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Arch Bishop of Canterbury  - 12 images with painters notes and questions to ask

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The Christ We Share (facebook.com)

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St Mary's Radcliffe - stained glass windows

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St Mary's Radcliffe stained glass windows

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Suggestions for Collective Worship images

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Original artwork by Fr Gerry Sykes, Chaplain at Ark St Alban's Academy

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Original artwork by Fr Gerry Sykes, Chaplain at Ark St Alban's Academy

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(Note: There is no Station 8 included)

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"God's city: that image has long gathered to itself massive human hopes. Would that there were a city, with all the intensity and vigor of the great cities that have centered human life and attracted human imagination and made order out of the human experience of geography, but now whole, sheltering and welcoming all, healing, luminous with God's presence, with the Spirit of God. Such a city would be where God dwells.

[T]o taste the meal is already to find oneself entering into the city. The exchange of the meal - we bring wretchedness and are given blessedness - is the commerce of the city. But is it for us?

Come to the table... Those who receive it become the very dwelling place of God. Where God dwells there is the city. Eat and drink. In the visible word,
which is the bread and cup, you are gathered with all the redeemed little ones into the city of the Lamb." Gordon Lathrop
pages 153-154 of the book, Easter Sourcebook
1. Soichi Watanabe, Japan

3. Sadao Watanabe, Japan (print)

4. Sadao Watanabe, Japan

5. Max Thalmann, Germany (woodcut)

7. Fritz Eichenberg, Germany/USA (Eucharist with the poor)

"Jesus and the disciples sit on the floor, oriental-style, and eat sea bream fish with sushi, a menu that marks this as a festive meal."
8. Cerezo Barredo, Spain ("En la Cena ecológica del Reino")

10. Hyatt Moore, USA (The Last Supper with Twelve Tribes)

http://worship.calvin.edu/resources/resource-library/showcase-adoraci-n-y-culto-cristiano/
http://sacredartpilgrim.com/collection/view/42

For more art of 'The Last Supper' I've featured on this blog, see http://globalworship.tumblr.com/post/83173442102/salvador-dalis-the-sacrament-of-the-last-supper

2. Soichi Watanabe, Japan: "We Are One in Jesus Our Lord"
Here is my first compilation of visual art referencing the Last Supper.

6. David LaChppelle, USA (photo, 2003) from the series "Jesus is my Homeboy"
http://thejesusquestion.org/2011/06/29/jesus-is-my-homeboy-a-photograph-series/

Fritz often did woodcuts and illustrations for The Catholic Worker newspaper, where I first saw his work. Read an excellent essay about the implications of this illustration at
https://amoshouse.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/eucharist-with-the-poor/

9. Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz, Nicaragua
"Christ shares the Last Supper in a shack with campesinos who have just been laboring in the fields."
http://sacredartmeditations.com/news/load_event/49

Hyatt is an acquaintance, and I remember when he created this huge painting. He writes, " The Last Supper with Twelve Tribes was painted in the year 2000 to commemorate the inclusion of all peoples under God. It's oil on canvas (with acrylic under-painting) and at 20 feet wide by 4.5 feet high it is basically life size."

Depicted (from left) are: Crow of Montana, Berber of North Africa, Masai of Kenya, China, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Jesus, Ethiopia, Tzeltal of Mexico, Canela of Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Salish of British Columbia, Mongolia.

To learn more about this painting (and Hyatt's other art), go to
http://www.hyattmoore.com/thelastsupper/

Here's a 10-minute video about the story of this painting:

http://globalworship.tumblr.com/post/83024842180/the-last-supper-john-coburn-australia

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"God's city: that image has long gathered to itself massive human hopes. Would that there were a city, with all the intensity and vigor of the great cities that have centered human life and attracted human imagination and made order out of the human experience of geography, but now whole, sheltering and welcoming all, healing, luminous with God's presence, with the Spirit of God.

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Illustrations from international artist presenting the biblical account of the Last Supper from different cultural perspectives Global Christian Worship - Visions of the Last Supper (art set #1) (tumblr.com)

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Jul 30, 2021 - Visions of the Last Supper (art set #1) “God’s city: that image has long gathered to itself massive human hopes. Would that there were a city, with all the intensity and vigor of the great cities that...

