Idolatry
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." Aaron said to them, "Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a festival to the LORD." They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
The LORD
said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of
the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside
from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a
calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your
gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'" The LORD
said to Moses, "I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now
let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume
them; and of you I will make a great nation."
But
Moses implored the LORD his God, and said, "O LORD, why does your wrath
burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with
great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, `It was with
evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to
consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce wrath; change
your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac,
and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to
them, `I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this
land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall
inherit it forever.'" And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster
that he planned to bring on his people.
Exodus 32:1-14
The
Adoration of the Golden Calf
TINTORETTO,
Jacopo
1546
Madonna
dell’Orto
Venice
Italy
http://www.jacopotintoretto.org/Adoration-of-the-Golden-Calf,-1546.html
Saint Augustine defined idolatry
as worshiping what should be used
or using what should be worshiped.
~
Colin S. Smith
Idolatry is in a man’s own thought,
not in the opinion of another.
~
John Selden
An Evening for the Arts
Tuesday,
October 7, 2014
Christies
of Genesee
Recognizing
CAE’s Arts Persons of the Year:
Arts Persons of the Year
Congratulations,
Peter
and Peggy Eggers
Other
guests …
Carol
and Greg Dobbs
Carolyn?
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Beverly
Endsley demonstrated her painting technique.
Annual
Volunteer Appreciation Dinner
Marilyn
Herrs, Activities Director at Life Care Center of Evergreen,
greeted
us at their Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Thursday.
Spares
and Pairs
Steve
and Tina Nelson
hosted
a BIG (more than 40) group at Spares and Pairs on Friday.
Emily
Corey, Carolyn Alexander
Tina
Nelson, Marianne Loritz, Joan Evashevski
Dine
Around
Ten
of us met for dinner at Marty and Don Unger’s lovely home
in
Kittredge Saturday evening.
Such
a glorious view from their deck.
The
mountains got fresh snow on Thursday!
I would neither have you be idle in duties —
nor make an idol of duties.
~
William Secker
October 12, 2014 Eighteenth
Sunday after Pentecost — 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 23
Once
more Jesus spoke to the people in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven
may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his
slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they
would not come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, `Tell those who have been
invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been
slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.' But they
made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while
the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was
enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Then he said to his slaves, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not
worthy. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the
wedding banquet.' Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom
they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
"But
when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not
wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here
without a wedding robe?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the
attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are called, but
few are chosen."
Matthew 22:1-14
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/1688.html
Exodus
32: 1-14
Psalm 106: 1-6, 19-23
Philippians 4: 1-9
Matthew 22: 1-14