Studying the Life of Christ : 2019-2024

This site was established in 2019 to provide a platform for presenting and illustrating the life of Jesus Christ Our Lord. This was in response to an idea which seemed to speak from the last line of the seal I had adopted in the same year (see below and at the end of each post):

Ad Jesum per Mariam.

 

D.G. (per Mariam), I have so far produced the following:

• The first Life followed the format of The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by the remarkable artist James J Tissot (1897). The posts began on the 14th of October 2019 and concluded on the feast of the Ascension, the 21st of May 2020.
• The second Life followed the work of l'Abbé Constant Fouard:  La Vie de N-S Jésus-Christ (1880). The first post was published on the feast of Corpus Christi (11th of June 2020) and the series concluded on the 4th of October 2020.
• The third Life followed the Gospel of St Mark, making extensive use of a work by Madame Cecilia published in 1904 entitled The Gospel according to St Mark. This Life opened on the Feast of St Mark (25th April 2022) and concluded on the 26th of June 2022.
• There then followed the Acts of the Apostles, also making use of Madame Cecilia's work published in 1907. The series began on the 29th June 2022 and concluded on the 11th of September in the same year.
• Next came the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning on the Feast of St Peter and St Paul (29th of June 2023) and ending on the 24th of October 2023. It too benefitted from Madame Cecilia's work published in 1906.
• This was by followed the Gospel of St Luke, making use of the Great Commentary by Cornelius A Lapide and the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas. This life began on the 29th of October 2023 and ended on the 12th of March 2024.
• The latest was the Gospel of St John, also making use of the Great Commentary by Cornelius A Lapide and supplemented by the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas. It incorporated English, Latin and Greek versions of the sacred text. This life began on the Feast of the Annunciation (transferred to the 8th of April 2024) and ended on the 11th of August 2024.

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The Vladimirskaya Icon. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.