Called

The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!" Nathanael asked him, "Where did you get to know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you." Nathanael replied, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."

John 1:43-51

Saint Philip

or, Philip the Apostle *

LA TOUR, Georges du Mesnil de,

1625

Chrysler Museum of Art

Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1977

Norfolk, Virginia

USA

http://collection.chrysler.org/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/220/255/displayDate-desc?t:state:flow=4e936762-d243-4232-aa78-6d12908e4c28

Not all those who wander

are lost.

~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Attention is the rarest and purest

form of generosity.

~ Simone Weil

Audrey Boyen at Memories in the Making showing her cartoon painting.

Anthea works with one of our artists.

Artist Marilyn with Cindy Baird, a wonderful volunteer!

Van Farnsworth at our Book Club.

Marianne Loritz and Sue Daley at Book Club.

Don Snyder helped Kimra Perkins (hidden behind Don) display

a Valentine bouquet for Operation Valentine!

Ann Marie, editor of

“Letters to Ann: The Korean War 1950-1951,” 

spoke to our Rotary Club about her book.

http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Ann-The-Korean-1950-1951/dp/0989378802

Cherie Goodman and her sister, Audrey Boyen,

show off the plaque Cherie received Friday evening

for being Audrey’s official caregiver for the past five years.

Audrey is one of my very dear “artists.”

Too many people overvalue what they are not

and undervalue what they are.

~ Malcolm S. Forbes

January 18, 2015 Second Sunday after the Epiphany

Previous OPQs may be found at:

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

*   Philip the Curious

http://truthbook.com/jesus/twelve-apostles/philip-the-curious

** Saint Philip - Catalog Entry

Georges de La Tour French, 1593-1652 Saint Philip, ca. 1625 Oil on canvas, 25" x 21" (63.5 x 53.3 cm) Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 77.431 References: Benedict Nicolson and Christopher Wright. Georges de la Tour. London, 1947, pp. 21-24, 181-182, no. 40; Harrison, CM, 1986, no.5. Though ranked today among the premier geniuses of seventeenth-century French painting, La Tour was forgotten soon after his death and was not rediscovered until the early twentieth century when scholars first began to research his life and work. His paintings are very rare: a mere forty - mostly religious images of saints or genre pictures of peasants, pickpockets and cardsharps - have been recovered to date. Eleven of them are in American collections. Among the earliest of La Tour's surviving religious works, Saint Philip was painted around 1625 as part of a set of thirteen half-length images of Christ and the twelve apostles. Such "Apostle" series were common in Counter-Reformational Europe (similar sets in half - or full-length were produced by artists as diverse as El Greco and Jacques Callot), and they reflected the enduring power of the Catholic veneration of saints. By 1698 La Tour's series was included in the chapel of Saint John in the cathedral of Albi, far to the south of the artist's home in the village of Lunéville, in Lorraine. How the paintings got there is a mystery. In the early nineteenth century they were moved to the Albi museum, and soon after, most of them were lost, though nine of the thirteen compositions were preserved in mediocre copies. Of the original thirteen canvases only three survive, Saint Philip and the paintings of Saint Jude and Saint James the Less in the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi. La Tour portrays Saint Philip as a rugged man of the people. In fact, the set as a whole offers an invaluable repertoire of the coarse peasant types La Tour perfected during the first part of his career and used in such stylistically similar contemporary works as The Old Man with Dog(Musée Municipal, Bergues) and The Musicians' Brawl (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu). La Tour's abiding interest in peasant and low-life imagery reflects the influence of Caravaggio, as do the magical chiaroscuro of his candlelit nocturnals and the stark naturalism of "daylight" paintings like Saint Philip. This has led scholars to speculate that he studied in Rome before 1616 or among the Netherlandish Caravaggisti in Utrecht. Saint Philip, his head bowed in prayer, holds as his attribute a plain wooden cross-staff tied with cord. The reference is to the miracles he allegedly performed late in life and to his martyrdom. While preaching the gospel in Hierapolis, Philip used his cross to banish a dragon from the temple of Mars. The dragon killed many people as it fled, an action that so infuriated the pagan Phrygian priests that they had Philip stoned and then tied to a cross and crucified upside-down. The hushed stillness of mood in Saint Philip, the broad massing of forms, and the carefully crafted details - such as the saint's crystal buttons and their exquisite, light-filled shadows - offer a precious foretaste of the reverential realism of La Tour's mature religious art. Jefferson C. Harrison.  The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1991, p. 28, #21.

From Darkness into Light: Rediscovering Georges de La Tour 

http://www.phs.poteau.k12.ok.us/williame/APAH/readings/La%20Tour,%20From%20Darkness%20into%20Light,%20Smithsonian.pdf

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are beneficial. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food," and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, "The two shall be one flesh." But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

1 Samuel 3:1-10 [11-20]

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
John 1:43-51