{"id":2739,"date":"2007-04-18T22:36:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T22:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/04\/the-face-of-christ-and-his-ope\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T22:36:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T22:36:54","slug":"the-face-of-christ-and-his-ope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/04\/the-face-of-christ-and-his-ope\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Carceri: The Face of Christ and His Open Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/CIMG0436.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CIMG0436.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/CIMG0436-thumb.JPG\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYesterday morning, together with Leonard and Mark, my friends from the U.S., I visited the <em>Carceri<\/em> or hermitages hidden on the wooded slopes of Mount Subasio above Assisi.  In a chapel that is part of the small monastic complex built there by Saint Bernardino of Siena in 1400, I discovered this beautiful fresco of the Precious Blood flowing from the pierced side of Jesus Crucified into a chalice held by an angel.  I am always spellbound by depictions of the Holy Face of Jesus and of His Open Side.  Here in Italy I find them everywhere.<br \/>\nNote that in this image  Jesus is living.  His eyes are open; He offers His Blood consciously, willingly, and with infinite love.  The fresco is situated just above and behind a stone altar where Holy Mass would have been celebrated; it represents the very mystery that is actualized so often as the Eucharistic commandment of the Lord is carried out: &#8220;Do ye this in remembrance of me&#8221; (1 Cor 11:24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, together with Leonard and Mark, my friends from the U.S., I visited the Carceri or hermitages hidden on the wooded slopes of Mount Subasio above Assisi. In a chapel that is part of the small monastic complex built there by Saint Bernardino of Siena in 1400, I discovered this beautiful fresco of the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-eucharist","category-sacred-heart-of-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Ib","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}