Bleakley Stained Glass

12/31/2022

This past year I got to venture out of my shell a bit. As with many, covid provided an excuse for slipping into isolation and it’s been a challenge to recover my feet. I’m very grateful for this p…

12/31/2022

This past year I got to venture out of my shell a bit. As with many, covid provided an excuse for slipping into isolation and it’s been a challenge to recover my feet. I’m very grateful for this past year’s opportunities–many of them on behalf of Willet Hauser–to attend conferences, classes and workshops and recover some humanity. One of the most exciting opportunities, I nearly missed....

This past year I got to venture out of my shell a bit. As with many, covid provided an excuse for slipping into isolation and it’s been a challenge to recover my feet. I’m very grateful for this p…

12/24/2022

Child, Knowledge is a Treasury and your heart is its strong box. --Hugh of St. Victor Stained Glass Windows were once called “books for the illiterate;” whereas, today we often need books to read stained glass windows. Could it be that we have something to learn of literacy from our forbears? What did they know that we’ve forgotten? photo used by permission of Willet Hauser Architectural Glass …...

Child, Knowledge is a Treasury and your heart is its strong box. –Hugh of St. Victor Stained Glass Windows were once called “books for the illiterate;” whereas, today we often need books to r…

11/06/2022

A stained glass story told by Fr. Mark Bleakley There’s a Medieval legend that one night in the middle of summer in Rome, it snowed. And the Virgin Mary left footprints in the snow marking out the dimensions of a church. The people knew exactly what to do, erecting in that place one of grandest basilicas in Rome–Santa Maria Maggiore. It’s a common story ultimately going back to Moses, Ezekiel and St....

A stained glass story told by Fr. Mark Bleakley There’s a Medieval legend that one night in the middle of summer in Rome, it snowed.  And the Virgin Mary left footprints in the snow marking ou…

10/11/2021

06/16/2021

09/10/2020

I revised one of my previous designs--Our Lady of Walsingham--for the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary yesterday. It's an ancient symbol called the Throne of Wisdom very much related to the Tree of Jesse of Isaiah 11. The Virgin is the Throne of David's greater Son--the true Solomon--bearing the eternal Wisdom made flesh.

06/24/2019

As we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi this week—the Body of Christ given in the Sacrament—I want to write more broadly of the Body of Christ. One of most rewarding projects I’ve been involved with over the last couple years was the making of a crucifix for above the altar at All Saints Anglican Church in Monroe, LA.. I say rewarding, but life-changing may be more the term. [ 1,783 more word ]

As we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi this week—the Body of Christ given in the Sacrament—I want to write more broadly of the Body of Christ. One of most rewarding projects I’ve been involve…

06/13/2018

Incarnation Window: And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun...upon her head a crown of twelve stars...and she brought forth a Child who was to rule all nations. Below are the gifts of the Magi as the nations bring tribute to the Seat of Wisdom above. Another design rendering for Holy Cross Anglican Church.