Compassion
Now he was teaching in one of the
synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit
that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite
unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said,
"Woman, you are set free from your ailment." When he laid his hands
on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the
leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept
saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done;
come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day." But the Lord
answered him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the
sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it
water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for
eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?"
When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd
was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.
(Christ
Healing the Crippled Woman Who Was Bent Over)
Known
as the Two Brothers Sarcophagus
stone
Mid-fourth
century
Vatican
City, Direzione Generale dei Musei
Vatican
City, Italy
The
cock of St. Peter is depicted below Christ's feet.
Both
Christ and Moses are clean-shaven.
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20130821124511718&code=act&RC=51253&Row=32
Fear grows out of the things we think;
it lives in our minds.
Compassion grows out of the things we are,
and lives in our hearts.
~
Barbara Garrison
May I live this day compassionate of heart,
clear in word, gracious in awareness,
courageous in thought, generous in love.
Chew
and Chat
It's
the first time in ages that all six of us were there!
Kay
Owen, Jackie McFarland, Carolyn Alexander, Sondra Kellogg, Vicki Hall, Karla
Byrd
Jeanne
Caney, Eileen Sharkey, and Lurlie Bickford
at
our Book Club Thursday evening.
Adrian
Stone, our new Exchange Student whose name I do not yet know,
Carolyn
Alexander, and Janee Weinberger were four of the eight people being honored at
Rotary
for August birthdays.
Arnie
Elliot and Mary Van Sant
hosted
a party for our yoga class Friday evening.
My
car … I helped shuttle vendors for the Fine Arts Festival today.
It
is always interesting!
Beth
Erlund at her booth where many of her wonderful batiks were displayed.
http://www.erlundjohnsonstudios.com/Beth/
Congratulations, William Alexander!
Their
Rock Camp group played in front of
an
audience of 500 last Sunday.
Pure
joy on the drums!!!
Watch
live!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEZCWNcuIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faqVr9Il5hk
Teach this triple truth to all:
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things that renew humanity.
August 25, 2013 Twenty-first
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fourteenth
Sunday after Pentecost
Previous OPQs may be found at:
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Jeremiah 1:4–10 with Psalm 71:1–6
Isaiah 58:9b–14 with Psalm 103:1–8