I am in Detroit! I just finished giving talks on sacred art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, a great museum.
Now that I can visit a gallery, I noticed a splendid Christological Goldfinch!
Here is a painting by Benozzo Gozzoli from about 1460.
Interesting that the usual gold background is a myriad of very high angels, which the gold only suggests.
And now the star of the post…
Once you notice these guys, you see them everywhere!
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!” on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
Loading ...
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
Loading ...If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Loading ...
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Use my code for a discount
Visits tracked by Statcounter
since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
Thank you Father Z for posting these gorgeous art pieces. They are something I would never get to see if you didn’t share.
“a myriad of very high angels, which the gold only suggests.
The wings too! Those angels must be Seraphim as it looks like they have 3 pairs of wings. (Gold star, gold star…)
While you are in Detroit, hopefully you will get the chance to visit with Michael Voris, and his crew.
You’ve got me hooked on the Christological Goldfinch, Father. Hopefully, you’ll find more than one in Detroit.
What is the significance of the goldfinch? It is a beautiful picture.
Not the Detroit Museum of Fine Arts, I was at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum last week
Don’t eat fried food. It angers up the blood.
Natalie,
Father mentioned in past posts the legend that a goldfinch, on the way to Calvary, assisted Our Lord by trying to pull a thorn from His head. Thus the bird has red feathers on its head, and its presence symbolizes a prefiguration of the Passion.
The DIA is a fabulous museum. Along with Henry Ford Hospital and Wayne State University it is one of the last great institutions in the Motor City. The collapse of the city into a third-world kleptocracy is sad. My wife was born at Detroit Mercy. We got our Good Friday perogies in Hamtramck. We rooted for the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. I had my first communion at St. Rita’s. I enlisted in the Air Force in Detroit. Other than the Wings, what’s left? The rot and ruin of what the hipsters think is “rust belt chic”. Oh well. Now that the Detroit chief of police has given his thumbs up to an armed citizenry, I hope you are carrying your Glock-19 while in Motown, Father.
Fr Sotelo
That is beautiful!! Thank you so much for explaining! I’ll pray for the grace to be a “spiritual goldfinch” and help Our Lord with my prayers and sacrifices.
So my older daughter spend the rest of her time at the DIA looking for Christological Goldfinches!
Thanks Father Z!
Our bible reflections group went to the DIA when the Vatican collection was touring. One of the most amazing things I saw was a miniature cathedral ,very ornate and I was circling it very slowly so as to reflect on and take in the very fine details. As soon as I got to the last side, there was the door and there inside was the finger bone of St.Francis Xavier. I had been looking at the Reliquary of the Saint.I can,t describe the feeling that came over me in that moment,only to say that it was stunning, like when I attended my first EF mass this last summer. On another note , Time to put the thistle feeders out so the returning goldfinches don’t die of hunger when they arrive.