Tag: sacraments

• Art and Salvation?

  When I was in graduate school at the Pennsylvania Academy, a cheeky philosophy student from Temple University said to me: “Art is great and everything, but it won’t save your soul.” Well, I believed him at the time, but I beg to differ now. In his papal Letter to Artists, the late St. John Paul…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 19, 2024

  Art Life, Catholicism, Christianity, Marriage and Family Life, The Church

  art, Catholicism, child development, childhood, Christianity, creativity, drawing, faith, Family, family life, gospel, inspiration, Jesus, love, recovery, religion, sacraments, spirituality, vocation

• A Little Piece of my Heart

  

  I made this little oil painting while I was pregnant with my son. Perhaps I was pondering the sure evidence of the love of God growing within me as I conceived it.

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 8, 2024

  Art Life, Catholicism, Christianity, Creative Process, Healing, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mary, Motherhood, painting, spirituality

  art, Catholicism, Christianity, Creative Process, drawing, faith, immaculate heart, Jesus, love, Mary, Motherhood, painting, priesthood, religion, sacraments, service, spirituality