Watchword for 2023:
"You are the God who sees me." Gen 16:13
James Tissot (French painter, 1836-1902), "Hagar and the Angel in the Desert" (1896-1900), watercolor on paper.
Watchword for February 2023:
Sarah said: “God has brought me laughter.” Gen 21:6
Watchword for March 2023:
“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.”
Eccl 3:1
A fine art print featuring a watercolor illustration of the moon and its different phases. The artwork is inspired by Ecclesiastes 3 where the writer speaks of there being a season and time of every purpose in life.
Watchword for April 2023:
Romans 14:9
Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
Römer 14:9
Christus ist gestorben und lebendig geworden, um Herr zu sein über Tote und Lebende.
The Meditation on the Passion by Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, 1490)
This remarkable picture is a meditation on death and resurrection. Christ’s dead body is displayed on a broken throne inscribed in pseudo-Hebrew. A bird, a symbol of the soul, flies upward. The landscape—contrastingly barren and lush—alludes to the themes of death and life, as do the animals. The Old Testament prophet Job sits on a block inscribed in pseudo-Hebrew while opposite is Saint Jerome (ca. 347–420), who wrote a commentary on the book of Job. The turbaned figures in the background would have been familiar to Venetians through their trade with the Middle East and Egypt.
Watchword for May 2023:
Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.
Sprüche 3:27
Weigere dich nicht, dem Bedürftigen Gutes zu tun, wenn deine Hand es vermag.
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Watchword for June 2023:
Gott gebe dir vom Tau des Himmels und vom Fett der Erde und Korn und Wein die Fülle (1. Mose 27:28)
Watchword for July 2023:
Ich aber sage euch: Liebt eure Feinde und bittet für die, die euch verfolgen, auf dass ihr Kinder seid eures Vaters im Himmel. (Matth 5,44-45)
Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum by Konstantin Flavitsky, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
Watchword for August 2023:
Our watchword for August comes from the beautiful Psalm 63. In the Luther Bibel (2017) and the Afrikaanse Bybel (1983) it comes from verse 8; in the NIV it is verse 7:
“Du bist mein Helfer, und unter dem Schatten deiner Flügel frohlocke ich”
U is vir my 'n hulp, en dan juig ek oor die beskerming onder u vleuels.
Watchword for September 2023:
„But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Matthew 16:15
Jesus walking on water. Armenian manuscript. Daniel of Uranc gospel, 1433.
Watchword for October 2023:
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.
Do what it says.
James 1:22
Watchword for November 2023:
„He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
He is the maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellation of the south.”
Job 9:8-9
Jesus walking on water. Armenian manuscript. Daniel of Uranc gospel, 1433.