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Lamb of God seated above the book of seven seals, bearing aloft the banner of the triumph of Life over sin and death

Ladder and sponge and the crown of thorns are instruments of His suffering and crucifixion

Crown symbolizing triumph

Crown of Thorns by Danielle Rose - YouTube

Crown of Thorns By Danielle Rose

`My seed was born One bright spring morn In gardens grown by God. Out of the earth My stem gave birth To petals red as blood.

The gentile rain My growth sustained, And like each seed God sows, I dreamed one day That I'd be named A king's most precious rose. -- One day a soldier Bent me over, Tore me from my bed. All beaten, battered, My stem tattered, Wanted but for dead

In cruel hands ripped, My beauty stripped, Twas not the dream I chose, And filled with shame, I wept in pain, No more a precious rose. --

Parable of the Sower

Crown of Thorns By Danielle Rose

` Then I did see The soldiers lead A man through palace doors. Was this my king? Why did they bring him in, This man so poor?  A purple garment Hid the torment None but I could see. They mocked and laughed, Gave him a staff, And bowed on bended knee. -- They bent me round And wove a crown And placed me on his head. My petals found Crushed on the ground, Like tears of God turned red.  With each small sin I was pressed in. I pierced with self-disdain. In thought and deed I made him bleed, My selfishness, his pain.

Crown of Thorns By Danielle Rose

Behold!" they'd sing, "Behold your King! Hail, King of the Jews!" With each reed's blow, Our pain did grow, As one we were abused.  Despite the crown He did not frown; He smiled with love instead, And carried me For all to see Upon his tender head. -- Once placed with awe In manger straw, Anointed by John's hands, Transfigured on A mountain dawn, Now wore a mangled branch.  Once gently kissed By Mary's lips, And blessed with magi's myrrh, Baptized by A parting sky,

TransfigurationRaphael (1483-1520)

Crown of Thorns By Danielle Rose

Now streamed with blood so pure. -- An innocent brow Calls to us now To follow this example: To let our thorns And all that scorns Be healed within his temple.  Though dreams may fade, Each one was made In seed that Jesus sows. And now I see I'm called to be The King's most precious rose.

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The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet symbolizing the beginning and the end.

Revelation 21:6 He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

The first four seals reveal the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

“And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer” (Revelation 6:1-2).

Interpreted as a false prophet who deceives the world.

“And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword” (Revelation 6:4). The second seal reveals the horseman of war.

Interpreted by Daniel as the end of times warfare.

Victor Vasnetsov, 1887 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

verses 5-6: “And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”

Interpreted as famine.

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell,” or the grave, “followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” (verse 7).

Interpreted as death.

Victor Vasnestov, 1887 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

El Greco: the vision of Saint John 1608-1614

“And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them, that were slain for the word of God …” (Revelation 6:9).

Interpreted as God’s own people, who knew God being killed because they had turned away from God.

12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

Francis Danby, 1828 The Opening of the Sixth Seal

“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other” (Matthew 24:31). That seventh seal includes seven trumpet plagues that God pours out on mankind.

At the last trumpet, Jesus Christ Himself is going to return to this Earth! “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord …” (Revelation 11:15). Jesus Christ is about to take over this world in crisis, rule it with a rod of iron and bring peace, joy, happiness and success to everybody on Earth. That is the kind of prosperity mankind really wants, but has never been able to achieve.

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Basin and Pitcher which Pilate washed his hands

Cock crowed when Peter denied Him

Hands of striving people seeking salvation and enlightenmentChalice ac

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Chalice, the cup of suffering Jesus accepted at Gethsemane

Christ in Gethsemane

Heinreich Hoffman, 1890Riverside Church, New York City

My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it.

If this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, your will be done!

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary Lourdes Pyrenees France

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Hand of God, the Father extended in benediction

The Creation: the sun, moon and stars

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Stylized birds, fish, flora and fauna, man

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Escallop shell of the Sacrament of Baptism Three drops of water representing the trinity fall onto

the Christian, symbolized as a fish

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Principle feast of ChristmasStar of Bethlehem illuminates a manger containing

the chi rho monogram for Jesus.

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Principle feast of EasterChi rho emerges from an empty tomb

Note the shroud

Garden Tomb adjacent to Golgotha unearthed 1867

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kagLdjf26FY

The Empty Tomb20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)

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Descending Dove of the Holy SpiritHovers above seven flames representing the

spiritual gifts

The Seven Spiritual Gifts

Romans 12: 6-8 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

1. Prophesy2. Serving3. Teaching4. Encouraging5. Giving6. Leading7. Mercy

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Symbols of the ongoing ChurchPilgram’s staff and wallet, an open book,

And a cross-masted ship

Rembrandt (1606 – 1669)1661

Saint James the Greater, Patron Saint of Spain

The Cathedral of Santiago de CompostelaGalicia Spain

The cathedral is the reputed burial-place of Saint James the Great, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ. The cathedral has historically been a place of pilgrimage on the Way of St. James, since the Early Middle Ages.

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Wheat and Grapes are combined with the Eucharistic Bread and Wine