• Community Life

 
Join us on the last Thursday of every month as we gather together as a community.  Each month we have had over 80 people attend the Fra Angelico Coffeehaus and you don’t want to miss it this time!   We will gather at the Faith Formation Center in the Youth Room and enjoy an evening of the visual and performing arts, coffee and conversation. Don’t let the location fool you - all ages are welcome! 

Fra Angelico Coffeehaus is an opportunity for us to come together as a community in a leisurely “artful” setting. We will gather in the courtyard at the Faith Formation Center (weather permitting) or in the Youth Room and enjoy an evening of the visual and performing arts, coffee and conversation. All ages are welcome!

*Fra Angelico was reported to say "He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always". This motto earned him the epithet "Blessed Angelico", because of the perfect integrity of his life and the almost divine beauty of the images he painted, to a superlative extent those of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

From various accounts of Fra Angelico's life, it is possible to gain some sense of why he was deserving of canonization. He led the devout and ascetic life of a Dominican friar, and never rose above that rank; he followed the dictates of the order in caring for the poor; he was always good-humored. All of his many paintings were of divine subjects, and it seems that he never altered or retouched them, perhaps from a religious conviction that, because his paintings were divinely inspired, they should retain their original form. He was wont to say that he who illustrates the acts of Christ should be with Christ. It is averred that he never handled a brush without fervent prayer and he wept when he painted a Crucifixion. The Last Judgment and the Annunciation were two of the subjects he most frequently. Pope John Paul II beatified him on Oct. 3, 1982, and in 1984 declared him Patron of Catholic Artists.