Pentecost *

When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs-- in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power." All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine."

But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

`In the last days it will be, God declares,

that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,

and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

and your young men shall see visions,

and your old men shall dream dreams.

Even upon my slaves, both men and women,

in those days I will pour out my Spirit;

and they shall prophesy.

And I will show portents in the heaven above

and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.

The sun shall be turned to darkness

and the moon to blood,

before the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day.

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' "

Acts 2:1-21

Descent of the Holy Spirit

GRECO

1604-1614

Museo del Prado

Madrid

Spain

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-displayindex.pl?SID=20150521294555664&pagenumber=2&code=act

(The bearded Apostle second from the right is the face of the artist. — I read that somewhere.)

“ … we also see the faces of two other women, one off to the immediate right of our Lady and another off to the left, with the face of a bearded apostle in between. According to one theory, these are the faces of Mary Magdalene and Mary of Cleophas, a sister of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "

More at middle of the following page:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2002/praying-the-rosary-through-art-the-glorious-mysteries-2

If you want to speak to God,

tell it to the wind.

~ Africa Proverb, Ghana

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that,

because what the world needs

is people who have come alive.

~ Howard Thurman

Graduates Bridger Cole and Erin Hesser were recognized at church last Sunday.

Lori Williamson shared one of her paintings with our Painted Toe Society on Monday.

A whole string of elk on the golf course bedded down when we had a strange snow storm!

Dorrine Reid and Linda LaGrange at Bunco on Tuesday evening.

Moira Casey, Curator, at our Center for the Arts Evergreen Board meeting Wednesday evening.

Stephanie Perkins, Education Director, also reported to us at the Board meeting.

ALAS!!!  Both Moira and Stephanie will be leaving us.

They have been soooooo wonderful and done so much for the Center!!!

We shall miss them both but wish them well.

Tina Nelson at our Thursday afternoon Book Club.

Ginny Boschen led the discussion at our evening Book Club.

Our Rotary Club welcomed District Governor Peter Ewing (and his German ancestry)

by decking him out for Memorial Day.

District Governor Peter Ewing, Mary Jean Ewing, and President Sam Smith

at Rotary on Friday morning.

Vicki Hall is in Cocoa Beach, Florida, and sent a picture of her nephew 

and great-nephew, Charles and Chance Rose.

No two persons ever read the same book.

~ Edmund Wilson

May 24, 2015 Day of Pentecost

Previous OPQs may be found at:

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

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The Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ’s disciples.

Pentecost is celebrated fifty days (i.e. 49 days with the first day counted, seven weeks) after Easter Sunday, hence its name.  Pentecost falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday (which falls 40 days after Easter).

Jesus said to his disciples, "When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.

"I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But, now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, `Where are you going?' But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because they do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you."

John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15