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JESUS IS MY WIFI

JESUS IS MY WIFI

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

In November 2019, I was invited to travel to Italy by an artistic residence in Rome. Before reaching the capital, I travelled to Assisi, to thank St. Francis for his guidance and inspiration in my former work entitled: “AnimAngels Fraternal Creatures”, homage to Saint Francis of Assisi. When I was visiting the city where the saint’s remains rest, I was able to connect deeply with Jesus.

On the train journey from Assisi to Rome, when we went through the tunnels under the mountains, I lost my signal on the cellphone. I was travelling alone, so that was the only way in which I could connect with my family and with the world. At that time, I thought, “Being disconnected is a terrible thing”. And immediately afterwards I told myself: “How terrible it is to be disconnected… from Jesus”.

A few seconds later, I saw the icon which meant that I had signal again, but this time it meant something a lot deeper because on my logbook I drew Christ’s image and on top of him, a triple halo which turned to be very meaningful: a representation of the Trinity, of the threefold Divinity and of the spiritual WIFI to which we are all invited to connect and to remain in: The Spirit of Jesus.

This is how “Jesus is my WIFI” is born; a pathway that invites us to connect with Jesus through art and beauty.

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The Annunciation. The Virgin Mary: the first one to be connected.

The Annunciation. The Virgin Mary: the first one to be connected.

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

She is the first person who accepts being connected with Jesus forever. She is the best model to follow. A model of devoting your life to a bigger project, a model of courage and of faith.
“Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” (Luke 1:26-38)
When Jesus is your WIFI, you can feel his presence inside you. You can talk to him to discover your path and find the strength to say “yes’ to what the Lord has in store for you.

"Let it be to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:26-38)

The Virgin Mary, the mother of all connections.
Thanks to her devotion, she connected us to the Saviour. She was the one who made the arrival of the Holy Spirit possible and in this way, we became connected to the Holy Trinity. We were connected like brothers and sisters (fratelli tutti).
We were connected to her as mother of all.

Pope Francis.
God’s great freedom in giving himself to us represents a challenge and an exhortation to modify our behaviours and our relationships. It is the invitation which Jesus addresses to us today. He calls us not to think according to the categories of “friend/enemy”, “us/them”, “those who are in/those who are out”, “mine/yours”, but rather to go beyond, to open our heart in order to be able to recognize God’s presence and action, even in unusual and unpredictable environments and people that are not part of our circle. May the Virgin Mary, an example of docile openness to God’s surprises, help us to recognize the sign of the Lord’s presence in our midst, so that we may find him everywhere He manifests himself. ANGELUS. September 30th, 2018

The Virgin said YES and she connected with Jesus forever. And Jesus connected us forever with her as our Mother.????????

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“When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Holy Spirit”

“When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Holy Spirit”

2020
Oil in canvas
100 × 120 cm

When you are deeply connected to Jesus, you receive the Holy Spirit, the Father’s Spirit. The symbol of the white dove appears when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist:
“As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him”. (Matthew 3:16)

As we are filled with his Spirit, we receive his gifts and we are empowered; we are advised, our understanding widens, we are wise enough to acknowledge which ones are God’s things, the humility and the trust to place ourselves in his hands. By means of the Holy Spirit, we establish a connection which gives sense to our whole life and that keeps us strong, in communion with Him, even at the most difficult and tempestuous times.

When Jesus is my WIFI, the Spirit guides my work.

"And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power". (Paul Corinthians 2)

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When Jesus is your WIFI, you stop being blind

When Jesus is your WIFI, you stop being blind

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

When you connect with Jesus’s Spirit, you start seeing things that you didn’t see before, to understand reality in a different way, to perceive your surroundings in another way, through the eyes of Jesus.

The cure of the person who had been born blind is the inspiration for this work which comes to life in young eyes. When our eyes get to see Jesus, our blindness is cured, the look is renewed and we dare see beyond a selfie. We start seeing those who need us. We see a new path opening in front of us.

