Family & Sr. Wendy

Dec 30, 2018

I though I’d let Sr. Wendy Beckett (RIP last week) have the floor today writing about American artist Janet McKenzie’s The Holy Family (pictured above).

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Sr Wendy reflecting
on Janet McKenzie’s
The Holy Family

“No matter how deep the love,
every human being is essentially a mystery.
Here we see, for our comfort,
Mary and Joseph accepting the disappointment
that all parents must feel
on realising the unknowability of their child.”

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