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oil and tempera on panel, first half 16th century
National Museum in Warsaw</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-03-29T12:25:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/03/22/untie-the-bonds-of-fear/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/500px-brooklyn_museum_-_the_resurrection_of_lazarus_la_resurrection_de_lazare_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>500px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Resurrection_of_Lazarus_(La_résurrection_de_Lazare)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
La résurrection de Lazare
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper
between 1896 and 1904
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-03-22T12:58:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/about/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cats2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cats2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cats3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cats3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cats.png</image:loc><image:title>cats</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ma2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-03-17T22:15:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/03/15/love-with-the-eyes-and-heart-of-god/</loc><lastmod>2026-03-15T12:48:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/03/08/hear-for-yourself/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/woman-at-the-well-frank-wesley-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Woman at the Well-Frank Wesley-medium</image:title><image:caption>Frank Wesley (1923-2022)
Woman at the Well</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-03-08T12:56:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/03/01/listen-to-jesus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/512px-transfiguration_by_feofan_grek_from_spaso-preobrazhensky_cathedral_in_pereslavl-zalessky_15th_c_tretyakov_gallery.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Transfiguration_by_Feofan_Grek_from_Spaso-Preobrazhensky_Cathedral_in_Pereslavl-Zalessky_(15th_c,_Tretyakov_gallery)</image:title><image:caption>Unknown artist
The Saviour's Transfiguration
Icon, ca.1403
Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-03-01T13:34:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/02/22/going-gods-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/512px-attributed_to_jan_mostaert_-_the_temptation_in_the_wilderness_lot-5247606.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Attributed_to_Jan_Mostaert_-_The_Temptation_in_the_Wilderness,_lot-5247606</image:title><image:caption>Jan Mostaert, circa 1475–1552/1553
The Temptation in the Wilderness, 16th c.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-02-22T13:59:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/02/15/words-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/512px-jan_brueghel_the_elder_-_the_sermon_on_the_mount_-_google_art_project.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Jan_Brueghel_the_Elder_-_The_Sermon_on_the_Mount_-_Google_Art_Project</image:title><image:caption>Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 – 1625)
The Sermon on the Mount
oil on copper, 1598
Getty Center</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-02-15T13:38:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/02/08/healed-by-the-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/swanson-festivaloflights-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Swanson-FestivalOfLights-medium</image:title><image:caption>John August Swanson (1938-2021)
Festival of Lights, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56546 [retrieved February 8, 2026]. Original source: Estate of John August Swanson, johnaugustswanson.com</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-02-08T14:08:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/02/01/blessed-are-we-4/</loc><lastmod>2026-02-01T14:23:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/01/25/united-in-love/</loc><lastmod>2026-01-25T13:46:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/01/18/a-light-for-all/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/512px-magnificent_cme_erupts_on_the_sun_-_august_31.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on_the_Sun_-_August_31</image:title><image:caption>Filament of solar material from Sun erupting into space and connected with Earth's magnetic environment</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-01-18T13:07:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/books/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/faithful1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>faithful</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lent_peace_healing.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lent_Peace_Healing</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/advent_peace_healing.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Advent_Peace_Healing</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mary_feast_days1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mary_Feast_Days</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/40_marian1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>40_Marian</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/peaceful.jpg</image:loc><image:title>untitled</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/joyful.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Joyful</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/hopeful-e1404657436511.jpg</image:loc><image:title>untitled</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mindful1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mindful</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-01-15T22:03:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/01/11/baptized-in-peace/</loc><lastmod>2026-01-11T13:19:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2026/01/04/follow-the-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/magi_512px-greco_poklon.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Magi_512px-Greco_pokłon</image:title><image:caption>El Greco (1541-1614)
Adoration of the Magi with Camels
oil on panel, ca.1568-69
Mexico City, Museo Soumayo</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-01-04T13:58:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/12/28/leaving-the-familiar-behind/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/flight_egypt_nmaahc-2015_2_3_003_screen.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flight_Egypt_NMAAHC-2015_2_3_003_screen</image:title><image:caption>Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 - 1937)
Flight into Egypt
oil on wood panel, ca.1916
National Museum of African American History and Culture</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-12-28T13:56:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/12/21/grace-and-peace-3/</loc><lastmod>2025-12-21T13:03:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/12/14/love-is-patient/</loc><lastmod>2025-12-14T13:53:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/12/07/in-harmony/</loc><lastmod>2025-12-07T12:52:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/11/30/light-my-way-lord/</loc><lastmod>2025-11-30T13:52:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/11/23/dont-forget-me/</loc><lastmod>2025-11-23T13:06:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/11/16/persevere-with-love/</loc><lastmod>2025-11-16T13:24:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/11/09/holy-temples-of-god/</loc><lastmod>2025-11-09T13:38:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/11/02/jesus-welcomes-us-all/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/jesus-in-benares-frank-wesley-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus in Benares-Frank Wesley-medium</image:title><image:caption>Frank Wesley (1923-2002)
Jesus in Benares</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-11-02T12:20:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/10/26/the-lord-hears-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tissot_pharisee_publican_00.159.178_ps2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tissot_Pharisee_Publican_00.159.178_PS2</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (Nantes, France, 1836–1902, Chenecey–Buillon, France). The Pharisee and the Publican (Le pharisien et le publicain), 1886–1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (25.1 x 16.5 cm) Sheet: 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (25.1 x 16.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.178. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1981.63.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1981.63</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2025-10-26T12:39:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/10/19/pray-always/</loc><lastmod>2025-10-19T11:47:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/10/12/help-me-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/512px-gebhard_fugel_christus_und_die_aussatzigen_c1920.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Gebhard_Fugel_Christus_und_die_Aussätzigen_c1920</image:title><image:caption>Gebhard Fugel (1863-1939)
Christus und die Aussätzigen, ca.1920
Diözesanmuseum Freising</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-10-12T12:16:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/10/05/faith-in-gods-vision/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/512px-the_mulberry_tree_by_vincent_van_gogh.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-The_Mulberry_Tree_by_Vincent_van_Gogh</image:title><image:caption>Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) 
The Mulberry Tree
oil on canvas, October 1889</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-10-05T12:25:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/09/28/take-notice/</loc><lastmod>2025-09-28T11:59:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/09/21/prayer-practice/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/512px-prayer_session.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Prayer_Session</image:title><image:caption>A Prayer Session</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-09-21T12:29:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/09/14/emptied-2/</loc><lastmod>2025-09-14T12:14:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/09/07/resources-for-suffering/</loc><lastmod>2025-09-07T12:27:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/08/31/holy-solitude/</loc><lastmod>2025-08-31T12:12:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/08/24/spiritual-strength/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/00.159.149_ps1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>00.159.149_PS1</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
The First Shall Be Last (Le premier sera le dernier)
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 1886–1896
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-08-24T12:17:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/08/17/fire-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/512px-heart_of_fire.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Heart_of_Fire</image:title><image:caption>Kalki
Heart of Fire
February 25, 2017</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-08-17T11:38:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/08/10/faith-practice/</loc><lastmod>2025-08-10T12:26:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/08/03/more-than/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/512px-gelijkenis_van_een_hebzuchtige_boer_rp-p-ob-44.948.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Gelijkenis_van_een_hebzuchtige_boer,_RP-P-OB-44.948</image:title><image:caption>Jan Luyken (1649-1712)
Parable of a Greedy Farmer
print, 1700
Rijksmuseum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-08-03T12:20:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/07/27/grow-in-goodness/</loc><lastmod>2025-07-27T15:07:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/07/20/doing-and-being/</loc><lastmod>2025-07-20T12:17:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/07/13/blessed-are-the-merciful/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1927.5188-the-good-samaritan.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1927.5188 - The Good Samaritan</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
The Good Samaritan, 1645-1655
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper
Art Institute of Chicago</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-07-13T20:04:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/07/06/the-joy-of-risk/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/512px-thumbnail.jpg</image:loc><image:title>harvest_seventy-two_512px-thumbnail</image:title><image:caption>Jesus sends the seventy-two</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-07-06T13:18:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/06/29/follow-him/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/512px-st._peter_and_st_john_healing_the_paralytic_met_dp800592.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-St._Peter_and_St_John_Healing_the_Paralytic_MET_DP800592</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669) 
St. Peter and St John Healing the Paralytic
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-06-29T11:40:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/06/22/a-little-goes-a-long-way/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-22T11:17:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/06/15/the-wisdom-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/plant-1586213_1280-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shamrock-trinity_plant-1586213_1280</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2025-06-15T12:30:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/06/08/filled-with-the-spirit-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-08T12:08:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/06/01/all-one/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-01T12:24:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/05/25/blessed-by-the-peace-of-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ceast06bw55274-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>CEast06bw55274-medium</image:title><image:caption>Peace I Leave with You!
Tile from Peace Wall in Hamilton, New Zealand. 
20th Century Mural</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-05-25T12:28:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/05/18/made-new-in-love/</loc><lastmod>2025-05-18T11:58:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/05/11/faithful-to-the-voice-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/apocalypse_by_gebhard_fugel_08_-_kap._7.9_grosse_schar.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Apocalypse_by_Gebhard_Fugel_08_-_Kap._7.9_Grosse_Schar</image:title><image:caption>Gebhard Fugel (1863-1939)
The Multitude, 1933
Scheyern Abbey</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-05-11T12:27:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/05/04/an-invitation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/koenig-beach2387wgd73-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Koenig-beach2387wgd73-medium</image:title><image:caption>Koenig, Peter. Breakfast on the Beach, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58541 [retrieved May 3, 2025]. Original source: Peter Winfried (Canisius) Koenig, https://www.pwkoenig.co.uk/. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-05-04T12:01:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/04/27/peace-in-our-hearts/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/512px-christ_appearing_to_the_apostles_met_dp230430-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Christ_Appearing_to_the_Apostles_MET_DP230430</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Christ Appearing to the Disciples
etching print, 1656
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-04-27T12:01:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/04/20/rise-from-the-dead/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mary-at-the-tomb-frank-wesley-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mary at the Tomb-Frank Wesley-medium</image:title><image:caption>Wesley, Frank, 1923-2002. Mary at the Tomb, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-04-20T12:29:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/04/13/god-sustains-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/512px-christ_crucified_with_the_good_thief_met_dp807693.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Christ_Crucified_with_the_Good_Thief_MET_DP807693</image:title><image:caption>Francesco Allegrini da Gubbio (1587–1663)
Christ Crucified with the Good Thief
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Framing lines in red chalk, and in pen and brown ink on mount, 1624–63 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 80.3.326
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-04-13T12:33:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/04/06/god-like-choices/</loc><lastmod>2025-04-06T12:44:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/03/30/restored-to-harmony/</loc><lastmod>2025-03-30T12:00:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/03/23/cultivate-your-true-nature/</loc><lastmod>2025-03-23T12:27:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/03/16/listen-to-him/</loc><lastmod>2025-03-18T18:46:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/03/09/trust-god/</loc><lastmod>2025-03-09T12:27:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/03/02/labor-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/001544_12.jpg</image:loc><image:title>001544_12</image:title><image:caption>Tafereeltegel, de splinter en de balk, hoekmotief ossenkop
keramiek, aardewerk, glazuur
1750-1850
Museum Rotterdam 1544-12</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-03-02T13:30:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/02/23/do-good/</loc><lastmod>2025-02-23T13:08:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/02/16/blessed-with-hope/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/laurajames398rbcd4782c-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>laurajames398rbcd4782c-medium</image:title><image:caption>Laura James
Sermon on the Mount, 2010
from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57891 [retrieved February 15, 2025]. Original source: Laura James, https://www.laurajamesart.com/collections/religious/</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-02-16T13:42:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/02/09/breathe-in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miracle_catch_hr-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Miracle_Catch_HR-medium</image:title><image:caption>Mike Moyers
Miracle Catch
oil on panel, 2019
Moyers, Mike. Miracle Catch, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57139 [retrieved February 8, 2025]. Original source: Mike Moyers, https://www.mikemoyersfineart.com/.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-02-09T13:24:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/02/02/purified-in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/512px-rembrandt_simeon_and_anna_in_the_temple40kunsthalle_hamburg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Simeon and Anna in the Temple</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Simeon and Anna in the Temple
oil on oak wood, 1627
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-02-02T13:48:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/01/26/a-spirit-for-healing/</loc><lastmod>2025-01-26T13:03:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/01/19/grow-in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/keurmoussaautel78c6l-1-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cana_KeurMoussaAutel78c6l-1-medium</image:title><image:caption>Father George Saget
Mural, Altar of Keur Moussa Abbey, 1963</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-01-19T13:22:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/01/12/give-comfort-2/</loc><lastmod>2025-01-12T15:07:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2025/01/05/mystery-revealed/</loc><lastmod>2025-01-05T13:27:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/12/29/a-holy-human-family/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/boy-jesus-with-the-teachers-frank-wesley-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Boy Jesus with the Teachers-Frank Wesley-medium</image:title><image:caption>Frank Wesley (1923-2002)
Boy Jesus with the Teachers</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-12-29T13:39:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/12/22/the-voice-of-love-2/</loc><lastmod>2024-12-22T13:33:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/12/15/the-lord-is-near/</loc><lastmod>2024-12-16T16:51:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/12/08/gods-beloved-3/</loc><lastmod>2024-12-08T13:23:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/12/01/increase-love/</loc><lastmod>2024-12-01T13:42:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/11/24/love-is-the-truth/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ge-what-truth-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ge-what-truth-medium</image:title><image:caption>Ge, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich), 1831-1894
"What is truth?" Christ and Pilate
Tretyakov Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-11-24T13:18:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/11/17/breathe/</loc><lastmod>2024-11-17T12:56:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/11/10/its-not-about-power-and-prestige/</loc><lastmod>2024-11-10T13:35:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/11/03/one-with-god-in-love/</loc><lastmod>2024-11-03T12:50:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/10/27/open-my-eyes-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/bartimaeus_lord_that_i_might_see.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bartimaeus_Lord_That_I_Might_See</image:title><image:caption>Lord, that I might see!, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54181 [retrieved October 26, 2024]. Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenr/2296612588/. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-10-27T11:59:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/10/20/to-serve/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/immigrants_welcome.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Immigrants_welcome</image:title><image:caption>Lori Shaull
26 January 2017</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/512px-friend_in_need.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Friend_in_need</image:title><image:caption>Harsha KR
Friend in need
5 June 2011</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-10-20T12:28:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/10/13/all-things-are-possible/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/tissot_rich_young_man.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tissot_Rich_Young_Man</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
The Rich Young Man Went Away Sorrowful (Le jeune homme riche s'en alla triste)
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
1886–1896</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-10-13T12:02:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/10/06/like-a-child-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/brooklyn_museum_-_suffer_the_little_children_to_come_unto_me_laisser_venir_a_moi_les_petits_enfants_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Suffer_the_Little_Children_to_Come_unto_Me_(Laisser_venir_à_moi_les_petits_enfants)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Laisser venir à moi les petits enfants
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-10-06T12:34:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/09/29/for-jesus-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/millstone_garryport_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1909257.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title><image:caption>Millstone, Garyport
Kenneth Allen, geograph.org.uk</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-09-29T12:20:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/09/22/gentle-and-full-of-mercy/</loc><lastmod>2024-09-22T12:20:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/09/15/dont-turn-back/</loc><lastmod>2024-09-15T11:25:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/09/08/god-is-here-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/new_testament_illustrations_1530_bm_19400617.39.jpg</image:loc><image:title>New_Testament_Illustrations_(1530)_(BM_1940,0617.39)</image:title><image:caption>Sebaid Beham (1500-1550)
Print, book illustration,1530
British Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-09-08T12:33:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/09/01/welcome-the-word/</loc><lastmod>2024-09-01T12:27:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/08/25/being-led-to-the-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/512px-railway_tunnel_tintern_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_2747084.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Railway_Tunnel,_Tintern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2747084</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-08-25T12:02:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/08/18/forsake-foolishness/</loc><lastmod>2024-08-18T11:36:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/08/11/bless-us-o-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/theblessing-387cn57s45fp-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TheBlessing-387cn57s45fp-medium</image:title><image:caption>Walter Gay (1856-1937)
The Blessing, 1888
Musée de Picardie</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-08-11T12:08:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/08/04/believe-and-be-fed/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/26365-the-gathering-of-the-manna-la-recolte-de-la-manne.jpg</image:loc><image:title>26365-the-gathering-of-the-manna-la-recolte-de-la-manne</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
The Gathering of the Manna (La récolte de la manne)
gouache on board, c. 1896-1902
The Jewish Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-08-04T11:52:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/07/28/feed-one-another/</loc><lastmod>2024-07-28T11:59:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/07/21/christ-jesus-is-our-peace/</loc><lastmod>2024-07-21T11:55:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/07/14/in-unity-and-community/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/512px-disciples_healing_the_sick_by_henry_ossawa_tanner.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Disciples_Healing_the_Sick,_by_Henry_Ossawa_Tanner</image:title><image:caption>Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)
Disciples Healing the Sick
oil on cardboard, ca.1930
Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-07-14T12:07:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/07/07/by-the-grace-of-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/512px-scandalizabantur_in_illo_et_dicebat_illis_jesus_non_est_propheta_sine_honore_nisi_in_patria_sua_igreja_da_misericordia_de_evora.png</image:loc><image:title>512px-Scandalizabantur_in_illo_et_dicebat_illis_Jesus_non_est_propheta_sine_honore_nisi_in_patria_sua_(Igreja_da_Misericórdia_de_Évora)</image:title><image:caption>António de Oliveira Bernardes
A Rejeição de Jesus em Nazaré ("Um profeta não deixa de receber honra, senão na sua terra"
18th century tile
Igreja da Misericórdia, Évora, Portugal</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-07-07T12:09:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/06/30/be-my-helper-o-lord/</loc><lastmod>2024-06-30T11:30:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/06/23/god-is-in-charge-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/512px-james_ensor_-_christ_calming_the_storm_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-James_Ensor_-_Christ_Calming_the_Storm_(1)</image:title><image:caption>James Ensor (1860-1949)
Christ Calming the Storm, ca.1906
Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-06-25T19:46:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/06/16/plant-a-seed-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2024-06-16T10:55:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/06/09/the-will-to-love-2/</loc><lastmod>2024-06-09T11:56:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/06/02/a-covenant-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/laura-james-love_one_another-225677281.jpg</image:loc><image:title>laura-james-love_one_another-225677281</image:title><image:caption>Laura James
Love One Another</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-06-02T23:31:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/05/26/led-by-the-spirit/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/512px-enea_campi_-_trindade.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Enea_Campi_-_Trindade</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-05-26T11:51:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/05/19/receive-and-give/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/pentecost_mosaic-409427_640.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pentecost_mosaic-409427_640</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-05-22T16:08:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/05/12/one-3/</loc><lastmod>2024-05-14T16:09:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/05/05/love-one-another-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/love-618238_640.jpg</image:loc><image:title>love-618238_640</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-05-05T12:21:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/04/28/remain-in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cucurbita_pepo_pumpkin_in_patch.png</image:loc><image:title>Cucurbita_pepo_pumpkin_in_patch</image:title><image:caption>Cucurbita pepo pumpkin in patch</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-04-28T12:17:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/04/21/carried-by-the-good-shepherd/</loc><lastmod>2024-04-21T12:36:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/04/14/beyond-suffering/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/peace_be_upon_you_the_appearance_of_christ_to_the_apostles._a._mironov.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Peace_be_upon_you!_The_Appearance_of_Christ_to_the_Apostles._A._Mironov</image:title><image:caption>Andrei Miranov (b.1975)
