A country churchyard in northeast Iowa. |
Just a couple weeks ago I passed a country church and saw this crucifix through the trees, stopped, and tried to put it in the camera and take it with. Somehow I was moved by an ordinary crucifix in a little country churchyard. I told myself on Good Friday I'd put it up, so here it is.
I'm a child of the Reformation, so the crucifix seemed to me--and still does, I suppose--a peculiarly Roman Catholic thing, almost contraband; but I've taken a shot at more than a little of Christ's suffering through the years. Here's a number of them, for Good Friday, from a host of places of worship. They are what we try to know, to feel, to understand of this particular day, a day when we're all catholic.
California Mission |
Florence, Italy |
Hoven, South Dakota |
Marty, South Dakota |
Hospers, Iowa |
Rome, Italy |
St. Paul, MN |
Marty, SD |
St. Peters Basilica, Rome |
A California Mission |
1 comment:
The photo of Christ in the CA. Mission is probably the truest as to what it was like for Christ to be remembered crucified.
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