Anyway, Lent is marching relentlessly on, and so the time of the annual Chrism Mass demo approaches... Before I get roasted in the combox by anyone unfamiliar with my blog, I hasten to point out that the "demo" to which I refer is actually a group of women who stand outside St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, saying "thank you" to our hard-working and faithful priests. We also hand out little cards...
...and I'm having trouble deciding on the picture for this year's offering. So, shall I use this one:
Or what about this one?
Preferences (or other suggestions) in the combox please.
UPDATE: Stephen Wikner suggested the following as an alternative...
Being unfamiliar with the demo, it might help to know what the little cards say?
ReplyDeleteAesthetically I prefer no 1 but there is, for me, a stronger message in no 2. If you want Our Lady as panagia (all holy), I have a wonderful picture of a mosaic which I use a lot. You can access it at www.smart.net/~tak/Disputations/panagia5.jpg
ReplyDeleteI've not seen this particular picture available commercially as a prayer card but these days it's not difficult to get such things run off quite inexpensively.
Mark, I change the text each year... last year's text was a snippet from the writings of Cardinal Ratzinger
ReplyDeletewhich you can see here
Stephen I do the cards myself, so I just need a good image to use... I shall have a look at the one you suggest, thanks!
ReplyDeleteI like the first one.
ReplyDeleteArtistically I prefer no 1, but for the message no 2 is better.
ReplyDeletenumber 1 i reckon, the women priest ppl have a tendency of hijackinig the one stephen suggests and distorting it...
ReplyDeletehttp://romancatholicwomenpriests.blogspot.com/
Now that is too weird. Tempus Fugit is the title of my latest post.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Eh? Were we separated at birth?
I prefer the third one as I have not seen that picture before.
ReplyDeleteWOW! The first one. Dunno what it's for, but it makes me think Our Lady is saying "remember: in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph".
ReplyDelete(Hurray for Our Lady of Fatima!!!!)