From 7 December to 1 January, the Italian FSP Facebook and Twitter websites held a contest entitled, Christmas from My Perspective. The invitation was very explicit: “This Christmas, reveal the artist in you! Do you like to paint? Do you like to take pictures? Are you able to use photoshop or other programs that retouch pictures? Then show us what you feel is the beauty of Christmas by sending us a picture of a work of art, embellished by a phrase from the Bible.”
For centuries now, the Gospel message has been racing ahead to reach everyone through many different means of communication. As in the past, besides the written and spoken word, an extremely important way of doing this is through pictures, whether it be a painting, an Instagram photo, a fresco, a flashcard on Facebook, etc. Pictures reach out to us in many different ways and we interpret them without filters.
The winner of the contest received a copy of the book, La Bibbia attraverso la pittura (The Bible Through Pictures) by Gérard Denizeau, published by FSP Editions Italy.