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Reflections through art for Holy Week and Easter written by Shahne Vickery with paintings by Nebiyu Assefa

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Reflections through art on the events of Holy Week

Inspired by paintings from the Ethiopian artist Nebiyu Assefa, this pack offers children and their families new and creative ways to engage with the story of Holy Week and Easter at home.
Download the pack and larger images of the pictures.
Please note: Copyright for the material and artwork is free if used with this resource.
However, all pictures are copyright © Imaginor Ltd and may not be reproduced without prior and written permission.

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Journey into Easter with Children - Imaginor

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Supporting Spiritual and Moral Development in Schools

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I'm starting a new series of blog posts with scenes from Holy Week as portrayed by artists from Asia and Africa. This is the first post in the new series.
Holy Week in the Christian year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in theApostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week

Major events in the storyline include:
* Palm Sunday
* the anointing of Jesus' feet at Bethany
* Jesus weeps over Jerusalem
* Jesus cleanses the temple
* Jesus washing the disciples' feet
* the Last Supper
* praying in the Garden of Gethsemane
* betrayal by Judas
* denial by Peter
* multiple court trials of Christ
* carrying the cross (helped by Simon of Cyrene)
* crucifixion (with associated events like the crown of thorns, gambling for clothes, piercing the side, Temple curtain torn, etc)
* Deposition from the cross (lowering Christ's body)
* Pieta (Mary cradling the body of her dad Son)
* wrapping the body in grave clothes
* laying Christ's body in the tomb

Holy Week officially ends there, but for the purposes of these blog posts, I"m including some art of scenes of the Resurrection as well. As expected, each artist paints some scenes from this list but not all of them. And some artists will create multiple versions of a single scene.

In this series of blog posts, I'll focus each post on the work of an individual artist, rather than a comparative post representing artists from a variety of countries, as I have usually done in the past. Thus, we'll gain more exposure to the fuller oeuvre of a single artist at a time.
My hope is that these images from Asian and African artists, some well-known in the West and some very obscure, will help you prayerfully reflect on the Passion of Christ and his sacrificial love for all ethnic groups of the world.
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Holy Week Art from Cameroon (Jesus Mafa)
In the 1970s Mafa Christians in North Cameroon wanted to have pictures of the Gospel using their own cultural resonances. With the help of French missionaries they acted out the scenes, which were photographed, and sketches of the plays were worked up by French artists and given back to them - and to the world. More than 6 million copies have been distributed to date to 83 countries.

The 63 pictures are called 'Jesus Mafa' pictures and are available here:
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-displayindex.pl?SID=20161210880767822&pagenumber=1&code=act&

When I worked in rural Ghana for 7 years with Wycliffe Bible Translators, we used these culturally-contextualized pictures quite a lot and they received a lot of interest and good response from Christians and non-Christians.
Triumphal Entry on Palm Sunday

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Mary Anoints Jesus in Bethany

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Jesus Cleanses the Temple

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Jesus Washes the Feet of Peter

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The Last Supper

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Garden of Gethsemane

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Betrayal by Judas

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Peter Denies Jesus

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Jesus is Scourged

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Crucifixion

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An Angel Appears to Women at the Tomb (version 1)

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An Angel Appears to Women at the Tomb (version 2)

Mary Sees Jesus in the Garden

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Emmaus

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Doubting Thomas

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I found this photo on the Jesus Mafa website. It's apparently the Mafa people posing the scene of the Last Supper, and this photograph was given to the French artist to paint (Bénédite de la Roncière).

I've been following the 'Jesus Mafa' project about 30 years, since the mid-80s, and this is the only photo I've ever seen. I'm glad to know they apparently still exist! From this one example, we can see that the painting of the Last Supper is significantly different from the staged photograph, which of course is fine.

All 60+ pictures in the 'Jesus Mafa' series are now hosted online at
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-displayindex.pl?SID=20161210880767822&pagenumber=1&code=act&

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Holy Week Art from Cameroon (Jesus Mafa)

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I'm starting a new series of blog posts with scenes from Holy Week as portrayed by artists from Asia and Africa. This is the first post in the new series. Holy Week in the Christian year is the week immediately before Easter.

