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Wajah TUHAN YESUS yang kita lihat selama ini berasal dari Gambar Wajah Yang TERCETAK dari DARAH dalam KAIN KAFAN TUHAN YESUS 
(coba beli buku di Gramedia judulnya "Misteri Kain Kafan TUHAN YESUS")
(coba beli buku di Gramedia judulnya "Misteri Kain Kafan TUHAN YESUS")
Kain Kafan TUHAN YESUS disimpan di Katedral Turin
Yohanes
19:40 Mereka mengambil mayat YESUS, mengapaninya dengan kain lenan dan membubuhinya dengan rempah-rempah menurut adat orang Yahudi bila menguburkan mayat.
20:6 Maka datanglah Simon Petrus juga menyusul dia dan masuk ke dalam kubur itu. Ia melihat kain kapan terletak di tanah,
20:7 sedang kain peluh yang tadinya ada di kepala YESUS tidak terletak dekat kain kapan itu, tetapi agak di samping di tempat yang lain dan sudah tergulung.
Matius
27:59 Dan Yusufpun mengambil mayat itu, mengapaninya dengan kain lenan yang putih bersih,
Markus
15:46 Yusufpun membeli kain lenan, kemudian ia menurunkan mayat YESUS dari salib dan mengapaninya dengan kain lenan itu.
Lenan adalah jenis kain yang paling penting bagi orang Israel. Kain ini dibuat dari tanaman rami, yang khusus dibudidayakan untuk maksud tersebut. Orang Kanaan menanam rami di Palestina sebelum orang Israel menaklukkan negeri itu (Yes. 2:6).
Lenan adalah kain yang serbaguna yang dapat ditenun menjadi kain yang kasar dan tebal, atau amat halus dan lembut. Orang Mesir terkenal di mana-mana karena lenan mereka yang halus, yang nyaris tembus cahaya. Mereka juga membuat lenan kasar yang begitu tebal sehingga dapat dipakai sebagai permadani untuk menutup lantai.
Kain lenan yang halus dipakai oleh orang-orang yang berpangkat atau yang kaya (bdg. Luk. 16:19), dan kain yang lebih kasar dipakai oleh rakyat jelata. Orang Mesir memakaikan pakaian dari lenan halus pada Yusuf ketika mereka menjadikan penguasa (Kej. 41:42).
Tenda, tabir, dan tirai untuk pintu Kemah Suci orang Ibrani dibuat dari lenan halus (Kej. 26:1, 31, 36), demikian pula tirai untuk pintu gerbang pelataran dan layar untuk pelataran itu sendiri dibuat dari lenan halus (Kej. 27:9, 16, 18). Baju efod dan tutup dada imam besar dibuat dari lenan halus (Kej. 28:6, 15). Kemeja, ikat pinggang, dan celana yang dipakai oleh semua imam juga dibuat dari lenan halus yang putih (Kej. 28:39; 39:27-28).
Orang Yahudi membuat pakaian dalam mereka terutama dari kain lenan. Kain kapan yang dipakai YESUS juga dibuat dari lenan. Alkitab mengatakan bahwa Yusuf dari Arimatea "membeli kain lenan, kemudian ia menurunkan mayat YESUS dari salib dan mengapaninya dengan kain lenan itu" (Mrk. 15:46). Kain Lenan yang putih bersih juga merupakan simbol keadaan tidak berdosa dan kesucian moral (Why. 15:6).
19:40 Mereka mengambil mayat YESUS, mengapaninya dengan kain lenan dan membubuhinya dengan rempah-rempah menurut adat orang Yahudi bila menguburkan mayat.
20:6 Maka datanglah Simon Petrus juga menyusul dia dan masuk ke dalam kubur itu. Ia melihat kain kapan terletak di tanah,
20:7 sedang kain peluh yang tadinya ada di kepala YESUS tidak terletak dekat kain kapan itu, tetapi agak di samping di tempat yang lain dan sudah tergulung.
