Transfiguration Sunday
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three dwellings here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!” When the disciples heard this, they fell to the ground and were overcome by fear. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Get up and do not be afraid.” And when they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus himself alone.
As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
Matthew 17:1-9
The
Transfiguration of Christ
TITIAN
1560
Church
of San Salvador
Venice
Italy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titian_Transfiguration_c1560_SanSalvador.jpg
http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/annienc/2011/03/san_salvador.html
Restored in 1997 with funding from Peter and Bonnie Sacerdote
and friends
Titian
created this painting as a cover for the famous silver reredos (altar screen)
on the high altar of the church. A pulley lowered the painting on feast days to
reveal the silver altar screen behind it. Through the centuries, the canvas
suffered from this rough use and had been grossly over-painted to hide damage.
Restoration, however, has revealed a splendid Titian with all the dramatic,
expressionistic characteristics of the master’s late work. Titian was always
aware of conceiving an image in terms of its own environment; the
Transfiguration is probably one of his most dramatic coups de théâtre.
Project Director: Ettore Merkel,
Superintendency of Fine Arts of Venice
Restorer: Ottorino Nonfarmale
UNESCO Program-Association of International Private Committees for the
Safeguarding of Venice
https://savevenice.org/our-restorations/church-of-san-salvador-titian-transfiguration-of-christ/
More:
The divine process of change
manifests itself to our human understanding …
as punishment, torment, death,
and transfiguration.
~
Carl Jung
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a
personal deity,
but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined
by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder,
the source of which is beyond all reason.
~
Dag Hammarskjold
The Christians
Denver Center for Performing Arts
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Thank
you, CV and Gary, for the tickets and the wonderful seats!
Cindy
Sahli and I thoroughly enjoyed the outstanding play!
Vicki
Hall had Chemo #VII on Thursday!
She
is still doing well, but each treatment seems to get harder.
Bob
Wallace and Larry Caine had a nice send-off from Rotary on Friday.
They
are attending a new-presidents’ training session this weekend.
Some
of our Rotary Communications Team
Jenna
in front, Russell Hammond, Holly Brekke, Jim Davis, Laurie Romberg, Carolyn
Alexander, Larry Caine, Mendhi Audlin
Anita
and Jim Kreider at our Mardi Gras Party Friday evening.
Some
of the Interact students served up Gumbo and Jambalaya.
(And
King Cake, or course.)
What will matter is the good we did,
not the good we expected others to do.
~
Elizabeth Lesser
February 26, 2017 Last Sunday after the Epiphany/Transfiguration Sunday
The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” So Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God. To the elders he had said, “Wait here for us, until we come to you again; for Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a dispute may go to them.”
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 24:12-18
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
Exodus 24:12-18
Psalm 2 or Psalm 99
2 Peter 1:16-21
Matthew 17:1-9