contemporary Gospel in paintings - If the grain dies it yields a rich harvest

Harvest of the Wheat, Simon Bening, Da Costa Hours, Circa 1515 © The Morgan Library, manhattan

Gospel of tenth August 2020 - John 12:24-26

Jesus referred to to his disciples:

'I inform you, most solemnly,

except a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies, it continues to be only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a wealthy harvest.

any individual who loves his life loses it;

anyone who hates his lifestyles in this world

will preserve it for the eternal existence.

If a person serves me, he must comply with me, at any place i'm, my servant should be there too. If any individual serves me, my Father will honour him.'

Reflection on the Illuminated Manuscript page

today we're having a more in-depth study this illuminated manuscript web page from Ghent, circa 1515, where we see a prosperous harvest depicted: a woman is binding grain into sheaves, a man is threshing grain with two flails, a different one is reaping grain with a sickle; in the history we see two horses, one ridden by way of a man, pulling a cart stacked with sheaves of grain, and additional in the distance we see more fields and the village church. The great thing about illuminated manuscripts is that they are part of a handwritten booklet of Scripture, and a sense of reverence for the devotion to element oozes out of these small illustrations.The colorations are always well preserved, as they are part of closed books where little or no daylight can get in. So the fre shness and vibrancy of the colorings is awfully much the identical as when these were at the beginning produced before Gutenberg invented the printing press.

each one of these manuscripts were made in monasteries, inner the 'scriptorium', which served for look at by lecturers as well as for the scribing of books. four key employees had been needed for constructing such books: the parchment maker would put together the writing surface (usually manufactured from animal epidermis); the scribe would copy the phrases for the booklet; the illuminator who decorated the pages (corresponding to here), and the publication binder who created the remaining product, backbone and canopy. As with so lots of the arts, the great thing about these items additionally lies of their collaborative nature: the coming together of many artists and knowledge. believe of music as well, where so many artists deserve to work, sing, play together to create the one sound.

In modern studying Jesus makes use of nature, the seed, the harvest as an instance a degree. We may additionally feel chuffed to be a be a wheat grain just feeling respectable within the sunshine. however then if we let ourselves be sown and ploughed into the damp floor, the grain loses its elegance for a while, disintegrates, able to develop like on no account before. Spring time is arriving. a whole head of wheat appears with twenty, forty, sixty grains of wheat emanating… ready to be harvested. The grain had to die to itself in an effort to produce an abundance of wheat.

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Tags: Christian paintings, Patrick van der Vorst, Simon Bening, Da Costa Hours

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