First Sunday in Lent
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of
Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up
out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like
a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved;
with you I am well pleased." And the Spirit immediately drove him out into
the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he
was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.
Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to
Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, "The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the
good news."
Mark 1:9-15
Baptism
of Christ
ANGELICO,
Fra
1450
San
Marco Church
Florence,
Italy
"Frescoes
painted by Fra Angelico in monastic cells at the Dominican monastery of San
Marco in Florence show scenes from Christ's life that are differently focused
than those influenced by Franciscan piety. These are not "moving
pictures," but posed scenes. Their purpose is not to arouse emotion, but
to stimulate contemplation. Dominican monks appear in the sacred scenes, both
observing and modeling the responses expected from the viewer. Meditation on
these scenes was preparation for preaching vividly and persuasively on them.
"De modo orandi," a thirteenth-century devotional manual for
Dominican novices, instructed novices in the use of gestures and postures to
accompany and intensify prayer, many of which are also found in the Dominican
figures in Fra Angelico's paintings. The manual states, "specific states
of mystical consciousness can be stimulated by deliberately assuming bodily
postures" (Hood, 1993: 205). By imitating the founder of the Order, who
himself imitated Christ, the novice could begin to preach with his life even
before he was permitted to preach with words." (Miles, 221)
Think of Lent as an Outward Bound for the soul.
No one has to sign up for it, but if you do,
then you give up the illusion that
you are in control of your life.
~
Barbara Brown Taylor
We must be silent before we can listen.
We must listen before we can learn.
We must learn before we can prepare.
We must prepare before we can serve.
We must serve before we can lead.
~
William Arthur Ward
Sip and See
Sunday,
February 15, 2015
Willa
Grace
born
12-28-14
Willa’s
brothers, Emerson and Thatcher
Such
a lovely tea to meet Willa Grace.
Mardi Gras Party
February
17, 2015
Marny
Thomas, Carolyn Alexander
Lynn
Thiels and her sister, Barbara Wingate
Lynn
visited from Louisiana to help Barbara and John Wingate prepare
the
delicious food for the Mardi Gras party.
Jeanne
Gibbard and I thoroughly enjoyed Harvey at the Arvada Center.
Book Club
Thursday,
February 19, 2015
Gilead: A Novel, by
Marilynne Robinson
Instead
of meeting in my home, Kappy Kling of Hearthfire Books and Treats
graciously
allowed us to use their back room for our gathering.
Commander Rorke Denver (shown here with member
Marianne Temple)
of the U.S. Navy SEALS was our speaker at Rotary.
Grace has a grand laughter in it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
(from Gilead!)
February 22, 2015 First
Sunday in Lent
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
The
Rainbow Covenant
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
"As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants
after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the
domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out
of the ark. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh
be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to
destroy the earth."
God said, "This is the sign of the
covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with
you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall
be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over
the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that
is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters
shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the
clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and
every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." God said to
Noah, “ his is the sign of the covenant that I have established
between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis
9:8-17
Genesis 9:8-17
Psalm 25:1-10
1 Peter 3:18-22
Mark 1:9-15