Not only a taste of the past, but a taste of the future

Thanks to Anne Bender for passing along these fantastic old photos of St. Joseph's Chapel, Milwaukee, WI.  The chapel is on my list of places to visit.  I think we will see these days again in Wisconsin.  Maybe not with the same religious orders.... but the intense desire for Jesus Christ cannot be detained by modernism forever. 

more at Imprisoned in my Bones

It made me think of the great Augustine quote from Confessions:

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.