morning Star, Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners, comforter of the afflicted, Help of Christians, Queen of Angels, Queen of patriarchs, Queen of prophets, Queen of apostles, Queen of martyrs, Queen of all saints, Queen assumed into heaven, You, Queen of teh most holy rosary, Queen of families, Queen of peace,
Queen of the heavenly Jerusalem....
Pray for us, pray for us, pray for us.....
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