Matius
27:59 Dan Yusufpun mengambil mayat itu, mengapaninya dengan kain lenan yang putih bersih,
Markus
15:46 Yusufpun membeli kain lenan, kemudian ia menurunkan mayat YESUS dari salib dan mengapaninya dengan kain lenan itu.
Lenan adalah jenis kain yang paling penting bagi orang Israel. Kain ini dibuat dari tanaman rami, yang khusus dibudidayakan untuk maksud tersebut. Orang Kanaan menanam rami di Palestina sebelum orang Israel menaklukkan negeri itu (Yes. 2:6).
Lenan adalah kain yang serbaguna yang dapat ditenun menjadi kain yang kasar dan tebal, atau amat halus dan lembut. Orang Mesir terkenal di mana-mana karena lenan mereka yang halus, yang nyaris tembus cahaya. Mereka juga membuat lenan kasar yang begitu tebal sehingga dapat dipakai sebagai permadani untuk menutup lantai.
Kain lenan yang halus dipakai oleh orang-orang yang berpangkat atau yang kaya (bdg. Luk. 16:19), dan kain yang lebih kasar dipakai oleh rakyat jelata. Orang Mesir memakaikan pakaian dari lenan halus pada Yusuf ketika mereka menjadikan penguasa (Kej. 41:42).
Tenda, tabir, dan tirai untuk pintu Kemah Suci orang Ibrani dibuat dari lenan halus (Kej. 26:1, 31, 36), demikian pula tirai untuk pintu gerbang pelataran dan layar untuk pelataran itu sendiri dibuat dari lenan halus (Kej. 27:9, 16, 18). Baju efod dan tutup dada imam besar dibuat dari lenan halus (Kej. 28:6, 15). Kemeja, ikat pinggang, dan celana yang dipakai oleh semua imam juga dibuat dari lenan halus yang putih (Kej. 28:39; 39:27-28).
Orang Yahudi membuat pakaian dalam mereka terutama dari kain lenan. Kain kapan yang dipakai YESUS juga dibuat dari lenan. Alkitab mengatakan bahwa Yusuf dari Arimatea "membeli kain lenan, kemudian ia menurunkan mayat YESUS dari salib dan mengapaninya dengan kain lenan itu" (Mrk. 15:46). Kain Lenan yang putih bersih juga merupakan simbol keadaan tidak berdosa dan kesucian moral (Why. 15:6).
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kain_Kafan_dari_Torino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
Sederhana saja, pada tahun 28 Mei 1898, apakah teknologi bisa mencapai itu untuk "penipuan sekelas itu?"
Recent developments
In 2009, Barbara Frale, a researcher in the Vatican Secret Archives, published two books on the Shroud of Turin. She thinks that the shroud had been kept by the Templars after 1204 and that it is possible to read on the image the burial certificate of JESUS the Nazarene, or JESUS of Nazareth, imprinted in fragments of Greek, Hebrew and Latin writing. Her methodology has been criticized.
On October 5, 2009, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full size reproduction of the Shroud of Turin using only medieval technologies. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. The shroud was then aged in an oven before being washed to remove the pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. But according to Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermic measurements at the University of Padua, "the technique itself seems unable to produce an image having the most critical Turin Shroud image characteristics".
In 2010, professors of statistics Marco Riani and Anthony C. Atkinson wrote in a scientific paper that the statistical analysis of the raw dates obtained from the three laboratories for the radiocarbon test suggests the presence of an important contamination in the samples.
A team of graphic artists tried to recreate the real face of JESUS in a special two-hour documentary on the History Channel broadcast for the first time in March 2010. The image was made by taking information and blood encoded on the Turin Shroud and transforming it into a 3D image.
The Shroud was placed back on public display (the 18th time in its history) in Turin from 10 April to 23 May 2010. According to Church officials, more than 2 million visitors came to see the Shroud.
