Jubilee Church, D.C.

05/21/2026

Let us all join hands and proclaim the Sacred Peace!

Salaam/Shalom 🙏✌️☮️🕊️

05/21/2026

Keep church and state separate.

05/15/2026

So fun!

Gaia, one of our awesome volunteers, leads art lessons for patients here at Christ House. Last week, she taught a lesson on portraiture - check out a few of the pieces!

P.S. We shared an interview with Gaia last week on our blog - available here https://christhouse.org/meet-gaia-christ-house-volunteer/

05/14/2026

Honor those who strived before us! 🙌

05/01/2026

Love this! Love the kids! Love the arts! 🥰

04/16/2026

Women’s special role in Christ’s ministry and in the revelation of his resurrection have been a topic of our church services over the last month.

May you be blessed by God’s life giving Spirit. 🙏

“The Three Mary’s”
An Icon for Eastertide.

God chose women to first bring the good news of the resurrection of Jesus to the world.

The women who went to the tomb that first Easter morning weren't going there seeking resurrection. They were going to perform one last act of loving presence—to anoint a body. But in that act of being with, even in death, they became the first witnesses to new life.

In the Icon Christ’s mother wraps her arms around Mary Magdelene and “the other Mary” as they go from the garden tomb to proclaim Christ’s resurrection.

Each gospel tells a different version of easter morning. It could be easy to miss the point of the story and get lost by the amount of exegesis that has gone into the who’s who of Mary’s in the Gospels. There is Mary (mother of Jesus), Mary Magdelene, “the other Mary”-Mary (mother of James and Joses/Joseph), Mary (wife of Cleopas) and Mary of Bethany.

In Mark and Luke, the gospel writers mention many women, “the myrrh-bearers” going to the tomb easter morning. Some historians believe some of these Mary’s in the gospels could be the same person. (i.e. Mary, Christ’s mother and Mary the Mother of James) In Luke, Mary the wife of Cleopas is interestingly also considered to be the “unnamed follower” with Cleopas as they walked on the road to Emmaus with a risen Christ they did not recognize. (tradition also holds that Mary and Cleopas were Jesus’ Aunt and Uncle!)

In Matthew, it is Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary” who go to the tomb.

In John’s Gospel, it is Mary Magdalene alone who first sees the risen Jesus, mistaking him for the Gardener.

Although, as some could point out, Jesus’ Mother is not described in any of the Gospels as being present with the women coming to attend to the body of Jesus and saw the empty tomb. However, in his work, ‘The Life of the Virgin,’ St Maximus the Confessor draws on the Church’s tradition to say that Mary was “inseparable from the tomb” and so was there on the Sunday morning when the other women arrived. This belief has been preserved in the traditional iconography with many icons of the myrrh-bearing women, when studied closely, contain Mary, the Mother of God with the other women, denoted by MP ƟY (a Greek/ abbreviation for Mater Theos; Mother of God) inscription is clearly written in her halo.

Regardless, I hope this icon can continue to remind us that in a time where women were excluded and overlooked, when Christ was crucified and buried, and the male apostles fled and hid, it was the women who stood by Christ in his suffering and death, and became the first witnesses and preachers of the gospel.

Signed Giclee Prints and Digital Downloads of this icon available here: kellylatimoreicons.com

04/15/2026

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Tomorrow! We'd love to see you at our Open House, on 1717 Columbia Road from 6-7pm.

04/09/2026

We thank God for the last minute two week ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United States.

Addressing journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV asks "all people of goodwill to always search for peace and to reject war," calls for a return ...

04/08/2026

We ❤️ L’Arche! Bless you Mulu! 👏🙌🙏

We are so proud of Mulu, who is being recognized as the recipient of 's 2026 VA DSP of the year award!

Chosen from a record-breaking pool of nearly 550 nominees, Mulu was selected for her exemplary dedication (going on 18 years now as awake overnight at Highland house!!!), creativity, and innovation in providing critical supports for people with disabilities.

We cannot wait to see Mulu be honored during ANCOR’s awards presentation on April 23!

03/17/2026

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Quote of the Week:
“The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God’s son.”
~St. Hildegard

Spring is almost here.
Born in 1098, Hildegard was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, musician, composer, artist, philosopher, mystic, forager and medicinal plant writer and practitioner. ( and a Doctor of the Church) She didn’t want to simply visit this world. She wanted to fully be in it. Embracing the wonder and goodness of God’s creation.

Signed Giclee Prints: kellylatimoreicons.com