Artistic Lenten Lunchtime Meditations
Every Monday of Lent, we will gather over Zoom for a short, 15 minute service of prayer and meditation at 12:15 p.m., focusing on different artists’ interpretations of the cross either through visual art or creative writing. Feel free to bring your lunch with you! Artists will represent a wide spectrum of relationships to Christianity and the cross, as well as vary significantly in their depictions, but all will invite us into a deeper and more creative relationship with this essential symbol of our faith. No familiarity with the week’s artist or writer is needed to participate!
In these 15 minutes, there will be a short introduction to the artist’s work and to our prayer practice, time with silence or background music to prayerfully meditate on that artist’s perspective, and time for a few comments. For our last session, Monday, April 11th, we’ll be exploring “The Cross Through The Eyes of Living Artists.” Reflecting on multiple contemporary pieces, we will see how artists today contribute to the vibrant and varied ways the cross has been depicted through visual art.