by Lilias Trotter Legacy | Jul 23, 2022 | Blog
Pomegranates with lily-work above them, wreathing the capitals of the pillars of the porch: that would be the next carved work on the way to the inner sanctuary. The pomegranates would be clustered into the network of the chains – four hundred on the two pillars –...
by Lilias Trotter Legacy | Jul 16, 2022 | Blog
Whitsunday. The “White Sunday” of the baptism of old in the early Church links itself with the lily-work of the laver’s brim, that comes next in the Temple carvings. It does not seem quite sure what the lilies of the field in Palestine were. Some think they...
by Lilias Trotter Legacy | Jul 9, 2022 | Blog
Today’s carvings for our Bible reading show The Lion, a great contrast to the lowly patience lesson of last Sunday, The Ox. “Bold as a lion,” (his chief characteristic) would be more truly translated as “fearless as a lion.” And fearless he is as he stalks his...
by Lilias Trotter Legacy | Jul 2, 2022 | Blog
Let us learn the lesson of the ox, who stands lowest in the scale of service: his place is under the yoke, in lowly submission. Let us understand first of all the “yoking together with Christ” and learn what that yoke-fellowship with Him means. If we look at...
by Lilias Trotter Legacy | Jul 2, 2022 | Blog
“We have started Sunday afternoon Bible readings, in my room, on the seven carvings of Solomon’s temple. That temple seems to be in its full sense a picture of the perfect service of the Church during the reign of Christ that is to come, and therefore it...
by Lilias Trotter Legacy | Apr 29, 2022 | Blog
Beholdings! A Book of Journaling & Sketching Inspired by the Art & Writings of Lilias Trotter Mother’s Day is just around the corner begging the perennial question: What do I give that special woman (or women!) in my life? We suggest Beholdings! It is...
