LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten image for 4/2/2021, Good Friday.

Image: Crucifix, copper alloy and gilding, circa 1125-1150, made in Westphalia or Lower Saxony.

Song: "It Is Accomplished" by Peter Gabriel, from the original motion picture soundtrack Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989). Listen HERE.

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In the words of Jesus from the Cross:
"It is finished."

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 4/1/2021, Maundy Thursday.

Image: "The Ointment of the Magdalene," oil on canvas, circa 1900, by James Tissot.

Song: "I Don't Know How to Love Him"from the film Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/30/2021.

Image: "Flowers of the Universal Flowering," oil on canvas, 1916, by Pavel Filonov.

Song: "Cowgirl (Remix id2 A1804 (1993)" by Underworld. Original version found on the album Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten image for 3/30/2021.

Image: "An Angel of the Last Judgment," oil on cardboard, 1911, by Wassily Kandinsky.

Song: "Allé Sauvage" by Beak>, from the album >>> (2018). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/29/2021.

Image: "The Ten Largest No. 3 - Youth," tempera on paper, 1907, by Hilma af Klint.

Song: "Holy Roller" by Minimal Compact, from the album Creation Is Perfect (2019). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/28/2021.

Image: "Pietà," oil on canvas, circa 1592, by El Greco.

Song: "Pieta" by Wire, from the album A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck (1988). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/27/2021.

Image: Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc, still shot from the film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Song: "Marathon" by Doomtree, as found on the album All Hands (2015). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/26/2021.

Image: "Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake," oil on canvas, 1843, by Hermann Anton Stilke.

Song: "Without Belief" by Nitzer Ebb, from the album Belief (1989). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/25/2021.l

Image: "Black Square," oil on linen, 1915, by Kazimir Malevich.

Song: "Dead Sun" by Moby, from the album Animal Rights (1996). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/24/2021.

Image: "Portrait of Innocent X," oil on canvas, circa 1650, by Diego Velázquez.

Song: "Ray of Light" by Madonna, from the album Ray of Light (1998). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/22/2021.

Image: "Study After Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X," oil on canvas, 1953, by Francis Bacon.

Song: "Antiworld" by Nina Hagen, from the album NunSexMonkRock (1982). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/22/2021.

Image: "False Glory," charcoal on paper, 1885, by Odilon Redon.

Song: "Glory Bound" by Pigeonhed, from the album The Full Sentence (1997). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/21/2021.

Image: "Head of an Old Man," pottery, 200–1BC, Ptolemaic Period, from Egypt.

Song: "Old Man" by Neil Young, from the album Harvest (1972). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/20/2021.

Image: "Anointment of the Dead Christ," bronze, circa 1588–1596, (most likely cast) by Fra Domenico Portigiani, after a model by Giambologna.

Song: "Anointed" by DJ Muggs the Black Goat, from the album Dies Occidendum (2021). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/19/2021.

Image: Illustration of a human heart from De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543.

Song: "Cirrhosis of the Heart" by Foetus, from the album Flow (2001). Listen HERE.

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Extended meditation: "Cirrhosis of the Heart" by Foetus, remixed by Amon Tobin, from the album Blow (2001). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/18/2021.

Image: "Eye," mezzotint, 1946, by M. C. Escher.

Song: "Hallelujah" by The Helio Sequence, from the album Keep Your Eyes Ahead (2008). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/17/2021.

Image: Photograph of the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula/M16, 2015, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Song: "Halleluwah" by Can, from the album Tago Mago (1971). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/16/2021.

Image: "Abtei im Eichwald (Abbey in the Oakwood)," 1809–1810, by Caspar David Friedrich.

Song: "Big Sky" by Probot, featuring Tom G. Warrior, from the album Probot (2004). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/15/2021.

Image: "Ajax Carries the Body of Achilles from the Field of Battle," Attic black-figure lekythos, circa 510 BC, Sicily.

Song: "Troy" by Sinéad O'Connor, from the album The Lion and the Cobra (1987). Listen HERE.

LENTEN MEDITATION

Lenten meditation for 3/14/2021.

Image: "The Persistence of Memory," oil on canvas, 1931, by Salvador Dalí.

Song: "The Box," full version, by Orbital. From the bonus disc accompanying the album In Sides (1996). Listen HERE.