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Moses was keeping the
flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock
beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel
of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and
the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, "I must
turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned
up." When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him
out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am."
Then he said, "Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the
place on which you are standing is holy ground." He said further, "I
am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Then the Lord said, "I have observed the misery of my people who are in
Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know
their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and
to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with
milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites,
the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. The cry of the Israelites has
now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. So come, I
will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of
Egypt." But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh,
and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" He said, "I will be with you;
and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you have
brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God on this mountain."
But Moses said to God, "If I come to the Israelites and say to them, 'The
God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?'
what shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I am who I am."
He said further, "Thus you shall say to the Israelites, 'I am has sent me
to you.'" God also said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the Israelites,
'The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, has sent me to you': This is my name for ever, and this my
title for all generations.
Exodus 3:1-15
The Burning Bush
RATNER, Phil
http://www.ratnermuseum.com/?page=exodus#
Peace is not
merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means
by which we arrive at that goal.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise
riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people...go freely with powerful
uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families ...
~ Walt
Whitman
Living together is an art.
~ William
Pickens *
August
28, 2011 Twenty-second Sunday in
Ordinary Time
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* in
a speech to a meeting of
Congregationalists, Oak Park, Illinois, November 2, 1932
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that
he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders
and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord!
This must never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind
me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not
on divine things but on human things.”
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my
followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For
those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life
for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole
world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
“For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and
then he will repay everyone for what has been done. Truly I tell you, there are
some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man
coming in his kingdom.”
Matthew 16:21-28
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
Exodus 3:1-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 16:21-28