In December 2010 Professor Timothy Jull, editor of Radiocarbon, coauthored an article with a textile expert in this peer-reviewed journal. They analyzed an unknown sample of 1988 and concluded that they found no evidence of a repair. However this article was strongly criticized and even by traditional skeptics.
Dari 3 Injil, 2 Injil menyatakan langsung di bungkus ketika diturunkan, sehingga John Calvin berkata,"Yang salah yang mana? Apakah Injil Yohanes salah mencatat?"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin)
Pada tahun 28 Mei 1898, apakah teknologi bisa mencapai itu untuk "penipuan sekelas itu?"
Fraud? Kecuali ada pembuktian kemampuan orang2 sebelum tahun 1898 mampu melakukannya, saya pasti tidak menutup mata dan mengeraskan hati, sebab penelitian terakhir yaitu 5 Oktober 2009 ternyata "menyerah" juga
On October 5, 2009, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full size reproduction of the Shroud of Turin using only medieval technologies. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. The shroud was then aged in an oven before being washed to remove the pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. But according to Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermic measurements at the University of Padua, "the technique itself seems unable to produce an image having the most critical Turin Shroud image characteristics".
Fraud? Kecuali ada pembuktian kemampuan orang2 sebelum tahun 1898 mampu melakukannya, saya pasti tidak menutup mata dan mengeraskan hati, sebab penelitian terakhir yaitu 5 Oktober 2009 ternyata "menyerah" juga
On October 5, 2009, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full size reproduction of the Shroud of Turin using only medieval technologies. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. The shroud was then aged in an oven before being washed to remove the pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. But according to Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermic measurements at the University of Padua, "the technique itself seems unable to produce an image having the most critical Turin Shroud image characteristics".
Dari 4 Injil, hanya satu yang jamak
Religious beliefs about the burial cloths of JESUS have existed for centuries. The Gospels of Matthew[27:59–60], Mark[15:46] and Luke[23:53] state that Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of JESUS in a piece of linen cloth and placed it in a new tomb. The Gospel of John[19:38–40] refers to strips of linen used by Joseph of Arimathea and John[20:6–7] states that Apostle Peter found multiple pieces of burial cloth after the tomb was found open, strips of linen cloth for the body and a separate cloth for the head.
See? Makanya John Calvin memeprtanyakannya
Religious beliefs about the burial cloths of JESUS have existed for centuries. The Gospels of Matthew[27:59–60], Mark[15:46] and Luke[23:53] state that Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of JESUS in a piece of linen cloth and placed it in a new tomb. The Gospel of John[19:38–40] refers to strips of linen used by Joseph of Arimathea and John[20:6–7] states that Apostle Peter found multiple pieces of burial cloth after the tomb was found open, strips of linen cloth for the body and a separate cloth for the head.
See? Makanya John Calvin memeprtanyakannya
Apabila ada bukti yang kuat, tentu saja saya tidak menutup mata dan mengeraskan hati, namun penelitian terkahir 2009 malah menunjukkan ketidakmampuan pemalsuannya, sehingga saya masih menerima hal tersebut sabagai sebuah keaslian.
Penelitian oleh profesor bukan cuman dugaan, tetapi sebuah praktek ilmiah yang mempertaruhkan reputasi, dan para pelukis ternamapun telah mencoba, namun mengakui bahwa pada saat itu tidak mungkin mampu melakukan sebaik Kain Kafan Turin, apalagi kalo hasil lukisan bisa menjadi nyata seperti hidup dalam negatif film
On October 5, 2009, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full size reproduction of the Shroud of Turin using only medieval technologies. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. The shroud was then aged in an oven before being washed to remove the pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. But according to Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermic measurements at the University of Padua, "the technique itself seems unable to produce an image having the most critical Turin Shroud image characteristics".
On October 5, 2009, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full size reproduction of the Shroud of Turin using only medieval technologies. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. The shroud was then aged in an oven before being washed to remove the pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. But according to Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermic measurements at the University of Padua, "the technique itself seems unable to produce an image having the most critical Turin Shroud image characteristics".
