Where: Divine Word Retreat Center 11316 Cypress Ave, Riverside, Ca 92505
When: June 18 – July 6;
Wednesdays thru Sundays only; from 1 pm – 5 pm
Reception Saturday, June 21: 4pm – 7pm
Why: Join Divine Word Missionaries celebrate 150 years “Proclaiming the Word”.
This year Divine Word Missionaries are celebrating the 150th Anniversary of our founding. We are sponsoring a Contemporary Religious Art Exhibit. by francisca. We invite you and your Wordnet Community to visit sometime between June 18 and July 6th at Divine Word Retreat Center in Riverside.
The artist is especially grateful to Wordnet whose initial encouragement and support goes back some 20 years to Fr Mike Manning and Fr Sony Sebastian embracing her “World on the Cross” and “Stations of the Cross”. Through their Professional help in the Studio and their personal encouragement she was able to keep focused and determined to fulfill her mission statement of Proclaiming Christ Crucified and the Power of His Resurrection through Religious Art.
The Exhibit is appropriately title “Proclaiming the Word”. It is a living Proclamation of the Gospel through Contemporary Religious Art. The exhibit includes some 50 pieces of Religious Art. Most are based on Biblical Events.
The Art Exhibit is developed in such a way that it offers more than a casual walk among some Religious Art paintings. It presents a Religious Experience. You are encouraged to take a guided Journey initiating with “The “Word made Flesh” and moving into the public life of Jesus when he used Parables to declare the Kingdom of God among us; it continues on through the Institution of Eucharist, followed by paintings depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross; this draws you to an art piece “The World on the Cross” which in turn culminates with pieces of art depicting the “Resurrection” and “Pentecost”.
Through such visual religious art, we can enter into the Biblical events and have the experience of how God’s Tender Touch can renew our own minds and hearts.
The artist is concerned that the pieces find a proper home. Perhaps one or other of the pieces would appeal to your community or be appropriate and fitting in your Wordnet Office setting. Come and see!
Peace always
Fr Joe Miller, SVD