Love

Concordia College Christmas Concert

Moorhead, Minnesota

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2006/12/01_newsroom_muralflash/index.shtml

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.

~ W.J. Cameron

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
~ W.T. Ellis

CV, Jackie, Nancy, Lori, Bob

Jeanne and I had a delicious dinner at Bella Bistro

before attending this enjoyable musical.

Jackie and Van at Willow Creek Restaurant where our afternoon Book Club celebrated.

Barbara Sternberg autographing my copy of her new book,
Anne Evans - A Pioneer in Colorado’s Cultural History;
The Things That Last When Gold is Gone
at Boone Mountain Sports. A very ambitious project!!!

Gail Riley (holding Barbara’s book), Tom Ware

Gail’s cookbook:  http://www.coloradocravings.com/
Tom’s sculpture:  http://www.tomwaresculptor.com/bio.htm

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
~Ada V. Hendricks

December 19, 2010 Fourth Sunday of Advent

Previous OPQs may be found at:      

http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:
"Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
   and they shall name him Emmanuel,"
which means, "God is with us." When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife, but had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son; and he named him Jesus.

Matthew 1:18-25

Annunciation

DEL SARTO, Andrea

1528

Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/andrea/sarto/3/the_annu.html

The painting was mentioned by Vasari as being the lunette of a picture which, after various wanderings passed to the museum of Berlin and was destroyed there in the Second World War. It had in fact the form of a lunette and was transformed to a rectangle at an unknown period. It is a late painting of Andrea.

In a supremely poetic range of changing colours, from yellow to pink to lilac to purple, it expresses Andrea's new taste, no longer favouring the intense and highly charged palette of the preceding years; he now chooses delicate harmonies, without dissonances, and of precious and refined accords which give the composition a new balance, more quiet and refined than before.

Isaiah 7:10-16

Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19

Romans 1:1-7

Matthew 1:18-25

Christmas Eve:

Isaiah 9:2-7

Psalm 96

Titus 2:11-14

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)