Idolatry

 

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." Aaron said to them, "Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a festival to the LORD." They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel. 

The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'" The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation."

But Moses implored the LORD his God, and said, "O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, `It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, `I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'" And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

Exodus 32:1-14

The Adoration of the Golden Calf

TINTORETTO, Jacopo

1546

Madonna dell’Orto

Venice

Italy

http://www.jacopotintoretto.org/Adoration-of-the-Golden-Calf,-1546.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saint Augustine defined idolatry

as worshiping what should be used

or using what should be worshiped.

~ Colin S. Smith

 

 

 

 

Idolatry is in a man’s own thought,

not in the opinion of another.

~ John Selden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Evening for the Arts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Christies of Genesee

Recognizing CAE’s Arts Persons of the Year:

 

 

Arts Persons of the Year

Congratulations,

Peter and Peggy Eggers

 

 

Other guests …

Carol and Greg Dobbs

 

 

Carolyn?

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Beverly Endsley demonstrated her painting technique.

 

Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner

Marilyn Herrs, Activities Director at Life Care Center of Evergreen,

greeted us at their Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Thursday.

 

Spares and Pairs

Steve and Tina Nelson

hosted a BIG (more than 40) group at Spares and Pairs on Friday.

 

 

Emily Corey, Carolyn Alexander

 

 

Tina Nelson, Marianne Loritz, Joan Evashevski

 

Dine Around

Ten of us met for dinner at Marty and Don Unger’s lovely home

in Kittredge Saturday evening.

 

 

Such a glorious view from their deck.

The mountains got fresh snow on Thursday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would neither have you be idle in duties —

nor make an idol of duties.

~ William Secker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 12, 2014   Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost — 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 23

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

Once more Jesus spoke to the people in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, `Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.' But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his slaves, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.' Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen."

Matthew 22:1-14

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

comic

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

 

 

 

Philippians 4:5 (57 kb)

http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/1688.html

 

 

 

 

 

Exodus 32: 1-14
Psalm 106: 1-6, 19-23
Philippians 4: 1-9
Matthew 22: 1-14