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The Art of Lent
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This delightful book describes and interprets a series of forty full-color paintings for each day of Lent.
Artists often address subjects that our culture seeks to avoid, and the brilliant and perceptive reflections from nun and art historian Sister Wendy Beckett will help you to read these paintings with a more discerning eye and encounter deeper levels of spiritual meaning than may at first appear.
Ash Wednesday: Repentance
Thursday: Forgiveness
Friday: Humility
Saturday: Purification
Week One: Silence
Monday: Profound silence
Tuesday: Desiring silence
Wednesday: Beyond Babel
Thursday: Meditative silence
Friday: A paradox
Saturday: Silence and time
Week Two: Contemplation
Monday: Into the light
Tuesday: Manifestation
Wednesday: The still mind
Thursday: A rich emptiness
Friday: Amid the chaos
Saturday: A still life
Week Three: Peace
Monday: Finding a balance
Tuesday: The illusion of peace
Wednesday: Choosing peace
Thursday: Isolation
Friday: Conditional peace
Saturday: A meaningful life
Week Four: Joy
Monday: Choosing joy
Tuesday: Joy in infancy
Wednesday: Embracing joy
Thursday: Lost in time
Friday: Radiant truth
Saturday: Beyond experience
Week Five: Confidence
Monday: A vision
Tuesday: Joyful confidence
Wednesday: Inner tranquility
Thursday: Courage
Friday: A bright fortress
Saturday: Absolute trust
Week Six: Love
Monday: Tender reverence
Tuesday: Chasing the butterfly
Wednesday: Forgetting self
Maundy Thursday: No greater love
Good Friday: Passionate sacrifice
Holy Saturday: Radiant expectation
Easter Day: Resurrection
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