Abide in Love

and

Compassion

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because he first loved us. Those who say, "I love God," and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.

1 John 4:7-21

Salvator Mundi, or Saviour of the World

Dürer, Albrecht

1504

Oil on wood

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

22 7/8 x 18 1/2 in. (58.1 x 47 cm)
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.64)

Presently on view: Gallery 691 Last Updated May 1, 2012

Devotional images of Christ as Salvator Mundi, or Savior of the World, were especially popular in Northern Europe. Christ raises his right hand in blessing and in his left holds an orb representing the earth. Dürer probably began this painting shortly before he departed for Italy in 1505, but completed only the drapery. His meticulous preparatory drawing on the panel is visible in the unfinished portions of Christ's face and hands.

(See details on the Metropolitan website below.)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/durr/ho_32.100.64.htm

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,

can only attain its full breadth and depth

if it embraces all living creatures

and does not limit itself to mankind.

~ Albert Schweitzer

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency

to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance,

compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

~ Martin Scorsese

Our Wednesday Breakfast Group went to the

Silver Plume Antique Shop and Tea Room for breakfast.

Sarah says this will be the last season they will be open.

Laura being served by our delightful waitress.

Trish, David, Carmon

Jackie Andrew had a lovely luncheon to honor her granddaughter,

Kirsten Scharnell. Kirsten is getting married in June.

Donna, Vicki K., Ginny

Jackie and Kirsten

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

~George Washington Carver

May 6, 2012 Fifth Sunday of Easter

Previous OPQs may be found at:

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

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples."

John 15:1-8

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

http://cruzblanca.org/hermanoleon/sem/b/pasq/05/5pasc.htm

Acts 8:26–40

Ps. 22:25–31

1 John 4:7–21

John 15:1–8