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The Barnes Brief: Friday, June 13, 2025
June 13, 2025
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Art of the Day: Rose Window

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Art of the Day: Rose Window, Notre Dame. The stunning stained glass of the great old church astounds up close as much as it amazes from a distance. A bucket list item of mine checked off a decade ago when I attended the midnight mass at Christmas at Notre Dame, the most literary legendary church in the western world, sitting over an ancient site of religious recognition and spiritual invocation before Catholicism even set its first cornerstone on this little island in the Seine, with its underground waterways eminating up through to its recipients of the comforting waves above. The brilliance of the masons that molded the glass with copper and sapphire, forging this remarkable window into their own artistic minds where God meets man and expresses itself over the centuries for us all to bewilder and bewonder its symmetry of shape, colorful expression, and remaking of a physical glass into a rose resembling petal, whispering at the cycle of life and a quick glimpse into God’s soul as well as that of nature and of our own.  

 

Book Recommendation: Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch. He forecast it all a quarter-century ago -- a new globalist aristocracy distant from national identity, common culture, and worker-led economics that threatened our collective futures. 

 

Wisdom of the Day: “The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” President Eisenhower.

 

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I.   INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

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