The paintings in this book came about during 2014 and are the fruit of reflecting on and being with the daily mass readings. Instead of a verbal engagement with the Gospels, I found that visual expression allowed me to retain the freedom radiating from Jesus’ words while also sharing their effect on me and convolving them with my own, gradual but very much incomplete, understanding. Instead of a re-expression of Gospel passages, the following paintings are an account of my encounter with them. Instead of being their “explanations,” they are a turning of their content into the form of visual parables.