Wallpaper for Monday, May 5

The Saint of the Day is Monica of Hippo, mother of Saint Augustine, who passed away in 387. The traditional date for this remembrance has been May 4 (which fell on Sunday this year). In the Roman Church, the date was moved to August a few decades ago. An image, and more data on Saint Monica can be found at the following web page. http://saints.sqpn.com/saintm04.htm For a tiled background in your screen display you will want to apply a colorful border and a reduce this image to about 65% of its original dimensions. As an alternate to an internal border that would cover some detail, you might place it in a map by copying it onto a work area comprised of a large, color-filled square. Then select and save a larger area that includes a band of the surrounding color.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Botswana representing the 1/2 million square kilometers comprised by the eastern and central areas of that land.

Wallpaper for Sunday, May 4

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for Ascension Day ter according to the Revised Common Lectionary , which observance is often transferred to this Sunday, the Seventh Sunday of Easter. (On a Windows PC, you can save these images to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory.)

Acts 1:1-11: "...as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight." At the following web page are a number of thumbnail images of woodcut illustrations by Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld. http://www.wels.net/wmc/html/clip_art_--_volume_1__part_c.html The one labelled "Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven" is in the 22nd row, with a link to a full size image in a gif file. This is from the World Missions Collection Clip Art archive.
© 2008 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. All Rights Reserved

Psalm 47: "For God is King of all the earth; sing praises with all your skill." To illustrate this I like the picture posted by a fellow blogger. http://mialfreitasotherlanguages.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-great-is-our-god.html (The gif image there is accessed through a deep link to a Brazilian web site, with a copyright notice.
If you want to de-animate this, which I preferred to do, resave it as a jpg file.

Ephesians 1:15-23: "And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church" An icon of Christ from one of my earlier posts seems appropriate to show Christ in the role as the Head of the Church. http://accidentalcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/03/images-for-monday-march-17.html

Luke 24:44-53: The Ascension of Christ The final event in the life of Jesus as a historical figure is well illustated by as a painting by H Siddons Mowbray from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/images/1981/1981.160.2_1b.jpg

Wallpaper for Saturday, March 3

The Saints of the Day are Saint Philip and Saint James, the Apostles, two of the original twelve selected by Jesus. The usual date for this observance is May 1. However, this year that was date for Ascension Day, which customarily takes precedence. There is a lack of art work with just these two paricular saints as the subject. For tiled images to use as a wallpaper background on your screen display, you could of course select an image of either saint. Or you could 1) select equal sized icons of those two saints, 2) create a blank work space in your image processing utility and then 3) copy and paste in each icon into the space and align them in a side by side arrangement. Then select the two icons together and save that as your image for the tiled background. for best results you will probably want to reduce the size of the new image pair to approximately 65 percent of the original dimensions. The following web page has suitable icons of these two saints who are among many represented in alphabetical order there.
http://www.orthodoximages.com/patrons_cse.html Copyright 1998 - 2008 © Orthodox Images™ Apparently the artists are residents of The Convent of Saint Elizabeth, in Etna, California. http://users.sisqtel.net/cse/

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from a coast road in South Africa, the photographer calls it Rooi Els. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/361663588/sizes/l/ The location seems to be somewhere in the vicinity of 34°11' 09" S, 18°49' 14" E, although this particular view is not geotagged.

Wallpaper for Friday, April 2

The Saint of the Day is Athanasius of Alexandria, a theologian, who passed away in the year 373. More information, and an image for use in tiled wallpaper in the background of your screen display may be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_of_Alexandria. It will need a border and an appropriate reduction in size from its current dimensions.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the vicinity of Barrydale, South Africa at 33°53' 11" S, 20°45' 08" E, according to the photographer. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/361667728/sizes/l/ .

Wallpaper for Thursday, May 1

May 1 is a day that resonates with various meanings. May Day --- a day for dancing around a may pole in celebration of spring time, a day for European workers to march in solidarity for respect and better treatment, a national day of prayer in the USA, a day for honoring high profile saints and heroes --- Saint Joseph, in his role as a worker, and the Apostles, Saint Philip and Saint James.

