Peace

First Sunday of Advent

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I was glad when they said to me,

   "Let us go to the house of God!"

Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.

   Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together.

To it the tribes go up, the tribes of God,

   as was decreed for Israel,

to give thanks to the name of God.

For there the thrones for judgment were set up,

   the thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

   "May they prosper who love you.

"Peace be within your walls,

   and security within your towers."

For the sake of my relatives and friends

   I will say, "Peace be within you."

For the sake of the house of the Sovereign our God,

   I will seek your good.

Psalm 122

Pax, or Peace

Detail from  

Allegory of Good and Bad Government

LORENZETTI, Ambrogio

1338-1340

Palazzo Pubblico

Siena

Italy

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s most revolutionary achievement — one of the most remarkable accomplishments of the Renaissance — is the fresco series that lines three walls of the room in the Palazzo Pubblico where Sienna's chief magistrates, the Nine, held their meetings.

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/lorenzet/ambrogio/governme/

First Sunday in Advent, Year A: This depiction of Peace as the ruler of a well-governed city, where justice and fairness are the fruits of a beneficent ruler, reflect the words of Psalm 122:  “For there the thrones for judgment were set up,

   the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: 'May they prosper who love you.  Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers.'  For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, "Peace be within you." For the sake of the house of the Sovereign our God, I will seek your good.

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20131130659820556&code=ACT&RC=46225&Row=7

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation.

It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, 

which are the causes of war.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed —

but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

~ Thomas Merton

We had a small but abundant Thanksgiving Dinner.

Abundant food, abundant gratitude.

Sue (SuSu) Wolff

It looks like I was trying to freeze out my guests!

Vicki Hall

We gave thanks for all our blessings!

Scott Siler Memorial and Celebration of Life

Saturday, November 26, 2016

4:00 - 7:00

American Legion

Lakewood, Colorado

This amazing cake honored the last time Scott had a score of 300.

Kenton Alexander, Keann Alexander Brown and Larry Brown

There is no way to peace;

peace is the way.

~ A.J. Muste

November 27, 2016 First Sunday of Advent

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The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

In days to come

the mountain of the Lord’s house

shall be established as the highest of the mountains,

and shall be raised above the hills;

all the nations shall stream to it.

Many peoples shall come and say,

‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the house of the God of Jacob;

that he may teach us his ways

and that we may walk in his paths.’

For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

He shall judge between the nations,

and shall arbitrate for many peoples;

they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,

and their spears into pruning-hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war any more.

O house of Jacob,

come, let us walk

in the light of the Lord! 

Isaiah 2:1-5

From three years ago

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

Isaiah 2:1-5
Psalm 122
Romans 13:11-14  
Matthew 24:36-44