Karena banyak kemungkinan makanya untuk sementara saya percaya saja, sampai terbukti kebenarannya, lagian dari Vatican sampai saat ini hanya mengakui sebagai "Ikon" bukan "Relikwi"
Pope Benedict XVI has not publicly commented on the Shroud's authenticity. During his visit in Turin on Sunday May 2, 2010, Benedict XVI described the Shroud of Turin as an "extraordinary Icon", the "Icon of Holy Saturday ... corresponding in every way to what the Gospels tell us of JESUS", "an Icon written in blood, the blood of a man who was scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified and whose right side was pierced". The pope said also that in the Turin Shroud "we see, as in a mirror, our suffering in the suffering of CHRIST".
Pope Benedict XVI has not publicly commented on the Shroud's authenticity. During his visit in Turin on Sunday May 2, 2010, Benedict XVI described the Shroud of Turin as an "extraordinary Icon", the "Icon of Holy Saturday ... corresponding in every way to what the Gospels tell us of JESUS", "an Icon written in blood, the blood of a man who was scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified and whose right side was pierced". The pope said also that in the Turin Shroud "we see, as in a mirror, our suffering in the suffering of CHRIST".
Buku "Misteri Kain Kafan TUHAN YESUS" penjelasannya lebih baik dan mendetail 
Mungkin Prof-nya yang anti Katolik ingin membuktikan kalo KAMIS PUTIH adalah KESALAHAN GEREJA KATOLIK berdasarkan PENELITIAN, hal yang sama terjadi mengenai CARA PENYALIBAN TUHAN YESUS, DIPAKU DITELAPAK TANGAN ataukah DIPERGELANGAN TANGAN, beberapa penelitian awal MENYALAHKAN TRADISI SUCI GEREJA KATOLIK, namun penelitian terakhir yang diakui ternyata DIPAKU DITELAPAK TANGAN dan DIIKAT DENGAN TALI DIPERGELANGAN SEBAGAI PENAHAN BERAT BADAN
Hal yang sama juga mengenai KAIN KAFAN TURIN, penelitian awal menyatakan bahwa itu PALSU dan kontradiksi antar Injil Yohanes dan 3 Injil lainnya, penelitian termuktahir tahun ini (2010 & 2011), ternyata kemungkinan besar ASLI dan TIDAK ADA KONTRADIKSI antara keempat Injil tersebut, bahkan SALING MELENGKAPI dengan SEMPURNA setelah KAIN PELUH ditemukan, jadi, 3 Injil menceritakan bahwa setelah diturunkan dari Kayu Salib, diminyaki dan langsung dikafani, sedangkan Injil Yohanes menceritakan ketika hendak dimasukkan kedalam kuburan, diberikan kain peluh dan kain kafan hanya untuk badan saja
Tradisi Suci & Alkitab saling mengisi dan menjawab keraguan yang ada
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INILAH.COM, London – Umat Kristiani sejak lama mempercayai bahwa Perjamuan Terakhir (The Last Supper) yang dilakukan YESUS KRISTUS terjadi pada Kamis. Namun, riset terbaru menyebutkan satu hari lebih awal. Mana yang benar?
Professor Colin Humphreys, ilmuwan di University of Cambridge yang melakukan riset ini meyakini, selama ini telah terjadi kekacauan penanggalan. Apa yang ia baru temukan, memperkuat usulan untuk menentukan tanggal tepatnya Hari Paskah.
Humphreys menggunakan kombinasi riset kitab suci, sejarah dan astronomi untuk menentukan kondisi serta waktu santap malam terakhir YESUS bersama kedua belas murid, sebelum kematiannya. Periset sebelumnya bingung dengan Alkitab yang dianggap tak konsisten.
