A friend once told me about the day, years earlier, when her husband died far too young after a lengthy illness. “I left the hospital–and people were doing normal things, like they didn’t know he was gone,” she recalled. “People were laughing and holding hands on the
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Lent 2013, Day 45: Handing It Over
He was left almost friendless, with only his mother, his aunt, Mary of Magdala and the apostle John there at the end. Who would have believed what had happened, that the man
Lent 2013, Day 44: Who Are You at the Last Supper?
Consider this interpretation of da Vinci’s The Last Supper, courtesy of Free Christ Images: Who are you in the picture? One of the three people on the far right, talking among themselves rather than looking at Jesus or interacting with the larger group? The bearded man on the near left, watching Jesus and seemingly disconnected from… Continue reading Lent 2013, Day 44: Who Are You at the Last Supper?
Lent 2013, Day 43: The Holy or the Broken Hallelujah
When I was a teenager, my hometown was gifted with a copy of Michelangelo’s David. After much controversy, it was erected (no pun intended) without a fig leaf over his private parts. “Look at his eyes,” my father liked to say when we’d go by the statue, which was