Mosaic Blog Post

 

A Chrismon is one of number of Christian symbols intended to represent aspects of the Person, life or ministry of Jesus Christ and the life, ministry or history of the Church through a single image. The word Chrismon comes from the Latin phrase "Christi Monogramma" which means "monogram of Christ" The P is sometimes shaped to look like a shepherds crook and the X to look like a cross symbolizing the "Good Shepherd" of his flock who are his followers. I think I could of done better on creating my mosaic I got distracted and had troubles finishing all of it in time. I think it would have been very hard to make a gigantic one of these on a church wall as a mosaic it would have been very hard and would leave no room for mistakes. Considering they had very little supplies as we do nowadays than back than.    
  

Saint Blog post

 Saint John the Baptist was born to a mother that was barren but in the bible it says got answered her prayers and let her conceive a child. When he grew older he became a preacher and talked about Jesus's/God's word and would baptize men. In the Bible it says that he was the man that baptized Jesus and when he did the Holy Spirit came down and told Jesus that he was the Son of God. He was a preacher most of his life and used to gather quite a crowd. His most famous/used line is “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist and to eat he would have locust and wild honey. People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. So as you can see we was an ordanariy guy that was blessed by God and who could draw massive crowds to hear him speak and to be baptized by him. In the Gospel accounts of John's death, Herod has John imprisoned for denouncing his incestuous marriage, and later executes John by beheading. John condemned Herod for marrying Herodias (who was not only his brother Philip's former wife but also Herod's niece) in violation of Old Testament Law. Later Herodias's daughter Salome (who was both Herod's grand-niece and stepdaughter) dances before Herod, who offers her a favor in return. Herodias tells her to ask for the head of John the Baptist, which is delivered to her on a plate (Mark 6:14-29).

   

Jesus Christ Super Star Movie Review

I thought this would be a good movie because some of my friends owned and they had said it was good and that they liked but after watching it I wish I hadn’t.

Jesus Christ Super Star was produced in 1973, it is written by Frank Lloyd. It is about the conflict between Jesus and Judas and who Judas starts to think Jesus has gotten too big and popular and if they don’t stop they are going to get killed.        

The movie is filmed in the Roman ruins in Israel but the buildings are crumpled it is hard to get a sense of what they’re doing or were they are so it makes it really confusing. Some of the clothing and costumes could have been way better even in that time era there have been movies that were given better ratings then this because it wasn’t a Rock opera and it had good costumes not just a guy with a purple cap and a golden crown that looks similar to an olive branch and ta-da Pontius Pilot.    

Also the acting is horrible like when Jesus (Ted Neeley) is hanging on the cross, he moves his hands away from the wooden crosspieces, showing that the nails are just nail heads stuck to his palms. Or during "King Herod's Song", when there is a close up of the pianist, you can see that a female is sitting on the piano. Later on, the female gets up to dance, but when there is another close up of the pianist after the dancer leaves, you can still see someone sitting on the piano because they used the same part. And last in the long shot of Judas Iscariot hanging himself, you can see the noose attached to a beige-colored harness on Carl Anderson's back.

I think that this movie is offensive movie towards most Christians because it mixes some facts and makes Jesus look like he is married to Mary Magdalene because in the Bible it says he came from heaven so he could not marry because he was god. Also they have tanks chasing Judas and the Roman guards have machine guns and there’s jets flying over the desert and in the market scene they have a M60 for sale and grenades. In my opinion I think that this movie is very poorly written they are missing large and important parts like his resurrection, and Pontius Pilate in the bible doesn’t want Jesus crucified and asks the people if they would rather have this man who is a thief and a murderer out of jail or Jesus and the people vote for Jesus death.