"As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.” (John 9: 1-12)

God’s law specified that the blind deserved special attention and care. (Lv 19:14) (Dt 27:18) But at the end of the day, what one could do for that person was give him some coins and treat him with respect. Nobody could have changed the sad condition they had been born in.
In this sense, this blind person exemplifies the regular man who is born and lives in the shadows until Christ lightens his spirit (2 Co 4:6) However, on this occasion, God did something else for him. He gave him physical sight in order to show once more that he really IS the Light of the world. What Jesus did for that blind man could never have been done by anyone else, not even religion itself.

" In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.[b] 22 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

23 Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” (Luke 10: 21-24)

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When Jesus is your WIFI, you stop being deaf

When Jesus is your WIFI, you stop being deaf

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

Many times we are deaf to our surroundings, we live just for ourselves, we just listen to what we want to hear.
But when you connect with Jesus, you start hearing things that you didn’t feel before, that you didn’t pay attention to. These things were a background noise in your life, and now that your ears have opened, you start differentiating and listening to those that require your attention, your help. Jesus healed a lot of people, among these he healed many deaf people. These episodes set the basis for this work which invites you to reflect upon what we are listening to. Today, headphones appear to be a symbol of isolation, but I also believe that they can represent introspection, learning to listen within, to reach pure silence which is needed to listen to God’s word. Listen with the heart. Listening is crucial in our relationship with God and in the relationship with each human being. We are part of a society which craves for being heard and overwhelmed with noise. Effetá (Open up)
Many times Jesus repeats this phrase “he who has ears to hear, let him hear”

Mark 7,31 37
Jesus Heals a Deaf Man

31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” 35 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 36 And Jesus[h] charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. 37 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

Pope Francis Tweet
We all have ears, but many times we are incapable of hearing. In fact, there is an interior deafness, worse than the physical one, which is the heart deafness, and we can ask Jesus to touch it and heal it.

Here is the cure: fewer useless words and more God words. Listen to Today’s Gospel addressed at us: "Effetà, open up”. Jesus, I wish to open up to your Word, open up to listening. Heal my heart.

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When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Bread of Life

When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Bread of Life

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

In this connection and constant dialogue with Jesus, you receive his word which becomes the true food for life.
"Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst".(...)
“I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

The symbol of breaking the bread, of sharing, of offering it to the others, is the main theme of this work. Jesus holds us, supports us and he gives himself to be part of us. In this way He stays in us and we stay in Him. This is what we live at the Holy Communion:"Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him".
Is an invitation to work for a greater end, for a better world.
"Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life".

Pope Francis
“In the face of Jesus’s invitation to nourish ourselves of his Body and of his Blood, we might feel the need to dispute and to resist, as did those listeners whom today’s Gospel spoke of who listened to Jesus without understanding this new language. This also happens to us when we struggle to model our existence after that of Jesus, to act according to his criteria and not according to the world’s criteria. On the other hand, when we nourish ourselves of this food, we can enter in full harmony with Christ, with his sentiments and with his behaviour. That is why it is so important to go to Mass and partake in Communion: because receiving Communion is receiving this living Christ, who transforms us whithin and prepares us for heaven”. (ANGELUS, August 19th 2018)

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When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Light of Christ

When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Light of Christ

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

When you stay connected, his word enlightens you and you stop being in darkness. He is Light and he invites us to be light.

John 8, 12
"Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Here Jesus describes what the ministry he had received from his father consisted of and what he had to do in this world. He is the Light of the world and his work consists of illuminating the hearts of humankind so that they can know the Father.

Matthew 6, 23
"If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!"

The symbol of the Light is already present in the work which is the symbol of this creation: “Jesus is my WIFI”. Here the face of the Risen Christ is lit from below, the source of light that illuminates his look and hands is his own heart. In this work the candle represents an ancestral icon but very present nowadays in rituals and time of prayer. A Light that is protected and held by the Holy Spirit. The Trinity itself looks after our Light, so that it never goes out. The Light remains as long as we stay connected.

HOLY FATHER’S WORDS
“John’s Gospel tells us that the mystery of God is Light and that the Light came to the world but the darkness did not embrace it. A Light that cannot be hidden, but that is meant to shine”.