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company  This is a pack containing many pictures of the nativity as seen through the eyes of artists around the world

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Born Among Us (2nd Edition) - Multimedia resource pack - PE126-PH-07

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Buy Born Among Us (2nd Edition) Multimedia resource pack from Methodist Publishing - ISBN: PE126-PH-07

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Ethiopian icons | Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection: Schools of Art | Sacred Art Pilgrim

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Many icons telling parts of the story of Jesus, painted by unknown Ethiopian artists

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Ethiopian icons | Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection: Schools of Art | Sacred Art Pilgrim

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John Kohan presents his collection of contemporary sacred art with insightful commentary.

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Nativity Paintings from Around the World

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Nativity Paintings from Around the World

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Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Jesus Christ was born for all people of all times. To illustrate this truth, Christians around the world often depict him as coming into their own culture, in the present time. The Italians, whose visual language was predominant during the Renaissance, did it. In fact, when you think "Nativity," you probably think of the church art from that age and country-not because it offers the most legitimate representations (they are no more "accurate" than the ones below), but because the Church held particular sway at that time, in that place.

Well, the center of Christianity has shifted; it is no longer in the West. And thus if we were to survey the Christian art being produced today, we would see that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and the settings they inhabit, have a much different look. We'd see Mary dressed in a sari or a hanbok; we'd see Jesus wrapped in buffalo skin, or silk. We'd see lizards and kangaroos instead of oxes and asses.

Historical accuracy is not the point; the point is to see Jesus as the Savior of your own people, as incarnated very close to you, and relevant to life today.

Here are nineteen contextualizations of the Nativity painted within the last century. Each work brings Jesus into a different place, in order to emphasize the universality of his birth.
USA:
Crow Nation (Montana-based tribe):
Guatemala: Nicaragua: England: India:
Source. (see also another version)
China: Tibet:
Korea:
Japan:
Source. (see two other nativities by Watanabe here and here)
Thailand:
Source. (see another Nativity painting by the same artist)
Malaysia: Indonesia: Philippines: Uganda: Cameroon:
Source. (see the full mural)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Australia (Aboriginal): Tahiti:
Source. (see also Gauguin's other Nativity painting, Te Tamari No Atua)
Update: For a new compilation, see "More Nativity Paintings from around the World."

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More Nativity Paintings from around the World

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Four years ago on Christmas Day I posted a selection of nativity paintings originating mainly in non-Western cultures. Each year since then that post has ranked as one of the five most-read posts on this site, with over twelve thousand views to date. So I've decided to do a part 2.

My friend Scott Rayl shared a quote with me this week by S. D. Gordon: "Jesus was God spelling Himself out in language humanity could understand." What a succinct summary of the Incarnation!

Today we celebrate the transcendent God made immanent, accessible. We celebrate his new name: Emmanuel, God-with-us. The artists here can aid us in that celebration.
Australia (Aboriginal): First Nations of Canada: Guatemala: Nicaragua: India: Thailand: China: Japan: Korea: Vietnam: Philippines: Indonesia: Nigeria: Ethiopia: Kenya: Tanzania: South Africa:
(Many of the Asian artworks in this post were found through the Asian Christian Art Association website. It's a really rich resource. Check it out!)

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Four years ago on Christmas Day I posted a selection of nativity paintings originating mainly in non-Western cultures. Each year since then that post has ranked as one of the five most-read posts on this site, with over twelve thousand views to date. So I've decided to do a part 2.

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Picturing Christianity pack (included in Understanding Christianity bag) It includes a CD Rom of the images, but there is a code inside the book allowing the images to be downloaded.

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This fresh approach to learning from Christianity provides 24 beautiful images and works of art carefully chosen from global Christian sources. The pack is founded on a conceptual model of learning, exploring key concepts in Christian theology simply and deeply. The multi functional eResources enables all pictures to be used in pairs on the whiteboard, and the associated learning activities make biblical text and narrative come alive in your classroom! Inspirational spiritual learning from RE Today, using a rich resource for deep visual learning.

