What Piece Of Art Reflects Your Vocation?

[vee]

In the Daughters of St Paul Chicago come and see video they have a little question that popped up and caught my attention. The question is what piece of art reflects your vocation? Well Im not sure what my vocation is right now but two pieces of art that have meaning for me are these two and am wondering what art reflects, inspired, sums up, or has anything to do with other people`s possible vocation?


[center][img]http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/20689/wm/pd1167042.jpg[/img]

The Virgin of San Cristobal in Chile. I have never been there but when I saw this statue on tv once ... its hard to explain but I was overcome with this sense of Mary`s love for me. I hadnt been going to church at the time and was very much the prodigal daughter but seeing that statue and that sudden sense of love...

[img]http://mgwriters.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/divine-mercy.jpg?w=252&h=454[/img]

I am a poster child for Divine Mercy. The devotion, the message all of it means so much to me because Id be lost for eternity without it.

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Edited February 25, 2010 by vee8

[Nunsense]

[url="http://annie-q4sjd.posterous.com/"]My art is Bernini's Teresa in ecstasy[/url]

I don't have a place to post pics so this is the link.

[laetitia crucis]

I love this question and will have to do some pondering before I give my answer. I know there are pieces of art that I absolutely love, but to find one that specifically reflects my vocation... ...that's going to be a toughy.

I'll get back to you.

[Hilde]

It might not directly be a piece of art, but it is a picture

[img]http://www.newprophecy.net/St_Therese_of_Lisieux_in_death_-_infirmary.jpg[/img]

The first time I saw it I thought "Ooo..I want to be buried in a habit". It was a completely spontaneous thought, and after I realized what I had been thinking I thought it was a totally weird thing to think. So this picture is special to me now.

[brightsadness]

[img]http://www.atheavensgate.com/ocwa/Myrrhbearers%20Icon.jpg[/img]

[Shana]

I have to agree with nunsense:

[img]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e212/TheSmithsonian1/bernini1.jpg[/img]

Bernini
Ecstacy of St. Teresa

Though I don't want to limit it to one so I'll look for another and get back. I need to look for a Theology of the Body related piece of art, (not to say this one isn't).

Edited February 25, 2010 by Shana

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='brightsadness' date='25 February 2010 - 10:39 AM' timestamp='1267108786' post='2062826']
[img]http://www.atheavensgate.com/ocwa/Myrrhbearers%20Icon.jpg[/img]
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That is so beautiful. I've never seen it before...

[Shana]

[img]http://nathanjudah.com/incarnation/Slide13.jpg[/img]
Here's another. The reason I chose this one is because I feel that God has entrusted to me in a special way the mystery of the incarnation. He has given me talent as a figurative artist and throught that I hope to do my role in presenting the truth of the human person revealed throught the body. My vocation is all about proclaiming JPII's Theology of the Body. Also my life is dedicated to the Eucharist, the body of Christ. So really on many levels my vocation is about the incarnation, and centers around the body of Christ. Also this sketch by Michelangelo of the risen Christ.

[img]http://www.artchive.com/web_gallery/reproductions//69501-70000/69501/size1.jpg[/img]

My vocation is the redemption of the body!

Edited February 25, 2010 by Shana

[Shana]

I should make a blog entry on this! I'll keep you posted.

[brightsadness]

[quote name='brightsadness' date='25 February 2010 - 07:39 AM' timestamp='1267108786' post='2062826']
[img]http://www.atheavensgate.com/ocwa/Myrrhbearers%20Icon.jpg[/img]


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It's the icon of the Myhrrbearing Women aka the Holy Myhrrbearers.
My favorite is St. Susanna, in the back, with empty hands, but she is there.

[DameAgnes]

[quote name='Hilde' date='25 February 2010 - 09:02 AM' timestamp='1267106551' post='2062823']
It might not directly be a piece of art, but it is a picture

[img]http://www.newprophecy.net/St_Therese_of_Lisieux_in_death_-_infirmary.jpg[/img]

The first time I saw it I thought "Ooo..I want to be buried in a habit". It was a completely spontaneous thought, and after I realized what I had been thinking I thought it was a totally weird thing to think. So this picture is special to me now.
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Which Carmelite is that?

[Hilde]

[quote name='DameAgnes' date='25 February 2010 - 11:45 PM' timestamp='1267134303' post='2062971']
Which Carmelite is that?
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St.Therese de Lisieux

[vee]

Its interesting because Im looking at everyone`s submissions and thinking hey I like that too. St Teresa in Ecstasy I never would have guessed you`d pick that nunsense lol . Im kidding of course but am seriously kicking myself for having been in Rome and not going over to the church where that is to see it for myself.

