As we follow Christ through the events of his Passion, we journey this week from the Upper Room and the Last Supper to the Garden of Gethsemane, where he awaits arrest. This lithograph of the Agony in the Garden, a new addition to the on-line Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, is the work of German Artist Otto Dix, an eloquent, often cruel, artistic spokesman for a disillusioned generation that had endured the horrors of World War I in the frontline trenches and got caught up in the barbarism of Hitler’s Third Reich. Christ struggles in prayer to accept the will of his Father, overshadowed by a dark demonic presence. For a moment, he has been transported back to the wilderness, where he first overcame the temptations of Satan to begin the ministry that will be completed now when he follows through on God’s plan of salvation and takes up the Cross. The print joins eight others on the Otto Dix profile page, taken from a cycle of images he created toward the end of his career for a 1960 illustrated edition of the Gospel of Matthew. (John Kohan)