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Pentecost Season · Christ the King · Year C

Colossians 1:11-20

The Supremacy of Christ

Christ in Majesty, apse of Sant Climent de Taüll, Master of Taüll (unknown Romanesque master)
Christ in Majesty, apse of Sant Climent de Taüll, Master of Taüll (unknown Romanesque master), c. 1123Master of Taüll, Christ in Majesty, apse fresco of Sant Climent de Taüll (c. 1123) — Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
The apse fresco of a Pyrenean village church, moved to Barcelona in the 1920s to save it. Christ sits inside an almond of light holding a book that reads EGO SUM LUX MUNDI.He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: Colossians 1 makes the claim, and this is how the twelfth century drew it.Master of Taüll, Christ in Majesty, apse fresco of Sant Climent de Taüll (c. 1123) — Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, BarcelonaHolds the greatest collection of Romanesque wall painting anywhere, much of it physically removed from remote Pyrenean churches in the 1920s.Master of Taüll, Christ in Majesty, apse fresco of Sant Climent de Taüll (c. 1123) — Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

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"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation." (Colossians 1:15)

Paul prays that the Colossians be strengthened for endurance, then breaks into one of the New Testament's highest statements of Christ's identity as creator, head of the church, and reconciler of all things through the cross.

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