Peace Be Upon You!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-04-14T12:32:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/04/07/peace-be-with-you-5/</loc><lastmod>2024-04-07T12:45:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/03/31/feel-the-hush-and-hope/</loc><lastmod>2024-03-31T11:47:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/03/24/trust-gods-will/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/anthony_garden_of_gethsemane.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Anthony_Garden_of_Gethsemane</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/garden_of_gethsemane_and_view_of_jerusalem-_met_dp111356.jpg</image:loc><image:title>-Garden_of_Gethsemane_and_View_of_Jerusalem-_MET_DP111356</image:title><image:caption>John Anthony

Garden of Gethsemane and View of Jerusalem
Photograph, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 1860s
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-03-24T12:45:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/03/17/ego-emptying/</loc><lastmod>2024-03-17T12:42:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/03/10/the-gift-of-grace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/henry_ossawa_tanner_-_jesus_and_nicodemus.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_Jesus_and_nicodemus</image:title><image:caption>Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)
Jesus and Nicodemus, 1899</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-03-10T12:32:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/03/03/power-and-wisdom/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/route_91_-love-_memorial_rock.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Route_91_ Love _Memorial_Rock</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-03-03T13:18:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/02/25/transformed-by-gratitude/</loc><lastmod>2024-02-25T13:22:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/02/18/in-the-heart-of-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/briton_riviere_-_the_temptation_in_the_wilderness.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Briton_Rivière_-_The_Temptation_in_the_Wilderness</image:title><image:caption>Briton Rivière (1840–1920) 
The Temptation in the Wilderness
oil on canvas, 1898
Guildhall Art Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-02-18T13:25:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/02/11/make-me-clean-2/</loc><lastmod>2024-02-11T13:18:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/02/04/look-for-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2024-02-04T13:13:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/01/28/listen-5/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/jesus_teaches_in_the_synagogue.png</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_teaches_in_the_synagogue</image:title><image:caption>Alexandre Bida (1813-1895)
Jesus Teaches in the Synagogue, 1875</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-01-28T13:32:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/01/21/teach-me-o-lord/</loc><lastmod>2024-01-21T13:19:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/01/14/following-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/lamb_of_god.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lamb_of_God</image:title><image:caption>The Baptist points to the scroll on his cross that reads Ecce Agnus Dei (Behold the Lamb of God)
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-01-14T12:59:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2024/01/07/a-gift-for-you/</loc><lastmod>2024-01-07T13:23:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/12/31/clothed-in-love/</loc><lastmod>2023-12-31T12:50:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/12/24/love-makes-all-things-possible/</loc><lastmod>2023-12-24T23:57:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/12/17/embody-goodness/</loc><lastmod>2023-12-17T12:56:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/12/10/give-comfort/</loc><lastmod>2023-12-10T15:04:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/12/03/have-faith/</loc><lastmod>2023-12-03T13:15:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/11/26/honor-christ-in-each-other/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/montrealsoupkitchen1931.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MontrealSoupKitchen1931</image:title><image:caption>Montreal Soup Kitchen, 1931</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-11-26T13:38:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/11/19/christ-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rembrandt_-_la_parabole_des_talents_rf_4731_recto.jpg</image:loc><image:title>La parabole des talents</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
La parabole des talents</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-11-19T13:31:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/11/12/fill-up-with-wisdom/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/brooklyn_museum_-_the_wise_virgins_les_vierges_sages_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Wise_Virgins_(Les_vierges_sages)_-_James_Tissot</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-11-12T14:15:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/11/05/christ-my-teacher/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/brooklyn_museum_-_woe_unto_you_scribes_and_pharisees_malheur_a_vous_scribes_et_pharisiens_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Woe_unto_You,_Scribes_and_Pharisees_(Malheur_à_vous,_scribes_et_pharisiens)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Malheur à vous, scribes et pharisiens
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-11-05T12:57:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/10/29/love-thy-neighbor-3/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/aprop25bw-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AProp25bw-medium</image:title><image:caption>https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20180325712782055&amp;code=act&amp;RC=57566</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-10-29T12:40:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/10/22/love-belongs-to-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/study_for_-the_tribute_money-_met_60.44.10.verso_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Study_for_ The_Tribute_Money _MET_60.44.10.verso</image:title><image:caption>John Singleton Copley  (1738–1815)
Study for "The Tribute Money"
Black chalk and white-chalk heightening on blue laid paper, 1782
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-10-22T12:20:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/10/15/fear-no-evil/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/psalms_23-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Psalms_23-3</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-10-21T20:34:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/10/08/give-power-to-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/atelier_de_dessin_a_timimoun_011.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ATELIER_DE_DESSIN_A_TIMIMOUN_011</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/gelijkenis_van_de_pachters_van_de_wijngaard_rp-p-1896-a-19368-2156.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gelijkenis_van_de_pachters_van_de_wijngaard,_RP-P-1896-A-19368-2156</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-10-08T12:24:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/10/01/the-attitude-of-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mt_21-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mt_21</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902) 
The Chief Priests Ask Jesus by What Right Does He Act in This Way (Les princes des prêtres interrogent Jésus de quel droit il agit) 
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 1886-1894 
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mt_21.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mt_21</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
The Chief Priests Ask Jesus by What Right Does He Act in This Way (Les princes des prêtres interrogent Jésus de quel droit il agit)
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 1886-1894
Brooklyn Musem</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-10-05T20:06:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/09/24/be-good-to-all/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/512px-rembrandt_-_parable_of_the_laborers_in_the_vineyard-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Rembrandt_-_Parable_of_the_Laborers_in_the_Vineyard</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/512px-rembrandt_-_parable_of_the_laborers_in_the_vineyard.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Rembrandt_-_Parable_of_the_Laborers_in_the_Vineyard</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard
Oil on panel, 1637 
The Hermitage</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-09-25T13:50:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/09/17/release-enmity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mafa064-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Unforgiving Servant - Matthew 18:21-35</image:title><image:caption>The Unforgiving Servant - Matthew 18:21-35
JESUS MAFA. from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48396 [retrieved September 16, 2023]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact). </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-09-17T12:31:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/09/10/the-love-we-owe/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/brooklyn_museum_-_two_or_three_gathered_in_my_name_deux_ou_trois_personnes_assemblees_en_mon_nom_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Two_or_Three_Gathered_in_my_Name_(Deux_ou_trois_personnes_assemblées_en_mon_nom)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Deux ou trois personnes assemblées en mon nom
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-09-11T13:47:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/09/03/find-life/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/dp820260-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>63.76.2</image:title><image:caption>Belisario Corenzio (558–1646)
Study for the Decoration of an Apse: Saints and Angels in Glory with God the Father Above</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-09-03T19:20:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/08/27/eternal-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/caesarea_philippi_5418947236.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Caesarea_Philippi_(5418947236)</image:title><image:caption>Banias, Israel named for the Canaanite god Pan. Renamed Caesarea Philippi after Herod Philip, son of Herod the Great. This is the site of Peter's Confession--"Who do men say I am?"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-08-27T12:29:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/08/20/everyone-is-welcome-here/</loc><lastmod>2023-08-20T12:29:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/08/13/the-whisper-of-god/</loc><lastmod>2023-08-13T11:18:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/08/06/its-good-to-be-here/</loc><lastmod>2023-08-06T12:28:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/07/30/gods-kingdom-of-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mafa017-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mafa017-medium</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-07-31T15:46:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/07/23/gods-kingdom-of-love-and-kindness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/parsi_meswak_bengali_e0a6aae0a6bee0a6b0e0a78de0a6b8e0a6bf_e0a6aee0a787e0a6b8e0a693e0a6afe0a6bce0a6bee0a695_46640081035.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Parsi_meswak_(Bengali_পার্সি_মেসওয়াক)_(46640081035)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-07-23T12:34:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/07/16/seeds-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2023-07-17T17:25:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/07/09/yoked-to-jesus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/psalm145_8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Psalm145_8</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-07-09T20:08:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/07/02/welcome-god/</loc><lastmod>2023-07-02T13:08:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/06/25/god-answers-with-kindness/</loc><lastmod>2023-06-25T12:53:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/06/18/into-the-heart-of-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/herd_of_sheep_nino_f_scholten_tel_aviv_06_06.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Herd_of_sheep,_NINO_F_Scholten_Tel_Aviv_06_06</image:title><image:caption>Frank Scholten (1881-1942) 
Herd of sheep, NINO F Scholten Tel Aviv 06: 06 </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-06-18T12:34:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/06/11/remember-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2023-06-11T12:29:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/06/04/harmonic-power/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/domenico_piola_blessed_maria_vittoria_fornaris_vision_of_the_trinity_c._1670_nga_143822.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Domenico_Piola,_Blessed_Maria_Vittoria_Fornari's_Vision_of_the_Trinity,_c._1670,_NGA_143822</image:title><image:caption> 	
Domenico Piola
Blessed Maria Vittoria Fornari's Vision of the Trinity, circa 1670 
National Gallery of Art </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-06-04T13:01:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/05/28/filled-with-the-holy-spirit/</loc><lastmod>2023-05-29T13:49:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/05/21/take-refuge-in-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/brooklyn_museum_-_the_ascension_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Ascension_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Ascension of Jesus
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894 
Brooklyn Museum
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-05-22T15:47:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/05/14/in-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/carolina_wren_03389.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Carolina wren singing in Brooklyn Botanic Garden</image:title><image:caption> Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. Psalm 66</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-05-14T12:25:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/05/07/the-way-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2023-05-07T12:38:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/04/30/the-voice-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2023-05-02T01:07:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/04/23/the-path-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2023-04-23T12:58:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/04/16/the-grace-of-gods-will/</loc><lastmod>2023-04-16T12:53:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/04/09/peace-and-hope/</loc><lastmod>2023-04-09T12:34:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/04/02/practice-the-presence-of-god-2/</loc><lastmod>2023-04-06T14:04:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/03/26/free-to-love/</loc><lastmod>2023-03-27T17:21:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/03/19/the-beauty-of-the-human-heart/</loc><lastmod>2023-03-19T22:52:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/03/12/thirsting-for-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/lwowska_galeria_sztuki_-_jacek_malczewski_-_christ_and_the_samaritian_woman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lwowska_Galeria_Sztuki_-_Jacek_Malczewski_-_Christ_and_the_Samaritian_Woman</image:title><image:caption>Jacek Malczewski  (1854–1929)
Jésus et la Samaritaine, 1912
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-03-13T20:28:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/03/05/listen-for-peace/</loc><lastmod>2023-03-05T14:03:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/02/26/focus-on-god/</loc><lastmod>2023-03-05T13:46:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/02/19/kindness-and-mercy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/mercy_mount_of_the_beatitudes_galilee_israel_07.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mercy_Mount_of_the_Beatitudes,_Galilee,_Israel_07</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-02-20T21:08:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/02/12/look-into-the-depths/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/justice_mount_of_the_beatitudes_galilee_israel_24.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Justice_Mount_of_the_Beatitudes,_Galilee,_Israel_24</image:title><image:caption>Mount of the Beatitudes</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-02-14T18:48:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/02/05/to-do-list/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/holy_land_2016_p0361_mount_of_beatitudes_church_of_the_beatitudes_tabgha_view.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Holy_Land_2016_P0361_Mount_of_Beatitudes_Church_of_the_Beatitudes_Tabgha_view</image:title><image:caption>Mount of Beatitudes</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-02-06T20:54:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/01/29/blessed-with-love/</loc><lastmod>2023-02-01T17:26:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/01/22/follow-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/calling_james_john_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Calling_James_John_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Calling of Saint James and Saint John</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-01-22T15:16:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/01/15/transformed-by-gods-grace-and-peace/</loc><lastmod>2023-01-15T12:11:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/01/08/the-treasures-we-offer/</loc><lastmod>2023-01-08T22:38:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2023/01/01/the-blessing-of-god-with-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/mafa055-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Birth of Jesus - Luke 2:1-20</image:title><image:caption>The Birth of Jesus with Shepherds-</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-01-01T21:10:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/12/25/entrusted-with-the-care-of-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/swanson-shepherds-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Swanson-Shepherds-medium</image:title><image:caption>Swanson_Shepard, 1/24/06, 4:46 PM,  8C, 3423x10833 (3205+569), 150%, July30Curve, 1/100 s, R47.3, G43.5, B63.2</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-12-27T16:12:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/12/18/grace-and-peace-2/</loc><lastmod>2022-12-18T14:08:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/12/11/messengers-of-light-and-hope/</loc><lastmod>2022-12-11T21:32:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/12/04/a-vision-of-reverence/</loc><lastmod>2022-12-04T15:00:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/11/27/walk-in-the-light-of-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2022-11-28T14:35:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/11/20/remember-me-2/</loc><lastmod>2022-11-20T14:03:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/11/13/persevere-in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/jesus_in_sun.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_in_sun</image:title><image:caption>Pannai, Jaffna
Jesus in Sun, 2019</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-11-13T14:22:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/11/06/graced-by-hope/</loc><lastmod>2022-11-06T14:03:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/10/30/god-loves-all-things-that-are/</loc><lastmod>2022-10-30T13:22:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/10/23/dialogue-not-monologue/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/pharisee_clark_art_1981.63.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pharisee_Clark_Art_1981.63</image:title><image:caption>Dirck van Delen, Church Interior with the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke 18:9-14), 1653, Oil on panel. Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde, 1981. The Clark Art Institute, 1981.63.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-10-26T13:32:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/10/16/raise-your-heart-to-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/aaron_and_hur_holding_up_moses_hands.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Aaron_and_Hur_holding_up_Moses'_hands</image:title><image:caption>Aaron and Hur holding up Moses' hands, 1873</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-10-16T13:52:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/10/09/thank-you-lord/</loc><lastmod>2022-10-09T14:17:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/10/02/a-vision-of-faith-hope-and-love/</loc><lastmod>2022-10-02T14:04:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/09/25/pay-attention/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/512px-the_rich_man_in_hell_and_the_poor_lazarus_in_abrahams_lap_from_das_plenarium_met_dp849940.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-The_Rich_Man_in_Hell_and_the_Poor_Lazarus_in_Abraham's_Lap,_from_Das_Plenarium_MET_DP849940</image:title><image:caption>Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (c. 1480–1540)/Adam Petri (1454-1527
The Rich Man in Hell and the Poor Lazarus in Abraham's Lap, from Das Plenarium
woodcut, 1517</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-09-25T14:49:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/09/18/god-in-the-center/</loc><lastmod>2022-09-18T12:56:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/09/11/not-lost/</loc><lastmod>2022-09-11T12:41:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/09/04/carrying-my-own-cross/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/st_paul_and_onesimus_in_prison.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Saint Paul in a Roman prison cell with Onesimus.</image:title><image:caption>Saint Paul in a Roman prison cell with Onesimus.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-09-04T13:30:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/08/28/listen-4/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mafa065-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Poor invited to the feast - Luke 14:15-24</image:title><image:caption>The Poor invited to the feast - Luke 14:15-24</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-08-28T13:45:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/08/21/a-journey-of-kindness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/brooklyn_museum_-_he_went_through_the_villages_on_the_way_to_jerusalem_il_allait_par_les_villages_en_route_pour_jecc81rusalem_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_He_Went_Through_the_Villages_on_the_Way_to_Jerusalem_(Il_allait_par_les_villages_en_route_pour_Jérusalem)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-08-21T14:01:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/08/14/the-lord-stoops-toward-me/</loc><lastmod>2022-08-14T13:32:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/08/07/wounded-treasure/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/a-65d-copy_small.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A-65D copy_small</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-08-07T13:01:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/07/31/all-in-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/the_parable_of_the_rich_fool_1585_print_published_by_gerard_de_jode_s.ii_136367_prints_department_royal_library_of_belgium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_parable_of_the_rich_fool_1585_print_published_by_Gerard_de_Jode,_S.II_136367,_Prints_Department,_Royal_Library_of_Belgium</image:title><image:caption>Gerard de Jode (1509-1591)
The Parable of the Rich Fool, 1585
Royal Library of Belgium</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-07-31T13:16:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/07/24/seek-gods-presence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ask_and_ye_shall_receive._jan_luyken_etching._bowyer_bible.gif</image:loc><image:title>ask_and_ye_shall_receive._Jan_Luyken_etching._Bowyer_Bible</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-07-25T14:20:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/07/17/beside-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2022-07-17T16:56:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/07/10/being-neighbor-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/luke10_27.png</image:loc><image:title>Luke10_27</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-07-10T12:34:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/07/03/peace-carriers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/mafa044-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Ascension - Luke 24:50-51</image:title><image:caption>The Ascension - Luke 24:50-51</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-07-03T05:17:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/06/26/be-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/512px-farmers_palestine_1912.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Farmers_palestine_1912</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-06-26T13:14:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/06/19/fed-by-love/</loc><lastmod>2022-06-20T12:44:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/06/12/heart-energy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/lighting_from_the_heart_204769479.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Lighting_From_The_Heart_(204769479)</image:title><image:caption>João Cautela
Lighting from the Heart, 2011
"With all the lights in the world turning off, I'm hoping the ones in our hearts keep lighting forever.."</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-06-12T12:35:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/06/05/spirit-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2022-06-05T12:54:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/05/29/we-are-one/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/unity_symbol.png</image:loc><image:title>Unity_Symbol</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-05-29T12:55:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/05/22/peace-is-a-choice/</loc><lastmod>2022-05-23T18:58:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/05/15/practice-love-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/john13_35.png</image:loc><image:title>John13_35</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-05-15T22:49:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/05/08/we-are-gods-people/</loc><lastmod>2022-05-14T23:30:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/05/01/come-have-breakfast/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/brooklyn_museum_-_christ_appears_on_the_shore_of_lake_tiberias_apparition_du_christ_sur_les_bords_du_lac_de_tibecc81riade_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Christ_Appears_on_the_Shore_of_Lake_Tiberias_(Apparition_du_Christ_sur_les_bords_du_lac_de_Tibériade)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Apparition du Christ sur les bords du lac de Tibériade
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-05-01T13:59:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/04/24/peace-be-with-you-4/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/the_incredulity_of_thomas-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_incredulity_of_Thomas</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-04-25T17:39:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/04/17/the-power-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2022-04-17T13:25:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/04/10/a-step-towards-holiness/</loc><lastmod>2022-04-10T13:10:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/04/03/filled-with-the-joy-of-kindness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/screen-shot-2022-04-03-at-9.05.09-am.png</image:loc><image:title>Psalm126_3</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-04-03T13:23:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/03/27/god-answers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/prodigal_son_3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Prodigal_Son_3</image:title><image:caption>(Hans) Sebald Beham(1500-1550) Die Geschichte des verlorenen Sohnes/The Prodigal Son
Etching, 1538
Private Collection</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-27T13:28:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/03/20/cultivate-kindness-and-compassion/</loc><lastmod>2022-03-20T22:06:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/03/13/pray-for-peace-and-healing/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/psalm_27_1a-2.png</image:loc><image:title>Psalm_27_1a</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-13T07:39:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/03/06/tempted-from-within/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/psalm91_15b.png</image:loc><image:title>Psalm91_15b</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-06T14:53:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/02/27/a-store-of-love-and-goodness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sirach27_4.png</image:loc><image:title>Sirach27_4</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-27T14:24:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/02/20/the-golden-rule/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/golden_rule_luke.png</image:loc><image:title>Golden_Rule_Luke</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-20T13:47:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/02/13/blessed-are-we-3/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/mount_of_the_beatitudes_galilee_israel_04.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mount_of_the_Beatitudes_Galilee_Israel_04</image:title><image:caption>Mount of the Beatitudes
