Every Friday my husband and I join several other members of the chapel for a holy hour for priests. It has become an essential and well-love...

  Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross, Rembrandt

Albrecht Durer (circa 1500) After all the agony of the preceding night and the long journey on the Via Dolorosa to Mount Clavary, the Skull ...

James Tissot (1836-1902) Jesus had nowhere to lay his head in life; he goes to his death with nothing except the scorn and hatred of his ene...

Ilya Ovcharenko How exhausted our Savior must have been leading Him to fall once again under the weight of the cross. When I am exhausted an...

Josef Piens Cooreman from St. Peter's Church in Gent, Belgium The women brought their children to Jesus in happier days. Now they weep f...

Giandomenico Tiepolo - 1772 When we fall into sin, let us immediately recall the suffering of Christ for us and for our salvation, repent, a...

 We are called to become the image of Christ to the world. Let us worship before His Holy Face.

Tiziano Vecellio, c. 1488/90 - 1576 (Titian) Is Jesus asking you to help Him carry His cross by carrying your own?

Bartholomew Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)

 

 

 ....I've decided to go silent for the next two weeks and focus on the passion in silent prayer and meditation. I will be posting no art...

 

Today is the feast of St. Francis and my husband's and my 41st wedding anniversary. St. Francis fascinates me. I'm glad we married o...