Tag: Holy Week

Journey to resurrection

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A new collection of hymns/songs is out today from Jubilate – I’ve contributed a set of words, but posting here the link to the whole collection, which includes songs from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. From the Jubilate website you can download the words, and also purchase lyric videos of individual songs for use in church, a songbook for if you have live musicians, reflective commentaries on the words, and even a CD of the whole album.

The whole collection: Journey to Resurrection

My song, with music by the wonderful Joel Payne: Drop, slow tears

As with all my Jubilate hymns, you’ll need to put this one on your CCLI return:

1 Drop, slow tears of anguish, sing of love unknown;
watch as in the garden Jesus weeps alone,
seeking strength to finish what he has begun:
“Through this cup of suffering let your will be done.”

2 Peter, at the fireside, weep your bitter tears;
give up to your Saviour all your shame and fears.
He will still forgive you, Christ who freely gave;
let him take your failures with him to the grave.

3 Shed your tears of sorrow: Christ hangs on the cross;
Mary, standing by him, weeps her love and loss.
See the blood and water, balm distilled from pain:
by his wounds he heals us, bringing life again.

4 Wipe our eyes, O Saviour, in the darkest night;
as we long to see you in the dawning light.
When the world feels broken, trapped behind a stone,
raise us up, and teach us songs of love made known. 

words © Ally Barrett / Jubilate
music © Joel Payne / Jubilate
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Women of Holy Week

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Last year I worked on a project with the fabulous Paula Gooder to illustrate her nine short stories entitled ‘Women of Holy Week’. The resulting book was hugley popular last Lent, and I suspect it will be again this year, so it’s absolutely not too late to get hold of copies and use them in your church or in your personal devotions, or as a gift for friends. It’s wonderfully readable, and includes ideas for reflection as well as historical / scriptural details drawn from Paula’s scholarly wisdom that really enrich the narrative.

Buy the book here (links to Church House Publishing)

If you would like to use the images alongside the book in worship or Lent groups etc, you can download them from my book illustrations page. There are nine individual paintings, and one large composite image, to be ‘read’ in a spiral direction starting at the top left hand corner, following the order that the stories appear in Paula’s book. Because the stories are all interwoven with each other, so are the paintings – you can enjoy them separately or together.

NB if you don’t have the means to do high quality colour printing you may find projecting the images more satisfying.

Passiontide and Holy Week in pictures

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This post is all pictures. I’ve put all of my pictures that possibly pertain to Passiontide and Holy Week here in one place so that if you’re looking for images to use in reflective material for yourself or for your dispersed congregation you can just help yourself. Sorry the digital quality isn’t great for all of them and some are a bit blurry.

The woman with the ointment
Jesus washes his friends’ feet
Peter went out and wept bitterly
Crucifixion
  • sleeping disciples
  • Judas betrays Jesus
  • Sanhedrin trial
  • Peter betrays Jesus
  • Scourging
  • Hand washing
  • Carrying the cross
  • The women of Jerusalem
  • Simon of Cyrene
  • nails
  • Looking at the thief by his side
  • Jesus creates a new family
  • Jesus dies
  • Pieta
  • Jesus is buried
Stations of the cross (the biblical version- please do check I’ve got them in the right order!)
The women of Jerusalem
Easter morning
Resurrection breakfast on the beach 1
Resurrection breakfast on the beach 2
Mary hugging Jesus after the resurrection when he comes downstairs from seeing the disciples in the upper room.

Pictures for Holy Week

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Help yourself if they are useful to you.

Cambridge Stations: Peter denies Jesus

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Westcott House is once again commissioning Stations of the Cross for churches and chapels across the city. This year, I have been allocated station 4: Peter denies Jesus.

“And he went out and wept bitterly”

  1. Charcoal on paper
  2. Digitally manipulated print

 

 

 

 

 

Peter’s betrayal of Christ is deeply personal, yet he weeps on behalf of all our failures.

In the original charcoal image, we are invited into the raw immediacy of Peter’s experience by the charcoal fire.

In the digital print – created using a scanned image and some of the basic image manipulation features in Microsoft Word – we are invited to recognise the ease with which Peter’s sin can be duplicated, and the ordinary, daily ways in which we improvise upon his betrayal.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant-girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before all of them, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about.” When he went out to the porch, another servant-girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” Again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man.” After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you.” Then he began to curse, and he swore an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment the cock crowed. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

Matthew 26.69-75