Alkitab menulis, Matius, Markus dan Lukas menyatakan Perjamuan Terakhir itu terjadi bertepatan dengan awal festival Paskah Yahudi. Sedangkan Yohanes menulis, peristiwa itu terjadi sebelum Paskah Yahudi.
Terkait hal ini, Humphreys menyatakan bahwa YESUS, Matius, Markus dan Lukas mungkin menggunakan penanggalan berbeda dengan Yohanes. Menurutnya, YESUS mengikuti penanggalan Yahudi lama, bukan penanggalan matahari yang marak digunakan saat kematiannya hingga saat ini.
“Apapun yang anda pikirkan mengenai Alkitab, faktanya, orang Yahudi tak mungkin salah mengadakan Paskah dengan jamuan lainnya. Jadi ketika dokumen-dokumen yang mendeskripsikan kehidupan YESUS (Gospel) saling berlawanan, maka ini akan makin sulit dimengerti,” ujar Humphreys.
Jika benar demikian, maka jamuan Paskah Yahudi dan Last Supper sama-sama terjadi pada Rabu. Ini menjelaskan mengapa begitu banyak peristiwa terjadi antara Jamuan Terakhir hingga penyaliban. YESUS melalui penahanan, interogasi dan pengadilan, yang tampaknya tak mungkin terjadi dalam semalam.
S: http://id.berita.yahoo.com/perjamuan-terakhir-YESUS-terjadi-hari-rabu-220500169.html
Professor Colin Humphreys, ilmuwan di University of Cambridge yang melakukan riset ini meyakini, selama ini telah terjadi kekacauan penanggalan. Apa yang ia baru temukan, memperkuat usulan untuk menentukan tanggal tepatnya Hari Paskah.
Humphreys menggunakan kombinasi riset kitab suci, sejarah dan astronomi untuk menentukan kondisi serta waktu santap malam terakhir YESUS bersama kedua belas murid, sebelum kematiannya. Periset sebelumnya bingung dengan Alkitab yang dianggap tak konsisten.
Alkitab menulis, Matius, Markus dan Lukas menyatakan Perjamuan Terakhir itu terjadi bertepatan dengan awal festival Paskah Yahudi. Sedangkan Yohanes menulis, peristiwa itu terjadi sebelum Paskah Yahudi.
Terkait hal ini, Humphreys menyatakan bahwa YESUS, Matius, Markus dan Lukas mungkin menggunakan penanggalan berbeda dengan Yohanes. Menurutnya, YESUS mengikuti penanggalan Yahudi lama, bukan penanggalan matahari yang marak digunakan saat kematiannya hingga saat ini.
“Apapun yang anda pikirkan mengenai Alkitab, faktanya, orang Yahudi tak mungkin salah mengadakan Paskah dengan jamuan lainnya. Jadi ketika dokumen-dokumen yang mendeskripsikan kehidupan YESUS (Gospel) saling berlawanan, maka ini akan makin sulit dimengerti,” ujar Humphreys.
Jika benar demikian, maka jamuan Paskah Yahudi dan Last Supper sama-sama terjadi pada Rabu. Ini menjelaskan mengapa begitu banyak peristiwa terjadi antara Jamuan Terakhir hingga penyaliban. YESUS melalui penahanan, interogasi dan pengadilan, yang tampaknya tak mungkin terjadi dalam semalam.
