Thomas
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe."
A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe." Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
John 20;19-31
The Incredulity of Thomas
DUCCIO,
di Buoninsegna
1308-1311
Mudeo
dell-Opera del Duomo
Altarpiece
Siena
Italy
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Notes: |
The
Maestà, or Maestà of Duccio is an altarpiece composed of many individual
paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di
Buoninsegna, from which several panels are now dispersed or lost. The front
panels make up a large enthroned Madonna and Child with saints and angels,
and a predella of the Childhood of Christ with prophets. The
reverse has the rest of a combined cycle of the Life of the Virgin and Life
of Christ in a total of forty-three small scenes. Though it took a generation
for its effect truly to be felt, Duccio's Maestà set Italian painting on a
course leading away from the hieratic representations of Byzantine art
towards more direct presentations of reality. -- from Wikipedia |
If I am fool,
it is, at least, a doubting one;
and I envy no one the certainty
of his self-approved wisdom.
~
George Byron
When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
~
John Muir
Charles
Rose, Vicki’s nephew from Springfield, Missouri,
was
here for a week working on Vicki’s house.
Charles
and I took Bronco items of Vicki’s to some of Vicki’s exercise/coffee group at
Wendy’s
on
Wednesday. There were about fifteen of her friends there.
Carolyn,
Susie Asano, SuSu Wolff, and her sister, Claudia.
Carolyn
with Sharron Leonard at our afternoon book club on Thursday.
Sondra
Kellogg at Rotary Friday morning.
Sondra
took me to pick up Vicki’s ashes after Rotary.
We
met Kimra Perkins at Bonefish Grill, one of Vicki’s favorite restaurants.
Kimra
will be officiating at Vicki’s memorial service next month.
No
firm arrangements yet.
Every increased possession
loads us with new weariness.
~ John Ruskin
April 23, 2017 Second Sunday of Easter
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
Psalm 16
1 Peter 1:3-9
John
20:19-31