Faith, more than an accumulation of beliefs, is something that is being lived and celebrated; it is celebrated in what we call liturgy, above all in the Eucharist. Man celebrates it and does it according to human style, through gestures and rites according to his natural being.
The central nucleus of Christian life, the passion, death and resurrection of Christ, is being remembered especially on Holy Week and Easter. And, for being the center, the wealth and density of the rites during this liturgical time is much greater, to the point of overflowing the temples and bursting the streets. The liturgy is continued in the processions and traditions, and it is the object from which the artists get many of their creations. In this time, more than any other, the art is manifested as a very adequate language to express the living of the faith.
The website of the Order makes an artistic emphasis on each of these important dates and, on some days, converts the agenda into a small fashion show for which three very impressive works, related with the Augustinian Recollects, parade before the readers:
HOLY THURSDAY. THE LAST SUPPER, BY PASTOR PALOMA
Nothing less, for Holy Thursday we have chosen a Last Supper, concretely, that painted by Pastor Paloma and conserved in St. Ezequiel Moreno Residence in Madrid.
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We found in Rome, in the House of Studies of St. Indefonso, the work that synthesizes the content of Good Friday. It is a Holy Face that, after an unfortunate peruse, is conserved there for almost 200 years.
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EASTER SUNDAY: VETRINE FROM PANAMA
In order to represent the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, a vitrine work has been chosen made some years ago for the parish church of St. John the Baptist of La Salle and St. Monica, popularly known as “the church of stone”, in Panama City.