Healing the Eyes of the Heart: Developing Sacramental Vision

My all-time favorite movie is a Netflix original kid’s movie, ‘The Little Prince’, based off the kid’s book written in 1943 in French by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. One of the lines reads “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

BlogsMadeline OrsingerFebruary 2, 2023spiritual blindness, catholic, New Evangelization, Charismatic Renewal, christian living, Beauty, Beauty and Evangelization, spiritual vision, God healing the blind, trancendentals, spiritual theology, catholic artist, catholic painter, christian, sacramental vision

Contrasts

The duller the grays, the brighter the highlights appear…

ReflectionsMadeline OrsingerJanuary 19, 2023christian living, Catholic, New Evangelization, Charismatic Renewal, art, artist, landscapes, sacramental vision

A Branch Communicates

…I love branches, the lines and shapes they make. I love what they communicate- many truths written all around us…

ReflectionsMadeline OrsingerJanuary 10, 2023Catholic, New Evangelization, Charismatic Renewal, christian, landscape painter, Beauty and Evangelization, sacramentality, transcendence

A Few Words

…poetry preserves the mystery, offering a glimpse, nothing more. Capturing the beauty, the essence, but by its briefness leaves one wanting- it is an invitation…

ReflectionsMadeline OrsingerDecember 29, 2022Mystery, Catholic, Hans Urs von Balthazar, Charismatic Renewal, New Evangelization, Truth, Beauty, Beauty and Evangelization, transcendence

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