{"id":130580,"date":"2024-06-10T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=130580"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:36:14","slug":"a-christ-i-can-be-excited-about-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-christ-i-can-be-excited-about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christ I Can Be Excited About!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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No doubt many of you are familiar with the famous painting, the Head of Christ by Warner Sallman. We, informally, call it the \u201cLegionary Christ.\u201d The Legionaries adopted this painting as our official image of Christ early in our history and Christ is honored in many of our houses, seminaries, retreat centers and schools using this painting. For years it has also been widely used by the Salvation Army, USO and YMCA. In 1994, with more than 500 million copies sold, The New York Times declared that Sallman would likely be voted the \u201cbest known artist of the century.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even though this is our official \u201cLegionary Christ\u201d image \u2013 and I have seen this painting daily since I joined the Legionaries of Christ in 1993 \u2013 I could never quite connect with the Jesus in Sallman\u2019s painting. He is looking up, not at me, and there is little context as to where he is. While he represents an ideal of strength, focus, self-possession and distinction that I admire \u2013 frozen in a moment in which he is encountering the Father \u2013 it wasn\u2019t an image of Christ that I would call \u201cfriend.\u201d I couldn\u2019t really pray to him \u2013 at least not in this painting. Indeed, I felt kind of guilty that the \u201cofficial\u201d image of the Legionaries that graced our homes and ordination cards, didn\u2019t really speak to me.<\/p>\n

But in a providential encounter with Fr. Louis de Vaugelas, LC, all that changed.<\/p>\n

During a quick conversation in the hallway, Fr. Louis told me that the \u201cLegionary Christ\u201d was actually a detail of an earlier and now less famous painting, Friend of the Humble (Supper at Emmaus) by L\u00e9on-Augustin Lhermitte, that hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It was painted by Augustin in 1892 \u2013 the same year Sallman was born. That was also the same year it came into the MFA collection in Boston.<\/p>\n

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If one looks at the head of Christ in this Augustin\u2019s painting, there is a striking resemblance to Sallman\u2019s Head of Christ, it would be hard to argue one did not inspire the other.<\/p>\n

Augustin\u2019s painting shows the closing scene of the famed passage of Christ on the road to Emmaus. Jesus is seated around the kitchen table at the very moment he breaks the bread and repeats the gesture of the Last Supper. His stunned disciples sit across the table while a woman and young boy serve in the background, oblivious to the miraculous event unfolding before them.<\/p>\n

What I love about this painting is that it gives a context to our \u201cLegionary Christ\u201d that I can relate to. Sallman\u2019s version no doubt represents a noble and beautiful ideal. But seeing the Head of Christ in this scene from the life of Christ in Augustin\u2019s painting, and at the very beginning of the life of the Church, has made all the difference for me.<\/p>\n

Jesus ministering around a dining room table, meeting people where they are at, having just spent hours explaining the scriptures to his discouraged disciples, trying to \u201cbring them back.\u201d And being confronted with men and women who don\u2019t quite understand but are hungry to hear more.<\/p>\n

Now this \u201cday in the life\u201d of the resurrected Jesus is something that really \u201cspeaks\u201d to me.<\/p>\n

Accompanying discouraged Catholics, some struggling in their faith, meeting them one on one \u2013 where they are at \u2013 or in small groups around a meal is something I do often.<\/p>\n

Jesus is breaking the bread of the Eucharist! I do that every day!<\/p>\n

So, I have a newfound attraction to Sallman\u2019s Christ, especially when meditating on Christ the resurrected apostle, revealing himself, accompanying other apostles, and reaching out to those on the spiritual peripheries.<\/p>\n

That is something I can truly relate to!<\/p>\n

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Fr. Mark Haydu, LC, is the Chief Development Officer for he\u00a0Legionaries of Christ<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0Fr. Mark worked in the Vatican Museums for 9 years as Director of the Patrons of the Arts. He authored\u00a0Meditations on Vatican Art<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Meditations on Vatican Art: Angels<\/a><\/i>. He currently offers Friday Meditations, reaching over 1,200 community members monthly, which can be found on the Legionaries of Christ Podcast.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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After two years of philosophical studies in Rome, he completed four years of apostolic internships in Salamanca, Spain, Dublin, Ireland, and Cheshire, CT. Fr. Mark returned to Rome to get a licentiate degree in Philosophy with a thesis on moral legislation. He then began his Theology studies in 2004, until he was ordained a priest on December 22, 2007. That same year, in October, Fr. Mark became the Director of the Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums, a position he held until June 15, 2015. During that time, Father finished a License in Moral Theology focused on the effects of cohabitation on marital happiness and perseverance. He also published two award-winning art books in the\u00a0Meditations on Vatican Art series. Fr. Mark enjoyed serving as a spiritual director to the legionary seminarians and consecrated women of Regnum Christi while in Rome. In 2016, he returned to the States, being stationed at the Legionary community in Rye, NY, working as the National Chaplain of Lumen Institute. Fr. Mark currently serves as local chaplain to Lumen and as the Chief Development Officer for the Legionaries of Christ, North American Territory. Aside from his prayer and religious life, he enjoys golf, playing guitar, reading, and writing.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/mhaydu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130580"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=130580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}