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Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on
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I am doing the Sacred Space (from the book) this year as my Daily Morning Thingy
This week I am asked to "imagine Jesus himself ...at my side" and "share my feelings with him".
Hence the question.
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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According to this immortal site, no matter what you're doing he always wears the white robe outfit.
What's more, the site settles the vexed question raised in Purgatory a while back: fighter pilot is an acceptable profession, with Jesus in the navigator's seat. ("New!" I wonder if the artist reads the Ship?)
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Ah now, according to a painting I saw yesterday in the Alte Nationalgalerie, when dropping in on the average humble German family, He favoured an all-blue ensemble: simple, uncluttered lines, no watch, no jewellery.
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Das Tischgebet?
Where is the sign saying "Christ is the unseen guest at every meal", etc.?
(not sure about the red T-shirt underneath, either)
[ 22. January 2015, 08:28: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on
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The cat doesn't seem to be very happy. It's gone into hiding under the chest of drawers. Makes you wonder if this is the 'real' Jesus who has such an effect! ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Originally posted by Eutychus:
Das Tischgebet?
Still the bare feet 'tho.
Brrrrrrr! Far too cold in this snow and freezing temperatures, frostbite is not a good look.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
The cat doesn't seem to be very happy. It's gone into hiding under the chest of drawers.
The paterfamilias doesn't look very gruntled either. He's got that "I wanted a quiet evening in but I'll be polite" look on his face.
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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I cannot but feel conversation round the table would be rather stilted, and the air heavy with the unspoken 'There would be more stew to go round if You didn't keep dropping in at mealtimes'.
Posted by basso (# 4228) on
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I'm fond of Coffee with Jesus. Always in a coat and tie, but I admit we never see his feet.
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by Eutychus:
Das Tischgebet?
Still the bare feet 'tho.
Brrrrrrr! Far too cold in this snow and freezing temperatures, frostbite is not a good look.
Not only that, He's left the door open.
WHO WAS BORN IN A BARN?
Oh...
[ 22. January 2015, 15:19: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I cannot but feel conversation round the table would be rather stilted, and the air heavy with the unspoken 'There would be more stew to go round if You didn't keep dropping in at mealtimes'.
Or perhaps, "If you are going to drop in at mealtimes, You could at least do a bit of the old 'loaves and fish' routine on the stew, y'know, make it stretch the extra person."
Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on
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The usual here if someone is coming for supper, is they bring a bottle of wine. Probably Jesus doesn't bother, seeing as he's got the water to wine trick.
Here, if he's coming in winter, he's got to be wearing boots, parka, mitts and toque. Maybe he doesn't wear socks after taking the boots off at the door. I wonder if he gets the static electricity hair standing up thing with flattened toque hair like the rest of us.
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on
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Toque? As worn by HM the late Queen Mary? Or does the name refer to something different where you are?
Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on
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What got me was the clogs
The predecessor of Birkenstocks maybe?
Actually Diane Schoemperlen in Our Lady of the Lost and Found has a good description of C21 Mary in regular clothes.
Perhaps He might be a lumber-sexual (I read the Guardian on-line, you know)...
Keep the ideas coming, folks, I've got a few more days to go on this "devotion"...
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Nike sandals. The brown ones look particularly fetching, but I expect he'd wear the purple ones in Lent.
Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on
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I wonder if anyone here is a fan of SANDMAN, the graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. In those works the Sandman (a supernatural figure) has the gift of appearing like the viewer. Among cats, he is a cat, a black one; among people he is a tall skinny man with black hair. And he is always dressed to fit in: doublets in Tudor times, a toga in ancient Rome, a tee and jeans in New York City.
Such a nifty trick, I like to think of Jesus doing it, as in fact C.S. Lewis has suggested. Among hermit crabs he is a hermit crab; among fish he is finned.
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Originally posted by Galilit:
Keep the ideas coming, folks, I've got a few more days to go on this "devotion"...
