Vatican Museum: Beauty that
unites! 7
Beauty creates communion. It unites onlookers from a
distance, uniting past, present and future. Pope Francis has recalled this on a
number of occasions. The Church has always translated the universality of the
Good News into the language of art. From this premise, this dramatic moment in
history characterized by uncertainty and isolation, gives rise to this
initiative which is a partnership between the Vatican Museum and Vatican News:
Masterpieces from the Vatican Collection accompanied by comments from the words
of the Popes.
Pseudo Dominic of Michelino, XV cent, Entry of
Christ into Jerusalem, Vatican Museums, Vatican Art Gallery
©Musei Vaticani
©Musei Vaticani
The Lord truly
rejoiced with the people,
with those young people who shouted
out his name and acclaimed him as King and Messiah.
Humility does not mean denying reality:
Jesus really is the Messiah, the King.
Yet at the same time the heart of Jesus
was moving on another track,
on the sacred path known to him
and the Father alone:
the path that leads from ‘the form of God’
to ‘the form of a servant’,
the path of self-abasement
born of obedience ‘unto death,
even death on a cross’.
He knows that true triumph
involves making room for God
and that the only way to do that
is by stripping oneself, by self-emptying.
To remain silent, to pray, to accept humiliation.
There is no negotiating with the cross:
one either embraces it or rejects it.
By his self-abasement,
Jesus wanted to open up
to us the path of faith
and to precede us on that path.
with those young people who shouted
out his name and acclaimed him as King and Messiah.
Humility does not mean denying reality:
Jesus really is the Messiah, the King.
Yet at the same time the heart of Jesus
was moving on another track,
on the sacred path known to him
and the Father alone:
the path that leads from ‘the form of God’
to ‘the form of a servant’,
the path of self-abasement
born of obedience ‘unto death,
even death on a cross’.
He knows that true triumph
involves making room for God
and that the only way to do that
is by stripping oneself, by self-emptying.
To remain silent, to pray, to accept humiliation.
There is no negotiating with the cross:
one either embraces it or rejects it.
By his self-abasement,
Jesus wanted to open up
to us the path of faith
and to precede us on that path.
(Pope Francis, Palm
Sunday Homily, 14 April 2019)
Under the direction of: Paolo Ondarza
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