Peter and John at Resurrection morning. William Comments

Eugene Burnand (1850 - 1921) 
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Thank you William for the Email below.  

"it was the work of the Master's own hands" - the chin band by Ronald Knox.

Puzzles here: check with the Ian Wilson 'Shroud of Turin', exegesis, spiritual  devotional writers, different mystics/

Fr. Raymond's Monday Mass of Holy Week quoted St. Bernard, "No day should pass without a thought or prayer of Passion of Christ".

Happily my Lenten Book is on 'Hours of the  of the Passion' (Luisa Piccarreta).

Equally Holy Week has to be very practical for the Sacristy and in the Liturgy - not least tomorrow, for the Thursday, washing of the Feet, Last Supper, Blessed Sacrament Procession on the cloister to the Chapel of Repose.

... yours,

Donald

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William ....
To: Donald...
Sent: Saturday, 28 March 2015, 16:51
Subject: Re: Palm Sunday posting  

Dear Father Donald, ....

I hope you may have received my Easter card with its intense-emotion picture of Peter and John on Easter morning. If I may explain, my reflection takes me into ‘their moment’, where there has been only tragedy, and then the extraordinary claim of Mary Magdalene. Would I not have run with them to witness the scene, with all of their anticipation and expectation? That is from where my meditation arises. We have the ‘benefit of hindsight’, of knowledge of the Resurrection, but on that morning… Through that extraordinary painting I have been caught up in their emotion.

I sigh for Easter morning, but know that I must first go through this distressing time. The Scripture takes us there, but strangely consoles us as we thus share in Jesus' Passion.

With my love in Our Lord,

William

[Comparative ART of "The Disciples"  Eugene Burnand (1850 - 1921)]   

The problem with most depictions of the Resurrection is that they are too literal, if you can say that about something so without precedent – Christ often ‘floating’, the empty tomb, angels etc.  Perugino did several, Bellini (see this on the excellent Idle Speculations blog), and probably themost famous of them all, by Piero della Francesca, Huxley’s ‘greatest picture in the world’ .Eugene Burnand was a French-based Swiss painter, linked to the Realist school of the time.

Hence when you look at the above painting, he’s got the faces just right. Something is happening which will change everything, forever.

https://theknifeandme.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/burnand-easter-sunday/

 Knox Bible verse

John 20:7

Simon Peter, coming up After him, went into the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there, and also the veil which had been put over Jesus’ head, not lying  with the linen cloths, but still wrapped round and round in a place by itself. (Diary of Jesus, Jean Aulagnier used translation quotation Mgr. Knox).

“The Glorification” is the title to the seventh and last part of The Poem of the God Man by Maria Valtorta.

The Gospel Story, Ronald Knox & Ronald Cox pp.   

Peter, John and Mary Magdalen

And while they were on their way, Peter and the other disciple both set out, and made their way to the tomb; they began running side by side, but the other disciple outran Peter, and reached the tomb first. He looked in and saw the linen sheet lying there, but he did not go in. Simon Peter, coming up after him, went into the tomb and saw the linen sheet lying there, and also the chinband which had been on 'Jesus' head, not lying with the linen sheet, but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and saw this, and learned to believe. They had not yet mastered what was written of\him, that he was to rise from the dead.. Narrative p.410

Peter and John were together somewhere, probably at the Cenacle; they were alarmed at Mary's breathless news. Although our Lord had told them he would rise from the dead (pp. 170, 176, 290,352), they were thinking of him 'dead and buried'; and now the Jews had gone to the unbelievable lengths of profaning his dead body. Their apprehension increased as the three women ran past them, too terrified to speak. Had they found the Master's body, cast out of the tomb, and perhaps mutilated by his enemies? In his eagerness, spurred on by the urgency of the situation, John runs ahead; relieved at seeing the grave cloths intact, he waits for Peter, and together they go into the tomb. The linen sheet lay there on the bench, undisturbed. If anyone had taken the body, they would have carried it in the shroud; or, if they had left the shroud, it would be disarranged, and probably thrown on the floor. But the chin band was the most convi­ncing piece of evidence; it was neatly folded up on the bench. No robber would have done that; it was the work of the Master's own hands. These facts convinced both Peter and John; the latter (it is a scene found only in St. John's Gospel) confesses that the apostles should have known of Jesus' resurrection, even with­out this evidence; it was foretold in the scriptures (p. 434), Explanations p. 411/p.413