Friends Together
 
 
The Ascension of Our Lord
May 21, 2009 Ascension Day
 
Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God.
Luke 24:44-53
 
Apotheosis of St. Ignatius*
Andrea Pozzo 1642 - 1709
Church of St. Ignatius, Rome
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-viewimage.pl
 
 
 
 
The potential of the average person
is like a huge ocean unsailed,
a new continent unexplored,
a world of possibilities waiting to be released
and channeled toward some great good.
                                                        ~ Brian Tracy
 
 
 
While everybody else shakes my hand,
you hold it.
                                                        ~ Nick Zeigler
 
 
 
 
 
Workshop with Victoria Kwasinski
May 12 - 13, 2009
Victoria demonstrates her technique of a mixed media/gesso bath painting.
 
 
She prepares the gesso ...
 
and paints it all over the painting.
 
Then she throws water all over it!
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Another wonderful luncheon in Nancy's lovely yard!
You can tell by the greenery that Nancy lives in Denver, not Evergreen!
May 15, 2009
Kathy and Nancy
 
Nancy and Jackie
 
CV and Lori
 
Darby!
 
 
 
 
I really only love God as much as
I love the person I love the least.**
                                                        ~ Dorothy Day
 
 
 
 
 
May 17, 2009    Sixth Sunday of Easter
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
 
* Andrea Pozzo (Latinized version: Andreas Puteus; 30 November 1642, Trento, Italy - 31 August 1709, Vienna, Austria) was an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes  using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. Through his techniques, he has become one of the most remarkable figures of the Baroque period.

 ** Ouch!
 

[Jesus said:] "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another."
John 15:9-17
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
 
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 

May 17 (6th Sunday of Easter)

Acts 10:44-48
Psalm 98:1-9
1 John 5:1-6
John 15:9-17

May 21 (The Ascension of the Lord)

Acts 1:1-11
Psalm 47:1-9 or Psalm 93:1-5
Ephesians 1:15-23
Luke 24:44-53