But here, the Saint of the Day is Saint Asaph, bishop in Wales, who passed away in the year 601. An image suitable for use for tiled wallpaper and a bit of biographical data may be found at http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/asaphpn.html

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the Drakensberg Mountains in eastern South Africa. http://www.flickr.com/photos/village_pics/432863843/sizes/l/ This represents a 1/2 million sq.km. area that also includes a portion of southern Mozambique.

Wallpaper for Wednesday, April 30

The Heroine of the Day is the Blessed Pauline von Malinckrodt, founderess of a religious order who passed away in 1881. An image to process for your tiled wallpaper, and more information, if you read German, may be found at http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienP/Pauline_von_Mallinckrodt.html.

The Landscape of the Day is a view from Mozambique. http://www.flickr.com/photos/21473704@N03/2451155191/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Tuesday, April 29

The Saint of the Day is Catherine of Siena (OP, Tert.) who passed away in 1380. Of several representations on the web, my favorite is on a bookcover: http://www.marianland.com/sevenhills/1033045-SH.html. Copyright © Marianland 1980 - Present It's the first item on this catalog page. You will need to use image processing software, such as the Windows Paint utility, to select the image portion of the book cover and save it to a separate graphic file, which should then be reduced to about 50% of its original dimensions and then have a border applied.

The Landscape of the Day is a view of the Chimanimani Range in Zimbabwe. http://www.flickr.com/photos/briangratwicke/2081053402/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Monday, April 28

Although Louis Marie de Monfort is a popular saint for remembrance today, art has not blessed him with any really good representations that I can find. Therefore the Saint of the Day is Peter Chanel, missionary to Oceania and martyr, who died in 1841. The image on the following page will need a reduction in size, and probably a border to be useable in a tiled background for your computer screen display. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienP/Pierre_Chanel.htm

The Landscape of the Day is a view of Victoria Falls in Zambia. http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherlake/346639420/sizes/o/ © Jeremy Taylor All rights reserved. This scene represents an area of the world that also includes a portion of Zimbabwe.
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Screensaver Images for Sunday, April 27

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for the Sixth Sunday of Easter according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. (On a Windows PC, you can save these images to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory.)

Acts 17:22-31 Paul speaks to the philosophers in Athens This text is well illustrated by the image of an engraving by T. Shilippoteaux entitled "Saint Paul Preaching on Mars Hill" . The location of "Mars Hill" has been identified as the hill more commly known as Areopagus.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/THEME_03/EN/theme3-1.html © The Provincial Museum of Alberta. Click on this image to enlarge it.

Psalms 66:7-18 "... we went through fire and water; but you brought us out into a place of refreshment. " The following illustration shows a piece of granite from a church that went through fire --- First United Methodist Church of Memphis. It's the first picture imbedded in the news story on the following web page. That picture can be enlaged a bit if you click on it. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/oct/08/lest-they-forget/ © 2008 The E.W. Scripps Co.

1 Peter 3:13-22 . A text from this passage appears on a graphic that originated at http://www.heartlight.org/. © 2001 Ben Steed However I could not find a link to it there. So here is the link that turned up on Google Image Search: http://www.stmarystheydonbois.org.uk/Images/1peter3_15.jpg

John 14:15-21 "Jesus said to his disciples, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. " Although the observance of Pentecost is still two weeks away, today's text is a "head's up" to his disciples that the Holy Spirit will come upon them. So a Holy Spirit graphic is in order here. This one happens to be a photo of stained glass at St.Peter's Basilica in Rome. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/citta/Bcc-Petri.jpg

Screensaver Images for Sunday, April 27

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for the Sixth Sunday of Easter according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. (On a Windows PC, you can save these images to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory.)

Acts 17:22-31 Paul speaks to the philosophers in Athens This text is well illustrated by the image of an engraving by T. Shilippoteaux entitled "Saint Paul Preaching on Mars Hill" . The location of "Mars Hill" has been identified as the hill more commly known at the Areopagus.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/THEME_03/EN/theme3-1.html © The Provincial Museum of Alberta. Click on this image to enlarge it.

