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Article: The picture of forbearance: Gerrit van Honthorst depicts Christ holding his peace before Caiaphas.(LENT 2006)
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- March 31, 2006
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Art historian Sr. Wendy Beckett is writing NCR's Lenten series. Each week during Lent, she discusses a work of art as it illustrates the life of Jesus.
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT: "Christ before the High Priest," by Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1617
So often when Jesus talks to his disciples about his passion, he tries to make them understand that all of them, in their own way, will have to follow him. The passion is the meaning of Christianity, writ large, writ in blood. He speaks about each "taking up our cross and following him," about the "way" being "straight and narrow," about the need to give up so much that the selfish ego would want to possess. This is ...