“Since my early youth,” writes Marc Chagall, “I have been captivated by the Bible. It has always seemed to me and it still seems to me that it is the greatest source of poetry of all time. Since then I have sought this gleam (…)
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.
Marc Chagall used to say that “color is everything, color is vibration like music”. It is enough to look at the bright colors of his painting King David (1951) with the golden yellow of his crown and his harp and the flaming red of (…)
There between an ox and a grey donkey Sleep, sleep, sleeps The Little Son One thousand divine angels, a thousand seraphim (They) fly around this great God of love. I imagine that if a children’s choir began to sing this very old Christmas hymn: (…)
This water-colour by Marc Chagall: The Rainbow, sign of alliance between God and the earth, painted in 1931 reminds us of this more recent drawing of mid-march 2020, presented here: all will be fine. At that time, the Corona Virus pandemic was gaining (…)
On September, 19, 1963, Sarah, the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady of Avigdor-Goldsmid, owner of Somerhill House, drowned in a ship accident off Rye, East Sussex, England. In her memory, the couple asked French-Russian artist Marc Chagall to design and build a (…)
At the bottom left of the stained glass window The Tree of Life or Peace (1976), Chagall evokes this messianic entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem. The Prince of Peace selects the right moment and prepares the details of his entry into the city (…)
(Photo-credit: Nathalie Dumas) On December 8, 2020, Pope Francis surprised us by calling a year dedicated to St. Joseph. You can imagine the joy of the Franciscan family around the world and especially of our fellow citizens of Canada, of whom St. Joseph (…)
During my stay of a few weeks in South Korea, at the beginning of November 2011, I received a gift that pleased me very much. It was a Korean book on floral arrangements published by the Institute of Research on Liturgical Floral Arrangements (…)
Reading pope Francis’ new encyclical “Fratelli tutti,” I stopped at the second chapter entitled, A Stranger on the Way. Here are excerpts from what Pope Francis writes: «In the attempt to search for a ray of light in the midst of what we (…)
Here is the panel “Christ and the Canaanite Woman” by Juan de Flandes, pseudonym of a painter of the late 15th and early 16th century belonging to the school of Spanish-Flemish art. This painting of forty-seven small panels commissioned by Queen Isabella the (…)
