The Poor Have Names

This is the only parable where a character is given a name -- and it is the poor man who is named.

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[Jesus said:] "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony. Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.' He said, 'Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house—for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.' Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.' He said, 'No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

Luke 16:19-31

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Dives and Lazarus

VERONESE, Bonifacio

1540-50

Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice

http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=4110&showmode=Full

 

 

Beware lest you lose the substance

by grasping at the shadow.

~ Aesop

 

 

Not because we have value we are loved,

but because we are loved, we have value.

~ William Sloane Coffin

 

 

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Alice, from Missouri, is visiting Vicki this week and we went aspen viewing.

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The wonderful Gold Hill Restaurant was closed.

Instead, we had delicious peach cobbler at the Gold Hill Store.

Golden Aspen!!!

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It was a drizzly day on Wednesday, and the colors were vibrant.

This was near the site of recent dreadful forest fires and moisture was most welcome.

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Bernadette, Marilyn, and Rebecca at Book Club.

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Saturday was our Rotary Club’s Fall Clean-up Day for recyclables.

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Saturday was also a gorgeous and clear day for more aspen viewing!

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This little stuffed vole was part of an exhibit in the Ranger

Station on Mt. Evans.

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Bighorn ewes

Alice hoped to see some wildlife and she saw lots of it!

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Mountain goat

Animals are putting on their winter coats.

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Vicki and her wild friends, Woofie and JAK.

This was at Summit Lake, above tree line.

It was much warmer than the last time I was there!

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Looking down on Echo Lake.

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On the way to drop me off at my house, Alice got to see some elk up very close.

 

 

God pickles the proud and preserves the foolish.

~ Anonymous

 

 

September 26, 2010    Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previous OPQs may be found at:      

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Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

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Psalm 91:1

http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/169.html

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15

Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16

1 Timothy 6:6-19

Luke 16:19-31