Justice:

The days are surely coming …

 

 

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall no longer say:
  "The parents have eaten sour grapes,
     and the children's teeth are set on edge."
But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

 

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

 

Jeremiah 31:27-34

 

“Christ Among the Doctors” 

 

DÜRER, Albrecht

1506

Oil on panel, 65 x 80 cm

Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

At the same time as the Feast of the Rose Garlands, Dürer was working on the painting of Christ among the Doctors. The theme derives from the Gospel of St Luke (Luke 2, 41-52).

On the bookmark at the bottom left of the panel, Dürer has recorded that this picture was `the work of five days', a pointed reference to his inscription on The Altarpiece of the Rose Garlands, the work of five months. Christ among the Doctors is not only a smaller panel, but the brushwork is much more spontaneous and the paint is applied with broad and fluid strokes. Despite Dürer's statement about five days, he based it on a number of careful studies, including one of Christ's gesticulating fingers. Although not present on the original painting, two early copies of the panel have the word `Romae' added to the inscription on the bookmark and this suggests that Dürer visited Rome late in 1506. It may also be significant that the original painting was in Rome's Galleria Barberini until its acquisition by Baron Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1935.

The story recorded in the panel is of Christ's visit to Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, where he debated with the learned Jewish doctors (or scribes). According to the Bible, this was the first occasion on which Christ taught. Dürer's daring composition does not use the conventional temple setting which he earlier used in the lower left panel of The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin. Instead he gives a close-up view of the faces of six doctors crowding round the young Jesus. The elderly doctors, caricatured faces which may well have been influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, argue with Christ by quoting from the Scriptures and gesticulating. Christ, a sober boy of 12, quietly gestures with his fingers to make a point. Dürer contrasts Christ's youthful hands with the gnarled fingers of the ugly old man with the white cap and a gap-toothed grin.

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/durer/1/05/07docto.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

Humanity's capacity for justice makes democracy possible;

but humanity's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

 

 

 

 

Quiet is the element

of discerning what is essential. *

~ Gordon Hempton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Patterson, former Director of Conservation at the DAM (Denver Art Museum),

treated our old Conservation group to lunch at Palettes on Tuesday.

 

Jane Mathews, Carl Patterson

 

 

Sidney Gates, Alice Yockey, Julie Scott

 

 

Jane Johnson, Ann White

 

 

Jessica Fletcher and Nola

(Not pictured: Carolyn Alexander)

 

 

Carl Patterson, Director of Conservation Emeritus,

Christoph Heinrich, Director, Denver Art Museum, and

Alice Zrebiec, Curator of Textile Art

 

Christoph stopped at our table to greet Carl and Alice and

the other people he knew at the table.

 

 

Judi Quackenboss treated us to goodies at Bunco.

 

 

Tina Nelson was one of the winners!

 

 

Van Farnsworth served her delicious bread pudding

at Book Club this week.

We read The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro.

 

 

Van showed us the different signatures on two of her paintings

by Scottish artist Alfred de Breanski  (1852-1928).



 

We had a little more gorgeous snow this week.

 

 

 

 

 

The most important human endeavor

is striving for morality in our actions.

Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it.

Only morality in our actions 

can give beauty and dignity to our lives.

~ Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

October, 20, 2013   Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

*     A lyrical essay in which Gordon Hempton reminds the reader of what we can find inside ourselves through nature and how it makes us better listeners too.

 

 

Our typical anti-noise strategies — earplugs, noise cancellation headphones, 

even noise abatement laws — offer no real solution 

because they do nothing to help us reconnect and listen to the land. 

And the land is speaking.

 

         http://www.onbeing.org/program/last-quiet-places/4557

 

 



Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my opponent.' For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'"  And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

Luke 18:1-8

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 31:27–34 

Psalm 119:97–104 

2 Timothy 3:14—4:5 

Luke 18:1–8