Just back from my second Lenten visit to the Missionaries of the Poor in the ghettoes of Kingston, Jamaica. I’m in the midst of gathering material for a book on the Missionaries. More on this later. I mention it now simply to explain my prolonged absence from this site. I got home in the early hours of this morning …

Regular readers of the Saint Austin Review will be aware of the art of Tommy Manning, an excellent Scottish artist. Here’s a video link to his latest painting, which was commissioned for an Adoration Chapel in Hawaii (on Oahu). Apart from the slow revelation of the painting itself, the video also includes a fine celtic folkish rendition of “O Salutaris Hostia”. I’m also attaching a link to Tommy’s website for those wishing to explore his work further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WuQLRTru4o

http://www.art-of-divinemercy.co.uk/videopage.htm