Easter 3 (B) + The Face of God + 4.19.15
Volto Santo of Manoppello, photo by Paul Badde Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Acts 3:12-19 ; Psalm 4 ; 1 John 3:1-7 ; Luke 24:36b-48 ) While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" In the past couple of weeks I had an experience that gave me just a glimpse at what the disciples must have been feeling in this first moment of seeing the resurrected Christ. I read a book called The Face of God by Paul Badde, a German journalist who works in Rome. In his work in and around the Vatican and other news reporting, he caught wind of an image of Jesus in the Abruzzi Mountains in Italy, not far from Rome. After studying this image with a nun, they discovered that the image of Jesus on the cloth at Manoppello lines up exactly with the face on the Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth that some believe was wrapped around Jesus’ body as it was placed in the tomb. In this book of over 300 pages Badde...