On this second Sunday after Easter, I have a book plate print to show by Czech Graphic Artist Karel Musil, presenting the Resurrection of Christ in a way familiar to all Western Christians. In the earliest depictions of what happened on Easter Sunday like the Eastern-rite image of the Myrrhbearers we saw last week from Ukrainian Greek Catholic Iconographer Sviatoslav Vladyka, sacred artists presented scenes from the Gospel narratives taking place after the Resurrection rather than the actual moment when Christ rose from the grave. While this reticence about portraying a supernatural event not described in the Bible is still widely observed in the Eastern Orthodox Church, beginning in the 12th century, Western Christian artists started to show Christ rising from a Roman-styled, above ground sepulcher, surrounded by stunned or sleeping guards. The Resurrected Jesus might stand with his foot resting on the edge of the stone grave, as in the famous 15th century fresco of Italian Renaissance Master Piero della Francesca, or hover above it, as we see in the early 16th century Isenheim altar of Northern Renaissance Painter Matthias Grunewald. Musil offers us a modern variation combining both motifs, where the Risen Christ appears as a well-muscled colossus astride his tomb, revealing his wounded Sacred Heart to us. This new Musil etching of the Resurrection can be found on the East European Ex Libris page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)