Good Shepherd Sunday
Psalm 23
The Good Shepherd
c.
300
Pio
Cristiano Museum
Vatican
City
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The image of the Good
Shepherd is the most common of the symbolic representations of Christ found in Early Christian art in the Catacombs of
Rome, before Christian
imagery could be made explicit. The form of the image showing a young man
carrying a lamb round his neck was directly borrowed from the much older
pagan kriophoros (see
link) and in the case of portable statuettes like the most famous one now in
the Pio Cristiano Museum, Vatican City (above), it is impossible to say
whether the image was originally created with the intention of having a
Christian significance. The image continued to be used in the centuries after
Christianity was legalized in 313. Initially it was probably not
understood as a portrait of Jesus, but a symbol like others used in Early
Christian art,[1] and in some cases may also have
represented the Shepherd of Hermas, a popular Christian literary work of the 2nd century.[2][3] However, by about the 5th century,
the figure more often took on the appearance of the conventional depiction of
Christ, as it had developed by this time, and was given a halo and rich robes,[4] as on the apse mosaic in the church of Santi Cosma e Damiano in Rome, or at Ravenna (right). Images of the Good
Shepherd often include a sheep on his shoulders, as in the Lukan version of
the Parable of the Lost Sheep.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd
We are leaves of one branch,
the drops of one sea,
the flowers of one garden.
~
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Human unity is really less something we are called on to
create
than simply to recognize and make manifest.
~
William Sloane Coffin
Judi
Quackenboss, on the left, was the hostess for Bunco Night on Tuesday.
She
is clowning with Jan Schoonveld and Vicki Kyle.
Friendship Bridge Gala
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Mile High Station
Denver, Colorado
Connie
and Dr. Ted Ning, MD
(Ted
is a member of our Rotary Club.)
Connie
and Ted started Friendship Bridge 25 years ago!
It
began in Vietnam and expanded to Guatemala in 1998.
22,000
Guatemalan women have been empowered to create a better future for themselves
through
microfinance and education.
http://www.friendshipbridge.org
Mary
Steinbrecher, Jeanne Gibbard
For
many years, Jeanne and others made beautiful Guatemalan-inspired
glass
jewelry in her studio to sell and raise money for Friendship Bridge at such
places
as
the Alternative Christmas Gift Fair.
Carolyn
Alexander, Cathy Davis
Cathy
left her second litter of Bernese Mountain puppies (in three months!)
long
enough to attend the gala event.
Rotary Club of Evergreen
Masulya
Zakayo Kutenga with Rev. Philip Reimers at Friday Rotary.
Masulya
leads Mt. Kilimanjaro climbs.
Engineers Without Borders
Our speakers at Rotary
Jacob
Schultz, Christian Harriman
Christian
was a recipient of a $1000 grant from our Rotary Club.
He
is an engineering student at the University of Colorado at Boulder
and
updated us on the work that his Engineers Without Borders (EWB) team is
doing in Cyankia, Rwanda.
Engineers
Without Borders is a national program started by Dr.
Bernard Amadei,
Professor of Civil Engineering at CU, in 2002.
http://ewb-usa.org/our-story/our-history
Curtis
Gile, Nikki van den Heever
Up
to this point, these students have successfully designed and implemented
three
water catchment systems in Rwanda and have also worked with an orphanage
and
implemented clean-burning cooking stoves.
Ranch Animals Exhibition Opening Reception
The Humphrey History Park and Museum
Evergreen, Colorado
Friday,
April 24, 2015
Angela
Rayne, Executive Director, Roger Jones, Chairman of the Board
The
Humphrey History Park and Museum
Laura
Mehmert with one of her paintings in the show.
EAA Spring All Colorado Art Show Opening Reception
Main Street Fine Art Gallery
Evergreen, Colorado
“Peaceful
Mountain Morning,” by Jane Christie,
received
Best of Show!
There
is a lot of water coming over the dam at the lake
following
our heavy snow last week.
10th Annual Home and Garden Show
April 25 and 26, 2015
Ron
Catterson, Chris Molter, Laurie Romberg
You
couldn’t miss us in our neon Rotary shirts!!!
A
VERY tiny home on display at the Home and Garden Show!!!
A church that doesn’t provoke any crises,
a gospel that doesn’t unsettle,
a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin,
a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society
in which it is being proclaimed—what gospel is that?
~
Archbishop Oscar Romero *
April 26, 2015 Fourth
Sunday of Easter
* Archbishop Oscar Romero (champion of the poor and prophet of
peace and justice in El Salvador) was fatally shot on March 24, 1980, while
saying mass. He had just read from John's Gospel: "Unless the grain of
wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains only a grain. But if it dies, it
bears much fruit” (Jn. 12:23-26).
Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd
lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and
does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs
away-- and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away
because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I
know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father.
And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to
this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there
will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I
lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I
lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to
take it up again. I have received this command from my Father."
John
10:11-18
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
Acts 4:5-12
Psalm 23
1 John 3:16-24
John 10:11-18