a lot of families who display the Last Supper end up with sorrows & problems is it true?
2007-12-10 01:55:27 · 17 answers · asked by sureallan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do not know if the last supper picture had anything to do with it but my Mom switched from the picture of Jesus looking down on Jerusalem to the last supper and my bratty sister moved back home that spring and she stayed until mom whent to heaven and now she owns Moms house. (( LoL:) We are both in our 60s and I tease her about this kind of stuff a lot.)
2007-12-10 02:02:17 · answer #1 · answered by recallthis2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of families that do not display the Last Supper end up with sorrows and problems. A painting has nothing to do with it.
2007-12-10 02:15:48 · answer #2 · answered by Hubby . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's superstitious claptrap. A painting of the Last Supper is still only a painting, like the Hay Wain painted by Constable, which is hanging on my wall (a copy, not the original of course).
If a family that chooses to display a painting of the Last Supper encounters sorrow, it won't be the painting's fault.
2007-12-10 04:06:58 · answer #3 · answered by Trevor S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know many families who have a picture depicting The Last Supper, and none of them have suffered any more sorrow or hardship than anyone else. This is the first I have ever heard of this " myth ".
2007-12-10 02:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Protestant and I not only grew up with a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's painting, but I acquired a further African version which I proudly display on our landing. We have had sorrows and problems, but Jesus said: "“In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I Have overcome the world”. And the good times have been very, very good.
I attribute neither the good times nor the bad times to the painting(s). We accept what God sends us and are thankful for His goodness.
2007-12-10 02:54:19 · answer #5 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if people are true to god and his Christ, the power of the holy spirit is stronger in their defence than a picture. however, part of the reasoning of the gospel is that in being baptised we are baptised into the life and the death of the lord; according to st. Paul. it follows that an act of reverence for the institution of the sacred presence of Christ at the last supper, --the night before he died, could be one reason why we share in the sufferings of the lord not all holy acts are followed by consolation but god is the protector of the faithful and good can come out of everything for the faithful.
2007-12-10 14:35:12 · answer #6 · answered by terryhoare 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's superstition, and quite frankly it's nonsense. My daughter's family has a large Da Vinci version in their home. I have one that's a bit different. Neither of our families has had any more (or less) that the usual share of sorrows and problems.
If people are looking for "connections" in this way, they're going to find them. That doesn't necessarily mean they're right.
2007-12-10 02:15:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Displaying pictures (and crosses, etc) is not a big deal as long as you don't kneel before it and worship the picture or cross. We are supposed to worship Christ...not the images.
Pictures won't bring you sorrow. Nor will they bring you protection.
They do, however, make your living room look nice.
2007-12-10 02:09:35 · answer #8 · answered by tub_a_jam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You speak of the alleged reality of superstition.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:
2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.
2138 Superstition is a departure from the worship that we give to the true God. It is manifested in idolatry, as well as in various forms of divination and magic.
2110 The first commandment forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who has revealed himself to his people. It proscribes superstition and irreligion. Superstition in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion; irreligion is the vice contrary by defect to the virtue of religion.
2007-12-10 06:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am catholic and never have I heard of such a thing. Now thinking about it every one in my family has the last supper in their dinning room or kitchen. Don't believe in superstition, only in god.
2007-12-10 02:05:30 · answer #10 · answered by mala_uglygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