My favorite restaurant has headshots of Laurel and Hardy on the wall, and I just bought a 3 - foot - long velvet painting of
The Last Supper with Marilyn Monroe holding court and Charlie Chaplin, Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, and James Dean as her acolytes.
He runs to discourses of some length, as for example, concerning the new birth, in his conversation with Nicodemus (chapter 3); on the bread of life after the feeding of the five thousand (6:22 ff); on the true children of Abraham (8:31 - 59); on the shepherd and the sheep (10:1 - 18); and particularly his forceful discourse after eating
the Last Supper with his disciples, which include some of the most highly cherished utterances recorded of Jesus.
It is not as a certain Monty Python sketch would have it, in which the Pope calls Michelangelo to account for painting
the Last Supper with three Christs» «The fat one balances the two skinny ones!»»
At the Frankfurt Spring Book Fair, his printers had sent along his full - length reply to numerous works of the other Reformers, Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Pirkheimer, Bucer, Capito and others, on the meaning of those words of Jesus at
his Last Supper with his disciples which formed the heart of the Mass, or eucharist:
Christ's last plea to his Father at
his Last Supper with the disciples was «that they may become perfectly one,» and the reason he gave was «so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.»
With the sole exception of a single allusion to Jesus»
last supper with his companions, nothing which could in the ordinary sense be called an act of Jesus or an incident in his career is so much as referred to, and in only a few highly dubious passages are his words quoted.
He was said to have taken
a last supper with his followers before returning to his father, the god of all.
For example, after the homely details of the preparation of
the last supper with the disciples, we read the strange words, «this is my body,» «this is my blood... poured out for many.»
We not only tell the story of the first Passover, but we also tell the story of
the Last Supper with Jesus, and talk about how every element in the Passover meal pictures and represents Jesus Christ and what He did for us.
According to Mark, after Jesus had celebrated
his last supper with the disciples, he went with them to a place called Gethsemane, where he prayed, «Abba, Father, everything is possible for you.
It is also close to the place believed to be where Jesus celebrated
the Last Supper with his disciples.
He celebrated
a Last Supper with his 12 disciples.
Join
The Lasting Supper with me and many others who are learning how to be real, raw, and authentic with one another, and are really supporting one another through our individual journeys.
If you are deconstructing or are about to and want help and friendship, come, pull up a chair to our table, and enjoy
The Lasting Supper with us!
Not exact matches
The spot, a parable about how easily we forget the true meaning of charity, opened
with a perfect replica of da Vinci's The
Last Supper, using actors posing as the characters in the painting.
I personally invite you to consider joining The
Lasting Supper where you can be you along
with others where they can be them.
I don't think you are generally disgusted
with all churches — in fact, through
Lasting Supper you are again running your own sort of Church
with doubters and not those clamoring for certainty.
No Visti of the Magi No star of the East No flight to Egypt to escape the massacre of innocents No meeting
with Satan and flying around the mountains No Earthquake No
Last Supper No Foot washing rite No Temple curtain tearing No resurrection of dead saints Nothing about his actions in the Temple over turning the money changers tables.
# No Visit of the Magi # No star of the East # No flight to Egypt to escape the massacre of innocents # No meeting
with Satan and flying around the mountains # No Earthquake # No
Last Supper # No Foot washing rite # No Temple curtain tearing # No resurrection of dead saints # Nothing about his actions in the Temple over turning the money changers tables.
Jesus, Himself, on that night of the
last supper, told His disciples that He spoke to them of such things as a Trinity, a resurrection, and re-union on our part
with the Godhead made possible through that which He was about to suffer and conquer, so that «when it happened» they might believe.
A ritual meal within the early Jesus communities, such as those prescribed in Didache 10 and 9,
with no paschal imagery, no
Last Supper tradition, and no connection
with the death of Jesus.
I hang out
with a bunch of black sheep at The
Lasting Supper, our online community.
Probably, I should begin on the night of that
last supper we had
with Jesus in the upper room.
