The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Six
days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he
had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and
Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly
perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair.
The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one
of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, "Why was this
perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the
poor?" (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he
was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)
Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for
the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always
have me.”
John 12:1-8
Christ
in the House of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
BASSANO,
Jacopo and Francesco
approx.
1577
Museum
of Fine Arts
Houston,
Texas
United
States
Houston. Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
Christ in the House of Mary
and Martha. Canvas, 95 x
124.
The subject is from John's Gospel (12: 1-2),
which tells that Christ had supper in the house of Mary and Martha at Bethany
six days before the passover. Mary (traditionally identified with the Magdalen)
kneels as Christ and his disciples appear at the door, and Martha gestures to
the guests to enter. Their brother Lazarus, whom Christ had raised from the
dead, prepares food at the table. The picture is signed by both Jacopo and
Francesco on the base of the column on the left. It probably dates from around
the mid-1570s, when Jacopo and Francesco often worked in collaboration.
Possibly the picture of this subject seen by Ridolfi (1648) in the Palazzo
Contarini a San Samuele in Venice. Acquired by the Bob Jones University,
Greenville, from a private English collection in 1959, and bought by the Blaffer
Foundation in 1974. There are a number of other versions or copies.
http://cavallinitoveronese.co.uk/general/view_artist/80
An extravagance is
something
that your spirit thinks
is a necessity.
~ Bernard Williams
I have always found that
mercy
bears richer fruits than
strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Carolyn
Alexander, Jack and Dottie Alexander
Vicki
and I had dinner with Dottie and Jack on Tuesday, the evening before they left
for Japan.
Center for the Arts Evergreen Donor Party
in
our newly purchased building.
Thursday,
March 10, 2016
Karen
Lindsay studying plans for our new center.
Carol
Dobbs, Ginny Boschen
Steve
Sumner, Director of CAE, explaining some of the details.
The
building we purchased is a former church and Anne Vickstrom and Bill Manning
are
showing
the covered baptismal font to Mark Vickstrom.
I
had never seen a baptismal this large for total immersion.
In
the back of the former sanctuary there are stained glass panels that will
have to be removed for security and climate control reasons. Many of
them are cracked but some will be salvaged and used elsewhere in the renovated
building. The purple pieces were originally from one of the Air Force
Chapels at Lowry Air Force Base which was used as the initial site of the U.S.
Air Force Academy.
Off the Page
Center for the Arts Evergreen
Opening Reception Friday, March 11, 2016
The exhibition considers the evolution and
association of printmaking and book arts.
“Nothing to Say - a Poem in 120 Verses"
by Pam Fortner
“Asemic
Monologue with Footnote” *
by
Pam Fortner
(Detail)
John
and Van Farnsworth picked me up for our monthly Spares and Pairs dinner.
Witness
“I am a Christian,” one once said to me.
He said it loudly.
I watched and said:
“I shall not be.”
~
Ann Weems
March 13, 2016 Fifth Sunday in Lent
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Happy Birthday, VICKI and JOHN!!!
Thank
you, Peyton!
Isaiah 43:16-21
Psalm 126
Philippians 3:4b-14
John 12:1-8