The poem our Sisters chose to illustrate this year is Edwin Muir’s beautiful and thought-provoking meditation on the kingdom parable of the weeds and wheat (or, in this case, the corn and tares).
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In honor of the two angelic feasts this week (the Archangels on Sept 29th and the Guardian Angels on Oct 2nd), a group of Sisters created a sidewalk mural depicting these heavenly guardians.
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As our little Christmas gift to you, enjoy some pictures of our Sisters’ latest chalk art creation! This year’s masterpiece is based on Teilhard de Chardin’s poem, “Fire in the Earth.”
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The final day of the Year of St. Joseph brought a larger-than-usual band of chalk-wielding hooligans descending upon our patio for their annual sidewalk inscriptions. Inspired by a series of talks from Dr. Brant Pitre on St. Joseph, the monastic rogues were determined to depict St. Joseph, Chaste Spouse of Mary and Terror of Demons!
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Finding that their arsenal of chalky pigments had dwindled to mostly pinks and oranges, our monastery vandals turned to Dante’s celestial rose for their inspiration in the waning daylight of 2020.
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Our chalk-wielding resident hoodlums, Sr. Cecilia Maria and Sr. Frances Marie, chose the illustrate a poem of the newly-canonized St. John Henry Newman for their annual sidewalk art feature in the cloister courtyard.
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This neighborhood is really starting to go downhill…we were once again the victims of street artists on a chalking spree!
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One misty November Sunday, we were astonished to see a pair of vandals in our cloister courtyard. Armed with a pack of Crayola chalk, aprons, and jackets, they braved the bitter chill and waning light just to leave their mark on our patio concrete. Perhaps such hooligans are commonplace on busy New York City streets, but in the Western Kentucky wilderness, it was a shock.
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