Wordless Wednesday: Holy Week
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>Almost Wordless Wednesday
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| Andy Warhol, Crosses, Giclee print, 1981-82 |
Even modern artists, under their oh so clever hip society cap,
might surprise us and ponder the call of this season.
We are marching toward Jerusalem: Wednesday, Holy Week.
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>Holy Saturday, Lamentations
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Painting by Mantengna, c 1490 Holy Saturday.
We wait.
It is finished.
It is so silent, so sad.
It is a somber quiet day.
I think of his Mom.
And I ache for her.
Painting by Franz von Stuck, 1891
And today is an achy day, all around.
It hurts.
It should.
It is too quiet, too somber.
And yet, of course, not.
And we wait, happily for us, in joyful knowledge and hope, for tomorrow.
But still, today, we wait.
>Good Friday
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Detail of painting, TissotGood Friday.
High Holy Day.
The Passion of Christ.
Via Dolorosa.
Crucifixion.
Utter sorrow.
Fasting.
Veneration of the Cross.
Empty tabernacles.
Hungry, tired, hard, sad.
Really, horror.
Nikolaï Gay (1831-1894)
Nikolaï Gay (1831-1894)Unfathomable.
An unspeakable, truly, tough day.
Good, yes, but the hardest most unspeakable kind of good.
A mystery of good.
Painting by Tissot, “What Christ saw from the Cross”
But yes, glorious good; if unseen as such then, and sometimes now.
We wait.
>Holy Thursday
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Painting by TissotHoly Thursday.
Maundy Thursday.
Last Supper.
Washing Feet.
Beginning of the Passion.
Tenebrae.
A hard somber night, leading into a hard day.
Jangled, disjointed, stripping the altar, moving the Blessed Sacrament out of the tabernacle.
Empty.
I always feel like crying at this service, “Don’t take him!” my heart foolishly calls.
And then it is silent.
And we file out, in the sad silent dark from the now empty church.
He is gone.
It’s Holy Thursday…..so it begins.
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