Advent 2 - Sunday 4 December
The art piece for this Sunday is Mary and Elizabeth, painted by Tampala Myponyani and Father Claude Boucher in 1996.
So much of our Christmas art features very European looking characters.
Marys with pale skin and light coloured hair.
It is easy to forget Mary was not European.
And yet I also want to remember
that Mary was a local chick.
A "girl-next-door",
an anybody.
And so I like the contextual nature of this piece.
Mary and Elizabeth as African women,
meeting each other with excitement and worship.
posted by Unknown @ 1:40 PM
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I found this quote from Claude Boucher on his work:
“I asked myself how Malawians might be helped to recognise Jesus as their brother. For them it doesn’t matter very much whether Jesus has a white or black face. What is far more important is whether his attitude and behavior are African, What are the paths on which he walks and what are the landscapes he moves through? Happily Malawi is very similar to the Holy Land in many ways. We have mountains and valleys, lakes and rivers, sites that resemble uncannily Mount Tabor, the Book of Kedron, Lake Genessaret and the Jordan River.” http://www.clubmak.com/maumission.htm
I really liked the excitement in this one too - you can almost hear the call and I want to jump around the kitchen each time I look at the postcard. Some friends of ours told us about a surprise pregnancy the other day and the feeling was the same. Thanks so much Lynne for sending the card set to me too - it was a great surprise in the mail.
You're welcome!
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