Sermon on the Mount

 

 

He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: 
   "Blessed are you who are poor, 
       for yours is the kingdom of God. 
   "Blessed are you who are hungry now, 
       for you will be filled. 
   "Blessed are you who weep now, 
       for you will laugh.
    "Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.
    "But woe to you who are rich, 
       for you have received your consolation.
    "Woe to you who are full now, 
       for you will be hungry. 
    "Woe to you who are laughing now, 
       for you will mourn and weep.
    "Woe to you when all speak well of you, 
       for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets."

Luke 6:17-26

 

The Sermon on the Mountain

FERENCZY, Károly

1896

Magyar Nemzeti Galéria

Budapest

Hungary

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sermon_on_the_Mount_Károly_Ferenczy.jpg

 

Károly Ferenczy is regarded as the father of Hungarian Impressionism. In his 'Sermon on the Mountain', he portrays Christ sitting among his people as their equal, unlike other treatments of the 'Beatitudes' theme. Currently on exhibit at the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest Hungary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QChmdJDpE

 

 

 

 

 

Most people are willing to take the

Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under,

but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

 

There are in nature neither rewards 

nor punishments — there are consequences.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Belated Birthday

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Sharron Leonard’s birthday dinner at Keys on the Green.

 

 

Thank you, Paula Barnes!

 

 

A Valentine gift

They were wonderful!

 

Dine Around

with the Brekkes

Friday, February 15, 2019

Such a delicious time!

 

 

Thank you, Holly and Jeff Brekke!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give me six hours to chop down a tree

and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

~ Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 17, 2019   Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Year C

                Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time      

 

Previous OPQs may be found at: 

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Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

Tree Planted by Rivers

Kuhne Gallery in Pago Pago

But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.

Jeremiah 17:7-8

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 17:5–10
Psalm 1
1 Corinthians 15:12–20
Luke 6:17–26

 

 

 

Jeremiah 17:5-10

Thus says the LORD: 
   Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals 
       and make mere flesh their strength, 
       whose hearts turn away from the LORD.
   They shall be like a shrub in the desert, 
       and shall not see when relief comes. 
   They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, 
       in an uninhabited salt land.

   Blessed are those who trust in the LORD, 
      whose trust is the LORD.
   They shall be like a tree planted by water, 
      sending out its roots by the stream. 
   It shall not fear when heat comes, 
      and its leaves shall stay green; 
   in the year of drought it is not anxious, 
      and it does not cease to bear fruit.

   The heart is devious above all else; 
      it is perverse--
      who can understand it?
    I the LORD test the mind 
      and search the heart, 
    to give to all according to their ways, 
      according to the fruit of their doings.

Psalm 1

Happy are those who do not follow 
   the advice of the wicked, 
or take the path that sinners tread, 
   or sit in the seat of scoffers;

but their delight is
   in the law of God, 
and on God's law 
   they meditate day and night.

They are like trees 
   planted by streams of water, 
which yield their fruit in its season, 
   and their leaves do not wither. 
In all that they do, 
    they prosper.

The wicked are not so, 
   but are like chaff 
that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand 
   in the judgment, 
nor sinners in the congregation 
   of the righteous;
for God watches over the way 
   of the righteous, 
but the way of the wicked 
   will perish.

1 Corinthians 15:12-20

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ--whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.

Luke 6:17-26

He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: 
   "Blessed are you who are poor, 
       for yours is the kingdom of God. 
   "Blessed are you who are hungry now, 
       for you will be filled. 
   "Blessed are you who weep now, 
       for you will laugh.
    "Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.
    "But woe to you who are rich, 
       for you have received your consolation.
    "Woe to you who are full now, 
       for you will be hungry. 
    "Woe to you who are laughing now, 
       for you will mourn and weep.
    "Woe to you when all speak well of you, 
       for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets."