JOKE-OGRAPHY: Jesus explains that the end of days will be pretty obvious to those on the lookout, saying there will even be “signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars.” In this cartoon, Matthew astutely notices that those celestial bodies are a fair distance from Earth and, thinking that Jesus is saying to literally look for sign posts mounted on them, asks how they’d be possible to see. Naturally, Peter answers with the most logical, philosophically-blind answer he can.
JOKE-OGRAPHY: I’m told that the name Thomas comes from the ancient Aramaic word for “twin”, while Didymus (Thomas’s alternate name as mentioned by John in the Gospel) comes from the Greek word for “twin”, so essentially Thomas had two names: one Hebrew, and one Greek, which I hear probably wasn’t uncommon for Jews living in Jesus’s time since Greek was such a huge deal. In this cartoon, John comes up with a completely different reason for Thomas’s alternate name, saying it’s because he missed the first appearance of the risen Jesus. John says, “Boy, did he miss a lot!” and emphasizes the “did he miss” part, which sounds like how one might pronounce “Didymus”. John is saying this random segment of a sentence that someone might exclaim when they found out how much Thomas missed out is the reason for his Greek name. This has been “Fun Facts with the Bible and Tom but Not The tom from The bible But instead the Tom from the Tomics which have Fun With the Bible!”
JOKE-OGRAPHY: After finding Jesus’s tomb empty, Mary Magdalene tells the apostles. They hurry to the scene and find the tomb, indeed, empty. In this cartoon, John and Mary start to bicker about how this could be, slinging sexist jabs at one another until Peter calls them out for bickering like five-year-old children while standing outside of the risen God’s tomb.
“I understand those who prefer a more rigorous pastoral care which leaves no room for confusion. But I sincerely believe that Jesus wants a Church attentive to the goodness which the Holy Spirit sows in the midst of human weakness, a Mother who, while clearly expressing her objective teaching, always does what good she can, even if in the process, her shoes get soiled by the mud of the street.’ Jesus ‘expects us to stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune, and instead to enter into the reality of other people’s lives and to know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated.’” - Pope Francis [”Tu es Petrus,” Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali]
• The first Pope of the Americas Jorge Mario Bergoglio hails from Argentina. The 76-year-old Jesuit Archbishop of Buenos Aires is a prominent figure throughout the continent, yet remains a simple pastor who is deeply loved by his diocese, throughout which he has travelled extensively on the underground and by bus during the 15 years of his episcopal ministry. More: http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/biography/documents/papa-francesco-biografia-bergoglio.html
• In 1963, Salvador Dalí—an internationally known artist and favorite of both the avant-garde art world and the media—turned his attention and energies to the endlessly rich subject matter offered by the Holy Bible (especially the Old Testament). The catalyst that permitted the artistic genius Dalí and The Book to create one hundred and five stunning and compelling images was Giuseppe Albaretto. More: https://www.parkwestgallery.com/history-salvador-dali-biblia-sacra/
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: in this tapestry - in the apartments of Queen Mary, at Hampton Court - the risen Christ entrusts the care of his flock to St Peter.
