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Saturday, April 11. 2020

Holy Saturday: A new commandment

The commandment was preached by Jesus at the seder, the day before his crucifixion and death. From John's Gospel, Chapter 13:


31Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.


32If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.


33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.


34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.


35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.



Posted by Bird Dog in Religion at 05:20 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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I shouldn't need to be reminded of this, to "love one another," but sadly I do. Thanks, BD.
#1 Big___Al on 2011-04-23 15:54 (Reply)
This sculputre reminds me of the part in the movie, Passion of Christ, when they took him down from the cross and he fell into his mother's arms. makes me cry every time I watch this movie and every time I see this sculpture. Such a powerful bit of marble.
#2 Heltau on 2011-04-24 02:10 (Reply)
... which is just an elaboration of Leviticus 19:18
#3 Ben David on 2011-04-24 06:32 (Reply)
Yes, He was always calling people back to the real point. And we, in turn, were always fomenting schisms, if not actual armed conflict, over controversies like whether an impure vessel tainted not only its own contents but any vessel into which the vessel had been poured, or whether the ritual bath could be accomplished slightly before sunset or must await the actual moment, or (later) what exact words were pronounced over an infant's baptism.

He always came back to saying, "God has already told you what to do. Just do it, and quit getting distracted by all this fetishistic detail. On this hangs all of the Law and the Prophets."
#3.1 Texan99 (Link) on 2012-04-07 10:07 (Reply)
you guys would find interesting:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/03/05/120305crbo_books_gopnik?currentPage=all

...h/t the phenomenol artsandlettersdaily.com site.
#3.1.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-07 15:41 (Reply)
I saw the Pieta when I was a kid. It is the most stunning rendering of a 22 year-old mother with her 33 year old son ever conceived (no pun intended).
#4 Talnik on 2012-04-07 11:25 (Reply)
--the proportions of the figures are also way off --if both were standing, iirc, she would be a foot or two taller. The artist was after something beyond the text, and bent every effort to get there. The very abnormality itself is part of it.
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-07 15:34 (Reply)
Yes, Michelangelo always did abnormal, for the effect.
#4.1.1 Bird Dog on 2012-04-08 22:48 (Reply)
..of 'supernatural'
#4.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-09 00:45 (Reply)
"love one another...in the end, I'll sort it out" - God
#5 maddog (Link) on 2020-04-11 11:21 (Reply)

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