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"Having risen in the morning on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first to Mary of Magdala from whom he had cast out seven devils. She then went to those who had been his companions, and who were mourning and in tears, and told them. But they did not believe her when they heard her say that he was alive and that she had seen him.
After this, he showed himself under another form to two of them as they were on their way into the country. These went back and told the others, who did not believe them either.
Lastly, he showed himself to the Eleven themselves while they were at table. He reproached them for their incredulity and obstinacy, because they had refused to believe those who had seen him after he had risen. And he said to them, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation.’"
– Mark 16:9-15, which is today's Gospel for Easter Saturday.
Fresco from the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. It shows the Risen Lord appearing to Our Lady, and to the patriarchs and saints of the Old Testament. The Latin inscription is from Apocalypse 21:4: "Death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more".
Luke 11:34
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light... (KJV)
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"Being before the Blessed Sacrament one day of its octave, I received from my God signal tokens of His love, and I felt urged with the desire of making Him some return, and of rendering Him love for love."
– St Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visionary of the Sacred Heart.
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
This tabernacle door is in the Cathedral of St Patrick in New York.
Christus statue in the North Visitor center in Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
HDR of three RAWs shot processed in Photomatix using exposure fusion. I wanted to preseve the whiteness of the marble, and recover some of the background as it is pretty nice. There is a bright light on top, so I used f22 to get the starburst. In PS:
- Imagenomic Noiseware: there was little noise as fusion seems to reduce noise already.
- Smart sharpen to get more details on the statue.
- Freaky detail except on the carpet and railings.
- Curves
- Reduce vibrance
"We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."
- 1 Corinthians 1:23-25
This is the central panel of the reredos in Christ Church Cathedral, and is posted in reparation for this.
"The soldier baptizes the king, the slave his Lord, John baptizes his Saviour. The waters of the Jordan are astonished, the dove appears as a sign, the voice of the Father declares: ‘This is my Son.’"
– Lauds antiphon for the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
Fresco by Fra Angelico in the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence.
"Mary stayed outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, still weeping, she stooped to look inside, and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet. They said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away’ she replied ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’ As she said this she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not recognise him. Jesus said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.’ Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She knew him then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’ – which means Master. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and find the brothers, and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ So Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had said these things to her."
– John 20:11-18, which is today's Gospel on Easter Tuesday.
This bronze sculpture is in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, on an altar placed on the site where Our Lord appeared to St Mary Magdalene.
Cada Jueves de Pasión (el anterior al Domingo de Ramos) la cofradía de la Expiración celebra la tradicional bajada del Cristo de la Expiración, que queda en besapié hasta el Viernes de Dolores, cuando se le sube a su trono. Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad en Úbeda (Jaén)
Cristo de la Expiración, obra de Juan Luis Vasallo (1942) Úbeda
"Almighty and everlasting God,
who in Thy beloved Son,
the King of the whole world,
hast willed to restore all things,
mercifully grant that all the families of nations
now kept apart by the wound of sin,
may be brought under the sweet yoke of His rule."
– traditional Collect for the Solemnity of Christ the King.
This mural is by Jan Henryk de Rosen (who also designed the mosaic of Christ in Majesty in the apse of the National Shrine), and it was painted in 1943. It is in the USCCB building in Washington DC. I was recently brought to see this, quite unexpectedly, and I immediately loved it.
Proverbs 17:18
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend. (KJV)
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"Consider how thy Jesus, after three hours’ Agony on the Cross, consumed at length with anguish, abandons Himself to the weight of His body, bows His head, and dies.
O my dying Jesus, I kiss devoutly the Cross on which Thou didst die for love of me. I have merited by my sins to die a miserable death; but Thy death is my hope. Ah, by the merits of Thy death, give me grace to die, embracing Thy feet, and burning with love for Thee. I yield my soul into Thy hands. I love Thee with my whole heart; I repent of ever having offended Thee. Never permit me to offend Thee again. Grant that I may love Thee always; and then do with me what Thou wilt."
– Reflection by St Alphonsus Liguori.
This station made from porcelain is in the Basilica of St Anastasia in Rome.
During Passiontide, I am posting one Station of the Cross a day, each taken from a different location around the world.
"Blessed is the womb which bore you, O Christ, and the breast that nursed you, Lord and Savior of the world, alleluia."
– Magnificat antiphon for 1 January, Solemnity of the Mother of God.
Stained glass window from Chartres Cathedral.
