Fifth Sunday in Lent
Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.
“Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.
John 12:20-33
We
Would See Jesus
TISSOT,
James
about
1890
Brooklyn
Museum
Brooklyn
New
York
Some Greeks
have come to Jerusalem for the Passover, and ask to see Jesus. Notice how
Tissot portrays much more than the immediate scene of the conversation,
displaying his immense interest in the history and archaeology of Jerusalem. He
imagines the Greeks approaching on an arched causeway over the Tyropoeon
valley, on the southwest side of the Temple Mount. They are walking up to what
might have been the most dramatic entrance to the Temple. Finding a fellow
visitor who speaks Greek, they tell Philip why they have come. “Sir,” they say;
“we wish to see Jesus!”
Tissot
portrays Jesus in his customary way, as a rabbi clothed in white, and the
painting is faithful to the scene as John presents it. Tissot therefore does
not show Jesus moving toward the inquiring Greeks. Instead, as John tells us,
when he hears that the Greeks want to see him, Jesus responds to Philip and
Andrew in a curiously indirect way. Drawing upon an image in the book of
Daniel, he says, “the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” Jesus
speaks of his death and his vocation, which he says is centered on God’s
glorification.
Here, we
begin to make sense of why Tissot portrays the Greek visitor’s arrival from
Jesus’ perspective, from the vantage point on top of that southwest corner of
the Temple Mount, looking out between Hellenic columns toward Mt. Zion. The
occasion has deep significance, not just for Greek visitors. It has
significance for all of Jerusalem, and everyone who has come for the great
festival. And it has implications for the whole world, lying over and beyond
the hills of this city. Here, on a dramatic high point on the Temple Mount, as
Jesus stands in the place associated with God’s own glory, a voice from heaven
speaks of his glorification. The Gentile foreigners whom he has drawn to
himself are a sign, a sign of all those who will be drawn to him, when his
glory is revealed on the cross.
https://towardbeauty.org/tag/james-tissot/
Here is a curious, widely forgotten episode in the history of
French painting. In 1882 James Tissot returned to Paris following an 11-year
sojourn as a successful painter of London society. Tissot (1836-1902) intended
to produce a series of paintings of fashionable Parisian women, but one day,
during a church service, he had a vision of Jesus tending to people in a ruined
building. It was his Road to Damascus.
Four years later, reconfirmed in his Roman Catholic faith, he
took off on a research trip to the Holy Land, beginning a 10-year campaign to
illustrate the New Testament. His presentation of 270 watercolors from “The
Life of Christ” in the Paris Salon of 1894 caused a sensation. Men reverently
doffed their hats; women wept and knelt before the pictures, and some even
crawled like penitents through the show. Two years later the profusely
illustrated Tissot Bible was published, and it became an international best
seller.
In 1896 Tissot sent the completed series of 350 pictures on a
trans-Atlantic tour, starting in London. In New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Chicago, people paid 25 and 50 cents apiece to see it. In 1900, prompted by the
American painter John Singer Sargent, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences — now the Brooklyn
Museum — purchased the entire series for $60,000, then an
enormous sum. The series remained on view at the museum until the 1930s, then
went into storage, only to be seen in occasional small doses thereafter.
Intelligence is the ability
to adapt to change.
~
Stephen Hawking
Some of us think holding on makes us strong,
but sometimes it is letting go.
~
Herman Hesse
JAK
and Woofie had haircuts!
Sunday, March 12, 2018
Colter
Snyder had a wonderful Eagle Scout Court of Honor
last
Sunday! It was followed by a big congratulatory dinner.
Congratulations,
COLTER!!!
Joan
Evashevski fixed a shamrock cake for our Book Club Thursday afternoon
to
help celebrate her Irish heritage.
Thank
you, Joan Evashevski!
Our
Irish book selection
Friday Morning Rotary
at the Firehouse
We
met at the Firehouse to hear the Fire Chief speak about wildfire
preparedness
and we also watched several firefighters have their heads shaved
to
benefit children’s cancer.
Before
After
It
was fun to watch the watchers!
“There
goes Daddy’s hair!)
Spares and Pairs
Friday, March 16, 2018
at
the Smithson's
Heidi
and Al Smithson
St. Baldrick’s Head Shaving Continued on Saturday!
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Ascent Church
This
man was having his head shaved in memory of his little son,
who
died from cancer this last year.
His
wife watched.
At
this event last year, their little son had his head shaved to help raise money.
Boden,
the second from the left, is a cancer survivor.
He
had just had his head shaved and his friends congratulated him.
It
was a tear-jerking morning … as well as a very
uplifting
morning!
Boden
also thanked his grandfather for supporting his
fundraising
efforts.
Dottie
and Jack left the Colorado slopes this morning and are now
on
their way back home.
Drive
safely!!!
(Photo
by Jack Alexander)
Don’t be afraid of change …
because it is leading you to
your next new and amazing beginning.
~
Joyce Meyer
March 18, 2018
Fifth Sunday in Lent Year B
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Jeremiah
31:31-34
Psalm 51:1-12 or Psalm 119:9-16
Hebrews 5:5-10
John 12:20-33