Hilde... so Therese is after you too in which case you probably will die in a habit.
Brightsadness.... icons
Shana ... MIchelangelo + theology of the body My fav Michelangelo Jesus is the one in the Sistine chapel.


Keep `em coming!

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='nunsense' date='25 February 2010 - 05:09 AM' timestamp='1267088974' post='2062807']
[url="http://annie-q4sjd.posterous.com/"]My art is Bernini's Teresa in ecstasy[/url]

I don't have a place to post pics so this is the link.
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nunsense, I must admit, every single time I see this image, I [b]immediately[/b] think of you!

Edited February 26, 2010 by laetitia crucis

[HisChild]

[quote name='brightsadness' date='25 February 2010 - 07:39 AM' timestamp='1267108786' post='2062826']
[img]http://www.atheavensgate.com/ocwa/Myrrhbearers%20Icon.jpg[/img]
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I JUST got my myrrh bearers icon in the mail on Monday! It's so beautiful!

[DameAgnes]

[quote name='Hilde' date='25 February 2010 - 05:17 PM' timestamp='1267136275' post='2062975']
St.Therese de Lisieux
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She looks so different than in any other picture. Wow.

[DameAgnes]

This is my art piece. A photograph by Allan Bruce Zee called "Waiting for the Believers"

http://www.allanbrucezee.com/home/abz/page_1705/waiting_for_the_believers.html

It speaks to me of so many things. God's constant "wait" for us, the spaciousness of his mercy, the clarity of his light. Eternity.

I love it.

[TeresaBenedicta]

[img]http://becomewhatyouare.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/angelico_annunciation.jpg[/img]

For some reason, this has always struck me...

[OnlySunshine]

[img]http://www.brigidmarlin.com/Images/JoyfulMysteries/Visitation.jpg[/img]

This picture of the Visitation spoke volumes to me. The Visitation has always been my most favorite mystery of the rosary.

[laetitia crucis]

[img]http://www.corredentrice.it/immagini/Chiese/Citta_del_Vaticano_Pieta_di_%20Michelangelo.jpg[/img]

There so much about this that speaks to me.... this moment, for me, encompasses the entirety of her "Fiat". Her joys and her sorrows. I see this moment as the true "Joy of the Cross". (And I often wonder what she pondered in her Most Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart...)

Joy is "resting in the Good attained." Here, our salvation has been won. What better joy can there be for all humanity? We can now rest in the good that has been attained for us.

Our Blessed Mother encompasses her Son, and in death, He finds rest in her arms once again. Often it is within our Blessed Mother's embrace that I have found myself time and time again. She is the Cause of [My] Joy above all else. In her, I find my rest.

I suppose in my own vocation, joy and sorrow will always go hand in hand. There in always joy in sorrow, for it is the cost of our salvation. In pursuing one's vocation, there will be the sorrow of sacrifice, but joy overcomes that sorrow every time. "Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy."

This is such a burning desire within myself to share in my vocation -- to make known the "Joy of the Cross", the [i]profound[/i] love of our God and of our Blessed Mother. This is Truth. If people only knew the Truths of our Faith, [i]really[/i] knew... what joy would be theirs.

Truth is the object of our intellect; Good is the object of our Will. If Truth is not presented to be embraced by one's intellect, how then can we attain this Good -- how can we finally have that true Joy of "resting in the Good" when we have not attained it? I came to the Church through study and found the fullness of Truth within the Roman Catholic Church, which I saw to be Good. This was a source of great joy and yes, even a bit of sorrow. Yet, since that time, I've longed to share with all I knew the Truth I was blessed to find. St. Catherine of Siena hit the nail on the head when she said this:

"[i]If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire. Let the truth be your delight...proclaim it...but with a certain congeniality.[/i]" -- St. Catherine of Siena


P.S. -- I hope at least some of this is coherent. It's [i]way [/i]past my bedtime (Thank you, Olympics! -- Yu-Na Kim!!!), but I finally decided to go with my instinctual choice of Michelangelo's "Pieta" and wanted to post before going to sleep and forgetting what I wanted to say in the morning.


[b]Edit[/b]: I suppose I would say the same (as the above) for this image as well -- Our Lady of Peace (shrine, in San Jose, CA). Even though I believe she's supposed to be the Immaculate Conception, her face to me looks as the Sorrowful Mother. I could contemplate this image and Michelangelos' "Pieta" for hours on end. I've only seen the Our Lady of Peace shrine in real life. I hope one day to see the "Pieta" in person, too.

[img]http://www.olop-shrine.org/images/shrine_clouds_02a.jpg[/img]

Edited February 26, 2010 by laetitia crucis