Este texto figura en la imagen del Yacente, realizada por Francisco Palma Burgos en 1964 para la cofradía del Santo Entierro
From 'The Revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by St Margaret Mary Alacoque:
"Behold this Heart, Which has loved men so much, that It has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify to them Its love; and in return I receive from the greater number nothing but ingratitude by reason of their irreverence and sacrileges, and by the coldness and contempt which they show Me in this Sacrament of Love. But what I feel the most keenly is that it is hearts which are consecrated to Me that treat Me thus. Therefore, I ask of thee that the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi be set apart for a special feast to honour My Heart, by communicating on that day and making reparation to It by a solemn act, in order to make amends for the indignities which It has received during the time It has been exposed on the altars. I promise thee that My Heart shall expand Itself to shed in abundance the influence of Its divine love upon those who shall thus honour It, and cause It to be honoured."
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
Statue of the Sacred Heart in the Rosary Shrine church of St Dominic in London.
"Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we have the supreme high priest who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must never let go of the faith that we have professed. For it is not as if we had a high priest who was incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us; but we have one who has been tempted in every way that we are, though he is without sin. Let us be confident, then, in approaching the throne of grace, that we shall have mercy from him and find grace when we are in need of help."
– Heb 4:14-16, which is today's 2nd reading at Mass.
My sermon for today can be read here.
Stained glass from St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham.
"Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger." – Lamentations 1:12.
Statue of Our Lady cradling the Lord after his death, from the friary grounds of the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit in Phoenix, AZ.
"O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
and our most gentle Queen and Mother,
look down in mercy upon England, your dowry;
and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in you.
By you it was that Jesus, our Saviour and our hope,
was given to the world; and he has given you to us
that we may hope still more.
Plead for us your children whom you received
and accepted at the foot of the cross. O sorrowful Mother,
intercede for our separated brethren that, with us,
in the one true fold, we may be united to the chief Shepherd,
the Vicar of your Son.
Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works
we may be counted worthy to see and praise God,
together with you, in our heavenly home.
Amen."
This statue of Our Lady as Seat of Wisdom is in Ushaw College, and today, 29 October, is the feast of the Martyrs of Douai College, the predecessor of Ushaw.
From 'The Revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by St Margaret Mary Alacoque:
"He made known to me the ineffable marvels of His pure [love] and showed me to what an excess He had loved men, from whom He received only ingratitude and contempt."I feel this more,"[He said] "than all that I suffered during My Passion. If only they would make Me some return for My love, I should think but little of all I have done for them and would wish, were it possible, to suffer still more. But the sole return they make for all My eagerness to do them good is to reject Me and treat Me with coldness. Do thou at least console Me by supplying for their ingratitude, as far as thou art able."
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
This mosaic of the Sacred Heart with the Pope offering the world to Christ is in the apse of the famous Basilica of Sacré Coeur in Montmartre, Paris.
"Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money-changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.
During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him."
– John 2:13-25.
My sermon for today can be read here.
Painting by El Greco, before 1570, housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Questions and Answers on Dissecting the Essence of the Pharisees
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The root of the Pharisees’ resistance and condemnation of the Lord Jesus was that they did not revere God or search for the truth at all. Deep down, they were stubborn and arrogant; they did not obey the truth. The Pharisees defined God within their own conceptions and imaginings, within the literal words of the Bible. They kept the Messiah in name only. No matter how profound and correct the LordJesus’ preachings are, how His words are the truth, or how much authority or power His words have, because His name is not Messiah, the Pharisees opposed and condemned Him. Their principles of faith are exactly as Almighty Godsays, “No matter how profound Your preaching, no matter how high Your authority, You are not Christ unless You are called the Messiah”. Not only did the Pharisees not accept the truths expressed by the Lord Jesus, they tempted Him and tried to find fault with Him. For example, they tempted the Lord Jesus by asking what authority He used to perform miracles and purposely asked the Lord Jesus whether they could pay taxes to Caesar. They asked the Lord Jesus whether He was the Son of God, Christ, etc. The Lord Jesus struck back at their evil plans with truth and wisdom. The Pharisees had no strength to refute Him, yet they still did not search for the truth. They still fanatically resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus; they had the Lord Jesus arrested and demanded that He be nailed to the cross. It was just as the Lord Jesus said when He exposed them, “But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God… And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?” (Jhn 8:40, 46). Therefore, we can see that the Pharisees, in nature and essence, were satanic demons, enemies of God that hated the truth! Brothers and sisters, what kind of people can hate and condemn Christ? The Pharisees’ story clearly demonstrates one fact: All who believe in God but do not love the truth, are weary of the truth and hate the truth do not know God. In addition, these people surely resist God and take Him as their enemy. Because Christ’s essence is the truth, the way, and the life, anyone who hates the truth also hates Christ. Many people that hate the truth seem good on the outside; they follow the rules of the Bible and do not seem like evil people at all, but when Christ comes to do His work, these satanic enemies of God will be completely exposed.