This resource is only £40!

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Enter the password to download the resource (this is case sensitive and printed on page 2 of the publication).

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This fresh approach to learning from Christianity provides 24 beautiful images and works of art carefully chosen from global Christian sources. The pack is founded on a conceptual model of learning, exploring key concepts in Christian theology simply and deeply.

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Nativity artwork from different cultures

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Clips of Church of England services with clergy and leaders from diverse backgrounds

Service led by Rev. Mark Nam, United Church Longwell Green and St. Anne’s Oldland Common, and other clergy of Chinese heritage from the Diocese. (30.1.22)

6.40 – 8.27 Kayi Nam reading Matthew 15 23-39 – Feeding of the 4,000

8.27- 14.54 Rev Mark Nam talks about Chinese New Year and the joy of feasting with family and friends, and then links it to the stories of feeding of crowds from the Bible. Why are there two similar stories? What might the reasons be? What new interpretations can affect the way we think about them?

24.11-25.08 Rev Aggy Palairet leading a prayer for those who are lonely and for unity in diversity.

26.00 – 26.50 The Lord’s Prayer in Cantonese – with English text

Pentecost service (253.5.21)
Gemma Hunt reads from John 15 18.50-20.40

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A Service for the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany

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Service led by Fr Douglas Machiridza Area Dean of Handsworth and Central (Birmingham) (7.11.21)

14.20 -15.30 Student Evans Adepoju-Adediran reading from Mark’s gospel

19.50-20.17 Fr Douglas reads the creed

22.50-25.24 Secondary school pupil Elita Tiruneh talks about her journey of faith and how she tries to live as a Christian today. It includes her understanding of racial justice and equality.

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Exploring the theme of callings | The Church of England

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"What wonderful good news this is: that all of us are eligible and capable of being called at any given time. "Led by Rev Canon Douglas Machiridza, Area Dean of Handsworth & Central, our Service of the Word explores the theme of callings.

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Fr Richard Springer leads a service of Holy Communion from St George in the East, London.

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Fr Richard Springer leads a service of Holy Communion from St George in the East, London.

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Use link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgfBeRtHpc

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Gemma Hunt reads the Gospel on Pentecost Sunday

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The Day of Pentecost marks fifty days since Easter Day and the end of the Easter season.

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Rev Grace Thomas leads a service for Racial Justice Sunday, from Liverpool.

13.10 -20.58 She talks about issues of equality and speaks of her own experiences of discrimination, and those of her children, as well as her belief in God’s desire for justice for all. She refers to all as being made ‘in the image and likeness of God’. She speaks of valuing and cherishing each other as God values and cherishes people. She talks of “being open to behold the image of God in every single human being and recognising that it is very, very good.”

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Racial Justice Sunday | The Church of England

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Worship with us today, from St Anne’s Church, Clifton, in the Diocese of Manchester. Rev Grace Thomas will be leading the service, and sharing about Racial Justice.

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From 44.00 -44.47 Rev Tariro Matsveru, from All Saints Church in Kings Heath, invites people to pray the Lord’s Prayer in ‘the language of the heart’, as she leads it in Shona, one of the languages spoken in Zimbabwe.

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All are welcome to join us on the Fifth Sunday of Easter from All Saints Kings Heath, South Birmingham.

Assistant Curate, Rev Tariro Matsveru, will be leading the service alongside Vicar of All Saints, Rev Canon David Warbrick, who will be preaching on 'Learning to cherish.'

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Learning to cherish | The Church of England

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All are welcome to join us on the Fifth Sunday of Easter from All Saints Kings Heath, South Birmingham. Assistant Curate, Rev Tariro Matsveru, will be leading the service alongside Vicar of All Saints, Rev Canon David Warbrick, who will be preaching on 'Learning to cherish.'

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Rudolph Valentino Images often use biblical themes.  He is a contemporary American folk artist who often paints onto cardboard.

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The Christ we share – a picture pack developed by Church Mission Society

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Many happy artistic images of Jesus represented in diverse cultural contexts from many countries – including India, Palestine, Papua New Guinea and Scotland.