Galilee</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-13T15:41:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/02/06/god-is-here/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/fishing_with_cast-net_from_a_boat_near_kozhikode_beach.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fishing with the Cast-net</image:title><image:caption>Fishing with the Cast-net</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-06T15:40:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/01/30/a-more-excellent-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bleeding_heart.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bleeding_heart</image:title><image:caption>Bleeding heart</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-30T14:44:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/01/23/we-belong/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/512px-brooklyn_museum_-_jesus_unrolls_the_book_in_the_synagogue_jecc81sus_dans_la_synagogue_decc81roule_le_livre_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Unrolls_the_Book_in_the_Synagogue_(Jésus_dans_la_synagogue_déroule_le_livre)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1835-1902)
 Jésus dans la synagogue déroule le livre
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-23T17:07:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/01/16/the-spirit-of-love-and-goodness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/jan_cossiers_-_the_wedding_at_cana_jesus_blesses_the_water.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jan_Cossiers_-_The_wedding_at_Cana,_Jesus_blesses_the_water</image:title><image:caption>Jan Cossiers (1600-1671)
The Wedding at Cana
Oil on canvas, between 1641 and 1660
Sint-Waldetrudiskerk </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-16T14:40:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/01/09/comfort-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/baptism_act0119-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Baptism of Christ</image:title><image:caption>	Zelenka, Dave. Baptism of Christ, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56385 [retrieved January 9, 2022]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptism-of-Christ.jpg.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-09T14:57:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2022/01/02/treasures-of-the-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/adoration_of_the_magi_emmanuel_tzanes.png</image:loc><image:title>Adoration_of_the_Magi_Emmanuel_Tzanes</image:title><image:caption>Emmanuel Tzanes (1610-1690)
Adoration of the Magi
Egg tempera on wood, 1667
The Loverdos Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-02T14:19:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/12/26/choose-kindness-and-gentleness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mafa013-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mafa013-medium</image:title><image:caption>Jesus among the teachers, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48280 [retrieved December 26, 2021]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-26T15:03:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/12/19/blessed-are-we-2/</loc><lastmod>2021-12-19T14:43:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/12/12/god-in-our-midst/</loc><lastmod>2021-12-12T15:57:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/12/05/with-joy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/st._john_the_baptist_met_dp891007.jpg</image:loc><image:title>St._John_the_Baptist_Met_DP891007</image:title><image:caption>Jacques Callot (1592-1635)
S. Jean Baptiste (St. John the Baptist), June 24th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année, 1636
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-05T16:08:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/11/28/a-wider-deeper-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/tree_of_jesse_icon_17_c..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tree_of_Jesse_icon_(17_c.)</image:title><image:caption>Tree of Jesse
Icon, 17th c.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-28T14:12:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/11/21/testify-to-love-and-goodness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/alpha_an_omega_bech-kleinmacher-101.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Alpha_an_Omega,_Bech-Kleinmacher-101</image:title><image:caption>Fënster iwwer dem Portal vun der Bech-Maacher Kierch
25 August 2018</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-22T14:46:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/11/14/god-is-in-charge/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/fig_tree_branches_grow_khenifra_morocco.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig_tree_branches_grow,_Khenifra,_Morocco</image:title><image:caption>Amine Charnoubi
Fig tree branches grow
Khenifra, Morocco, 2020</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-16T17:59:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/11/07/all-i-have/</loc><lastmod>2021-11-11T14:31:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/10/31/one-with-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/love_liebe.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lovve</image:title><image:caption>Friedrich Böhringer Chrome steel letters on a rusty steel plate
3 May 2009 </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-31T14:47:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/10/24/called-to-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the_healing_of_blind_bartimaeus_by_fernando_gallego_workshop_detail_1480-1488_oil_on_panel_-_university_of_arizona_museum_of_art_-_university_of_arizona_-_tucson_az_-_dsc08347.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Healing_of_Blind_Bartimaeus_by_Fernando_Gallego_workshop,_detail,_1480-1488,_oil_on_panel_-_University_of_Arizona_Museum_of_Art_-_University_of_Arizona_-_Tucson,_AZ_-_DSC08347</image:title><image:caption>Workshop of Fernando Gallego (1440-1507)
The Healing of the Blind Bartimaeus, detail
oil on panel, 1480-1488
University of Arizona Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-24T15:20:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/10/17/we-know-how/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/mm-1-15.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MM-1-15</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-17T14:49:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/10/10/a-kingdom-of-vulnerability/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the_wheel_of_wisdom_a_magical_treatise_19th_c_wellcome_l0037437.jpg</image:loc><image:title>L0037437 The wheel of wisdom, a magical treatise, 19th C</image:title><image:caption>The wheel of wisdom, 19th C
Wellcome Library, London. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-10T13:55:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/10/03/precious-innocence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/khost_children_in_2009.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Khost_children_in_2009</image:title><image:caption>Afghan children wait to receive basic medical care and clothing on Camp Clark, Khowst province, Afghanistan, Dec. 22. (Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-03T15:35:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/09/26/patience-kindness-love/</loc><lastmod>2021-09-26T16:17:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/09/19/sow-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/refugee_camp_by_t._hunter.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Refugee_Camp_by_T._Hunter</image:title><image:caption>Tracy Hunter
Refugee Camp</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-09-19T16:08:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/09/12/messiah-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2021-09-12T19:19:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/09/05/listen-and-hear/</loc><lastmod>2021-09-05T20:49:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/08/29/clean-inside-and-out/</loc><lastmod>2021-08-29T16:13:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/08/22/we-will-serve-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2021-08-22T14:12:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/08/15/magnified/</loc><lastmod>2021-08-15T15:00:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/08/08/kindred/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/compassion.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Compassion</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-08T15:07:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/08/01/fed-with-love/</loc><lastmod>2021-08-01T15:13:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/07/25/live-in-gentleness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/feeding_the_multitude-bibliothecc80que_nationale_de_france.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Feeding_the_multitude-Bibliothèque_nationale_de_France</image:title><image:caption>Feeding the multitude
Bibliothèque nationale de France</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-25T14:11:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/07/18/perpetual-student/</loc><lastmod>2021-08-15T15:01:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/07/11/be-the-kindness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/raphael_-_studies_of_the_heads_of_two_apostles_and_of_their_hands_wa1846.209.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Raphael_-_Studies_of_the_heads_of_two_apostles_and_of_their_hands,_WA1846.209</image:title><image:caption>Raphael (1483-1520)
Studies of the heads of two apostles and of their hands


black chalk over pounced underdrawing with some white heightening on laid paper, c. 1519 - 1520 
Oxford, Ashmolean</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-11T14:28:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/07/04/without-judgment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/khalil_raad_carpenters_in_nazareth.png</image:loc><image:title>Khalil_Raad,_Carpenters_in_Nazareth</image:title><image:caption>Khalil Raad (1854-1957)
Carpenters in Nazareth
1 January 1920</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-04T15:06:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/06/27/focus-on-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2021-06-27T15:14:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/06/20/sleep-when-youre-tired/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/jesus_storm.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_storm</image:title><image:caption>Jesus being awakened during a tempest on the Sea of Galilee, from a Mir’at al-quds of Father Jerome Xavier (Spanish, 1549–1617)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-20T14:37:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/06/13/give-thanks/</loc><lastmod>2021-06-14T18:02:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/06/06/call-on-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/corpus_christi_puenteareas_2017_-_35263481301.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Corpus_Christi_Puenteareas_2017_-_35263481301</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-06T12:57:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/05/30/with-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2020._herbarium._oxalis._img-009.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2020._Herbarium._Oxalis._img-009</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-30T15:15:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/05/23/the-spirit-of-truth/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/512px-pentecost_mosaic.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Pentecost_mosaic</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-23T14:06:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/05/16/pray-in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/women_prayer_d8b5d984d8a7d8a9_d8a7d984d986d8b3d8a7d8a1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Women_Prayer_صلاة_النساء</image:title><image:caption>Women in Prayer 
2021</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-16T14:20:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/05/09/simply-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/helping_hand_90940005.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Helping_Hand_(90940005)</image:title><image:caption>Helping Hand</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-09T15:12:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/05/02/entwined-with-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/santa_barbara_and_montecito_past_and_present_1920_14590826028.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Santa_Barbara_and_Montecito,_past_and_present_(1920)_(14590826028)</image:title><image:caption>amous grape vine in Montecito, 1876 
 New York Public Library</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-02T14:14:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/04/25/formed-by-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/palestine_shepherd.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Palestine_Shepherd</image:title><image:caption>Palestine shepherd laying the sheep on his shoulders
First World War</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-25T14:00:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/04/18/lets-accept-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/512px-fritz_von_uhde_-_der_gang_nach_emmaus_1891.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Fritz_von_Uhde_-_Der_Gang_nach_Emmaus_(1891)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-18T14:26:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/04/11/peace-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/franciszek_smuglewicz_-_jesus_and_doubting_thomas_i_-_mp_3435_-_national_museum_in_warsaw.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie ;;;fot.</image:title><image:caption>Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745 – 1807)
Doubting Thomas
oil on canvas, ca.1800
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-11T14:27:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/04/04/hope/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/512px-caravaggiomagdelenegrieving.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-CaravaggioMagdeleneGrieving</image:title><image:caption>Caravaggio
Mary Magdalene Grieving
1605-1606</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-04T14:38:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/03/28/the-last-words/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/perpignan_cathedral_chapelle_decc81vot_christ2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Perpignan_Cathedral_Chapelle_Dévot_Christ(2)</image:title><image:caption>Chapelle Dévôt-Christ at Perpignan Cathedral, 14th century crucifix</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-28T19:49:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/03/21/dying-to-live/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/512px-vincent_van_gogh_-_wheat_field_with_cypresses_-_google_art_project.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Vincent_van_Gogh_-_Wheat_Field_with_Cypresses_-_Google_Art_Project</image:title><image:caption>Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Field of Wheat with Cypresses
oil on canvas, 1889
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-21T14:17:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/03/14/god-so-loves-us/</loc><lastmod>2021-03-14T14:39:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/03/07/the-wisdom-to-trust/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/256px-benvenuto_tisi_da_garofalo_c.1481-1559_-_christ_driving_the_money_changers_from_the_temple_-_ng_32_-_national_galleries_of_scotland.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Benvenuto_Tisi_da_Garofalo_(c.1481-1559)_-_Christ_Driving_the_Money_Changers_from_the_Temple_-_NG_32_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland</image:title><image:caption>Benvenuto Tisi (1481-1559)
Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple
between circa 1540 and circa 1550 
National Galleries of Scotland</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-07T15:11:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/02/28/to-know-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2021-02-28T15:05:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/02/21/angels-of-compassion/</loc><lastmod>2021-02-25T22:01:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/02/14/make-me-clean/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/512px-christ_and_leper_man.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Christ_and_leper_man</image:title><image:caption>Christ and the Leper
Mosaic in Monreale</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-02-14T15:50:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/02/07/looking-for-jesus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/healing_of_simons_mother-in-law.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Healing_of_Simons_mother-in-law</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
The Healing of Peter's Mother-in-law (La guérison de la belle-mère de Pierre)
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 1886-1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-02-07T14:29:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/01/31/in-the-name-of-jesus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/151_life_of_christ_phillip_medhurst_collection_4262_christ_meets_unclean_spirit_mark_1_.23-26_poussin.jpg</image:loc><image:title>151_Life_of_Christ_Phillip_Medhurst_Collection_4262_Christ_meets_unclean_spirit_Mark_1_.23-26_Poussin</image:title><image:caption>Poussin
A print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations in the possession of Revd. Philip De Vere at St. George’s Court, Kidderminster, England</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-01-31T16:37:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/01/24/moving-closer/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/roeping_van_petrus_en_andreas_rp-p-ob-2151.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Roeping_van_Petrus_en_Andreas,_RP-P-OB-2151</image:title><image:caption>Jesus calls Peter and Andrew</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-01-27T00:04:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/01/17/honor-and-respect/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/holy-spirit-clip-art-05.gif</image:loc><image:title>Holy-Spirit-Clip-Art-05</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-01-17T15:15:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/01/10/generous-in-forgiveness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/256px-gagarin_krescheniehristovo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Gagarin_KreschenieHristovo</image:title><image:caption>Grigory Gaagarin (1810-1893)
Baptism of Christ</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-01-10T15:20:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2021/01/03/gods-glorious-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/512px-edward_burne-jones_star_of_bethlehem.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Edward_Burne-Jones_Star_of_Bethlehem</image:title><image:caption>Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
The Star of Bethlehem
watercolor and gouache, 1890</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-01-03T15:50:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/12/27/family-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/the_holy_family_in_the_carpenters_shop_from_the_philippines_18th-19th_century_wood_honolulu_museum_of_art.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Holy_Family_in_the_Carpenter's_Shop_from_the_Philippines,_18th-19th_century,_wood,_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art</image:title><image:caption>The Holy Family in the Carpenter Shop
Honolulu Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-12-27T15:31:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/12/20/god-is-with-us-3/</loc><lastmod>2020-12-20T15:42:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/12/13/anointed-with-love/</loc><lastmod>2020-12-13T15:50:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/12/06/comfort/</loc><lastmod>2020-12-06T15:34:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/11/29/the-way-of-the-lord/</loc><lastmod>2020-11-29T15:23:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/11/22/feed-the-hungry/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/512px-feeding_the_hungry_mouths_at_euromaidan_in_kiev.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Feeding_the_hungry_mouths_at_Euromaidan_in_Kiev</image:title><image:caption>Ivan Bandura
Feeding the hungry mouths at Euromaidan in Kiev</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-22T15:39:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/11/15/countercultural/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/256px-parable_of_the_talents.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Parable_of_the_Talents</image:title><image:caption>Parable of the Talents
between 1400 and 1500 </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-15T21:36:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/11/08/seek-wisdom/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/diya_oil_lamp.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Diya_oil_lamp</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-08T15:12:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/11/01/blessed-are-we/</loc><lastmod>2020-11-01T15:21:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/10/25/practice-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/brooklyn_museum_-_the_pharisees_question_jesus_les_pharisiens_questionnent_jecc81sus_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Pharisees_Question_Jesus_(Les_pharisiens_questionnent_Jésus)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Les pharisiens questionnent Jésus
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-25T14:30:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/10/18/whose-image-is-this/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/512px-variety_of_male_human_faces_collage.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Variety_of_male_human_faces_(collage)</image:title><image:caption>College di razze umane individuate dalla vecchia tassonomia
2017</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-18T13:49:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/10/11/a-garment-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/aldersbach_pfarrkirche_-_vorhalle_3_fresko_mahl.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Aldersbach_Pfarrkirche_-_Vorhalle_3_Fresko_Mahl</image:title><image:caption>Aldersbach abbey ( Lower Bavaria ). Mary Assumption parish church: Narthex - Fresco (1760) illustrating the Gospel of Matthew 22, 7: "See, the meal is ready, come!"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-11T14:13:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/10/04/with-honor-and-grace/</loc><lastmod>2020-10-04T21:05:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/09/27/turn-towards-the-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ralph_stackpole_worship.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ralph_Stackpole_"Worship"</image:title><image:caption>Ralph Stackpole (1885-1973)
Worship, 1915</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-27T14:20:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/09/20/seek-peace-and-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/the_parable_of_the_workers_in_the_vineyard_1585_print_published_by_gerard_de_jode_s.i_1064_prints_department_royal_library_of_belgium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Parable_of_the_workers_in_the_vineyard_1585_print_published_by_Gerard_de_Jode,_S.I_1064,_Prints_Department,_Royal_Library_of_Belgium</image:title><image:caption>Gerard de Jode (ca.1511-1591)
The Parable of the workers in the vineyard, 1585
Royal Library of Belgium</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-26T21:08:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/09/13/healing-into-forgiveness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/stpeter00.159.229_ps2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>StPeter00.159.229_PS2</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902) 
Saint Peter (Saint Pierre), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-13T18:09:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/09/06/gathered-together/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/640px-prayer_before_leaving.jpg</image:loc><image:title>640px-Prayer_before_leaving</image:title><image:caption>Joe Zachs
Prayer before leaving for church for a first communion.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-06T13:41:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/08/30/safe-in-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/512px-wooden_cross_on_the_ridge_between_tguma_and_pracc88zer_hocc88hi_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Wooden_cross_on_the_ridge_between_Tguma_and_Präzer_Höhi_(2)</image:title><image:caption>Dominicus Johannes Bergsma
Wooden cross on the ridge between Tguma and Präzer Höhi, 2017</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-30T14:45:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/08/23/the-key-is-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/brooklyn_museum_-_the_calling_of_saint_peter_and_saint_andrew_vocation_de_saint_pierre_et_saint_andrecc81_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Calling_of_Saint_Peter_and_Saint_Andrew_(Vocation_de_Saint_Pierre_et_Saint_André)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
The Calling of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894 
Brookline Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-23T15:35:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/08/16/when-the-demons-infiltrate/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jesus_canannite_woman-e1597590740824.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_Canannite_Woman</image:title><image:caption>Jesus and the Canaanite Woman
Ilyas Basim Khuri Bazzi Rahib (Egyptian, active ca. 1684)
ink and pigments on laid paper </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-16T15:30:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/08/09/eager/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/toros_roslin_gospels_jesus_walks_on_the_sea_walters_manuscript_w.539_fol._68r.jpg</image:loc><image:title>T'oros_Roslin_Gospels,_Jesus_walks_on_the_sea,_Walters_Manuscript_W.539,_fol._68r</image:title><image:caption>T’oros Roslin, ca.1210-1270
Jesus Walks on the Sea, 1262</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-09T15:09:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/08/02/fed-with-kindness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/morning_repast.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Morning_repast</image:title><image:caption>Morning Repast."Loaves and Fishes."</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-02T14:31:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/07/26/a-storeroom-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fisherman_throwing_the_net_in_the_arabian_sea.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fisherman_throwing_the_net_in_the_Arabian_sea</image:title><image:caption>Dilip V Nerlikar
The fisherman active in Vengurla, Maharshtra, India, 2017</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-26T14:57:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/07/19/those-who-are-just-must-be-kind-wisdom-1219/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/512px-the_parable_of_the_leaven_the_parables_of_our_lord_and_saviour_jesus_christ_met_dp835792.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-The_Parable_of_the_Leaven_(The_Parables_of_Our_Lord_and_Saviour_Jesus_Christ)_MET_DP835792</image:title><image:caption>John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
The Parable of the Leaven, 1864
Wood engraving; proof on India paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-19T14:43:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/07/12/rich-fruit/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/birds_from_the_parable_of_the_sower.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Birds_from_the_parable_of_the_sower</image:title><image:caption>White, Ellen G., Christ's Object Lessons. Oakland, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1900, p.42</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-12T14:00:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/07/05/labor-in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/jesus_nacc8ar_jerusalem_x_stikacc8a_erik_hansson.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_når_Jerusalem_x_Stikå_Erik_Hansson</image:title><image:caption>Stikå Erik Hansson (1823-1897)
Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem, 1843</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-05T15:14:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/06/28/follow-the-way-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/512px-leonardo_da_vinci_attrib_-_christ_carrying_the_cross.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Leonardo_da_Vinci_(attrib)_-_Christ_carrying_the_Cross</image:title><image:caption>Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Christ Carrying the Cross</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-28T14:02:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/06/21/do-not-be-afraid-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/passer_domesticus_-_house_sparrow_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Passer_domesticus_-_House_sparrow_01</image:title><image:caption>Zeynel Cebeci
A male house sparrow (Passer domesticus') at Eskibaraj Dam Lake, Adana - Turkey.