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The Pharisees’ evil resistance and condemnation of the Lord Jesus completely exposes their demonic essence: They hate the truth and resist God. that when the Lord Jesus preached and did His work, He expressed many truths, displayed many miracles and gave people abundant grace. The Lord Jesus’ work shook the foundations of Judaism and shocked the Jewish state. Many people followed the Lord Jesus. The Pharisees knew that if the Lord Jesus continued to do His work, all of the faithful in Judaism would follow Him; Judaism would fall, and their positions and meal-tickets would disappear. Therefore, they decided to kill the Lord Jesus. Just as the Bible says, “Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. … Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death” (John 11:47, 48, 53). To protect their status and meal-tickets, the Pharisees colluded with the Roman government to crucify the Lord Jesus on the cross. They said, “His blood be on us, and on our children” (Matthew 27:25). As you can see, the Pharisees hated the truth and hated Christ. They reached the point where they no longer wished to co-exist with Christ long ago! They would rather forsake their sin offering than not crucify the Lord Jesus; they would rather commit monstrous sins, resist God and offend God and have their sons and grandsons cursed than not nail the Lord Jesus to the cross, He who expresses the truth of redemption for mankind. That is the genuine, satanic, truth-hating nature and substance of the Pharisees. that when the Lord Jesus was nailed to the cross, the sun became dark, the earth shook and the curtain of the temple split open. After the Lord Jesus was resurrected, He appeared before men once again. After people learned these facts, they repented for their sins and turned to the Lord Jesus. As for the Pharisees? Not only did they not repent, but they became even more antagonistic enemies of the Lord Jesus. They paid off soldiers to bear false witness and say the Lord Jesus had not been resurrected. When the apostles spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus, the Pharisees fanatically captured and persecuted them. They wanted to ban the Lord Jesus’ work to obtain their ambitions of permanently controlling the religious community. The Pharisees believed in God in name only. In reality, they hated the truth and resisted God. The essence of their resistance and condemnation of the Lord Jesus was as follows: They were trying to compete with God and size Him up; they were fighting against God. The arrogance of their resistance and hatred of the Lord Jesus completely exposed their ambitions and exposed their evil, satanic face. Plus, it exposed their demonic antichrist nature: a refusal to repent, a frenzied hatred of the truth and a hatred of God. Isn’t that how the pastors and elders of the religious community treat Almighty God? If we could clearly see how the pastors and elders resist and condemn Almighty God, we would definitely know that the Pharisees resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus in the same way.
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Christus Statue in the North Visitors' Center of Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The statue of Christ stands in a rotunda with a background mural of the Universe, symbolic of role Jesus Christ had with the creation. This statue is of white carrara marble and stands a little over 11 feet feet tall.
How and Why I shot it this way: Most photographers focus on the Christus statue, like this Wikipedia photo. I wanted people to see the statue surrounded by the sweeping panorama of the rotunda mural, so I choose a full-frame fish-eye lens (Mamiya-Sekor 37mm) on a Mamiya RB67 (6cm x 7cm) film camera. The problem was finding the right angle and composition that did not distort the statue. Distorting the rotunda was not an issue, since it is already round. The only distortion problem that had to be corrected in Photoshop was the globe of the earth, which was more egg-shape in the original photo. This image has already been used as a magazine cover (The Ensign).
Artist: The statue is a replica of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Christus statue. Thorvaldsen's original is in the Church Of Our Lady in Copenhagen, Denmark.
During this upcoming week, I thought I'd show you around "Temple Square" and some of the sites this city is known for.
"Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight!
Glories stream from heaven afar;
Heavenly hosts sing Al-le-lu-ia!
Christ the Saviour is born!
Christ the Saviour is born!"
This year marks the 200th anniversary of this beloved carol.
Stained glass window from St Mary's church in New Haven, CT.
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
John 8:7
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"Jesus showed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this: Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing.’ They replied, ‘We’ll come with you.’ They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night.
It was light by now and there stood Jesus on the shore, though the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus called out, ‘Have you caught anything, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No’, he said, ‘Throw the net out to starboard and you’ll find something.’ So they dropped the net, and there were so many fish that they could not haul it in. The disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’ At these words ‘It is the Lord’, Simon Peter, who had practically nothing on, wrapped his cloak round him and jumped into the water. The other disciples came on in the boat, towing the net and the fish; they were only about a hundred yards from land.
As soon as they came ashore they saw that there was some bread there, and a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it. Jesus said, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net to the shore, full of big fish, one hundred and fifty-three of them; and in spite of there being so many the net was not broken. Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’; they knew quite well it was the Lord. Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish. This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after rising from the dead."
– John 21:1-14, which is the Gospel for Easter Friday.
This stained glass detail comes from a window in Fairford Parish Church, made between 1500-1517, and it depicts today's Gospel passage.