Halleluja!

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her.

John 20:1-18

The Two Disciples at the Tomb

TANNER, Henry Ossawa

American, 1859-1937

The Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_AfAm/pages/AfAm_2_lg.shtml

Born on the eve of the Civil War in a house that served as an Underground Railroad station, Tanner was six years old when slavery was abolished in 1865. At the age of 21 he was the only black student admitted to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, a noted art school. There he studied with Thomas Eakins, one of America's leading painters in the late 19th century. After struggling to establish a career as an artist in Philadelphia, Tanner moved to Paris, then the art capital of the western world. In Paris, Tanner was able to live and paint without battling the racial barriers of the United States.

Although Tanner depicted a wide range of subjects – North African landscapes, portraits, and black American genre scenes – he considered himself primarily a painter of religious subjects.

Two Disciples of the Tomb became one of Tanner's most well-known religious paintings in America, giving him at long last the kind of recognition that he had received abroad. Called "the most impressive and distinguished work of the season" in 1906, the painting competed against 350 other works to win the Harris Silver Medal at the Art Institute of Chicago. The museum purchased the painting later that year.

http://www.centralptonews.org/CESCAP/Artists/Tanner/tanner_project.htm

Do not abandon yourselves to despair . . .

We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.*

~ Pope John Paul II

It has always struck me as remarkable that when the writers of the four Gospels come to the most important part of the story they have to tell, they tell it in whispers. The part I mean, of course, is the part about the resurrection.

~ Frederick Buechner

Great picture of Vicki!

Naoma and Ron Eisenbach at our Dine Around last week.

You can see that Naoma and I have excellent taste!!!

(Totally unplanned … we wore twin tops.)

Bob Meade showed us a painting of his great-grandmother
that an itinerant artist painted in the 1800s.

Gail Sharp and her Water Warriors walked for Aveda’s “Walk for Water.”

Gail owns lovely Tallgrass Spa on Upper Bear Creek and they use only Aveda products.

http://www.tallgrassspa.com/

Be thou comforted, little dog,
Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

~ Martin Luther

April 24, 2011 Resurrection of the Lord/Easter Sunday

Previous OPQs may be found at:

http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

*A repeat

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.' This is my message for you." So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."
Matthew 28:1-10

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

We who were no people

are named anew

God's people,

for he who was no more

is forevermore.

~ Ann Weems

from "And the Glory"