Screensaver Images from Sunday, August 31

Below are links to illustrations for scripture texts designated for this Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to August 31". (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Exodus 3:1-15: --- The story of Moses and the Burning Bush -- is illustrated by a Domenico Feti painting in the collection of the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna, which may be seen on the World Gallery of Art site at the following URL: http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/f/feti/moses.html

Psalm 105: "He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen." (v. 26)
The scene in which Moses and Aaron appear before Pharoah is illustrated by an image from a Gustave Doré woodcut from the "Electronic New Testament Educational Resources" database by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D http://catholic-resources.org/Dore/Images/OT-032-med.jpg .

Romans 12:9-21: Verse 21 is well illustrated by the following photograph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22067139@N05/2212651355/sizes/m/ Note the banner displayed near near the lower left corner.

Matthew 16:21-28: "Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." This statement, also found in the gospel Luke, is utilized in the Stations of the Cross devotion which remembers the events leading up to the crucifixion of Christ. At the fifth station, Simon of Cyrene took up his cross (the one that become holy when Jesus died on it.) An illustration may be found at the following web page: http://www.servant.net/stationsB/05.htm

Wallpaper for Saturday, August 30

The Saint of the Day on this site is Fiacre, a contemplative monk who had gifts for healing and gardening. He passed away around 670. A poster-type featuring this saint was found on the web at the following site: http://www.christopherharley.com/. A resized and edited version of this image has been uploaded here for use in creating a tiled background for your computer deskt0p display.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the Canadian province of New Brunswick that may be found on the following web page. It represents an area of the earth that also includes Prince Edward Island and about 1/4 of Quebec. http://www.flickr.com/photos/19814729@N00/96444517/ This view shows the coastline of Cape Enrage, which is approximated by the following coordinates: 45°36'13"N, 64°47'22"W.

Wallpaper for Friday, August 29

The Saint of the Day is John the Baptist, also known as "the forerunner", whose death occured during the days of the public ministry of Jesus. He is an important figure in all four of the gospel accounts of Jesus' life. (Note: His birth is celebrated on June 24. The story of his birth as told in the gospel of Luke was considered a sign of the imminent coming of the Messiah, the prophesied deliverer whose role was assumed by Jesus.) At the following web page is an image (available for purchase and) appropriate for use in a tiled background for a computer desktop display, probably best reduced in size to about 75% of its original dimensions in the thumbnail size as displayed on the web page: http://www.monasteryicons.com/monasteryicons/Icons-of-Saints-of-the-Bible_M13/Item_St-John-the-Baptist_726_ps_cti-M13.html © MonasteryIcons.com

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Labrador. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebecca_jeffery/781949388/ It represents an area of the world that includes the two Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. The view is looking westward up the Nachvak Fjord from a location approximated by the following coordinates 59°05'02"N, 63°23'02"W.

Wallpaper for Thursday, August 28

The Saint of the Day is Augustine, theologian and Bishop of Hippo, who passed away in the year 430. For more informationabout this saint, you might wish consult the Wikipedia article "St._Augustine_of_Hippo". To produce a tiled Augustine background for your computer desktop display, one might use the reformatted image uploaded here, which was found on the web at the following web page: http://saints.sqpn.com/sainta02.htm It is said to be a reproduction of a stained glass window at a cathedral in Macon, Georgia.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Iceland, which is a featured addition to a day which is still mostly about Greenland if areas of the earth are allocated to days on the basis of their land area. http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarrun/859423317/sizes/o/

Wallpaper for Wednesday, August 27

The Hero of the Day is the Blessed Maria del Pilar Izquierdo Albero, founder of a religious order, who passed away in 1945. I have uploaded an edited image of her for use in a tiled background in my computer screen display. I used an image from the Saints Dictionary -http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienM/Maria_Izquierdo_Albero.html - It was a bit higher in quality than an image from the same photo on the following web page, which is more informative if you don't read German very well. http://www.beatamariapilarizquierdo.com/HTML/fundadoraingl.htm .

The Landscape of the Day involves a third visit to Greenland, the world's largest island. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_vidar/384841285/sizes/o/ . The location given by the photographer in near Kangerluk fjord at 60°14'38"N, 44°20'37"W.

Wallpaper for Tuesday, August 26

The Saint of the Day is Louis IX, King of France, who passed away in 1270. (The traditional date of this observance is August 25.) A not uncontroversial political figure, Louis IX was recognized by the Church for his devotion to the faith. This image is an edited detail from a work of art of unknown provenance posted at the http://www.nndb.com/ site.

