Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Now there is a stirring among the horses and the doves flap and fly immediately into the rafters. The stable master is at the doorway, surprised to see another monk here in his own assigned workplace. “I came out here for some hairs of horses for my paintContinue reading “Post #24.4, Wednesday, September 8, 2021”
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Post #24.3, Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè In my plea to read the Gospel of John as poetic metaphor and less as literal things of earth I ended up promoted to an artist’s bench. Apparently, my sketch of vining grapes was more beloved than my argument against Trinity. So I’m assigned to illustrate a border circleContinue reading “Post #24.3, Tuesday, September 7, 2021”
Post #24.2, Thursday, September 2, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè We are considering using more art in our copy of the Gospel of John. I make a sketch that doesn’t speak of the currently popular idea of Trinity to let the sketch itself argue the issue. I suggest the room we have on the page for art show theContinue reading “Post #24.2, Thursday, September 2, 2021”
Post #24.1, Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè We are at our work stations in the inks instructed to slow-walk the copying of John’s Gospel because there is no next assignment waiting. We will use more art and smaller letters to take up our time. But I fear art is so definitive and this Gospel of John,Continue reading “Post #24.1, Wednesday, September 1, 2021”
Post #23.13, Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Leave wide margins in John he says, so the artists will have plenty of space. And what will artists do with all that plenty? Will they simply make everything of God as three somethings? My sister Mary, a beloved first follower of Jesus never imagined the Gospel wouldContinue reading “Post #23.13, Tuesday, August 31, 2021”
Post #23.12, Thursday, August 26, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè On this day I’m assigned a bench near the front of the scriptorium. So the work I do must be of fine quality as fewer monks are ahead of me to check my work. It’s a sign my accuracy is trusted. I’m also supplied with a monk’s robe andContinue reading “Post #23.12, Thursday, August 26, 2021”
Post #23.11, Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Our guest, the wine merchant, leaves after breakfast. Odd it may be that this other guest of Ligugè, who I am, waiting for my assignment makes such a warm farewell of his leaving. I’m glad my family is so near that he may come here from time to timeContinue reading “Post #23.11, Wednesday, August 25, 2021”
Post #23.10, Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè We don’t have vineyards here at Ligugè now. There is an ancient and unattended sprawling of vines dangling in the wilderness trees among the cells of the monks, but here we purchase our wine. The wine seller is here and I’m disrupted from the inks to go and assistContinue reading “Post #23.10, Tuesday, August 24, 2021”
Post #23.9, Thursday, August 19, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Brother August is telling me about the double monastery now called the Abby of the Holy Cross. August explains, “While I was in the infirmary some of the nuns assigned to patient care were always whispering among themselves about how they were mistreated by the strict rule ofContinue reading “Post #23.9, Thursday, August 19, 2021”
Post #23.8, Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Just before the silence Brother August was telling me of the women’s convent which I thought was named for St. Mary, Abbaye de Sainte-Marie, at Poitiers. He said it was renamed after a relic of the true cross that the abbess, Radigund, a queen, was able to acquire forContinue reading “Post #23.8, Wednesday, August 18, 2021”
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