Repeated Praise
After
this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of
Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he
was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his
disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When he looked
up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where
are we to buy bread for these people to eat?" He said this to test him,
for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, "Six
months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a
little." One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are
they among so many people?" Jesus said, "Make the people sit
down." Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down,
about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given
thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much
as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, "Gather
up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost." So they gathered
them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who
had eaten, they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had
done, they began to say, "This is indeed the prophet who is to come into
the world."
When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by
force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself. When
evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started
across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to
them. The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had
rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming
near the boat, and they were terrified. But he said to them, "It is I; do
not be afraid." Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and
immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.
John 6:1-21
Loaves
and Fishes
SWANSON,
John August
Serigraph
24” by 36”
2003
Los
Angeles, California
United
States
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Notes: |
To purchase prints, cards, and posters of John August Swanson's works, visit http://www.johnaugustswanson.com Serigraph 24” by 36” Artist’s Notes: For many years I sketched, and tried to work out in my imagination, how the scene of the LOAVES AND FISHES, with its multitude of people, could be painted. I wanted this image to honor native peoples in many parts of the world; those who work the land for their livelihood, and have lived for generations in small communities or villages... The people in my painting are wearing garments with many colors and patterns, inspired by the creations of the makers of cloth, the weavers, and the dyers of Central America, Mexico, and parts of Africa and India... My image of LOAVES AND FISHES emphasizes and reminds us of the basic needs of all humanity. We all share the need for food and for providing for our families and communities. If we take the cosmic view, that there currently exists enough of what we need to sustain the world; we urgently need to consider sharing the resources that have been entrusted to us. JOHN AUGUST SWANSON makes his home in Los Angeles, California, where he was born in 1938. He paints in oil, watercolor, acrylic and mixed media, and is an independent printmaker of limited edition serigraphs, lithographs and etchings. His art reflects the strong heritage of storytelling he inherited from his Mexican mother and Swedish father. John Swanson’s narrative is direct and easily understood. He addresses himself to human values, cultural roots, and his quest for self-discovery through visual images. These include Bible stories and social celebrations such as attending the circus, the concert, and the opera. He also tells of everyday existence, of city and country walks, of visits to the library, the train station or the schoolroom. All his parables optimistically embrace life and one’s spiritual transformation. John Swanson studied with Corita Kent at Immaculate Heart College. His unique style is influenced by the imagery of Islamic and medieval miniatures, Russian iconography, the color of Latin American folk art, and the tradition of Mexican muralists. His art is in no way "naïve." It is detailed, complex, and elaborate. Unlike many contemporary artists, John Swanson works directly on all phases in producing his original prints. His serigraphs (limited-edition screen prints) have from 40 to 89 colors printed, using transparent and opaque inks creating rich and detailed imagery. For each color printed the artist must draw a stencil on Mylar film. This stencil is transferred to the silk screen for printing the color ink on the serigraph edition. The resulting serigraph is a matrix of richly overlaid colors visually striking and technically masterful. Mr. Swanson’s art is represented in the permanent collections of many museums, including three museums of the Smithsonian Institution: The National Museum of American History, The National Museum of American Art and The National Air and Space Museum. He is also included in the print collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University’s Fogg Museum, the Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. His painting THE PROCESSION is one of relatively few works by contemporary artists to be selected for the Vatican Museums’ Collection of Modern Religious Art. In 2008, an extensive collection of John August Swanson’s works were purchased by Emory University’s Candler School of Theology to hang on the walls of their new 76,349 square foot building. He was awarded The Dean’s Medal for his art’s transformative effect on the campus. With over 55 works hung, this is the largest open public display of the artwork of John August Swanson. [from the artist's website] |
Miracles are not contrary to nature,
but only contrary to what we know about nature.
~ Augustine
Two things move the mind with
ever-increasing admiration and awe,
the oftener and more steadily
we reflect on them:
the starry heavens above
and the moral law within.