The Landscape of the Day is another scene from Greenland. The photographer identifies this as a view over Kangerluk fjord from the following location --- 60°13'27"N, 44°19'28"W. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_vidar/384841283/sizes/o/

Wallpaper for Monday, August 25

The Saint of the Day is Bartholomew, the Apostle. Ordinarily this observance is on August 24, which was on Sunday this year. Since he was one of the original twelve apostles, his day is included here separately, even though Saint Louis is the regular orservance for August 25. A thumbnail icon image of Bartholomew may be found as one among many at the following web page: http://www.orthodoximages.com/patrons_cse.html Copyright 1998 - 2008 © Orthodox Images™ The thumbnail size is approximately optimal for creating a tiled background for your computer screen display, even though you can click through to a large pop-up image.

Today for the Landscape of the Day we interrupt our Canadian journey to visit Greenland, which is under the sovereignty of Denmark. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_vidar/384864490/sizes/o/

Screensaver Images for Sunday, August 24

Below are links to illustrations for scripture texts designated for this Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to August 24". (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Isaiah 51:1-6 - "Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness,
you that seek the LORD. Look to the rock from which you were hewn--" ; "I will bring near my deliverance swiftly, ... the coastlands wait for me." http://www.flickr.com/photos/33774669@N00/1199774062/sizes/l/

Psalm 138 --- "I will bow down toward your holy temple and praise your Name, because of your love and faithfulness" The following image is a representation of the second temple in Jerusalem as found by Google Image search deep in the web site of the major Jewish reform congretation in Nashville, TN.
http://www.templenashville.org/_new_site/3_beit_tefillah/jewholidays/images/2nd-temple-jerusalem-f.jpg

Romans 12:1-8 --- "How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!" Here is photograph of one of his inscrutable creatures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digbytoast/1096350024/sizes/m/

Matthew 16:13-20 --- Two verses from this text are superimposed on the following graphic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9943678@N04/1562646057/sizes/m/

Wallpaper for Saturday, August 23

The Saint of the Day is Rose of Lima, sua generis, who passed away in 1617 . The Wikipedia article "Rose_of_Lima" is informative. I have reformatted and uploaded an image that I found at another informative site: http://saints.sqpn.com/saintr04.htm. It is a picture of a stained glass in Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Macon, GA.

The Landscape of the Day takes us once more to the Canadian territory of Nunavut. http://www.flickr.com/photos/saylesman/36381721/sizes/o/

Wallpaper for Friday, September 22

The Saint of the Day is Symphorian of Autun, a martyr who passed away in 180. His story is told by Katherine I. Rabenstein at the following web page: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0822.shtml. To illustrate this saint with a tiled background in your computer desktop display, I have uploaded a detailed and framed view from a painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian. The image page linked to the Wikipedia article on "St._Symphorian" assures me that this painting is in the public domain. Wikipedia found the electronic image of this painting at the following web page of a Thai web site http://www.artgazine.com/shoutouts/viewtopic.php?t=808

The Landscape of the Day is another scene from the Canadian territory of Nunavut. For this one, I recommend a blog page posted by Helen Johnson of the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University, with high resolution photos apparently captured during an oceanographic expedition: http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~helenj/at_sea.html. My favorite landscape shot is near the bottom of the web page, in the posting for 1 September, on the right side, just above the "2 September" posting. It is a view of Bylot Island looking across Eclipse Sound to roughly the following location 72° 54′ 26″ N, 78° 13′ 44″ W.

Wallpaper for Thursday, August 21

The Hero of the Day is Franz Reinisch, SAC, priest and consciencious objector, who was executed on this date in a Nazi prision in 1942 because he refused to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler as required for service in the Wehrmacht, Hitler's army, after receiving an order to enter that army. An image suitable for use in tiled wallpaper has been uploaded here. For more information about this hero, two German language sources are available: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reinisch and

http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienF/Franz_Reinisch.html

The Landscape of the Day is from the Canadian territory of Nunavut, its central Arctic frontier. Due to the aspect ratio, you may want to designate the stretch format which will reduce the vertical dimension in relation to the horizontal. It should still look great that way, but just slightly less impressive. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mumfordfamily/53582022/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Wednesday, August 20

The Saint of the Day is Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist., abbot and theologian, who passed away in 1153. For more information about this saint you may visit the hagiographic site of James Kiefer: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/08/20.html or the Wikipedia article for "Bernard_of_Clairvaux". The image uploaded here, strictly for use as tiled wallpaper, has been reformatted from one on found on the following blog page: http://templars.wordpress.com/in-praise-of-the-new-knighthood/. It is shows detail from a painting at the Troyes cathedral. Where the entire painting appears full-size ( http://www.paradoxplace.com/Insights/Cistercians/Cistercians_Two.htm ), the copy function is blocked, so there may be some possibility of a copyright protection claim.

