The Kingdom of Heaven is Like …
(five parables)
Jesus put before the crowds another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind; when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
“Have you understood all this?” They answered, “Yes.” And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
Matthew 13:31-33,
44-52
St. Matthew
HALS,
Frans
1625
Odessa
Museum of Western and Eastern Art
Odessa,
Ukraine
The painting shows St. Matthew sitting at a
desk reading with an angel at his elbow.[1] This
painting was documented in the 18th-century but was considered lost until the
1950s, when two tronies were discovered languishing in the storerooms of the
Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art in 1958 by art historian Irina Linnik.
At the time they were considered to be by unknown 19th-century painters, but
Linnik recognized them as the work of a 17th-century master and eventually
traced their history back to the 17th century, identifying them as two of four
lost paintings by Hals of the evangelists, namely Luke and Matthew.[2][3] After
her work was published in 1959, the two paintings were included in the 1962
Frans Hals exhibition in the Frans Hals
Museum. The international attention helped to spur art detectives
and eventually the other two of John and Mark were also rediscovered.
In his 1989 catalog of the international Frans
Hals exhibition, Slive included a photo of Hals' Two singing boys with a lute and a
music book to show that his theme of a main subject with a
secondary witness was common to many of Hals' paintings of the 1620s and the
models as secondary witness in these two paintings were clearly cousins.[4]
The four evangelists by Hals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew,_by_Frans_Hals
Every happening, great and small,
is a parable whereby God speaks to us,
and the art of life is to get the message.
~
Malcolm Muggeridge
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
~
Eric Hoffer
Charles
Rose, Vicki’s nephew, paid tribute to Vicki as he climbed
Mt.
Bierstadt, one of Colorado’s 14ers.
Charles
also placed some of her ashes on Desiderata,
her
favorite poem. It was included in the program
for
her Celebration of Life.
AND,
he built a cairn in her memory and said a prayer!
Anna
Marie Nelson, Rita Sullivan, Diane Campbell and I made
a
foursome on Wednesday.
Our
speaker at Rotary, Doug Herman, shared his heart-breaking story and what
he
learned from it. He said we all have a choice …
Rebecca
Martin had some friendly visitors this week.
She
wonders if it might be the same mama bear who visited last year.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows
are in the seeds of today.
~
Indian Proverb
July 30, 2017 Eighth Sunday
after Pentecost; Proper 12
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstei
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Genesis 29:15–28 with Psalm 105:1–11, 45b or Psalm 128
1 Kings 3:5-12 with Psalm 119:129-136
Romans 8:26–39
Matthew
13:31–33, 44–52