Who Are You, Jesus?



Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" And they answered him, "John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets." He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah." And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”  

Mark 8:27-38

 

(Detail) Frescoes from the life of St. Peter

MASACCIO

1426-27

Cappella Brancacci

Santa Maria del Carmine

Florence, Italy

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy of life is when we are afraid of the light. *

~ Plato 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walk with me for a while, my friend — you in my shoes,

I in yours — and then let us talk.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Par 3 golf at Foothills Golf Course with 

Anna Marie Nelson and Merit Hellman-Funk.

 

 

 

Jeanne Gibbard, Danna Cuin, Jan Schoonveld

Jeanne had a very lovely luncheon in her beautiful garden for the four of us!

 

 

 

Sam, Nate, and Angela

Three of the wonderful RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) High School students who spoke at Rotary this week.

We also had several Young RYLA students (Middle School) who spoke about their

experiences this summer at Young RYLA Camp.

 

 

DUALITY

[Four Jefferson County] Teachers as Artists

September 11—October 9, 2015

Opening Reception, September 11, 2015

Center for the Arts Evergreen

Keith Oelschlager, Brenda Doyle, Craig Wright, Matt Clagett, 

and Vanessa Gareis, Director of Exhibitions and Advertising

 

 

 

“Oxford at Union Station”

Keith Oelschlager

Acrylic on Board

Keith particularly likes this one because it shows where he and 

his wife were married.

 

 

 

Opening Night at Center Stage Evergreen

Friday, September 11, 2015

 

 

Linda Sexton, Linda Lovin, Betsy Martin

 

 

Blue Heron at the lake Saturday morning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The pages are still blank,

but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there,

written in invisible ink 

and clamoring to become visible.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 13, 2015          16th Sunday after Pentecost—24th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 19

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

used in 2006

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

 

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

 

 

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Proverbs 1:20-33
Psalm 19 

or

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Psalm 116:1-9

James 3:1-12
Mark 8:27-38