Psalms 66:7-18 "we went through fire and water; but you brought us out into a place of refreshment. " The following illustration shows a piece of granite from a church that went through fire --- First United Methodist Church of Memphis. It's the first picture imbedded in the news story on the following web page. That picture can be enlaged a bit if you click on it. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/oct/08/lest-they-forget/ © 2008 The E.W. Scripps Co.

1 Peter 3:13-22 . A text from this passage appears on a graphic that originated at http://www.heartlight.org/. © 2001 Ben Steed However I could not find a link to it there. So here is the link that turned up on Google Image Search: http://www.stmarystheydonbois.org.uk/Images/1peter3_15.jpg

John 14:15-21 "Jesus said to his disciples, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. " Although the observance of Pentecost is still two weeks away, today's text is a "head's up" to his disciples that the Holy Spirit will come upon them. So a Holy Spirit graphic is in order here. This one happens to be a photo of stained glass at St.Peter's Basilica in Rome. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/citta/Bcc-Petri.jpg

Wallpaper for Saturday, April 26

The Saint of the Day is Cletus (aka Anacletus) who was the third bishop Rome, the second in succession from Saint Peter. He died a martyr in the first century, around the year 90. At the following web page is more information and an image that would work well in a tiled background for your computer screen display. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cletus

The Landscape of the Day is a view of the plain of Zoma in Malawi --- approximate location 15°22'0''S, 35°18'0''E. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredr/339700264/sizes/l/ This landscape represents an area of the world that also includes Northern Zambia. The image seems to have been enhanced somewhat, as with Photo Shop, to intensify the colors so as to make landscape stand out more dramatically in what may have originally been a flat and dull image, due to the clouds, haze and shaded areas.

Wallpaper for Friday, April 25

Today much the western church remembers Saint Mark, the Evangelist, who wrote one of the four gospels of the Bible. For use as a tile in the background of one's computer screen display, I like a work of art that I found at the following web address. http://www.hellenic-art.com/catalogue/102R-41-4.jpg. To be fair, I should point you to the catalogue page, where you can see similar works of art and even order one. http://www.hellenic-art.com/sterling/othersaints.htm 1999-2008 Hellenic-Art.com This image needs some processing for use as a tile. Select a portion of the image that eliminates most of the wide black border and save that to a new file. Then reduce the image in this new file to about 50% of its original dimensions.

The Landscape of the Day is from northwestern Tanzania --- a landscape view of the Serengeti Plain. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cokeeorg/334203366/sizes/l/ No lions or elephants are visible in this picture, but they must be out there somewhere. This view represents an area of the world that also include Rwanda and Burundi.

Wallpaper for Thursday, April 24

The Saint of the Day is Fidelis of Sigmaringen, a martyr who died in 1622. For an image to display on your computer screen background, a postage stamp from Liechenstein may be used, with perhaps a reduction to 75% of its original dimensions as shown toward the bottom of this web page. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienF/Fidelis_von_Sigmaringen.html

The Landscape of the Day is a scene fron eastern Tanzania. You may reconize the iconic mountain in the background. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjasik/520019630/sizes/o/

Wallpaper for Thursday, April 24

The Saint of the Day is Fidelis of Sigmaringen, a martyr who died in 1622. For an image to display on your computer screen background, a postage stamp from Liechenstein may be used, with perhaps a reduction to 75% of its original dimensions as shown toward the bottom of this web page. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienF/Fidelis_von_Sigmaringen.html

The Landscape of the Day is a scene fron eastern Tanzania. You may reconize the iconic mountain in the background. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjasik/520019630/sizes/o/

Wallpaper for Wednesday, April 23

For fans of the somewhat mythic figure Saint George, who is honored today, I would point you to the following web site, where a nice, but apparently restricted-use icon, may be found. http://www.goarch.org/en/special/listen_learn_share/george/learn/. You will probably want to reduce this considerably in size and add a border, if you wish to use it as a tiled background on your computer screen. The following restrictions apply: Icon of Saint George provided by Athanasios Clark and used with permission. Site copyright: © 2008 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. If you would prefer a dragon slayer motif, I have no doubt that some be found using the "Saint George" key in the subject index at http://www.artcyclopedia.com.

