The artist accepts the invitation to help us perceive the unknowable. Perhaps, like wind, the Spirit carries our work between heaven and earth, lets it live as a bridge between threads of that thin veil. Thus, we translate between glory and glory: both seen and unseen.

We sing Hosanna: Come. And He does–among us again.

Look at the birds of the air.

Abbeys were of significant importance in medieval society. They were centers of learning, storehouses or repositories of cultural and literary treasures, economic engines, innovative centers of agriculture, places of refuge, solace and pilgrimage, and they performed a significant civic function of providing social safety nets in the form of food, shelter and clothing to the poor.

“A stone does not meet its full potential until it is used for a church; a flower never reaches its full potential until it adorns and altar.” - Raphael Morales

The Lamb who was slain has begun His reign.

We must adorn and cultivate our property in ways that reflect its created glory and its inherent worth as a place worth redeeming. We must refuse to surrender to the tyranny of utility, functionality, productivity, and pragmatism.