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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~ Honore de Balzac
Happy Mother's day to all my Flickr Mom friends and to all Moms in this world.💝
Thanks to Lenabem-Anna for the texture.
www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/18914699499/in/album-7...
This was a gift from my GF on Easter Sunday. She knows that I love Hydrangeas.
Thank you for your visits, kind comments, awards and faves. Always greatly appreciated.
Copyright 2020 ©️ Gloria Sanvicente
Die kleine Hasenbande wünscht Euch besinnliche Ostertage, liebe Freunde! Wenn auch vieles in diesem Jahr nicht sein kann, was sonst so selbstverständlich und Tradition ist, bleibt heiter. Danke für Eure netten Kommentare und EurenBesuch über die ich mich immer sehr freue. Herzliche Grüße an Euch, egal wo ihr wohnt und lebt auf unserer schönen Mutter Erde, bleibt gesund!
The little rabbit gang wishes you contemplative Easter days, dear friends! Even if many things cannot be this year, which are otherwise so natural and traditional, remain cheerful. Thank you for your nice comments and your visit, which I am always very happy about. Best wishes to you, no matter where you live and live on our beautiful Mother Earth, stay healthy!
La petite bande de lapins vous souhaite des jours de Pâques contemplatifs, chers amis ! Même si beaucoup de choses ne peuvent être cette année, qui sont par ailleurs si naturelles et traditionnelles, restent joyeuses. Je vous remercie pour vos commentaires sympathiques et votre visite, dont je suis toujours très heureux. Tous mes vœux de santé, où que vous viviez et que vous habitiez sur notre belle Terre Mère !
to all my flickr friends and contacts a happy easter.
stay at home and please stay safe. we soon made it - hopefully.
The greatest victory for the consumer ideology is to reduce religion to one more item on the supermarket shelf, making Christianity compete in the supply and demand of comforts and assurances. Thus a little bit of religion can become a most successful musak or background feeling for a life of fundamental drift or immaturity. This tranquillising use of religion for human security is the most typical trap of the first world. Christianity is turned into a pleasant evasion of reality, personally consoling but unchallenging socially, attractive for quick uplift and even a certain generosity, but avoiding the depths of discipleship as a choice within today’s world.
-MICHAEL PAUL GALLAGHER SJ, Free to Believe
Perhaps the greatest danger to our humanity within today’s culture lies in being disconnected from our depths. Within each person is a whole cluster of capacities of the heart – for wonder, searching, listening, receptivity, and life options for compassion and love. These are spiritual dimensions in everyone and they constitute the basis for the hearing from which faith is born. But one by-product of the fragmentations and pressures of today is that this whole zone can remain underdeveloped … In the language of the Parable of the Sower, culture can become a multifaceted enemy for faith – robbing the seed, making shallow the roots, or choking the fragile plant.
-MICHAEL PAUL GALLAGHER SJ, Clashing Symbols
*As soon as holiness appears on the scene, anxiety and wrangling fall silent, even if the opposition (especially on the part of the tradition) does not. One can fight against holiness and perhaps, to all appearances, kill it. But one cannot refute it.
-Razing the Bastions: On the Church in this Age,
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Lately I've been spending most of my time outside either in the garden...or going for our 'daily walk'...close to home...keeping our distance! and making the most of this glorious weather...it's too nice to be sitting inside...
I hope you're all keeping well..and coping well... it's a strange time for all of us...but important to keep connected... and fortunately we have so many ways to do that...
Happy Easter to those who celebrate it...🐇🐥and keep safe everyone! 👍🙋
Mr Merlin, showing again he is such a natural poser. I must admit with everything going on it was difficult to find inspiration for this photoshoot but once everything was set up the dogs made it so much fun.
Hope, I see all the way through this image..
Easter in 2020 has a different look for everyone at this time. I just pray that this image may encourage you if you are feeling lonely or challenged in anyway.. Feel free to reach out to me if you need a chat at all.
Happy Easter everyone and I hope you like this image I took back in August 2019 on our Norfolk Island Tour which we hope to return to in 2021.
We saw the break on the horizon and thought this could go off and it did even though we got quite a bit wet..
Nikon D850
Nikon 24-70 F2.8
ISO 100 | 29mm | F11 | 0.4 sec
Nisi Filters - Circular Polariser / 6 Stop.