We have more reliable data on another extraordinary individual, more attuned to today's Zeitgeist --- Toyohiko Kagawa, renewer of society, who passed away in 1960. At this blog, he will be the Hero of the Day, A photo may be found at the Jesus Band site: http://www.jesusband.jp/kagawa.html. I plan to reduce it to about 60-70% of the original dimensions and apply a border for use as tiled wallpaper background. This site has a few pages for English speakers that give some background on this honored individual, who is also the subject of a Wikipedia article.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Lake Bunyoni in Uganda. http://www.flickr.com/photos/swissfrog/485399586/sizes/o/ This great view would be even greater if one could use a little image processing to paste small clippings of natural background over a couple of white roofs that are bit too eyecatching for my taste. This view represents and area of the world that also includes northwestern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Wallpaper for Tuesday, April 22

The Saint of the Day is Theodore of Sykeon an abbot and bishop who passed away in 613. A very ornate icon with a figure of this saint may be found at the following site: http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienT/Theodor_von_Sikeon.html You may use image processing software, like the Microsoft utility Paint, to select an appropriate portion of the image and save it to another file, where you can put a border around it and use it a tile for your computer wallpaper background. For a more in-depth story about this rather obscure saint, I would recommend the Katherine Rabenstein archive, where the various saints remembered on April 22 are listed at http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0422.shtml © 2007 by St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Washington, D.C

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Kenya, identified as a view of a rhinocerous sanctuary area http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfear/286635169/sizes/l/ .

Wallpaper for Monday, April 21

The Saint of the Day is Anselm of Canterbury who passed away in 1109. His image, in a stained glass rendering, may be found at the web site of Saint Silas Church, which is located in Kentish Town, London, UK.
http://www.saintsilas.org.uk/section/150 . Go the the 16th row of these photographs (by the photographer Emma Savage) and select either of the two views there. Image processing would be useful to square off the colorful portion of the image and right-size it for use a tile in your tiled background for the onscreen display (i.e. wallpaper).

The Landscape of Day --- actually an earthscape --- shows the southern part of Somalia. I couldn'g find any appropriate ground level view of this area. This image is design for wallpaper use --- two different resolutions are available. http://www.solarviews.com/cap/earth/africa.htm.
Views of the Solar System [Site] Copyright © 1995-2007 by Calvin J. Hamilton. All rights reserved. The image itself is probably from NASA and therefore in the public domain.

Screensaver Images for Sunday, April 20

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for the Fifth Sunday of Easter according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. (On a Windows PC, you can save these images to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory.)

Acts 7:55-60: - The Martyrdom of St. Stephen - http://www.stainedglassphotography.com/Galleries/Tiffany/Tiffany2.htm - The fifth of five thumbnail images on this page show the theme of today's text in the form of a stained glass window by the artist Louis Comfort Tiffany which is installed at the Union Congregational Church at Montclair, New Jersey. Clicking on the thumbnail image will generate a pop-up window with a more easily appreciated size. (Don't share this image file!) © P. Neil Ralley, March 2002. - neil@stainedglassphotography.com

Psalm 31: - In te, Domine, speravi - The following web page is the score of a Gregorian chant that starts with the same Latin text as today's gradual psalm. http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/partituras/of_in_te_speravi.gif

1 Peter 2:2-10: - "See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." [In this epistle, Peter is quoting Isaiah 28:16] A photograph of an actual cornerstone bearing a similar text may be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/down/rostrevor_monastery.shtml about half-way down the web page.

John 14:1-14: - "Thomas said to [Jesus], 'Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?' Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life.'" This text is illustrated by a clip art drawing from Cerezo Barrado http://www.servicioskoinonia.org/cerezo/dibujosA/27PascuaA5.jpg

Wallpaper for Saturday, April 19

The Saint of the Day is Alphege of Canterbury, who passed away in the year 1012. To find a image of Saint Alphege useable for a tiled background on your computer screen display (i.e. wallpaper), I would recommend the following page at David Nash Ford's website. © Nash Ford Publishing 2005 http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/aelfheah.html This is a rendering in the characteristic style of this site, with a bold interpretive portrait rendered in the style of a stained glass window. This image will need a reduction to about 55% of the original dimensions, and will need to have a narrow border applied, to achieve a size and format appropriate for a wallpaper tile.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from northern Somalia, an area also known as Somaliland (formerly a British colony). http://www.flickr.com/photos/najeeb/6201090/sizes/o/ This view represents as area of the world (roughly 500,000 sq. km.) extending from the Horn of Africa northward along the coast of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea --- including this part of Somalia, Djibouti (formerly French Somaliland), Eritrea and far eastern Ethiopia.

