The Beatitudes
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the
mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to
speak, and taught them, saying:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will
be filled.
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all
kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your
reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who
were before you."
Matthew 5:1-12
The
Sermon on the Mount
Claude
(Claude
Lorrain)
1656
The
Frick Collection
New
York, United States
http://kirch-am-eck.de/MichJahthe2012VortragTheobald.htm
Commentary: Christ, surrounded by the Twelve Apostles, is shown
preaching to the multitude from the wooded summit of Mount Tabor, as
described in the Gospel of Matthew (5:1–2): “When he saw the crowds he went up
the hill. There he took his seat, and when his disciples had gathered round him
he began to address them.” It was in this discourse that Jesus set forth the
principles of the Christian ethic through the Beatitudes and instituted the
Lord’s Prayer. The crowds that Matthew described as “astounded at his teaching”
are vividly depicted by Claude among the absorbed and gesticulating foreground
figures, whose diminishing sizes enhance the dramatic spatial effects of the
vast and airy landscape.
The artist has compressed the geography of the Holy Land,
placing on the right the distant Mount Lebanon and the Sea of Galilee — with
the towns of Tiberias and Nazareth on its shore — and on the left the Dead Sea
and the river Jordan.
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The Sermon
on the Mount is unusual among Claude's landscapes both for its exceptional
size and for its large central mass, but in its magical luminosity it is
characteristic of his finest achievements.
Source: Art
in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York: Harry
N. Abrams, 1996.
http://collections.frick.org/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:220
David
Hockney, the British artist
who embraced the use of digital cameras,
mobile phones and iPads in art, has used
his computer to “restore” a famous 17th-century painting. The Sermon on the
Mount, by the French landscape painter Claude, that hangs in the Frick
Collection in New York.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Arts/article783226.ece
What
you can become you are already.
~ Hebbel Friedrich
To be
yourself
in a
world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is
the greatest accomplishment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laura
Mehmert lost her doggie, Mo, to liver cancer on the 22nd.
In
remembrance of him, Laura did this wonderfully delicious painting of Mo.
Laura
is amazing!
"Mo"
by
Laura Mehmert
One-third
watercolor and the rest is water soluble oils.
Holbein's
aqua duo.
Peter
Eggers was the spokesperson for our Evergreen Art Community
at
the Evergreen Park and Recreation District Board meeting Tuesday evening.
A
temporary solution was announced.
Howard Alan, an out-of-state for-profit event planner,
agreed to take Evergreen off his festival calendar for 2014.
Howard Alan will not be coming to Evergreen in 2014. There
was nothing said about future dates and this
needs to be pursued further.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Carolyn Campbell, local author, and friends presented
dramatic monologues from her book,
Soiled Doves of Colorado and the Old West
Carolyn
Campbell, Arlene Pellagrino, Laura Mehmert, and Jane Christie
presented
their dramatic readings
at
the Center for the Arts Evergreen.
The Sage does not care to hoard.
The more he uses for the benefit of others,
the more he possesses himself.
The more he gives to his fellow-men,
the more he has of his own.
~
Lao Tzu
February 2, 2014 Fourth
Sunday after the Epiphany
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
We are headed to Missouri to watch
The Super Bowl and visit
with Abbi, Charles, Chaz, and Chance!
Go Broncos!!!
Micah 6:1-8
Psalm 15
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Matthew 5:1-12
Micah
6:1-8
Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let
the hills hear your voice. Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with
his people, and he will contend with Israel. "O my people, what have I
done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me! For I brought you up from
the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery; and I sent
before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. O my people, remember now what King Balak
of Moab devised, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from
Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord."
"With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on
high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers
of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body
for the sin of my soul?" He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what
does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to
walk humbly with your God?
Psalm 15
O God, who may abide in your tent?
Who may dwell on your holy hill?
Those who walk blamelessly,
and do what is right,
who speak the truth from their heart,
and do not slander with their tongue,
who do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors;
in whose eyes the wicked are despised,
but who honor those who fear the Lord;
who stand by their oath
even to their hurt;
who do not lend money at interest,
and do not take a bribe against the innocent.
Those who do these things shall never be moved.
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but
to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I
will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I
will thwart." Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is
the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For
since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God
decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who
believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ
crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who
are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of
God. For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is
stronger than human strength. Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not
many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were
of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise;
God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low
and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things
that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. He is the source
of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is
written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
Matthew 5:1-12
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his
disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will
be filled.
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all
kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your
reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who
were before you."