![]() This canvas was an early acquisition by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, just a few years after it was founded in 1861. Maybe the little lamb strayed and it was too late for it to be saved? The painting conveys a desperate sense of grief and isolation when we are away from the flock. The pair of sheep is encircled by black crows that look threatening. The scene is almost reminiscent of a pietà. The parable of the Lost Sheep deals with a shepherd who has 100 sheep. A trickle of blood is running from its mouth into the white snow. The Parable of the Lost Sheep is recorded in Matthew 18:14-18 and in Luke 15:1-7. The mother sheep is standing over the dead body of her lamb. It depicts a ewe bleating in grief, her breath freezing in the cold air. Our painting from 1878 is by August Schenck. That is what happens when we sin: we deliberately leave the right path and thus distance ourselves from God.ĭuring Advent, as Christmas is approaching, we have to realise why Christ came into the world: to help save his 'strayed' sheep. However, to 'stray' means the we deliberately took a decision to distance ourselves or move away. It wasn't our intention to get lost, it just happened accidentally. If we get lost, it somehow means that maybe it isn't our fault that we got lost. Yet 'stray' is probably the better word for what Jesus tries to communicate to us. The parable of the 'lost' sheep is probably the better known version to us. The sheep contain soft shades of white, off-white, brown, and gray, set against a. Luke's version of this parable uses the word 'lost'. What do you think If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search. The 100 sheep are hand-drawn with delicate charcoal and pencil details. ![]() It appears three times in our Gospel passage of Mathew. I want to look at the word 'stray' in our short reading. We stray at times from our shepherd and also from our flock, the Church. Each of us is that sheep who wandered off. Upon realising one of his sheep is missing, he leaves his 99 sheep to search for the lost one. As we approach Christmas and the birth of Jesus, our guiding Shepherd, we hear the parable of the man who has 100 sheep. Today's reading is very short, and yet packed with rich imagery. Similarly, it is never the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.' Suppose a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go in search of the stray? I tell you solemnly, if he finds it, it gives him more joy than do the ninety-nine that did not stray at all. Gospel of 7th December 2021 - Matthew 18:12-14 : 100 Sheep: A Counting Parable: 9781947888333: Amy-Jill Levine, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Margaux Meganck: Books Books Children's Books Literature & Fiction Buy new: 10. 9.19 21 Used from 4.97 23 New from 8.21 One sheep is missing Where can it be This board-book version of the Parable of the Lost Sheep is adapted from the picture book Who Counts 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons, first in the popular series of parables retold by Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. ![]() Anguish, by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck 1878 © National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ![]()
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