Wallpaper for Friday, April 18

The Saint of the Day is an Irish bishop Laserian of Leighlin, who passed away in approximately 639. This image is a detailed view from a photograph of a carving at the base of the pulpit at the Carlow Cathedral of the Assumption in the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. http://www.carlowcountymuseum.com/carlow-town/cathedral/index.html

The Landscape of the Day is another scene from the same area of Ethiopia where yesterday's landscape was found. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrflip/2259630656/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Thursday, April 17

The Saint of the Day is the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a young Native American woman who passed away in 1680. An appropriate image is the second on the following page of the Pylger Almanac http://www.pylgeralmanak.nl/?pagina_id=191 For use in a tiled background for your computer screen display (wallpaper), I would reduce it to about 60% of its original dimensions, and apply a border.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the vicinity of Lalibela, Ethiopia http://www.flickr.com/photos/moi_of_ra/240541741/sizes/l/ . The location given by the photographer is 12°3' 29" N, 39°2' 04" E.

Wallpaper for Wednesday, April 16

The Saint of the Day is Bernadette of Lourdes, who passed away in 1879. For use in a tiled background on your computer screen display I like the first image that you will find at the following web page from Teyvan Pettinger's Biography on Line site. http://www.biographyonline.net/spiritual/bernadette-soubirious.html For use in a tiled background for your computer screen display, I would reduce this image to about 66% of the original dimensions.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan http://www.flickr.com/photos/africacarbonodyssey/2301444059/sizes/l/

Regardless of what it says at the top of this entry, it was posted at 6:39 AM CDT (UT+5) on April 16, 2008

Wallpaper for Tuesday, April 15

The Hero of the Day of the day is Father Damien, who passed away in 1889 on the island of Molokai. http://www.sscc.org/images/x_Damien/damien_card.jpg The image at the above URL was posted at a web site that displays the following copyright notice. © 2008 Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary I would recommend a reduction in size to 50% of the original dimensions.

The Landscape of the Day is another scene from Sudan http://www.flickr.com/photos/fyrverkerida/2192394808/sizes/l/ .

Wallpaper for Monday, April 14

The Saint of the Day is Blessed Lidwina of Schiedam, who passed away in 1433, whose image may be found in the form of a stained glass window (Woudsend, St. Michëlskerk) in the April 14 entry in the Pylger Almanac. http://www.pylgeralmanak.nl/. Application of a border and an appropriate reduction in size will be needed to make this suitable for display on your computer screen as a background in the tiled format.

The Landscape of the Day is from the Darfur area of Sudan http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattsiller1/89596263/sizes/o/ As usual, for computer screen background (wallpaper), this landscape is best used in the stretched format.

Screensaver Images for Sunday, April 13

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for the Fourth Sunday of Easter according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. (On a Windows PC, you can save these images to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory.)



Acts 2:42-47: "Those who had been baptized devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers." An icon image showing the twelve apostles may be found at the web site of the St. Joseph Melkite Catholic Church of Lawrence, Massachusetts. http://www.stjosephmelkitecatholicchurch.org/eparchy.events.html The origin of this image is not clear; it may be copyrighted.



Psalm 23: The first two verses of this Psalm text are shown on a fine art print by Andrea Smith that appears to have done originally in watercolor. It's the seventh catalog image on this page advertising Giclee prints that may be ordered at this web site. (Copyright © 2008. Heirloom Christian Arts, Inc.) http://www.heirloomchristianarts.com/fine_art.htm



1 Peter 2:19-25: The clip art archive of the late Fr. Richard Lonsdale is copyrighted, but freely available for non-commercial use, courtesy of the Resources for Catholic Educators web site. The original image for today may be found at: http://www.silk.net/RelEd/Year%20A/4easterA.htm Since I have had trouble using these graphic files in their original gif format, I have posted an enhanced jpg version above.



