Marks of Faith

 

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.

John 20;19-31

 

The Incredulity of Thomas

DUCCIO, di Buoninsegna

1308-1311

Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Siena, Italy

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20150408743743896&code=ACT&RC=54254&Row=12

 

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.[1] 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 the Life of Christ in a total of forty-three small scenes; several panels are now dispersed or lost. The base of the panel has an inscription that reads: "Holy Mother of God, be thou the cause of peace for Siena and life to Duccio because he painted thee thus." [2] 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.

 

Front

 

Reverse

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestà_(Duccio)

 

See the following for a discussion

of the Maestà:

 

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/late-gothic-italy/siena-late-gothic/v/duccio-maesta-front-1308-11

 

 

 

 

 

The Christian faith has not been tried and found wanting.

It has been found difficult, and left untried.

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

 

 

It may be that when we no longer know what to do

we have come to our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go

we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings.

~ Wendell Berry

 

 

 

 

 

 

A simple but more than adequate Happy Easter, 2015.

 

 

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Harold Linke, sculptor

These are some of Harold’s new pieces that he displayed 

at the La Quinta Arts Festival last month in California.

http://www.lqaf.com/cultural-events/la-quinta-arts-festival/

 

 

Patsy with her mother, Cherrie, on Wednesday.

Cherrie is one of our delightful artists!

Memories in the Making Art Program

Seniors’ Resource Center Evergreen

 

 

Carolyn Alexander, Sondra Kellogg, Karla Byrd, Vicki Hall.

Our Chew and Chat group met for lunch on Thursday.

(We missed you, Kay and Jackie!)

 

 

Dave Rommelmann and two other members spoke at Rotary about individual

and amazing projects they started years ago in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Peru.

 

 

Jane Christie at the Friday Soft Opening at Center for the Arts Evergreen

of the 120 for 120 event.  Wonderful pieces have been donated!

 

 

“Dreadlocks and Bellbottoms”

by Herschel J. Cannon

 

 

Another work of art by Kate Loomiller!

 

 

 

 

 

Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith;

it is an element of faith.

~ Paul Tillich

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 12, 2015     Second Sunday of Easter

 

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

 

 

 

http://sojourncollegiate.com/2013/psalm-133/

 

 

 

 

 

Acts 4:32-35
Psalm 133
1 John 1:1-2:2
John 20:19-31