Images for Reflection: John 13 – Nourishing Vocation Project

St. Olaf College | Nourishing Vocation Project

January 5, 2023

Images for Reflection: John 13

Use these reflection questions for meditation on each image

What do you see in this image?

What do you feel looking at this image?

What stories from your own life does this image bring to mind?

What stories of the world does this image bring to mind?

Bening, Simon, 1483 or 1484-1561. Christ Washing the Apostles' Feet, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58692 [retrieved July 8, 2022]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simon_Bening_(Flemish_-_Christ_Washing_the_Apostles'_Feet_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.

Tintoretto, Jacopo, 1518-1594. Christ washing the feet of the disciples, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55030 [retrieved July 8, 2022]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Lavatorio_(Tintoretto).jpg.

Veronese, 1528-1588. Christ washing the feet of the disciples, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55028 [retrieved July 8, 2022]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paolo_Veronese_-_Christ_Washing_the_Feet_of_the_Disciples_-_WGA24846.jpg.