Father Denis McBride will be leading a FREE online retreat this Lent, based on his two books Reflecting with Paintings Vol 1 and Vol 2 from Wednesday 24th February 2021
Each video will be uploaded on the dates
given below. You can choose to watch each video at a day/time
that suits you. You can access the retreat from the
Redemptorist Publications website by clicking on this link Reflecting with Paintings | Retreat with Denis McBride |
RP Books
Reflecting with paintings
One
of the things that has always intrigued me about Jesus is how so much of his
teaching he chose to do through the medium of fiction. All his parables
are fiction: each could begin ‘Once upon a time.’ Jesus asked his hearers to
leave their own world and come with him into an imaginary world, and then
return to their world to have an inner conversation of how they see things in
the light of the parable. Jesus’ parable world is a world of great
variety. You meet all sorts of people: difficult judges, committed
burglars, broken families, wounded beggars, awkward neighbours, selfish
priests, eccentric employers, desperate hosts, surprised guests, wise and
foolish virgins.
Paintings,
too, have their own language, from pictorial to representative, to coded, to
abstract, to you-name-it – communicating another world to the onlooker, another
slant on looking at people and things, or simply to provoke unspoken
communication between the artist’s emotions and the viewer’s. For this Lenten
retreat I invite you to look at selected paintings, to imagine another world,
and then to return to your own story in the hope that some inner conversation
might be provoked through the strange encounters.
- Denis McBride, CSsR -
- First week
in Lent - Wed 24 Feb
Praying the Rosary – Old Woman Praying the Rosary by Paul Cézanne - Second week
in Lent - Wed 3 Mar
Growing up hyphenated – Jojo by J W Miller - Third week
in Lent - Wed 10 Mar
Food for thought – The Promenade by Fernando Botero - Fourth week
in Lent - Wed 17 Mar
Facing the truth – Logo for Frankfurt Book Fair, 1998 - Fifth week
in Lent - Wed 24 Mar
Bearing up – Peasant Woman with Buckets and a Child by Kasimir Malevich - Palm Sunday
- Sun 28 Mar
Hat trick – Pilate’s Wife by Sebastien Champion - Good Friday
- Wed 31 Mar
Letting go – Pieta by Vincent Van Gogh
When words are not enough – The Reconciliation of Peter by Iain McKillop
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