7 November 2018,</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-21T14:27:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/06/14/god-reminders/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/mafa018-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mafa018-medium</image:title><image:caption>JESUS MAFA. Jesus multiplies the loaves and fish, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48287 [retrieved June 14, 2020]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact). </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-14T13:31:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/06/07/live-in-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/512px-retaule_de_la_trinitat_1489._museu_rigau_perpinyacc80_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Retaule_de_la_Trinitat_1489._Museu_Rigau_Perpinyà_2</image:title><image:caption>Retaule de la Trinitat. Museu d'Art Jacint Rigau, Perpinyà (1489)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-07T12:47:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/05/31/the-breath-of-love-and-compassion/</loc><lastmod>2020-05-31T15:14:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/05/24/hear-me-o-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/512px-philip_galle_after_jan_van_der_straet_the_meeting_of_the_apostles_and_the_women_in_the_upper_room_nga_54300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Philip_Galle_after_Jan_van_der_Straet,_The_Meeting_of_the_Apostles_and_the_Women_in_the_Upper_Room,_NGA_54300</image:title><image:caption>Philip Galle after Jan van der Straet
The Meeting of the Apostles and the Women
in the Upper Room 
engraving
National Gallery of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-05-24T18:19:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/05/17/entwined/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ruins_of_samaria.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ruins_of_Samaria</image:title><image:caption>A street of Pillars at the ruins of the city Samaria
PALÄSTINA und das OSTOJORDANLAND (Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart, 1925)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-05-17T13:25:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/05/10/the-word-is-love-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/512px-western_bluebird_-_stierch_-_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Western_Bluebird_-_Stierch_-_2</image:title><image:caption>Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-05-10T14:56:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/05/03/abundant-life/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/thelordismyshepherd2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TheLordIsMyShepherd2</image:title><image:caption>Set of thirteen select slides of shepherd life, illustrating the Twenty Third Psalm. "He restoreth my soul"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-05-03T21:07:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/04/26/practice-the-presence-of-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/de_maaltijd_te_emmaucc88s_rp-p-bi-5342.jpg</image:loc><image:title>De_maaltijd_te_Emmaüs,_RP-P-BI-5342</image:title><image:caption>Jacobus Buys
The supper at Emmaus: Christ is recognized while blessing or breaking the bread, 1765
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-04-26T19:22:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/04/19/peace-be-with-you-3/</loc><lastmod>2020-04-19T15:02:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/04/12/rejoice-and-be-glad/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/resurrection_24.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Resurrection_(24)</image:title><image:caption>Icon of the Resurrection</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-04-12T21:30:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/04/05/becoming-obedient/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/brooklyn_museum_-_jesus_before_pilate_first_interview_jecc81sus_devant_pilate._premier_entretien._-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Before_Pilate_First_Interview_(Jésus_devant_Pilate._Premier_entretien)._-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>Jesus Before Pilate, James Tissot (1836-1902)
First Interview (Jésus devant Pilate. Premier entretien).
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-04-05T19:25:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/03/29/to-comfort/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/vangoghmuseum-s0169v1962-800.jpg</image:loc><image:title>vangoghmuseum-s0169V1962-800</image:title><image:caption> Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, May 1890
oil on paper, 50 cm x 65.5 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-29T21:46:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/03/22/i-fear-no-evil/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thelordismyshepherd.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TheLordIsMyShepherd</image:title><image:caption>American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department, photographer
Set of thirteen select slides of shepherd life, illustrating the Twenty Third Psalm. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures"  </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-22T15:51:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/03/15/who-is-in-charge/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/jesus_and_samaritan_at_jacobs_well.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_and_Samaritan_at_Jacob's_well</image:title><image:caption>N. Courier
Christ and the woman of Samaria at Jacob's Well
between 1835 and 1836</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-15T16:08:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/03/08/transfigured-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/spitzers_orion2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Spitzer's_Orion2</image:title><image:caption>The Inc</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/spitzers_orion-e1583679872107.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Spitzer's_Orion</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-08T15:22:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/03/01/nonviolent-authority/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/brooklyn_museum_-_jesus_tempted_in_the_wilderness_jecc81sus_tentecc81_dans_le_decc81sert_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Tempted_in_the_Wilderness_(Jésus_tenté_dans_le_désert)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Jésus tenté dans le désert
gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-01T16:33:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/02/23/the-bad-and-the-good/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the_sermon_on_the_mount_kacc81roly_ferenczy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Sermon_on_the_Mount_Károly_Ferenczy</image:title><image:caption>Károly Ferenczy (February 8, 1862 – March 18, 1917)
Sermon on the Mountain
oil on canvas, 1896
Hungarian National Gallery
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-23T15:06:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/02/16/my-choice/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/persian_depiction_of_jesus_-_sermon_on_the_mount.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Persian_depiction_of_Jesus_-_Sermon_on_the_Mount</image:title><image:caption>Persian Jesus (Isa) miniature of Sermon on the Moun</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-16T15:13:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/02/09/add-flavor/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/georg_pencz_to_feed_the_hungry_nga_9514.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Georg_Pencz,_To_Feed_the_Hungry,_NGA_9514</image:title><image:caption>George Pencz (ca.1500-1550)
To Feed the Hungry
Engraving
National Galler of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-09T16:19:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/02/02/gifts-of-age/</loc><lastmod>2020-02-02T16:38:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/01/26/darkness-dispelled-by-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/lecc81onard_gaultier_follow_me_and_i_will_make_you_fishers_of_men_probably_c._1576-1580_nga_48119.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Léonard_Gaultier,_Follow_Me_and_I_will_Make_You_Fishers_of_Men,_probably_c._1576-1580,_NGA_48119</image:title><image:caption>Léonard Gaultier
Follow Me and I will Make You Fishers of Men
engraving, ate 	probably c. 1576/1580
Washington, National Gallery of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-26T16:27:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/01/19/grace-and-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/saint_john_the_baptist_-_saint_john_the_baptist_-_google_art_project.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Saint_John_the_Baptist_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project</image:title><image:caption>Saint John the Baptist
Panel (1490-1500)
Milano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-19T15:44:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/01/12/blessed-with-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bronze_art_-_caswell_sculpture_-_baptism.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bronze_Art_-_Caswell_Sculpture_-_Baptism</image:title><image:caption>Rip Caswell
Baptism of Christ</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-12T16:48:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2020/01/05/pay-homage/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/the_magi_follow_the_star_from_a_mirror_of_holiness_mirat_al-quds_of_father_jerome_xavier_-_2005.145.5_-_cleveland_museum_of_art.tif_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Magi_Follow_the_Star,_from_a_Mirror_of_Holiness_(Mir'at_al-quds)_of_Father_Jerome_Xavier_-_2005.145.5_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif</image:title><image:caption>Payag
The Magi Follow the Star, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper, between 1602 and 1604
Cleveland Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-05T17:49:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/12/29/leaving-home/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/flight_into_egypt.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flight_into_Egypt</image:title><image:caption>"Flight into Egypt", France, 17th century; polychromed oakwood; collection of the Musée L, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve; Belgium</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-12-29T16:35:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/12/22/blessed-by-the-light/</loc><lastmod>2019-12-22T16:22:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/12/15/patience/</loc><lastmod>2019-12-15T15:40:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/12/08/harmony-not-uniformity/</loc><lastmod>2019-12-08T21:44:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/12/01/stay-awake/</loc><lastmod>2019-12-01T16:50:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/11/24/jesus-remember-me/</loc><lastmod>2019-11-24T16:24:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/11/17/quiet-amid-the-frenzy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/hermanoleon_jesus.jpg</image:loc><image:title>HermanoLeon_Jesus</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-11-17T17:16:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/11/10/alive/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/god_is_love.jpg</image:loc><image:title>God_is_love</image:title><image:caption>God Is Love
SashaLee19 [&lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 4.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:God_is_love.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-11-10T16:53:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/11/03/perspective/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/brooklyn_museum_-_zacchaeus_in_the_sycamore_awaiting_the_passage_of_jesus_zachecc81e_sur_le_sycomore_attendant_le_passage_de_jecc81sus_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Zacchaeus_in_the_Sycamore_Awaiting_the_Passage_of_Jesus_(Zachée_sur_le_sycomore_attendant_le_passage_de_Jésus)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Zachée sur le sycomore attendant le passage de Jésus
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-11-11T12:21:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/10/27/who-am-i-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/millaisthe_pharisee_and_the_publican_tate.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MillaisThe_Pharisee_and_the_publican_Tate</image:title><image:caption>John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
The Pharisee and the Publican, 1864
The Tate</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-10-27T16:31:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/10/20/instruments-of-justice/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/the_unjust_judge_and_the_importunate_widow_the_parables_of_our_lord_and_saviour_jesus_christ_met_dp835791.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Unjust_Judge_and_the_Importunate_Widow_(The_Parables_of_Our_Lord_and_Saviour_Jesus_Christ)_MET_DP835791</image:title><image:caption>John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow
Wood engraving; proof on India paper, 1864
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-10-20T18:45:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/10/13/thank-you-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/brooklyn_museum_-_the_healing_of_ten_lepers_guecc81rison_de_dix_lecc81preux_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Healing_of_Ten_Lepers_(Guérison_de_dix_lépreux)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Guérison de dix lépreux
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-10-13T16:08:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/10/06/vision-of-love-and-unity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/the_parable_of_the_mustard_seed_33261749704.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Parable_of_the_Mustard_Seed_(33261749704)</image:title><image:caption>Sheila Sund </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-10-06T13:23:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/09/29/noticed/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/731px-parable_of_the_rich_man_and_lazarus_lawrence_w._ladd.jpg</image:loc><image:title>731px-Parable_of_the_Rich_Man_and_Lazarus_(Lawrence_W._Ladd)</image:title><image:caption>Lawrence W. Ladd   (fl.1865-1895)
watercolor and graphite on paper, ca.1880</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-09-29T14:56:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/09/22/walk-humbly/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/nomad_prayer.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nomad_prayer</image:title><image:caption>Kazimierz Nowak (1897-1937)?
Nomad Prayer</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-09-22T14:07:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/09/15/vulnerable/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/lenfant_prodigue.jpg</image:loc><image:title>L'Enfant_prodigue</image:title><image:caption>Sébastien Dusart
L'Enfant prodigue, de Félix Desruelles, Valenciennes (1899)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-09-15T14:43:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/09/08/the-cross-of-grief/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/grief_-_old_woman_70-ies.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Grief_-_old_woman_(70-ies)</image:title><image:caption>Ion Chibzii 
"Grief" (70th years)
12 June 2011, 20:50</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-09-09T19:19:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/09/01/humility/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/violet_viola_sp._-_kitchener_ontario_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Violet_(Viola_sp.)_-_Kitchener,_Ontario_01</image:title><image:caption>Ryan Hodnett
Violet (Viola sp.) in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
13 May 2018</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-09-01T14:48:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/08/25/through-the-gate/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/a_narrow_gate_on_the_weavers_way_to_halvergate_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1480196.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A_narrow_gate_on_the_Weavers_Way_to_Halvergate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1480196</image:title><image:caption>Evelyn Simak
A narrow gate on the Weavers Way to Halvergate
9 September 2009</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-08-25T05:49:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/08/18/heart-of-fire/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/800px-herz_aus_feuer.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-Herz_aus_Feuer</image:title><image:caption>Steffen Papenbroock
"Heart of Fire"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-08-18T14:50:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/08/11/fear-disarmed/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/flock_of_sheep_grazing_on_stubble_at_ohalloran_hill_near_adelaide_sa_1992.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flock_of_sheep_grazing_on_stubble_at_OHalloran_Hill_near_Adelaide_SA_1992</image:title><image:caption>Flock of sheep grazing on stubble at O'Halloran Hill near Adelaide, SA. 1992.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-08-11T14:55:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/08/04/all-shall-be-well/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/vampirelandlord1882.jpg</image:loc><image:title>VampireLandlord1882</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-08-04T15:24:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/07/28/teach-me-how/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/512px-brooklyn_museum_-_the_lords_prayer_le_pater_noster_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Lord's_Prayer_(Le_Pater_Noster)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Le "Pater Noster"
 opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894 
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-07-28T14:08:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/07/21/communication/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/mafa041-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Martha and Mary - Luke 10:38-42</image:title><image:caption>Martha and Mary - Luke 10:38-42</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-07-21T13:55:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/07/14/being-neighbor/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/hogarth_the_good_samaritan.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hogarth_The_Good_Samaritan</image:title><image:caption>The Good Samaritan
After William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London)
 Etching and engraving
February 24, 1772</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-07-14T20:53:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/07/07/sow-and-harvest/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/seventy-two-e1562511847534.png</image:loc><image:title>Seventy-two</image:title><image:caption>The Seventy-two Disciples
tempera on parchment
Ethiopia, ca.1480-1520
Getty Open Content Program
Ms. 105 (2010.17), fol. 9</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-07-07T15:15:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/06/30/follow-the-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/follow_me-e1561905229328.png</image:loc><image:title>Follow_me</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-06-30T14:49:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/06/23/in-trust-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/laura_james_jesus_feeds_the_5000.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Laura_James_Jesus_Feeds_the_5000</image:title><image:caption>Laura James
Jesus Feeds the 5000</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-06-23T12:59:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/06/16/through-the-holy-spirit/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/512px-the_earth_seen_from_apollo_17.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17</image:title><image:caption>The Blue Marble
NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans, December 7, 1972</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-06-16T14:41:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/06/09/untamed/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/fire-of-god-740x405-e1560092133692.jpg</image:loc><image:title>fire-of-god-740x405</image:title><image:caption>Pentecost</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-06-09T15:07:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/06/02/spark-of-glory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/st._stephen_rimmer-e1559338286798.jpg</image:loc><image:title>St._Stephen_(Rimmer)</image:title><image:caption>William Rimmer (1816-1879)
Saint Stephen, 1860
Art Institute of Chicago</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-06-02T19:45:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/05/26/peace-in-and-through-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/holy_paraclete_dove.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Holy_Paraclete_Dove</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-05-26T14:15:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/05/19/kindness-and-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/256px-prayer_of_compassion.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Prayer_of_compassion</image:title><image:caption>Prayer of compassion</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-05-19T16:24:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/05/12/known/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/shepherd_girl_with_sheep_and_lamb_in_nepal.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Shepherd_girl_with_sheep_and_lamb_in_Nepal</image:title><image:caption>Shepherd girl with sheep and lamb in Nepal</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-05-12T15:04:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/05/05/simply-fed/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/laura_james_fish_for_breakfast.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Laura_James_Fish_for_Breakfast</image:title><image:caption>Laura James
Fish for Breakfast
http://laurajamesart.com/</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-05-05T16:32:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/04/28/peace-be-with-you-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/art_james-he-qi_the-doubt-of-st-thomas_large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>art_james-he-qi_the-doubt-of-st-thomas_large</image:title><image:caption>He Qi, The Doubt of St. Thomas </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-28T16:17:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/04/21/surprised/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/resurrection.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Resurrection</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-23T21:53:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/04/14/starting-over/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/rembrandt_-_the_three_crosses_third_state_-_wga19085.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_-_The_Three_Crosses_(third_state)_-_WGA19085</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
The Three Crosses
drypoint and burin on paper (III/IV), 1653
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-14T15:28:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/04/07/caught/</loc><lastmod>2019-04-07T15:23:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/03/31/gods-abundance/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rohlfs_-_rucc88ckkehr_des_verlorenen_sohnes_1916.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rohlfs_-_Rückkehr_des_verlorenen_Sohnes,_1916</image:title><image:caption>Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938)
Rückkehr des verlorenen Sohnes
Woodcut,1916</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-31T16:19:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/03/24/cultivate-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/teachings_of_jesus_36_of_40._parable_of_the_fig_tree._jan_luyken_etching._bowyer_bible.gif</image:loc><image:title>Teachings_of_Jesus_36_of_40._parable_of_the_fig_tree._Jan_Luyken_etching._Bowyer_Bible</image:title><image:caption>Jan Luyken (1649-1712)
etching illustrating Luke 13:6-9 in the Bowyer Bible
Bolton, England
Photo by Harry Kossuth, 2009</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-24T15:40:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/03/17/how-good-it-is/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/256px-brooklyn_museum_-_the_transfiguration_la_transfiguration_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Transfiguration_(La_transfiguration)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
La transfiguration
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894 
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-31T16:21:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/03/10/in-the-presence-of-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/800px-hirschvogel_temptation.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-Hirschvogel_Temptation</image:title><image:caption>Augustin Hirschvogel (1503-1553) Temptation of Christ </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-10T14:31:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/03/03/good-produce/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/800px-lemon_tree_italy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-Lemon_tree_Italy</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-03T16:42:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/02/24/listen-3/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/512px-richard_dadd_british_-_mercy-_david_spareth_sauls_life_-_google_art_project.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Richard_Dadd_(British_-_Mercy-_David_Spareth_Saul's_Life_-_Google_Art_Project</image:title><image:caption>Richard Dadd (British, 1817 - 1886)
Mercy: David Spareth Saul's Life
Getty Center
oil on canvas, 1854 </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-02-24T16:53:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/02/17/blessed-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/brooklyn_museum_-_the_sermon_of_the_beatitudes_la_sermon_des_becc81atitudes_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Sermon_of_the_Beatitudes_(La_sermon_des_béatitudes)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
La sermon des béatitudes
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-02-17T15:14:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/02/10/graced-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/miraculous-catch-mafa-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Miraculous Catch MAFA-medium</image:title><image:caption>JESUS MAFA. Miraculous Catch, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.
