SOPHIA-MER-CHRIST

At the Mount Saint Alphonsus Retreat Center, a former Roman Catholic Seminary in Esopus, New York, along the Hudson River, I encountered the most amazing depiction of Jesus I have ever seen. I came to call this statue "Sophia-mer-Christ."  Created by the artist Anthony DiLorenzo, the statue is a rendering of the kind of ecofeminist Christology envisioned for Creation-Crisis preaching.  Sadly, the statue and room in which it was housed was destroyed when the retreat center was sold in 2012.  These pictures are all that remains of the arwork, save for the Madonna and Child which is housed at the Redomptorist community in New York.