S: http://id.berita.yahoo.com/perjamuan-terakhir-YESUS-terjadi-hari-rabu-220500169.html
Mungkin Prof-nya yang anti Katolik ingin membuktikan kalo KAMIS PUTIH adalah KESALAHAN GEREJA KATOLIK berdasarkan PENELITIAN, hal yang sama terjadi mengenai CARA PENYALIBAN TUHAN YESUS, DIPAKU DITELAPAK TANGAN ataukah DIPERGELANGAN TANGAN, beberapa penelitian awal MENYALAHKAN TRADISI SUCI GEREJA KATOLIK, namun penelitian terakhir yang diakui ternyata DIPAKU DITELAPAK TANGAN dan DIIKAT DENGAN TALI DIPERGELANGAN SEBAGAI PENAHAN BERAT BADAN
Hal yang sama juga mengenai KAIN KAFAN TURIN, penelitian awal menyatakan bahwa itu PALSU dan kontradiksi antar Injil Yohanes dan 3 Injil lainnya, penelitian termuktahir tahun ini (2010 & 2011), ternyata kemungkinan besar ASLI dan TIDAK ADA KONTRADIKSI antara keempat Injil tersebut, bahkan SALING MELENGKAPI dengan SEMPURNA setelah KAIN PELUH ditemukan, jadi, 3 Injil menceritakan bahwa setelah diturunkan dari Kayu Salib, diminyaki dan langsung dikafani, sedangkan Injil Yohanes menceritakan ketika hendak dimasukkan kedalam kuburan, diberikan kain peluh dan kain kafan hanya untuk badan saja
Tradisi Suci & Alkitab saling mengisi dan menjawab keraguan yang ada
SECRET VEIL ILLUSTRATES CHRIST'S RESURRECTION
Interview With Author of "The Face of God," Paul Badde
By Genevieve Pollock
MANOPPELLO, Italy, MARCH 28, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A veil in Manoppello, kept secret for centuries and only recently reemerging, illustrates Christ's resurrection in a way that will change the world, says Paul Badde.
Badde, author of "The Face of God: The Rediscovery of the True Face of Jesus" (Ignatius Press), explained to ZENIT how this veil features "uncountable" images of the Risen Christ.
The journalist and historian, and editor for the German newspaper "Die Welt," noted that the veil also illustrates much of what Benedict XVI wrote about in his newest book, "Jesus of Nazareth Part II: Holy Week -- From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection" (Ignatius Press).
In fact, the Pope visited the shrine at Manoppello as one of the first trips of his pontificate, reflecting his decades-long interest in the meditation on the face of God, the author noted.
In this interview with ZENIT, Badde explained some of the conclusions of his research on this veil, and why he thinks it is bound to change the world.
ZENIT: Some have referred to the Veil of Manoppello as belonging to Veronica, and having the image of Jesus' face from before the Crucifixion. Your investigation, however, led you to a different conclusion. Could you clarify what this veil is?
Badde: This veil has had many names in the last 2000 years -- maintaining only its unique character in the same time.
It is, in fact, "the napkin" or "handkerchief" (in Greek: soudarion), to which St. John the Evangelist is referring in his report of the discovery of the empty tomb by St. Peter and himself, that they saw "apart" from the cloths (including the shroud of Joseph from Arimathea) in which Jesus had been buried.
This napkin, St. John says, had originally been laying upon the Face of Jesus.
This veil had to be kept completely secret right away -- together with the Shroud of Turin -- in the first community of the Apostles in Jerusalem due to the ritual impurity in Judaism of everything stemming from a grave. And it remained secret for many centuries.
This explains why it had been bearing many different names in the course of history after it appeared in public some hundred years later in the Anatolian town of Edessa for the first time.
Among all these different names are for instance: The Edessa Veil, The Image or Letter of King Abgar, The Camuliana Veil, The Mandylion, The Image Not Made by Man's Hand (in Greek: acheiropoieton), The Fourfolded Veil (in Greek: tetradiplon) or -- today -- The Holy Face (Il Volto Santo). The "Veil of Veronica" is just another name of all those that meant altogether this very veil in Manoppello.
The famous Veronica herself, though, who allegedly had wiped Jesus' Face on his way to Calvary, does not appear in the Gospels. It is not earlier than the Middle Ages, around the 12th century, that she became mentioned for the first time in pious tales and traditions. Her name contains, however, one of the real and true names of this veil, in a Latin and Greek mixture: Vera Ikon. This is: True Icon.