John 10:1-10: Parable of the Shepherd and the Sheep The illustration on the following web page is a classic depiction of Jesus as the Good Shepherd from the image archive of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt. http://www.coptic.net/pictures/Tableau.GoodShepherd.gif

Regardless of the date shown above, this entry was posted at 8:44 CDT (UT+5) April 13.

Wallpaper for Saturday, April 12

The Saint of the Day is Teresa of the Andes who passed away in 1920 at the age of 19. Her image may be found at the following web page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_the_Andes

The Landscape of the Day is scene from the Sudan. http://www.flickr.com/photos/haberlah/41417105/sizes/l/ From the photographer's description of the site --- near the 4th cataract of the Nile --- a representantive location would be 18°50′30″N, 32°06′56″ E.

Wallpaper for Friday, April 11

With apologies to Saint Stanislaus, who is not well represented by graphics available on the Web (unless you want to look at him being hacked to death with swords), the Hero of the Day is George Augustus Selwyn, Anglican Bishop of New Zealand who passed away in 1878. A small image in the form of painted portrait may be found as the second image in the main window of the following web page: http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/library/archives/index.html With a border added, in an appropriate color, this would be an adequate image for creating wallpaper (with the Display/Screen/background commands). If you would like to use a larger tile, you would probably prefer to start with this higher resolution image http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/library/archives/Augustus%20Selwyn%20-%20Richmond%20portrait-copy.jpg and reduce its size to an appropriate percentage of its original dimensions.

Today's Landscape of the Day is from the far north of Sudan. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdziedzic/69267510/sizes/o/ It shows a view from the southern reaches of Lake Nasser near Wadi Halfa (approximately 21°51'49"N, 31°15'45"E) This is the lake created by the damming of the Nile River at Aswan, in southern Egypt, which is also part of the area represented by today's landscape.

The image was posted at 7:54 CDT (UT+5) April 11, 2008 Updated at 22:48 (UT+5) April 11, 2008.

Wallpaper for Thursday, April 10

The Saint of the Day is Fulbert of Chartres who passed away in 1028. On the following web page, just below the title graphic is a small thumbnail-size image. http://cathedrale.chartres.free.fr/pg03.htm Click in this to bring up a window with a larger version of the image that, with a border applied, could well be used to create a display in the background of your computer screen (wallpaper) used a tiled format.

The Landscape of the Day represents the northern half of Egypt, excluding the Suez Peninsula which was grouped with the Day 1 area (the Levant --- see posting for March 24) to help it reach the appropriate size (500,000 square kilometers) meters. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simiosapiens/1012233014/sizes/o/ The wide black border is not appropriate for wallpaper use, but you may be able to deal with this in one of two ways. With your image processing software (such as the Windows utility "Fill with Color") it's easy to replace the black with a less obtrusive color such as light grey. Also depending on the size and resolution of your computer screen, use of the "centered" format instead of the stretched format may make enlarge the height and width of the image and in effect make the border disappear. The photographer gives the location of this view as 28°8' 26" N, 28°44' 32" E, which is identified elsewhere as the Black Desert area west of the Nile River.

This is a catchup entry posted at 7:15 CDT (UT+5) April 11. 2008

Wallpaper for Wednesday, April 9

The Hero of the Day is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, priest and theologian, who died in 1945. A appropriate image for display on your computer screen as tiled background (wallpaper) may be found at the following web page: http://www.myetv.org/about_etv/pressroom/highlights/2006/02-feb/Boenhoeffer.cfm This turns out to be a rather large image which can best be tiled if reduced to about 12% of the original dimension and with an appropriate border applied.

The Landscape of the Day is the final image in our sequence from Libya. http://www.flickr.com/photos/15295652@N00/251149871/sizes/o/ As you are no doubt aware, landscape images work best as wallpaper if they are set to the "Stretched" format option available through the Display/Screen/Background series of commands available with the Windows operating system.

