Today's Gospel in Art - Children playing pipes
Gospel of 13th December 2019 - Matthew 11:16-19
Jesus spoke to the crowds: 'What description can I find for this generation? It is like children shouting to each other as they sit in the market place:
"We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn't dance; we sang dirges, and you wouldn't be mourners."
'For John came, neither eating nor drinking, and they say, "He is possessed." The Son of Man came, eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." Yet wisdom has been proved right by her actions.'
Reflection on the Painting
Édouard Manet travelled to Spain in 1865, where he was mesmerised by a painting by Diego Velazquez at the Prado in Madrid. Upon his return to Paris in 1866, he began work on a new painting inspired by Velazquez, depicting an anonymous regimental fifer of the Spanish army..... To read on see: www.christianart.today/daily-gospel-reading/263