Bach's Actus tragicus

J.S. Bach composed the cantata Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste Zeit ("God's time is the very best time") around 1707, when he was a young man.  As Ken Myers observed in his column,

[It] is both a musical and theological tour de force. In this 20-minute-long work (also known as Actus tragicus) Bach organizes biblical texts, Lutheran melodies, and instrumental textures to convey the comforting message of the gospel in the face of death. ... This remarkable and confidently assuring work should be much better known than it is. So now: go hear it. Be comforted and amazed.

See, for instance, this video of a performance by the Netherlands Bach Society.

B.E. Murillo, The Two Trinities, 1675-1682.  (Image: Web Gallery of Art)

Today is Trinity Sunday.  Murillo (1617-1682) was a Spanish Baroque artist who painted many hopeful, beautiful religious paintings despite his harsh life and the difficult times in which he lived.  This image combines the Holy Trinity (the three Persons who are one God) and the Holy Family.  According to the Web Gallery of Art:

The Christ Child is raised on a dressed stone, both a compositional device to set him at the apex of a triangle in the centre of the painting and symbolic: 'thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion...a precious corner stone, a sure foundation' (Isaiah 28:16). As the clouds part to reveal the divine light, their shadows temper the bold red and ultramarine blue, the apricots, pinks, gold and white of the highlights to a wonderful overall harmony, a haze of grey, sky-blue and saffron.