Wallpaper for Tuesday, April 8

The Saint of the Day is from the calendar observed by the Orthodox churches --- Saint Herodian, identified from various early sources or traditions as one of the 70 apostles commissioned by Christ in Luke 10: 1-24. His approximate year of death was 67. For an image to create wallpaper to display in your computer screen background, I would recommend the following blog site page--- http://molonlabe70.blogspot.com/2008/04/apostle-herodion-of-seventy-and-those.html , where you will find an icon of Herodian under the entry for this date (April 8, 2008). I plan to reduce the siae to about 25% of the dimensions of the image as it appears on the screen in order to optimize the appearance of the wallpaper as a background feature in the tiled format.

The Landscape of the Day is another desert scene from Libya http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Africa/Libya/East/photo580740.htm. The location tag puts this view in the vicinity of Tazirbu in southeastern Libya at Latitude: 25°42'16'' N; Longitude: 21°07'55'' E.

Contrary to the heading, this item was posted at 5:52 CDT (UT+5) April 8, 2008

Wallpaper for Monday, April 6

The Saint of the Day is Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, who passed away in 1925 and was glorified (canonized) by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1989. For display on your computer display screen as a background in the tiled format, the preferred icon is the one on the lower half of the above page. http://www.firebirdvideos.com/saintslives/lifeoftikhon.htm For creating a tiled background, it would best be reduced to about 60% - 50% of its original dimensions.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Libya, which is due about 3 1/2 days of recognition based on its size --- the world's 17th largest nation. http://www.flickr.com/photos/15295652@N00/251742268/sizes/o/ Be sure to use use the stretch format when using this as display screen background (wallpaper).

Contrary to the heading, this item was posted at 20:22 CDT (UT+5) April 5, 2008

Screensaver Images for Sunday, April 6

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for The Third Sunday of Easter according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. (On a Windows PC, you can save these images to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory.)

Acts 2:14a,36-47: The text of Acts 2:38 is displayed on a landscape photo in a selection from from Wallpaper Dave's "God's Wonders" collection. [© Dennis Dennis "You may download these photographs for free personal use only"] http://wonders.wallpaperdave.com/reqw25.jpg

Psalm 116: Text for the first two verses of this psalm are displayed on a decorative greeting card-type design. http://family.webshots.com/photo/2338550490014241886djftLb This is one of many such designs posted by a contributor identified as sczez. (See profile at http://community.webshots.com/user/sczez/profile ) Site copyright © 1997-2008 AG.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

1 Peter 1:17-23: "You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ" A copyrighted photo at the following web page shows Jim Caviezel, covered with blood, acting in the role of Jesus Christ in the film "Passion of the Christ" http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/25/film.jim.caviezel.ap/index.html (Image © Neumarket & © Associated Press Site: © 2008 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Luke 24:13-35: This passage is the story of a post-resurrection appearance of Jesus to two his disciples in the walk to Emmaus and a supper with them at an inn there. The latter part of this passage is well-illustrated by a Caravaggio painting that may be found at the excellent Web Gallery of Art site. http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/caravagg/08/47emmau.html [Site © Web Gallery of Art, http://www.wga.hu/index1.html (created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx.] If you don't like the Caravaggio illustration, you might prefer the one by Diego Velasquez, which was referenced by this blog in the posting for Wednesday, March 26, when this same gospel passage was the proper one for "Wednesday in Easter Week"

Wallpaper for Saturday, April 5

The Saint of the Day is Vincent Ferrer, O.P. of Valencia, who passed away in the year 1419. To display an image of this saint on your desktop background (in the tiled format), the recommended image my be found at the Pylger Almanac site http://www.pylgeralmanak.nl/ Select the page for this date "April 5", and the image of Saint Vincent in the form of a statue in a niche will be the first on the page. I recommend reducing this to 50% of the original dimensions and adding a border.

The Landscape of the Day is a view from a ridge just north of the oasis town of Chebika in Tunisia. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hkupper/2238801597/sizes/o/ Latitude 34°19'30''N, Longitude 7°56'31''E would be a fair approximation of that location. This view represents an area of the world that includes Tunisia and Tripolitania --- the northwestern portion of Libya.