From the Ghent Altarpiece: "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" [ca. 1432, Jan and Hubert Van Eyck]

 

"The Angelus" ca. 1857-59 [Jean-Francois Millet]

 

"All the ends of the earth will remember..." [from Psalm 22:27]

 

[Felician Moczik]

 

[Matthew 12:41]

 

Jesus said, "The men of Nineveh will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here." [Matthew 12:41]

"Iona" [1987]

 

                    Iona  [1987]

 

The gulls wheel and cry over Iona,

In and out, waves beat and pound--

Figured bass of Celtic prayer,

Meditation's harmony.

 

Eons ago no houses here,

No ferries plowing from shore to shore;

Only the footsteps of silent monks

And cries of gulls--the gulls and the sea.

--Mary M. Isaacs--

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