I invite you and anyone else looking for a safe refuge to join the on line community here
with David Hayward the Naked Pastor, The
Lasting Supper.
Koontz later reported that they shared communion
with an Orthodox Christian congregation that had «roots deep in antiquity» and even used the same Aramaic words that Jesus may have used at the
Last Supper.
Mosebach deals
with the canard, that to be active at Mass we must be physically moving around, by a thoughtful essay that poses the simple but cutting question, «What active role did the apostles play at the
Last Supper?»
This is the primary purpose of The
Lasting Supper: to provide a place for you to do this,
with friends.
Just before His crucifixion, Jesus had his
Last Supper on Maundy Thursday
with His disciples, during which He first instituted the Eucharist.
This is a little fun thing I did for the members of The
Lasting Supper, but I thought I'd share it
with you too.
For the curious lay reader who can overlook Isaacson's editorializing (and his repeated insistence that Leonardo's penchant for sodomy went hand in hand
with his creativity), this work is a serviceable introduction to the major events and artistic developments in the life of the genius behind the
Last Supper.
This Gospel is very sensitive to Jesus» absence and responds
with that most encouraging body of material between the
Last Supper (John 13) and the arrest in the garden (John 18).
(*** If you're someone who's struggling
with this, join the rest of us at The
Lasting Supper.
On the walls, and all for sale, are photos of the Pope and JFK and Mother Teresa, interspersed among the reproductions of da Vinci's
Last Supper and other well - known paintings
with religious themes.
John makes clear that the
Last Supper was not a Passover meal, whereas the other three gospels say it was (compare John 19:31
with Mark 14:12).
In my online community The
Lasting Supper, there's a wide diversity of people
with differing beliefs... an amazing cacophony of nonconformists I've ever met.
At the
Last Supper «Our Lord gave them the power to renew the sacrifice of the Eucharist
with the command, «Do this as a memorial of Me» as He blessed the cup.»
So the
last supper should be filled
with thick yeast bread not matzo.
That's why I believe in providing safe places like The
Lasting Supper where you can come out
with people who will provide validation and support.
As in that saying at the
last supper, so at other times too, he speaks
with entire naturalness of eating and drinking in the Kingdom of God.
Further evidence for the existence of table - fellowship
with «tax collectors and sinners» as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is the role played by communal meals in earliest Christianity (E. Lohmeyer, Lord of the Temple [ET by Stewart Todd of Kultus und Evangelism (1942); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961], pp. 79ff, discusses the central role of table - fellowship in the ministry of Jesus, but he is particularly concerned
with the development towards the
Last Supper, which he sees as historical, rather than
with the relationship between this table - fellowship and the cross, on the one hand, and the communal meals of early Christianity on the other.)
The story of the
last supper ends
with the singing of a hymn, after which «they went out to the Mount of Olives» (Mk 14:26 - 27; Mt 26:30 - 3 I; Lk 22:39).
Involved
with these considerations is the question of the year in which the
last supper and the trial and crucifixion of Jesus took place.
In our online community, The
Lasting Supper, many of the members struggle
with this very issue.
It can not have done so, because all of our evidence indicates that the kind of theological emphasis associated
with the «
last supper» in the gospels was by no means the major emphasis in early Christian communal meals from the very beginning, as it would have to have been if this had been the occasion for them.
And... if you want to hang out
with others who «get» this, pull up a chair at The
Lasting Supper!
Or, if you want to do this along
with others who get it, join The
Lasting Supper.)
Come and join others who are talking through this
with others at the table of The
Lasting Supper!)
If you need a safe place to do this along
with others who understand and listen well, check out The
Lasting Supper!
At The
Lasting Supper, we have managed to create an incredibly safe space to deconstruct, to change your beliefs, to lose or morph your faith, to make dramatic alterations to your life
with meaningful support, and to be whoever you are
with whatever you think.
Mark gives 20 percent to Jesus» death; Matthew and Luke, a little less, at 15 to 16 percent; and John (
with the
Last Supper discourses included) 30 percent.