For the Landscape of the Day, we find that the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are together large enough to rate three wallpaper images. So here follows an image link for one that represents the northern 1/3 of that joint domain. (You will probably need to set your wallpaper funciton the "Stretch"): http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Prairies/Alberta/Wood_Buffalo_National_Park/photo455419.htm

Wallpaper for Tuesday, August 19

The Saint of the Day is John Eudes, O.C., priest and founder of religious orders, who passed away in 1680. More information about this saint is available at this Patron Saints Index web page http://saints.sqpn.com/saintj21.htm . The image you see here was adapted from the one found on the following page of the Ecumenical Saints Dictionary: http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienJ/Johannes_Eudes.html . It can be used to create a tiled background for your computer's desktop display.

The Landscape of the Day is from the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. According to the infomation provided by the photographer, the location is 50°31'19"N, 104°52'21"W, northwest of the city of Regina.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/1157522162/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Monday, August 18

The Saint of the Day is Helena, empress and widow, who passed away around 328 - 330. The resized image that you see here is intended for use in creating a tiled background for your computer desktop display. The source of this image is the informative Patron Saints Index at http://saints.sqpn.com/sainth01.htm author: Terry H Jones. Another biography of interest of this saint is at the James Kiefer site: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/query.cgi?8+19 (His calendar shows this observance on the 19th, reserving the 18th to honor the US Episcopal Church theologian William Porcher DuBose)

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Banff National Park, in theprovince of Alberta, Canada: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8207249@N08/1144437690/sizes/l/

To use this as wallpaper, you will need to set the display to the "Stretch" format.

Screensaver Images for Sunday, August 17

Below are links to illustrations for scripture texts designated for this Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to August 17". (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Genesis 45:1-15 --- The reunion of Joseph, now the prime minister of Egypt, with his 11 brothers, the sons of Jacob - An image from a woodcut illustration by Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld from the World Mission Collection of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod at the following web page: http://www.wels.net/wmc/Downloads/042.gif.

Psalm 133 --- The text of the first verse is illustated in a small, simple graphic at this site. http://web.mac.com/sunbeamjamaica/iWeb/Sunbeam%20Boys'%20Home/Welcome.html In this uploaded version, just above, I have elaborated this a bit to have more visual impact.

Romans 11:29-32 --- The late Fr. Richard Lonsdale left us a wonderful collection of clip art that illuminates the concepts found in the Epistles of the Bible (various letters with theological and instructional content from Saint Paul and other authors.) I have uploaded one of his illustrations for today's new testament text. This was modified as to file format and background from the source image found on the following web page. http://www.silk.net/RelEd/Year%20A/20A.htm © 2000 by Father Richard Lonsdale. You may freely copy this document. It may be freely reproduced in any non-profit publication.

Matthew 15: 21-28 --- Jesus and the Canaanite woman The story is illustrated by a painting from the artist Germain-Jean Drouais, which is in the collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris. A thumbnail image (click to enlarge) may be found at the following web page http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=18882

Wallpaper for Saturday, August 16

The Saint of the Day is Stephen, King of Hungary, who passed away in 1038. For more details about his life I would recommend the Katherine Rabenstein hagiography (the biography of a saint) at http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0816.shtml. For use as a tiled background in a computer desktop display (i.e. tiled wallpaper), I am uploading an image of this saint that I found with the Wikipedia article for "Stephen_I_of_Hungary" (38% of its original size with a border added). No attribution was found for the source of this image.

For the Landscape of the Day we are once again visiting the Canadian province of British Columbia. http://www.flickr.com/photos/91997797@N00/329792367/sizes/o/ The location given by the photographer is at or near Morricetown (55°0'52"N, 127°19'50"W).

Wallpaper for Friday, August 15

The Saint of the Day is the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. Like other saints, she is honored on the date of her passing from an earthly existance to a heavenly one --- on the actual date, if known, or, as in this case, one selected to represent it. The Roman Catholic observance is called the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Orthodox Church observance is the Dormition of the Theotokos, based on church doctrine about how this event may have occurred. The doctrine of the Assumption is one that envisions Mary's departure to heaven as being analagous to the Ascension of Christ as depicted in the New Testament.) This view informs the painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, who painted the image recommended for today's wallpaper, which may be found at Carol Gerten-Jackson's fine arts web site on the following web page:
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/murillo/p-murillo4.htm . For wallpaper use, I recommend that you reduce this image to about 60% of its original dimensions and display it using the centered option. (We who not belong to the Roman Catholic tradition can think of this image as a metaphor.) Having used this much space, I am posting a smaller version of this image to illustrate it.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the British Columbia province of Canada.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schlegl/1290247636/sizes/o/ According to the photographer, this view was captured from near the town of Osoyoos (49°1'52"N, 119°25'52"W).

