Note: My dream board is a large painting that shows wings of an eagle, the eagle that is flying high over bridges. The painting also shows some bridges with road marks, seas and oceans with waves, Sun and clouds in the sky above. The paragraphs answer questions as stated in the syllabus.
God has planted in my heart the desire of sharing times of sorrows, joys, concerns, burdens, prayers, travail, challenges and perplexities or confusion, with the people that are part of it. The images shown in the painting are metaphorical, symbolical and descriptive in nature. Explicating on this, I would say that I am called to fulfill my responsibilities as a leader that goes through challenges and turmoil and, yet soars higher with “wings like eagles,”
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Suggesting the idea of integration of the body of Christ is easy but fulfilling it, is rather tough. As the painting shows wings of an eagle, the wings also serve a double purpose, which means they represent dry land (Of the Earth) surrounded by the seas and oceans. The left wing represents one part of the body of Christ, while the right wing represents some more people of the body of Christ that together makes some section of the Church. The left wing shows straight lines, while the right wing shows feathers. The straight lines are the strings of a harp that are symbolic of music and harmony, while the feathers are symbolic of love, care, protection. I want the Church to be different at the end of my ministry by helping people recognize that are going through vital experiences that none is ordinary or, meant to be unheard or unattended. Different people in and outside the Church are experiencing experiences that are contrary to each other in nature. I have enlisted some experiences as: Joy versus sadness, birth versus death, relationships, engagements and marriages versus breakups and divorces, shifting to new homes versus becoming homeless, attaining new jobs and promotions versus losing jobs and being terminated, receiving encouragement versus being thrust with discouragement, receiving healing versus being hospitalized or being sick since ages, fulfillment of dreams versus breaking …show more content…
I would celebrate the sacraments, and also provide pastoral care to the elderly, sick or those that are dying. I also feel drawn toward ministering people from all backgrounds and age groups like the college students, children and families. Currently, as a Pastoral Intern, I celebrate the sacraments and reach out to all sorts of people, no matter what age group, social and economic background they come from. I use my traits that are metaphorically associated with an eagle and theologically related to those that “wait for the Lord.” I keep my faith, trust and hope in the Lord and gain my strength from God alone. God blesses me with answers of my prayers, interactions with different kinds of people, experiencing God’s grace and being humbled by it. Also, as is the major part of my covenant for this year’s Field Site experience, I am building bridges with people that belong to other faith backgrounds, cultures, communities, ethnicities, races, skin color, professions, and caste systems. The painting very distinctly shows the bridges, seas and oceans representing the eagle in process of reaching out to other places of the world. Meanwhile, there is change of time required to move from one destination to
The positions of the stories in the apse show the importance of the figures represented in the images. Christ's placement the center of the apse holding a book with his left hand provides a direct relationship to the Bible. His right hand held up in blessing illustrates his divine power towards the people, who receive the sacrament on the altar below him. Christ is also surrounded by stars, wh...
1. The sociocultural history of rock & roll during the 1950s created a metamorphosis of teenage mannerisms against the older generation. Shumway (118) emphasizes how the rock & roll periodization represses the nature of normal convention illustrated in “Blackboard Jungle”; through the deviant nature of boys against adults. The boys are malicious towards each other, sneering at one another just as Vince Everett did in “Jailhouse Rock”. While the post-war generation tried to discipline the baby boomers into their known demeanor, the recalcitrant teens rebelled against all means of adult intervention. Similarly Szatmary (50) expressed the generation gap between the baby-boomer and their parents fueled the fear of delinquency in their children. Shumway (125) refers to “Blackboard Jungle” to reiterate the essence of the song “Rock around the Clock” to define the conception of foreseen dangers of youth and the behaviors associated with rock & roll as a transformative cultural practice. In reference to the integration between African Americans and whites during the rock and roll era thr...
...t would help bring into understandable light the mystery of the Church’s teachings. Finally, achievements in re-creating human emotion would ensure the painting’s, and therefore the Church’s teachings would leave an indelible mark on all of its viewers.
