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  August 2009
  
Outdoor Shrines
by: Leo Del Pasqua
 
There is something so beautiful about old roadside shrines.
Like outdoor processions, they seem to venture outside
of the sacrosanct precincts of the interior spaces of churches
and boldly proclaim to the public the mysteries of one's faith.
 
 
 
  Where I live, in the Ottawa River Valley of Southern Ontario,
near the towns and villages of Killaloe, Wilno and Eganville,
roadside shrines, while not exactly proliferating, can be found occasionally,
even frequently, as one drives the back roads around these areas.
One is always reminded of the strong roots of Roman Catholic faith
represented here by the Irish, Polish and German settlers
who first came to this region many years ago. 
 
Juncture ~ Mountain View Road/O' Grady
Settlement Road (Killaloe/Wilno)		 Outside of Killaloe, driving south on the Brudenel Road
   
Links:
Outdoor Shrines
Leo Del Pasqua
40 Years of
Morninglory Farm
Robbie 'Beaver' Anderman
Paintings
Turtle Tim Beckett
Natural Reflections
Jessica Shulist
How to
Write a Song
Rob Bersan
A Silver Fox,
A New Old Suit,
a Walk on the Moon
and a Video Shoot 
Dave McEathron
"If music be the
food of love,
play on."...
Jim Jones
Just Around Sunset
Deedee Sanderson

 
"Among the yellow primroses
He holds His Summer palaces,
And sets the grass about them all
To guard them as His spearmen small.
Simpson Pit Road ~
right off Highway 60/62		   Old Barry's Bay Road, near juncture of Hopefield Road
He fixes on each wayside stone
A mark to shew it all His Own,
And knows when raindrops fall through air
Whether each single one be there,
Kuiack Lake Road ~
near Wadsworth Lake Beach 		  Combermere ~
on the Madonna House Road
That gathered into ponds and brooks
They may become His picture books,
To show in every spot and place
The living glory of His face."
Polish Boy Scout Camp ~
Kaszuby		   Hopefield Road ~
near juncture of Opeongo Road
  Poem by : Theodore Maynard  
     
   
  Cormac ~ Stations of the Cross ~
near Shrine of St Anne		  
 
Madonna House Prayer Garden ~
Combermere		   Near Polish Boy Scout Camp ~
Kaszuby
St. Stanislaus Koska Shrine ~
Catholic Cemetery ~ Wilno


LEO DEL PASQUA is practicing symbolist
with special interest in Christian art, history and spirituality.
He holds a Masters Degree in Theology from Toronto School of Theology,
and currently runs an on-line store called Veronicas Liturgical Art on Ebay,
where rare books and other items of ceremonial and devotion are sold.
Examples of some of his artwork can be viewed in the Contributing Artists
section of the Urantia Book-Ottawa web site,
and he also hosts a weekly local radio show
on Culture and Religion called Church of the Earth on CHCR in Killaloe.

Visit Leo's Ebay Store at:

Veronicas Liturgical Art

See his artwork at:

www.urantia-ottawa.ca

Visit CHCR and listen on-line to Leo's Show:

www.chcr.org

 
 
 
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