This lovely cherry blossom is hanging over the fence from the garden next door, so I didn’t have to go far to take this photo.
“Clean Your Paws”
Judy Royal Glenn Photography
This is the second time Peter Cottontail has blessed me with his presence. Yes, I named him and can identify him by several ticks on his body. He is not timid or scared around humans.
Jesus gave me an hour photoshoot with him. For eight minutes he stood on his hind legs, and for one-and-a-half minutes he cleaned himself!
I am taking a photography class from Tin Man Lee. I tried to incorporate his techniques of shooting and editing in this shot.
Remember during this time, to keep your paws clean, stay safe, and I hope you have a blessed Easter!!
To purchase wildlife and nature fine art prints, please visit my website:
www.judyroyalglennphotography.com
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “chocolate” was chosen by GG, Greenstone Girl.
The chocolate Easter Eggs in this fun and colourful photo collage came from Haigh’s Chocolates in the Block Arcade in Melbourne. The silver, red and green Easter Eggs are milk chocolate. The apricot, gold, turquoise, blue and gold Easter Eggs are dark chocolate. The brown and Orange Easter Eggs are milk chocolate with soft caramel centres.
Haigh\'s Chocolates is an Australian family owned bean-to-bar chocolate making company based in Adelaide, South Australia. It was founded in 1915 by Alfred E. Haigh and now has retail outlets in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.
Wishing you a Happy Easter in this very difficult year with this Covid-19 Virus
Edited in Lightroom ans Photoshop
Luke 24 KJV
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
And they remembered his words,
And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
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Have a blessed Easter!
this female Northern Cardinal is reminded how unpredictable weather can be...we almost reached 70 on Tuesday and is snows on Easter morning!
Pâques, c’est retrouver l’Espoir
Ostern heißt Hoffnung
Easter is to recover Hope
Páscoa é recuperar a esperança.
The giving of Easter Eggs traditionally takes place on Easter Sunday to mark the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the ancient Greek this word is "Anastasis" [meaning literally, "to stand again (among the living)"].
"Christ" is not a surname but a title. It means "God's anointed one", the Messiah, the Deliverer, the Conqueror of Death. This latter title is expressed in the story of the "Harrowing of Hades" where Jesus descends to the place of the dead and liberates the souls to New Life in Eternity. C.S. Lewis succinctly sums up this moment: www.cslewis.com/the-harrowing-of-hell/
I like to think the many coloured Easter Eggs represent the beauty and variety of God's children. Like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon with glorious colours in its wings.
Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed!
That's why we say, "Happy Easter".
"Hullo everyone! On behalf of Scout, Cousin Paddington
Cabbage, Daddy and myself I would like to wish all of our Flickr friends and followers a very happy Easter! May the day be filled with lots of fun, laughter and a chocolate Easter egg... or two! We are sending you all lots of big little bear hugs and snuffly kisses!"
Paddy has managed to share my thoughts most eloquently. A very happy Easter to you all!
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “chocolate” was chosen by GG, Greenstone Girl.
What better way to celebrate the joys of chocolate and Easter than with three little bears and a cute pug dog who all love chocolate?
'Then two bandits were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he wants to; for he said, ‘I am God’s Son.’” The bandits who were crucified with him also taunted him in the same way.
From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.” At once one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many. Now when the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”'
- The Gospel of Matthew 27:38-54.
This image is intended to express the universality of the historical events at a place called Golgotha (meaning literally "skull") during the Jewish Passover nearly 2000 years ago. Anyone who has seen Salvador Dali's extraordinary paintings of Christ will understand the significance of my next two photographs.
In his magnificent "Sacrament of the Last Supper', Dali pictures a transfigured Christ, beyond the realm of flesh and the material world. A truly Spiritual being who for the moment delivers his disciples from the constraints of this material world.
www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/art/the-sacrament-of-the...
This image is intended to place a Transcendental Jesus (the prefigured Pantocrator or Lord of All) above and beyond the worldly sphere.
Death has no power anymore since Jesus drank of that cup fully and lived to bring us into his Eternal Kingdom.
A spiritual mystery? Yes and no. Mysterious in the sense that the secular mind has no ability to grasp its significance. But to those with spiritual ears to hear and eyes to see, this is the final vindication of Truth and Light. "Thy Kingdom come, They will be done."
