{"id":21647,"date":"2015-04-05T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/?p=21647"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:35:14","slug":"art-and-faith-easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/art-and-faith-easter-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Faith: Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 285px;\" title=\"Peter and John\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eugene-burnand.com\/works%20images%20and%20museum%20files%20and%20images\/John%20and%20Peter%201000p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"994\" height=\"683\" \/>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Eug\u00e8ne Burnand, \u201cThe Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection,\u201d 1898<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em><img src=\"http:\/\/www.loyolapress.com\/assets\/arts-faith\/Logo-AFL-140.png\" alt=\"Arts and Faith-Lent\" \/><\/em><\/strong> In this painting, Eug\u00e8ne Burnand invites us along as Peter and John run to the empty tomb on Easter morning. In front of a resplendent dawning sky and rushing through a pastoral landscape, Peter and John are hurrying toward the site of Jesus\u2019 burial. Peter, bearded, older, and wearing somber colors, wears a complex expression. In his face is the story of his experience of the Passion, the shock and anxiety, the fear and desperation, the guilt and heartbreak. His is an exhausted face that lived this experience. His body moves toward the tomb, but his spirit is conflicted\u2014fearing the worst about the missing body, daring to hope but torn by the fact that he has denied the Lord. <em>What if his body has been taken\u2014when will the torture of these events stop? But what if he is risen? And what will happen now?<\/em><!--more-->\r\n\r\nNext to Peter is John, the Beloved Disciple. He is younger and brightly clad with a face of yearning and deep emotion. His white garments convey purity and innocence, as well as new life. As the Beloved Disciple, he is a symbol of the Church, the symbol of those who will come and enter into the Death and Resurrection of Christ through the font of Baptism\u2014John\u2019s white garment reinforces this. He clutches his hands together, embodying desperate hope. His expression of yearning shows the small seed of faith growing larger within him to believe the unbelievable\u2014that the body of the Lord is risen, not stolen. After the horrific events of the Passion, this thought alone is already a powerful movement of faith.\r\n\r\nThe dawning sky reinforces the idea of this growing faith. Like the brightness of the rising sun, the faith of the disciples dawns as they run to the empty tomb. They are told the body is taken, but as they run along and see for themselves, their dawning faith allows them to begin to understand, to begin to hope, and to begin to feel the joy of the Resurrection.\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.loyolapress.com\/assets\/advent\/daniella-zsupan-jerome.jpg\" alt=\"Daniella Zsupan-Jerome\" \/>Commentary is by Daniella Zsupan-Jerome, assistant professor of liturgy, catechesis, and evangelization at Loyola University New Orleans.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eug\u00e8ne Burnand, \u201cThe Disciples Peter and John Running to the<a href=\"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/art-and-faith-easter-sunday\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":[],"categories":[38,81],"tags":[],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":38,"name":"Prayer","slug":"prayer","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":38,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":38,"category_count":11,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prayer","category_nicename":"prayer","category_parent":0},{"term_id":81,"name":"Seasonal Prayer","slug":"seasonal-prayer","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":83,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":90,"count":1,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":81,"category_count":1,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Seasonal Prayer","category_nicename":"seasonal-prayer","category_parent":90}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Eug\u00e8ne Burnand, \u201cThe Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection,\u201d 1898 In this painting, Eug\u00e8ne Burnand invites us along as Peter and John run to the empty tomb on Easter morning. 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