Featured Artist

The 2006 Josephite Calender features paintings by Fr. Jim Hasse, SJ, throughout the entire calendar. Here is what they wrote about him:

Father Jim Hasse, S.J. has ministered in African American parishes for over thirty-seven years. In Chicago, Detroit, Columbus and Cincinnati friends and parishioners have been his inspiration and the models for his work.
Father Jim believes, almost literally, that we are The Body of Christ, God's Work of Art, Made in the Image of God, Living Gospel, Living Sacraments. He attempts in his art to give visual expression to these realities. Scripture furnishes his subject matter. The people furnish the soul and beauty. Father Jim furnishes the craftsmanship. This has been his approach over the years of art and parish ministry.
Father Jim Hasse says: "I am very blessed to be able to unite my prayer life, my apostolic work and my art."
Over the course of the past year, Fr. Hasse has exhibited at the Comboni MIssionaries' center in Cincinnati, had a painting included in a national exhibit of Jesuits artists, and supplied paintings for Martin Luther King celebrations in Columbus, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. An article on his work appeared in the Xavier University (Ohio) Magazine, and he is preparing a major exhibit that will run at the Marian Library in Dayton, Ohio, early in 2006.

Email: hasseart@excite.com
Prayer Gallery of Paintings and Meditations

Copies of the calendar can be ordered from the Josephite Pastoral Center; 1200 Varnum Street, N.E.; Washington, DC 20017; Phone: (202) 526-9270; http://josephite.com/pastoral/index_files/page0002.htm.