Sacred Art and The Springtime of Faith

There is something about Easter glory that draws us to look at sacred art and the ‘snapshot’ of faith which it strives to capture.

As spring unfolds in the Northern Hemisphere this rare painting (above) of St. Francis by Albert Chevallier Tayler (1898) touches on the reality of the springtime of faith and the rejoicing of the Risen Lord by even the ‘little ones’ of creation.