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:

https://savevenice.org/publications/titian’s-“transfiguration”-and-its-16c-marble-altar-and-statue-of-christ-in-the-church-of-san-salvador/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

 

 

 

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

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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