Super Amazing Eucharistic Internet Picture Source

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Hi guys! So there’s this heckin’ powerful and super beautiful Catholic picture that is floating around the internet and I would like to know the original source. It looks like it might be from a passion play with actors at a parish or something, and it’s amazing: Our Lord, bloodied in his passion, holding up the hands of a priest lifting the Eucharist. Just extraordinary. I can’t even find a high-resolution version of it, and I’ve done a reverse image search. Thanks to anyone who might know where this is from!!! PS If there is any great art out there also portraying this scene, please let me know about it!
Oh, my heart, this is why the priest traditionally faced the tabernacle, because look Who is facing us.
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I’m sorry, I find this picture mildly disturbing.

That said, it is exactly what we should see in our mind’s eye at every Mass.

“Beautiful” is not the word I would use, but it is indeed “beautiful” in the sense that we see just how we were redeemed from sin, no longer have to live in sin, no longer have to die in sin. It is also beautiful in that we see that the Mass is, indeed, a holy sacrifice.

Just wondering, would the Orthodox have a problem with it? Any other Christians?
 
Well, I think it’s absolutely beautiful. Art, especially sacred art, contains a beauty and depth of emotional power and immediate visual resonance that is more than we can put into rational words.

I see beauty because Jesus’ death was not a begrudging sacrifice; it was truly his Passion not only in the etymological meaning of the term as suffering, but also in the meaning of his extraordinary love for each one of us, personally.

In this picture, I just want to run up to Jesus to hug him and comfort him and fall at his feet in worship and be with him in that moment. That’s beauty. Not all art inspires such a response.

Blessings upon the actor who played the Lord in this picture. He has done something beautiful to speak to an eternal and ineffable beauty.
 
I can’t find the picture on any websites that are in English, but you might like this other picture I saw while searching.

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I agree. The actual depiction of physical torment isn’t nearly as heart-wrenching or “beautiful” to me as it is disturbing. What I find moving about the crucifixion is reflecting on the emotional torment Jesus faced - the betrayal, the fact that people want to make Him suffer, and that He faces it all with love.
 
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I can’t find the picture on any websites that are in English, but you might like this other picture I saw while searching.
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I have seen this picture before and I like it very much. (Note also that the priest is facing the altar, and just from the placement of items on the altar, it appears to be the Traditional Latin Mass.)

This picture isn’t “disturbing” in that the depiction of Our Lord as bloodied is muted, and it is not a photograph.

“Disturbing” is not always a bad thing.
 
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that He faces it all with love.
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I do wish to clarify that it is Jesus’ own eternal beauty, everything he is and does, that I find chiefly beautiful. Certainly, it is not the fact of the bloodiness of his crucifixion that I find beautiful, but rather his total and passionate self-giving; this is intimately, bluntly, unashamedly and devoutly illustrated in the original photo I posted. In addition, the aesthetic composition of the photo is not at all inconsequential, but rather contributes powerfully to this aforementioned clear understanding. This is why we have powerful, uncomfortable, reverently disturbing sacred art, and why it can also unsettle us. The incarnation is itself beautifully “offensive” in the sense of offending our safe, comfortable, unchallenged assumptions about our extraordinary, incarnate, sacramental Beloved Lord.
 
I love this picture! Very inspiring for meditation at Mass!
 
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