retrieved February 10, 2019</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-02-10T16:30:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/02/03/love-embodied/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/black_cat_being_snowed_on.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Black_cat_being_snowed_on</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-02-03T16:37:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/01/27/one-body/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/helping.jpg</image:loc><image:title>World Youth Day Via Crucis</image:title><image:caption>World Youth Day volunteers from Panama</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-27T16:46:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/01/20/simply-done/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/mafa036-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mafa036-medium</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-22T20:57:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/01/13/baptized-into-the-community-of-love/</loc><lastmod>2019-01-13T15:59:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2019/01/06/whose-star/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/mafa066-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Three Wise Men - Matthew 2:1-12</image:title><image:caption>The Three Wise Men - Matthew 2:1-12</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-06T16:34:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/12/30/where-love-and-harmony-make-family/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mafa001-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nativity - Luke 2:1-20</image:title><image:caption>Holy Family</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-30T15:36:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/12/23/blessed/</loc><lastmod>2018-12-23T15:45:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/12/16/with-thanksgiving/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ph-108_prayer.gif</image:loc><image:title>Ph-108_prayer</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-16T17:02:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/12/09/prepare-the-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/mafa054-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mafa054-medium</image:title><image:caption>John the Baptist Preaching</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-09T16:36:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/12/02/daughters-and-sons-of-love-and-goodness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/512px-sketch_for_jesus_the_son_of_man_met_32-45-5_-_color.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Sketch_for_"Jesus_the_Son_of_Man"_MET_32.45.5_-_color</image:title><image:caption>Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Sketch for "Jesus the Son of Man", 1923
graphite and watercolor on paper
Metropolitan Museum of ARt</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-02T15:57:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/11/25/loves-witness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jesus-donkey.png</image:loc><image:title>jesus-donkey</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-11-25T16:56:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/11/18/a-time-of-distress/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/fig_tree_in_spring-e1542551317571.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig_Tree_in_Spring</image:title><image:caption>James Moriarty
Fig Tree in Spring, 2005</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-11-18T14:34:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/11/11/give-it-all/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/papaver_rhoeas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Papaver_rhoeas</image:title><image:caption>Common or Corn Poppy</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-11-11T15:30:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/11/04/love-thy-neighbor-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/love-thy-neighbor-heart-black.png</image:loc><image:title>Love-Thy-Neighbor-Heart-Black</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-11-04T15:17:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/10/28/what-do-you-want/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/512px-healing_of_the_blind_man_by_jesus_christ.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Healing_of_the_Blind_Man_by_Jesus_Christ</image:title><image:caption>Carl Bloch (1834-1890)
Healing of the Blind Man, 1871</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-10-28T15:23:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/10/21/servant-leader/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/brooklyn_museum_-_the_exhortation_to_the_apostles_recommandation_aux_apocc82tres_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Exhortation_to_the_Apostles_(Recommandation_aux_apôtres)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Recommandation aux apôtres
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-10-21T16:11:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/10/14/the-spirit-of-wisdom/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/st_sophia_the_almighty_wisdom.jpg</image:loc><image:title>St_Sophia_the_Almighty_Wisdom</image:title><image:caption>Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947)
Sofia (Wisdom), 1932</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-10-14T15:19:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/10/07/welcome-the-children/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mafa063-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus welcomes the children - Mark 10:13-16</image:title><image:caption>Jesus welcomes the children - Mark 10:13-16
JESUS MAFA. Jesus welcomes the children, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48395 [retrieved October 7, 2018]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact). </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-10-10T20:27:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/09/30/just-giving/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/jewish_youth_grinding_coffee_on_millstone_sanaa_yemen_1934.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jewish_youth_grinding_coffee_on_millstone,_Sana'a_(Yemen)_1934</image:title><image:caption>Carl Rathjens (1887-1966)
Photo of Jewish youth in Sana'a Yemen, grinding coffee grains on millstone, 1934</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-30T15:45:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/09/23/a-peaceful-solution/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/256px-children_are_the_amongst_the_most_vulnerable_refugees_9084604203.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Children_are_the_amongst_the_most_vulnerable_refugees_(9084604203)</image:title><image:caption>Refugee Children
Andy Wheatley, UK Department for International Development</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-23T15:06:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/09/16/in-the-moment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/caesarea_philippi_banias_met_dt9025.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Caesarea_Philippi_(Banias)_MET_DT9025</image:title><image:caption>Harry Fenn (1845-1911)
Caesarea Philippi (Banias)
Watercolor, gouache, brown ink, and graphite on light brown wove paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-16T15:20:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/09/09/impediments/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/meister_von_mucc88stair_002.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Meister_von_Müstair_002</image:title><image:caption>Meister von Müstair
Heilung des Taubstummen
fresco, ca.830
Müstair (Schweiz), Klosterkirche St. Johann </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-09T14:24:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/09/02/in-trust/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/jan_luykens_jesus_11-_eating_with_unwashed_hands-_phillip_medhurst_collection.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jan_Luyken's_Jesus_11._Eating_with_Unwashed_Hands._Phillip_Medhurst_Collection</image:title><image:caption>Jan Luyken
Eating with Unwashed Hands
Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations 
housed at Belgrave Hall, Leicester, England
Photo by Philip De Vere </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-02T15:01:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/08/26/eternal-words/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/512px-apostles_capp.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Apostles_capp</image:title><image:caption>Jesus and apostles. Fresco in Cappadocia 
ca.XII c.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-26T15:01:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/08/19/through-with-and-in-wisdom/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/seven_pillars_of_wisdom_from_road_to_rum_village.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom_from_road_to_Rum_village</image:title><image:caption>Seven Pillars of Wisdom at Wadi Rum
By Daniel Case [&lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"&gt;GFDL&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0 &lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom_from_road_to_Rum_village.jpg"&gt;from Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-19T13:55:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/08/12/bread-of-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/man_holding_bread_unsplash.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Man_holding_bread_(Unsplash)</image:title><image:caption>Man Holding Bread
By Kate Remmer studioktr (https://unsplash.com/photos/RZn4_FzNUCY) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en"&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_holding_bread_(Unsplash).jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-12T18:01:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/08/05/real-work/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/512px-alexandr_ivanov_081.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Alexandr_Ivanov_081</image:title><image:caption>Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov [Public domain], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandr_Ivanov_081.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-05T22:21:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/07/29/peace-in-unity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pikiwiki_israel_15488_loaves_and_fishes_mosaic_in_the_church_of_multipli.jpg</image:loc><image:title>PikiWiki_Israel_15488_Loaves_and_Fishes_mosaic_in_the_church_of_multipli</image:title><image:caption>Loaves and Fishes Mosaic
Church of the Multiplication, Tabgha</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-29T22:00:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/07/22/sheep-of-faith/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/shepherd_and_sheep.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Shepherd_and_sheep</image:title><image:caption>Shepherd and sheep in Saudi Arabia
haitham alfalah, 28 September 2012</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-22T14:41:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/07/15/together/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/jan_luykens_jesus_20-_the_apostles_sent_out-_phillip_medhurst_collection.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jan_Luyken's_Jesus_20._The_Apostles_Sent_Out._Phillip_Medhurst_Collection</image:title><image:caption>By Phillip Medhurst [CC BY-SA 3.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-15T15:22:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/07/08/graced/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/orant_statuette-sb_69-p5280684-white.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Orant_statuette-Sb_69-P5280684-white</image:title><image:caption>Orant statuette&lt;/br&gt;
alabaster, 3300 BC
Uruk Period
Louvre Museum [&lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en"&gt;CC BY-SA 2.0 fr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0 fr&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.html"&gt;CeCILL&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orant_statuette-Sb_69-P5280684-white.jpg"&gt;from Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-08T16:01:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/07/01/afflicted/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/512px-brooklyn_museum_-_the_woman_with_an_issue_of_blood_lhecc81moroicc88sse_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Woman_with_an_Issue_of_Blood_(L'hémoroïsse)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
L'hémoroïsse
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-01T18:55:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/06/24/the-work-of-today/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1024px-the_birth_of_saint_john_the_baptist_c-_1525_spain_polychromed_and_gilded_wood_-_art_institute_of_chicago_-_dsc09657-e1529847206257.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1024px-The_Birth_of_Saint_John_the_Baptist,_c._1525,_Spain,_polychromed_and_gilded_wood_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago_-_DSC09657</image:title><image:caption>The Birth of St. John the Baptist
Spain, ca.1525
Gilded wood
Art Institute of Chicago

</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-01T14:30:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/06/17/tiny-seeds/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mustard_seeds_in_a_plate_at_reganigudem.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mustard_Seeds_in_a_plate_at_Reganigudem</image:title><image:caption>Mustard Seeds in a Plate 
By Adityamadhav83 [&lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mustard_Seeds_in_a_plate_at_Reganigudem.jpg"&gt;from Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-17T15:40:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/06/10/family/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/a64e0-31725157_2207134102644950_7904956242513100800_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>a64e0-31725157_2207134102644950_7904956242513100800_n</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/whoeverdoesmywill.jpg</image:loc><image:title>whoeverdoesmywill</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-10T14:43:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/06/03/nourished-by-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mafa029-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Detail of Jesus, the Lord's Supper - Matthew 26:17-30</image:title><image:caption>JESUS MAFA. Detail of Jesus from the Lord's Supper, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48298 [retrieved June 3, 2018]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact). </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-03T14:45:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/05/27/in-this-moment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/384px-unknown_painter_-_the_holy_trinity_-_wga23507.jpg</image:loc><image:title>384px-Unknown_painter_-_The_Holy_Trinity_-_WGA23507</image:title><image:caption>Unknown Icon Painter, Russian (active 1690-1710 in northern Russia)
The Holy Trinity
egg tempera on wood, between 1690 and 1710</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-01T12:50:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/05/20/the-language-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/pentecost_mafa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pentecost - Acts 2:1-4</image:title><image:caption>ESUS MAFA. Pentecost, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48388 [retrieved May 20, 2018]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-05-20T15:51:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/05/13/in-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/god_is_love_planted_in_boxwood_hills_and_dales_lagrange_ga-_8367053225.jpg</image:loc><image:title>God_is_Love'_planted_in_boxwood,_Hills_and_Dales,_LaGrange,_Ga._(8367053225)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-05-13T14:37:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/05/06/love-one-another/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/guwg-one-another.gif</image:loc><image:title>GUWG-One-Another</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-05-06T14:28:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/04/29/compassion-fruit/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/winery-vineyard6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>winery-vineyard6</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-29T20:02:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/04/22/in-need/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pissarro_sheep.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pissarro_Sheep</image:title><image:caption>Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Landscape with Flock of Sheep
oil on canvas, 1889 and 1902
Norton Simon Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-22T15:50:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/04/15/peace-in-this-moment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/mafa_emmaus.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus at Emmaus</image:title><image:caption>The two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way,
and how Jesus was made known to them
in the breaking of bread. Luke 24:35</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-15T14:56:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/04/08/befriend-the-wounded/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/caravaggio_-_the_incredulity_of_saint_thomas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Caravaggio_-_The_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas</image:title><image:caption>Caravaggio (1571-1610)
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
oil on canvas, from 1601 until 1602
Sanssouci Picture Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-18T20:08:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/04/01/fools-for-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/emptytomb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Emptytomb</image:title><image:caption>On the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb. John 20:1</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-01T15:21:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/03/25/humbled-and-graced/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mafa058-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Crucifixion; Jesus dies on the cross - John 19:25</image:title><image:caption>The Crucifixion; Jesus dies on the cross
JESUS MAFA. The Crucifixion; Jesus dies on the cross, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48390 [retrieved March 25, 2018]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-25T13:48:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/03/18/a-morsel-of-mercy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wheat_field_in_shocks_hale_township.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wheat_field_in_shocks_Hale_Township</image:title><image:caption>Amish farm field, wheat up in shocks
By Nyttend (Own work) [Public domain], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWheat_field_in_shocks%2C_Hale_Township.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-18T15:08:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/03/11/god-so-loved-the-world/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/watersofbabylon.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WatersofBabylon</image:title><image:caption>Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley (1805–1891)
Israel Mourns Near the Waters of Babylon</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blake_moses.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Blake_Moses</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-11T19:28:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/03/04/cleaning-house-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jesus_driving_the_merchants_from_the_temple.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_driving_the_merchants_from_the_Temple</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Jesus driving the money-changers from the Temple
etching, state i/ii, 1635</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-04T16:54:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/02/25/transfigured/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/transfiguration.jpg</image:loc><image:title>transfiguration</image:title><image:caption>Linda McCray
Transfiguration
acrylic &amp; sand from the River Jordan on floating wood panel</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-25T17:04:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/02/18/temptation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/jesus_prayer.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_prayer</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-18T17:00:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/02/11/clean-and-whole/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/rembrandt_christ_leper.png</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_Christ_Leper</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
Jesus heals a leper
Pen and ink drawing; 14.7 x 17.2 cm, c. 1650-1655m, Rijksprentenkabinet </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-11T17:09:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/02/04/helped-up/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/rembrandt_heilung_der_schwiegermutter_des_petrus.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_Heilung_der_Schwiegermutter_des_Petrus</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Christ Healing Peter's Mother-in-Law
pen and wash, circa 1650-1660</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-04T16:26:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/01/28/in-silence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/if-today-you-hear-his-voice-harden-not-your-hearts.jpg</image:loc><image:title>If-today-you-hear-his-voice-harden-not-your-hearts</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/psalm-95-6-nologo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Psalm-95-6-NoLogo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-28T20:55:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/01/21/fishing-for-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1024px-thumbnail.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1024px-thumbnail</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-28T20:56:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/01/14/at-home/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/holy-spirit-coming-by-he-qi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Holy Spirit Coming-by He Qi</image:title><image:caption>He Qi</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-14T19:45:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2018/01/07/the-mystery-made-known/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/camel-caravan-01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>camel-caravan-01</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-07T17:13:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/12/31/kindness-will-not-be-forgotten/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/rembrandt_the_prophetess_anna_in_the_temple.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_The_Prophetess_Anna_in_the_Temple</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
The Prophetess Anna in the Temple, 1646 or 1650</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-31T14:20:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/12/24/the-will-to-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2014-12-24-19-51-50.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2014-12-24 19.51.50</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-26T00:23:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/12/17/light-witness/</loc><lastmod>2017-12-17T15:59:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/12/10/healing-comfort/</loc><lastmod>2017-12-10T16:53:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/12/03/hush/</loc><lastmod>2017-12-03T19:57:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/11/26/when-did-i-see-you/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/lossy-page1-762px-photograph_of_a_soup_kitchen_during_the_depression_-_nara_-_196174-tif.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Landscape</image:title><image:caption>Landscape</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-11-26T17:14:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/11/19/small-matters/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/perumpamaan_talenta.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Perumpamaan_talenta</image:title><image:caption>John S.C. Abbot and Jacob Abbot
The Parable of the Talents in the Illustrated New Testament, 1878</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-11-22T23:43:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/11/12/wisdoms-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/lamplight2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lamplight2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-11-12T17:36:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/11/05/nothing-to-prove/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/jesus-washing-peters-feet-by-sieger-koder.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jesus-washing-peters-feet-by-sieger-koder</image:title><image:caption>Sieger Köder (1925-2015)
Jesus Washing Peter's Feet</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-11-05T16:05:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/10/29/love-thy-neighbor/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/campaign_for_hospitality1.png</image:loc><image:title>Campaign_for_Hospitality1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-29T14:45:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/10/22/pay-it-forward/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/brooklyn_museum_-_the_tribute_money_le_denier_de_cecc81sar_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Tribute_Money_(Le_denier_de_César)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Le denier de César
 	opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-22T14:58:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/10/15/dressed-up/</loc><lastmod>2017-10-19T22:03:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/10/08/nonviolence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/brooklyn_museum_-_the_son_of_the_vineyard_le_fils_de_la_vigne_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Son_of_the_Vineyard_(Le_fils_de_la_vigne)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Le fils de la vigne
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-08T18:07:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/10/01/never-too-late-to-change/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/trabaja001.jpg</image:loc><image:title>trabaja001</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-01T15:23:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/09/24/worthy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/byzantine_agriculture.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Byzantine_agriculture</image:title><image:caption>Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
11th c.