ZENIT: Why do you think Benedict XVI chose to visit the shrine at Manoppello as one of the first trips of his pontificate?
Badde: He chose to travel there immediately after he had read my book, of which I had sent my very first copy to him on October 1, 2005.
This book triggered his decision to go there as soon as it became possible after his election -- notwithstanding the fact, of course, that he had been meditating on the face of God for decades already.
A complete book could and should be published of all the occasions and sentences in which he reflected and meditated on Jesus' Face as the true face of God that he sees -- together with Dante -- in the center of paradise and the universe.
Everything I wrote in my book fit perfectly into this conviction -- with exciting news of the survival and rediscovery of the True Image in a remote little town in the Abruzzi Mountains.
ZENIT: When Benedict XVI visited Manoppello he encouraged the contemplation of the Holy Face of Jesus as a way of meditating on the mystery of divine love. Could you describe some of the characteristics of the face on the veil that contribute to this meditation?
Badde: Everything of the Holy Face is most precious and as inexplicable as any good and true miracle.
The fabric (Byssos -- fabric made from mussel silk), for instance, is the most precious fabric you can imagine -- and it is absolutely a fabric that cannot be painted on.
It shows a beautiful portrait of Jesus -- but with no traces of colors or blood.
It seems to be painted with light somehow and is therefore changing from every angle, in every different light, in different seasons, daytimes, etc.
It is in fact not one image of Jesus therefore -- it is an uncountable number of images of the Risen Christ.
When laid upon the face of the Shroud of Turin they both form a perfect match -- of one living face upon a dead face of the very same person: Jesus Christ.
All these qualifications seem to be only technical details. Though, in regard to the deep impression one has when he stands in front of this living image for the first time, one feels an ocean of mercy and compassion from the image in Manoppello.
ZENIT: How can the contemplation of the face on this veil help people to deepen in the meditation of the passion, death and resurrection of Our Lord, especially during Lent and Easter?
Badde: The veil shows, in one single look, not everything, but a great deal of what Pope Benedict XVI says in "Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week -- From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection," his recent, beautiful and wise book about the resurrection of Christ.
It adds something else though, which is to dawn upon the Christianity in our days fully for the first time in history. And this couldn't be better expressed, I think, than by a letter I received the other day by a certain Mother Columba from a French monastery, who is an Orthodox nun and an icon-painter.
"Each one of us who read 'The Face of God' was profoundly affected," she writes.
She continued: "Through this lively, simple and unaffected account, something gripped us that was far beyond and above the book itself, I would say, infinitely beyond. And I am convinced it is because the face of him who is both natural and above-nature is hiding behind the lines, shining through.
"This undeniable effect on each one of us who read the book is enough in itself to convince me of the authenticity of the image of Manoppello. God has left an image of his Face on earth!
"As Orthodox we are very much centered on Christian personalism: The mystery of the person, of which the face is the manifestation 'par excellence.' He who is at the center of all, the Alpha and the Omega, and in whose Face, as Dante said, our own faces are painted (or written) -- it is only when we shall fully behold the Face of him whose name is I Am that we, too, shall be able to say, now, in him, I am."
ZENIT: What is the significance of the rediscovery of this veil with its image at this moment in history?
Badde: This answer is one that only God fully knows.
What I know, however, is this: It is going to change the face of the world as soon as Christianity realizes fully that God has indeed left not only the testimony of a good number of reliable witnesses (in the Gospels for instance) but also a material image of himself on earth.
It will change the world sooner rather than later -- at least in a way that the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has changed the map and history in Mexico after she had appeared and left her image there on December 12, 1531.
This image of her Son, however, has reappeared at the brink of the digital revolution -- and at the brink of the "Iconic turn."
I believe we are going to see a dramatic shift in the way we communicate -- a world where communication will be more visual rather than intellectual.
It is in these very days that we come to realize for the first time what Mother Columba said in her letter from France: "God has left an image of his Face on earth!"
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