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Focus your attention on the part of the image that first catches your eye. Try to keep your eyes from wandering to other parts of the picture. Breathe deeply and let yourself gaze at that part of the image for a minute or so. Let your eyes now gaze at the whole image. Take your time and look at every part of the photograph. See it all. Reflect on the image for a minute or so. Consider the following questions: • What emotions does this image evoke in you? • What does the image stir up in you, bring forth in you? • Does this image lead you into an attitude of prayer? If so, let these prayers take form in you. Write them down if you desire. • Ask God to speak to you through what you’ve noticed and then take time to listen. Offer your prayers to God now in a final time of silence, praying about what you have experienced through focusing on the image. 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A red-haired Jesus has wounded his hand on a nail, a foreshadowing of the crucifixion. Mary consoles him and St. Anne removes the offending nail. John brings a basin of water, showing how he will prepare for the coming of Jesus by baptizing. They are all preaching without words in these acts of caring. Pray in contemplation over this image. How has this encounter helped you on your journey? Offer a prayer of thanks for the insights from this meditation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607993898fbf524c97d4482b/8f2c636f-5c87-43e6-abb5-15eeba1a1a5d/Screenshot+2025-06-27+at+1.32.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Visio Divina The Baptism of Christ is a famous painting made by Leonardo da Vinci's master, Andrea del Verrochio at circa 1472 in his studio in Italy. The painting was completed by Verrochio in collaboration with his apprentice, Leonardo da Vinci who painted and finished the details of some parts of the painting, particularly the angel. The painting was an altarpiece commissioned by the monks of the San Salvi Church near Florence. The Baptism of Christ was mainly done by Verrochio using tempera on wood. The painting depicts St. John the Baptist during the baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ as according to the Gospels of Luke, Mark and Matthew. Two angels on the left side of the painting complete the four figures in the artwork. The scene illustrated by the painting includes God's extended arms painted with golden rays and dove with its wings widely spread, a halo with cruciform is painted on top of Jesus' head and another halo on top of St. John the Baptist. The two angels are holding Jesus' clothes. The angel on the left side is the part done by Leonardo da Vinci. He used oil, which was at that time a new medium in painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607993898fbf524c97d4482b/dbcb1f87-a187-4c16-b598-c7561cbaf26c/Screenshot+2025-06-27+at+2.44.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Visio Divina "It is Finished" is an awe-inspiring print, a profound testament to the profound narrative of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation found within Scripture. Created in 2010 as a part of the larger body of work titled "What Breathes Beneath Our Story," this masterpiece is a visual symphony that encapsulates the entire cosmic saga of human existence. In "It is Finished," the artist masterfully brings together the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ into a single, breathtaking tableau that stretches across the cosmos. This piece transcends the boundaries of time and space, rendering the story of redemption as a celestial tapestry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607993898fbf524c97d4482b/b94a3c49-5fcc-4ff5-aded-5b777b409777/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+11.43.55.png Visio Divina From a homily on the Gospels by Saint Gregory the Great, Pope My Lord and my God Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. He was the only disciple absent; on his return he heard what had happened but refused to believe it. The Lord came a second time; he offered his side for the disbelieving disciple to touch, held out his hands, and showing the scars of his wounds, healed the wound of his disbelief. Dearly beloved, what do you see in these events? Do you really believe that it was by chance that this chosen disciple was absent, then came and heard, heard and doubted, doubted and touched, touched and believed? It was not by chance but in God’s providence. In a marvellous way God’s mercy arranged that the disbelieving disciple, in touching the wounds of his master’s body, should heal our wounds of disbelief. The disbelief of Thomas has done more for our faith than the faith of the other disciples. As he touches Christ and is won over to belief, every doubt is cast aside and our faith is strengthened. So the disciple who doubted, then felt Christ’s wounds, becomes a witness to the reality of the resurrection. Touching Christ, he cried out: My Lord and my God. Jesus said to him: Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed. Paul said: Faith is the guarantee of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. It is clear, then, that faith is the proof of what can not be seen. What is seen gives knowledge, not faith. When Thomas saw and touched, why was he told: You have believed because you have seen me? Because what he saw and what he believed were different things. God cannot be seen by mortal man. 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