Byzantine gospel. Paris, National Library</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-24T15:06:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/09/17/as-often-as-infinity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/reconciliation_by_vasconcellos_coventry.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Reconciliation_by_Vasconcellos,_Coventry</image:title><image:caption>Josefina de Vasconcellos, Reconciliation</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-17T15:18:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/09/10/two-of-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/two_people_praying_lacma_m-2006-136-352.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Two_People_Praying_LACMA_M.2006.136.352</image:title><image:caption>Two People Praying
Japanese, 19th c.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-11T21:12:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/09/03/todays-cross-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mafa058-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Crucifixion; Jesus dies on the cross - John 19:25</image:title><image:caption>JESUS MAFA. The Crucifixion; Jesus dies on the cross, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48390 [retrieved September 3, 2017].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-03T15:32:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/08/27/who-am-i/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/banias_ancient_caesarea_philippi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Banias,_Ancient_Caesarea_Philippi</image:title><image:caption>Banias, Ancient Caesarea Philippi
OSU Special Collections and Archives</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-01T01:04:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/08/20/great-is-your-faith/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/syrophoenician_woman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Syrophoenician_Woman</image:title><image:caption>Unknown maker, Rembrandt Pupil, active 1650s
Christ and the Canaanite Woman, 1650
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, corrected with white gouache
J. Paul Getty Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-08-20T14:33:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/08/13/save-me/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/jesus_walks_on_the_sea.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_walks_on_the_sea</image:title><image:caption>Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
Jesus Walks on the Sea
between 1866 and 1870</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-08-14T02:25:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/08/06/gods-beloved-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/mafa038-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Transfiguration - Matthew 17:1-13</image:title><image:caption>The Transfiguration - Matthew 17:1-13
	JESUS MAFA. Transfiguration, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48307 [retrieved August 6, 2017].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-08-08T22:37:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/07/30/in-the-net/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wrau-sea-of-galilee.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wrau-sea-of-galilee</image:title><image:caption>William H. Rau (1855-1920)
Fishermen by the Sea of Galilee, Palestine
stereograph, gelatin silver, ca.29 December 1902</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-30T22:15:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/07/23/in-gods-care/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/brooklyn_museum_-_the_sower_le_semeur_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Sower_(Le_semeur)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Le semeur
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-24T16:35:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/07/16/by-the-sea/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1024px-sea-of-galilee-1900.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1024px-Sea-of-Galilee-1900</image:title><image:caption>Sea of Galilee
between 1890 and 1905</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-18T19:41:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/07/09/rest/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/a_man_with_yoked_oxen_is_threshing_the_corn-_engraving_by_c-_wellcome_v0039597.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A_man_with_yoked_oxen_is_threshing_the_corn._Engraving_by_C._Wellcome_V0039597</image:title><image:caption>Charles Cousen (1819-1889)
Engraving after R. Beavis</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-10T20:46:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/07/02/one-step-at-a-time/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/follow-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>follow-image</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-02T14:31:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/06/25/fear-no-one/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/house_sparrows_in_pakistan.jpg</image:loc><image:title>House_Sparrows_in_Pakistan</image:title><image:caption>Bilal Mirza
House Sparrows in Pakistan, 2008
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Billmirza" class="extiw" title="en:User:Billmirza"&gt;Bilal Mirza&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"&gt;CC BY 3.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHouse_Sparrows_in_Pakistan.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-25T14:55:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/06/18/hunger-pangs/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/pieter_bruegel_the_elder_feed_the_hungry_the_seven_acts_of_mercy_1559.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_Feed_the_Hungry_The_Seven_Acts_of_Mercy_1559</image:title><image:caption>Pieter Breugel the Elder (between 1526-1530 - 1569)
Caritas (Charity) - The Seven Acts of Mercy - Detail of the Feeding of the Hungry
pen in brown ink, 1559</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-21T14:16:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/06/11/holy-mission/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/tre-fisk.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tre-fisk</image:title><image:caption>By Gunnar Bach Pedersen (Own work (Own photo)) [Public domain], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATre-fisk.JPG"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-11T14:27:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/06/04/the-power-in-each-breath/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/pentecost-ruah.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pentecost-ruah</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-04T14:25:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/05/28/teaching/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/12-men-of-galilee.jpg</image:loc><image:title>12-men-of-galilee</image:title><image:caption>"Men of Galilee,
why are you standing there looking at the sky?
This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven
will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven." Acts 1:11</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-04T17:18:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/05/21/all-together-now/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/simone_cantarini_-_trindade.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Simone_Cantarini_-_Trindade</image:title><image:caption>Simone Catarini, 1612-1648
Holy Trinity, 17th c.
Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil 
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-05-22T14:05:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/05/14/like-this/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/rossakiewicz_prayer.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rossakiewicz_Prayer</image:title><image:caption>Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz, b.1956
The Prayer of Jesus
oil on canvas, 1990</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-05-14T15:01:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/05/07/whose-voice-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/berger_afar.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Berger_Afar</image:title><image:caption>Berger afar en pied
Marion Lavabre, 2009</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-05-07T15:24:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/04/30/draw-near/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/512px-diego_velacc81zquez_-_kitchen_scene_with_the_supper_in_emmaus_-_wga24358.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Diego_Velázquez_-_Kitchen_Scene_with_the_Supper_in_Emmaus_-_WGA24358</image:title><image:caption>Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
Kitchen Scene with the Supper in Emmaus
oil on canvas, ca.1618
National Gallery of Ireland</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-05-07T14:53:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/04/23/peace-be-with-you/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/512px-guercino_-_doubting_thomas_-_wga10951.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Guercino_-_Doubting_Thomas_-_WGA10951</image:title><image:caption>Guercino, 1599-1666
Doubting Thomas
oil on canvas, 1st half 17th c.
Salzburg, Residenzgalerie</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-04-23T15:20:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/04/16/whos-in-charge/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mafa032-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Empty Tomb - Matthew 28:1-10</image:title><image:caption>The Empty Tomb - Matthew 28:1-10</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-04-16T14:17:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/04/09/holy-week-hush/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/fuc39fwaschung_margret_hofheinz-docc88ring_linolschnitt_1932_wvc2b7nr-419.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fußwaschung,_Margret_Hofheinz-Döring,_Linolschnitt,_1932_(WV·Nr.419)</image:title><image:caption>Margret Hofheinz-Döring, 1910-1994
Fußwaschung, Linolschnitt - Handabzug, 1932</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-04-10T14:34:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/04/02/come-out/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/512px-d184d180d18dd181d0bad0b0d0b2d18b_d180d0bed181d0bfd196d181_d183_d0b7d0b0d0bcd0bad0b0d0b2d0b0d0b8cc86_d0bad0b0d0bfd0bbd196d186d18b_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Фрэскавы_роспіс_у_замкавай_капліцы_ў_Любліне_25</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-04-02T15:14:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/03/26/with-open-eyes/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/christ_and_the_pauper.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Christ_and_the_pauper</image:title><image:caption>A.N. Mironov (b.1975)
Christ and the pauper. Healing of the blind man.
Oil on canvas, 2009.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-03-28T15:35:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/03/19/the-right-approach/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/brooklyn_museum_-_the_woman_of_samaria_at_the_well_la_samaritaine_acc80_la_fontaine_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Woman_of_Samaria_at_the_Well_(La_Samaritaine_à_la_fontaine)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
La Samaritaine à la fontaine
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-03-19T15:17:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/03/12/listen-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/512px-alexandr_ivanov_015.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Transfiguration_512px-Alexandr_Ivanov_015</image:title><image:caption>Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858)
1824</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-03-12T15:38:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/03/05/tempted/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/800px-hirschvogel_temptation.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-hirschvogel_temptation</image:title><image:caption>Augustin Hirschvogel (1503-1553)
Temptation of Christ</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-03-05T16:11:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/02/26/sufficient-for-today/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/view_of_wildflowers_fields_and_lake_kinnaret_sea_of_galilee_-_israel_5710715820.jpg</image:loc><image:title>view_of_wildflowers_fields_and_lake_kinnaret_sea_of_galilee_-_israel_5710715820</image:title><image:caption>View of Wildflowers, Fields, and Lake Kinnaret (Sea of Galilee)
By Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 2.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AView_of_Wildflowers%2C_Fields%2C_and_Lake_Kinnaret_(Sea_of_Galilee)_-_Israel_(5710715820).jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-02-27T18:37:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/02/19/who-is-my-enemy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/betende_von_chodowiecki_02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>betende_von_chodowiecki_02</image:title><image:caption>Daniel Chodowiecki (1726 – 1801)
Betende Frau mit Rosenkranz, 1773
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-02-19T23:22:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/02/12/into-the-mystery/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sunrise_coast_nord_la_palma.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sunrise_coast_nord_la_palma</image:title><image:caption>Sunrise coast La Palma
Luc Viatour / www.Lucnix.be</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-02-12T17:26:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/02/05/shine-on/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/23717_helping-hands.jpg</image:loc><image:title>23717_helping-hands</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-02-05T17:27:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/01/29/blessed-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mafa015-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7</image:title><image:caption>The Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7
	JESUS MAFA. The Sermon on the Mount, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48284 [retrieved January 29, 2017].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-01-30T16:40:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/01/22/at-once/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/512px-kilmore_quay_st_peters_church_window_i_shall_make_you_fishers_of_men_2010_09_27.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-kilmore_quay_st_peters_church_window_i_shall_make_you_fishers_of_men_2010_09_27</image:title><image:caption> 	

St. Peter's Church, Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, Ireland
photograph by Andreas F. Borchert</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-01-23T15:10:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/01/15/pointing-to-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/san_juan_bautista_-_el_greco_-_lienzo_-_hacia_1600_-_1605.jpg</image:loc><image:title>san_juan_bautista_-_el_greco_-_lienzo_-_hacia_1600_-_1605</image:title><image:caption>El Greco (1541-1614)
San Juan Bautisto
oil on canvas, between ca.1600 and ca1605
Museu de Belles Arts de València </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/el_greco_-_apostles_peter_and_paul_-_wga10496.jpg</image:loc><image:title>el_greco_-_apostles_peter_and_paul_-_wga10496</image:title><image:caption>El Greco (1541-1614)
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-01-15T16:40:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/01/08/the-best-gift/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mafa023-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mafa023-medium</image:title><image:caption>JESUS MAFA. Visit of the Three Wise Men, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48292 [retrieved January 8, 2017].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-01-08T16:21:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2017/01/01/a-new-year/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ruizanglada_-_piedad_serie_negra_195x150_1984_a-l_-_catalogo_1995_palacio_de_sastago_zaragoza.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ruizanglada_-_piedad_serie_negra_195x150_1984_a-l_-_catalogo_1995_palacio_de_sastago_zaragoza</image:title><image:caption>Piedad serie negra 
By RuizAnglada (Own work) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARuizanglada_-_Piedad_serie_negra_195x150_1984_A-L_-_Catalogo_1995_Palacio_de_Sastago_Zaragoza.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-01-02T17:49:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/12/25/reverence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/balzhausen_leonhardskapelle_krippe_hirten.jpg</image:loc><image:title>balzhausen_leonhardskapelle_krippe_hirten</image:title><image:caption>Balzhausen, Leonhardskapelle, Krippe
Photo: Andreas Praefcke</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-12-25T16:02:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/12/18/god-is-with-us-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/advent_lights.jpg</image:loc><image:title>advent_lights</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-12-18T23:16:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/12/11/shaping-a-prophet/</loc><lastmod>2016-12-11T18:04:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/12/04/a-spirit-of-knowledge/</loc><lastmod>2016-12-11T18:25:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/11/27/active-preparation/</loc><lastmod>2016-11-27T16:09:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/11/20/king-of-humility/</loc><lastmod>2016-11-20T15:44:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/11/13/do-not-be-afraid/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ivan_guaderrama.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ivan_guaderrama</image:title><image:caption>Ivan Guaderrama (b.1984)
Love One Another III</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-11-20T15:46:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/11/06/among-the-living/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cloud_of_witnesses.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cloud_of_witnesses</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-11-06T16:02:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/10/30/seek-to-see/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/palestine_jericho3_tango7174.jpg</image:loc><image:title>palestine_jericho3_tango7174</image:title><image:caption>"Zacchaeus' tree" (sycamore fig tree), Jericho, Palestine, 2012
via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-10-30T18:53:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/10/23/have-mercy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/1981-63.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1981-63</image:title><image:caption>Dirck van Delen, 1604/5-1671
Church Interior with the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke 18:9-14)
Oil on Panel, 1653
Clark Art Institute</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-10-23T22:37:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/10/16/gods-in-charge/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/john_everett_millais_-_parable_of_the_unjust_judge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>john_everett_millais_-_parable_of_the_unjust_judge</image:title><image:caption>John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
Illustration of the Parable of the Unjust Judge from the New Testament Gospel of Luke (Luke 18:1-9) for The Parables of Our Lord (1863)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-10-16T22:14:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/10/09/healing-thanks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/codexaureus_cleansing_of_the_ten_lepers.jpg</image:loc><image:title>codexaureus_cleansing_of_the_ten_lepers</image:title><image:caption>Codex Aureus Epternacensis
Cleansing of the ten lepers, ca.1035-1040</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-10-09T19:21:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/10/02/a-tiny-morsel-of-faith/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/brown_mustard_seed_close.jpg</image:loc><image:title>brown_mustard_seed_close</image:title><image:caption>The Lord replied,
“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
you would say to this mulberry tree,
‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you." Luke 17:6</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-10-03T01:34:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/09/25/like-the-rich-man/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/512px-gustave_dore_lazarus_and_the_rich_man.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-gustave_dore_lazarus_and_the_rich_man</image:title><image:caption>Gustave Doré, 1832-1883
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus, from the Gospel of Luke
1891</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-09-25T20:48:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/09/18/very-small-matters/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mironov_unjust_steward.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mironov_unjust_steward</image:title><image:caption>Притча о неверном управителе. 2012 г. Холст, масло. 80×70. Художник А.Н. Миронов
Parable of the Unjust Steward‎. 2012. Canvas, oil. 80 x 70. Artist A.N. Mironov</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-09-18T18:36:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/09/11/welcome-home/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/janknegt.jpg</image:loc><image:title>janknegt</image:title><image:caption>James. B. Janknegt
2 Sons
Oil on canvas</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-09-11T22:32:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/09/04/todays-cross/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ruizanglada_-_pasiocc81n_162x130.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ruizanglada_-_Pasión_162x130</image:title><image:caption>Martín Ruiz Anglada (1929-2001)
 Agnus Dei - Serie Negra, 1995
Expuesto en la 1ª Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de San Sebastián Donostiartean 7-11 agosto 2014.
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-09-04T15:52:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/08/29/september-9-day-of-prayer-for-racial-healing-project-reach-out-promising-practices/</loc><lastmod>2016-08-29T22:37:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/08/28/humble-of-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/morning_prayer_of_bedaween_1878_-_timea.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Morning_Prayer_of_Bedaween_(1878)_-_TIMEA</image:title><image:caption>Leopold Müller [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5"&gt;CC BY-SA 2.5&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMorning_Prayer_of_Bedaween_(1878)_-_TIMEA.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-08-29T22:35:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/08/21/widen-the-gate/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tianchang_gate.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TianChang_Gate</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-08-21T13:54:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/08/14/be-a-little-fire/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/to-set-a-fire.jpg</image:loc><image:title>To set a fire</image:title><image:caption>Luke 12:49-53</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-08-17T18:32:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/08/07/found-treasure/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/emblems_divine_and_moral_-_the_school_of_the_heart_and_hieroglyphics_of_the_life_of_man_1866_14568605428.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Emblems,_divine_and_moral_-_The_school_of_the_heart;_and_Hieroglyphics_of_the_life_of_man_(1866)_(14568605428)</image:title><image:caption> Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man, 1866
By Internet Archive Book Images [&lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/"&gt;No restrictions&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AEmblems%2C_divine_and_moral_-_The_school_of_the_heart%3B_and_Hieroglyphics_of_the_life_of_man_(1866)_(14568605428).jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-08-07T15:31:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/07/31/let-go-of-greed/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/teachings_of_jesus_26_of_40-_parable_of_the_rich_man-_jan_luyken_etching-_bowyer_bible.gif</image:loc><image:title>Teachings_of_Jesus_26_of_40._parable_of_the_rich_man._Jan_Luyken_etching._Bowyer_Bible</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-07-31T19:08:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/07/24/the-door-to-holiness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/17.gif</image:loc><image:title>17</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-07-24T23:24:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/07/17/a-serving-of-attention/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image</image:title><image:caption>Johannes Vermeer, 1632-1675
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
oil on canvas, between ca.1654 and ca.1656
Scottish National Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-07-17T17:17:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/07/10/focus-on-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/512px-van_gogh_-_der_barmherzige_samariter.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Van_Gogh_-_Der_barmherzige_Samariter</image:title><image:caption>Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890_
Der barmherzige Samariter (nach Delacroix)
Saint-Rémy, May 1890
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-07-10T14:36:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/07/03/empowered-to-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/paradise_lost_13.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Paradise_Lost_13</image:title><image:caption>Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
The Fall of Satan
Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“
engraving, 1866</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-07-07T15:07:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/06/26/coming-home/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/brooklyn_museum_-_he_went_through_the_villages_on_the_way_to_jerusalem_il_allait_par_les_villages_en_route_pour_jecc81rusalem_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_He_Went_Through_the_Villages_on_the_Way_to_Jerusalem_(Il_allait_par_les_villages_en_route_pour_Jérusalem)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Il allait par les villages en route pour Jérusalem
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-06-26T14:43:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/06/19/suffering-is-real/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
Christ Healing Peter's Mother-in-Law
pen and wash, ca. 1650-1660
Paris, Fondation Custodia</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-06-26T14:12:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/06/12/heart-to-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/luba_lukova.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Luba_Lukova</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-06-12T18:06:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/06/05/the-miracle/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/north_over_nain_to_mount_tabor_from_little_hermon-_4879083215.jpg</image:loc><image:title>North_Over_Nain_to_Mount_Tabor,_From_Little_Hermon._(4879083215)</image:title><image:caption>"...looking upon Mount Tabor from the summit of the Hill of Moreh or Little Hermon. That village in the middle of the view is Nain, where, on one of his journeys, Jesus raised to life the only son of a widow." 