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When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Living Water

When Jesus is your WIFI, you receive the Living Water

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

In this work, the hands of the Samaritan hold the Living Water she offered Jesus and when she discovered it, she immediately shared it with the others.
Today, we are offered this water, you are offered this water, and I am also offered it.
Jesus is present again when we are with Him and he quenches our thirst with his word, with his message, with his life, Spirit and resurrection.
“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[b] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

What is portrayed in these hands, which lovingly hold this given treasure, is the water as a symbol of plentiful life and of hope that Jesus gives us with the good news.
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work."

John 4
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.[a]

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[b] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

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Portrait of Carlo Acutis. When Jesus is your WIFI, you can become a 15-year-old Saint

Portrait of Carlo Acutis. When Jesus is your WIFI, you can become a 15-year-old Saint

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

While I was painting this artwork, Carlos Acutis was beatified. A young adolescent who used technology to evangelize and to help others. I read that he was called “the Patron Saint of the Internet”. But what really got to me were his words, which made me include him in this exhibition:
“Being forever bonded to Jesus, that is my life project”
This sentence embodies and summarises the whole message of Jesus is my WIFI.
Carlo’s smile, a normal and ordinary looking boy but with great internal depth, transmits the happiness that Jesus offers us.

“Sadness is when you look at yourself, happiness is when you direct your gaze at God. Conversion is just diverting your gaze from the bottom to the top. With a simple movement of the eyes”, Carlo used to say.
I feel it is inspiring for all young people. I feel that it clearly reflects us that we are all called to holiness.

Below I share a message from Pope Francis that explains in simple words the call to holiness:
“Don’t be afraid of being saints. We are all called to holiness, which does not involve doing extraordinary things, but letting God act in our lives with his Spirit, believing in his action, which leads us to live a charitable life, to do everything with happiness and humility, for the glory of God and of our fellows.

Communicating values and beauty

The Holy Father mentioned the beatification of Carlo Acutis with these words:
“Yesterday, at Assisi, Carlo Acutis was beatified, a 15-year-old boy, in love with the Holy Communion. He did not settle in his comfortable inaction, on the contrary, he understood the necessities of his times, because he saw Christ’s face in the weakest. His message tells young people that true happiness is found when you place God first and when you serve Him in our brothers, especially the youngest ones. A round of applause for this young Blessed!

In the post-sinodal Apostolic Exhortation to young people “Christus Vivit” (2019), Pope Francis remembered Carlos Acutis.
He wrote that “it is true that the digital world can make you introspective, you can fall into isolation or empty pleasure, but you should not forget that there are also young people who are creative and soemtimes genuises”. “This is what the young venerable Carlo Acutis did,” Pope Francis claimed.
“He knew only too well that these forms of communication, of publicity and of social media can be used to turn us into dumb beings, dependent on consumerism and on the news we can buy, obsessed with leisure time, locked in negativism.
But he was capable of using these new communication techniques to transmit the Gospel, to communicate values and beauty”, said the Holy Father of the now Blessed.

Love God against consumption and numbness

“This test we are faced with cannot make us fall. The love of God- according to Bishop Monsignor Sorrentino who led his beatification – can turn a big crisis into a great grace. We need a new creativity, generative and responsible, to build a different world, more beautiful and humanitarian”.

Monsignor Sorrentino recalled that Carlo “didn’t fall into the trap” of the time he lived in. And he quoted the Pope’s words: He “noticed that many young people, despite looking different, actually end up being more of the same, running after what the powerful establish by means of mechanisms of consumption and numbness.
In this way, they don’t let the gifts that God has given them blossom, they don’t offer this world these very personal and unique abilities that God has sowed in each of them. Thus, Carlo used to say, what happens is that “they are all born original, but many die as photocopies”. Don’t let this happen to you. (no. 106)

He loved talking and encouraging his friends and family: “Our goal must be the infinity, not the finite. The infinity is our Homeland. Heaven has always been waiting for us.”
According to testimonies, Carlo in particular placed the Sacrament of the Holy Communion in the center of his life which he called “my roadway to Heaven”.