If you haven't yet, get your hands on the short story entitled The Visit by Adrian Plass, which imagines Jesus visiting an average contemporary church.
(IIRC, the only point at which we learn what he's wearing is when he swaps the suit jacket the harrassed church administrator has bought him to attend functions, for the one-armed glaring monstrosity previously belonging to a one-armed harmonica-playing beggar Jesus has healed, on the spurious grounds that the guy now needed a new jacket to fit his new arm in).
Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on
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Originally posted by Albertus:
Toque? As worn by HM the late Queen Mary? Or does the name refer to something different where you are?
That's not a toque. Not here. It is a knitted wool (or other) close fitting hat, often with a pom-pom. These are all toques. Some people use the term "beanie (even the link does) but a beanie doesn't cover the ears. A beanie covers just your bean (head). At last count I have 12 toques.
[ 22. January 2015, 18:10: Message edited by: no prophet's flag is set so... ]
Posted by Rev per Minute (# 69) on
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
The cat doesn't seem to be very happy. It's gone into hiding under the chest of drawers.
The paterfamilias doesn't look very gruntled either. He's got that "I wanted a quiet evening in but I'll be polite" look on his face.
Never mind the vater, has anyone noticed the child on the far side of the table? There is a worrying resemblance to Chucky, the evil doll of 1990s moral panics. (Not the kid from Rugrats, hair's the wrong colour...)
Posted by cosmic dance (# 14025) on
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I had a dream once where I met Jesus. He was wearing a brown homespun pullover and corduroy pants. He was scruffy and had curly hair. Oh and sandals.
Hope this helps Gallilit!
Posted by crunt (# 1321) on
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I wonder how easy He would be to recognise without the shiningly bright white robe with the nice red toga-type over robe, shoulder-length brown hair and trimmed beard.
I remember watching a television film about Jesus hiding in a barn in England, and only the children knew he was there. I was a child myself when I saw it, so I can't remember what he was wearing in the film, but I seem to recall that he turned out to be a criminal on the run from the police. It was a moving film. Anyone remember any more about it? I think it was made in the late sixties or early seventies.
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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This one. I never saw it but heard of it at the time.
Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on
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Originally posted by cosmic dance:
I had a dream once where I met Jesus. He was wearing a brown homespun pullover and corduroy pants. He was scruffy and had curly hair. Oh and sandals.
Hope this helps Gallilit!
Sure does
What is home-spun - like natural wool you mean?
Corduroys - tell me they were not Austin Powers type but thin and scuffed Chuck Norris type
[ 23. January 2015, 05:40: Message edited by: Galilit ]
Posted by crunt (# 1321) on
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
This one. I never saw it but heard of it at the time.
Yes that's it.
I'm going to watch it again, thanks.
Posted by Enoch (# 14322) on
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In its day, Whistle Down the Wind was a very well known film here. It starred Hayley Mills as the child lead. It's weird that the IMDb seems to think it was made in Sweden. It wasn't. It was made in north Lancashire.
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Back in the 60s/70s, there were styrofoam sandals called "Jesus Feet"--because they'd enable you to walk on water!
Of course, Jesus wouldn't need them...unless he wanted to hide in plain sight...
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Back in the 60s/70s, there were styrofoam sandals called "Jesus Feet"--because they'd enable you to walk on water!
Of course, Jesus wouldn't need them...unless he wanted to hide in plain sight...
Maybe He would wear these instead.
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Originally posted by Galilit:
Originally posted by cosmic dance:
I had a dream once where I met Jesus. He was wearing a brown homespun pullover and corduroy pants. He was scruffy and had curly hair. Oh and sandals.
Hope this helps Gallilit!
Sure does
What is home-spun - like natural wool you mean?
Corduroys - tell me they were not Austin Powers type but thin and scuffed Chuck Norris type
I expect the cords would be green, like mine, and he would not be wearing socks with sandals. He was not a sinner after all.
Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on
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What shade of green - it does cover a multitude of...hues
Posted by Rev per Minute (# 69) on
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Galilit:
Originally posted by cosmic dance:
I had a dream once where I met Jesus. He was wearing a brown homespun pullover and corduroy pants. He was scruffy and had curly hair. Oh and sandals.
Hope this helps Gallilit!
Sure does
What is home-spun - like natural wool you mean?
Corduroys - tell me they were not Austin Powers type but thin and scuffed Chuck Norris type
I expect the cords would be green, like mine, and he would not be wearing socks with sandals. He was not a sinner after all.
Do you still have that beard, Sioni? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
<on thee corduroy trousers worn by Jesus> I expect the cords would be green, like mine, and he would not be wearing socks with sandals. He was not a sinner after all.
Do you still have that beard, Sioni?
Yes, I still have the beard ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Posted by Celtic Knotweed (# 13008) on
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Continuing the hat tangent...
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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
That's not a toque. Not here. It is a knitted wool (or other) close fitting hat, often with a pom-pom. These are all toques.
Round here that would be a bonnet, or a woolly bonnet. The ones with a pom-pom on the top are known as bobble hats.
Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on
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Dammit - this week has Jesus sitting next to me and I am supposed "to speak out my feelings as to a trusted friend"
He will have more outfits than Barbie at this rate.
Very un-Christian.
He is still in faded green cords tho' I have not got the top-half sorted yet. Or the shoes - it's a nightmare...
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I expect the cords would be green, like mine.
Only in ordinary time.
Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I expect the cords would be green, like mine, and he would not be wearing socks with sandals. He was not a sinner after all.
On the contrary. Our Lord was a gentleman, and therefore a member of the Church of England, and therefore according to the canons of the Church as specified in the Thirty Nine Articles would have worn his socks with sandals.
This is done, because while anyone might don a dog collar in order to imitate a clergyman for material gain, nobody with taste would wear socks with sandals except for religious reasons.
Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on
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![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
dead right.
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According to this immortal site, no matter what you're doing he always wears the white robe outfit.
...not even donning eye protection while looking over the shoulder of the welder. 'Oh sh*t...not again...got any mud? I need to spit in my own eye for a second'.
And the guitarist is, of course, the late, great - ?
Posted by cosmic dance (# 14025) on
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Originally posted by Galilit:
Dammit - this week has Jesus sitting next to me and I am supposed "to speak out my feelings as to a trusted friend"
He will have more outfits than Barbie at this rate.
Very un-Christian.
He is still in faded green cords tho' I have not got the top-half sorted yet. Or the shoes - it's a nightmare...
Hi Gallilit, I'm back. Look, the cords were actually faded brown,(apologies to the green cords brigade, but it was my dream). The sweater was that natural coloured wool which I described as 'homespun' and kind of chunky and went very nicely with the cords. And sandals, without socks! He looked counter-cultural in a 70's kind of way - now I'm showing my age. He didn't let me in on his denominational allegiance unfortunately, but if, at the time he had told me he was C of E/ Anglican I would have said "Well you can't possibly be Jesus then, can you."
Fortunately, my opinions have changed over time...
Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on
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Yes, counter-cultural a la 70's would suit...
I am also becoming a bit concerned about talking to men in their early 30's and taking their advice...seems like every time I have something serious to do in the past 5 years the doctor. clerk, whatever looks too young.
All this Reality Prayer is becoming a bit much I fear...I could be his mother!
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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I had an image of him walking up to Jerusalem with the tassels of a prayer shawl hanging under a waistcoat and a keffiya on his head. Just to confuse everyone.
Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on
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I see him in jeans and a flannel shirt (a subdued blue and red plaid), probably Birkenstocks on his feet, but he might wear Converse All-Stars. In cold weather he would wear a peacoat.
Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on
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I didn't like to mention it but I'd already added the tzitziot . I wonder about peyot (side curls) too.
I worked in an Israeli high school canteen/tuck shop for a few years and used to muse which of the boys I had made bread rolls for and sold CocaCola to looked most like Jesus
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