By OSU Special Collections &amp; Archives : Commons [&lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/"&gt;No restrictions&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANorth_Over_Nain_to_Mount_Tabor%2C_From_Little_Hermon._(4879083215).jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-06-06T19:09:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/05/29/blessed-and-satisfied/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/187_life_of_christ_phillip_medhurst_collection_4373_feeding_the_multitude_mark_6-38_borcht.jpg</image:loc><image:title>187_Life_of_Christ_Phillip_Medhurst_Collection_4373_Feeding_the_multitude_Mark_6.38_Borcht</image:title><image:caption>A print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations in the possession of Revd. Philip De Vere at St. George’s Court, Kidderminster, England.
By Philip De Vere (Own work) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A187_Life_of_Christ_Phillip_Medhurst_Collection_4373_Feeding_the_multitude_Mark_6.38_Borcht.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-05-30T15:16:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/05/22/holy-trinity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/shamrock.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shamrock</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-05-23T22:37:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/05/15/gifts-of-the-spirit/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ed_de_guzman_pentecost.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ed_de_Guzman_Pentecost</image:title><image:caption>Ed de Guzman
Pentecost
gouache on special paper, 2014</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-05-15T14:14:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/05/08/one-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/512px-jesuscristo_acuarela_05072009.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Jesuscristo_acuarela_05072009</image:title><image:caption>Dibujo de Jesucristo, en acuarela. Parque de la Exposición. Lima, Perú.&lt;/br&gt;By Dtarazona (Own work) [&lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"&gt;GFDL&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJesuscristo_acuarela_05072009.JPG"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-05-08T15:15:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/05/01/a-holy-reminder/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/03.jpg</image:loc><image:title>6º  DOMINGO DE PASCUA</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-05-01T22:09:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/04/24/being-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mamat.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MamaT</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-04-24T22:23:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/04/17/whose-voice/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/buen_pastor_20.jpg</image:loc><image:title>buen_pastor_20</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-04-19T15:10:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/04/10/in-the-presence-2/</loc><lastmod>2016-04-10T14:36:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/04/03/within-the-wounds/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/512px-le_caravage_-_lincrecc81dulitecc81_de_saint_thomas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Le_Caravage_-_L'incrédulité_de_Saint_Thomas</image:title><image:caption>Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Doubting Thomas
oil on canvas, ca.1601-1602
Potsdam, Sanssouci</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-04-04T19:49:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/03/27/hope-in-the-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/rembrandt_christ_resurrected.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_Christ_Resurrected</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Christ Resurrected
Oil on canvas, 1661
Munich, Alte Pinakothek</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-03-27T15:27:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/03/20/emptied/</loc><lastmod>2016-03-20T15:09:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/03/13/alone-with-the-lord/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/brooklyn_museum_-_the_adulterous_woman_alone_with_jesus_la_femme_adultecc80re_seule_avec_jecc81sus_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Adulterous_Woman_Alone_with_Jesus_(La_femme_adultère_seule_avec_Jésus)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
La femme adultère seule avec Jésus, 
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-03-13T15:22:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/03/06/todays-choice/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/512px-dusseldorf_stlambertus_portal_det.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Dusseldorf_StLambertus_Portal_Det</image:title><image:caption>Düsseldorf, Germany. Catholic church St. Lambertus, main portal with bronze door created by Ewald Mataré. Detail: Return of the prodigal son.
Photo by Beckstet, 2010</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-03-07T19:28:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/02/28/never-too-late-to-bloom/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/brooklyn_museum_-_the_vine_dresser_and_the_fig_tree_le_vigneron_et_le_figuier_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Vine_Dresser_and_the_Fig_Tree_(Le_vigneron_et_le_figuier)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Le vigneron et le figuier
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-02-28T19:09:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/02/21/bedazzled/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/preobrazhenie.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Preobrazhenie</image:title><image:caption>Икона, Преображение Господне, 15 в. Новгород
Icon, Transfiguration of the Lord, 15th c., Novgorod</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-02-21T16:06:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/02/14/in-the-desert/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/512px-hole_jesusaldesierto.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Hole_JesusalDesierto</image:title><image:caption>William Hole (1846-1917)
Temptation of Jesus in the desert
Watercolor, ca.1900-1908
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-02-14T16:25:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/02/07/in-the-boat/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/01_nets.jpg</image:loc><image:title>01_nets</image:title><image:caption>John 21:1-19</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-02-07T15:45:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/01/31/working-on-it/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1_cor_13.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1_Cor_13</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-02-02T01:11:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/01/24/glad-tidings/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/512px-brooklyn_museum_-_jesus_unrolls_the_book_in_the_synagogue_jecc81sus_dans_la_synagogue_decc81roule_le_livre_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Unrolls_the_Book_in_the_Synagogue_(Jésus_dans_la_synagogue_déroule_le_livre)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Jésus dans la synagogue déroule le livre
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-01-24T16:22:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/01/17/gifted/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jan_cossiers_-_the_wedding_at_cana_jesus_blesses_the_water.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jan_Cossiers_-_The_wedding_at_Cana,_Jesus_blesses_the_water</image:title><image:caption>Jan Cossiers, 1600-1671
The wedding at Cana: Jesus blesses the water
oil on canvase, 1641-1660
Herentals, Saint Waltrude's Church</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-01-17T15:21:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/01/16/for-lent/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pope-francis-living-lent-with-mercy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pope-Francis-Living-Lent-With-Mercy</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-01-16T20:43:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/01/10/one-of-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/mafa021-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>John baptizes Jesus - Matthew 3:13-17</image:title><image:caption>Jesus MAFA. John baptizes Jesus, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48290 [retrieved January 10, 2016].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-01-10T22:08:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2016/01/03/honor/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/john_flaxman_-_the_adoration_of_the_magi_a_design_for_bas_relief_-_google_art_project.jpg</image:loc><image:title>John_Flaxman_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi,_a_Design_for_Bas_Relief_-_Google_Art_Project</image:title><image:caption>John Flaxman (1755-1826)
The Adoration of the Magi
Graphite with gray wash and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Yale Center for British Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-01-03T14:07:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/12/27/astounded-by-the-word/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1896_polenow_christus_unter_den_lehrern_anagoria.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1896_Polenow_Christus_unter_den_Lehrern_anagoria</image:title><image:caption>Vasily Polenov (1844-1927)
Christ Among Teachers, 1896
Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-12-27T20:33:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/12/20/moments-of-grace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/visitacion3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>visitacion3</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-12-20T18:48:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/12/13/give-it-away/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/512px-pieter_bruegel_the_elder_-_the_sermon_of_saint_john_the_baptist_-_google_art_project.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Sermon_of_Saint_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project</image:title><image:caption>Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526/1530–1569)
The Sermon of St John the Baptist
oil on oak, 1566
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-12-20T18:59:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/12/06/at-any-moment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/alexander_andrejewitsch_iwanow_003.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Alexander_Andrejewitsch_Iwanow_003</image:title><image:caption>Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858)
Head of St. John the Baptist
oil on paper mounted on canvas, 1837-1857
Tretyakov Gallery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-12-06T20:11:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/11/29/nothing-to-add/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/kunpic15.jpg</image:loc><image:title>kunpic15</image:title><image:caption>Jeanne Kun
The Root of Jesse</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-11-29T19:51:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/11/22/listen-to-the-truth/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/jesus_washing_peters_feet.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_washing_Peter's_feet</image:title><image:caption>Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893)
Jesus Washing Peter's Feet
oil on canvas, 1852-1856
Tate</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-11-22T16:21:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/11/15/a-word-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/33_02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>33_02</image:title><image:caption>"Learn a lesson from the fig tree.
When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves,
you know that summer is near."</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-11-15T17:05:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/11/08/what-little-i-have/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/mafa060-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Widow's Mite - Luke 21:1-4</image:title><image:caption>The Widow's Mite - Luke 21:1-4
JESUS MAFA. The Widow's Mite, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48392 [retrieved November 8, 2015].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-11-09T20:06:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/contact/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ma1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MA</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-11-04T23:21:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/11/01/calling-all-saints-and-prophets/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/synaxis_of_all_saints_icon.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Synaxis_of_all_saints_(icon)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-11-03T22:20:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/10/25/refusing-anonymity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/mafa051-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus cures the man born blind - John 9:1-41</image:title><image:caption>Jesus cures the man born blind - John 9:1-41</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-10-26T13:29:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/10/18/prayer/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/abel_-_figure_kneeling_in_prayer.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ABEL_-_Figure_Kneeling_in_Prayer</image:title><image:caption>Francois-Barthelemy-Marius Abel (1832-1870)
Figure kneeling in prayer, 1856
Watercolor and brown ink on mediumweight off-white wove paper
By Shepherd Gallery (Flickr: ABEL - Figure Kneeling in Prayer) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0"&gt;CC BY 2.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AABEL_-_Figure_Kneeling_in_Prayer.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-10-19T22:20:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/10/11/not-quite-there/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/brooklyn_museum_-_the_rich_young_man_went_away_sorrowful_le_jeune_homme_riche_sen_alla_triste_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Rich_Young_Man_Went_Away_Sorrowful_(Le_jeune_homme_riche_s'en_alla_triste)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Le jeune homme riche s'en alla triste, between 1886 and 1894
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Musuem</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-10-12T19:04:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/10/04/like-a-child/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/512px-cranach_the_elder_christ_blessing_the_children.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Cranach_the_Elder_Christ_blessing_the_children</image:title><image:caption>Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553
Christ Blessing the Children
oil on panel, 1537
Kraków, Wawel Castle </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-10-04T17:02:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/09/27/for-jesus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/tableau_de_tita_gori_jecc81sus-christ_entourecc81_de_disciples_et_dune_sainte_femme.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tableau_de_Tita_Gori,_Jésus-Christ_entouré_de_disciples_et_d'une_sainte_femme</image:title><image:caption>Tita Gori (1870-1941)
Jésus-Christ entouré de disciples et d'une sainte femme
Collection privée
By Jean-Marc Pascolo (Own work) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATableau_de_Tita_Gori%2C_J%C3%A9sus-Christ_entour%C3%A9_de_disciples_et_d'une_sainte_femme.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-09-28T21:54:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/09/20/in-the-arms-of-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/brooklyn_museum_-_jesus_and_the_little_child_jecc81sus_et_le_petit_enfant_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_and_the_Little_Child_(Jésus_et_le_petit_enfant)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Jésus et le petit enfant
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-09-20T15:43:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/09/13/show-dont-tell/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/brooklyn_museum_-_get_thee_behind_me_satan_recc81tire-toi_satan_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Get_Thee_Behind_Me_Satan_(Rétire-toi_Satan)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-09-13T15:43:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/09/06/touch-of-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ottheinrich_folio055v_mc7c.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ottheinrich_Folio055v_Mc7C</image:title><image:caption>Ottheinrich-Bibel, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Blatt 55v: Heilung des Taubstummen, Mk 7,31-37
ca.1425-1430</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-09-07T18:49:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/08/30/power-to-change/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ernst_barlach_lehrender_christus.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ernst_Barlach_Lehrender_Christus</image:title><image:caption>Ernst Barlach, 1870-1938
Lehrender Christus, mit vorgestreckten Händen, 1922</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-09-01T16:01:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/08/23/words-of-eternal-life/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>01</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-08-30T15:22:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/08/16/gods-gift/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/e.jpg</image:loc><image:title>e</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-08-16T20:07:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/08/09/taught-by-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/brooklyn_museum_-_the_miracle_of_the_loaves_and_fishes_la_multiplicitecc81_des_pains_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Miracle_of_the_Loaves_and_Fishes_(La_multiplicité_des_pains)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
La multiplicité des pains, between 1886 and 1894
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-08-09T17:12:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/08/02/god-cares/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/brooklyn_museum_-_jesus_teaches_the_people_by_the_sea_jecc81sus_enseigne_le_peuple_precc80s_de_la_mer_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Teaches_the_People_by_the_Sea_(Jésus_enseigne_le_peuple_près_de_la_mer)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Jésus enseigne le peuple près de la mer
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-08-02T21:29:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/07/26/more-than-enough/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/512px-pikiwiki_israel_15488_loaves_and_fishes_mosaic_in_the_church_of_multipli.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-PikiWiki_Israel_15488_Loaves_and_Fishes_mosaic_in_the_church_of_multipli</image:title><image:caption>Loaves and Fishes mosaic in the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, Tabgha, Israel</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-26T15:12:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/07/19/moved-by-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/van_gogh_-_shepherd_with_a_flock_of_sheep.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Van_Gogh_-_Shepherd_with_a_Flock_of_Sheep</image:title><image:caption>Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890
Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep
Nuenen, September 1884
oil on canvas
Mexico City, Museo Soumaya</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-19T14:24:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/07/12/the-simple-life/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/00-159-147_ps2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>00.159.147_PS2</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot, 1836-1902
Il les envoya deux à deux, 1886-1896
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-12T14:36:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/07/05/the-whole-of-the-human-mystery/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/00-159-125_ps1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>00.159.125_PS1</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Il ne fit pas des miracles mais il guérit
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 1886-`896
Brooklyn Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-07T00:17:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/06/28/782/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/woman_touches_cloak.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Woman_touches_cloak</image:title><image:caption>Laura James
The Woman Suffering from Hemorrhages, acrylic on canvas, 2007
Private Collection</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-28T22:48:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/06/21/at-peace-in-the-storm/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/tempestad05.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tempestad05</image:title><image:caption>Jesus asleep in the boat</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-23T00:42:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/06/14/small-seeds-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/love_in_a_pot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>love_in_a_pot</image:title><image:caption>Love in a pot</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-14T14:51:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/06/07/the-cup-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cloister_-_chapel_of_corpus_christi_-_last_supper_-_cathedral_of_burgos.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cloister_-_Chapel_of_Corpus_Christi_-_Last_Supper_-_Cathedral_of_Burgos</image:title><image:caption>© José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / , &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACloister_-_Chapel_of_Corpus_Christi_-_Last_Supper_-_Cathedral_of_Burgos.JPG"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-08T20:57:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/05/31/in-the-presence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/trinidad00.jpg</image:loc><image:title>trinidad00</image:title><image:caption>Lucia Wiley (1906-1998)
Trinidad</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-31T14:46:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/05/24/a-force-of-nature/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/roff_oklahoma_tornado.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Roff_Oklahoma_Tornado</image:title><image:caption>A force of Nature</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-25T23:21:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/05/17/resource-the-racial-divide-in-the-united-states-text-and-study-guide/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/racial-divide.jpg</image:loc><image:title>racial-divide</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-17T15:38:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/05/17/seeing-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mafa011-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Ascension - Luke 24:50-51</image:title><image:caption>JESUS MAFA. The Ascension, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48398 [retrieved May 17, 2015].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-18T22:16:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/05/10/how-many-ways-to-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/brooklyn_museum_-_the_washing_of_the_feet_le_lavement_des_pieds_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Washing_of_the_Feet_(Le_lavement_des_pieds)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot, 1836-1902
Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum of Art
James Tissot [Public domain], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABrooklyn_Museum_-_The_Washing_of_the_Feet_(Le_lavement_des_pieds)_-_James_Tissot.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cristo_e_gli_apostoli.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cristo_e_gli_apostoli</image:title><image:caption>Cristo e gli apostoli</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-11T19:49:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/05/03/pruned/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cixi_vines_with_fruit.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cixi_Vines_with_fruit</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-03T15:53:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/04/26/lay-down-your-life-for-a-moment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/512px-shepherd_and_sheep_by_anton_mauve_cincinnati_art_museum.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-'Shepherd_and_Sheep'_by_Anton_Mauve,_Cincinnati_Art_Museum</image:title><image:caption>Anton Mauve, 1838-1888
Shepherd and Sheep
oil on canvas, ca.1880
Cincinnati Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-29T00:47:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/04/19/open-minded/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/appearances_of_jesus_christ.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Appearances_of_Jesus_Christ.</image:title><image:caption>Andrey Mironov oil on cnavas, 2010(Own work) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAppearances_of_Jesus_Christ..jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-26T16:15:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/04/12/peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/327px-rossakiewicz_appear.jpg</image:loc><image:title>327px-Rossakiewicz_Appear</image:title><image:caption>Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz (b.1956)
Jesus Appears to Thomas (St John Passion - 13), 1990
oil on canvas</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-15T00:28:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/04/05/some-day/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ev3pa26b.gif</image:loc><image:title>ev3pa26b</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-07T00:09:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/04/05/alleluia-alleluia/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-04-05-09-51-02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2015-04-05 09.51.02</image:title><image:caption>Easter Sunday 2015</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-05T14:37:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/03/29/forsaken/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/tn_0c.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TN_0c</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-30T01:10:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/03/22/read-my-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2</image:title><image:caption>"men, amen, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit." John 12:24</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-22T15:51:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/03/15/apprenticed-to-jesus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/henry_ossawa_tanner_-_jesus_and_nicodemus.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_Jesus_and_nicodemus</image:title><image:caption>Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)
Nicodemus and Jesus on a Rooftop, 1899
oil on canvas
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-29T14:55:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/03/08/no-surprises/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/head_of_christ_by_rembrandt_philadelphia_panel.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Head_of_Christ_by_Rembrandt_(Philadelphia_panel)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-15T18:20:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/03/01/todays-mountain/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/tabor_1887.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tabor_1887</image:title><image:caption>By Frank S De Hass, [Public domain or Public domain], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATabor_1887.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-01T15:39:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/02/27/cancer-and-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cancer_book.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cancer_book</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-27T22:37:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/02/22/driven/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/512px-kramskoi_christ_dans_le_decc81sert.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Kramskoi_Christ_dans_le_désert</image:title><image:caption>Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837-1887)
Le Christ dans le désert, 1872
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi [Public domain], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKramskoi_Christ_dans_le_d%C3%A9sert.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-22T17:32:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/02/15/made-clean/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/brooklyn_museum_-_healing_of_the_lepers_at_capernaum_guecc81rison_des_lecc81preux_acc80_capernaum_-_james_tissot_-_overall.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Healing_of_the_Lepers_at_Capernaum_(Guérison_des_lépreux_à_Capernaum)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Guérison des lépreux à Capernaum, between 1886 and 1894
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-15T16:20:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/02/08/sense-out-of-nonsense/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sunset_at_capernaum_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sunset_at_Capernaum_01</image:title><image:caption>Sunset at Capernaum
