Emmaus

Afternoons find me working in Emmaus Ministries, organizing their 50 years of photos, paperwork and memorabilia that we want to save for archives. In 2014 the artist, Brother Mickey McGrath of the Oblate of St. Francis deSales community, spent a few days here working on sketches that would turn into paintings for the 2015 Benetvision calendar. A good number of the calendar pages were of the community's ministries.

For Emmaus, he ended up doing five paintings, all of which are lovely. Here's the one chosen for November in that calendar. Although it isn't quite an exact photo of the soup kitchen's daily guests, it certainly picks up the spirit of the place perfectly. Do you see who's looking in the window?