… lost and found, doomed and saved, scattered and gathered 

 

 

All the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."

So he told them this parable: "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, `Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

"Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, `Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

Luke 15:1-10



Lost Coin

FETTI, Domenico

between 1618-1622

Gemäldegaleri

Dresden

Germany

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20160910380310058&code=ACT&RC=54793&Row=4

 

The poor woman of the gospel parable has turned everything she owns out and over seeking the lost coin by the feeble light of a flickering oil lamp. The gigantic, formless shadows the small flame casts seem to express the enormity of her search, a metaphor for the fervent, heartfelt concern for the straying sinner that Jesus describes.

This version of the painting was executed by Fetti's workshop.

 

http://www.wga.hu/html_m/f/feti/parable1.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To accomplish great things,

we must not only act, but also dream;

not only plan, but also believe.

~ Anatole France

 

 

 

 

The way to love anything is to realize

that it may be lost.

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merit Hellman-Funk, Anna Marie Nelson, Joan Mickelson

at Center for the Arts Evergreen 

 

 

Museum Moment Lecture

with Cynthia Madden Leitner

President and CEO at Museum of Outdoor Art

Public Art: Making Art a Part of our Everyday Life

 

Cynthia Madden Leitner, Carol Dobbs

 

 

Cynthia Madden Leitner

(in front of a Betsy Buckner bear painting!)

 

 

  

Jessica, with the Museum of Outdoor Art, gives tours for groups of 5 to 25.

Let’s go!!!

 

 

Two well-spoken Young RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) students reported on their experiences at Rotary on Friday.

Young RYLA is a five-day summer camp for Middle School students.

The young man on the left is the grandson of Ann and Mike Moore.

 

 

Spares and Pairs

Friday, September 9, 2016

Marilyn and Robert DuVon.

It was Robert’s birthday!

 

 

How nice to have Shari Gulbrandsen join us this time!

 

 

Shari earned her law degree at Georgetown University and

practiced law in DC for thirteen years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t be satisfied with stories,

how things have gone with others.

Unfold your own myth.

~ Rumi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 11, 2016          Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 19

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

comic

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

 

 

 

Psalm 51

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 with Psalm 14 or
Exodus 32:7-14 with Psalm 51:1-10 and
1 Timothy 1:12-17 and
Luke 15:1-10