By Abraham (Own work) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.e</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-08T17:16:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/02/08/world-day-of-the-sick-2015/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/prayer-for-sick-english.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Prayer for Sick English</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-08T16:49:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/02/01/say-no-to-demons/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/11_mark_s_gospel_d-_jesus_confronts_uncleanness_image_1_of_7-_christ_heals_the_possessed-_jan_luyken.gif</image:loc><image:title>11_Mark’s_Gospel_D._Jesus_confronts_uncleanness_image_1_of_7._Christ_heals_the_possessed._Jan_Luyken</image:title><image:caption>By Phillip Vere [&lt;a href="http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en"&gt;FAL&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A11_Mark%E2%80%99s_Gospel_D._Jesus_confronts_uncleanness_image_1_of_7._Christ_heals_the_possessed._Jan_Luyken.gif"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-01T19:19:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/02/01/national-day-of-prayer-for-victims-and-survivors-of-human-trafficking/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/become-a-shepherd.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Become-a-SHEPHERD</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-01T16:08:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/01/27/mother-earths-january-blanket/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-01-24-07-33-04.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2015-01-24 07.33.04</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-01-27-13-11-17.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2015-01-27 13.11.17</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-01-27T18:33:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/01/25/fish-or-cut-bait/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fisher_men.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fisher_Men</image:title><image:caption>Fisher Men
3 December 2011
By Venkateshpdy (Own work) [&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFisher_Men.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-01-27T17:07:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/01/18/listen/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/buisson_ardent-coupole1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Buisson_ardent-coupole1</image:title><image:caption>Buisson ardent en mosaïque de la coupole 1 de la nef de la basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde à Marseille
By Robert Valette (Own work) [&lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"&gt;GFDL&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0"&gt;CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0&lt;/a&gt;], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABuisson_ardent-coupole1.jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-01-18T19:14:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/01/11/gods-beloved/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/256px-jacob_de_wit_006.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Jacob_de_Wit_006</image:title><image:caption>Jacob de Wit (1695-1754)
Baptism of Christ in the Jordan
chalk and pen, ca.1716
Amsterdam, Amstelkring Museum
via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-01-11T16:09:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2015/01/04/pushed-by-the-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/512px-magi_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Magi_(1)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-01-04T19:50:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/12/28/one-holy-family/</loc><lastmod>2014-12-28T16:21:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/12/21/gods-messengers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/w1899-1-1-pma.jpg</image:loc><image:title>W1899-1-1-pma</image:title><image:caption>he Annunciation

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American (active France), 1859 - 1937
The Annunciation, 1898
oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-12-30T15:40:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/12/14/respond-to-the-voices/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/603.jpg</image:loc><image:title>603</image:title><image:caption>A voice cries out in the wilderness</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-06T00:30:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/12/07/wake-up-call/</loc><lastmod>2014-12-07T15:41:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/11/30/watching/</loc><lastmod>2014-11-30T16:36:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/11/23/love-or-convenience/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/teachings_of_jesus_22_of_40-_works_of_mercy-_taking_in_the_stranger-_jan_luyken_etching-_bowyer_bible.gif</image:loc><image:title>Teachings_of_Jesus_22_of_40._works_of_mercy._taking_in_the_stranger._Jan_Luyken_etching._Bowyer_Bible</image:title><image:caption>Jan Luyken (1649-1712)
Bowyer Bible, Bolton, England
By Phillip Mehurst (Photo by Harry Kossuth) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-11-30T16:37:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/11/16/growing-rich/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mafa028-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The parable of the Three Servants - Matthew 25:14-30</image:title><image:caption>JESUS MAFA. Parable of the Three Servants, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48297 [retrieved November 16, 2014].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-11-16T16:50:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/11/09/cleaning-house/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/256px-expulsion_templo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Expulsion_Templo</image:title><image:caption>Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)
Jesús expulsa a los fariseos del Templo, 1521</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-11-10T01:16:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/11/02/going-home/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/512px-jozcc8ca_uprka_-_all_souls_day.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Joža_Uprka_-_All_Souls'_Day</image:title><image:caption>Joža Uprka, 1860-1941
All Souls' Day
oil on canvas, 1897
Prague, National Gallery
Joža Uprka [Public domain or Public domain], &lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJo%C5%BEa_Uprka_-_All_Souls'_Day.JPG"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-11-02T16:16:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/10/26/choose-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/phirography_the_shepherds_love.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Phirography_the_shepherd's_love</image:title><image:caption>Stefy Mante
The Shepherd's Love

Opera di Pirografia su legno di pioppo, 2010</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-10-27T21:33:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/10/19/what-belongs-to-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rembrandt_232.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_232</image:title><image:caption>Rmbrandt (1606-1669)The Good Samaritan, ca.1655-1660
pen and brown ink and white paint on paper
 	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-10-19T17:59:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/10/12/the-invitation/</loc><lastmod>2014-10-12T23:25:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/10/05/570/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/speculum_darmstadt_2505_41r.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Speculum_Darmstadt_2505_41r</image:title><image:caption>peculum Humanae Salvationis, Westfalen oder Köln, um 1360</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-10-05T15:36:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/10/04/what-could-be-more-comforting/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-10-04-15-10-44.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2014-10-04 15.10.44</image:title><image:caption>What could be more comforting</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-10-05T00:13:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/09/28/558/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/le_lavement_des_pieds_rembrandt_rijksmuseum_amsterdam.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Le_lavement_des_pieds,_Rembrandt,_Rijksmuseum,_Amsterdam</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Le lavement des pieds
between 1640 and 1649
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-09-28T17:55:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/08/31/god-thoughts/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/22to02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Matthew 16:21-27</image:title><image:caption>22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-09-21T15:39:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/09/07/in-the-presence-of-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rembrandt_221.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_221</image:title><image:caption> Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Christ and Nicodemus
pen and wash, between 1621 and 1669
via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-09-21T15:38:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/09/14/god-so-loves-our-world/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/256px-cristo_crucificado.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Cristo_crucificado</image:title><image:caption>Diego Velazquez, 1599-1660
Cristo crucifado
oil on canvas
El Prado, Madrid</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-09-21T15:38:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/09/21/545/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mafa027-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Late-arriving Workers - Matthew 20:1-16</image:title><image:caption>	JESUS MAFA. The Late-arriving Workers, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48296 [retrieved September 21, 2014].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-09-21T15:38:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/08/24/proclaiming-the-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mafa019.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Good Shepherd - John 10:1-16</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-24T19:57:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/08/17/compelled-by-faith/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cananea8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cananea8</image:title><image:caption>Br. Martin Erspamer, OSB
Jesus and the Canaanite Woman</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-17T15:37:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/08/10/a-little-faith/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jesus_mit_den_jucc88ngern_im_sturm.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_mit_den_Jüngern_im_Sturm</image:title><image:caption>Waldemar Flaig, 1892-1932
Jesus mit den Jungern im Sturm
by 1932
via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-10T17:09:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/08/03/inseparable/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/archbishops_chapel_ravenna.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Archbishops_Chapel_Ravenna</image:title><image:caption>The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Basilica di Sant' Apollinare Nuovo
Ravenna ITALY 
6th century</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-05T10:34:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/07/27/searching/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pearl_of_great_price-_jan_luyken_etching-_bowyer_bible.gif</image:loc><image:title>pearl_of_great_price._Jan_Luyken_etching._Bowyer_Bible</image:title><image:caption>An etching by Jan Luyken illustrating Matthew 13:45-46 in the Bowyer Bible, Bolton, England
By Phillip Medhurst (Photo by Harry Kossuth) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-07-27T15:08:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/07/20/494/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/teachings_of_jesus_5_of_40-_parable_of_the_mustard_seed-_jan_luyken_etching-_bowyer_bible.gif</image:loc><image:title>Teachings_of_Jesus_5_of_40._parable_of_the_mustard_seed._Jan_Luyken_etching._Bowyer_Bible</image:title><image:caption>Parable of the Mustard Seed
An etching by Jan Luyken in the Bowyer Bible, Bolton, England
By Phillip Medhurst (Photo by Harry Kossuth) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/brooklyn_museum_-_the_enemy_who_sows_lennemi_qui_secc80me_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Enemy_Who_Sows_(L'Ennemi_qui_sème)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot, 1836-1902
 L'Ennemi qui sème (The Enemy Who Sows)
between 1886 and 1894
 	opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-07-20T16:29:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/07/13/one-word/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/maca-contentdm-oclc-org.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Sower</image:title><image:caption>Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875
 	ca. 1865-1866
black conté crayon and pastel on paper
 	Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-07-14T21:21:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/07/06/time-to-rest/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/brooklyn_museum_-_jesus_commands_the_apostles_to_rest_jecc81sus_engage_les_apocc82tres_acc80_se_reposer_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Commands_the_Apostles_to_Rest_(Jésus_engage_les_apôtres_à_se_reposer)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot (1836-1902)
Jésus engage les apôtres à se reposer
Jesus Commands the Apostles to Rest
between 1886 and 1894
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Musuem</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-07-07T02:04:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/06/29/without-labels/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/el_greco_-_apostles_peter_and_paul_-_wga10496.jpg</image:loc><image:title>El_Greco_-_Apostles_Peter_and_Paul_-_WGA10496</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-29T22:36:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/06/22/fed-on-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bread_shop_in_the_street.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bread_shop_in_the_street</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-22T18:48:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/06/15/one/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/trinity.png</image:loc><image:title>trinity</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-16T10:53:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/06/08/lightness-of-spirit/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/512px-pentecostecc81s_el_greco_1597.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Pentecostés_(El_Greco,_1597)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-07-09T22:30:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/06/01/words-in-action/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/512px-rembrandt_harmensz-_van_rijn_048.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_048</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-02T12:33:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/05/25/entwined-with-god/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/256px-005-a-ruby-kindles-in-the-vine-810x1146.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-005-a-Ruby-kindles-in-the-vine-810x1146</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-25T15:11:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/05/18/untroubled-hearts/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/theway.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TheWay</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-18T17:53:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/05/11/followers-of-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/good_shepherd-e1399834756989.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Good_shepherd</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-11T19:08:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/05/04/speaking-from-the-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rembrandt_christ_with_two_disciples.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_Christ_with_two_disciples</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-05T00:32:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/04/27/honest-doubts/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mafa033-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus appears to Thomas - John 20:24-29</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-04-27T13:39:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/04/20/hope-in-the-moment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/two_disciples_at_the_tomb_c1906_henry_ossawa_tanner.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Two_Disciples_at_the_Tomb_c1906_Henry_Ossawa_Tanner</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt or workshop (1606-1669)
ca.1648-1656
oil on oak panel
Phhiladelphia Museum of Art
&lt;a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHead_of_Christ_by_Rembrandt_(Philadelphia_panel).jpg"&gt;via Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-04-20T14:59:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/04/13/with-compassion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/512px-rembrandt_the_three_crosses_1653.jpg</image:loc><image:title>512px-Rembrandt_The_Three_Crosses_1653</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606-1669)
The Three Crosses
drypoint and burin on paper (III/IV), 1653
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-04-13T21:57:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/04/06/the-untying/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/rembrandt_-_the_raising_of_lazarus_-_wga19118.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt_-_The_Raising_of_Lazarus_-_WGA19118</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-04-07T23:20:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/03/30/making-god-visible/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ciego_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ciego_01</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-30T21:12:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/03/23/jesus-asks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/sironi_samaritan_woman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sironi_samaritan_woman</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-03-23T16:30:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/03/16/in-proportion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/proportion_and_design_of_part_of_raphaels_tranfiguration.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Proportion_and_Design_of_Part_of_Raphael's_Tranfiguration</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-03-16T16:40:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/03/09/a-desert-of-pain/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/tentaciones26.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tentaciones26</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-03-12T21:55:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/03/02/have-faith-in-goodness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/striped_daylilies.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Striped_daylilies</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-03-02T19:41:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2014/02/23/another-challenge/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/256px-brooklyn_museum_-_the_sermon_of_the_beatitudes_la_sermon_des_becc81atitudes_-_james_tissot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>256px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Sermon_of_the_Beatitudes_(La_sermon_des_béatitudes)_-_James_Tissot</image:title><image:caption>James Tissot, La sermon des béatitudes
between 1886 and 1894 	
opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn 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Sunday of Advent</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-12-23T19:32:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/12/15/let-go/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/3_candles.jpg</image:loc><image:title>3_candles</image:title><image:caption>Third Sunday of Advent</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-12-16T17:23:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/12/08/278/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2_candles.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2_candles</image:title><image:caption>Second Sunday of Advent</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-12-15T22:01:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/12/01/staying-awake/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/candle_flame.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Candle_flame</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-12-03T01:55:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/11/24/remember-me/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ev4pa04.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ev4pa04</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-24T22:09:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/11/17/surrender/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sanfrancisco.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sanfrancisco</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-18T01:52:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/11/10/dead-or-alive/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/hl.png</image:loc><image:title>hl</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-10T22:13:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/11/03/seeking-jesus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/zaqueo.png</image:loc><image:title>zaqueo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-04T17:11:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/10/27/trust-gods-mercy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/fariseo_y_publicano_byn.gif</image:loc><image:title>fariseo_y_publicano_byn</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-10-27T18:27:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/10/20/do-not-lose-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/dom02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dom02</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-10-21T17:06:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/10/13/thank-you/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/28.jpg</image:loc><image:title>28</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-10-14T21:29:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/10/06/just-a-tiny-bit-of-faith/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>01</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-10-07T00:10:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/09/29/noticing/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/lazaro4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lazaro4</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-09-30T01:27:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/09/22/service/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/rembrandt-fallhut.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rembrandt.fallhut</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-09-23T17:14:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/09/15/lost/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/prodigal_son_by_rembrandt_drawing_1642.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Prodigal_son_by_Rembrandt_(drawing,_1642)</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt (1606 - 1669)
The Return of the Prodigal Son / De terugkeer van de verloren zoon
drawing with pen and brush, between 1626 and 1669
Teylers Museum, Haarlem</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-10-07T00:09:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/09/08/following-christ/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/23-kruis-opnemen.jpg</image:loc><image:title>23 kruis opnemen</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-04T00:44:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/09/07/light-a-candle-for-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sim1luz09.gif</image:loc><image:title>sim1luz09</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-09-07T17:56:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/09/01/humble-pie/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mafa065-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Poor invited to the feast - Luke 14:15-24</image:title><image:caption>ESUS MAFA. The poor invited to the feast, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48397 [retrieved October 12, 2014].</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-09-02T01:04:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/08/25/looking-in-all-directions/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/sim5var01.gif</image:loc><image:title>sim5var01</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-08-29T17:58:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/08/18/limping-along/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/or97.gif</image:loc><image:title>or97</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-08-18T22:09:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/08/11/the-heart-of-it/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/va05.jpg</image:loc><image:title>va05</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-08-11T22:04:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/08/05/open-hands/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/luke12-16.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Luke12-16</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-08-05T12:01:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/07/28/ask-and-receive/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/luke11-1-13.gif</image:loc><image:title>Luke11-1-13</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-07-28T21:47:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/07/20/martha-and-mary/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/johannes_jan_vermeer_-_christ_in_the_house_of_martha_and_mary_-_google_art_project.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Johannes_(Jan)_Vermeer_-_Christ_in_the_House_of_Martha_and_Mary_-_Google_Art_Project</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-07-30T15:51:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/07/13/compassionate-awareness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/samaritano02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>samaritano02</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-07-13T18:50:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/07/07/a-trinity-of-morning-glory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sany1145.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title><image:caption>Empress Dowager Cixi, 1835-1908
Vine with fruits
ink and watercolor on silk, first half of 19th c.
Warsaw, National Museum</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-07-07T21:53:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/07/06/bringing-peace/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sem14_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sem14_1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-07-06T23:33:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/06/30/no-excuses/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/plow.jpg</image:loc><image:title>plow</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-07-30T08:01:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/03/09/spiritual-starvation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hijo_prodigo-2013-02-24-06-28-07-575-p-m.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hijo_prodigo 2013-02-24 (06.28.07-575 p.m.)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-30T21:51:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/03/16/stones/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/jesus_und_ehebrecherin.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesus_und_Ehebrecherin</image:title><image:caption>Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
Jesus and the woman caught in adultery</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-31T13:41:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/03/30/every-day-easter/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/resurrection.gif</image:loc><image:title>Resurrection</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-04-01T15:23:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/02/24/who-would-be-pope/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tranasfiguracion01b2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tranasfiguracion01b2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-16T21:03:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/02/13/united-states-postal-service/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/australia_bday.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Australia_bday</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-13T00:44:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com/2013/02/09/14/</loc><lastmod>2013-02-10T07:33:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://maryannmcsweeny.com</loc><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority><lastmod>2026-03-29T12:25:00+00:00</lastmod></url></urlset>