~
Immanuel Kant
Sculpture Walk
Kathy
Gaines, Nancy Priest, Carolyn Alexander, Linda Bradford
in
front of Oliver, the horse.
Six
of us toured some of Evergreen’s newest sculptures before
having
lunch at Willow Creek on Thursday.
The
(belated) Birthday Girls, Nancy Priest and CV Martyn
Linda
Bradford, Jackie McFarland, Kathy Gaines
We
all managed to taste Nancy and CV’s Birthday Dessert.
Any possible act has many sides to it
which are relevant
to its rightness or wrongness.
~
Sir David Ross
July 22, 2018 Tenth Sunday
after Pentecost Year B
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Proper 12
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
2
Samuel 11:1-15 with Psalm 14 or
2
Kings 4:42-44 with Psalm 145:10-18
Ephesians
3:14-21
John 6:1-21
2
Samuel 11:1-15
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle,
David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the
Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened,
late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the
roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman
was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was
reported, "This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the
Hittite." So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he
lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she
returned to her house. The woman conceived; and she sent and told David,
"I am pregnant."
So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the
Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David
asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going. Then David said
to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." Uriah went out
of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king. But Uriah
slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord,
and did not go down to his house. When they told David, "Uriah did not go
down to his house," David said to Uriah, "You have just come from a
journey. Why did you not go down to your house?" Uriah said to David,
"The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths; and my lord Joab and the
servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house,
to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul
lives, I will not do such a thing." Then David said to Uriah, "Remain
here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in
Jerusalem that day. On the next day, David invited him to eat and drink in his
presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch
with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the
hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the
hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down
and die."
Psalm
14
Fools say in their hearts,
"There is no God."
They are corrupt,
they do abominable deeds;
there is no one who does good.
God looks down from heaven
on humankind
to see if there are any who are wise,
who seek after God.
They have all gone astray,
they are all alike perverse;
there is no one who does good,
no, not one.
Have they no knowledge,
all the evildoers
who eat up my people
as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?
There they shall be
in great terror,
for God is with the company
of the righteous.
You would confound the plans
of the poor,
but God is their refuge.
O that deliverance for Israel
would come from Zion!
When God restores the fortunes
of God's people,
Jacob will rejoice;
Israel will be glad.
or
2
Kings 4:42-44
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first
fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in
his sack. Elisha said, "Give it to the people and let them eat." But
his servant said, "How can I set this before a hundred people?" So he
repeated, "Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus says the Lord,
'They shall eat and have some left.'" He set it before them, they ate, and
had some left, according to the word of the Lord.
Psalm
145:10-18
All your works shall give thanks
to you, O God,
and all your faithful
shall bless you.
They shall speak of the glory
of your dominion,
and tell of your power,
to make known to all people
your mighty deeds,
and the glorious splendor
of your dominion.
Your reign is an everlasting reign,
and your dominion endures
throughout all generations.
God is faithful in every word,
and gracious in all every deed.
God upholds all
who are falling,
and raises up all
who are bowed down.
The eyes of all look to you,
and you give them their food
in due season.
You open your hand to all,
satisfying the desire
of every living thing.
In every way God is just,
and kind in every action
God is near to all who call,
to all who call on God in truth.
Ephesians
3:14-21
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom
every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to
the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your
inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your
hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that
you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth
and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses
knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him
who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more
than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ
Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
John
6:1-21
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee,
also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they
saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and
sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews,
was near. When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said
to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?" He said
this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered
him, "Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get
a little." One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to
him, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But
what are they among so many people?" Jesus said, "Make the people sit
down." Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down,
about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks,
he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they
wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, "Gather up the
fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost." So they gathered them
up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had
eaten, they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had
done, they began to say, "This is indeed the prophet who is to come into
the world."
When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by
force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself. When
evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started
across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed
about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near
the boat, and they were terrified. But he said to them, "It is I; do not
be afraid." Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately
the boat reached the land toward which they were going.