tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post116511872529180176..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Don't Icons Belong in a Church?Adorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1165333630464772012006-12-05T09:47:00.000-06:002006-12-05T09:47:00.000-06:00ROFL! Yes, how quickly I forgot our brief foray i...ROFL! Yes, how quickly I forgot our brief foray into felonious thoughts.<BR/><BR/>Folks: Do you now see why we are friends?Cathy_of_Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795566831031491371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1165284418675940382006-12-04T20:06:00.000-06:002006-12-04T20:06:00.000-06:00Cathy, TOUCH the art? No, never touch the art. T...Cathy, <BR/><BR/>TOUCH the art? No, never touch the art. The oils from the fingers would be bad for it, although God knows we love to touch our favorite statues in our parishes. <BR/><BR/>No, the real reason we didn't touch the art was because Cathy was going to create a diversion and I was going to grab the works and head out....to somewhere....or a church....to plant it where it belongs. <BR/><BR/>We discussed, and weighed the options, and I decided that my app for grad school might be turned down if I was a felon, and for Cathy, as an accomplice, well, she'd lose her job, too. <BR/><BR/>So we decided to be good Catholics, bless ourselves, and acquiesce to the legitimate authority that held the object d'art in this place of dubious honor. <BR/><BR/>Seriously, pepole....we joked about it. Had either of us made so much as a move to touch something, we would have been pounced on by a bunch of teenaged security guards. <BR/><BR/>Really.Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1165283774979500622006-12-04T19:56:00.000-06:002006-12-04T19:56:00.000-06:00Adoro: I don't touch the art because an alarm cou...Adoro: I don't touch the art because an alarm could go off and we could be thrown out. Or a guard will come by and see us and throw us out.<BR/><BR/>We did what we could do.Cathy_of_Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795566831031491371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1165201346409208182006-12-03T21:02:00.000-06:002006-12-03T21:02:00.000-06:00A Pilgrim, I actually gave your blog title instead...A Pilgrim, <BR/><BR/>I actually gave your blog title instead of your handle because it is a definition of your journey...with the prayer that others will see and relate to your journey, and come home as well. <BR/><BR/>As far as drawing too much fire...well, we've done that for 2,000 years...welcome! :-) <BR/><BR/><BR/>Oh, and far as the Icons went...many of them were not behind glass, so we could have actually TOUCHED them, but chose not to out of obedience...to what, I'm not sure. But had there been glass, I would have touched the glass, I'm sure. Speaking as an artist, I didn't want to touch the Icons directly for fear of damaging them in some way with the oils on my fingers, miniscule as they are. It would seem disrespectful in some way, although admittedly, in my parish, I touch the statues and the icons there without regret.Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.com