23+ hour, 53+ min ago  (437+ words) It is the day of Resurrection and an auspicious beginning. Let us be made brilliant by the feast and embrace each other. .. . Yesterday I was crucified with Christ, today I am glorified with him; yesterday I died with him, today…...

2+ day, 21+ min ago  (388+ words) LOOK: Magdalene: The Tomb by Greg Tricker I learned about Greg Tricker from Sister Wendy Beckett, a nun who narrated several BBC docuseries about art throughout the 1990s. In the following Piano Nobile video from 2011, Sister Wendy converses with Tricker at…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (411+ words) However, the longer ending is quoted regularly by ecclesiastical writers, including from the patristic era, and became the almost universal ending of Mark in later manuscripts. Although it contains a few unique emphases, it is consistent with the rest of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (309+ words) The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle[dove] is heard in our land. "Song of Solomon 2: 12 (KJV) LOOK: Mann mit V'geln by Max Hunziker LISTEN: "The…...

5+ day, 45+ min ago  (229+ words) LOOK: The Resurrection, from an Ethiopian Gospel book Chained at Christ's feet are personifications of Death (a pale corpse) and Hell (a winged, horned devil), derived from Revelation 1: 1718, where Christ says, "I am the First and the Last and the…...

6+ day, 40+ min ago  (344+ words) Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Happy Easter, friends. LOOK: Crucifixion sur la ville and R'surrection by Arcabas The left panels portray Jesus being crucified outside the city walls. But the cityscape is not of first-century Jerusalem; it's a…...

1+ week, 27+ min ago  (183+ words) A robin's egg in a nest, a row of yellow tulips, petals closed" Continue reading "Quiet I" by Leslie Anne Bustard(poem) " [Blake, William_Christ in the Sepulchre]William Blake (British, 17571827), The Angels hovering over the body of Christ in the Sepulchre,…...

1+ week, 43+ min ago  (160+ words) What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps. .. "Epiphanius of Cyprus, "The Lord's Descent into Hell" Ours is the long day's journey of the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (143+ words) LOOK: "Untitled" by Kazuo Shiraga | LISTEN: "Glory Be to Jesus" by Wes Crawford" Continue reading Holy Week: Lifeblood " LOOK: Untitled by Kazuo Shiraga LISTEN: "Glory Be to Jesus" (original title: "Viva! viva! Ges) | Words: Anon. , Italian, 18th century; trans. Edward Caswall,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (708+ words) LOOK: The Crucifixion by Andrea Mantegna There's much to look at in this painting. I want to focus on Jesus's grieving mother under the cross to our left. In Renaissance art of the Crucifixion, Mother Mary is often shown swooning,…...