Pictures for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, Year C (28 February 2016)

This is a small selection of free-use illustrations, photographs or images based on the readings and prayers/propers in the Roman Catholic lectionary for the third  Sunday of Lent, Year C.  It is part of the Lectionary Art Series.

See Hymn Suggestions for this Sunday for more information about the readings and seasonal notes about this day, and links to other weeks.



Note:   this is just a small selection of the available free-use images representing the story of Moses and the burning bush, which is the central story of the day's 1st reading.    The day's Gospel reading is a good deal less image-friendly.

Classical

God Appears to Moses in Burning Bush

Painting from Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Petersburg



Source:    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moses_Pluchart.jpg
Artist:     Eugène Pluchart (1809–1880)

Moses before the Burning Bush Icon

Source:    https://www.flickr.com/photos/frted/8509410242
Artist:     Theotokos Burning Bush 16th Century
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Moses before the burning bush

Source:    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gebhard_Fugel_Moses_vor_dem_brennenden_Dornbusch_c1920.jpg
Artist:     Gebhard Fugel (1863–1939)

Contemporary

The Withered Fig Tree, what does Jesus see?

Source:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Q6LAmLecs

Dead tree leaves

Source:    https://pixabay.com/en/leaves-trees-natural-winter-1169752/

The Call of Moses

Illustration from a Bible card published 1900 by the Providence Lithograph Company



Source:    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Call_of_Moses.jpg
Artist:     Uknown

Line Art

Dead tree

Source:    https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2015/10/03/13/34/dry-tree-969797_960_720.jpg

Moses and the Burning Bush, illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible

Source:    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holman_Moses_and_the_Burning_Bush.jpg
Artist:     Illustrators of the 1890 Holman Bible

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