National Rose Month: Day 12

“Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. 

Artists of the world, may your many different paths all lead to that infinite Ocean of beauty where wonder becomes awe, exhilaration, unspeakable joy.

May you be guided and inspired by the mystery of the Risen Christ, whom the Church in these days contemplates with joy.

May the Blessed Virgin Mary be with you always: she is the “tota pulchra” portrayed by countless artists, whom Dante contemplates among the splendors of Paradise as “beauty that was joy in the eyes of all the other saints”. —from Letter of His Holiness, Pop John Paul II, 1999

Sometimes creating a painting can be a meditation or a prayer. I painted this single white rose during Lent and it reminds me of how imperfect I am. It is a contemplative painting and the white rose symbolizes Mary, and her infinite Grace.Mary Meditation
● Sold (7 x 5 inches, oil on panel)