Pictures for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

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 twenty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A.  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.

Classical

Two or Three are Gathered in my Name (Deux ou trois personnes assemblées en mon nom)

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:     James Tissot (1836–1902)

In Our Midst

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:     Josef August Untersberger (1864-1933) (Pseudonym Giovanni

Contemporary

The Insistent Friend

Attribution:    JESUS MAFA. The Insistent Friend, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48293 [retrieved August 27, 2017].

Women Outside the Church at Ruokolahti / Women of Ruokolahti on the Church Hill

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:      Albert Edelfelt (1854–1905)

Love One Another

Source:    http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55171
License:   Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License

Altarpiece showing repentance

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:      Bror Hjorth (1894–1968)

Love (four ways)

Source:    http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55272
Artist:      Robert Indiana (1928-)

I am in Your Midst

Source:    https://www.flickr.com/photos/waitingfortheword/8461785189
Artist:      Unknown

Line Art

Where two or three are gathered in my name

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:      Heinrich Hofmann (1893)

Community meeting

Source:    Adapted from https://pixabay.com/en/team-work-teamwork-people-business-971346/

See also ...

• Where to find pictures to use in church

• Catholic Mass planning sheet
• General-purpose church-service templates