The Discalced Carmelites of Fairfield find themselves in the center of a controversy spawned by the 2018 Vatican document 'Cor Orans.' A statue of St. Joseph and the Christ Child on the grounds of ...

The Mass is a memorial sacrifice and laity mimicking the priest minimizes the priest’s personification of Christ. The priest employs the orans posture in order to direct the congregation’s ...

Surely, Christ does not need accompanying into the ... Christian sarcophagi were in-facing "apostle" configurations, the orans figure and other "learned woman" motifs, such as portrayals with ...

The instruction, entitled Cor orans, or "Praying heart," was drafted by the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. It includes detailed ...

whole scenes of the family of Jesus or images from gospel stories or stories from the Hebrew Scriptures or the symbol of the orans and the good shepherd. All of these reflect a burgeoning ...