Little computer magician at the service of the Holy Communion.
It is said that Carlo was a whiz kid of computer programming, apart from being an artist in terms of videos, web pages, even leaflets for his religious community, and helping children and elderly people.
Carlo, who died of a fulminant leukemia offered his suffering to the Pope and to the Church.
“Being forever linked to Jesus, that is my life project”.
“I am happy to die because I have lived my life without wasting a single minute doing things that are not of God’s liking”, he used to say.

There are plenty of motivational phrases that the Blessed Acutis left and that his followers repeat and include in their prayers. His passion for technology and his faith made him known as the “cyber apostle of the Holy Communion” and he was referred to as the “first influencer of God”, as he used the power of the Internet to carry the Word everywhere.

“Sadness is when you look at yourself, happiness is when you direct your gaze at God. Conversion is just diverting your gaze from the bottom to the top. With a simple movement of the eyes”.

Antonia remembers the great love her son felt for the Holy Communion, so much so that he developed several computer projects online in which, for example, he investigated 136 eucharistic miracles in 20 countries and organized a vistual exhibition which travelled the world.

“I don’t speak with words, I just lean against his chest, like Saint John at the Dinner”.

“The only thing we need to ask God, in prayer, is our wish to become saints”.

Ask your Guardian Angel for help, always. Your Guardian Angel has to become your best friend”.

“Life is a gift because as long as we are on this planet, we can increase our charity level”.

“Only those who do God’s will, will be truly free”.

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When Jesus is your WIFI, you give away everything you have.

When Jesus is your WIFI, you give away everything you have.

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

The theme of this work is a different interpretation of the Gospel of the Widow who donates two copper coins to the Temple:
“Jesus sat opposite the treasure hall of the Temple and watched how the people left their alms. Many rich people left abundant alms.
A poor widow arrived and she placed two small copper coins.
He then called his disciples and told them: “I can assure you that this widow has left more than any of us, because everybody has left what surplus they had, but she, in her poverty, has left everything she had, everything she had to live.” (Saint Marcus 12, 38-44)

Doing this portrait of Sofia, my granny, the Nonna, is the way I found to bring this theme into our world. Because my grandmother was a widow and with the little money she had she bought wool to knit infant shirts, wraps, baby shoes and every winter, sweaters for those who needed them. She gave away everything she had. And yes, elderly people have a lot to give and we have a lot to receive from them.

Pope Francis
There are many rich people putting in large sums, and there is a poor woman, a widow, who contributes only two bits, two small coins. Jesus observes the woman carefully and calls the disciples’ attention to the sharp contrast of the scene.
The wealthy contributed with great ostentation what for them was superfluous, while the widow, Jesus says, “put in everything she had, her whole living” (v. 44). For this reason, Jesus says, she gave the most of all. Because of her extreme poverty, she could have offered a single coin to the temple and kept the other for herself. But she did not want to give just half to God; she divested herself of everything. In her poverty she understood that in having God, she had everything; she felt completely loved by him and in turn loved him completely. What a beautiful example this little old woman.

POPE FRANCIS
ANGELUS
Saint Peter's Square
Sunday, 7 November 2021
Let us watch out for falsehood of the heart, for hypocrisy which is a dangerous illness of the soul! It is a dualism of thought, a dual judgement, as the word itself says: “to judge below”, to appear one way and “hypo”, beneath, to think in a different way. Doubles, people with double souls, a duality of the soul.
And in order to heal this illness, Jesus invites us to watch the poor widow. The Lord denounces the exploitation of this woman, who, in making her offering, must return home without even the little she had to live on. How important it is to free the sacred from ties with money! Jesus had already said it elsewhere: you cannot serve two masters. Either you serve God — and we think he will say “or the devil”, no — either God or money. He is a master, and Jesus says we must not serve him. But, at the same time, Jesus praises the fact that this widow puts all she has into the treasury. She has nothing left, but finds her everything in God. She is not afraid of losing the little she has because she trusts in God’s abundance, and God’s abundance multiplies the joy of those who give. n offers us!

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Mary Magdalene. When Jesus is your WIFI, he calls you by your name and you can see him resurrected.

Mary Magdalene. When Jesus is your WIFI, he calls you by your name and you can see him resurrected.

