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John 6

 

1Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.

2Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my supplications!

3If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,

Lord, who could stand?

4But there is forgiveness with you,

so that you may be revered.

5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,

and in his word I hope;

6my soul waits for the Lord

more than those who watch for the morning,

more than those who watch for the morning.

7O Israel, hope in the LORD!

For with the LORD there is steadfast love,

and with him is great power to redeem.

8It is he who will redeem Israel

from all its iniquities.

Psalm 130:1-8

 

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Adams Memorial

SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

1886-1891

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, DC

United States

https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20210806314688106&code=ACT&RC=56583&Row=11

 

“Clover” Adams, wife of the writer Henry Adams [a member of the Adams political family], committed suicide in 1885 by drinking chemicals used to develop photographs. Adams, who steadfastly refused to discuss his wife’s death, commissioned Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create a memorial that would express the Buddhist idea of nirvana, a state of being beyond joy and sorrow. In Adams’s circle of artists and writers, the old Christian certainties seemed inadequate after the violence of the Civil War, the industrialization of America, and Darwin’s theories of evolution. Saint-Gaudens’s ambiguous figure reflects the search for new insights into the mysteries of life and death. The shrouded being is neither male nor female, neither triumphant nor downcast. Its message is inscrutable. Clover’s gravesite in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. quickly became a tourist attraction, but Adams resisted all attempts to sentimentalize the memorial as a symbol of grief. 

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/adams-memorial-21528




Henry Adams, who traveled to Japan with John LaFarge ostensibly to find inspiration for this memorial, particularly wanted elements of serenely immovable Buddhist human figures to be contrasted with the waterfall-like robe associated with Kannon. In addition to the still and flowing elements, the monument's dualism includes male-female fusion in the figure itself and blends Asian and European ideals of figure. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Memorial_(Saint-Gaudens)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The purpose of life is not to be happy.

It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate,

to have it make some difference

that you have lived and lived well.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

When I was a boy and I would see scary things 

in the news, my mother would say to me,

 “Look for the helpers.

You will always find people who are helping.”

~ Fred Rogers

 









 

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Pop-Up Choir at church last Sunday

 

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Nancy Priest and Carolyn Martyn brought cake 

for the August Birthday People at Painted Toe Art Society.

 

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Carolyn Alexander, Dennis Kristensen, Pat Foster

The delicious cake suffered a slight transportation problem.

It still went down VERY easily!!!

 

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Mindy and Chris Hanson hosted our Dine Around Dinner on Thursday.

 

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Becky Cunningham, Carolyn Alexander, Mande Mischler, Mindy Hanson, Mike Cunningham

Chris Hanson took the photo.

We missed you, Mary and Doug!

 

 

 

 

 

Live so that when your children 

think of fairness and integrity, 

they think of you.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

August 11, 2024  Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 14B]

Previous OPQs may be found at: 

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

25So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 26Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and do not make room for the devil. 28Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

 

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I Am The Bread of Life | Suzanne Toolan with Lyrics | Catholic Hymn Song | Sunday 7pm Choir

 

Listen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvD0XJzOWQ4

 

 

Lyrics: I am the bread of life You who comes to me shall not hunger You who believes in me shall not thirst No one can come to me Unless the father beckons And I will raise you up And I will raise you up And I will raise you up On the last day. The bread that I will give Is my flesh for the life of the world And if you eat of this bread You shall live forever You shall live forever And I will raise you up And I will raise you up And I will raise you up On the last day. Unless you eat Of the flesh of the Son of Man And drink of his blood, And drink of his blood, You shall not have life within you. And I will raise you up And I will raise you up And I will raise you up On the last day. And I will raise you up And I will raise you up And I will raise you up On the last day



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LECTIONARY

2 Samuel 18:5–9, 15, 31–33 

Psalm 130 

Ephesians 4:25–5:2 

John 6:35, 41–51

 

SUMMARY

https://www.preachingtoday.com/lectionary/

 

THE WORD:

Manna is the manifestation of God in our midst.  Manna is generosity and kindness, consolation and support, the constant, unconditional love of family and friends.  Manna is food for our own journeys to God.  God sends us manna in many forms every day of our lives; the challenge of faith is to trust in God enough to look for manna, to collect it before it disappears, and to consume it and be consumed by it.  

As Jesus the “Bread of life” gave “life” to the world through his selfless compassion and humble servanthood to others, we, too, can give “life to the world” when we look beyond our own needs and security to the good of others, giving not from our treasure but from our poverty, nourishing one another in the love, compassion and selflessness of the Gospel Jesus.   

To receive the Eucharist worthily, we must allow ourselves not only to consume but to be consumed by the life and love of God.

 

https://connectionsmediaworks.com/sundaygospel.html#aug11

 

First Reading 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

5The king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders concerning Absalom.

6So the army went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim. 7The men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day, twenty thousand men. 8The battle spread over the face of all the country; and the forest claimed more victims that day than the sword.

9Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

15And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him, and killed him.

31Then the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, "Good tidings for my lord the king! For the LORD has vindicated you this day, delivering you from the power of all who rose up against you." 32The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" The Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up to do you harm, be like that young man."

33The king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

Psalm 130:1-8

1Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.

2Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my supplications!

3If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,

Lord, who could stand?

4But there is forgiveness with you,

so that you may be revered.

5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,

and in his word I hope;

6my soul waits for the Lord

more than those who watch for the morning,

more than those who watch for the morning.

7O Israel, hope in the LORD!

For with the LORD there is steadfast love,

and with him is great power to redeem.

8It is he who will redeem Israel

from all its iniquities.

Second Reading Ephesians 4:25-5:2

25So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 26Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and do not make room for the devil. 28Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Gospel John 6:35, 41-51

35Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

41Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 42They were saying, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" 43Jesus answered them, "Do not complain among yourselves. 44No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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