Rembrandt captures a moment in time and re-imagines all the faces and figures that stood around the foot of the cross as Christ’s body was released from his suffering.
Category: Lenten meditations
Devotion~Passion Week
I hope you will spend a little time with this painting/poem/choral combination.
Betrayal~Passion Week
Use the eye of your imagination to take you into this passage…Allow yourself to wonder.
Pause~ Passion Week
When I allowed myself to deeply gaze into the story with the use of this painting, I realized that I have a Lord and King who has washed me, though I don’t fully understand it. He is willing to kneel at my feet and this thought opens and humbles me.
Behold ~ Passion Week
It strikes me that Jesus entered the city of His birth, while in His mother’s womb, as she rode on a donkey – and then He entered the city of His death on a donkey as well. This painting is a foreshadowing of Palm Sunday.
Storm~Passion Week
Welcome to God thru the Arts Holy Week Meditations This week I will be exploring various music and art to direct our minds into a deeper experience of the events that surrounded Jesus during the week preceding his crucifixion. These works of art will represent diverse people, time and genres. Not intended as a newspaper…
Why We Pray: Solace
Confession: I don’t pray as often as I should. I get busy-distracted-tired and sometimes I just can’t see the point. Discouragement sets in and then complacency… Piling on: Most days I can see the benefits to social media, but then sometimes I feel too connected… “How can I do any of this justice?” I think. The…
St Matthew Passion Day Seven
Come, ye daughters, help me lament,
Behold! Whom? The Bridegroom.
Behold him! How? Like a Lamb
St Matthew Passion Day Six
Come, ye daughters, help me lament,
Behold! Whom? The Bridegroom.
Behold him! How? Like a Lamb
St Matthew Passion Day Five
Come, ye daughters, help me lament,
Behold! Whom? The Bridegroom.
Behold him! How? Like a Lamb
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