The ,Adoption of the Human Race, induce an intense feeling of sadness ,despair and possibly a glimmer of optimism. The pain of a nation radiates from the painting but the belief that a supreme spirit continues to keep his nation safe from the perils of the world. The great spirit chief desperately tries to keep his great nation from suffering ,but the people are becoming disconnected. The disconnection can be interred because the chief fingers aren't interlaced .
Wilson, Barbara S., Arlene Flancher, and Susan T. Erdey. The Episcopal Handbook. New York, NY: Morehouse Pub., 2008. Print.
“Plunge deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. Then let 's sing it, dance it, write it, paint it.” - Aaron Douglas (Urton)
From the Catholic observation point, the Church presents two parts: One representing its divine nature as the untarnished body of Christ, and one direc...
In Christian communities, especially communities that practice adult baptism, the ritual is seen as more than just an act of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The specific actions associated with baptism have evolved to represent Jesus’ death (the liminal stage) and resurrection (the reaggregation stage). By manipulating the symbolic actions in the ritual “so as to bring them into parallel with the pre-established non-symbolic system,” we are better able to understand the symbolism of the three stages of this rite of
As the first poem in the book it sums up the primary focus of the works in its exploration of loss, grieving, and recovery. The questions posed about the nature of God become recurring themes in the following sections, especially One and Four. The symbolism includes the image of earthly possessions sprawled out like gangly dolls, a reference possibly meant to bring about a sense of nostalgia which this poem does quite well. The final lines cement the message that this is about loss and life, the idea that once something is lost, it can no longer belong to anyone anymore brings a sense...
Lynn Malone, is currently the senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Monroe, Louisiana. On June 13, 2008, Malone gave a homily that entailed a very key component of the Christian faith, the church. In this homily, the main concept of the homily is the church as being one whole entity. Throughout the homily, numerous examples are given that exemplify this concept. I will be discussing two themes more in depth throughout this paper, the Christian Church as one entity, and the universality of Christianity and Christ’s teachings.
A Divine Image gives human characteristics to the feelings of cruelty, jealousy, terror, and secrecy. The poem begins, "Cruelty has a human heart...
A leader must not rush ahead and make things happen, he has to spend time alone and understand god’s vision and wisdom as he plots his course. Seeking god’s directions means going on journey of –“knowing yourself”. Once his mind is clear on which path he has to take, He can walk many miles in that direction without any problem.
We do tend to expect certain things when we enter a place of worship, or peruse an active ministry, and truthfully, when taking in Christian oriented art. There are a couple reoccurring emblems, symbols, well-worn themes, and subjects which have been deemed safe, coming under overuse, carrying the weight of a saltine in the impact it makes on people, including us. While intentions are almost always well meaning, these conventions appear to the secular as a genre of its own in culture and art, quite often ringing with an unsavory note of incompetence. That’s already an unpleasant attribution to a faith that has changed the world, having built the infrastructure of empathy that has survived ages and permeates the social development of our western culture. It speaks to a deeper issue within the Church itself, which is a woeful lack of inspiration.
This painting may not look like much at first, but it is full of meaning and emotion whether it’s you who are feeling it or the artist who made it. That artist happens to be the Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent actually made three different versions of this painting, that are currently residing in the Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, and Paris, Musée d'Orsay museums. He also made two sketches of this peace that are in the Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, and Paris, Private collection, he included those sketches in his letters to friends and family. This one specifically is one of the copies that is being help at the Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago. [redundant, you already specified this paintings location in the first part of the paper] A lot is known about this series of paintings since he wrote an abundance of letters about it in detail to his loved ones, he wrote about 13 letters to be exact (Brooks, The Paintings).
Art through the ages has been a powerful voice for both secular and religious ideas, and the treasury of Christian art should not be relegated to museum viewing. The art should be displayed in the church were it is meant to be. Its richness can be brought to people in schools and adult study groups. This, in turn, can help to bring art up to the level, that the faith deserves. Churches should fill the walls with art to show what happened throughout the bible. Art creates connections and associations between what we see and what we sense happened. Both ritual and art challenge us to take us beyond the immediate, if they are to bring about true insight and transformation in our lives.