"Let Christ crucified be enough for you, and with him suffer and take your rest, and hence annihilate yourself in all inward and outward things. Endeavor always that things be not for you, nor you for them, but forgetful of all, abide in recollection with your Bridegroom.
Have great love for trials and think of them as but a small way of pleasing your Bridegroom, who did not hesitate to die for you. Bear fortitude in your heart against all things that move you to that which is not God, and be a friend of the Passion of Christ.
Be interiorly detached from all things and do not seek pleasure in any temporal thing, and your soul will concentrate on goods you do not know...
...He who seeks not the cross of Christ seeks not the glory of Christ. To be taken with love for a soul, God does not look on its greatness, but on the greatness of its humility. 'Whoever is ashamed to confess me before others, I shall be ashamed to confess before My Father,' says the Lord (Mt 10:33]."
- St John of the Cross, "Sayings of Light and Love" (92-96; 102-1-3).
One of the most profoundly spiritual people who ever lived was Juan de Yepes (1542-1591), who upon his entering the Carmelite Order in Spain, adopted the name John of the Cross. Later of course, after his death, he was canonised. John was one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language (any language in fact), and he was also a supreme theological mind.
The reflection above was a meditation on the cross of Christ in relation to the faithful. During this time John also has a very powerful vision in which he was taken back to Golgotha to see the crucifixion of Christ from above. Until this time, every crucifixion imagined by artists was seen from below - looking up.
So John made a sketch of this vision, which still exists to this day. To be humbled before Christ and his cross means to be lifted up above the world of woe and death, and to be forever liberated, untouchable by the forces of evil. This has been the vision of every martyr who has put the Kingdom of God ahead of personal survival. Our spirits in God's Spirit are unquenchable! Do your worst Caesar for we cannot die! This is the message of Good Friday (why else is it called "good"?).
In Salvador Dali's, "Christ of Saint John of the Cross", we see this spiritual vision actualised in our world. Dali was a strange man, but he caught a glimpse of Spiritual Truth:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Saint_John_of_the_Cross
For more music inspiration listen to J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor
Here it is Easter 2020 no visitors or holiday makers.They have stayed in Melbourne under covid 19 rules. Anyhow we do have our own problems here!!!
In normal times this would be very busy with people and cars
"So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, 'Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.'"
- The Gospel of John 19:17-19.
The crucifix used in these photographs today was carved in Papua New Guinea. I picked it up on a return visit to that country during the 1980s. It has been in my study ever since. I love its misshapen workmanship, because it is the work of an artist who deeply loved the one known to Christians everywhere as, "The Suffering Servant".
The title comes from Isaiah chapter 53, and Jesus is seen as fulfilling the prophecies related to Messiah. But who would have thought of a King who became a servant and died with criminals in the cruelest of Roman executions?
There are many interpretations of this event during Passover 2000 years ago, but people of faith would all agree that something of cosmic significance took place. Here in death (the defeat of the flesh or material realm) is sown the seed of Life Eternal (the realm of the Spirit). "O death where is your sting? O grave, where your victory?" wrote that man of spirit, Paul, convert to the risen Christ on the Damascus road.
The mistake we all make is to believe that defeat in this life cannot be a victory in the Life to Come. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies," Jesus said, "it cannot bring forth fruit." The Kingdom of God works by the 'upside down principle'. First death and putting off the corruptible world, and then comes Life incorruptible. First the Darkness and then the Dawn.
Seek first this Kingdom Jesus said, but don't expect it to be an easy path. Oh no! The way of the Kingdom of God is the way of suffering and death, for therein lies our salvation. Break free, detach from this doomed world, for every success here will not last and is nothing compared to the Eternal Realm which is ours to come.
Let the Spirit of God release your soul from the prison of the flesh. Learn to travel light. An early community of Christian Gnostics even had a lovely story of "The Laughing Saviour". Whilst Jesus the man on the cross was suffering and crying, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" (a familiar cry down through the ages), his inner spirit was laughing at death, for he knew he had the key to Life that conquers death.
If you want to be inspired this Easter, listen to what I consider is the greatest piece of passion music ever written:
J.S. Bach - St John Passion BWV 245
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMf9XDQBAaI
Bach literally touched the face of God. He is one of those few composers (Mozart and Beethoven the other two) who tapped into the actual music of the spheres. Their genius is beyond genius. It is the divine incarnation of heavenly music.