Good Friday
Categories: interests-and-hobbies, feast-days
Date: 10 April 2009 00:09:10
From the Web Gallery of Art:
The Passion
1524-25
Oil on limewood, 136 x 31 cm (outer panels), 149,5 x 31 cm (inner panels)
Kunstmuseum, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle
The eight scenes depicting the Passion are spread over four tall, slender panels, each of which is divided in half horizontally. In the top row (left to right) are Christ on the Mount of Olives, the Arrest in the Garden, Christ before Caiaphas, and the Scourging. The bottom row (left to right) shows the Crown of Thorns, the Via Crucis, the Crucifixion, and the Entombment.
For all commemorating our Saviour's Passion this day, my prayers that today may be a blessed time of reflection on all Christ achieved for us on this day almost 2,000 years ago.
CRUCIFYING.
[from La Corona, John Donne]
By miracles exceeding power of man,
He faith in some, envy in some begat,
For, what weak spirits admire, ambitious hate :
In both affections many to Him ran.
But O ! the worst are most, they will and can,
Alas ! and do, unto th' Immaculate,
Whose creature Fate is, now prescribe a fate,
Measuring self-life's infinity to span,
Nay to an inch. Lo ! where condemned He
Bears His own cross, with pain, yet by and by
When it bears him, He must bear more and die.
Now Thou art lifted up, draw me to Thee,
And at Thy death giving such liberal dole,
Moist with one drop of Thy blood my dry soul.