Thomas the Doubter
When it was evening on that day, the first
day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were
locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said,
"Peace be with you." After he said this, he showed them his hands and
his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to
them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send
you." When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
"Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are
forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when
Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord."
But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and
put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not
believe."
A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them.
Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said,
"Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger
here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt
but believe." Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus
said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are
those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not
written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may
have life in his name.
The Incredulity of Thomas
DUCCIO,
di Buoninsegna
1308-1311
Altarpiece
Museo
dell’Opera del Duomo
Siena,
Italy
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20140425387359619&code=ACT&RC=54254&Row=10
The Maestà, or Maestà of Duccio
is an altarpiece composed of many individual paintings commissioned by the city
of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna, from which several
panels are now dispersed or lost. The front panels make up a large enthroned
Madonna and Child with saints and angels, and a predella of the Childhood of
Christ with prophets.
The reverse has the rest of a
combined cycle of the Life of the Virgin and Life of Christ in a total of
forty-three small scenes. Though it took a generation for its effect truly to
be felt, Duccio's Maestà set Italian painting on a course leading away from the
hieratic representations of Byzantine art towards more direct presentations of
reality. -- from Wikipedia
Doubt is not the opposite of faith;
it is one element of faith.
~
Paul Tillich
A man desires praise that he may be reassured,
that he may be quit of his doubting of himself;
he is indifferent to applause
when he is confident of success.
~
Alec Waugh
Easter tulips
Mother’s
traditional bunny salad
Carolyn
Alexander
Center for the Arts Evergreen
Clean-Up Day
Monday,
April 21, 2014
5-7pm
Carolyn
Alexander, Ginny Boschen
Ginny
brought wonderful goodies and I reviewed
And
the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini,
for
our Book Club Thursday evening.
At
Rotary this week, Mila, our present Exchange Student from Finland,
met
Edie. Edie was an Exchange Student from Finland three years ago
and
is visiting Evergreen for three weeks.
He
just completed his compulsory 6-month military service
in
Finland.
120
for 120
Center
for the Arts Evergreen
Rome
Chelsi and Greg Dobbs helped as bartenders.
Steve
Sumner, Executive Director, and Becky Guy started the drawings.
The
lucky winner of the first pick!
On
Saturday I took pictures at the Home & Garden Show for Rotary.
The
High School Interact Club sold flowers.
Goodies
made at the Humphrey Museum in Evergreen.
it is, at least, a doubting one;
and I envy no one the certainty
of his self-approved wisdom.
April 27, 2014 Second Sunday of Easter
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
