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Dennis McNally

What to Avow or Amend

by Jim Manney

For Ash Wednesday — a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins and a painting by Dennis McNally, SJ, inspired by it. The poem is titled “The Lantern Out of Doors.” Sometimes a lantern moves along the night, That interests our eyes. And who goes there? I think; where from and bound, I wonder, where, With, all [...]

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Christos of the City

by Jim Manney

I’ve been thinking about the unspeakable horror that has come to Haiti.   This painting, “Christos of the City,” by Dennis McNally, SJ, expresses a truth beyond words.

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Dennis McNally’s Art

by Jim Manney

Several readers asked where they could see the the lovely stained glass window created by Dennis McNally, SJ, featured here last week.  As far as I can tell it’s not installed anywhere.  Fr. McNally says that the window is “partially realized.”  I certainly would like to visit a church where it’s installed. Fr. McNally is [...]

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Spiritual Exercises in Art

by Jim Manney

This is a stained glass window created by Dennis McNally, SJ, depicting three of the principal meditations in the Spiritual Exercises.  The artist explains: The Principle and Foundation is depicted on the left as abstracted wheat and grapes cascading from heaven with two hands holding a terrestrial globe on which is planted the cross of [...]

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