The Entombment, about 1405 – 1410,
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
HOLY WEEK SONNETS: ENTOMBMENT (Luke 23:50-56)
The Entombment, about 1405 – 1410,
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Biblical interpretation
The Entombment, about 1405 – 1410,
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
HOLY WEEK SONNETS: DEPOSITION FROM THE CROSS (John 19:32-38)
HOLY WEEK: CRUCIFIXION (Mark 15:25-39)
Crucifixion,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
HOLY WEEK: ARREST AND TRIAL (Mark 14:43-15:20)
HOLY WEEK: WASHING THE DISCIPLES’ FEET (John 13:1-5)
Christ Washing the Apostles’ Feet and The Last Supper, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
HOLY WEEK: BREAD AND WINE (Mark 14:22-25; John 13-17)
HOLY WEEK: THE BETRAYER (Matthew 26:14-16; John 12:1-8)
Judas Receiving the Thirty Pieces of Silver, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
HOLY WEEK: IN THE TEMPLE COURT II (Luke 21:1-6)
HOLY WEEK: IN THE TEMPLE COURT I (Luke 20)
Christ Preaching in the Temple, about 1625 – 1627, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
HOLY WEEK: CHRIST’S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM (Luke 19:29-40)
This poem introduces a series of Holy Week sonnets that I wrote out of a desire to follow Jesus through his Passion with a focus on his humanity. Classical Christian teaching has always insisted that Jesus was fully and truly human and fully and truly God. But Christian spirituality has tended to take the “God” more seriously than the “human.” What does it mean to see him as a person of extraordinary integrity, courage, and determination—but also as finite and uncertain and caught in the politics of his time and place like the rest of us? It’s my hope that that kind of Jesus comes through in these poems.