#face of jesus

[yums-ville]

[momentsbeforemass]

Look up

It’s not all about me.

Wait. What?

It’s not all about me. My life, my faith, my relationship with God isn’t all about me.

No matter how faithful I think I am. No matter how holy I think my life is. It really isn’t, if I’m living it for me. If I’m focused on myself.

God brings people across my path every day that need my help. When they do, those people give me a choice.

A choice of whether to look up, to really look at them. To see them for who they really are.

Or not.

If I’m all about me, I’m probably going to see them as an interruption to whatever I was doing. I’m probably going to miss who they really are.

Or I can get over me.

I can choose to look up. I can choose to see them for who they really are. And that would be?

The face of Jesus in my life.

The people God brings across my path every day? This is exactly who they are.

As Mother Teresa said, “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself – this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus.”

This is what Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel.

This is the call. Not just to the saints. Not just to clergy and religious.

This is the call. To each and every one of us.

To look up. To see people for who they really are.

To see the face of Jesus in our lives.

Today’s Readings

[dramoor]

“I  believe, Lord, and I confess that you are truly the Christ, the Son of  the living God, who came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am  the first, but as the Robber I confess to you: Remember me Lord, in your kingdom.”

~Orthodox Christian prayer

[silveragelovechild]

Some people see Jesus in the burn patterns of a piece of toast. Today I was staring at a knot in the wood of my fence and I thought it looked like the face of Jesus. Could this be a sign from above?

If so what about the knot in the upper left corner. It looks like Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beast!

(Although on second thought, the knot at the center looks more like Cornelius from “Planet of the Apes”

[art-of-darkness]

Rembrandt — Head of Christ, c. 1648-56.  

Painting: Oil on oak inserted into larger oak panel, 33.7 x 28.9 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia / © Philadelphia Museum of Art.

This sketch, one of Rembrandt’s most subtle in the rendering of light on flesh, is characteristic of his approach, in that it is the expression of emotion that is paramount. Christ, torn between meditation and infinite weariness, emerges in all his truth.

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The answer to the enigma of whether Rembrandt painted his Christ “from life” lies in these pictures. It was to works like these that contemporaries referred when they evoked his portrayals of Jesus “after life.” These heads do indeed have the characteristics of studies made from a model posing in the studio—the study of expressions but also the light—and the drawings seem to have been done from the same model. They also reflect Rembrandt’s insistence on working directly from life, which he considered the touchstone of all art.

Was the model a Jew? This hypothesis stems from the immense interest in biblical history in Holland in 17th century. For Rembrandt, working from a Jewish model would have been a means of returning to a historical truth, of portraying Jesus unadulterated, as the Jew that he was—a form of realism scoffing at tradition. Source

Religious

Male portraits

Dutch Golden Age

[momentsbeforemass]

Look up

It’s not all about me.

Wait. What?

It’s not all about me. My life, my faith, my relationship with God isn’t all about me.

No matter how faithful I think I am. No matter how holy I think my life is. It really isn’t, if I’m living it for me. If I’m focused on myself.

God brings people across my path every day that need my help. When they do, those people give me a choice.

A choice of whether to look up, to really look at them. To see them for who they really are.

Or not.

If I’m all about me, I’m probably going to see them as an interruption to whatever I was doing. I’m probably going to miss who they really are.

Or I can get over me.

I can choose to look up. I can choose to see them for who they really are. And that would be?

The face of Jesus in my life.

The people God brings across my path every day? This is exactly who they are.

As Mother Teresa said, “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself – this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus.”

This is what Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel.

This is the call. Not just to the saints. Not just to clergy and religious.

This is the call. To each and every one of us.

To look up. To see people for who they really are.

To see the face of Jesus in our lives.

Today’s Readings

[momentsbeforemass]

Look up

It’s not all about me.

Wait. What?

It’s not all about me. My life, my faith, my relationship with God isn’t all about me.

No matter how faithful I think I am. No matter how holy I think my life is. It really isn’t, if I’m living it for me. If I’m focused on myself.

God brings people across my path every day that need my help. When they do, those people give me a choice.

A choice of whether to look up, to really look at them. To see them for who they really are.

Or not.

If I’m all about me, I’m probably going to see them as an interruption to whatever I was doing. I’m probably going to miss who they really are.

Or I can get over me.

I can choose to look up. I can choose to see them for who they really are. And that would be?

The face of Jesus in my life.

The people God brings across my path every day? This is exactly who they are.

As Mother Teresa said, “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself – this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus.”

This is what Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel.

This is the call. Not just to the saints. Not just to clergy and religious.

This is the call. To each and every one of us.

To look up. To see people for who they really are.

To see the face of Jesus in our lives.

Today’s Readings

[momentsbeforemass]

Look up

It’s not all about me.

Wait. What?

It’s not all about me. My life, my faith, my relationship with God isn’t all about me.

No matter how faithful I think I am. No matter how holy I think my life is. It really isn’t, if I’m living it for me. If I’m focused on myself.

God brings people across my path every day that need my help. When they do, those people give me a choice.

A choice of whether to look up, to really look at them. To see them for who they really are.

Or not.

If I’m all about me, I’m probably going to see them as an interruption to whatever I was doing. I’m probably going to miss who they really are.

Or I can get over me.

I can choose to look up. I can choose to see them for who they really are. And that would be?

The face of Jesus in my life.

The people God brings across my path every day? This is exactly who they are.

As Mother Teresa said, “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself – this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus.”

This is what Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel.

This is the call. Not just to the saints. Not just to clergy and religious.

This is the call. To each and every one of us.

To look up. To see people for who they really are.

To see the face of Jesus in our lives.

Today’s Readings