Br. Mickey McGrath, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales, is an artist, author, retreat director, and art and faith tour guide. He lives and works in Camden, New Jersey.
I have taken a fresh look at our concept of the Earth as humanity's common mother and home. Some of my favorite women saints have inspired me with new levels of awareness and understanding.
For Br. Mickey McGrath, airports become giant monastic cells where he can read, draw and mind his own business — "lectio divina and visio divina rolled into one happy hour of prayerful present moment bliss."
Artist Mickey McGrath favors saints with feisty, independent spirits, saints who seemed to sense that blindly obeying the rules isn't the way to build a loving relationship with God or share God's love with the world.
Perspective: As the months of pandemic confinement wore on, a whole new monstrance series began to emerge along with revived awareness of just how far and wide God's body actually stretches.
