Rev. Dennis McNally SJ: Non-Commisioned Altarpieces of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse Revelation

Painting: Images of Deity: Grey Series

After the Apocalypse, Abba and Ruah, detail	After the Apocalypse, When Michael Will Take the Wounded Lucifer back to the Throne of the Lamb, There Will be a Certain Sense to the Joining of Animus and Anima, at the End of the Hostilities.	After the Apocalypse, When Michael Will Take the Wounded Lucifer back to the Throne of the Lamb, There Will be a Certain Sense to the Joining of Animus and Anima, at the End of the Hostilities.	After the Apocalypse, When Michael Will Take the Wounded Lucifer back to the Throne of the Lamb, There Will be a Certain Sense to the Joining of Animus and Anima, at the End of the Hostilities.
After the Apocalypse, detail	After the Apocalypse, Holy Family with Trinity Apocalypse, detail	Michael and Lucifer	After the Apocalypse, St. Anne, detail
After the Apocalypse, The Baptist and the Magdalen	After the Apocalypse, The Lamb of God, detail	After the Apocalypse, Woman Clothed with the Sun, detail	Christ at the Soup Kitchen
Danse Macabre	Baptism, detail	Detail of Baptism polyptych	Rood from the Baptism polyptych
Trinity, detail of Baptism	Franciscan Vision	Mary Rabuni, Noli Me Tangere	The First Horseman of the Apocalypse Thunders Out of the Sky. He Salutes the Baby Whose Mother Will Be the New Eve. The Baby Is Delighted With the Majesty and the Romance of the Master Warrior.
Take Eat; This is My Body . Drink from this Cup, too; It is My Blood of a New and Eternal Covenant and It Will be Shed for You and for Many, so that Sins may be Forgiven.	Out of the Simplest Parents Came the Transfigured Messiah. Only Once Did His Best Friends Even Get an Inkling of Who He Was and Where His Friends Really Come From (diptych, closed)	Out of the Simplest Parents Came the Transfigured Messiah. Only Once Did His Best Friends Even Get an Inkling of Who He Was and Where His Friends Really Come From (triptych, open)	The Visitation at the Beach After the Kids Were Born
The Holy Family Waiting for the Bus to Cairo (triptych)

This series came about after the decision to simplify my approach to imagery and color. I began a black and white period after the golden shadows and long after the mummies. This approach seemed honest and necessary at the time. The images all developed into Judeo-Christian stories, some with a long history particularly in the Renaissance and Pre Raphaelite periods, some completely my own. They are all the result of paint and prayer going together, work and worry, creation and contemplation; putting color on canvas and figuring out where it is going by delving into the sub-conscious or unconscious Christian experience of this one man who is trying to follow his conscience to God.