Christ the King/Reign of
Christ Sunday
Compassion and Love
[Jesus said:] "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels
with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be
gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd
separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand
and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand,
'Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed
me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I
was in prison and you visited me.' Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord,
when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you
something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you,
or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in
prison and visited you?' And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just
as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you
did it to me.' Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'You that are
accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me
nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you
did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then
they also will answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or
a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?' Then
he will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the
least of these, you did not do it to me.' And these will go away into eternal
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Matthew
25:31-46
The Last Judgment Polyptych
VAN DER WEYDEN, Rogier
Oil on tin plate 560 x 215
cm
1446-1452
Musee de
l'Hotel Dieu
Beaune,
Bourgogne, France
http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=4188&size=large
detail
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/weyden/judgement.jpg
The Last Judgment polyptych is Rogier van der Weyden’s greatest work.
Together with the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, this is one of the
absolute masterpieces of the golden age of Flemish painting.*
http://hoocher.com/Rogier_van_der_Weyden/Rogier_van_der_Weyden.htm
We must not,
in trying to think about how we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences we can make which,
over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
In the evening of life, we will be
judged on love alone.
~ St.
John of the Cross
Happy 10th Birthday, JACK!!!
Jack (The Younger) Alexander and his beautiful family
live in Fairfax, Virginia.
Alternative Gift Fair
Evergreen, Colorado
Robert Bradley helping with Into Your Hands.
Into Your Hands
was started by Maria Camp (Evergreen Rotary)
to benefit people in Uganda.
Emily and Jan at Jan’s home Tuesday evening for Bunco.
Jan’s doggie said we were making entirely too much noise!
Saint Joseph’s Hospital
Denver, Colorado
Wednesday Morning at St. Joseph Hospital:
The Butterfly Lady (Kimra) offered support to Jane as
Robert,
Jane’s husband, went in for his surgery for cancer of the
urethra.
We took the picture to show Robert the outpouring of love
and prayers going his way!
Please add Robert (and Jane) Weinberger to your prayers.
Joan and Van at our church Book Club on Thursday.
Holiday Art Market
November
19-December 30, 2011
Foothills
Art Center
Golden,
Colorado
http://www.foothillsartcenter.org/dev/
Opening
Reception
Friday, November 18, 2011
Painted Toe Society
Foothills II
Approaching Fall
by Penny Becker
water media
Elan
by Carolyn Alexander
watercolor
(((-:
Sharron (and her pet dancing/singing chicken with moose
antlers)
is recuperating nicely from her surgery.
O Thou who hast given us so much,
mercifully grant us one thing more ... a grateful heart.**
~ George Herbert
November 20, 2011 Christ the King/Reign of Christ
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
*
The Burgundian Chancellor Nicolas
Rolin (ca. 1376-1462), one of the richest and most powerful men of the period,
commissioned the Beaune Altarpiece for the hospital he had founded to care for
the poor as well as the sick in 1443 in Beaune in the old Duchy of Burgundy,
where the work can still be seen today. The altarpiece was intended for the
chapel that stood at the end of the 72-meter-long hospital ward. The patients
were to be able to see it across a partition, and its considerable dimensions
and composition, clearly distributed over the entire surface of the picture and
easily surveyed even from some way off, helped it to meet that requirement.
Opened out, the retable shows the Last Judgment, a clear admonition to the sick
to remember their own mortality and turn their minds to God. This is easily
understandable, since the spiritual care of the sick was as important as their
bodily care, and in the thinking of the time only those in a state of spiritual
grace could be restored to health.
MORE: http://hoocher.com/Rogier_van_der_Weyden/Rogier_van_der_Weyden.htm
** A Thanksgiving repeat!
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.com
Cousin
Reginald Catches the Thanksgiving Turkey
Norman
Rockwell
This
painting appeared on the cover of The Country Gentleman published December 1,
1917.
The
illustration was the sixth Country Gentleman cover by Norman Rockwell.
http://www.best-norman-rockwell-art.com/norman-rockwell-country-gentleman-cover-1917-12-01-cousin-reginald-catches-the-thanksgiving-turkey.html
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100:1-5
Ephesians 1:15-23
Matthew 25:31-46
1. How is judgment part of your faith?
2. What's the difference between "freedom," and
"freedom with responsibility"?
3. Why do you think the "sheep" were surprised
that they were rewarded?
4. How would things change if we read this text as a
judgment of nations more than individuals?
5. Is it possible to be an "anonymous
Christian"?
http://www.unitedchurch.org/sermon-seeds-sundays-readings
The king = the Son of
man, Jesus.
The sheep = those who hear and do the words of God.
The goats = those who hear and don’t do the word of God.
The kingdom = eternal life.
*- A doing theology: A relationship with God is not a matter of having faith
but of doing faith. B.B. Taylor
-The goats are not condemned for doing bad things but for doing nothing.
see
http://mastersdust.com/2010/05/11/barbara-brown-taylor-sermon-at-duke-chapel/