Fifth Sunday of Easter

Abide in Me

 

An angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to this chariot and join it.” So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this: 

“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, 
and like a lamb silent before its shearer, 
so he does not open his mouth.

In his humiliation justice was denied him. 
Who can describe his generation? 
For his life is taken away from the earth.”

The eunuch asked Philip, “About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus. As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?” He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 8:26-40

 

The Baptism of the Eunuch

REMBRANDT van Rijn

1626

Museum het Catharijneconvent

Utrecht

Netherlands

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_eunuch

 

This is a panel Rembrandt made in the first years of his long career.  It is inspired by a painting his teacher Pieter Lastman made in 1623.  The panel is signed “RH 1626” in the bottom right.  It was rediscovered in 1976 in a private collection.

 

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/1013.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The whole life of the individual is nothing 

but the process of giving birth to himself;

indeed, we should be fully born when we die —

although it is the tragic fate of most individuals 

to die before they are born.

~ Erich Fromm

 

 

 

 

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams,

that the submerged truth

sometimes comes to the top.

~ Virginia Woolf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red-Tailed Hawk

 

 

A brainstorming session after church last Sunday

 

 

Anna Marie and George Nelson and I enjoyed the Degas exhibit

at the Denver Art Museum.

 

 

 

 

Anna Marie and George Nelson

 

 

At the Cafe

Edgar Degas

1875-77

Fitzwilliam Museum

University of Cambridge, U.K.

 

 

Anna Marie listening to the docent speaking about 

The Tub, original wax modeled about 1889; cast 1920.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

Sculpture Evergreen

Ancient Protocol (detail)

by Paul Russell

Located at Buchanan Ponds

Evergreen, Colorado

 

 

Home and Garden Show

Sponsored by Rotary Clubs of Evergreen and Conifer

Evergreen High School

Saturday and Sunday, April 28-29, 2018

 

 

Maddy and Ryan Reed

owners of LAM Tree Service in Evergreen

https://www.lamtree.com

 

 

Castles and Kitchens

Tom Becker and Francesca Arniotes

offer cooking classes with a twist in Conifer!

http://castlesandkitchens.com

 







If you can’t see what you’re looking for,

see what’s there.

It is enough.

~ Mark Nepo





 



April 29, 2018       Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

Jesus said to his disciples, ”I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”   

John 15:1-8

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

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

 

 

 







Happy Birthday,

ROBIN!!!

In Tokyo (three years ago), Dean Robin Sakamoto was surprised with a cake and a decorated office

by the Foreign Studies faculty at Kyorin University for an early birthday celebration.

 

 



 

Acts 8:26-40
Psalm 22:25-31
1 John 4:7-21
John 15:1-8

 

 

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