Acts 3:12-19
When Peter saw the astonishment of those who had seen the lame man healed, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
John 20:30
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.
Icon and cover art for
The Gospel of Thomas, with The Acts of Thomas, and the Book of Thomas the Contender
Aziloth Books
Barnes & Noble commercial website
Click image for more information on this diverse collection of non-canonical works associated with Thomas.
Click here for information on the Feast of the Antipascha, or St. Thomas Sunday.
Here is an accessible look at the events of Holy Week. When was the “Last Supper” and was it a Seder? When was Jesus tried, condemned, and crucified? Let Jonathan Klawans guide your exploration:
Many people assume that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Seder, a ritual meal held in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Passover. And indeed, according to the Gospel of Mark 14:12, Jesus prepared for the Last Supper on the “first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb.” If Jesus and his disciples gathered together to eat soon after the Passover lamb was sacrificed, what else could they possibly have eaten if not the Passover meal? And if they ate the Passover sacrifice, they must have held a Seder. […]
… I believe we must be careful not to let our emotions get the better of us when we are searching for history. Indeed, even though the association of the Last Supper with a Passover Seder remains entrenched in the popular mind, a growing number of scholars are beginning to express serious doubts about this claim.
Read the entire post on the pages of the Biblical Archeology Society:
Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder? – Biblical Archaeology Society.
Mark 16:6 “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him.
1684-85
Oil on canvas, 87 x 113 cm
BACICCIO
(b. 1639, Genova, d. 1709, Roma)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Mark 11:9/John 12:13 “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Small Passion: 6.
1511
Woodcut
British Museum, London
DÜRER, Albrecht
(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
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Mark 15:47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was laid.
Small Passion: 28.
1511
Woodcut
British Museum, London
DÜRER, Albrecht
(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
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These are but two pages (6 & 28) from the woodcut series The Small Passion (1511) by Albrecht DÜRER
Click to open Web Gallery of Art presentation of the entire Small Passion series of woodcuts.
An excellent preparation for Palm/Passion Sunday and Holy Week.
A photo taken with the Trustees at Saturday’s Meeting of Elected Bodies
While many of us wait for warmer days and real spring to arrive, many seniors in high school are waiting to hear about where they will find themselves on life’s great adventure. One of the things I like to tell juniors in high school to do, is to get their story straight. Most of them don’t know that as soon as they enter their senior year, every adult will ask them, “So where are you going to college?” Or “What are you doing after high school?”
For many young people, this is one of the biggest decisions of their life thus far. And the reality is, it is the beginning of a series of questions that family and friends are going to inquire about for years ahead. For once they are in college, many will begin asking, “So what…
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Hebrews 5:10 …having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Mosaic on the right (south) lunette of the chancel, depicting Melchizedek making an offering of bread and wine
521-547
Basilica di S. Vitale
Ravenna
Italy
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Previously posted:
Year B
John 3:14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)
The Brazen Serpent
1511
Fresco, 585 x 985 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican
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Click here for a previous post of March 18, 2012 including a variety of other informative links.
John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
Painted screen sculpture in the niches in the north transept, depicting Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple
1508-1519
Cathédrale d’Amiens
Polychrome relief sculpture
Amiens, France
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Previously posted:
Year B
Trinity College in Dublin has made the Book of Kells available to all. See for yourself.
The Book of Kells contains the four Gospels in Latin based on the Vulgate text which St Jerome completed in 384AD, intermixed with readings from the earlier Old Latin translation. The Gospel texts are prefaced by other texts, including “canon tables”, or concordances of Gospel passages common to two or more of the evangelists; summaries of the gospel narratives (Breves causae); and prefaces characterizing the evangelists (Argumenta). The book is written on vellum (prepared calfskin) in a bold and expert version of the script known as “insular majuscule”. It contains 340 folios, now measuring approximately 330 x 255 mm; they were severely trimmed, and their edges gilded, in the course of rebinding in the 19th century. Abstract posted by Trinity College Dublin
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