Christian Art Podcast: Daily Gospel & Reflection

Gospel of 14 March 2025 - Before you leave your offering at the altar, go and be reconciled first

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.ArtToday's Reading: Matthew 5:20-26Artwork Featured: The Offering of the Jews,Painted by the Master of the Gathering of the Manna,Painted circa 1460-1470Oil on panel© Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, RotterdamSubscribe to our free newsletterwww.christian.art

Gospel of 13 March 2025 - If his son asks him for bread, will he give him a stone?

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.Art
Today's Reading: 
Matthew 7:7-12
Artwork Featured: 
La Grande Table,Painted by René Magritte (1898-1967),Painted in 1965,Gouache on paper© Sotheby's London, 24 June 2009, sold for £553,000
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Gospel of 12 March 2025 - Something greater than Jonah is here

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.ArtToday's Reading: Luke 11:29-32Artwork Featured: Table Base with Jonah Swallowed and Cast Up by the Big Fish,Sculpted in Asia Minor,Executed in the early 300’sWhite marble© The Metropolitan Museum, New YorkSubscribe to our free newsletterwww.christian.art

Gospel of 11 March 2025 - Pray then, like this: Our Father in heaven...

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.Art
Today's Reading: 
Matthew 6:7-15
Artwork Featured: 
Pater Noster,Illuminated Manuscript page, Flanders, Belgium,Circa 1450,Paint and ink on vellum© NYPL Digital Collection, New York / Creative Commons
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Gospel of 10 March 2025 - A shepherd separates the sheep from the goats

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.ArtToday's Reading: Matthew 25:31-46Artwork Featured: The Shepherd Separating Sheep from Goats,Engraving by Pieter Nagel (active 1569 - 1604),After Gerard van Groeningen, Flemish (active late 16th century),Issued in 1571,Engraving on paper© President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeSubscribe to our free newsletterwww.christian.art

Gospel of 9 March 2025 - The three temptations in the wilderness

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.ArtToday's Reading: Luke 4:1-13Artwork Featured: The Three Temptations of Christ,Fresco painted by Sandro Botticelli (1455-1510),Painted circa 1480–1482,Fresco© Sistine Chapel, VaticanSubscribe to our free newsletterwww.christian.art

Gospel of 8 March 2025 - I have not come to call the righteous but sinners

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.ArtToday's Reading: Luke 5:27-32Artwork Featured: The 7 Deadly Sins and 4 last Things,Painting by Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516),Oil on panel,Painted circa 1480© Prado Museum, MadridSubscribe to our free newsletterwww.christian.art

Gospel of 7 March 2025 - Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.ArtToday's Reading: Matthew 9:14-15Artwork Featured: Sacra Conversazione with Mary & Child, St Felicity and St Perpetua,Painted by an unknown hand, circa 1520,Egg tempera and gold leaf on panel© National Museum, WarsawSubscribe to our free newsletterwww.christian.art

Gospel of 6 March 2025 - The Son of Man must suffer many things

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.Art
Today's Reading: 
Luke 9:22-25
Artwork Featured: 
Christ crowned with Thorns,Painted by Fra Angelico (1390/5-1455),Painted in 1438,Tempera and gold leaf on panel© Livorno Cathedral, Italy
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Gospel of 5 March 2025 - Ash Wednesday: when you give, pray and fast...

Father Patrick van der Vorst reads the Daily Gospel and Art Reflection from Christian.Art
Today's Reading: 
Matthew 6: 1-6, 16-18
Artwork Featured: 
Vanitas Table (8),Sculpted by Hans op de Beeck (born 1969),Made in 2016,Mixed media, pigmented synthetic gypsum© Private Collection, London
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