Wallpaper for Thursday, August 14

The Saint of the Day is Maximilian Kolbe, OFM Conv, friar and confessor who died this date in 1941 in a concentration camp, having volunteered to receive Nazi retribution in place another inmate. The Wikipedia article for "Maximilian_Kolbe" seems very informative. The image that I have modified and uploaded here is for use on my computer as tiled wallpaper. It may be found in several locations on the web. I used the one at the following web site: http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/15/saint_maximilian_kolbe.jpg

The Landscape of the Day is another scene from the Northwest Territories of Canada. The one recommended here is a bit different from others in this series. It may be found in the form of a thumbnail image (click to enlarge), the first on the page of the following web page, which turns out to be --- http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/taxa/landscape/veget/tundra_broken_nta.jpg --- from the Canadian Soil and Information System of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Ministry of the Canadian goverment.

Wallpaper for Wednesday, August 13

The Saint of the Day is Hippolytus, bishop, scholar, and martyr, who passed away in 235. A brief appreciation of the saint may be found at the James Kiefer hagiography site. (His calendar puts this observance a day ahead of the Roman Catholic calendar. http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/query.cgi?8+12 . For use as a tiled background on my computer desktop display, I have modified and uploaded an icon image of today's saint from the following web page, which has links to some of the writings of Hippolytus:

http://www.pravoslavieto.com/docs/sv_otci/sv_Ipolit_Rimski/apostles_12_70.htm

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Nahanni National Park in Northwest Territories of Canada. http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Northern/Northwest_Territories/photo148944.htm

Wallpaper for Tuesday, August 12

The Saint of the Day is Herculanus, bishop of Brescia, who passed away around the year 550. Little is known about this saint, but the Italian Renaissance painter Perugino did represent him in a certain painting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pietro_Perugino_Virgin_Mary_and_Saints.JPG and from this, I was able to clip an image of Herculanus on a day when the list of genuine saints to be honored is very short.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the North West Territories of Canada

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Northern/Northwest_Territories/photo605483.htm

Wallpaper for Monday, August 11

The Saint of the Day is Clare, Abbess at Assisi, who passed away in 1253. Inspired by the example of Saint Francis, she founded a religious order that has come to be known as the Poor Clares. To illustrate Saint Clare with a tiled background for my computer screen display, I have uploaded an icon written by Fr. William McNichols. Hopefully it will display at about 50% of the original dimensions as published on the following web page: http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/clare.html

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the Yukon province of Canada. It is a view from the valley of the Klondike River. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshandro/274739900/sizes/o/

Screensaver Images for Sunday, August 10

Below are links to illustrations for scripture texts designated for this Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to August 10". (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28: The sons of Jacob sell their brother Joseph into slavery. This event in the story of Israel is ilustrated in the image of a painting by Alexander Seitz that may be seen at the Art Renewal Center site: http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=8499 .

Psalm 105: Verses 1 & 2 of this psalm are illustrated in the work of art that may be seen at the following site. http://www.encouragingimpressions.com/psalm%20105.jpg .

Romans 10:5-15: St. Paul's writing is often heavy on theology that is hard to illustrate. The late Fr. Richard Lonsdale left us a wonderful collection of clip art that tries to do that. I have uploaded one of his illustrations for today's new testament text. This was modified as to file format and background from the source image found on the following web page http://www.silk.net/RelEd/Year%20C/1lentc.htm © 2000 by Father Richard Lonsdale. You may freely copy this document. It may be freely reproduced in any non-profit publication.

Matthew 14:22-33: Jesus walks on the surface of the sea and Peter attempts to join him To illustrate this, I recommend the image of a painting "St Peter Walking on the Water" by Alessandro Allori, currently the property of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. A thumbnail image was be found at the following Web Gallery of Art page: http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/allori/alessand/st_peter.html (Click it to see a larger image.)

Wallpaper for Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Saint of the Day is Teresa Benedict of the Cross, OCD, nun and martyr, who died this date in 1942. Before her consecration as a nun, she was known as Edith Stein. Her history is summarized at the following web page, which was the source of image that I have reduced and framed and uploaded for use as a tile in a tiled background in your computer desktop display: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19981011_edith_stein_en.html

The Landscape of the Day is another scene from Alaska, USA. It's a view looking toward Mount Foraker from the slopes of Denali (Mount McKinley). Due to the aspect ratio, it's going to be slightly distorted in the stretch format, but the distortion is not going to be noticeable to someone who hasn't seen the original.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52756285@N00/826654080/sizes/o/