God’s Law is to be Followed
Then God spoke all these words:
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work.
Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance, and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die.” Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin.”
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9,
12-20
Moses
Receiving the Law from God
(One
panel of the “Gates of Paradise”)
GHIBERTI,
Lorenzo
1403-1424
Museo
dell’Opera del Duomo
Florence
Italy
It took Ghiberti 21 years to complete these
doors. These gilded bronze doors consist of twenty-eight panels, with twenty
panels depicting the life of Christ from the New Testament. The eight
lower panels show the four evangelists and the Church Fathers Saint Ambrose,
Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine. The panels are surrounded by a
framework of foliage in the door case and gilded busts of prophets and
sibyls at the intersections of the panels. Originally installed on the
east side, in place of Pisano's doors, they were later moved to the north side.
They are described by the art historian Antonio Paolucci as “the most
important event in the history of Florentine art in the first quarter of the
15th century”.[8]
The "Gates of
Paradise" situated in the Baptistry are a copy of the originals,
substituted in 1990 to preserve the panels after over five hundred years of
exposure and damage. To protect the original panels for the future, the panels
are being restored and kept in a dry environment in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, the museum of the Duomo's art and
sculpture. Some of the original panels are on view in the museum; the remaining
original panels are being restored and cleaned using lasers in lieu of potentially
damaging chemical baths. Three original panels made a US tour in 2007-2008, and
then were reunited in a frame and hermetically sealed with the intention of
making the panels appear in the context of the doors for public viewing.[10] One of the few copies made in the
1940s is installed in Grace Cathedral, in San Francisco; copies of the doors are also crafted
for the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Baptistery
Many of the things you can count, don’t count.
Many of the things you can’t count, really count.
~
Albert Einstein
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy,
but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while
and make sure that you haven’t
lost the things that money can’t buy.
~
George H. Lorimer
This
12-pointer is one of the MANY elk bugling during the night
in
our neighborhood!
An Artful Evening and More …
Sculpture
Evergreen
Friday,
October 6, 2017
Hiwan
Country Club
Margaretta
Caesar, Gail Riley
Margaretta
donated her lovely “Time Was” painting for the raffle.
“Time
Was”
Andy
and Ginny Ades
Carl
and Karen Lindsay
If God had wanted us to live in a permissive society,
He would have given us Ten Suggestions and
not
Ten Commandments.
~ Zig Ziglar
October 8, 2017
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 22
Jesus said, “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.” So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”
Jesus said to
them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.
Matthew 21:33-46
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 with
Psalm 19 or
Isaiah 5:1-7 with Psalm 80:7-15
Philippians 3:4b-14
Matthew 21:33-46