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Spencer. In the Wilderness with a Paintbrush

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Christ in the Wilderness. The Eagles      That is why artists, the more conscious they are of their “gift”, are led all the more to see themselves and the whole of creation with eyes able to contemplate and give thanks, and to raise to God a hymn of praise. (From the 1999 Letter of his Holiness Pope John Paul II to artists. )       Sir Stanley Spencer was a British artist who wanted to paint a picture dedicated to every single day Jesus spent in the desert, with the intent to show one on each day of Lent. We would like to honor this controversial and contradictory artist because we think he was animated by a great faith in God.        Sir Stanley Spencer. A controversial painter who loved Jesus.      by Liana Marabini (Translated by L. Pavese)        Jesus’ public life is interesting, not only for events of the time, recounted in the Gospels, but also because it concerns His physical pres...
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Quod Scripsi, Scripsi

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     Not just I.N.R.I: what was really written on the Cross     di Ermes Dovico (translated and edited by L. Pavese)      On the cross on which the Lord was crucified the Latin acronym I.N.R.I (Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum), which stood for Jesus Nazarene, King of the Jews, was not the only visible writing.      In addition to the Latin inscription, Saint John the Evangelist says the writing was also in Hebrew and Greek. And the Hebrew version reveals the reason why the Jews tried in vain to convince Pontius Pilate to change it.      “Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, 'Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.' Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.” (John 19, 19-20)      Before Saint John had written the fourth and last Gospel towards the end o...
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