Prayers

"Deep calls to Deep"

 

 

As a deer longs
   for flowing streams,
so my soul longs 
   for you, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, 
   for the living Godf
When shall I come and behold 
   the face of God?

My tears have been my food 
   day and night,
while people say to me 
   continually,
"Where is your God?"

These things I remember,
   as I pour out my soul:

how I went with the throng, 
   and led them in procession 
to the house of God,

with glad shouts 
   and songs of thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you cast down, 
   O my soul,
and why are you disquieted 
   within me?
Hope in God; 
   for I shall again praise God,
my help and my God.

My soul is cast down 
   within me;
therefore I remember you
   from the land of Jordan 
and of Hermon,
   from Mount Mizar.

Deep calls to deep at the thunder
   of your cataracts;
all your waves and your billows
   have gone over me.

By day the Lord commands 
   God's steadfast love,
and at night God's song 
   is with me,
a prayer to the God 
   of my life.

I say to God, 
   my rock,
"Why have you forgotten me?

"Why must I walk about mournfully
   because the enemy oppresses me?"

As with a deadly wound 
   in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
   while they say to me continually,
"Where is your God?"

Why are you cast down, 
   O my soul,
and why are you disquieted 
   within me?

Hope in God; 
   for I shall again praise the one,
who is my help 
   and my God.

Psalm 42

 

Prayer Before the Meal

STEEN, Jan

1660

Sudeley Castle

Winchcombe

Great Britain

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20190622774884375&code=ACT&RC=56958&Row=10

 

Infrared reflectography has revealed much information about Steen’s creative process in this work, including evidence that his compositional changes were far more extensive than previously realized (). It appears that Steen initially sketched in his compositional ideas with a searching line drawn in black chalk, which he then defined more carefully with broad brush strokes. He repositioned a number of elements, including the window and the pitcher on the bench under the window, and added others, such as the tablecloth under the cheese. He also enlarged the back of the father’s head. Most significantly for the iconography of the painting, Steen initially conceived the composition with yet another figure: a young man situated at the back side of the table between the woman and her husband who looked up at a crucifix hanging on the wall above the praying father. Although Steen never fully worked up this figure and only blocked him in with a brush, the direction of his gaze is quite clear. The reflectogram, moreover, reveals that instead of one crucifix, as has long been thought, Steen actually painted two crucifixes, one above the other, both of which are visible in the reflectogram. The background figure would have been looking at the lower of these two crucifixes. Even though the sequence of these compositional changes is not possible to determine, the preponderance of evidence is that Steen opted to remove the explicit Catholic tenor of the scene to make it more acceptable to a Protestant buyer.



https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/the-prayer-before-the-meal/

 

A Vimeo clip shows the infrared figure:

https://vimeo.com/195568894







                                                            

 

 

We listen for guidance everywhere

except from within.

~ Parker J. Palmer

 

 

 

 

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident,

quite as much as what language he shall speak.

~ George Santayana

 

 

 

 

 

Center for the Arts Evergreen

Cloth and Clay Exhibit

 

Sea Gypsies II

Created by Regina V. Benson

 

 

Flaming Fingers

by Trudy Chiddix

 

 

Birds of a Feather

Homage to Joseph Cornell

by Susan Bittell

 

 

Van Farnsworth was our hostess for Book Club

in her lovely log home.

 

 

Educated: A Memoir

 

Educated,

by Tara Westover

 

 

 

Sharron Leonard, Lynn Gilbert, Tina Nelson, Vicki Kyle

were four of the dozen guests.

 

 

Woofie had an appointment with an oncologist at Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital on Friday.

 

 

Alas.  Dr. Harding confirmed that Woofie does have lymphoma/myeloma.

We shall try limited chemo just to make him comfortable 

and start with prednisone next Wednesday.

 

 

At Alli and Drew’s Wedding

Friday, June 21, 2019

in Massachusetts

(No, I wasn’t there.)

John Alexander, Jack Alexander, Kei Sakamoto

 

 

 

 

 

Some cause happiness wherever they go,

Others whenever they go.

~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 23, 2019  Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C  

                                                Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7)

 

Previous OPQs may be found at: 

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise.  

Galatians 3:23-29

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 Kings 19:1-4,(5-7),8-15a with Psalm 42 and 43 or
Isaiah 65:1-9 with Psalm 22:19-28 and
Galatians 3:23-29
Luke 8:26-39

 

 

1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors." [Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat." He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you."] He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there.

Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" He answered, "I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away."

He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by." Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" He answered, "I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away." Then the Lord said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus...."

with

Psalm 42

As a deer longs
   for flowing streams,
so my soul longs 
   for you, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, 
   for the living Godf
When shall I come and behold 
   the face of God?

My tears have been my food 
   day and night,
while people say to me 
   continually,
"Where is your God?"

These things I remember,
   as I pour out my soul:

how I went with the throng, 
   and led them in procession 
to the house of God,

with glad shouts 
   and songs of thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you cast down, 
   O my soul,
and why are you disquieted 
   within me?
Hope in God; 
   for I shall again praise God,
my help and my God.

My soul is cast down 
   within me;
therefore I remember you
   from the land of Jordan 
and of Hermon,
   from Mount Mizar.

Deep calls to deep at the thunder
   of your cataracts;
all your waves and your billows
   have gone over me.

By day the Lord commands 
   God's steadfast love,
and at night God's song 
   is with me,
a prayer to the God 
   of my life.

I say to God, 
   my rock,
"Why have you forgotten me?

"Why must I walk about mournfully
   because the enemy oppresses me?"

As with a deadly wound 
   in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
   while they say to me continually,
"Where is your God?"

Why are you cast down, 
   O my soul,
and why are you disquieted 
   within me?

Hope in God; 
   for I shall again praise the one,
who is my help 
   and my God.

and

Psalm 43

Vindicate me, 
   O God, 
and defend my cause
   against an ungodly people;
from those who are deceitful 
   and unjust
deliver me!

For you are the God 
   in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?

Why must I walk about 
   mournfully
because of the oppression 
   of the enemy?

O send out your light 
   and your truth;
let them lead me;
   let them bring me 
to your holy hill
   and to your dwelling.

Then I will go 
   to the altar of God,
to God my exceeding joy;
   and I will praise you 
with the harp,
   O God, my God.

Why are you cast down, 
   O my soul,
and why are you disquieted 
   within me?

Hope in God; 
   for I shall again praise the one,
who is my help 
   and my God.

or

Isaiah 65:1-9

I was ready to be sought out
   by those who did not ask,
   to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, "Here I am, here I am,"
   to a nation that did not call on my name.
I held out my hands all day long
   to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
   following their own devices;
a people who provoke me to my face continually,
   sacrificing in gardens and offering incense on bricks;
who sit inside tombs,
   and spend the night in secret places;
who eat swine's flesh,
   with broth of abominable things in their vessels;
who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me,
   for I am too holy for you."
These are a smoke in my nostrils,
   a fire that burns all day long.
See, it is written before me:
   I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their laps their iniquities
   and their ancestors' iniquities together, says the Lord;
because they offered incense on the mountains
   and reviled me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
   full payment for their actions.
Thus says the Lord:
As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say,
   "Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,"
   so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.
I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
   and from Judah inheritors of my mountains;
my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall settle there.

with

Psalm 22:19-28

O God, 
   do not be far away!
O my help, 
   come quickly to my aid!

Deliver my soul 
   from the sword,
my life from the power 
   of the dog!

Save me from the mouth 
   of the lion!
From the horns 
   of the wild oxen
you have rescued me.

I will tell of your name 
   to my brothers and sisters;
in the midst of the congregation 
   I will praise you:

You who fear God, 
   praise God!
All you offspring of Jacob, 
   glorify God;

stand in awe of God,
   all you offspring of Israel!

For God did not despise 
   or abhor the affliction 
       of the afflicted;
God did not hide God's face 
   from me,
but heard when I cried to God.

From you comes my praise
   in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay
   before those who fear God.

The poor shall eat 
   and be satisfied;
those who seek God 
   shall praise God.
May your hearts live forever!

All the ends of the earth
   shall remember and turn to God;
and all the families of the nations
   shall worship before God.

For dominion belongs to God,
   and God rules over the nations.

and

Galatians 3:23-29

Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise.

Luke 8:26-39

Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at the top of his voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me"— for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilds.) Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him. They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.

Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was feeding; and the demons begged Jesus to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. Those who had seen it told them how the one who had been possessed by demons had been healed. Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them; for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but Jesus sent him away, saying, "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." So he went away, proclaiming throughout the city how much Jesus had done for him.