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

She is the “Apostle to the Apostles”. Mary Magdalene is an example of permanence in Jesus, she never deserted him, she was always by his side. She was not afraid of expressing her devotion for Jesus, filled with courage she went to the place where he was buried and she became the first one to meet Jesus, Risen. She was the first bearer of the good news. In this work, we see her praying, in total harmony with Jesus, who has just called by her name. At that exact moment, Jesus was lifted to the Father, and she remains linked to Him from the silence of the prayer, feeling the wonder of knowing that he will be forever by her side because he has risen.

John 20
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic,[b] “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.

Alleluia!
How many times when faced with the loss of a loved one, we don’t go back to the cemetery to cry, to look for solace because we last saw this person there? That is the way Mary Magdalene feels, without solace when she finds out that not even the Master’s body is there. She may have thought that it would have been normal for the Jews to have taken it in fear that he might rise, as it had been announced many times before. She sees the prodigy of the two angels at the tomb, she even sees Christ but does not recognize him. Her soul and her mind are so numb with pain that she fails to understand what she is seeing. Only when Jesus calls her by her name, will she realize the truth. At that moment she would understand everything that the Master had told them, her soul and mind must have opened up and she recognizes him. Master! When Jesus calls you, your heart burns. Then he asks her to go and tell what she has seen and Mary Magdalene would be the first to proclaim the Resurrection, to announce that Christ lives, in fact, in the Dominican Order we consider her a Patroness as she was the first preacher.

Imagine the happiness of proclaiming that Jesus lives, that it is true that he has triumphed over sin and death, and this is why we have been saved. The promise made to our first fathers has been fulfilled and we have been bathed with the blood of the Lamb of God. Our faith is life, happiness, light. We worship a living God, who is with us in the Holy Communion, who does not abandon us. Only three days ago we experienced Easter and we witnessed that passing from darkness to light and now we are all burning torches, it is our duty to light up the world and to transmit the Good News: Christ has risen, alleluia! The Lord has called each and every one of us by our names.
Happy Easter to all of you.
D. Luis Maldonado Fernández de Tejada, OP

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When Jesus is your WIFI, you bear abundant fruit

When Jesus is your WIFI, you bear abundant fruit

2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 120 cm

I believe that this is a very important piece in this exhibition, because it reflects what happens to us when we manage to remain in Jesus, when we let the Spirit guide us and we surrender to the father’s project, being aware that He is the one who does the works: the Lord surprises us with the fruit of our actions. He surprises us with what we can achieve and what we unexpectedly receive. Mysteriously, we receive great abundance.

The fruit is Love, that is why it is portrayed as a kiss. This artwork is based on an image that I came across in my cell phone: my daughter took a selfie with my cell phone without me knowing it, giving me a kiss that would surprise me the day I looked at the photographs. She made it!! And she inspired me to transmit what I felt through this painting. She allowed me to use it and now she is portrayed in the abundance of her love.

John 15 - I Am the True Vine

15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Pope Francis:
Each one of us is a branch of the one vine; and all of us together are called to bear the fruits of this common membership in Christ and in the Church.

Psalm 128
A song of ascents.

1 Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
who walk in obedience to him.
2 You will eat the fruit of your labor;
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
4 Yes, this will be the blessing
for the man who fears the Lord.
5 May the Lord bless you from Zion;
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
6 May you live to see your children’s children—
peace be on Israel.

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Scared Heart Router

Scared Heart Router

2022
3D Sculpture
30 x 40 cm

From the Sacred Heart of Jesus springs light, life, it is an inexhaustible source of his love that unites us all as part of one body and one spirit.
In this sculpture, the Sacred Heart Router allows you to connect to the Internet: Jesus is my WIFI
And you have to put the Password: LOVE
Then you will be able to be deeply connected with others, with the present, with reality, which most of the time has nothing to do with virtuality.
Thus we discover that the ALGORITHMS of Jesus are not of this world:
If we use the search engine of Jesus, his Sacred Heart, we will see other results of our searches. Because their way of processing information is totally different, it is not of this world, it is of the Kingdom, where love, mercy, forgiveness, humility, charity, solidarity, light and eternal life predominate.

Jesus looks at you in the eye, he invites you to follow him, he enlightens you.