Lent reflection – ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’

Philippe de Champaigne’s Dead Christ on the Cross, c.1654 – ‘Life ultimately will triumph over death’.
LAMY/MAGITE HISTORIC

Through Lent the priest and art historian Patrick van der Vorst has been using images to help us deepen our understanding of the last words that Jesus spoke on the Cross.

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