“There is only one colour in our lives that gives meaning to life and art: the colour of love,” writes Marc Chagall. According to him, the colour of love can sometimes be blue, if for example he wants to express maternal love. This (…)
Georges Morin, OFM
Georges Morin was born in Saint-Célestin, Diocese of Nicolet, in 1936. As a Franciscan friar from Canada, he was a missionary in Korea from 1965 to 1991. He also worked in the Mission Office and the Franciscan Missions magazine, was involved in parish ministry and was active in the Secular Franciscan Order. His areas of interest include the spiritual interpretation of works of art of the great masters (Giotto, Van Gogh, Chagall...), classical music and the new evangelization through art and color.
At the end of 2019, I learned that in the city of Wuhan in China a new form of coronavirus, called Covid-19, had appeared. At that time, who could have imagined the impact this would have on the lives of 7.7 billion people (…)
Saturday, January 18, 2020, I was glad to be here at the Arsenal Art Contemporain in Montreal to view, this time in a new way, the famous paintings of Van Gogh, projected on huge walls of the Immersive Exibition Imagine Van Gogh. The works (…)
Christians of all eras have painted images and icons of ‘The Madonna’. From the beginning of the 3rd century, one of the earliest images in Christian art represented the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God born of the Virgin Mary. (…)
In the Bible, the opening scene of the three strangers’ visit to Abraham begins with the apparition of the Lord: “Yahweh appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre, while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent, in the hottest (…)
“And now, on this blue expanse, rises, as above an ocean, the Tree of Life. It occupies the central space of the stained glass window, writes Éloi Leclerc. It’s a huge multicolored bouquet. Its impetus and deployment, as well as the abundance of (…)
The feast of the Assumption of Mary, celebrated on August 15, is here to tell us that there is one human being who already is fully and completely redeemed, saved body and soul. That person is Mary, the mother of Jesus. As it (…)
In an article on the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh, W. Uhde writes: «His story is not that of an eye, a palette, a brush, but the tale of a lonely heart which beats within the walls of a dark prison, desiring (…)
Friar Georges compares the fifth stanza of Canticle of Brother Sun with this beautiful painting of Van Gogh. (…)
Description of the Annunciation still venerated today in the chapel of the Portioncula in Assisi. (…)
