To the Virgins

The Sunday School Easter program was about to begin at Bethesda Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. For my last time speaking in front of the congregation before leaving for Tennessee State University (TSU), I was charged with introducing the speaker of the program. As I stood in front of hundreds of people to recite the introduction that I wrote, I was confident and thoughts of how far I had come since giving my life to Christ ran thru my mind. My spiritual journey began when I was about 5…

The Virgin Islands Department of Education was founded in 1999 and is responsible for all academic personnel, ranging from administration to teachers. This department is responsible for the conduct, coordination and development of educational facilities on the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John. The department is associated with all schools that cater to children in the elementary level, all the way to middle and upper school. The department of education operates under a mission…

happy to write about is Taddeo di Bartolo. This artist and sone of a barber has created many pieces of work that have inspired other artists through history but the main focus is Taddeo himself. To work on him and his inspired art, Coronation of the Virgin, we will star on how this artist came to be. Taddeo di Bartolo was conceived in Siena in 1362, raised by his dad, Bartolo di Mino. Whit has been discovered, Taddeo was an Italian painter of the Sienese School amid the early Renaissance. He…

Christmas Vespors The Christmas Vespers was based on the nine lessons which were Christmas carols. It also included reading from the scripture. The main idea of the Christmas Vespers was to embrace the birth of Jesus and the fall of man kind. Instead of just telling the story through the scripture music was added appositely to the nine readings. This rendition of the Christmas Vespers was exceptionally enjoyable. The show opened up with the Adam giving into the temptation to Eve and the apple.…

One particularly remarkable example used is Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks”. The gist of what the essay had to say about that painting is how the painting was once unique, never to be seen in two places at once, but after the invention of the camera and television, “Virgin of the Rocks” is capable of being seen by millions of people at once from the comfort of their own…

began preaching against the title Theotokos or Mother of God, beginning to be used of the Virgin Mary. He distinguished between the logos (“divine nature”) and Christ (the Son, the Lord) as a union of divine nature and human nature. He refused to attribute the human acts and the sufferings of Jesus to the divine nature, arguing that God could not suffer on the cross, as God is omnipotent. Therefore the Virgin Mary, could not be viewed as the Mother of God, but simply as the mother of a man. St.…

could be white. In fact, in the case of Mary, it is more likely that she was a woman of color. As a Jewess, Mary would normally be considered dark skinned. St. Luke also may have clued in to this when he painted three paintings of a darkly colored Virgin Mother. Thirdly, in art, when Mary is depicted with Jesus as a young boy, it is usually the case that both are depicted as people of color. The artists would be correct in…

Domenic Ghirlandaio’s Madonna and Child of 1470-75 is a tempera half-length portrait that shared characteristics of paintings commonly displayed in Florentine homes. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary calmly glancing in a downward direction towards her young son, Jesus Christ, who is sitting on her right knee as he uses his head and arm to gesture in an outwards direction. While the Madonna and Child was a central icon in European history, Ghirlandaio’s portrayal nods to both the secular and…

“The Virgin Suicides,” is an American drama that was based on the early 1990s. The movie centers around the lives of five teenage sisters who live in a middle class suburbs located on the outskirts of Detroit during the 1970s. In the beginning the movie starts off with the youngest sister taking her own life by jumping out of the second story window and impaling herself on the edge of a fence post. The guys on the block share their memories of the Lisbon sisters and their suicide attempts after…

The term Pieta means a picture or sculpture of Virgin Mary holding her dead son Jesus after he had been brought down from the cross on her arms or laps. From a historical perspective, this art work was greatly influenced by Michelangelo. Although he was not the inventor of the pieta, he however changed the way it was been presented forever. That is, he changed the usual picture of an old and sad looking virgin Mary and a very dead and lifeless Jesus. To a younger woman who although…