This is the first of two posts featuring meditations on frescoes painted by Fra Angelico on the walls of the cells at San Marco monastery in Florence, by Br John Paul Puschautz, a Dominican of the Western Province in the United States.
The first is the Annunciation. John Paul has just completed his STL, and his thesis title was “Visio Divina with the Art of Fra Angelico as Mental Pilgrimage: A Way of Beauty and Perfection.” It is a scholarly development of a method of prayer analogous to lectio divina, but which uses sacred art for meditation rather than Scriptural passages.If by chance any publishers read this, it strikes me that his thesis would be excellent material for a book. Certainly, I would buy it and promote it if it was published! You can contact him through opwest.org.
Thank you, Br John Paul, I learned a lot from your presentation.
