If you had to choose one of the following six paintings to hang in your home, which would you choose? Why did you choose the painting you did? Note that there are three images of Gethsemane and three images of Calvary. We also matched artists (Carl Bloch painted 1 and 3, Harry Anderso...
From the room where the Last Supper was held, Jesus and the disciples proceeded to the Garden of Gethsemane, where he prepared himself for the coming ordeal by praying and submitting his will to that of his Father. Into the garden then came Judas, leading a band of men to arrest Jesus ...
We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, [worked out in Gethsemane and on the Cross] all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. 4 We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ;...
” The pastor replied, “It doesn’t matter what you or I think. You are not allowed to add anything that isn’t in the Bible.” I remember interjecting in the film’s defense that the presence of Satan in Gethsemane is certainly in the spirit of the Scriptures, to which the pastor...
In a way that only great art can do, Mel Gibson's film helps us grasp something almost beyond our comprehension. At the outset, in the Garden of Gethsemane, the devil tempts Christ with the unavoidable question: How can anyone bear the sins of the whole world? It's too much. Christ ...
The disciples follow Jesus to the Garden of Gethsemane. The gathering gloom hangs over the company. It is the same shadow that descends on the upper room as they remember the Passover. The long shadow is shaped like a cross. Though the disciples do not see it, they sense something is co...
The Olive Press in Gethsemane “Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said,“Sit here while I go over there to pray.” “He took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed.38He told them,“My soul is crushed...
Since the mass was a true re-enactment of the sacrifice once made by Christ through his suffering and death on the cross, active participation at mass consisted in imagining oneself following Christ from the Garden of Gethsemane to Calvary, applying this Divine exemplar virtutis to one’s own ...
Since the mass was a true re-enactment of the sacrifice once made by Christ through his suffering and death on the cross, ac- tive participation at mass consisted in imagining oneself following Christ from the Gar- den of Gethsemane to Calvary, applying this Divine exemplar virtutis to one's...