Holy Week: Jesus Is Tried
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by Victoria Emily Jones
1d ago
Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. . . . Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’” The high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer? What is it that they testify against you?” But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I put ..read more
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Holy Week: Jesus Prays in Gethsemane
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by Victoria Emily Jones
2d ago
When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to [his disciples], “You will all fall away because of me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.” Peter said to him, “Even if all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And so said all the di ..read more
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Holy Week: Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet
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by Victoria Emily Jones
3d ago
If I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. . . . I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. —John 13:14–15, 34–35 LOOK: We Are by Hyeyoung Shin [HT] Hyeyoung Shin (Korean American, 1974–), We Are, 2010. Performance, graphite drawings on paper and paper garments, and lithographs on muslin. Big Orbit Galler ..read more
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Holy Week: Jesus Enters Jerusalem
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by Victoria Emily Jones
4d ago
When they were approaching Jerusalem . . . they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven! Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple . . . —Mark 11:1, 7–11 LOOK: Palm Sunday by Kai Althoff Kai Althoff (German, 1966–), Palmsonntag (Palm ..read more
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Roundup: Jesus’s surprising path to kingship, Isenheim Altarpiece video, “Varsha,” and more
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by Victoria Emily Jones
1w ago
Heads up: For each day of Holy Week (March 24–30) and the Easter Octave (March 31–April 7), I will be publishing a short post that pairs a visual artwork with a piece of music as a way of inviting you into the narrative. Here are examples from previous years: Holy Week Series 2023 | Easter Series 2023 Holy Week Series 2022 | Easter Series 2022 Holy Week Series 2021 | Easter Sunday 2021 Holy Week Series 2020 | Easter Sunday 2020 +++ VIDEO: “How Jesus Became the King of the World (That He Always Was)” by BibleProject: Written and directed by Jon Collins and Tim Mackie with art direction by Rober ..read more
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A mother’s love that suffers and bleeds
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by Victoria Emily Jones
1w ago
Kay Nielsen (Danish, 1886–1957), illustration for “The Story of a Mother,” ca. 1910. Pen and black ink and watercolor, heightened with bodycolor and gum arabic, 9 7/16 × 8 1/4 in. (24 × 21 cm). When I saw this watercolor drawing of a woman embracing a thorny shrub till she drips blood come up in my Instagram feed, I immediately thought of Christ’s passion. The caption reveals that it’s actually an illustration by Kay Nielsen for Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Story of a Mother,” a fairy tale written in 1848 and published around 1910 that shows the beauty and intensity of a mother’s love for he ..read more
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Book Review: Jesus through Medieval Eyes by Grace Hamman
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by Victoria Emily Jones
1w ago
As an English major in college, I was required to take a course on medieval literature. I had not been looking forward to it—Romantic and Victorian lit were more my thing. I worried that working through Old English and Middle English texts would be a slog. But boy were my expectations upended! I was enthralled by all the imaginative theology I encountered in verse, drama, and sermons, from the Dream of the Rood on down. I went to a public university, but the saturation in Christian thinking is unavoidable for students of the history of English literature. After overcoming some hang-ups I had a ..read more
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A version of Hildegard of Bingen’s “Ave generosa” by Gabriele Uhlein
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by Victoria Emily Jones
2w ago
Olesya Hudyma (Ukrainian, 1980–), Ukrainian Madonna, 2021. Oil on canvas. Mary,God delights in you so much, God was so taken with you, he sank his love’s fire deep within you.So much love he gave you, that with it you nurture his son.So full of ecstasy is your bodythat it resounds with heaven’s symphony.Your womb exults.It exults like the grass, grass the dew has nestled on, grass the dew has infused with verdant strength.That is how it is with you,Mother of all joy. From Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen, introduction and versions by Gabriele ..read more
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“To Calvary he bore his cross,” aka “My Fearful Dream”: An Early Tudor Passion Carol from the Fayrfax Manuscript
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by Victoria Emily Jones
3w ago
The English Crucifixion lyric “My Fearful Dream” (also known by the beginning of its first line, “To Calvary he bore his cross”) was written anonymously in the fifteenth century. It is preserved, with music by Gilbert Banastir (sometimes spelled Banaster or Banester) (ca. 1445–1487), on folios 77v–82r of the famous Tudor songbook BL Add. MS. 5465, intended for use at the court of King Henry VII. Compiled around the year 1500, this manuscript is commonly referred to as the Fayrfax Manuscript after Robert Fayrfax, the Tudor composer who was organist of St. Albans and a Gentleman of the Chapel Ro ..read more
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“Upon the Bleeding Crucifix” by Richard Crashaw (poem)
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by Victoria Emily Jones
3w ago
Vision of Saint Bernard (Blood Crucifix), Lower Rhine, 14th century. Ink and colored washes on paper, 25.5 × 18 cm. Museum Schnütgen, Cologne. Jesu, no more! It is full tide;From thy hands and from thy feet,From thy head, and from thy side,All the purple rivers meet.What need thy fair head bear a partIn showers, as if thine eyes had none?What need they help to drown thy heart,That strives in torrents of its own?Water’d by the showers they bring,The thorns that thy blest brow encloses(A cruel and a costly spring)Conceive proud hopes of proving roses.Thy restless feet now cannot goFor us and ou ..read more
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